A young man in his 20s looked on at the Uchiha clan being exterminated with a complicated expression.
Couldn't be helped!
He was too weak to do anything about it.
This was Uchiha Ryu!
Let's roll the timeline back a bit…
Around a dozen years ago~
A little boy with long spiky jet black hair munched on a super sweet mochi candy.
This little boy was very cute, unbelievably cute! If you didn't look closely, you'd think he was a girl!
What was he supposed to do? His handsome looks were a curse, you know!
Anyway!
He was sitting in class listening to a teacher talk about Ninja things and the Will of Fire. He wasn't too interested in it at all. You have to know this brainwashing routine is really effective!
Just look at the start of the chapter!
Itachi and Shisui were brainwashed so hard that they exterminated their own clan!
This is like saying 'The US is too strong, so I'm gonna blow up the entire Eastern half'
How does that even make sense?
The western half has almost 4 people in total…
Anyway!
Ryu turned his head to the beautiful big sister girl next to him, munching on the mochi while staring at her cute face.
He had to admit, this girl was really beautiful!
Brown pupiless eyes, violet hair with a spiky ponytail, juicy lips, and a cute little nose.
Ryu devoured the mochi and looked at her, greedily taking in her looks.
Who else but Anko!?
Anko turned to him and grimaced, saying angrily "What are you looking at?!" Ryu burped and patted his flat stomach, grinning "You." Anko glared at him and turned away.
Ryu chuckled and flipped out another mochi ball!
The teacher stopped and looked over saying "Uchiha Ryu! Do you have something to say?"
Everyone turned to look at Ryu, who stood up, grinning widely.
His grin was full of triangular teeth, it looked very demonic and eerie, but it was mostly because he was a bit nervous.
Ryu didn't know when but he suddenly developed the 'Shinra Syndrome' from Fire Force.
As a result, he could only grin like this when he was nervous, excited, happy, sad, etc.
Kinda like the victims of the SMILE fruits, except he didn't laugh.
He said loudly "I like Anko-chan!"
Anko blushed and kicked him, scolding angrily "Bastard!"
The teacher was not expecting that and was a bit dumbfounded.
The other kids looked at each other before bursting into laughter.
Another boy pointed at Ryu and laughing "Stupid Ryu! You confessed!?" Ryu barked out, "Shut up, Obito! At least I have the guts!" as his grin widened.
Yes! Ryu was currently in class with Obito, Rin, Guy, Asuma, Kurenai, etc.
Kakashi graduated already.
Ryu knew Kakashi very well, actually they played together a long time ago, then he graduated and left because he was a genius.
Ryu had naturally been practicing, he was also a genius, but geniuses in Konoha were like vegetables. You can find them anywhere.
So he was pushed out and not really paid attention to.
However, that was all about to change!
Just last night, Ryu got a special package!
Maybe a late prompt or something but a system like existence sounded in his mind and gave him a gift pack before disappearing.
There weren't any missions, quests, tasks, goals, explanations, nothing!
Only a damn red frog that gave him the finger and hopped away into the void after dropping off a gift box in his mind.
Too fucking annoying!
Ryu vowed to kill that damn frog if he saw it again!
Anyway~
What he got was truly extraordinary!
1. Ryujin Jakka integration
And 2. Garp Template!
Ryu was so happy he fainted! But when he woke up he looked at the gifts carefully.
Turns out, it wasn't so broken and god-like….
Ryujin Jakka integrated with his body and replaced his Chakra nature to pure flames. Not only that but they were hotter than normal.
Ryu found out that because of the rules of the world, he can only unlock Ryujin Jakka's shikai temperature when he gets Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and Bankai temperature when he gets Rinnegan…
Otherwise, it'll be 3000 degrees when he opens Mangekyou…
But even then, it's 500 degrees for 1 Tomoe Sharingan, 1000 for 2 Tomoe, and 1500 for 3 Tomoe!
Ryu scratched his head and complained that this was simply too ruthless right?
First of all, he can't even touch the flames himself. This was the basic Chakra Fire Style Jutsu, you spit out flames, etc. normally ninja can't touch them.
Also! 1500 degrees sounded strong, but Terumi Mei's Lava Escape was 1700 degrees and what did she do? Absolutely nothing!
A waste of a woman!
Ryu felt that his true potential would be unlocked at Mangekyou Sharingan. He didn't know why but he felt that would be the case.
As for the Garp template, it was self-explanatory.
As you unlock more of the Garp Template %, the stronger you'll be!
So the only thing to do was train, train, and train some more!
Thankfully, Ryu was a knowledgeable guy. The true Uchiha style was taijutsu! These new age fools only swagger around with Sharingan like they were the best!
Meanwhile, Madara hung up the entire ninja world with only taijutsu.
The template came with all of Garp's abilities, so he would get Armament, Observation, and Conqueror's eventually. It was only a matter of time.
Ryu didn't have big dreams, he wanted to be a simple guy here.
Of course that didn't mean if he could save people he wouldn't!
His heart burned with the flames of justice!
Literally!
Ryu's biggest dream was to dance with Madara, just imagining it made him drool. He didn't even want to beat him, leave it to the Protagonists, he just wanted to fight Madara with everything he had, how cool would that be?!
Until then, he couldn't die!
No matter what.
With these two powers, his Uchiha Ryu would soar to the sky!
And so, the scene goes back to the classroom.