People in the Warring States Era, Starting in a Chaotic World

(Handcrafted, non-AI-generated text.)

(Power-building plot, no system, ensemble cast, multiple heroines and harem, do not read if you dislike this.)

(Slow burn in the early stages, keeping things as logical as possible.)

(Since it starts from the Warring States Era, there will be some original characters.)

(I am going to eat your brains, leave your brains at the door before reading. Also, this book has been to the little dark room.)

That was before the founding of the small village called Konoha.

It was the Warring States Era, a world of contending states where countries constantly forged and broke alliances; the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished.

Every social stratum across the nations shifted and convulsed, from nobles down to commoners, with everyone living in constant terror and lacking the slightest sense of security, constantly at risk of becoming fish on the chopping block.

In such a chaotic era of extreme warfare, morality and shame were meaningless; violence and slaughter were the only correct answers to survival.

Natural disasters and famines plagued all nations.

The starving refugees and wanderers—claypot rice, wife cakes, husband and wife lung slice, and so on—were all made with real, genuine ingredients, never faked.

Just as this contending era seemed about to enter a new, white-hot phase, the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan in the Land of Fire abruptly announced an alliance.

This brought the entire chaotic era to a bizarre, screeching halt, plunging it into a dead silence.

The Senju and Uchiha allied?

The remaining ninja clans reacted with bitter laughter.

Could this be some new kind of Warring States dark comedy?

Just last year, these two strongest ninja clans in the Ninja World were still trying to beat each other to death, and suddenly they were allied this year?

Yet as the alliance pact of the two clans was sent to various nations in the name of the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire, everyone paying attention to the matter instantly fell silent.

Who were the two most powerful ninja clans of the Warring States Era?

They were the Senju Clan, who possessed the power of the Sage Physique, and the Uchiha Clan, who possessed the power of the Sage's Eye.

Thus, the feudal lords of various nations, along with countless large and small ninja clans, had their minds blown in every conceivable sense on this day.

They simultaneously halted their struggles and bloodshed, while anxiety, fear, silence, and suspicion filled the hearts of those lords and ninja clans.

Nightview City.

That was a magnificent, colossal city that had abruptly risen more than a decade prior at the border of the former Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron, using wood and stone as its foundation and steel as its skeleton.

Every street, every residential area, and every public facility within the city seemed meticulously measured, arranged in orderly, regular patterns that were pleasing to the eye.

Even the road surfaces were tamped down inch by inch, so that horse-drawn carriages traveling upon them felt not the slightest bump.

A continuous stream of visiting merchants came and went, chatting and laughing about business with the plump-faced residents here, while all sorts of novel, quirky, and trendy goods appeared on the shelves of numerous shops, injecting unusual vitality into the city.

Such a scene of prosperity and peace felt utterly out of place with the overall pattern of the Ninja World.

Everything was as beautiful as a utopia.

Located at the center of the city was a magnificent complex of buildings enclosed by a tall wall built from massive amounts of earth and wood, standing dozens of meters high.

Because of the concealment of the high walls, one could only catch a glimpse of the towering tops of the internal buildings jutting out, but even so, the majesty and grandeur of those structures were visible.

Especially the giant watchtowers guarded by numerous sturdy buildings, which gave one the feeling of floating airborne pavilions in the clouds, not of this mortal world.

Among the building complex within the high walls, there were samurai wearing waist-mounted katanas and stacked armor, almost fully armed.

There were also ninjas dressed in black standard-issue clothing with windbreakers over them, moving as swiftly as the wind.

These two entirely different violent professions were both special groups capable of using chakra during the Warring States Era, yet they had undergone integration and annexation in a seamless, intimate form.

The samurai were the most numerous, numbering around a thousand or so.

The ninjas were fewer than the samurai, but still numbered two hundred.

These integrated ninjas and samurai patrolled between the buildings along planned routes with an impenetrable, defensive rigor.

At the center of the building complex was a tower-like loft.

At this moment, on the top floor of this loft, Oda Yayoi stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes fixed unblinkingly on a huge map hanging on the wall.

This was a precise map encompassing the entire Ninja World, with mountains, rivers, and streams scattered across it like stars, while the borders of various major and minor nations were rigorously outlined, including the clan crests of the many ninja clans located within those major and minor nations, all painted upon it.

These clan crests were unevenly scattered across the various nations of the Ninja World, except that nearly half of them had a red 'X' marked over them, signifying that these ninja clans had been completely erased from the Ninja World amidst the chaos of the Warring States.

The Land of Fire had the most, with no fewer than thirty large and small ninja clans having been erased within this major nation over the past few decades alone.

At the same time, the number of ninja clans located in the Land of Fire could be called the greatest among all nations.

