Chapter Summaries

Lin Mingren crossed into seven-year-old Naruto Uzumaki the day after the Nine-Tails Massacre and resolved not to become Konoha’s scapegoat. After activating the Golden Shovel System and its surveillance-detecting talent, he noticed something strange about the Hokage Rock statues.

• Lin Mingren recognized that he had become young Naruto and vowed not to follow Naruto’s original path as Konoha’s sucker scapegoat.
• Naruto activated the Golden Shovel System and opened its beginner gift pack, receiving Insightful Vision, an Active Cell Enhancement Potion, and two Chakra Expansion Cards.
• Naruto learned that the system collected negative and shock values for its Lucky Money search function, but searching for a True Rinnegan required far more currency and points than he had.
• Naruto activated Insightful Vision and sensed two watchers observing him from the west and north.
• Naruto went onto the balcony and noticed that the Hokage Rock statues looked bizarrely different from how he remembered them.

Naruto used a cell enhancement potion and chakra expansion card, then went into Konoha and learned that Uchiha Itachi had massacred her clan while Sasuke survived. After villagers attacked and humiliated him, Naruto felt the weight of the hatred directed at him and his resentment grew.

• Naruto used the active cell enhancement potion and a chakra expansion card, strengthening his body and increasing his chakra.
• Naruto walked through Konoha and gained negative emotion points from villagers who stared at him with disgust.
• Naruto overheard women say that Uchiha Itachi had killed her clan and that Sasuke Uchiha was the lone survivor.
• Naruto rushed over to question the women, but they cursed him, and one shoved him to the ground and tried to kick him.
• Naruto dodged the kick, causing the woman to fall, and the commotion drew more hostile villagers around him.
• Naruto felt overwhelmed by the villagers' hatred, his eyes reddened, and resentment toward them began to build.

After learning how badly Konoha had treated him, Naruto resolved to leave the village and considered exploiting the aftermath of the Uchiha Clan Massacre to raise money. By the river, he encountered the surviving Uchiha, Sasuke, and was stunned to discover she was a girl.

• Naruto rejected the idea of devoting his life to Konoha and decided to seek a way to leave after Sasuke's defection.
• Naruto questioned whether the Hokage Rock's faces looked feminine and decided he needed someone familiar to verify his suspicion that Itachi and Sasuke were girls.
• Naruto reasoned that selling belongings from the wealthy Uchiha Clan's estate might earn the 10,000 taels needed to activate his system.
• Naruto checked his system panel and saw 239 negative points, 90 silver taels, and a Level 1 Chakra Expansion Card.
• Naruto approached a twin-tailed girl sitting by the river, and Sasuke Uchiha turned around to confront him.
• Naruto recognized Sasuke's Uchiha clothing and was shocked to find that the surviving Uchiha was a girl.

Naruto provoked Sasuke into a wager and fought her, hoping to earn a chance to visit the Uchiha Clan Compound and use his system. Sasuke overwhelmed him with her One-Tomoe Sharingan, but Naruto’s chaotic charge stunned the watching Anbu before the fight’s outcome was revealed.

• Naruto taunted Sasuke and bet that if he lost, he would give her three limited-edition Ichiraku Ramen coupons, while she would grant him three favors if she lost.
• Sasuke accepted the wager and formed the Seal of Confrontation with Naruto.
• Two Anbu jounin watched the fight and expected Naruto to lose quickly, but noticed his movements were unexpectedly fluid.
• Sasuke activated her One-Tomoe Sharingan and battered Naruto, driving him into a defensive struggle.
• Naruto feigned panic and charged Sasuke with disorganized attacks, leaving both Anbu jounin stunned.

Naruto defeated Sasuke by catching her off guard and locking her in a chokehold, but she passed out before he could make her surrender. When Sasuke’s breathing grew dangerously weak and the Anbu were no longer watching, Naruto began rescue breathing, leaving their escape plan unresolved.

• Naruto tricked Sasuke into lowering her guard, grabbed her arm, and locked her in a hold that left her struggling to break free.
• Sasuke repeatedly slammed Naruto into the ground, but he tightened his chokehold and urged her not to throw away her goals by dying.
• Sasuke lost consciousness, and Naruto released his hold to avoid choking her to death.
• Naruto noticed the Anbu’s watching perspectives had vanished and found that Sasuke’s breathing was growing weaker.
• Naruto began rescue breathing Sasuke, deciding that his first kiss was the price of tricking her.

