I never thought I would die such a pathetic death.
I was a genius — the genius.IQ over 200.Graduated high school at eleven.Four PhDs by seventeen.A Nobel Prize before I even turned twenty.Engineering, chemistry, physics, neurosurgery, neuroscience — I mastered every field I touched. I was supposed to change the world.
And then I died because I tripped over a pebble.
A pebble.
One moment I was walking across a street, calculating a new energy model in my head; the next, gravity betrayed me and I stumbled forward in the dumbest, most humiliating moment of my life — and a truck finished me off.
If that wasn't truck-kun, I don't know what is.
When I open my eyes again, I'm already sitting on the edge of a tall building, wind snapping my cloak dramatically behind me like I'm posing for a poster. My senses are sharper, the night colder yet clearer. My mind instantly begins calculating—oxygen density, height, wind speed, structural stability—
And then a DING echoes inside my skull.
A digital chime.A voice.A system.
[System Initialization: 10% … 20% … 50% … 100%][Naruto Template System Activated]
My heart stops.
Naruto…?
Another chime.
[First Template: Itachi Uchiha — 5% Peak Power Unlocked]
Suddenly my body trembles. A warmth flashes behind my eyes.
[Uchiha Bloodline: Awakened][Genin-level Chakra Reserves: Obtained][Katon: Great Fireball Technique Acquired][Basic Uchiha Taijutsu: Installed][One-Tomoe Sharingan: Activated][Uchiha Throwing Technique: Obtained][Basic Sealing Knowledge: Downloaded]
My breath catches as foreign memories flood into me — years of Itachi's childhood crashing against my consciousness.
Training in the Uchiha district.Days at the Academy.Awkward team missions as a prodigious genin.The weight of expectations.Shadows, fire, steel, discipline, sorrow.
It is overwhelming.And then it settles, like a second soul gently merging with mine.
A final wave of memories hits me — not Itachi's, but the original owner of this body.
A mansion.Expensive suits.Wayne gala events.Hidden board meetings.Old money.Gotham.
I inhale sharply.
I'm in the DC Universe.
And… I'm rich.Very rich.
My new identity clicks into place:I am the cousin of Bruce Wayne — the orphaned prince of Gotham. I own 15% of Wayne Industries. I have resources. Influence. A secret system. And the blood of the Uchiha pulsing behind my eyes.
A slow grin spreads across my face.
A genius reborn in Gotham…With Itachi's power growing inside me…
This world is about to change.