Blue Star.
Dragon Country, H City, an ordinary middle school.
Amano Ten jolted with excitement at the new member's messages in the group. Only she knew how long she had waited. At last, someone with real power had joined.
Amano Ten had not been born in this world. For reasons she could not explain, she had been reborn here.
She came from a completely ordinary world. No demons, no pirates, no lunatics declaring they would make the world feel pain.
Those existed only in film and television there.
The reason Sasuke's messages thrilled her was simple: the world she was in now was not safe.
No, not exactly unsafe, but riddled with hidden threats. For some unknown reason, portals had appeared that connected to alien planets.
Some portals opened onto lifeless worlds. Others led to places crawling with terrifying creatures.
And it was not just one or two. Nearly every nation on Blue Star had close to a hundred such portals.
For now, for reasons nobody understood, the beings beyond could not enter this world. But that was only for now. Who knew when that barrier-like thing would fail and those strange creatures would come marching through.
So Ten was anxious. She needed power quickly. In her memories there was an anime about ninjas, where people were so strong they could cross space with their bodies, command elements, bend space and time, seize immortality and undying life.
No, that was not ninja. That was a melee mage.
Today, finally, someone who might be from that world had appeared in the group.
How could she not be delighted.
...
"Sasuke, what are you thinking about? We are at school already." Uchiha Mikoto rubbed his hair.
"Oh. I am going in." He pushed the group to the back of his mind. He had joined the chat, there would be time later. Right now, class came first.
Otherwise the top-student persona would collapse. Sasuke was popular at school, except with those who only cared about the Uchiha name.
"It is snowing..." He watched flakes drift down, caught one on his palm.
So the ninja world and his previous world shared at least a few similarities.
Following the route in his memories, Sasuke entered the classroom and found his seat.
"Ahhh! Sasuke-kun is so cool!"
"Sasuke!"
Girls swarmed him almost as soon as he sat down, chirping nonstop until his head thrummed.
No wonder the Sasuke in the original was always cold. It was not just his personality. These girls were exhausting, especially the one crowding closest, Sakura.
Yuki was not the original Sasuke. Since he had become Sasuke, Sakura could keep Naruto company.
Hinata, on the other hand, he would not be polite about.
"Tch, these girls are unbearable." With the chatter drilling into his ears, Sasuke decisively sank his focus into his mindscape and went back to lurking in the group.
Earlier he had replied yes to the admin and admitted he was a ninja, then shifted his attention because school had started. Now, reentering, he found the admin spamming the chat with introductions to the world of Naruto.
The admin had tagged him over and over, urging him to upload some abilities, and had even sent a points red envelope.
Sasuke skimmed the log. The admin had already tagged him to say that uploading his abilities would not affect him, and that after pricing, the uploader would gain a tenth of the points as a cut.
Sasuke immediately uploaded the Great Fireball Technique.
"Ding! Member I Will Become the Strongest has uploaded a C-rank ninjutsu, Great Fireball Technique. Due to strict usage conditions, it is revised to consume stamina. Note: After revision the uploader cannot purchase this ability."
"Ding! Great Fireball Technique - Revised pricing successful! Value 1000 points."
"Group member: I Will Become the Strongest receives 100 points."
Good grief. The system had not only converted Great Fireball to a stamina skill, it had also barred the uploader from buying it again.
Which meant Sasuke could not redeem the stamina-based Great Fireball himself.
"Ding! You opened the red envelope sent by Humble Admin and received 100 points."
After uploading, Sasuke opened the admin's earlier red envelope and got another hundred points.
The admin did not seem all that mysterious. In fact, the name somehow fit. Judging by how desperately he had been tagging Sasuke, he must be starving for powerful abilities.
Sasuke figured he was just an ordinary person.
Humble Admin: Great Fireball Technique! Senior, are you from the Uchiha clan?!
The admin blurted the question as soon as he saw the upload.
The Great Fireball was invented by the Uchiha. Almost every Uchiha could use it. Of course, later, after it was handed to the village, most Fire Release users learned it too.
I Will Become the Strongest: Who are you, and how do you know so much about our clan, including the Sharingan?
Sasuke had no intention of exposing himself as a transmigrator. He asked anyway, even though he already knew, because the admin had dropped intel on ninjas earlier, especially on eye techniques.