Uchiha Hiroshi left the sealing scroll, offered a few simple words of comfort to Uchiha En, telling him to come to him if he ever had any difficulties in life, and then turned and left.
To be honest, although Uchiha En had integrated the memories of this body, he hadn't been affected much by them, as the original owner was only 10 years old.
Moreover, a month had passed, and the sorrowful emotions had been greatly diluted by time. Uchiha En no longer felt much pain over their deaths.
However, since he had accepted this body, taking care of their posthumous affairs, and if possible, avenging them, became Uchiha En's responsibility.
Afterward, Uchiha En took out everything from the sealing scroll.
Two small urns containing ashes, some Ninja tools, a dozen exploding tags, four Fire Release Ninjutsu, two Wind Release Ninjutsu, two Genjutsu, one Water Release Ninjutsu, one general-purpose Ninjutsu, and a short blade that could conduct Chakra.
This was basically all of Uchiha En's parents' belongings. When they left home for the battlefield, they were afraid that Uchiha En, then only 7 years old, wouldn't be able to guard these items alone at home, so they took everything with them.
Looking at these relics now, Uchiha En felt a little bittersweet.
After calming his emotions, Uchiha En put away the other items and then left with his parents' ashes.
Uchiha En buried them in the Uchiha Clan's cemetery. Ninjas who died without much value, like his parents, could not have their names engraved on the Memorial Stone, and naturally could not be buried in Konoha's cemetery.
After handling his parents' posthumous affairs, Uchiha En returned home and began to examine his parents' legacy.
First were the four Fire Release Ninjutsu: C-rank Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique, Great Fireball Technique, Fire Release: Flame Bullet, and B-rank Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
Then there were two C-rank Wind Release Ninjutsu: Wind Release: Great Breakthrough and Wind Release: Violent Wind Palm.
Next, the two Genjutsu were traditional Genjutsu widely circulated since Konoha's founding: one was D-rank Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique, and the other was B-rank Demonic Illusion: Wood Binding Kill.
Then there was the C-rank Water Release Ninjutsu, Water Release: Water Clone Technique.
The Water Clone Technique is similar to the Shadow Clone Technique; in a sense, it should be considered a general-purpose Ninjutsu.
However, the Water Clone Technique only possesses 10% of the original's strength and cannot be too far from the original, essentially making it a weakened version of the Shadow Clone Technique.
This technique must have been used by Uchiha En's father. Uchiha En remembered that his father's Chakra natures were Fire and Water, and his mother's were Fire and Wind.
However, Uchiha En's father was not skilled in Water Release. As a member of the Uchiha Clan, he would certainly specialize in Fire Release.
And his mother learned Wind Release because wind fuels fire, which could increase the power of Fire Release.
The last general-purpose Ninjutsu was the D-rank Body Flicker Technique.
Uchiha En's father possessed a Two-Tomoes Sharingan and was a Special Jonin of Konoha. If he could activate the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, he would likely be promoted to Jonin. His mother had not activated her Sharingan and was only a Chunin.
However, in Uchiha En's memories, his mother's strength was not bad because she had a trump card Wind Release Ninjutsu. That technique and this Chakra-conducting short blade were left to his mother by Uchiha En's maternal grandfather.
This Ninjutsu could inject wind-attribute Chakra into the short blade, forming a sharp sword, and it was Uchiha En's mother's greatest reliance.
However, this technique was not found among the relics. His parents were said to have been killed by the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, so it's highly unlikely they had the chance to destroy the sealing scroll. That leaves only one explanation: the technique was taken by someone.
The Uchiha Clan would not do such disgusting things. After a month of transmigration, Uchiha En understood the Uchiha Clan very well.
The people of this clan are confident and proud; they would absolutely not steal or hide the relics of their own clansmen.
Thinking this way, it could only have been done by Konoha. Was it Danzo? Or the Third Hokage?
Uchiha En personally leaned more towards Danzo. Only he could do such a despicable thing as taking someone's inherited Ninjutsu.
Two days later, Uchiha En, fully recovered, returned to the Ninja Academy.
This year is Konoha Year 42, and the Third Great Ninja War has been ongoing for three years.
Last year, the Ninja Academy forcibly graduated all fourth, fifth, and sixth-year students, sending them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
Among the fourth-year students of that batch were Raidō Namiashi and Aoba Yamashiro, who had some roles in the original work.
And in the batch after them, there were many more familiar faces: Ebisu, Shiranui Genma, Asuma Sarutobi, Kurenai Yuhi, Might Guy, Ibiki Morino, Uchiha Obito, Rin Nohara, Shizune.
These individuals, with an age difference of 1 to 2 years, were all from the same period, as the enrollment age for Konoha's Ninja Academy is generally 5 to 7 years old.
Uchiha En was also from their period, but he wasn't in the same class as these future pillars of Konoha.
Although not in the same class, most students from the same period knew each other, especially within the same clan.
Uchiha En was one year older than Uchiha Obito; Uchiha En was 10, while Uchiha Obito was only 9.
Although Obito was young, he was
On one hand, Obito's academic performance at the Ninja Academy was terrible, with his grades at the bottom of every subject. On the other hand, Obito was different from most Uchiha Clan members; he was kind, optimistic, proactive, and always talked about becoming Hokage, completely brainwashed by the Will of Fire.
However, it was precisely because of Obito's personality that he was able to enter this batch's elite class.
The Third Hokage should have liked this kind of Uchiha Clan member the most.
Uchiha En followed his memories to Class 2 of the 4th grade. This class mostly consisted of the younger generation from Konoha's major clans and the descendants of the Village's Ninjas, making it an elite class.
And the classes after Class 2 were the standard cannon fodder classes.
Thanks to the Uchiha Clan's reputation, Uchiha En had few friends in this class. When he returned, his classmates merely glanced at him twice, showing no intention of chatting with him.
"Uchiha En, have you heard? They say our batch of Ninja Academy students is about to graduate soon." As Uchiha En sat down, a girl with white eyes and a bandage on her forehead, sitting in front of him, spoke to him.
This girl was Hyuga Asana. Logically, because the Uchiha Clan and Hyuga Clan were at odds, their relationship shouldn't have been very good. However, Hyuga Asana was one of Uchiha En's few friends because Uchiha En's mother and Hyuga Asana's father were once teammates in the Second Great Ninja War.
"Where did you hear that news?" Uchiha En asked, frowning.
"My elder brother is Lord Hiashi's bodyguard. I heard him say that the situation on the front lines isn't good. It seems it's time for us to go to the battlefield." Hyuga Asana's tone was very calm, showing neither the fanaticism of upholding the Will of Fire nor fear of the battlefield.
Uchiha En was already used to Hyuga Asana's tone.
Uchiha En remembered that before she entered the Ninja Academy, Hyuga Asana was very lively.
But when she was 4 years old, she suddenly disappeared for a month.
When they met again, that ugly mark had already been engraved on her forehead, and since then, she had become indifferent to everything, eventually turning into her current self.