[Brain parking, not a passionate story, somewhat dark, focused on supremacy, seizing power, entering the pass.]
[He won't become a ninja or work like an ox for Konoha. No groveling before canon characters. Anyone who stands in the protagonist's way will die.]
[All the original heroines will be his. No dragging things out. Minors should watch with an adult present. Viewer discretion is advised.]
Snow fell thickly, and the cold was bitter.
It was December in the Land of Fire, and everything was blanketed in white, as though the whole world had fallen silent.
Even the ninjas, famed for their ability to endure hardship, huddled somewhere warm in their thick winter clothes.
No one was doing anything outdoors in this worst winter weather anyone could remember.
Konoha
The Uchiha Clan district.
The residential area on its outskirts.
"Another thousand ryo in the bag today. I may only have work for two or three months each winter, but at least the pay's decent. With weather like this, I'll be working once every two or three days. On average, I should have at least thirty thousand ryo guaranteed!"
"Lucky for me, those elite ninjas from the great clans look down on these low-level jobs that put them in the public eye. Otherwise, a kid like me wouldn't get a chance at such easy money!"
Uchiha Tenshu had just finished the village's snow-clearing job and returned home. Calculating his earnings, he smiled, patted the snow off his wool hat, then shivered as he shook the snow from the broad broom in his hands. He set it beneath the eaves in the corner of the courtyard, then pulled his coat collar tighter. Only then did he feel a little more comfortable.
Even with a ninja's physique, thick winter clothes, and thick gloves, he could feel the bone-chilling cold seeping through every gap in his clothes, bringing waves of discomfort.
Every breath brought dry, cold air that made his throat tremble, while his nose ran freely.
To be honest, if he didn't have a goal that required a great deal of money, he wouldn't have gone out in this freezing weather to clear snow for ordinary civilians like some low-ranking clan ninja.
After all, this winter was far colder than usual!
"But I have to achieve my goal! Since I'm too weak to struggle for it right now, I'll just have to endure a little longer!"
Beneath his black hair, Uchiha Tenshu's large, dark eyes stared ahead. His handsome little face was tense, and his fists were clenched. With earnestness written all over him, he nodded and began to give himself a pep talk.
But a pep talk alone couldn't keep out the cold.
"Aaah—choo!"
"Damn it, I really hope I don't catch a cold. This winter is the coldest the Land of Fire has ever seen. I wonder how many people outside Konoha will freeze to death."
Uchiha Tenshu sneezed violently. As he worried about catching a cold, he couldn't help feeling sorry for all the people elsewhere in the world who would freeze to death.
Though he was still very young, he was already thinking about questions of life and death that children his age shouldn't have to consider.
Even by the standards of precocious young ninjas.
That was highly unusual!
The reason, of course, was that Uchiha Tenshu was actually a transmigrator from another world.
That's right. Uchiha Tenshu was a transmigrator.
In his previous life, he had lived in a place called the Middle Kingdom. His name back then had been the same as in this world: Tianxiu.
So even though he'd ended up in a different world, he'd only changed surnames. His given name remained exactly the same.
That was what pleased Uchiha Tenshu most.
Aside from that, his previous life had been utterly ordinary. He came from an ordinary family, grew up in an ordinary environment, had ordinary learning abilities, and did ordinary work—so ordinary that he could see exactly how his life would end. Other than enjoying anime, he had no distinguishing traits. He'd drifted through life in a haze, taking things as they came, until his family ties and friendships had faded away. After that, he'd lived alone, quietly existing just to stay alive. He'd studied like a beast of burden and worked like a walking corpse.
Until one day.
He'd been out for a walk when, for some unknown reason, a fragment of something had struck him. He'd lost consciousness and transmigrated to the Ninja World.
"Even now, I don't know whether getting hit by that mysterious fragment and landing in the Naruto World was bad luck or the greatest stroke of fortune in my life!
"But for someone as ordinary as me, it was surely the best luck imaginable!
"After all, I'd suffered countless hardships in that ordinary life. Every time, I'd wished my fate could change. And now I've been given a chance to start over in a world with extraordinary powers."
"It's fulfilled every wish I ever had!"
"What more could I ask for?"
Uchiha Tenshu's face was expressionless, but his eyes brimmed with excitement. So many people in this world dreamed of escaping the pit of mediocrity, and he was the one who'd been given that chance. How could he possibly be dissatisfied?
At the same time, as usual, Uchiha Tenshu quietly sensed the gray, angular fragment, no bigger than a fingertip, in the consciousness space inside his mind, hoping it would respond. Unfortunately, it remained silent. Still, the glow on its surface had been growing over the past year, which showed that the Chakra he'd been feeding it was having some effect.
"But what kind of treasure is this? Even a mere fragment was able to bring me to this world."
"If it hadn't been silently absorbing my Chakra and led me to open my consciousness space early enough to realize it was extraordinary, I'd have gone to a doctor to see if I had a tumor!"
Uchiha Tenshu was confused.
But he didn't think much more about it.
After all, he'd been in this world for a while now.
If something were going to go wrong, it would have happened already.
Even if it never responded for the rest of his life.
He'd only have a tenant living in his head for free.
Besides, treasures were said to have a spirit. It hadn't drained him dry all at once, so that was proof enough it meant him no harm!
"And just bringing me to this world has already made it worth it, if only because I'll live longer. Never mind the Chakra, a supernatural power I could only dream of in my previous life, letting me wield water, fire, wind, and lightning, manipulate yin and yang, and control time.
"Maybe I'll even get the chance to become an immortal or a god, and stand above all others!
"And even if I'm not strong enough to do that, claiming territory and ruling as a king over my own domain would still be no small feat!"
Uchiha Tenshu reached out and gathered the Chakra inside his body. Delighted, his eyes shone with hopes for the future and the possibilities of developing supernatural powers.
At the same time, Uchiha Tenshu couldn't help looking down on the ninjas of this world. They possessed great strength, yet all they did was work for other people, taking on missions with no guaranteed pay.
Fail a mission, and they either died or had to pay compensation.
And when dealing with powerful nobles like the Daimyo, they had to grovel.
They were a disgrace to the Chakra in their bodies.
"After all, these ninjas only care about powerful techniques and all kinds of destructive abilities. They're always chasing fame, only to use their influence to become the dogs of the powerful. They're fucking insane."
"And not just a little!"
"Even the few who've escaped their clans' obsession with profit are busy chasing things like peace and bonds. Every one of them is mentally unwell!"
"But it's lucky they're all crazy, taking the wrong path. That leaves the proper path open for me. Otherwise, if some determined and enlightened predecessor had blocked the way, then even with supernatural powers, I'd only be facing a dead end."
Uchiha Tenshu knew this all too well.
He understood the malice written into the genes of the human race. He had no doubt that those who came first would use their supernatural powers to oppress those who came after them.
So.
"I'm going to be the one who comes first! Anyone who dares to get ahead of me, I'll send them to their death!"
In Uchiha Tenshu's clear, dark eyes lay a darkness and malice that seemed innocent at first glance, yet was unfathomably deep.
"And I'll never suffer through all those hardships from my ordinary life in my previous world again!"
"I'll have the greatest strength, the most prestigious status, the most power, and all the wealth and beauties I could ever want. I'll climb higher and higher..."
"I'll reach the very top, step by step. I'll build my own country and establish my own rules!"
Uchiha Tenshu gritted his teeth and swore silently to himself.
His small body was filled with a desire powerful enough to swallow the world.
No one would ever have guessed.
That inside this seemingly harmless little body.
A man who would one day make the entire world tremble was waiting to emerge!
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