This meant that the intensity of warfare within the Land of Fire far surpassed that of other nations.

It was just that all of this had come to an end.

The reason lay in the fact that the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, two powerful ninja clans that had once opposed each other, had reached a reconciliation.

Yayoi's gaze swept toward the two most prominent ninja clan crests within the Land of Fire on the map.

Senju... Uchiha...

A rare look of solemnity and deep thought surfaced on Yayoi's face.

The memories of his past life, both familiar and unfamiliar, began to surge forward like a tide.

The rumors swirling wildly a short while ago about an alliance forged between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan meant that the day when that ninja village he knew so well from his memories, called Konoha, would be established was not far off.

The endlessly chaotic Warring States Era was also about to welcome a new turning point.

For many nations and ninja clans, this would be a test unlike any before.

The same held true for the nation he currently controlled—the Land of Night.

According to the timeline, it probably won't be long before Konoha is established within the Land of Fire, and then the remaining four great nations will start following suit one after another...

The system of One Country, One Village had already become unstoppable.

Anyone standing in front of this system would be crushed to pieces by the torrent of the era.

Naturally, Yayoi would not overestimate his own capabilities by trying to stop it; he was simply pondering what kind of benefits he could gain when such a turning point of the era arrived.

The reason Yayoi was certain that the tidal wave of the One Country, One Village era was unstoppable was naturally not because he possessed foresight, but rather because he possessed a "discerning eye" that transcended this era.

This "discerning eye" had nothing to do with human perception and wisdom; it was purely a matter of him knowing the general trend of this future era.

That's right, Yayoi was a transmigrator.

He still remembered that in his past life, he was a regular working stiff who had graduated from college and worked for three or four years.

He had no special experiences; it was just that after getting off work and going home one day, and sleeping, he descended into the world of Naruto through the form of fetal transmigration.

The terrible part was that he hadn't arrived in the familiar plot era he knew, but rather in the chaotic Warring States period he didn't understand very well.

It was a dark era where four- or five-year-old children could wield swords to kill and needed to go to the battlefield.

Adding to that, he didn't come from any ninja clan background, but instead started out as the most miserable kind of orphan, beginning his journey with a broken bowl, begging everywhere.

If he hadn't later met a wandering ninja who took him in, even staying alive would have been a problem for him.

Fortunately, although he lacked a good ninja clan background, he possessed a special talent that rivaled a Kekkei Genkai.

Perhaps it was a special treatment resulting from living two lives, but the chakra he refined possessed a degree of vital activity that ordinary ninjas did not possess.

To put it more intuitively, without needing to form jutsu, his chakra possessed an extremely strong ability of seal-less self-healing, and he could also transmit his own chakra to heal others, similar to the Uzumaki Clan.

This activated special chakra would also subtly transform his physique over time, comprehensively amplifying his taijutsu, ninjutsu, and genjutsu.

It was precisely because of this point that he was able to rely on the chakra knowledge taught by the wandering ninja, combined with the original manga and a transmigrator's tiny bit of out-of-the-box thinking, to fight his way up step by step and gradually gain a foothold in the turbulent world.

The pity was that when he was ten years old, the wandering ninja who had taken him in was mortally wounded during a black-market bounty mission before he could wait for Yayoi's healing.

Afterward, he resumed his solitary days, continuing to mingle in the underground black market.

Slowly, his strength grew stronger and stronger, and his reputation in the underground black market became bigger and bigger. When he looked back, a large number of talented individuals had somehow gathered around him, and thus a mercenary organization destined to stir up bloody storms in the underground black market was born.

Through six years of development—starting from just himself alone, then a dozen people, and then slowly expanding to an ultra-large-scale mercenary force of hundreds of people, coupled with a logistics team composed of tens of thousands of ordinary people—he established a city capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people at the border of the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron: Nightview City.

With a core stronghold, taking this town as the center, his influence continuously radiated outward. Within the territories of the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron, he naturally commanded massive momentum, practically monopolizing the warfare market of these two countries.

Unsurprisingly, such actions drew the deep dread of the daimyo and noble classes of both countries.

Yet by this time, Yayoi's wings were already fully grown; faced with the suppression of the two countries' daimyo, would he avoid this sharp edge?

After experiencing two years of war afterward, he successfully breached the two daimyo manors, suppressed multiple internal rebellious factions within both countries, and produced a name list to carry out systematic cleansing of the people upon it.

During these two years of war, his force also transformed from mercenaries, growing like a snowball and attracting even more talent to defect to his side.

Therefore, upon successfully suppressing the internal resistance forces within the two countries, he mastered the military and political affairs of both nations with almost no effort; his subordinates could swiftly merge into the bureaucratic system and run the country.

