Year 54 of Konoha.
Inside a wooden house.
A young man slowly opened his eyes.
He shook his slightly dizzy head and looked around.
The moment he saw the wooden walls and the furnishings of the room, he froze.
This wasn't his room.
He remembered clearly—last night he had stayed up all night binge-watching Naruto, until his mind suddenly went blank.
Now, waking up, he found himself in a strange place.
He couldn't help but stand up.
Immediately, he noticed his clothes had changed.
That high-collared robe… he had definitely seen it somewhere before.
Right—last night, while watching Naruto, he had seen this exact outfit. It was the attire of the Uchiha clan.
His mind went blank.
Damn, could it be… he had transmigrated?
He rushed to the mirror.
Reflected back at him was a handsome young man with spiky hair.
The hairstyle was different, but the face—it was exactly like his own.
He turned sideways and caught sight of the flame-shaped fan crest on his back.
His thoughts instantly crashed. That was the Uchiha clan emblem.
He hurried to the window to confirm his suspicion.
Outside, carved into the mountain, were four massive stone faces—the First Hokage, the Second Hokage, the Third Hokage, and the Fourth Hokage.
This was real. He had absolutely transmigrated. No prank, no trick. Who could possibly stage something this elaborate?
But instead of excitement, he felt a deep sense of dread.
Because the Naruto world was not one of passion and hot-blooded dreams.
It was a dangerous world.
And he was now in the Uchiha clan.
Suddenly, a sharp pain lanced through his skull, as countless fragments of information flooded into his mind.
The pain twisted his expression, forcing him to clutch his head with both hands.
Only after several minutes did it ease.
What he learned left him bitter.
It was now Year 54 of Konoha.
The Fourth Hokage had already died in the Nine-Tails' attack.
The Konoha leadership suspected the Uchiha clan of orchestrating that disaster.
The clan had even been forcibly relocated to the village's outskirts, exiled from the center and pushed to the margins.
Having seen the original story, he knew full well the Nine-Tails' rampage hadn't been caused by the Uchiha clan, but by Uchiha Obito—who had long since left the village.
Though born an Uchiha, Obito no longer stood with his clan.
Couldn't the Konoha leaders think this through? If the Uchiha could truly control the Nine-Tails, would they really suffer humiliation and agree to move their entire clan?
It was nothing but internal strife, prettified under the excuse of "preserving stability."
In the end, the conflict between the Uchiha and the village's leadership became irreconcilable.
And then the clan was massacred—betrayed by two traitors.
One was Uchiha Itachi, who slaughtered his father, mother, lover, and clan alike.
The other was Uchiha Obito, who, after losing the woman he loved, descended into madness.
He truly could not understand what kind of grudge Obito held against the clan to make him butcher his own kin. It was as if someone had killed his mother—such was his hatred.
But in truth, Obito's parents had died in the war.
And Itachi… was even more terrifying.
As the clan leader's son, instead of striving to bring glory to his people, he raised his blade against them.
The two of them had fallen into utter darkness.
They didn't just slaughter every Uchiha shinobi—they even wiped out the civilians, those without chakra or jutsu.
The two of them were more repulsive than Danzō or even the Third Hokage.
At least Danzō and Hiruzen were outsiders, enemies of the Uchiha.
But these two had Uchiha blood running through their veins, yet still committed acts that no beast would stoop to.
It was beyond comprehension.
As a transmigrator, he couldn't make sense of it.
The Uchiha were one of the great clans.
With the Senju gone, no single family in Konoha could match the Uchiha's strength.
They were a pillar of the village's military might.
And yet they had been wiped out.
The Third Hokage truly was skilled only in internal battles, hopeless in external ones.
During the Third Great Ninja War, even though Konoha had defeated the Stone Village, he still signed an unequal treaty.
That decision sparked widespread anger across the village, forcing him to step down.
But after the Fourth Hokage's death, he returned to power—
And immediately turned his foolish hand against the Uchiha.