Chapter 1 A Girl as Pure as Spring Water
Zhao Angui is a time traveler, an ordinary and unlucky one.
Due to an intense overtime shift, he lost consciousness at the company and also lost his life. His soul wandered into the world of Naruto. At this moment, he is inside Uchiha Izumi's body, constantly resisting the almost instinctive tendency to merge with Uchiha Izumi's soul.
After transmigrating, Zhao Angui's soul wandered endlessly in the Naruto world, causing his mind to become hazy and confused. In this dazed state, his soul unexpectedly entered Uchiha Izumi's body, instinctively drawing closer to her soul. Following the usual pattern, Zhao Angui's soul would then merge with Uchiha Izumi's, and Zhao Angui would be reborn as Uchiha Izumi, while Uchiha Izumi would become a transmigrator.
Just as their souls were about to merge, Zhao Angui regained his senses. Realizing he was about to merge with a young girl's soul, he quickly stopped the fusion process. After all, while Zhao Angui wasn't exactly a saint, he absolutely didn't want an innocent girl to lose herself because of him.
From then on, Zhao Angui's soul resided within Uchiha Izumi's body like a spirit. Uchiha Izumi, through the connection between their souls, became aware of Zhao Angui's presence. The two began communicating in their spiritual world and gradually became good friends.
Zhao Angui liked Uchiha Izumi very much. This liking wasn't romantic love, but simply a liking for Uchiha Izumi as a person. Because Uchiha Izumi, just like her name, was a girl as clear as spring water.
She didn't have overly complicated thoughts. Although her life had included moments of life and death, a bright smile always remained on her face. As a member of the Uchiha clan, she was very powerful and awakened her Sharingan at a young age. However, after becoming a genin, her daily thoughts revolved around completing missions, helping her mother with housework, or fantasizing about growing up to be a beautiful bride and marrying the boy she loved.
Compared to Zhao Angui, who was already quite disillusioned with society, Uchiha Izumi was so sunny and innocent. So much so that when Zhao Angui told her about the Naruto storyline, Uchiha Izumi simply waved her hand and said:
"Mr. Zhao, what you're saying is really exaggerated! The infighting among the Konoha high-ups is their business, what does it have to do with us little people? As for the Night of the Clan Massacre, that's just a manga! The atmosphere in Konoha in reality is very good, such things won't happen."
Clearly, Uchiha Izumi was completely oblivious to the cruelty of power struggles and the ruthlessness of Konoha's higher-ups. Even Zhao Angui's repeated reminders went unheeded. Therefore, Zhao Angui could only point out the training sections from the manga, reminding Uchiha Izumi to train according to the manga's plot.
Uchiha Izumi didn't really refuse. Relying on her considerable ninja talent, she easily passed the training in tree climbing and water walking. Then, imitating the training methods in the manga, Uchiha Izumi mastered the Rasengan in less than a month. Coupled with her Sharingan, which already had three tomoe, the 13-year-old Uchiha Izumi already possessed strength surpassing that of an ordinary Chunin, comparable to a Jonin.
Uchiha Izumi was quite satisfied with her strength. Even within the Uchiha clan, known for its exceptional talent, Izumi was among the best of her generation, second only to the clan head's son, Uchiha Itachi. However, Zhao Angui knew that Izumi's strength was far from sufficient. Because Uchiha Itachi was now also 13 years old, and the annihilation of the Uchiha clan was imminent.
Faced with Itachi Uchiha, who had awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan, Izumi Uchiha's strength was utterly insignificant. He began constantly reminding Izumi, urging her to leave Konoha as soon as possible. But Izumi Uchiha didn't take it to heart, instead feeling that Zhao Angui was taking the manga too seriously. One day, finally fed up with Zhao Angui's annoyance, Izumi Uchiha bluntly said:
"If you really want to change my mind, then open your soul and merge with mine! Then I will be you, and I will do whatever you want, which will save you from bothering me all the time!"
In fact, Izumi Uchiha had her reasons for not believing Zhao Angui. After all, she had grown up in Konoha Village and couldn't imagine that the village's higher-ups would want to exterminate the Uchiha clan. Moreover, she and Itachi Uchiha were childhood friends, and their relationship was far from ordinary.
The night of the massacre was already hard to believe, and Izumi Uchiha found it even harder to believe that Itachi Uchiha, who was so close to her and whom she remembered as a gentle and precocious little boy, would become the weapon used by the Konoha leadership to slaughter the Uchiha clan.
This is the contradiction of reality: even though Zhao Angui poured his heart out to Uchiha Izumi, Uchiha Izumi couldn't believe that what Zhao Angui said would come true. Perhaps, as Uchiha Izumi said, only when two souls merge into one can two different people truly understand each other.
Time passed slowly, and Zhao Angui gradually gave up trying to persuade Uchiha Izumi. The two continued chatting in their mental world, as if the night of the massacre would never happen.
Unfortunately, reality does not change according to human will.
Even if you choose to ignore it, the hammer of reality will still jolt you awake from your dream.
On a moonlit night, Uchiha Izumi finally witnessed the cruelest scene of her life.
The streets were littered with the corpses of the Uchiha clan, one Uchiha after another lying in pools of blood. Terrified, she rushed home, only to find her mother stabbed in the chest with a dagger. Upon seeing Uchiha Izumi, even as her mother writhed in agony, she still urged:
"Quan, run away!"
Uchiha Izumi, of course, wouldn't run away; as a ninja, she immediately stepped forward to save her mother. But when she drew her kunai, she discovered that the one killing her mother was none other than her childhood friend, Uchiha Itachi!
"Itachi, you really?"
Even now, Uchiha Izumi still couldn't believe that what she was seeing was reality.
In contrast to Izumi Uchiha's indecisiveness, Itachi Uchiha decisively took action. The three tomoe in his Sharingan gradually connected, creating a strange and ever-changing image.
That is the Mangekyou Sharingan.
Just as Uchiha Izumi noticed those eyes, Tsukuyomi was activated.
Izumi Uchiha was immediately trapped in a genjutsu (illusionary world), where everything was controlled by Itachi Uchiha. Itachi wanted to use the genjutsu to make amends to his childhood friend, allowing her to live a happy life within the illusion. However, Itachi hadn't anticipated that Izumi Uchiha's soul was currently residing within her.
The instant Uchiha Izumi's soul was trapped in the genjutsu, Zhao Angui's soul swiftly took over her body. Just as Uchiha Itachi was about to manipulate the genjutsu, Izumi's body unexpectedly left the scene on its own. This sudden turn of events interrupted Itachi's Tsukuyomi, allowing Izumi to escape with her life.
End of this chapter...