Year 55 of Konoha.
The day after the Massacre.
4:15 PM.
The second floor of the former residence of the Fourth Hokage.
So, I just rewatched Naruto, and now I've absurdly crossed over into this world?
Looking at the Konoha symbol poster on the wall.
Smelling the expired milk exuding bursts of sourness in the air, along with the instant noodle bowl eaten and not yet cleaned up on the table...
Lin Mingren fell into deep contemplation.
Everything presenting itself before his eyes.
Constantly reminded him of the fact that he had crossed into the Naruto world.
Looking at the reflection in the mirror clearly showing the appearance of a young Naruto Uzumaki, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment.
What made him want to laugh was.
This was a world where strength was supreme and fists were truth; from now on, he was shedding the ordinary, beast-of-burden life of being harvested by capital in his past existence.
What made him want to cry was.
Why cross into anyone else, and instead cross into young Naruto?
Wasn't this forcing him to be Konoha's selfless, sucker scapegoat?
He had watched Naruto twice.
Naturally, he knew what kind of beast-of-burden days young Naruto lived in the village.
Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki were clearly heroes who sacrificed themselves to protect the village, yet Naruto Uzumaki, the sole bloodline they left behind after death, not only failed to enjoy this honor, but also needlessly suffered all sorts of cold violence from Konoha villagers for more than a dozen years.
The reason why Naruto didn't instantly turn dark in the original work after knowing his own life experience.
Tracing the cause, it all had to be credited to the great Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi and that phenomenal brainwashing jutsu called the Will of Fire.
In his past life, Lin Mingren personally believed.
As long as young Naruto knew his identity before Team 7 formed bonds in the original work.
Then the grand finale of Naruto definitely wouldn't be "Obito's Desire to Create a Girlfriend Record", "Madara's Fantasy of Exterminating Species Coming True Record", and "The Allied Forces Stop Black Zetsu from Saving Mother Record".
At this very moment.
Lin Mingren had crossed over with his past memories and was forced to become young Naruto Uzumaki, so he naturally couldn't walk that kind of sucker-scapegoat main plot anymore.
Closing his eyes, he sensed the sliver of chakra wandering through his body.
Lin Mingren slowly opened his azure eyes and thought with determination, Since I live for you in this lifetime, I will by no means be Konoha's sucker scapegoat again.
Pulling up his T-shirt, the Eight Trigrams Sealing Jutsu on his abdomen was clearly visible.
"From now on, I am Naruto Uzumaki."
Just as thoughts collided in his mind.
Suddenly, a prompt sounded in his mind.
[Ding! The Golden Shovel System is activating... Progress: 10%... 100%.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully activating the system. The beginner gift pack can now be opened. Will you open it?]
The moment the voice sounded, Naruto was pleasantly surprised.
He was very familiar with the system cheats from novels in his past life.
In fact, besides being subjected to cold violence and disgust from the villagers during his childhood, Naruto's situation could be described as walking on thin ice before the brainwashing of the Will of Fire succeeded, and it was no exaggeration to say he was dancing on the edge of a knife every moment.
Not to mention that Danzo of the paranoid Root had always coveted and tried to control the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.
Even that hypocrite of a Third Hokage constantly dispatched Anbu Elite to monitor Naruto's every move.
During this time, if Naruto ever showed strong disgust and hatred toward the villagers, Danzo would probably immediately seize the opportunity to unite the higher-ups of Konoha and place Naruto under house arrest.
Under such a situation where an abyss lay ahead and hell behind, it was simply too difficult to carve out his own path.
However, with the assistance of a system cheat, all difficulties would be readily solved.
"Open the beginner gift pack."
Naruto thought almost instinctively.
[Ding! The beginner gift pack has been successfully opened!]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining: the Insightful Vision talent, Active Cell Enhancement Potion * 1 bottle, Level 1 Chakra Expansion Card * 2 sheets.]
[Ding! Reminding the host that you have activated the system panel, which can be summoned with a thought.]
Hearing the three rewards in the beginner gift pack, Naruto couldn't wait to think, System panel.
