Uchiha Filial Piety System

"Look at Uchiha Itachi! He graduated from the Ninja Academy in just one year, was promoted to Chunin at ten, and has already awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan!"

"And look at Uchiha Shisui! I won't even bother mentioning his talent; the title of 'Shisui of the Body Flicker' is renowned throughout the entire ninja world. He has likely already stepped into the ranks of Kage-level powerhouses!"

"Both Itachi and Shisui forged themselves through the clan's rigorous training. Compared to the hardships they endured, what is this little bit of training you're doing?"

Uchiha Jin's gaze pierced through the sweat-drenched Uchiha youngsters like an awl, his tone heavy with the frustration of seeing them fail to live up to their potential.

Hm!

Uchiha Jin wasn't lying; after all, every sentence he had just spoken was factually correct. The art of language is sometimes just that simple and unadorned.

"Now look at yourselves!"

"Do you have any idea what the current situation of our Uchiha Clan is? Do you know how those despicable people in the village are plotting against us? To dare call this amount of training tiring in front of me—how can you even sleep at your age!"

"Three hours of extra training today, you geniuses! Hah~"

As the conclusion to his leadership speech, Uchiha Jin thoughtfully assigned the Uchiha youngsters some extra homework, his heart filled with infinite, albeit complicated, expectations for their future.

"Yes!"

The Uchiha youngsters seemed to want to vent all their inner dissatisfaction; even after three hours of grueling special training, they still gave the loudest response possible.

Yeah!

Uchiha Itachi! Uchiha Shisui!

Since everyone is an Uchiha, why are the two of you so much better than the rest of us!

Although Sasuke, standing in the crowd, felt a sense of pride that his older brother was being held up as the gold standard, he couldn't help but feel ashamed of his own powerlessness and weakness. A burning fire of unwillingness began to blaze within him as well.

Coach... no, Instructor, I want to become stronger too~ Ahhhhhhh...

Hm!

Uchiha Jin sighed that Talk no Jutsu was indeed the "natural enemy of the Uchiha," but his figure vanished instantly with a pop.

A hundred meters away, inside a small wooden hut, a puff of smoke dissipated to reveal a lazy figure skillfully reclining on a lounge chair. He picked up a glass of iced, freshly squeezed fruit juice with his left hand and took a comfortable sip.

"Has it already been three years!"

Recalling the 'Sasuke' who now bore a striking resemblance to the memories of his past life, Uchiha Jin couldn't help but feel a slight pang of emotion.

"The Konoha F4, Itachi, Obito, the Night of the Massacre... although I had long anticipated these events, the sense of impending pressure is..."

"Lord Madara, why did you have to die so early!"

The sentiment in Uchiha Jin's eyes quickly faded, replaced by an undisguised sense of regret and agony.

Uchiha Madara was actually dead!

This was Uchiha Madara, the man who stood on equal footing with the God of Shinobi, Senju Hashirama, who together pacified the chaotic Warring States period, and who awakened the Rinnegan after faking his death at the Valley of the End.

When the reality of this truly hit him, the heartache was so intense that Uchiha Jin found it hard to breathe.

Ahhhhhhh...

"This feeling is worse than being killed!"

Don't misunderstand.

Uchiha Jin was not some die-hard fan of Uchiha Madara, nor did he care about the glory or future of the Uchiha Clan, and he certainly didn't harbor any special feelings for a man he had never met.

In fact.

As a transmigrator, having been reborn from the stable, 996-blessed life of his past world into this one—where one could die an untimely death at any moment—Jin had been resistant from the start!

How hateful!

I was just shouting at the "King of Trash Talk" in the Zaun server; did the computer really have to explode in protest? At least my departure was clean.

But... it would have been one thing to transmigrate into the Naruto world, but to be reborn into the Uchiha Clan—the tragic background fodder—and at such an awkward, specific time right after the Nine-Tails Rebellion?

Damn it!

If this timeline had been just a few years earlier, given Jin's knowledge of the world's plot, even without the assistance of a cheat, he might have had a ten or twenty percent chance of turning the tide with his "Zaun King" skills... maybe.

