Sekito was quite certain he had simply drunk too much, fallen asleep, and done nothing else. Yet upon waking, he found himself time-traveled into the anime world of Naruto, lying in a hospital bed at the Hidden Leaf Village.
If you ask him how he knew, well, Sekito's head had been throbbing painfully ever since he woke up. Every few moments of pain brought a flood of new memories into his mind concerning things like the Uchiha and Konoha.
It was only after a long while, once all the memories belonging to this reincarnated body had been fully absorbed and his head stopped aching so badly, that Sekito began to sort out his thoughts and clarify the situation of his new body.
First off! The name of the body he now possessed was Feng, the son of a blacksmith in the Hidden Leaf Village of the Land of Fire.
Huh? The whole family kicked the bucket last night? What was going on, a transmigratory passive? The whole family wiped out?
After recalling things carefully, it turned out to be the Nine-Tails Night.
Last night, the family was right in the middle of dinner when a super-sized fox with nine tails suddenly appeared in the center of the village. With a wave of its paws, a massive swath of houses collapsed, and his home was one of them. Then, the entire family kicked the bucket.
As for himself, the moment the house collapsed, his grandmother and father shielded him underneath their bodies. He suffered severe injuries and, having received no rescue for a long time, died of those grave wounds.
Shortly after death, Sekito transmigrated, occupied the original owner's body, returned to his soul, and came back to life. He hung on for a few extra breaths until rescue arrived.
That was why he woke up in the hospital. Alas, this body was truly ill-fated. Because of the Nine-Tails Night, he instantly transformed from a cherished darling into an orphan.
Wait! An orphan—doesn't that mean he'd have to go to the Konoha Orphanage? That place seemed to be the territory of Danzo, the Lord of Darkness.
Holy crap! I'm totally doomed!! If a transmigrator with such incompatibility with ordinary people joined the Root at that point, it would definitely be GG.
Therefore, Sekito—now known as Feng—began to think carefully to avoid joining the Root, wondering if there were any relatives left in his memories. He had to find someone to rely on to dodge this calamity.
Yet after sorting through his family's kinship relations, Feng felt that he was even closer to the gates of the Root, and perhaps even closer to the Root's experimental dissection table.
The reason?? Heh, come on! Let's take a look at Feng's family background.
His ancestors were once illustrious ninjas of the Uchiha Clan. By his grandfather's generation, however, his grandfather possessed not a shred of ninja talent, and thus became a blacksmith within the Uchiha Clan.
Later on, his grandfather intended to remain a bachelor for life to avoid passing on his incompetent talent to the next generation and making a fool of himself. Just then, he happened to encounter First Hashirama Senju dissolving the Senju and integrating the entire clan into Konoha.
Consequently, Feng's grandfather hatched an idea. He married a Senju Clanswoman who also lacked ninja talent, intending to optimize his descendants' genes in the hopes of reclaiming some face and siring a son with ninja talent!
Sadly, the idea was wonderful, but reality was cruel.
Even with the union of the Uchiha and the Senju, when two people devoid of ninja talent came together, the offspring they produced naturally had nothing to write home about in terms of talent either.
Thus, the descendants of the two, including Feng's father—three siblings in all—were entirely ordinary people, not a single one possessing ninja talent. Feng's grandfather literally died of vexation and depression.
By his father's generation, his father lacked ninja talent as well. To fulfill his own grandfather's dying wish, he also intended to improve the family's bloodline.
Therefore, he traveled thousands of miles to the Land of Whirlpools and married someone from the Uzumaki, a clan renowned for exceptionally outstanding physical talent. However, since Feng's father was an ordinary person, he naturally could only marry an ordinary Uzumaki Clanswoman.
Then they bore Feng and Feng's older brother. Neither of them possessed ninja talent either. Three generations of the family failed to produce a single ninja, and Feng's family consequently suffered the scorn and disdain of certain clansmen.