[Silver: 90][Lucky Money Search Function] (Inactive)
[Golden Shovel System Panel] [Host: Naruto Uzumaki.] [Negative Value: 0] [Shock Value: 0] [Silver Coins: 90] [Lucky Money Search Function] (Unactivated) System Storage (0/100 slots) [Active Cell Enhancement Potion * 1 bottle.] [Level 1 Chakra Expansion Card * 2 sheets.] [Insightful Vision] (Can be activated at any time)
[Visual Insight] (Can be activated at any time) Seeing system functions like Negative Points and Shock Points, Naruto was somewhat baffled.
"System, you should briefly introduce yourself. The Golden Shovel System... Could it be a certain game from my past life?"
[Ding! Reminding the host that it is not.]
[The Golden Shovel System: As the name implies, it digs out Negative Points or Shock Points from people around the host through the host's various performances. Upon obtaining enough points, the host can use the Lucky Money search function and spend Negative Points or Shock Points to purchase the items found. ]
Naruto thought thoughtfully, "Then why did silver coins also appear on the system panel?"
[Reminder: Silver coins are also a form of currency and can likewise be used to purchase items and other goods within Lucky Money!]
"So that's how it is."
Hearing the system say this, Naruto couldn't help but input text into the [Lucky Money search bar: True Rinnegan.]
However, after clicking search, nothing appeared at all.
Just as he was about to ask what was going on, the system's voice sounded again.
[Reminder to the host: Do you wish to spend 10,000 taels, 1,000 Negative Points, and 1,000 Shock Points to activate the search function?]
Hearing this, Naruto opened his mouth, directly moving his gaze away from the search function to look at the three beginner rewards in the system inventory.
Active Cell Enhancement Potion: (Ingesting it permanently triples the user's basic physical strength, endurance, resistance to impact, sharpness, and reflexes.) Chakra Expansion Card: (Valid once for cards of the same level; used to expand chakra reserves and slightly increase the speed of chakra refinement.) Talent: Visual Insight LV1: (Once activated, any gaze lingering on the body for more than 3 seconds will be perceived. This talent can be upgraded.)
Although the main functions of the system had numerous restrictions before they could be used, the three rewards in the beginner gift pack were, in Naruto's view, truly awesome.
As expected of my system; I seem to be very short on these things.
Among the three rewards, Naruto considered the 'Visual Insight' talent to be extremely powerful.
One had to realize that those monitoring him right now were not just members of the Hokage's Anbu and Root.
There was also the Third, who mastered the sensory auxiliary ninjutsu, the 'Telescope Technique', and would peek and look around from time to time through the medium of a crystal ball.
Thinking about the feeling of being monitored by someone without being able to detect it was miserable enough.
Yet with the 'Visual Insight' talent, he could perceive who was keeping watch at any time and anywhere.
Only then could his various plans be smoothly laid out and unfolded.
"Activate talent: Visual Insight."
[Ding! Activation successful.]
As the prompt dropped, Naruto listlessly pushed open the outer balcony door and walked out as usual.
Before he could properly appreciate the scenery of Konoha, he quickly sensed two sharp gazes falling upon him from the west and north.
"Are they Anbu or Root?"
Naruto stretched his body and sneered inwardly, From now on, don't even think about getting real information from me.
Yet just as Naruto felt pleased in his heart, he raised his head and froze in astonishment.
"No... What's going on with those four big blockheads on the Hokage Rock?"
Rubbing his eyes hard, Naruto wondered why the Past Hokage Rocks looked so bizarre.
When watching the anime in his past life, the Past Hokage Rocks gave people a feeling of dominance, a piercing gaze, and an unyielding spirit. Seeing them from afar made one understand that those four people were not to be messed with.
But looking at them again in this life...
The First and Second had more or less a vibe of yin overpowering yang... (─=≡Σ(((つ•̀ω•́)つ)
It seemed the Fourth didn't look quite right either, did he? ─=≡Σ(((つ•̀ω•́)つ
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(Notice before reading: children in the Naruto world have relatively mature inner emotions and thoughts. Please do not compare them to teenagers in reality while reading, thank you.)
(Please pay attention to paragraph comments; the author will publish collected images of feminized Naruto supporting characters. Prompts indicating images use this ─=≡Σ(((つ•̀ω•́)つ emoticon prompt.)