However.

After the Nine-Tails Rebellion, the Uchiha Clan was already being covertly and overtly treated with hostility by all the ninja clans in Konoha. Under that "strongest Hokage" who hid a knife behind his smile, there was also a "Pot Hokage" lurking in the shadows, sharpening his blade to weaken the Uchiha and harvest their Sharingan for his own arm.

In such a situation, it was impossible for Uchiha Jin to escape Konoha, this place of trouble, without leaving a trace.

Even if he succeeded, he would inevitably be targeted by the "Pot Hokage" Shimura Danzo and the many others in the ninja world who coveted the Uchiha bloodline, destined for a cruel and miserable death.

But if he chose to stay in Konoha, the future he would face wouldn't be much better. After all, this was the Uchiha Clan, a clan that produced "filial sons" in abundance!

First, the Uchiha Clan collectively lost their minds and backstabbed a super-heavyweight ally who could go toe-to-toe with Senju Hashirama.

Then, there was Uchiha Kagami, who inherited the Will of Fire and took Senju Tobirama—a man who viewed them as an "evil clan"—as his master, only to die young.

Now, there was Uchiha Shisui, who couldn't learn from experience and was thoroughly brainwashed by the Will of Fire.

Add to that the clan head, Uchiha Fugaku, a "traitor" who seemed fierce but was actually indecisive and constantly sold out the clan's core interests.

And in the future, there would be Uchiha Itachi, who reached a new height of "filial piety," transcending the narrow-mindedness of his own clan to think from the perspective of the Hokage at the age of seven...

However.

The Uchiha Clan, a family already renowned for their "heaven-moving filial piety" and who never knew when they might be "earnestly mourned" by their own kin, had now welcomed the "King of Filial Piety"...

Uchiha Filial Piety System!

Automatically seize all abilities of any Uchiha clan member upon their death!

The system's ability, summarized by that single, simple sentence, left Uchiha Jin—who had just realized the Nine-Tails Rebellion had already occurred—unable to ever forget the towering figure of Lord Madara.

Lord Madara!

Why did you have to die so miserably!

Why couldn't you have died just a few days later... damn it, you really deserve to die!

Why couldn't Uchiha Madara have held on for just a little longer? Why did he have to pull the plug on his own life support so early? Why didn't he struggle with every ounce of his strength to live on, no matter how ugly it might have been?

At the same time.

As the host of the "Uchiha Filial Piety System," while quickly realizing the correct way to use it, he truly didn't know how to complain about it.

Is there such a possibility?

I!

Uchiha Jin!

It seems, perhaps, probably, should be, maybe, possibly, that I am an Uchiha...

Am I supposed to be filial to myself?

Forget it!

Although the system's setup was a bit of a scam, as a cheat, the power of this golden finger was truly formidable.

Heaven knows the immense trauma Uchiha Jin's heart had suffered as a newcomer from a "peaceful" world, arriving in this godforsaken place where towns dared to hold reckless PKs, and where people in the same village schemed against and even assassinated one another.

After much thought, only a "filial act" like personally sending Uchiha Madara to the afterlife would allow Uchiha Jin to possess the ability to live securely in this world for the time being.

But alas, Uchiha Madara had died too young, and a heartbroken Uchiha Jin had no choice but to set his sights on the useless clansmen around him.

Sigh... what a pity that they are all a bunch of trash!

Although Jin also bore the surname Uchiha at this moment, for someone who had opened his eyes to find himself in a completely different world, only to discover that those around him were all traps and his surroundings were filled with enemies.

Recognition of Konoha? Bonds of blood with his clansmen?

How could that be!

How could a noble soul from Zhonghua be tainted by such things? They were merely strangers who had accidentally stumbled into Jin's life, seemingly familiar yet actually alien. It was just a pity that he would likely never return to that land he both complained about and loved so dearly...

Therefore!

Whether it was Konoha or the Uchiha, to Jin, they were all just "them."

I, I only have "myself"!