At the People's Hospital of Magic City, a doctor busied himself at the operating table. His name was Guo Yuan, and he was an attending physician at the hospital. He had earned his master's degree at twenty-seven and had a solid medical foundation. He had just celebrated his thirty-second birthday and had worked at the hospital for five years, doing fairly well for himself.
When Guo Yuan was six, his parents divorced and each started a new family. He had lived with his grandfather ever since. When Guo Yuan was eighteen, his grandfather died of heart disease, and from then on Guo Yuan decided to become a doctor who saved lives. He worked hard toward that goal, and his only hobby was watching anime in his spare time. His favorite anime was Naruto.
After finally managing to steal half a day of leisure, Guo Yuan had just finished an operation and was about to watch some Naruto when the department head called. A group of rich young men had been street racing, and several cars had collided. The department head told him to hurry to the operating room and help save the injured.
Rank could make all the difference, and besides, a doctor had a duty to care for the sick. He couldn't just stand by and let people die, could he? So Guo Yuan hurried to the operating room and worked for seven hours straight, until five o'clock the next morning.
"Ugh! I'm exhausted! I really don't want to do this anymore!" After quietly grumbling a few times, Guo Yuan returned to his office, slumped over his desk, and fell asleep. In a daze, he felt everything around him change. A huge orb of light appeared before him, and a line of text emerged across its surface:
Transmigrator: Guo Yuan.
World: Naruto
Danger Rating: ★★★★☆
Transmigrators entering a world with a danger rating of three stars or higher are entitled to one draw. Please use it.
Guo Yuan stared at what was before him, all traces of sleepiness gone. His mind went blank. This has to be a dream, right? He pinched his thigh hard, and the sharp pain told him that it was all real.
"Transmigrators entering a world with a danger rating of three stars or higher are entitled to one draw. Please use it." The orb's voice interrupted Guo Yuan's thoughts.
"Um, what are you? Are you a system? Why did I transmigrate? What can I get from the draw?" Guo Yuan asked, looking at the orb.
"I am the Myriad Worlds Portal, a gateway connecting 129,000 parallel worlds. I am not the system you mentioned. Your brainwave frequency resonated with mine, and you were dissatisfied with your life, so you met the conditions for transmigration. The draw encompasses everything under the sun. Anything from the 129,000 parallel worlds might be obtained. Now, please begin your draw!"
After hearing the orb's explanation, Guo Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Had he just hit the jackpot? At least he was alone in the world: his father didn't care about him, his mother didn't love him, and his future girlfriend was probably still in her mother-in-law's womb. Thinking of it that way, going to the Naruto world didn't sound so bad. "How do I draw?"
A flash of golden light transformed the orb into a large wheel. It was divided into three equal sections: Technology, Elements, and Life Skills. "Please spin the wheel!" Following the instructions, Guo Yuan gave it a gentle spin. It finally stopped on the Elements section.
Another flash of golden light split the wheel into dozens of sections. Guo Yuan took a closer look. The so-called Elements category included affinity for various natural elements, as well as magical items that could let someone directly control those elements. Guo Yuan spun the wheel hard, then closed his eyes and waited for it to stop. About two minutes later, the wheel came to a halt. "Transmigrator has obtained Ice Element Affinity. Draw complete. Transmigration commencing."
As soon as the orb finished speaking, Guo Yuan's vision went black, and he lost consciousness.
After an unknown amount of time, Guo Yuan's awareness slowly returned. He gradually opened his eyes, but everything around him was pitch-black. There was a small glimmer of light in the distance. Instinctively, Guo Yuan moved toward it. After a bout of struggling, he was born.
With Guo Yuan's cooperation, the woman soon gave birth to him. She gazed at Guo Yuan, her eyes full of concern. That warmth soothed his lonely heart. So this was a mother's love.
Leaving the interaction between mother and child aside, Guo Yuan's failure to cry at birth terrified the midwife. The child was clearly healthy, so why wasn't he crying? Was he mute? The doctor beside her nodded, and the midwife gave Guo Yuan's bottom a hard pinch. The pain made Guo Yuan want to curse, but when he opened his mouth, all that came out was a loud wail. The medical staff around him breathed a sigh of relief. Hearing her child's powerful cry, the woman smiled faintly and fell asleep, content.
Perhaps because of Chakra, newborns in the Naruto world were much sturdier than those on Earth. Just two days after giving birth, Guo Yuan's mother carried him home.
The language of the Naruto world was basically the same as the Japanese of his previous life. Guo Yuan was glad he had studied Japanese before; without a language barrier, it would be easier for him to understand the world. A few days later, he learned that his mother was named Yamanaka Seiko, a cousin of the Yamanaka Clan leader. The man who often held him was that leader—his uncle, Yamanaka Akito. Yamanaka Inoichi was still a little kid at this time. His uncle had also chosen his name: Yamanaka Tohru. (From now on, he would be called Yamanaka Tohru.)
Before he knew it, a month had passed since Yamanaka Tohru's birth. From the conversations around him, he learned that it was Konoha Year 33, and the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi was in his prime, at the height of his power. Under the Third Hokage's leadership, Konoha was fighting four other villages at once in the Second Great Ninja War without giving any ground.
At this time, Konoha had three of the Third Hokage's strongest students—Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru—outside the village, along with the Konoha White Fang Hatake Sakumo, Kagami Uchiha, and the clan shinobi led by the Ino-Shika-Cho. Within the village, the Third Hokage and the Hyuga Clan kept Konoha stable and its people reassured. So unlike other villages, Konoha remained peaceful and tranquil within its walls.
His uncle, Yamanaka Akito, was the fourteenth Ino-Shika-Cho. Since Konoha's founding, the Ino-Shika-Cho had been steadfast supporters of the Hokage's faction. Starting in the Warring States period, the three clans had always joined forces against their enemies and stood together. To maintain their special bond, the ancestors of the three clans had established a rule: under the Sarutobi Clan's witness, the previous generation of Ino-Shika-Cho would hand their earrings to the next generation. The next generation would swear on those earrings to treat one another like brothers. This was a tradition passed down through the three clans.
The Ino-Shika-Cho's three-person unit greatly increased their combat strength and survival rate. After the Ninja Academy established by the Second Hokage graduated its students, it required them to form three-person teams. One major reason for that was that it had taken inspiration from the Ino-Shika-Cho.
Though each of the three clans alone was no match for the Uchiha or Hyuga, together they stood as one. No clan in Konoha dared underestimate them. Moreover, each clan possessed its own secret techniques, and they were formidable in battle when working together and covering for one another.
Because of Yamanaka Tohru's birth, Yamanaka Akito put aside his duties at the front and returned home just for him. It showed how much he loved his nephew. But what puzzled Yamanaka Tohru was that, despite how much Yamanaka Akito cared about him, his uncle had celebrated his one-month birthday only within the Ino-Shika-Cho clans. The village knew of Yamanaka Tohru's existence, but no one came to congratulate them. And from the moment he was born, Yamanaka Tohru had never seen his father. Thinking it over, Yamanaka Tohru realized his background must be complicated. His uncle was probably doing this to hide something.
After watching Naruto for ten years, I've found that this fictional world holds so many moving memories. After thinking about it for a long time, I've decided to start writing the Naruto story as I see it. I'm a new author with a new book, and I hope you'll support me!
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