Naruto revived Sasuke after defeating her, then claimed his first prize for winning their match. At the Uchiha Clan Compound, they found Root taking away the clan’s belongings, and Naruto carried the injured Sasuke away after Root repelled her attack.

• Naruto used CPR to restore Sasuke’s breathing, and she admitted she had lost but still refused to make the Seal of Reconciliation.
• Naruto persuaded Sasuke to take him to the Uchiha Clan Compound, where he demanded twenty thousand ryo as his first condition.
• Naruto and Sasuke found Root members loading the Uchiha clan’s possessions onto carriages under Danzo’s orders.
• Sasuke activated her One-Tomoe Sharingan and attacked Root, but an eagle-masked ninja kicked her away and injured her.
• Naruto caught Sasuke and left the compound carrying her as she stared back at Root in despair.

Naruto rescued Sasuke from Root and tried to comfort her while keeping up his Hokage ambitions under Hiruzen’s surveillance. As Naruto and Sasuke settled beside a riverside campfire, Danzo and Hiruzen argued over the Uchiha clan’s property and the children’s future.

• Naruto carried the weakened Sasuke away from the Uchiha compound, and a Root member went to report their actions to Danzo.
• Sasuke tried to return and fight Root, but Naruto stopped her and urged her to wait until they were strong enough to reclaim what they had lost.
• Sasuke asked Naruto why her big sister had killed their parents and whether capacity mattered, but Naruto avoided answering under Hiruzen’s Telescope Technique and said he would change things as Hokage.
• Naruto caught fish by the river while Sasuke gathered firewood, and the two began preparing a meal together.
• Hiruzen confronted Danzo about Root taking the Uchiha property, while Danzo warned him to watch Naruto and Sasuke and hinted at emergency measures.
• Hiruzen decided to pass the Will of Fire to Naruto, and Naruto smiled after the system indicated that the Third was pleased by his talk of becoming Hokage.

Naruto shared a meal with Sasuke, who then led him to a private training ground where they hoped to recover enough weapons to fulfill Sasuke’s promise of 20,000 ryo. Naruto discovered that the classmates he thought were girls, including Sakura and Ino, were boys in this world, leaving him bewildered by the gender-swapped Naruto universe.

• Naruto gave Sasuke the largest grilled fish, and they ate together before extinguishing the campfire.
• Sasuke insisted that the Uchiha Clan’s promise of 20,000 ryo had to be honored and took Naruto toward their compound.
• Sasuke explained that a private training ground shared with Itachi might still contain kunai and shuriken they could sell.
• Naruto agreed to help Sasuke find the weapons after learning they might raise the promised money.
• Sasuke said boys such as Sakura and Ino sent her flowers, bentos, and love letters, and Naruto realized they were boys in this world.

Naruto accompanied Sasuke to her clan’s training ground and took some of her inherited ninja tools, leaving the rest for her and giving her a blue card. After Naruto left, Sasuke trained alone and vowed to defeat him in three days, while Konoha’s ANBU and Root continued watching them.

• Naruto and Sasuke passed the ransacked Uchiha Clan Compound on their way to the training ground.
• Sasuke retrieved a bag of shuriken and kunai, and Naruto took some to sell while leaving the rest for her training.
• Naruto gave Sasuke a blue card and left after she refused to walk back with him.
• Sasuke trained with shuriken and the Great Fireball Technique, then vowed to defeat Naruto in three days.
• ANBU and Root shadows left the training ground to follow Naruto and report elsewhere, and Naruto realized he was still under surveillance.

Naruto exploited Konoha villagers’ reactions and a prank on the Third Hokage to collect system points, then sold Uchiha ninja tools for 20,000 silver. He left the weapon shop with the money and his system’s search function still locked.

• Naruto checked his system panel and planned to sell the ninja tools in his bag to earn enough silver to unlock the search function.
• After the system detected the Third Hokage’s surveillance, Naruto transformed into Hiruzen Sarutobi and went to peek into the women’s hot-spring area.
• The Anbu pursuing Naruto discovered his disguise and the hot-spring scene, while Hiruzen watched through the Telescope Technique and gained shock and negativity points for Naruto.
• Naruto ended the transformation, disguised himself as an ordinary young man, and entered a ninja tool shop with the Uchiha kunai and shuriken.
• Naruto rejected the shopkeeper’s low offer and sold ten kunai and ten shuriken for their original total price of 20,000 silver.

