"Looks like it," Yashui said with disappointment. "You're too modest. Saying you don't have any particular strengths isn't something you should be saying. You have powerful Taijutsu and mental strength no less impressive than mine. The moment you took over this body, you awakened a One-Tomoe Sharingan and broke the genjutsu. Even among the Uchiha Clan, you'd be considered a rare genius."
"You flatter me." Xu Fengxin asked, "Is there any way to break this jutsu? I'm already a dead man. Life doesn't mean much to me anymore."
"Heh heh... What means nothing to you means a great deal to me." Yashui seemed to find Xu Fengxin somewhat irritating. "You look like you're only in your twenties. You died so young, so someone must have killed you, right? You were murdered so young, and you still say life means nothing to you..."
"You're wrong." Xu Fengxin smiled. "I killed myself. I still had unfinished business, but in this world, which is nothing like the one I came from, there was no point in living."
He wore that smile as if he were telling someone else's story.
"I can't understand someone who kills himself. I have to stay alive to avenge my clan. I still have to kill Uchiha Itachi and the Konoha High Command... and Itachi's younger brother... He doesn't deserve to live, either..." Yashui's voice grew fainter and fainter.
"I'll seal my soul for now... But don't worry. I'll come back and take my body back. Just keep living as me, Uchiha Yashui... You have to stay alive until the day I reclaim my body..."
And with that, the real Uchiha Yashui sealed himself away. From that moment on, Xu Fengxin temporarily became Uchiha Yashui.
"Then that's that. I'll live on as Uchiha Yashui." Looking around at the unfamiliar surroundings, he thought, "I'm only alive because I'm borrowing your body, anyway. Until you take it back, I'll live your life for you."
Whoosh~
A gust of wind swept by, as if it had come just to leave Xu Fengxin completely bewildered...
"Listen, I may be borrowing your body and living in your place for now, but you haven't told me anything about this world or even what your daily habits are... And I can't sense that you left behind any ninjutsu or anything..." He was at a loss! This meant that the current "Yashui" would have to start learning about ninjutsu all over again!
"Wait!" Yashui suddenly realized something even more terrifying: how could there be wind in a room with its window closed?
The usurped Yashui tensed. Then a masked Anbu appeared before him, carried in on the wind.
"Your Sharingan has awakened?" The Anbu glanced at Yashui's scarlet eyes. "Then I'm afraid I'll have to apologize."
The Anbu grabbed Yashui like a chicken and carried him out of the house through the window. All that remained was an empty room and an open window.
After who knew how long, the Anbu tossed Yashui onto the ground again. They were in a grassy field.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Yashui asked calmly.
"I'm with Konoha Anbu. You don't need to know what I want. Don't blame me. Blame your Uchiha bloodline." The Anbu picked up a Kunai and slowly reached for Yashui's neck.
"Bang!" Yashui swept the Anbu's legs out from under him, punched him, then immediately retreated.
"Not good..." Yashui's hands and feet were tingling from his sudden attack. In the end, it was because he was in a child's body. Without thinking, he'd used the same force he would have with his old body.
But against this Anbu, holding back wouldn't win. The Anbu's movements had made it clear: he meant to kill Yashui.
Just then, the Sharingan in Yashui's eyes gradually faded. Keeping the Sharingan active consumed chakra, and for a child, maintaining it this long was already impressive.
Then again, the real problem was that Yashui hadn't adjusted to his new body and didn't know how to turn off the Sharingan.
"Kid, you've got some skill. Your Taijutsu might be at Genin level. But I'm a Chunin." The Anbu gritted his teeth. As a Konoha Anbu Chunin, getting caught off guard by a little kid was humiliating.
"You flatter me, but I haven't even shown you what I can really do yet." Yashui couldn't use ninjutsu or genjutsu right now. The only thing he could rely on was the fighting technique he'd brought with him from before his rebirth—in this world, it was Taijutsu.
"Wind Release: Wind Blade!" The Konoha Anbu formed Hand Seals at blinding speed. Then three barely visible blades of wind shot toward Yashui.
Yashui wanted to marvel at how quickly people in this world could form Hand Seals, but in the middle of a fight, he had no time to admire anything. He rolled to the side and barely dodged the attack.
The trees struck by the jutsu were sliced neatly into several pieces.
"Ninjutsu really is terrifying." Yashui formed the "Ram" hand seal. It was the only seal he remembered—not because he'd deliberately tried to learn Hand Seals while watching Naruto, but because this one appeared so often.
The so-called "Ram" seal was the one ninja used to mold chakra.
Chakra wasn't energy stored in one fixed place. It was energy stored in every cell of the body. When it was needed, it couldn't be used directly. First, it had to be drawn out of the cells through the process of "molding chakra."
After molding a little chakra, Yashui immediately activated his Sharingan. Once he'd stretched his muscles a bit, he began to adjust to his new body.
With his Sharingan active, the world looked completely different from before. Though the One-Tomoe Sharingan was the weakest kind, it still sped up reaction time and enhanced dynamic vision. Most importantly, even a One-Tomoe Sharingan could see chakra.
Yashui spotted a substantial mass of chakra beneath the ground at his feet and immediately jumped away.
The Anbu suddenly burst out of the earth, charging at him with a Kunai in hand. Hiding underground was a common trick in the ninja world.
The "Anbu" who had been facing Yashui earlier slowly vanished. It had only been a Clone Technique.
The Kunai in the Anbu's hand moved with dazzling skill, its ring spinning around his finger. Even with the Sharingan, Yashui couldn't immediately see through the Anbu's attack patterns and techniques.
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