I Just Want to Live

Obito's arm was severed in two, and he used a scroll once more to store the forearm portion.

"Cough, cough..."

Yun felt slightly awkward: Activate.

[Information Exchange successfully activated]

[Rule Replication function successfully activated]

[Medium triggered]

[Lockable targets: Senju Hashirama (Pure Land), Uchiha Obito]

As expected.

Yun smiled. Couldn't this be used twice for the price of one?

Wait, how about...

He pulled out a kunai again...

Snap!

With a soft sound, the forearm was divided into two pieces.

Yun pondered for a moment, then swung the kunai in his hand down toward the already divided forearm once more.

Knock, knock, knock!

The bedroom door was rapped.

"Yun, what are you doing in your room?"

His mother's voice rang out from outside, startling Yun into quickly shoving the white, severed limb under the bed.

"I'm coming in."

"Wait, wait a second!"

Uchiha Hazuki waited respectfully for two minutes outside before entering. She looked around and said, "Keep it down, okay? Izumi is already asleep."

She pushed the door to leave, but paused, turned back, and added, "Don't stay up too late, Yun. You're still just a six-year-old child."

Thud.

The door closed. It was past midnight, so it was indeed getting late. Better hurry.

Lock target: Senju Hashirama (Pure Land)

???

No response?

Looking at the bit of flesh before him, Yun felt awkward.

Does it only work with a quarter of a forearm? Can it be used four times?

[SS-rank ninja locked: First Hokage Senju Hashirama (Pure Land)]

[Exchange space time flow rate altered]

[Activate Shadow Mode?]

Yun hesitated for a moment, then chose no, but he used the appearance of his Clone, Sora, for the selection.

Inside the Exchange space, two figures stood atop the massive Hokage Rock, while the Konoha village below was pitch black and silent.

"This is... Konoha?"

Amidst the murmurs, Yun looked at the... spirit of the First Hokage beside him.

"Is it much bigger than it was in your time? This is Konoha decades later, the Konoha I live in now."

Hashirama looked over at the sound, tilting his head in thought for a long time. "Red hair? Red hair? Oh! You're from the Uzumaki Clan, one of Mito's kin!"

Yun looked at Konoha beneath the Hokage Rock and responded indifferently, "There is no Uzumaki Clan anymore, and the Land of Whirlpools is gone, too—all while your wife, Mito, was still alive."

Only then did Hashirama freeze. "Did another war break out after I died? Mito... she must have been very sad, right?"

Yun shook his head slightly. "I don't know, because I never met Lady Mito. But Lord Hashirama, aren't you curious about your own situation?"

Hashirama tapped his own spiritual head, but his finger passed right through. "You mean this Exchange space? I've already figured it out. No lying allowed, right? And there's the trading aspect. But I'm just a dead man; I don't really want to make any trades."

As he spoke, Hashirama looked at Yun's red hair and said sincerely, "I know it's useless, but I still want to apologize to you. The Uzumaki and Senju have always been the firmest of allies. Since the founding of the Land of Whirlpools and Konoha, we have shared the closest of bonds."

"The Uzumaki crest on the back of Konoha's flak jackets represents the friendship between Konoha and the Uzumaki. Although I don't know why the descendants of Konoha didn't come to your aid, as the First Hokage, I must apologize!"

"I am sorry!"

Watching the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, bowing at a ninety-degree angle, Yun felt a bit awkward.

He had originally intended to use his Uzumaki identity to swindle and deceive, but the man before him was just as upright and honest as he remembered from the anime.

"Madara... is not dead."

As the words fell, Hashirama Senju suddenly looked up at Yun.

At that moment, a current of air swept across the sky, stirring the leaves to form the character "Truth."

Hashirama shook his head slightly. "I killed Madara with my own hands. His heart was pierced, and Tobirama buried the body."

Yun, standing to the side, shook his head slightly. "Izanagi, a unique ocular jutsu of the Uchiha Clan, can turn everything unfavorable to oneself into a dream. If this ability is activated with a delay, one can be resurrected."

Hashirama looked sharply at the sky; the reappearance of the character "Truth" made his spiritual body tremble slightly.

In this world, for him, the God of Shinobi, there were many important things, but there were only two that could not be destroyed by anyone...

One was peace, and the other was Konoha!

In fact, these two could be merged into one: the peace of Konoha.

For the sake of Konoha's peace, even if it were his best friend with whom he had competed in peeing since childhood, he could still pierce his heart with his own hands.

Yun continued, "Madara didn't just resurrect. Think about what he said to you in front of that underground Stone Tablet in the Uchiha Compound. When two powers become one, one obtains All Things..."

Silence reigned over the Hokage Rock for a long time, Hashirama Senju's gaze remaining fixed on the silent Konoha village below.

"Huu..."

Exhaling softly, Hashirama Senju rubbed his face, only for his hand to pass through it once again.

He lowered his hand, looked at it, and replied helplessly, "I am merely a man who has already died. What good would it do to trade for information with you?"

Yun raised his hand slightly, and changes began to appear in the Konoha village below.

"ROAR!!!"

Chakra filled with violence and hatred suddenly flooded Konoha, and the Nine-Tailed Fox began to wantonly destroy everything.

Within its two massive eyes, the Sharingan was reflected.

Cries of agony and pleas for help rang out through the village. Countless shinobi rushed toward the Nine-Tailed Fox, but all who fell became corpses.

"This is the original history."

As Yun spoke, he waved his hand, and everything dissipated.

He then looked at the First and said, "The Second Hokage, Tobirama, created a jutsu, the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, which can summon the spirits of the dead from the Pure Land back to reality."

"The Second might not have dared to tell you about this jutsu, but the Release for it... and with the power of the God of Shinobi, I don't think it would be difficult."

"So... let's make a deal, for the sake of Konoha."

As the words fell, Hashirama continued to look at the Konoha below, from the rows of houses that had stood there to the ruins they had become.

"Huu..."

Hashirama Senju sat on the ground, lowered his head, and pondered for a long time before asking, "Then what is your identity, and what is your goal? Information broker from the Uzumaki Clan."

Yun smiled, looked toward the darkness filling the distance, and replied, "I just want to survive. If I have enough ability, I will live well. When I'm tired, I'll rest; when I'm hungry, I'll go out to eat barbecue or ramen—Three-Color Dango would work too, though I don't really like sweets."

"If... and I mean if I had the ability, I would make this world peaceful, with no war and no slaughter, sleeping until I wake up naturally, eating, drinking, and having fun. How is that for a goal?"

Yun rubbed his chin. "As for my identity... Uzumaki Sora, that is my name."

The whole neighborhood is doing nucleic acid testing today, and it seems I have to line up again tomorrow.