Naruto sold most of Sasuke’s ninja tools, then accepted a discounted bowl of Aunt Ichiraku’s ramen while imagining the gender-swapped shinobi he might meet. He left the shop after paying full price and suspected the Third Hokage had kept the fortune his parents left him.

• Naruto sold most of Sasuke’s kunai and shuriken, keeping one kunai and ten shuriken as he headed home.
• Aunt Ichiraku invited Naruto into the closing ramen shop and served him her new mushroom-broth recipe.
• Naruto imagined gender-swapped versions of famous shinobi and looked forward to meeting Zabuza and Haku.
• Naruto asked Aunt Ichiraku about her sales and learned that the shop sold about five hundred bowls a day.
• Naruto paid Aunt Ichiraku ninety silver taels and left before she could respond.
• Aunt Ichiraku credited the Third Hokage with subsidizing Naruto, while Naruto suspected the Third had kept his parents’ savings.

Sasuke used Naruto’s chakra expansion card and, alone in her empty home, gained a new understanding of him. Naruto activated the Lucky Money search function and discovered discounted Domesticated Hashirama Cells, but still needed substantial resources to buy them.

• Sasuke returned to her empty home, thought about Naruto’s loneliness, and used the blue card he had given her to increase her chakra.
• Naruto received shock value from Sasuke and activated the Lucky Money search function by spending silver liang, negative emotion value, and shock value.
• Naruto searched for powerful items, found they were unaffordable, and then discovered Domesticated Hashirama Cells at a 0.1 discount.
• Naruto learned the discounted cells still required 1 million silver liang, 10,000 shock value, and 10,000 negative emotion value, and the system told him free items would arrive in his dreams.

Naruto discovered a cheap way to improve Ichiraku’s ramen and earn money, then bought taijutsu and throwing-technique insights to strengthen himself. After training and collecting negative emotion points from the ANBU watching him, he met Hinata outside the Ninja Academy.

• Naruto saved the discount page and realized he could sell inexpensive MSG and seasonings to help Ichiraku increase ramen sales.
• Naruto exchanged 1,000 taels for Genin taijutsu insights and 5,000 taels for intermediate throwing techniques.
• Naruto hit the target with all ten shuriken, then practiced chakra control while two ANBU Elites watched and gained negative emotion points from them.
• Naruto went to his training ground at dawn, shouted that he would become Hokage, and gained more negative emotion points from villagers and an ANBU Elite.
• Sasuke trained at the Uchiha estate and resolved to avoid Naruto’s strengths in their next fight.
• Naruto ate ramen on his way to the Ninja Academy and encountered Hinata, who greeted him as Big Brother Naruto.

Naruto entered class in a gender-swapped Konoha, where he saw Sasuke and the other students transformed, then devised a plan to recruit Sasuke for a barbecue business. The chapter ended with Naruto confronting classmates who insulted him for being an orphan.

• Naruto walked to class with Hinata, who told him she had been injured sparring with Neji.
• Naruto saw the gender-swapped students and tried to approach Sasuke, but classmates intimidated him into returning to his seat.
• Naruto slept through most of Iruka-sensei’s lessons, then planned to partner with Aunt Ichiraku on a barbecue stall and recruit Sasuke to help.
• Naruto accidentally tore a page from a classmate’s textbook and offered to replace it with his own.
• The classmate and other students insulted Naruto for being parentless, and Naruto stood up and demanded that they repeat the insult.

Naruto deliberately provoked his classmates and sent Sasuke a letter, expecting their reactions to earn him system points. Sasuke opened and read it in front of the class, shocking everyone and leaving Naruto eager to keep exploiting the situation.

• Naruto intimidated his seatmate after the boy insulted him, then took the boy's pen to write a letter.
• Naruto threw the letter toward Sasuke, prompting the classmates to assume it was a love letter and protest his audacity.
• Sasuke picked up the letter intending to discard it, but Naruto's cough made her realize it was from him.
• Sasuke opened and read Naruto's letter in front of the class, leaving Ino, Sakura, and the boys stunned.
• Naruto gained thousands of negative emotion and shock points from his classmates and decided the tactic was a lucrative one.

