Naruto: The Dawn of Uchiha Toru

On the night of the Nine-Tails' attack, Konoha burns.

Uchiha Che awakens amid blood and fire, only to discover that he has transmigrated into the body of an orphan of the Uchiha clan. His parents are dead, the clan compound is under surveillance, and a night of massacre looms in his future.

He has no grand ambitions of saving the world. At first, he only wants to survive.

Fortunately, he possesses an ability that borders on a system: any ninjutsu he sees, he can analyze; any hand seals he witnesses, he can reproduce. From Fire Release to genjutsu, from the Flying Thunder God Technique to techniques of his own creation, from the Sharingan to the Rinnegan, he quietly grows stronger in Konoha's shadows-even as fate drives him, step by step, toward defection.

After Orochimaru destroys Konoha, Uchiha Che leaves the village and establishes an organization called "Dawn."

They are not the Akatsuki, yet they, too, gather the tailed beasts. They seek to stop the darkness, yet the world sees them as a new threat.

The last survivor of the family that guarded the One-Tail, an Ice Release shinobi from Kirigakure's Bloody Mist era, a survivor from the Land of Whirlpools, a wandering samurai from the Land of Lightning... A band of people abandoned by the shinobi world builds a base beneath the frozen plains of the Land of Snow.

When the Akatsuki makes its move, the struggle for the tailed beasts sweeps across the shinobi world. When the Fourth Great Ninja War erupts and the shadows of Madara and the Otsutsuki descend, Uchiha Che finally understands:

Dawn does not mean the absence of darkness.

It means that even in the darkness, someone will kindle the first light with their own hands.