Reborn in Naruto, Starting as the Uchiha Clan's Dead Last

Pain!

A splitting headache!

Zhang Yao suddenly opened his eyes, clutching his head as he gasped for breath, cold sweat covering his forehead.

An unfamiliar ceiling, a crude Japanese-style room, and this frail body...

"I... have I... transmigrated?"

Zhang Yao's eyes were filled with confusion and disbelief.

A moment ago, he had still been a miserable office worker who had stayed up for a week straight rushing a project report, only to black out and collapse in front of his computer.

And now...

A torrent of chaotic memory fragments surged through his mind like a flood, battering his nerves.

Uchiha Yao, a member of the Uchiha Clan of the Hidden Leaf Village, was only twelve years old. His grades at the Ninja Academy had been mediocre, and because he possessed little Chakra and a weak body, he had been regarded as trash by his clan peers.

Just as Zhang Yao was lost in thought.

Bang!

The door was violently kicked open.

Blinding sunlight streamed in through the open doorway, instantly dispelling the gloom inside the room.

Three boys dressed in Uchiha clan attire blocked the entrance.

Mocking smiles hung on their faces, and their eyes brimmed with contempt.

The boy in the lead was named Uchiha Shigeru. He was slightly taller than the other two and was clearly their leader.

"Yo, trash Yao, still playing dead?"

Uchiha Shigeru swept him a disdainful glance, his tone full of ridicule.

"I heard you missed the target again during Shuriken throwing practice yesterday? You're really disgracing the Uchiha Clan!"

Zhang Yao instinctively wanted to retort, but the deep-rooted inferiority and cowardice left behind in the original owner's memories made him open his mouth without being able to utter a sound.

This body was far too weak.

Although the original owner had barely held the title of Genin, there was an astonishing amount of padding behind it.

His Chakra reserves were pitifully low. Even the most basic Three Transformations gave him trouble, and he made mistakes again and again.

The reason the original owner had managed to graduate from the Ninja Academy was, in a sense, thanks to the Nine-Tails' attack not long ago.

That disaster had cost Konoha a great deal of its fighting strength.

Even the Fourth Hokage and his wife, hailed as the Yellow Flash, had died in that tragedy.

The casualties among ordinary ninja had been even more impossible to count.

To replenish the number of ninja, the village higher-ups had no choice but to relax the graduation requirements, allowing many students to graduate early and become Genin.

With the original owner's level of strength, he had undoubtedly become a laughingstock within the Uchiha Clan, where strength was revered above all else and absolute power was worshipped.

As a result, the original owner had often suffered bullying at the hands of delinquent clan youths!

"What? Trash can't say anything now?"

Seeing Zhang Yao remain silent, Uchiha Shigeru grew even more impatient. He stepped closer and closer, looking down at Yao on the bed.

"Today's the day you hand over your 'protection fee.' If you can't pay, don't blame us for getting rough!"

"Protection fee?"

Zhang Yao's brow furrowed at once.

In his memories, the original owner had often been bullied by these guys because of his weakness. This so-called protection fee was merely an excuse for extortion.

"I don't have any."

He was no longer the original Uchiha Yao.

Naturally, he would not obediently hand over protection money like the original Uchiha Yao had.

"Hah? You don't have any?"

Uchiha Shigeru seemed to have heard the world's funniest joke. With a vicious grin, he grabbed Zhang Yao by the collar and brutally yanked him off the bed.

Bang!

His frail body struck the cold wooden floor hard.

It felt as if his bones were coming apart, and searing pain swept through him.

"Looks like I need to teach you a lesson, or you won't learn how to write the word 'rules'!"

Uchiha Shigeru raised his foot, about to kick Zhang Yao in the stomach.

Humiliation!

Rage!

Unwillingness!

All kinds of emotions churned within Zhang Yao's heart.

Why?!

Why did I have to suffer this kind of treatment?!

Damn it! I run into this kind of school-bullying plot right from the start? Where's my system? Get out here already! Zhang Yao roared inwardly.

Just as Uchiha Shigeru's foot was about to fall—

Ding!

Detected the host's strong will to survive and desire to change his fate...

Clan Growth System binding successful!

Detected the host's current predicament. Novice Gift Pack is being distributed...

The cold, mechanical notification sounded in Zhang Yao's mind like heavenly music!

A system?!

A cheat?!

Zhang Yao's pupils constricted sharply, and wild joy surged through his heart.

The system had arrived at the perfect time. As the Novice Gift Pack opened—

The next second, an indescribably vast warm current appeared out of nowhere throughout his limbs and body, nourishing his parched meridians like rain after a long drought.

His originally feeble, almost negligible Chakra began to soar at a visible rate!

Every inch of muscle and every cell in his body cheered in exhilaration, greedily absorbing this sudden power.

Chunin-level Chakra reserves!

Zhang Yao could clearly sense that the Chakra within him had already reached the level of an ordinary Chunin!

And that was not all!

Immediately afterward, a burning sensation rose from deep within his eye sockets. This was the Uchiha Clan's unique Kekkei Genkai.

The world in his vision became incomparably clear at that moment. The dust floating in the air, the grain of the wooden boards, even the savage twitching of Uchiha Shigeru's facial muscles—all of it was visible in the finest detail!

"Urgh—!"

Zhang Yao could not help letting out a low cry of pain as he covered his eyes with both hands.

Uchiha Shigeru froze, startled by the sudden development.

"Stop putting on an act!"

Uchiha Shigeru spat, yet an inexplicable unease rose within him.

Several breaths later, Zhang Yao slowly lowered his hands.

When he raised his head, his originally dull black pupils had been replaced by a vivid crimson.

"From now on, I'm no longer office drone Zhang Yao. I am Uchiha Yao! The Uchiha will become great because of me!"

Within those blood-red eyes, a single black tomoe slowly revolved around each pupil!

Sharingan!

One-Tomoe Sharingan!

The Uchiha Clan's Kekkei Genkai had awakened at that moment!

The air seemed to freeze.

The vicious grins on Uchiha Shigeru and his two lackeys' faces stiffened, replaced by stunned disbelief.

"Sha... Sharingan?!"

Even Uchiha Gang's voice trembled.

How could this trash Yao possibly awaken the Sharingan?!

Ignoring their shock.

Uchiha Yao slowly rose from the floor, rolling his shoulders as he felt the unprecedented abundance of power within him.

Chakra flowed smoothly through his meridians, as though it had always belonged there.

Under the Sharingan's vision, everything had become different.

He looked at Uchiha Shigeru, the corner of his mouth curving into a cold smile.

"What did you... just say?"