Naruto used a letter to arrange a meeting with Sasuke, promising a secret project that could help her get stronger. After the class misread Sasuke’s brief reply and fueled Naruto’s system with their reactions, the two met at the playground grove, where Naruto told Sasuke something that visibly shocked her before she agreed with hatred in her eyes.

• Naruto gave Sasuke a letter inviting her to meet after class and offering a project to help her grow stronger, and Sasuke replied, “I do.”
• Hinata used her Byakugan to read Sasuke’s reply, then revealed its contents to the class after a boy shouted the news aloud.
• The classmates reacted with jealousy and outrage, earning Naruto points from the system, while Hinata said she no longer wanted to take part in gossip.
• When class ended, Sasuke leaped out the window toward the playground grove, and Naruto followed her before the other students could confront him.
• Naruto spoke to Sasuke in the grove, and she trembled, stared at him in disbelief, then nodded with hatred in her eyes.

Naruto explained that Root was Konoha’s dark side and hinted that Sasuke would see the village’s light. He persuaded Sasuke to become his fake girlfriend and work for him for three months, then agreed to fight her after school at the river.

• Naruto described Root to Sasuke as Konoha’s dark counterpart to ANBU and said she would see the village’s light that day.
• Naruto cornered Sasuke and asked what price she would pay to become stronger, earning shock and negative emotion points from their classmates watching nearby.
• Sasuke agreed to be Naruto’s fake campus girlfriend and work for him for three months, but demanded that he prove he could help her grow stronger.
• Sasuke challenged Naruto to a rematch after school at the old spot by the river, determined to defeat him with her full strength.
• Naruto checked his system panel and celebrated the points he had earned, thinking of Sasuke as his source of wealth.

Naruto planned to acquire domesticated Hashirama cells and keep his development secret, while Hiruzen’s money handouts deepened Sasuke’s distrust of Konoha. After fighting off three older boys, Naruto met Sasuke at the riverbank for their rematch.

• Naruto calculated that he needed more silver taels to buy domesticated Hashirama cells and resolved to develop cautiously before Sasuke defected from Konoha.
• Hiruzen gave Naruto 1,000 taels and Sasuke 10,000 taels in monthly living expenses, prompting Sasuke to burn the money and connect Naruto’s words about Konoha’s light and darkness to the village’s treatment of her.
• Three boys confronted Naruto at the school gates, and he lured them into a grove and defeated them with his taijutsu.
• Sasuke rejected Ino and the other classmates after school, while her glance at Naruto made the boys resent him; Naruto escaped through a classroom window.
• Naruto collected his ninja tools at home, and Sasuke prepared her own weapons before both headed to the agreed riverbank for their rematch.

Naruto defeated Sasuke in their all-out duel, then secured her agreement to act as his girlfriend at school and errand runner outside it for three months in exchange for helping her grow stronger. He caught carp and used the system to obtain seasonings, preparing to cook for a hungry Sasuke.

• Sasuke attacked Naruto with shuriken and kunai, but Naruto adapted to her fighting style and kept up with her.
• Sasuke hit Naruto with a Great Fireball Technique, only for the burned figure to reveal itself as a substitute; Naruto appeared behind her and won the duel.
• Naruto teased Sasuke and held her hand, then agreed to help improve her strength in return for their three-month arrangement.
• Naruto asked Sasuke to gather firewood and caught three carp with shuriken while she watched in surprise.
• Naruto exchanged six negative emotion points for cooking seasonings as Sasuke eyed the fish hungrily.

Naruto prepared and grilled carp with his newly acquired seasonings while teaching Sasuke how to make the dish. Sasuke loved the fish, giving Naruto confidence in his plan to sell grilled fish and earn money.

• Naruto cleaned three carp and Sasuke started a campfire with a small Fire Release; Great Fireball Technique.
• Naruto seasoned the fish and explained marinating and grilling techniques to the hungry Sasuke.
• Naruto grilled the carp and carefully added cumin and chili powder at the right moment.
• Sasuke tasted the fish, cried because it was so delicious and there was too little, and praised it to Naruto.
• Naruto gave Sasuke the remaining fish and celebrated that she liked the recipe.