[Ding. Host charging complete. Charge status as follows: Splash Plate 82%, Iron Plate 99%, Meadow Plate 75%, Sky Plate 13%, Sky Plate 15%.]
[Please keep up the effort, Master. When you complete a challenge, you will receive special rewards based on the attributes of the plates.]
Year 30 of the Hidden Leaf Village Calendar, Autumn.
Land of Fire, Hidden Leaf Village, beside the Ishikawa Waterfall.
Under the shade of the trees, a young man slowly withdrew from his chakra-extraction state.
"Just a little more… but unfortunately, today's task is already done."
"It's fine. Waiting a bit longer won't hurt. There's no need to overdraw your chakra. One more round of 'daily training' tomorrow and the Iron Plate will be fully charged. The Splash Plate is almost done too."
The young man suppressed the excitement in his chest. He stood, stretched lazily, and casually shut off the nearby device that continued to release a faint "silver mist." He slipped it back into his ninja tool pouch.
"System, check my status."
"Ding. Received."
Host status displayed:
[Trainer? Pokémon? : Nawaki Senju]
[Rank: Chunin, First Stage]
[Energy: 68,431]
[Attributes: Water, Earth, Normal, Yang, Flying (Wind)]
[Individual Values: HP 18, Attack 19, Defense 19, Special Attack 18, Special Defense 17, Speed 31 (V)]
[Available Moves: Harden, Quick Attack, Supersonic, Sonic Boom, Double Team, Fury Attack, Agility, Comet Punch…]
[Energy Devour: Locked]
[Experience Missions: Unlocked]
[Daily Missions: Complete]
[Miracle Marks: Pokédex 0, Moves 5, Abilities 0, Items 43]
[Plate Charging: Omitted]
Nawaki's gaze lingered on the one ability he had never been able to use: Energy Devour. A faint, helpless light flickered in his eyes.
He had been in this world for nine years now.
His name was Nawaki Senju, and he carried a single dream: to become Hokage.
Yes he was the poor soul in the original story who died after stepping on an explosive tag during the war.
Grandson of the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju.
Little brother of Princess Tsunade, one of the future Legendary Sannin.
In this life, however, the consciousness within this body belonged to someone who came from another world.
This was not possession. This was rebirth.
The story was simple. A tired older gamer, bored during a national holiday, decided he would collect every single Shiny Pokémon.
After grinding through several days without rest, he suddenly died.
His Shiny progress at the time of death was: 1 out of 1025.
Yes. Embarrassing. Ridiculous.
Even the only Shiny Pokémon he owned was the kind of joke only Pokémon fans would understand.
Some obsessions cannot be explained.
After all, who spends days endlessly farming monsters for the sake of something sparkly?
Who plays Pokémon when they have nothing else to do?
Please. It's not like he was planning to become a streamer.
When the man opened his eyes again, he found himself in the Naruto world, reborn as the newborn Nawaki Senju.
He probably should have transmigrated into the Pokémon world, but something went wrong midway and he ended up here instead.
Not that it mattered. No matter where he landed, he had to fight for his life all the same.
Due to an accident during transmigration, what should have been the "Strongest Pokémon Trainer System" became the Pokémon Miracle Mark Exchange System.
From the moment the system awakened, Nawaki learned that he possessed the special ability Energy Devour.
The system clearly warned him: this ability could only be used when the target was unconscious or unable to resist. Using it on a ninja could permanently damage their chakra pathways or even kill them instantly.
A double-edged blade.
It could rapidly boost plate-charging progress and power him up, but the cost was far too high.
In peaceful Konoha, there was no way he could use it.
The system's main function was to convert collected "materials" into Miracle Marks based on the requirements of the unlocked categories.
So far, two categories were unlocked: Move Marks and Item Marks.
For example:
• Quick Attack required materials: a Body Flicker Technique scroll (any elemental variant) + 40,000 energy.
• Supersonic required: Wind Release: Gale Cutter scroll (any variant) + 30,000 energy.
