Uchiha Hayato's eyes widened as he looked at the lively Chimchar in front of him.
Name: Chimchar
Gender: Male
Ability: Blaze (Fire-type moves are boosted when HP is low)
Type: Fire
Held Item: None
Moves: Scratch, Leer, Double Kick, Fire Punch, Fake Out
This… this can't be, can it? It's really a Pokémon!
Hayato reached up and touched his forehead; his temperature was normal, no fever, and the corners of his mouth curved upwards involuntarily.
The change began with his sparring match against Minato Namikaze. On this day, Uchiha Hayato won his hundredth victory against Minato Namikaze.
"Hah… hah, you truly are something, Hayato. But I won't give up."
Minato Namikaze lay on the ground, panting, but still smiling brightly.
Uchiha Hayato was also close to collapsing, but he still managed to maintain his composure, leaning against a tree and saying indifferently, "Is that so? I won't let you surpass me. I'm the one who's going to be Hokage!"
Yes, Uchiha Hayato was a transmigrator. When he learned that he was a member of the Uchiha clan and in the same class as Minato Namikaze, he almost broke down. Facing three Great Ninja Wars in the future, whether he could even survive until then was an unknown.
As an orphan of the Uchiha clan, his biggest goal after entering the Ninja Academy was to graduate successfully, become a ninja, and then "accidentally" die during a mission, settling down safely in a corner of the ninja world and no longer getting involved in any potential dangers.
Plot characters, making up for regrets—none of that had anything to do with him.
Are you kidding me? He didn't have any cheats. The Uchiha clan's proud Sharingan bloodline, though it could be activated by intense emotional fluctuations, always came at a terrible price for those who awakened it in the original story.
Using it too much would consume pupil power, and after reaching the Mangekyo Sharingan, it could even lead to blindness—Uchiha Itachi was a prime example, with his bloodline illness keeping him in an unhealthy state for years.
Thus, there was the saying of "healthy Itachi," for example, "healthy Itachi's Totsuka Blade sealing the Earth."
Therefore, he outwardly pretended to be an inheritor of the Will of Fire, living an ordinary school life.
Secretly, he pondered where he should live in the future.
That being said, bullying the not-yet-fully-grown Minato Namikaze was no problem at all.
This blond young man was also a war orphan, and from the very beginning, he loudly declared during his self-introduction that he would become the next Hokage.
Anyone could make big claims, but without actual performance, he would only be seen as an oddity.
"Just wait, you'll all change your minds about him later," Uchiha Hayato thought to himself.
And so, Uchiha Hayato and Minato Namikaze became friends. They often sparred, and because Hayato temporarily had a physical advantage, he often won more battles, but as time went on, Minato's win rate gradually increased.
"Should I stop sparring with Minato from now on?" Uchiha Hayato thought. Even if he didn't want to admit it, the Fourth Hokage's standing was incredibly high, and once he grew up, Hayato would be no match for him.
"Hayato, even though you're my friend, I will never give up the position of Hokage to you, okay?"
Minato Namikaze stood up, patted the dust off his clothes, and looked gently at Uchiha Hayato.
"Let's go get some ramen. I'm starving. Or, are you going to cook yourself?"
Minato Namikaze scratched the back of his head, his face slightly flushed. He was a bit embarrassed. As a transmigrator, Uchiha Hayato's cooking, while perhaps not producing glowing golden fried rice, was still not to be underestimated. Therefore, Minato often went to his house to freeload meals.
However, Uchiha Hayato, leaning against the tree, completely ignored him, staring straight at him as if he had discovered some secret.
Minato was startled by his direct gaze and waved his hand, "Hayato, Hayato?"
Uchiha Hayato, as if waking from a dream, jolted and quickly looked at him apologetically, "Sorry, Minato, I suddenly have something to do. You go ahead!"
With that, he hurried away, leaving Minato standing there, bewildered.
"Even if he doesn't want me to freeload, there's no need to be like this," Minato Namikaze thought, utterly confused. He stared at Uchiha Hayato's retreating back for a few moments before walking towards the village's ramen shop.
What he didn't know was that Uchiha Hayato was currently in a state of ecstasy.
His golden finger had finally arrived! Arceus, you've been promoted!
After his hundredth victory, a pleasant melody suddenly rang out in Uchiha Hayato's mind.
"Ding-ding… ding-ding… ding!"
He was very familiar with this sound effect. Wasn't this the sound of healing at a Pokémon Center in the Pokémon games?
"Pokémon System activated. Congratulations, you are now a new trainer. Strive to become a Pokémon Master!"
"Complete missions to earn rewards. Use draw attempts to get random items."
"Let people witness the cuteness of Pokémon, expand your influence, and gradually advance to the pinnacle of the world."
At the same time, a translucent light screen unfolded before Uchiha Hayato's eyes.
He glanced at the panel. Besides the Pokémon and his own attribute panel, there were also a mission panel and a draw panel. Putting aside the currently empty mission log, he decided to look at his attributes.
Name: Uchiha Hayato
Egg Group: Human-Like, Field
Ability: ???
Types: Fire, Lightning, Water, Yin
Moves: Three Body Technique, Camouflage, Escape Jutsu
Pokémon: None (yet)
Bag: Potion * 1
World Change: 0.1%
Although he was delighted, it seemed there was something wrong with this system. He was a human, not a Pokémon, so why would he have egg groups? Humans are viviparous.
Soon, a strange expression appeared on Uchiha Hayato's face. This golden finger was compensation from Arceus.
In his previous life, he was playing the latest Pokémon game late at night when a strong flash of light from the screen blinded him. He vaguely felt a seemingly real voice speaking to him, and when he regained consciousness, he was an infant in the ninja world.
"Arceus, what exactly happened to you? I hadn't even gotten on the train yet!"
The protagonists of "Pokémon Legends: Arceus," Akari and Rei, were examples; they were just casually thrown by Arceus into the Hisui region, which wasn't yet called Sinnoh.
He himself was originally supposed to be pulled into the Pokémon world by Arceus, but something went wrong along the way, causing him to get off halfway and become a resident of the Hokage world.
As a god who created multiple universes, Arceus's sense of time was naturally different from ordinary people. So, on this day, as if suddenly realizing something, Arceus decided to make do and sent him a golden finger as compensation.
"I really appreciate it!" Uchiha Hayato smiled helplessly. How good the Pokémon world was! Although it had its dark corners, most areas were peaceful and tranquil. Even if a crisis occurred, game protagonists would help solve it, and even in the anime world, ten-year-old Pokémon Masters would handle it.
However, in the ninja world, even if the Fourth Great Ninja War was ultimately won, countless ninjas had died before it, making the danger level far higher than the Pokémon world.
Nevertheless, with this golden finger, Uchiha Hayato might be able to change his potential fate of becoming cannon fodder.
As long as he completed the missions assigned by the system and continuously changed the ninja world, he would gain powerful Pokémon and items from the Pokémon world, making him progressively stronger.
The system had a progress display for changing the ninja world, which perfectly aligned with Uchiha Hayato's inner thoughts. The ninja world, with all its fighting and killing, was so boring. Even the strongest ninja villages were subordinates of the Daimyo, a system he found quite perplexing.
Uchiha Hayato stopped thinking further, his gaze fixed on the lit-up button in the system.
"Ten-pull" begins!