[Friendly reminder: this Shinobi World is somewhat different from the one you know, so please put aside everything you know about Hokage Ninja before reading. You can think of this as a parallel world completely different from the Shinobi World.]
[This novel features changes in various areas, including but not limited to new Kekkei Genkai for certain characters, personality changes resulting from changes in strength, and alterations to certain settings. So, as stated above, please abandon your entire understanding of normal Naruto when reading this novel!!!! This is very important!!!]
"Hatake Style: Instant Slash!"
Fierce sword light filled the entire training ground. The wind from the blade tore through the air with a piercing whistle, all of it slamming into the thick earthen wall another ninja had raised.
The instant the sword energy touched the thick earthen wall, it slashed the wall to pieces.
It was hard to imagine that such fierce sword energy had come from a five-year-old kid wielding a training Ninja Blade.
At the edge of the training ground, Uchiha Gen leaned over the railing and watched the intense exchange of attacks and defenses, the corner of his mouth twitching involuntarily.
Was something like sword energy... really supposed to appear in the hands of a five-year-old boy?
And then there was...
Guy, beside the training ground, who had watched Kakashi's Genin examination and promptly started doing push-ups with a boulder weighing at least a ton on his back.
Wasn't there something wrong with this Shinobi World?
While Uchiha Gen was left speechless, the battle on the training ground had reached a fever pitch.
Kakashi crushed the fine sand beneath his feet and abruptly lunged forward.
The long sword in his hand cut through the air in a cold silver arc. Chakra instantly coated its edge, wrapping the ordinary training Ninja Blade in fierce flashes of electricity.
Hatake Style: Instant Slash!
He slashed straight down!
The examiner's gaze sharpened slightly. Rather than retreating, he advanced, suddenly shifting sideways as he closed in on Kakashi, avoiding the blade by a hair while raising his Kunai horizontally to block!
Clang-!
The ringing clash of metal erupted!
Yet just as the examiner prepared to overpower Kakashi's Ninja Blade and knock it aside, a stone hand suddenly reached out of the ground beneath his feet and seized his ankle.
Meanwhile, the Kakashi trading sword blows with him burst apart with a pop, leaving only an activated, burning Explosive Tag that stuck to the Kunai in his hand.
"!! When did he use Earth Release?!!"
The examiner was startled as his ankle was caught. He had completely failed to notice when Kakashi had formed the hand seals.
Clearly, at that very moment, the outcome had already been decided!
"I lost."
The examiner quickly flicked his wrist and threw the Kunai into the sky, then turned around to face Kakashi, whose Ninja Blade had been pressed against his back over his heart.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Explosive Tag hurled into the air instantly exploded.
Amid several thunderous explosions, the examiner announced his defeat.
"Congratulations on officially becoming a ninja. May you become the next White Fang of Konoha, or surpass him."
In the fiery light of the exploding Explosive Tag, the examiner offered his sincere wishes to the white-haired boy before him.
"I hereby announce that Kakashi Hatake has passed his early graduation examination and is officially promoted to Genin!!"
At the same time, the ninja serving as referee announced the examination result right on cue.
"Wow!"
At the referee's announcement, the spectators surrounding the training ground instantly erupted. All of them were Ninja Academy students.
Looking at the white-haired boy on the training ground, everyone exclaimed in amazement. He had applied for early graduation less than a year after enrolling, and he had actually passed!!!!
In other words, Kakashi Hatake had successfully set the Ninja Academy's record for the youngest graduate!!!
Never mind that ridiculously powerful Explosive Tag for a second. Isn't a normal Genin graduation exam supposed to involve demonstrating the Three Basic Jutsu or something? Why would they use something this terrifying?
At the edge of the training ground, Uchiha Gen ignored the cheers around him and quietly looked up at the fiery light that had yet to fully dissipate after the Explosive Tag's explosions.
The power of that Explosive Tag was absolutely abnormal. After all, whose Explosive Tag exploded five times in a row?!!!!!
This Shinobi World seems a little cursed. Fuck, if you're going to transmigrate me, at least send me somewhere good! The Shinobi World was already messed up enough, and now you're piling on all this unnecessary difficulty!!
Uchiha Gen, originally named Chen Beixuan, had become so engrossed in arguing with people online on his computer at his eighteenth-floor home about who was the most cancerous character in the Hokage Ninja mobile game that a suddenly appearing Dayun truck had rammed him to death, transmigrating him into the Shadow World.
As for why a Dayun truck had appeared on the eighteenth floor, don't worry about it.
Unlike someone who took over another person's grown body, Uchiha Gen had retained his memories from before transmigration since infancy. However, because his infant body was too fragile, the consciousness containing all his memories had not fully awakened until he was two or three.
Was this what people called breaking through the mystery of the womb? Anyway, close enough.
It was also in the year he regained all his memories, just after turning three, that Uchiha Gen discovered something was wrong with this Shinobi World.
As for how he discovered it... could you understand the shock of taking an ordinary after-dinner stroll through the Uchiha Clan Compound, only to see two miniature Susanoo hacking at each other with swords on a public training ground?
Those were Susanoo!!!
Normally, Susanoo was an exclusive ability members of the Uchiha Clan could only use after awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan!
Yet there it was, right before his eyes, just like that-and there were two of them at once!!
Although they had shrunk into something resembling armor, Uchiha Gen could not possibly have mistaken their appearance. Those were definitely Susanoo.
Following the principle of asking when curious, or wondering whether he had accidentally fallen under a genjutsu, Uchiha Gen went straight over to ask.
And what member of the Uchiha Clan could refuse a question from a little Uchiha child?
After asking, Uchiha Gen received the answer he wanted.
Then... hahahahahaha, Susanoo had actually become a technique anyone could learn as soon as they awakened their Sharingan.
And the most absurd part was that each stage of the Sharingan allowed a different form of Susanoo. The complete Susanoo armor Uchiha Gen had seen could only be activated with three tomoe.
All right, that was a little more normal...
Like hell it was! What the hell was normal about this?!!!!
As time passed, the more books Uchiha Gen read and the more he learned, the more thoroughly his original understanding of the manga "Hokage Ninja" was shattered.
For example.
According to the Uchiha Clan's books, the Aburame Clan still used insects, just as they did in the original work. Their insects had only changed a tiny bit, such as insects as big as Tailed Beasts, and some that could breathe fire, spit lightning, and use ninjutsu. That was all.
For another example.
The Nara Clan still represented intelligence and still used shadows. There had just been a tiny change here too, such as being able to travel through shadows, or making their own shadows cut an enemy's shadow to kill the enemy outright. That was all.
In any case... this Shinobi World was completely different from the one he knew!
No, he couldn't quite call it completely different. At least the people he knew were still the same people. They had just... become a little more cursed, that was all.
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