A Man with Cheats

The morning sun had only just risen, but in a relatively secluded home in Konoha, Xia Yan had already opened his eyes and immediately climbed out of bed.

He walked over to the mirror and looked at the face reflected in it. For a moment, he even wondered whether he had become Kakashi.

A handsome face and silver hair.

If his eyes had been black rather than brown, he really might have been able to pass himself off as Kakashi with a mask.

Before he knew it, more than thirteen years had passed since he arrived in this world, and Xia Yan had gradually grown familiar with everything here.

His luck, however, really had not been very good. The timing of his transmigration was rather unfortunate.

He still remembered how, when he was old enough to attend the Ninja Academy, his heart had practically sunk halfway upon discovering a fellow student named Kakashi Hatake and another named Obito Uchiha in his class.

Meeting those two could only mean one thing: he would probably have to face at least one unprecedented war in the future!

The shinobi of this world were terrifying, even the young children.

During wartime, they often possessed the ability to kill by the age of six or seven.

Taking to the battlefield at around ten was commonplace, and some went even further. Kakashi, for instance, was already a Jonin who had slaughtered countless enemies at twelve.

As a modern man, he simply could not do that. At least, back then, he had not believed he could.

There were only two paths before him. One was to obediently go to war and pray he could survive the battlefield.

The other was to find a way to avoid the battlefield, then lie low until the war ended-or even until those two "saviors" rose to prominence.

Unfortunately, the second path was rather difficult for Xia Yan to take, because his surname was Senju.

Senju was a legendary surname, one that had once been extraordinarily active on this world's stage.

The Senju had founded Konoha alongside the Uchiha. They had produced the First Hokage and the Second Hokage, and even the Third Hokage had been trained by Tobirama Senju.

Who knew how many of Konoha's current leaders had once received instruction from the Senju?

Even the Uchiha Clan could only use their own strength to highlight the Senju's greatness.

Behind the enormous statues at the Valley of the End lay the Senju's glory and the Uchiha Clan's humiliation.

Unfortunately, just as storms could strike without warning, fortune and disaster could come overnight.

After the Third Hokage took office, the Senju Clan began to decline.

More tragically still, the Senju Clan's decline had actually been caused by the Second Hokage's policies.

Of course, the Third Hokage had also played a crucial role, even if, in his own words, he had merely hoped the Senju Clan would "set an example."

In a little over a decade, the Senju Clan had almost entirely lost any sense of being a "clan." Or rather, the Senju of today could no longer be called a clan.

They had completely merged into the ranks of civilian shinobi-or rather, they were already civilians.

They rarely even used the Senju surname anymore!

Xia Yan, for instance, used the name Fukami Natsuhiko both at school and in the Anbu.

Honestly, that name left him rather speechless. Sometimes, he even wondered where his Renge was.

A small portion of the Senju had accepted this fate because they were powerless to resist.

But quite a few were unwilling to accept it, the most typical example being the elder who had looked after him since childhood.

After Xia Yan transmigrated, his parents had died fighting in the Second War, and he had been raised by an elder.

Ever since he was little, this elder had constantly drilled many things into him. In short, he was to "strive for the Senju Clan's resurgence."

He had little to say about this, because when the Senju fell into complete decline, this elder had drilled much the same things into practically everyone.

"Still, he's the very reason I couldn't slip off to somewhere like the administrative department."

Xia Yan sighed a little. Although the Senju Clan had fallen on hard times, they still had plenty of connections.

The elder could have used his connections and found a way to arrange a position for him in the administrative department. Even if that did not work, sending him to the academy would have been fine.

Unfortunately, that request had been rejected.

The reasons were simple. First, the Senju were a warrior clan. Second, Xia Yan was too young to go.

Still, the elder had found a way to make some arrangements for Xia Yan: he had entered the Anbu directly at the age of eight.

Honestly, that arrangement was hardly any better.

Was Anbu work even fit for human beings?!

"And I ended up in the Legend of Eyes without a pair of special eyes. Even the Byakugan would've been fine."

After a quick wash, Xia Yan looked at himself in the mirror and could not help sighing.

Xia Yan was also very familiar with the entire story of the Naruto world. To put it bluntly, it was nothing more than "an ethical history of the Ōtsutsuki Clan stranded in the Shinobi World."

It could also be called "a grand drama of infighting within the Ōtsutsuki Clan."

Apart from "being the reincarnation of Indra's or Asura's chakra," the most powerful cheats in this world-the ones most worth looking forward to-were those eyes.

The Senju Clan's bloodline was indeed good. They could also be considered descendants of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

However, that bloodline had to be developed. Without developing it, they really were no different from ordinary people.

A cheat like that was practically the same as having none, even if he had obtained a small amount of the Senju Clan's training resources.

"Fortunately, as a transmigrator, it's not like I don't have a cheat. It's just..."

It was just rather hard to put into words.

He gazed into the mirror. It still reflected Xia Yan's face, but some numbers appeared in his vision.

Name: Xia Yan Senju

Gender: Male

Date of birth: March 24, Year 34 of the Konoha calendar

Rank: Jonin (Chunin)

Bloodline development: Basic (Senju Secret Technique)

Seeds: Jonin chakra reserves seed (60% maturity), intermediate senjutsu seed (80% maturity), advanced Earth Release Seed (70% maturity), advanced Water Release Seed (70% maturity)

Fruits: Zero

Mission: Become the True Big Boss of the Shinobi World (unique) (1% progress)

That was right. This thing, which was practically a character sheet, was Xia Yan's cheat.

His cheat was also incredibly bizarre. He had no idea whether being reborn into the Senju Clan meant he was destined to have it out for plants in this life.

His ability relied on a Senju Secret Technique-he did not know whether it came from the system or his bloodline-to absorb the life force of plants and obtain special attributes.

Then, through the system, those special attributes were turned into seeds.

Much like the insects raised by the Aburame Clan, these seeds needed to devour his chakra inside his body to grow.

Once they matured, Xia Yan could obtain fruits, and eating those fruits would grant him the corresponding abilities.

Most importantly, Xia Yan could master those abilities completely!

But it was precisely because of these seeds that his chakra reserves had never seemed much like those of a Senju shinobi.

Even at thirteen, his chakra had not become chakra-ton. Instead, it remained dutifully comparable to a Chunin's-and a lower-end one at that.

Thus, in his rank field, his strength was listed as Jonin, yet a Chunin label still sat inside the parentheses.

Now he finally understood what it felt like to be Kakashi.

Or perhaps what it felt like to be at the "third stage of dou qi"...