Subsequently, he established a shogunate, replacing the title of "daimyo" with the post of "general" to formally rule the territories of the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron.

The Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Iron also vanished from the ninja world, and upon the corpses of these two nations, the "Land of Night" came into being.

Nine years had already passed since the establishment of this newborn nation, the Land of Night.

Yayoi was currently twenty-seven years old, right in his prime.

Through nine years of integration, the "remnants of the previous dynasty" forces within the Land of Night had basically been wiped out.

Various departments operated in an orderly fashion within the country, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, loathing endless battles and slaughter. Even if old forces still wanted to restore the old order, they could not stir up any trouble.

With internal unification achieved, the enemy would shift from internal to external.

Although the land of the Land of Night could not be considered fertile in the ninja world, there were still hungry wolves eyeing this piece of territory.

For instance, the Hagoromo Clan, which had been defeated in the Land of Fire four years ago and subsequently fled to the Land of Night, had once harbored designs on the Land of Night.

To hunt down this external hungry wolf, Yayoi expended a great deal of effort before finally annihilating the Hagoromo Clan that had migrated to the Land of Night, obtaining quite a few good things from them.

It was also by virtue of this battle achievement that Yayoi truly secured his position as the general of the Land of Night, causing the numerous hungry wolves coveting this patch of land not to dare bare their fangs casually.

Just as Yayoi was pondering these matters, a knock sounded at the door.

"Come in."

Yayoi's gaze still remained fixed on the map, calculating his subsequent plans.

Following the sound of the door being pushed open, a young man in his early twenties, of about the same age as Yayoi, walked in from outside the door.

A mask covered his face, obscuring the area below his eyes and revealing only a pair of eerie, bright green pupils.

"Lord Yayoi."

"It's Kakuzu, is there something you need?"

Yayoi swept his gaze toward the young man who entered, a flash of satisfaction crossing his eyes.

This young man was Kakuzu, one of his greatest acquisitions over the years.

He was one half of the immortal duo from the Akatsuki organization in the original work.

Because his assassination of First Hokage Hashirama Senju failed, he suffered unjust treatment from the higher-ups of Takigakure, ultimately fleeing with the village's forbidden technique and becoming a rogue ninja.

Only, at this present time, he had yet to experience betrayal, having been recruited by him early on to become a high-ranking member of the Land of Night at the level of his right-hand man.

According to later ninja rank classifications, Kakuzu's current strength was equivalent to an elite among Jonin, proficient in both Earth Release and Water Release, with quite impressive taijutsu capabilities as well.

In this chaotic Warring States era full of unfamiliarities, Kakuzu could be said to be one of the few 'acquaintances' he had.

In this current era, it was far too distant from the start of the plot, and many once-famous ninjas never appeared in the later story.

Most crucially, the manga Naruto was something he followed while in school, and the point up to which he had read was precisely the Five Kage Summit, where the one-eyed man calling himself 'Madara Uchiha' had just disclosed the Eye of the Moon plan and announced the start of the Fourth Shinobi World War.

As for the subsequent parts, due to graduating and starting work, he didn't have the leisure to keep up with the updates, so it fizzled out.

Coupled with the fact that it was still the Warring States era, this meant much of the 'foresight' in Yayoi's mind couldn't be applied, and some figures were people he had never even heard of.

For example, a ninja from the Land of Wind named 'Retto' was said to be able to use Wind Release to create giant storms with a range spanning tens of miles.

A ninja from the Land of Earth named 'Ishikawa' could be called a human earthquake generator, with earth release methods that shook the heavens and earth. His most famous battle involved single-handedly burying a powerful clan possessing a Kekkei Genkai and collapsing several mountains.

Apart from them, A of the Land of Lightning and Byakuren of the Land of Water were equally illustrious, deserving to be called human natural disasters.

Yayoi had reason to suspect that these individuals were the rest of the First Kages who would later be known as being on par with First Hokage Hashirama Senju.

Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence that they appeared separately in the remaining four great nations?

"Lord Yayoi, the search party dispatched to find the Seven-Tails you were looking for has found it."

Kakuzu organized his words and reported to Yayoi concisely.

"Where is it?"

Yayoi's mind stirred.

In this era, although ninjas were the mainstream, the existence of Tailed Beasts also left a heavily colored stroke in this era.

As one of the Tailed Beasts, the Seven-Tails had a historically recorded trace showing it had always lived within the territory of the Land of Waterfalls, even though the Land of Waterfalls had already been erased in name.

"The Black Steel Forest, the Seven-Tails seems to have always been there without leaving."

Kakuzu stated a place name.