Drawing from Myriad Worlds

Year 48 of Konoha.

A moonless night, with the wind howling, at an Iwagakure Camp.

Aragaki Yasushi slipped into the camp. As a Konoha Ninja, he watched the Iwagakure Ninja coming and going around him without a care in the world. He even felt like yawning.

Afraid? Not a chance.

Right now, he was nothing more than a crumpled letter tucked into the bag of some unlucky Iwagakure Genin.

The Genin was still cheerfully carrying him deeper into camp, blithely passing through several checkpoints that were supposedly under tight security.

The guards stared straight ahead like they were blind, never noticing Aragaki Yasushi at all.

Iwagakure's security really was terrible.

Maybe one day, Konoha's gate guardians could come teach them a thing or two.

What?

Konoha's gate guardians weren't on duty yet?

Never mind, then.

As the warehouse storing supplies drew closer, Aragaki Yasushi couldn't help but grin to himself.

Perfect. Looks like this'll be another easy mission. Once I'm out, I can brag to that Asuma guy.

First, to be clear: Aragaki Yasushi could turn into origami, but he wasn't using that run-of-the-mill Transformation Technique from the Naruto World.

If he really were using the Transformation Technique, the Iwagakure Ninja would have to collectively lose their minds for him to get away with it. Even if they didn't catch on at first, he'd eventually slip up.

Then he wouldn't just fail the mission—he'd probably get pinned to the ground and pummeled by a bunch of burly Iwagakure men, while they mocked him: "That Konoha Ninja must be an idiot. He thinks he can charge into our camp with a Transformation Technique?"

Aragaki Yasushi's ability came from a completely unrelated world.

The world of Jackie Chan Adventures.

That's right. Aragaki Yasushi was an utterly ordinary transmigrator.

He'd ended up in Konoha and, by sheer coincidence, was in the same graduating class as Kakashi and Obito.

Other transmigrators either had extraordinary talent or came equipped with powers capable of destroying the world.

He'd started with nothing. Thanks to sheer shamelessness, he'd managed to become close friends with the young lord Asuma Sarutobi.

After graduating, he'd relied on the bond of "we're partners" to get assigned to the same squad as Asuma. He'd even landed a Jonin instructor, putting one foot into the old guard of Konoha's ruling circle. He could go around bragging that the young lord of Konoha called him big bro.

But the Third Shinobi World War had broken out without warning, and even the young lord Asuma's squad had been sent to the battlefield to get themselves killed...

Ahem. To carry out high-risk missions.

Half a month ago, Aragaki Yasushi had nearly been flattened by an Iwagakure Ninja's Earth Release. At the last moment, his cheat finally awakened.

It had waited until he was nearly dead to show up. Was this cheat trying to make things difficult for him?

Still, having a cheat was better than not having one. At least he could survive a little longer on this battlefield full of fighting and killing.

As for Aragaki Yasushi's cheat, there was nothing special about it. It was just an ordinary card-drawing pool that could pull abilities and items from all the worlds in existence, like a mobile game.

It had only two pools: a limited pool and a Permanent Pool.

The limited pool changed every month, randomly linking to a world like a blind box.

The Permanent Pool was locked at first. To unlock it, he had to designate one of the limited pools as permanent.

And he could only keep one Permanent Pool at a time. If he changed it, the old one disappeared.

Luckily, Aragaki Yasushi had struck it rich. His very first limited pool was linked to the world of Jackie Chan Adventures.

On his first ten-pull, he got the Paper Thief's magic paper.

It might have sounded a little underwhelming, but it was incredibly useful!

He could turn into a spider, a bird, a paper person...

He could become almost anything he wanted, making the ability incredibly versatile in all kinds of situations.

To make the ability seem more like it belonged here, Aragaki Yasushi had even disguised it as a Paper Style secret technique like Konan's.

And it really did work. At least, no one in Konoha had suspected a thing.

They just assumed Aragaki Yasushi was a young genius on par with Kakashi.

Kakashi had developed Lightning Release Ninjutsu, while Aragaki Yasushi had developed a Paper Style secret technique. It made perfect sense.

The key was that this ability came from another world and didn't follow the same principles as ninjutsu. When he turned into something inconspicuous, like a letter, a ninja's sensory abilities couldn't detect him at all.

So, sneaking into enemy territory?

Easy as pie. There was nothing to worry about.

Just then, the unlucky Genin finally made his way into the warehouse with his companions.

Aragaki Yasushi had already tested things out when choosing his unwitting helpers. This squad of Iwagakure Ninja was just a bunch of errand runners, here to deliver ninja tools and soldier pills. As long as he stuck with them, getting into the warehouse was as easy as strolling through his own backyard.

When the Iwagakure Ninja started taking supplies out of the sealing scrolls on their bodies, Aragaki Yasushi's thoughts stirred.

Here's my chance!

While the others were busy, he secretly turned into a palm-sized scrap of paper and drifted out of the ninja tool bag.

The whole point was to go completely unnoticed.

The supplies in the camp's warehouse weren't stored in sealing scrolls.

The war required too many supplies. Iwagakure wasn't rich enough to cram such an enormous amount of supplies into sealing scrolls.

The scrolls were only used for transporting goods.

Just as Aragaki Yasushi was looking for a place to hide, his whole body suddenly tensed.

Crap. The Iwagakure Jonin leading the group had suddenly started looking around warily.

"Something's not right. I think there's something here."

Aragaki Yasushi quickly slipped beneath a pile of soldier pill bags.

Fortunately, the Jonin looked around for a while and found nothing. He could only scratch his head, thinking he'd been too jumpy.

Aragaki Yasushi breathed a sigh of relief.

A Jonin's senses really were sharp. Good thing he'd hidden quickly. That had been a close call.

Only after the errand-running squad had finally dawdled out of the warehouse did Aragaki Yasushi crawl out from beneath the bags. With a snap, he returned to human form. His eyes lit up at the sight of the supplies filling the warehouse.

They're finally gone. Time for me to get to work!

Aragaki Yasushi pulled out the oil he'd prepared in advance and poured it all over the warehouse as if it were free, making sure not to miss even the corners.

Today, I'm giving you a Fire Dragon Warehouse Burn. I'll wreck your entire supply line!

After pouring out the oil, Aragaki Yasushi took out several bombs he'd drawn from the card pool.

When he'd drawn the things, he'd thought they were pretty pathetic.

But they were quite useful for destroying a warehouse.

All done. Time to go!

Aragaki Yasushi set the bombs' timers and prepared to make his escape.

The next moment, Aragaki Yasushi changed shape and became a Paper Crane. Flapping its wings, it burst through the warehouse doors and flew into the sky.

The ninja on guard outside the warehouse were stunned.

Only after they came to their senses did they rush inside like madmen.

But as soon as they entered, they saw oil covering the floor and bombs ticking away.

Boom!

A deafening explosion shook the air. Flames soared into the sky and thick smoke billowed as half of Iwagakure Camp was blasted sky-high.

Meanwhile, the mastermind behind it all, Aragaki Yasushi, was flying through the sky at his leisure.

He looked down at the Iwagakure Ninja scrambling around below, unable to resist a little humblebrag.

Ah, what can I say? I can fly.

There weren't many ninja in the Naruto World who could fly.

Though the Second Tsuchikage's Light-Weight Rock Technique could let someone fly, was that something an ordinary ninja could learn?

And even if they did learn it, they'd have to master the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique before they could fly fast.

This lousy camp could have all the talent it wanted. They'd have to catch up with me first.