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Kotarou slowly woke up after crossing over.
He glanced down at the clothes he was wearing and quickly understood.
He was now a boy of the Uchiha clan.
With a slight focus, he could sense that he had only just awakened his Sharingan.
He looked around, taking in this unfamiliar environment.
Luxurious and imposing, spacious and spotless. It had to be the compound of some great clan in Konoha.
"Where is this?"
Kotarou murmured to himself.
"Young man, you're awake."
Uzumaki Mito, seated in a chair with her eyes closed a moment ago, opened them and looked at Kotarou on the bed.
Kotarou sat up and turned toward the source of the voice, only to see a middle-aged woman sitting in the chair.
Her hair was red, her bearing noble, her features refined as she looked at him levelly.
His mind spun at high speed: Konoha, red hair, middle-aged woman… could it be…
Kotarou quickly threw off the blanket, got out of bed, dropped to one knee and bowed.
"Thank you for saving my life, Mito-sama."
Mito raised an eyebrow, her interest piqued.
"Young man, I do not recall ever telling you my name. How did you know who I am?"
Of course, it was just "Konoha + red hair", but he could not say that. It would sound way too shallow.
So he answered nimbly instead.
"In response to Mito-sama, if I may be so bold: is there any other woman in Konoha with such bearing and such beauty…?
Aside from Mito-sama, I truly cannot think of anyone else."
Mito covered her mouth and laughed.
"What a sweet-tongued little brat."
The voice of the Nine-Tails rumbled to life.
"This brat is lying! He did that on purpose!"
Mito split her attention, replying to the Nine-Tails inwardly.
"I know. You don't need to say it," she snorted.
The Nine-Tails: …
Mito smiled.
"Little one, I heard you've opened your eyes? Would you let this old woman take a look?"
"That's no problem at all."
With that, Kotarou closed his eyes. Yin-nature chakra gathered and linked into his optic nerves, and then he opened them again.
Swish.
His eyes snapped open. Blood-red Sharingan stared straight into Mito's eyes, completely motionless.
Mito nodded.
"Not bad. A very clean awakening. I can even feel that its aura is on par with the Uchiha from the Warring States era."
On this point, she was not lying.
The Sharingan that the Uchiha awakened during the Warring States era were far stronger than the eyes of the present day.
Kotarou froze.
The Warring States era?
He had never imagined such a high evaluation. He had awakened his Sharingan at eighteen.
Within the Uchiha clan, that basically made him trash.
He had not expected that in Mito's eyes, he would actually be considered a prodigy.
Whether Mito's words were true or not, Kotarou still felt sincerely grateful to her in his heart.
"Thank you for the praise, Mito-sama."
Kotarou's voice now carried even more honest respect.
But at this point, Mito shook her head.
"Don't thank me yet. It was little Tsunade who saw you collapse and carried you back. She just stepped out to attend a meeting."
Kotarou understood at once.
So that was how it was.
He had thought he saw a flash of gold right before he fainted. That must have been Tsunade's hair.
Thinking of Tsunade, a ripple ran through his heart. When he used to watch the anime, he had always felt Tsunade was breathtakingly beautiful, unmatched in the world. Now, joy quietly welled up inside him.
Kotarou nodded. That meeting was probably a war council.
Time to do pre-war mobilization and allocate troops. Tsunade was now eighteen.
She was also the Hokage's disciple, so she would definitely be chosen to lead a unit.
Whether as a descendant of the Senju clan or as the Hokage's student, this was something she had to experience.
However, there was one thing he had to pay attention to.
Within one year of the war breaking out, there would be a jōnin meeting.
At that time, Tsunade would propose the idea of dedicated medical-nin.
What he needed to do was follow her unwaveringly and support her.
But the prerequisite was this.
Within that year, he had to raise his strength to the jōnin level and make concrete contributions, so that he would qualify to attend the meeting at all.
Mito watched the boy's changing expressions and found it amusing.
"Kotarou, right? Then for now, why don't you rest a bit.
After all, you've only just woken up. Your body is still weak.
When Tsunade-chan comes back, the two of you are about the same age. You should have plenty to talk about."
"Kotarou of the Uchiha clan thanks you, Mito-sama."
Kotarou cupped his hands and bowed.
Mito waved her hand lightly, then left the room. Just as she was about to step out, her foot suddenly paused.
"Oh, right. The room you're staying in right now is Tsunade-chan's, you know."
With that, a smile tugging at her lips, she walked out.
Kotarou was stunned.
This… this is Tsunade's room?
No wonder. No wonder it smells so nice.
After Mito left, he lay back down on the bed.
Breathing in that faint fragrance, his heart was full of happiness.
At that moment, a sudden voice rang out.
"Ding. System binding in progress. Strongest Ninja System has been activated."
Kotarou blinked, then sat bolt upright, looking at the interface that appeared out of thin air.
"Please choose whether to activate the system?"
Kotarou took a deep breath. Of course he knew what this was.
Besides manga, he had read plenty of system novels too.
This was his golden cheat.
Kotarou said, "Yes."
Ding!
System bound.
Host: Kotarou. Chakra amount: genin. Combat strength: genin.
Skills: Uchiha-ryū Shuriken Nage (Uchiha Style Shuriken Throwing Technique), Uchiha-ryū Kenjutsu (Uchiha Style Sword Technique).
C-rank ninjutsu: Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu), C-rank ninjutsu: Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu).
C-rank ninjutsu: Katon: Hōsenka no Jutsu (Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu). Kekkei: one-tomoe Sharingan (can grow).
Ding!
Newbie gift pack detected. Would the host like to open it?
"Open it!"
Kotarou could not help but grin.
With his current genin-level combat strength, on the Second Great Ninja War battlefield he was nothing more than cannon fodder.
This newbie gift pack had arrived at exactly the right time.
Ding!
Contents of the newbie gift pack: reward host with chūnin-level chakra; B-rank ninjutsu Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku (Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame) (directly mastered).
Ding!
Because the host awakened the Sharingan on his own, the original Sharingan reward has been cancelled and is being replaced with an equivalent reward.
Host has been detected to possess wind and earth chakra, meeting the minimum conditions for a kekkei genkai.
Reward: Jiton (Magnet Release) kekkei genkai, plus B-rank ninjutsu Sabaku Kyū (Sand Coffin) (directly mastered).
Immediately, Kotarou felt the amount of chakra in his body rapidly increasing.
His meridians widened noticeably.
The pallor brought on by awakening the Sharingan slowly receded, replaced by a healthy flush.
Soon after, the methods for performing Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku (Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame) and Sabaku Kyū (Sand Coffin) etched themselves clearly into his mind.
His hand twitched slightly, and the sand inside the room began to flow.
Kotarou hurried to stop.
Someone like Mito was in the house. If he kept going, he would definitely be found out.
What he did not know was that the instant his chakra surged, Mito had already activated Kagura Shingan (Kagura's Mind Eye), secretly observing him.
She saw his every move.
Mito's eyes lit up, and she murmured to herself:
"Magnet Release? This little brat was hiding something this deep?"
(End of Chapter)
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