• Shadow Clone required: Shadow Clone scroll or Multi-Shadow Clone scroll + 30,000 energy.
Items worked similarly:
• Repel Spray (Silver Spray): Peppermint + Repellent Grass + Metal Can.
• Potion: Gelatin + Deer Antler (or similar medicinal herbs).
The system never created items out of nothing. Everything abided by rules.
Currently, the system had over a hundred different unlockable item and move marks, each varying in difficulty. Easy items included potions, berries, and sprays. Hard items included Keystone, Dynamax Band, and Wishing Piece.
New marks required "Experience Missions," though Nawaki had no idea how to activate them yet.
As for Energy Devour…
He had known it existed from day one but had never used it, turning it into one of his deepest obsessions.
He also knew that to use it legally and without guilt, he had to leave the village.
He had to experience real missions, face real enemies, defeat them, and devour them.
Only then could he rapidly power up his plates and himself.
At the moment, the Second Great Ninja War had not yet begun. Tsunade had not earned her Sannin title yet.
Nawaki, as a direct descendant of the Senju clan and the First Hokage, possessed unquestionable legitimacy and a rightful claim to the Hokage line.
That was all trivial to him.
What mattered most was:
Materials. Missions. Plates. System progress.
And the ability he still could not use.
A year ago, after exchanging his very first Move Mark, he tested it thoroughly.
The result was simple:
It was incredible.
The fusion of ninjutsu and Pokémon techniques was something only those who experienced it firsthand could understand.
In practical combat classes, he would chain Agility into Quick Attack, and his kunai would touch his opponent's throat before they even realized what happened.
For those few clan kids who could survive the first exchange, what awaited them was the brutal combination of Leaf Taijutsu and Pokémon moves Double Slap, Comet Punch, and other devastating close-range techniques.
It was not fair.
It was unbeatable.
It was combat on an entirely different dimension.
While most students were still struggling with basic ninjutsu, Nawaki stood far beyond them, receiving praise like "As expected of the First Hokage's grandson" or "Worthy of the Senju name."
Nawaki had nothing but contempt for such comments.
Is it really so hard to acknowledge someone else's effort?
"Every ounce of my power was earned through hard work. Through exchange."
Once he was acknowledged as a genius, he quickly lost interest in sparring with classmates.
To him, it was a waste of time. Children's games.
He needed to graduate early, face real enemies, and use his Energy Devour ability to grow.
As a transmigrator, he understood better than anyone that raw talent was not enough.
Knowledge of the future was an advantage, but also a warning.
In a world where bloodlines determined everything, the peak for ordinary ninjas was Kage level, nothing more.
Those who reached beyond super-Kage or Six Paths level were all connected to the Otsutsuki in some way.
In the Fourth Great Ninja War, most shadow-level ninjas barely had any screen time. Without a unique technique, they were background characters.
Even with Nawaki's privileged starting point, even with foresight, he knew that no amount of traditional training would allow him to reach the level of Naruto, Sasuke, Hashirama, or Madara.
Without the system, he would at best become another Tsunade.
Strong, respected, but nowhere near the true peak.
A top-tier fighter, but not a legend.
He had considered seeking ways to obtain abilities like Wood Release or the Sharingan.
But he dismissed the idea.
This world was alive and real.
Not a comic book.
People were not fools who would hand over their greatest secrets.
If you wanted to act like a hot-blooded protagonist, you would end up in the Pure Land very quickly.
He already had the system and future knowledge. There was no reason to gamble with his life.
As for the forbidden ability he had never used…
Nawaki knew he needed a "justified" chance.
A mission. An enemy. A battlefield.
Graduating early was the fastest path to real strength.
Not only that, Nawaki held an even stronger conviction.
He would never depend on the so-called future "Child of Prophecy."
He would not sit around waiting for Naruto or Sasuke to save the world.
That kind of passive thinking had no place in his mind.
He believed only in himself, in his power, in the system, and in the future he would carve with his own hands.
The moment he was reborn as Nawaki Senju, the original destiny had already been shattered.
And the future would change because of him.