Izuna: I'm Living Here Now

"The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju; the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju; the Third, Hiruzen Sarutobi; and the Fourth, Minato Namikaze. The first two were brothers, the Third was the Second's disciple, and the Fourth was the Third's disciple's disciple. But a long time ago, the Fourth and his wife died together in the Nine-Tails Incident, after which the Third took office again..."

A Luo leisurely counted on his fingers as he explained things every Hidden Leaf Village resident knew.

Anyway, generation after generation, none of them could really be considered outsiders...

"Wait, you said the Nine-Tails Incident. The Nine-Tails... that big fox?"

Once Izuna learned that the Senju Clan had never allowed the Hokage position to pass outside their circle, he basically understood.

But this Nine-Tails Incident... couldn't have involved the Nine-Tails he knew, could it?

"I think so. I only overheard it in secret. They said they sealed the Nine-Tails Demon Fox. Oh, right, my brother has a classmate named Naruto Uzumaki. Ever since he was little, everyone in the village has cursed him as a demon fox..."

A Luo nodded. There had only ever been one Nine-Tails Demon Fox.

So it was most likely the Nine-Tails Madara Uchiha had once captured as a summoned beast. Izuna might have known it too.

"How could a demon fox turn into a person? The Uzumaki Clan's sealing techniques are formidable. They must have sealed the Nine-Tails away. That Naruto Uzumaki you mentioned should be the vessel containing the Nine-Tails."

When Izuna mentioned the Uzumaki Clan, the Uchiha Clan's current state was enough for him to guess that the Uzumaki Clan probably had not fared much better.

Naruto Uzumaki had been cursed as a demon fox since childhood. It was obvious that people were bullying the Uzumaki Clan because no one was left to stand up for them.

It was all the work of those vicious Senju bastards!

"Actually, Naruto Uzumaki is pretty cute. He has short golden hair, the same color as the Fourth Hokage's hair. It shines so brightly. Oh, right, I think the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had a wife named Kushina Uzumaki..."

Just by piecing together bits of information he had overheard, child A Luo had already given Izuna enough to roughly imagine how the Hidden Leaf Village had developed over the years.

"Tch... the Hidden Leaf Village, the Senju... Are there still many Senju clansmen left?"

Izuna had never had a good impression of the Senju Clan, so he thought it perfectly normal for them to engage in all kinds of schemes and conspiracies.

Still, after all this turmoil, only two Uchiha remained, and perhaps not many Uzumaki either. So what had become of the Senju Clan?

"No. I used to live in the compound and wasn't allowed outside, so I got curious and often sneaked out to play. I heard there's only one left, Princess Tsunade. She's the Third's disciple, but she hasn't returned to the Hidden Leaf Village in many, many years."

Shaking his head, A Luo yawned after speaking and curled quietly into Izuna's arms.

Now, he needed to give him some time to slowly think over what kind of situation this was.

The earlier information had only shown how unlucky the Senju Clan's allies had been. Now, it turned out that the Senju Clan itself was gone too.

So the great clans of that era had all been building a foundation for someone else!

"Heh... hehehe... hahahahaha!"

Izuna was stunned for a long while before finally sorting out the Hidden Leaf Village's current situation.

The despicable Senju Clan had ultimately destroyed itself too. What wonderfully joyous news!

When he had first learned that the Uchiha Clan was gone, he had felt upset. But after finding out that the Uchiha Clan had betrayed his brother back then, he no longer felt there was any need for the clan to remain.

Now the Senju only had one descendant left, unable to return home. This news was truly delightful!

"Hey, little one, why did you fall asleep like this? Wake up. Get back into your body before you sleep!"

Izuna laughed for a while before suddenly realizing something was wrong.

Looking down at the sleeping child, he instantly went blank.

Though he hated those Uchiha clansmen who had betrayed his brother, this child was very well-behaved. Besides, he looked so much like him, and that made things different.

What if chatting with him got the child killed? That was absolutely unacceptable!

When shaking him got no response, Izuna stood up and carried him over to the sofa.

Whether it would work or not, the only method he could think of was to put the child's soul back into his body.

"It went back?"

He placed the soul in his arms onto the sleeping body. Watching it swiftly merge, then seeing the little one turn over in his sleep and make a motion that looked like he was grabbing for a blanket, Izuna stood beside him with his mind spinning.

Was leaving the body and returning to it really this easy?

Then if he pulled someone's soul out, could his own soul move in instead?

But that was only a passing wild thought. He did not believe such a thing could truly work.

If souls could be handled so casually, the boundary between life and death would be broken. That was absolutely impossible!

"It's getting dark. Why isn't Brother back yet?"

A Luo "slept" until evening. After opening his eyes and getting up, he swayed into the courtyard. Looking at the empty yard, he wondered whether he should go out to find someone or keep waiting at home.

At this hour, the ninja academy had definitely already let out. Sasuke had also said he would come straight home after school and would not linger on the way.

System, is it really normal for this soul to appear?

A Luo paced back and forth in the courtyard as he complained inwardly to the system. Was Izuna Uchiha's soul planning to settle permanently in his house?

He had thought Izuna would leave that afternoon, but now that he was awake, the guy had simply lain back down on the sofa. He did not know whether someone in that soul state could even feel how comfortable a sofa was...

[Izuna Uchiha appeared in memories from the original plot. Other information is insufficient. His current state is an energy body and will not affect the host or anyone else.]

The system could only inspect current information and trace back through certain objects to investigate the past. It could not lock onto things out of thin air.

For example, with Shisui Uchiha's eye, it could trace through the eye and calculate when it had been used, but it could not lock onto the dead Shisui Uchiha and inspect what he had done.

With Izuna Uchiha's appearance, the system could use this soul to examine how he had died and some events from when he was alive, but those matters had basically no effect on the current A Luo.

As for what would happen in the future...

Both it and its host had come here, so any future changes would count as "normal" development.

With how freely its host did whatever he pleased, it would already be impressive if this world's so-called plot could even maintain its opening.

Still, judging by its host's attitude toward Naruto Uzumaki, he probably would not target the protagonist anymore, right?

As long as the protagonist did not die, the world would not collapse, and this system would not have to work. What a...

Leisurely, wonderful time—the happiness of a slacker!