Politics paid dividends.
Not immediately. Not loudly. But the system noticed.
I had stabilized the Leaf's leadership structure, integrated civilian voices, formalized clan representation, and ensured the Uchiha were neither isolated nor dominant—balanced, respected, invested.
The result?
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⭐ System NotificationVillage Political Stability: HighLeadership Legitimacy: EstablishedReward Unlocked: Random Ninja Card━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I frowned slightly.
"Explain."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎴 Ninja Card SystemYou will acquire the full abilities, talents,combat experience, and knowledge ofONE random Naruto characterfrom ANY point in their timeline━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I exhaled.
This was either incredible…
Or a waste.
A wheel appeared in the air—massive, glowing, rotating slowly. Every name I recognized, and thousands I didn't, blurred together.
Hashirama Senju.Madara Uchiha.Naruto Uzumaki (Multiple Versions).Iruka Umino.Civilian Shinobi #314.
Luck mattered.
"Spin," I said.
The wheel accelerated.
Faster.Faster.Names became streaks of light.
Then—
It slowed.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
And stopped.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎴 Ninja Card Acquired➡ Uchiha Itachi — ANBU Era━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I went still.
"…That," I said quietly, "is absurdly lucky."
The system didn't respond.
It didn't need to.
The world collapsed inward.
Memories crashed into me—not images, not visions, but lived experience.
I was five years old again.
Watching a battlefield soaked in blood.
Understanding death before understanding childhood.
I trained.
Obsessively.
I graduated the Academy in one year.
I was placed on a Genin team.
I watched them die.
I stood alone.
I took the Chūnin Exams by myself.
I passed.
ANBU recruited me.
I learned to kill silently.
To lie convincingly.
To carry the weight of a village that feared itself.
I became Chūnin.Then Jōnin.Then ANBU Captain.
I watched the Uchiha fracture.
I tried to fix it.
I failed.
Shisui—
His death tore something open.
And then—
The memories stopped.
I collapsed to one knee in the Hokage office, breathing hard.
Not from pain.
From overlap.
Isaac and Itachi didn't blur.
They aligned.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🧠 Knowledge Integration CompleteCombat Experience: AssimilatedGenjutsu Mastery: CompleteNinjutsu Archives: Fire / Wind / WaterTaijutsu & Swordsmanship: Master-Level━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
And then—
My vision burned.
Not violently.
Decisively.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👁️ Mangekyō Sharingan Awakened━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The world darkened.
My chakra surged outward like a tidal wave—and then locked into perfect control.
Information poured in.
Left Eye — Tsukuyomi
A world within a world.Time, perception, suffering—mine to command.
Right Eye — Amaterasu
Black flames that obeyed my will, igniting reality itself.
Both Eyes — Susanoo
Not a crude manifestation.
A perfect one.
Armored.Absolute.
The Yata Mirror shimmered—deflecting all things.The Totsuka Blade hummed softly—hungry for sealing, not blood.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🛡️ Susanoo Manifestation: Itachi-ClassDefense Rating: AbsoluteOffensive Sealing: Mythic━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I stood slowly.
The Hokage office felt… smaller.
Not because I was arrogant.
But because I understood now.
Power wasn't loud.
It was inevitable.
The system delivered one final message.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ WarningMangekyō Usage Accelerates Narrative InstabilityGod's Attention: Locked On━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I closed my eyes.
Then opened them again—Mangekyō fading back to calm, controlled Sharingan.
"I won't repeat your tragedy," I murmured—not to Itachi, but to the memory of him.
The Uchiha would not be sacrificed.
The village would not rot from fear.
And the God?
He wanted entertainment.
I would give him evolution.
I opened the system interface one more time.
🌌 Inter-World Portal — Marvel
Status: Ready
"…Soon," I said again.
But this time—
I meant it as a promise.