While Feng's father failed to inherit ninja talent from the Uchiha, he certainly inherited their stubborn temper in full. Upon seeing his family treated with contempt by fellow clansmen, he flew into a rage on the spot, moved out of the Uchiha Clan District, and flatly refused to let his children bear the Uchiha surname.
That was why Feng was simply called Feng, and not Uchiha Feng.
As for Feng's other relatives, uh...
His paternal uncle had mysteriously disappeared in the village many years ago, and his remains were only found on the eve of the Fourth Hokage election last year—found, mind you, inside the laboratory of Orochimaru, one of the Konoha Sannin;
Next was Feng's paternal aunt, who could not bear the various bizarre antics of her grandfather, who was obsessed with siring a talented offspring, and married far away to the distant south of the Land of Fire at an early age, after which she completely lost touch;
As for Feng's mother and older brother, they had returned to the Land of Whirlpools to visit relatives when Feng was young, and tragically encountered the war of destruction in the Land of Whirlpools. Their whereabouts remained unknown to this day, though the outcome went without saying.
His final family members—his father and grandmother—had died last night protecting Feng. Therefore, the present-day Feng was truly all alone in Konoha, with no aggrieved party even around to help file a police report if he went missing.
Yep! The probability of being laid out on an experimental table increased by 1.
Still, searching through his memories, it wasn't all bad news. At the very least, the current Feng was already sixteen years old—an adult in the Naruto world capable of living independently, meaning he didn't need to go to an orphanage.
Looked at this way, since Feng lacked ninja talent, didn't need to go to the orphanage, didn't bear the Uchiha surname, and was entirely an ordinary civilian, as long as he kept a low profile and stayed steady—living right next to the Ichiraku Ramen Shop, for instance—he should have no problem surviving until Naruto and Sasuke finished saving the world.
Yet flipping through his memories once more, damn it, he had celebrated too early! He, Feng, had watched his father and grandmother die before his very eyes last night, his eye sockets turning completely red. Originally teetering between awakening and not awakening the Sharingan due to insufficient talent, his soul had been reinforced by the transmigration, and he had awakened his eyes~
Although it was only the most basic One-Tomoe Sharingan, a Sharingan was still a Sharingan.
And this very morning, his father's friend, Uchiha Teuchi, a pancake shop owner and middle-aged uncle, had come to visit him and discovered that a newly awakened Feng had actually unlocked the Sharingan. He was overjoyed.
Then, the warm and friendly Uncle Teuchi hurriedly fetched a doctor to give Feng a thorough checkup.
The doctor found that not only had Feng awakened the Sharingan, but perhaps owing to his Uzumaki and Senju bloodlines, the newly awakened Feng already possessed an amount of chakra rivaling an ordinary Genin fresh out of the Ninja Academy.
Therefore, the immensely delighted Uncle Teuchi quickly comforted Feng and rushed off in a flurry to report the news at the Uchiha Clan District.
At that moment, Feng's profile was probably already sitting in clan leader Uchiha Fugaku's database.
Mm, once that blockhead of a clan leader Fugaku had the file, it probably wouldn't be long before he sent it to Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi. And once Hiruzen Sarutobi had the file, it wouldn't be long before Konoha's most repulsive Danzo added Uchiha Feng's information to his Root database, or so he believed.
Then, the day that dog Danzo happened to lack materials for his experiments, he—a ninja with a mixed bloodline of the Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki—would definitely be the absolute prime choice.
Previously, when Feng lacked ninja talent, that scoundrel might not have looked twice at him. But now, he possessed Genin-level chakra, and paired with the Sharingan and a few casually learned ninjutsu, he made for an excellent experimental consumable.
Consumable my ass! No way, I have to figure something out, or sooner or later I'll end up lying on a Root experimental table and turn into a mangled corpse just like my uncle I never met.
Unwilling to become an experimental consumable, Feng couldn't help roaring in his heart.
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