I Didn't Transmigrate Here to Be a Dog!

Land of Fire, Hyuga Clan Compound.

Dawn had barely broken, but a crowd already stood before the Hyuga Clan's ancestral hall.

The Main Family stood on the steps.

The Branch Family stood below them, each with a strip of white cloth wrapped around their forehead to cover the Caged Bird Seal.

Shinichi Hyuga stood in the Branch Family's back row.

The clan head, Nissei Hyuga, walked out of the main hall and stood at the top of the steps.

"Clansmen, the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan have joined forces to establish a village named Konoha."

"Yesterday, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha personally came to invite our Hyuga Clan to join Konoha."

"After discussing it with the elders, I hereby announce."

"Our Hyuga Clan will join Konoha."

"In three days, the entire clan will relocate to Konoha."

"Lord Hashirama will personally welcome us!"

As soon as he finished speaking, quiet murmurs rose from the crowd.

"The Senju and the Uchiha, and now us Hyuga too."

"This Konoha will probably become the strongest village in the Shinobi World."

"Once we're out there, we'll just have to mention Konoha's name. Let's see who dares touch us then."

A middle-aged man nearby listened, looking somewhat lost instead.

"Once we join the village, does that mean we won't have to go to war anymore?"

"Didn't Lord Hashirama say he wanted to keep children off the battlefield?"

"After all these years of fighting, has peace really come?"

Only Shinichi Hyuga, standing in the back row, knew the answer.

Peace would indeed come.

After Konoha was established, the major shinobi villages feared the power of Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi.

There really were decades of peace.

As the major shinobi villages grew in strength, the First Shinobi World War broke out immediately after Hashirama Senju's death.

The war's scale and brutality far surpassed any war during the Warring States Period.

And there were also the Second Shinobi World War, the Third Shinobi World War, and the Fourth Shinobi World War.

It could be said that the shinobi village system Hashirama Senju established did bring temporary peace to the Shinobi World.

But it also escalated the wars between clans during the Warring States Period into wars between villages, and even between nations.

History from his previous life told Shinichi that this had happened more than once.

To achieve true peace...

There had to be complete unification.

In the world of Naruto, that meant unifying the Shinobi World.

But none of that had anything to do with him. Right now, he was merely a sixteen-year-old member of the Hyuga Branch Family, with only the strength of a Chunin.

Yesterday, someone else had still occupied this body.

In his previous life, Shinichi had been a novelist on Tomato.

He wrote exclusively Naruto fanfiction and had written three novels in total. His best had reached 100,000 active readers.

To write his novels, he had gone through the original Naruto story no fewer than ten times. He knew its plot with his eyes closed.

One night, to finish the next day's updates, he had written until four in the morning.

Just after scheduling the final chapter, he had slumped over his keyboard and never gotten up again.

When he woke again, he was in this body.

Ever since the original owner could remember, he had been carrying out missions and protecting the Main Family. He had never had time to improve his strength, only reaching Chunin level at sixteen.

If it had only been constant missions, he would not have harbored so much resentment.

But shinobi from the Hyuga Clan's Branch Family also had to protect the Main Family while carrying out their missions.

Once, an oversight on Shinichi's part had caused a Main Family elder to suffer a minor injury.

The Main Family elder had formed a hand seal.

The Caged Bird Seal on the original owner's forehead had activated, and Shinichi had clutched his head and rolled on the ground for nearly an hour.

They had still been on a mission, no less.

Fortunately, they had not encountered any enemies.

Of course, as far as Shinichi was concerned now, the Caged Bird Seal was already a thing of the past.

Yesterday afternoon, Shinichi had opened his eyes at the entrance to the Main Family's main hall.

He was the guard at the door.

Inside the hall, the clan head was talking with two men.

Those two men were none other than Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.

The Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan had fought for hundreds of years.

In this generation, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha had known each other since childhood.

A month ago, during a battle between the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, Hashirama Senju had defeated Madara Uchiha.

But Hashirama Senju had not killed Madara Uchiha. Instead, he wanted to join forces with him and revive their childhood dream.

That dream was to establish a village where children would not have to go to war.

But Madara Uchiha had posed a difficult demand to Hashirama Senju.

He wanted him to pay for the life of his younger brother, Uchiha Izuna.

He told Hashirama Senju to either kill Tobirama Senju, the man who had killed Uchiha Izuna, or die himself.

What he had not expected was for Hashirama to actually draw a kunai and point it at himself.

Shinichi had not expected Madara to actually believe a kunai could kill the God of Shinobi either.

Just as Hashirama thrust the kunai toward himself, Madara stopped him.

Then the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan joined forces to establish Konoha.

Because Hashirama Senju used Wood Release, the village they established was called Konoha.

Because Madara Uchiha used Fire Release, Konoha's leader was called the Hokage.

Shinichi had written this part of the plot no fewer than three times while writing novels in his previous life.

What he had not expected was to end up in this damned world of Naruto himself.

Fortunately, he was a transmigrator.

He also had the system that came standard with transmigrators.

The moment he finished integrating his predecessor's memories, a voice sounded in his mind.

[Host's successful transmigration detected.]

[Newbie Gift Pack issued. Host may open it at any time.]

[Newbie Gift Pack: awaken the Tenseigan.]

The Tenseigan.

The eyes with which Otsutsuki Toneri on the moon could split the moon in the original story.

"Quiet down, everyone."

Just then, the voice of the clan head, Nissei Hyuga, drowned out the discussion below.

"The clan has already decided to join Konoha."

"There's no need to discuss it. Just do as you're told."

"The Branch Family will begin packing today. In three days, we will await Lord Hashirama's arrival and join Konoha."

Below the steps, no one spoke again.

Shinichi did not speak either.

Once they entered Konoha, the Branch Family would still be the Branch Family, and the Caged Bird Seal would still be on their foreheads.

Before, they had only been dogs for the Main Family. Once they entered Konoha, they would have Konoha weighing down on them too.

He had not transmigrated here to be the Main Family's dog, much less Konoha's.

Since he knew the age of shinobi villages was coming...

Wasn't it just a shinobi village?

If Hashirama Senju could build one...

Why couldn't I, Shinichi Hyuga?

Were kings, nobles, generals, and ministers simply born to their stations?

Of course, building a village was no dinner party.

The problem facing Shinichi right now was the Caged Bird Seal.

But he did not know how to break it either.

In the original story, Neji Hyuga had never managed to remove the Caged Bird Seal, even by the time he died.

However, he did not need to remove it.

He only needed to awaken the Tenseigan.

The Caged Bird Seal targeted the Byakugan.

Once I awaken the Tenseigan, what would the Caged Bird Seal have to do with my Tenseigan?

At that thought, Shinichi realized he had to find somewhere absolutely safe.

Then he could open the Newbie Gift Pack and awaken the Tenseigan.

Every member of the Hyuga Clan had the Byakugan. What if someone happened to activate theirs while he was awakening his Tenseigan?

Wouldn't that expose me right away?

What worried him even more was what lay on the moon.

After all, Hamura's descendants included not only the Hyuga Clan, but also the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon.

In the original story, they had been monitoring the Shinobi World all along.

If the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon noticed that he had awakened the Tenseigan...

The trouble they would bring would be nothing like what the Main Family could cause!