Naruto, You Have to Live Well

"So I'm not the demon fox? I'm the son of the Fourth Hokage and his wife?"

Naruto looked at A Luo with wounded eyes. After listening for so long, the protagonists of A Luo's story had turned out to be his parents?

The demon fox was the big fox in that cage—the Nine-Tails—and he himself was the container used to seal the Nine-Tails?

Not yet ten years old, Naruto's mind was now in complete turmoil, filled with nothing but grievance and fury.

He had suffered so much bullying since childhood, only for it all to be because the old Third Hokage wanted him to experience hard-won warmth amid extreme grievance and pain, believing that was the only way Naruto would wholeheartedly protect Konoha?

That was too cruel!

"There's no use throwing a tantrum. ANBU handed me over to Elder Danzo Shimura, and Danzo Shimura gave me to a rogue ninja. Now, I can only come back and take a look as a soul. If I did anything that displeased them, or if someone offered a high enough price, they'd sell me without hesitation..."

A Luo sighed and leaned against the pitch-black wall. There was no sorrow in his eyes, only an unnaturally obvious calm.

There was no emotion at all, yet it was precisely because of that that Naruto could more clearly feel the despair of someone who had utterly broken down.

He was the same. The only source of immense power was inside that cage, yet it could not be opened.

Because if he opened the cage, he would die. That idiot Sasuke would die too. And he might be controlled with sealing techniques by then, so no one would be left to avenge A Luo, him, or Sasuke...

Konoha had taken part in destroying the Uzumaki Clan, seized the Uzumaki Clan's secret arts and sealing techniques, and had even made his mother into the vessel sealing the Nine-Tails since she was little...

A Luo had told him all of this. Though Naruto was hearing it for the first time, his instincts told him that everything A Luo said was true.

As he recalled his memories from childhood to the present, once he found the source of every tragedy, everything became clear.

"Naruto, you have to live well from now on too. Even if you're still bullied for a while... as long as you survive, there will always be a chance for revenge. I... I'll try to come back and see you when I can. My brother might not be in a good state. If he loses his temper and hits you, hit him back hard. But I still hope you won't be angry with him. He's just, after losing things again and again..."

A Luo spoke with tears brimming in his eyes, looking every bit like he was delivering his final instructions before his soul dispersed.

At the side, Izuna's eye twitched as he tried his best to keep staring at the Nine-Tails, lest he be infected by the boy's exquisite acting.

The Uchiha clan had always been rather straightforward. His brother Madara Uchiha, in particular, had never been one for scheming. How had so many schemes appeared among their descendants?

Could it be that they had inherited them from him?

By now, Izuna had already silently accepted that the three surviving Uchiha brothers were all his descendants. So when it came to heredity, the people he compared were his brother, his father, and himself...

After thinking it over, it seemed that he really had been slightly more thoughtful than his brother back then. Then they truly had inherited it from him.

This was probably what it meant to surpass one's predecessors—their descendants were becoming more and more outstanding!

"A Luo, remember to come back and see me often. Even though... even though I'm scared of ghosts, I'm not scared of you. Really, I definitely won't be afraid when I see you..."

Naruto's aggrieved tears fell in torrents. After a while, he suddenly stretched out a hand and tentatively grasped A Luo's shoulder.

He was not afraid of A Luo. Even if A Luo had already become a ghost, he would welcome A Luo back as often as possible.

And that idiot Sasuke—he would definitely take good care of him. If that guy lost his mind, he would beat that idiot until he came to his senses!

"Mm, Naruto, live well. No matter what difficulties you face, you can definitely do it!"

A Luo stood on tiptoe and reached up to rub Naruto's golden hair. The feel was really nice.

He told Naruto once again that he could definitely do it.

Looking at Naruto Uzumaki's eyes, full of determination, A Luo brought Izuna with him and pulled Naruto out of that sealing space.

Naruto returned to normal. Wrapped in his blanket, he revealed only a pair of eyes as he looked to the side.

Watching A Luo and the other man wave goodbye to him, Naruto closed his eyes again, curled up beneath the blanket, and cried silently for a long time.

Within the Uchiha clan compound, A Luo stood on a rooftop and looked over his familiar surroundings, considering how to solve the issue of setting a location.

He couldn't float all the way back every single time, could he?

Though he did not mind being a wandering ghost once in a while, floating around too many times might cause trouble.

How about earning an achievement, then setting up a Flying Thunder God marker once his body was restored and he could use chakra?

It was a system product. Who cared whether he had the talent for it? He could just spend points to buy it.

"Can't bear to leave?"

Seeing A Luo spacing out, Izuna thought he could not bear to leave home and came over to comfort him.

"No, it's just that I want to do something before I leave..."

A Luo looked at Izuna, who had leaned close, and shook his head, telling him not to overthink it.

It was not that he was especially reluctant to leave somewhere. The issue now was how to get an achievement and earn points.

"Ancestor, can you use genjutsu?"

A Luo suddenly remembered that someone might actually have a way to help him farm an achievement.

Based on his understanding of the system, some pranks involving important figures were more likely to trigger achievement rewards than ordinary plot developments.

"Of course I can use genjutsu, but what can I do in my current state?"

Izuna could use genjutsu, but...

How was a dead soul like him supposed to use genjutsu? Who could he use it on? He could not attack living people.

"As long as you have a way, that's enough. Come with me. Let's give one Uchiha bastard a passionate gift!"

A Luo grabbed Izuna and ran, floating all the way to the Hokage Building. The two ghosts drifted into the supply storage room.

After slipping inside, A Luo unceremoniously stored the explosive tags in his system space, only stopping when the system told him he had taken enough.

Then, he found a large bamboo tube, removed the scrolls stored inside and set them aside, before packing in the explosive tags in a spiral, layer after layer.

He only stopped once the system determined that it would definitely blow the Kamui space apart.

"The bastard you mean isn't Itachi Uchiha, is he?"

Izuna watched in alarm from the side. If this thing exploded, its power would be truly vicious.

"No, it's another bastard. He had a hand in the clan massacre too. Don't worry, it won't kill him. That guy's life is tough. At most, it'll leave him bedridden for a few days. Back then, your brother... cough, I'll tell you about that later. Come on, let's get to work first!"

Since he was a spirit, A Luo could handle tasks like storing things away and tossing out items. Asking him to carry this rocket outside would be going too far.

After packing it up, he pulled Izuna away. The two ghosts floated into a courtyard that looked exceptionally peaceful.

Inside the room, a man who did not even remove his mask while sleeping lay peacefully on the bed, resting.

"This isn't an Uchiha either..."

Seeing the man's white hair, Izuna's gaze immediately turned disdainful.

"Of course he isn't. One of his former teammates gave him a gift. Look at his eye—that Sharingan is paired with the one belonging to that Uchiha bastard from our clan. Its ability is a connected space. He can store things away from this side, while the other side can take things in and put things out..."

A Luo gave two wicked chuckles, then continued holding Izuna's hand as they floated in and stopped beside Kakashi Hatake's bed.

Today, he was going to give Obito Uchiha, who had taken part in the clan massacre and recently seemed to have too much free time, an explosively passionate super rocket!