"Huu...."
Shinji suddenly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of impure air from his throat.
Where is this?
As soon as the thought moved, he was filled with a wave of fear.
Because he found himself unable to move. Besides the difficult breathing, he couldn't even move a finger, as if he were a corpse.
Next, a voice without emotional fluctuation came to his ear.
[Return Mission: Dawn's Break!]
[Complete the Return Mission to return.]
!?
Shinji was stunned.
The content of the voice left him baffled.
Return Mission?
Dawn? As in Akatsuki?
What kind of nonsense is this!
At this moment, a sound of footsteps approached.
Come and save me!
Shinji wanted to call for help but found that he couldn't make any sound from his throat.
Moreover, his eyes were covered by a white cloth, or rather, as he lay flat, his whole body was covered by a white cloth.
Covered completely, even his head!
Hmm?
A soft murmur came from the direction of the footsteps.
Soon, a figure appeared in front of Shinji and lifted the white cloth covering him.
Thinking he was saved, Shinji secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the figure who lifted the cloth, and his thoughts froze.
Kakashi?!
Silver broom-like hair, black mask.
Shinji wouldn't mistake it; the person who lifted the white cloth was none other than a familiar anime character, Hatake Kakashi!
At this moment, after examining Shinji , Kakashi called out, "Medical team, there's another survivor here."
A flurry of footsteps quickly approached, and several people dressed in medical attire surrounded Shinji.
"How is this possible? I checked, and he clearly had no vital signs."
"Perhaps he was in a state of false death."
"This situation is quite rare!"
The medical personnel whispered among themselves while lifting Shinji up and began to check his body.
As his body sat up, Shinji's field of vision finally expanded a bit.
What came into view was a massive morgue.
The room was neatly arranged with hundreds of spirit beds, without exception, each with a corpse covered in white cloth lying on it.
Several medical personnel were busy among them.
Some even had jars with a pair of eyeballs soaking inside.
Because his body was still numb, Shinji, although terrified in his heart, had no expression on his face, and even his eyes were dull.
Seeing Shinji's dazed face, Kakashi, dressed in ANBU attire, asked the medical ninja checking Shinji's body, "How is he?"
"His vital signs are stabilizing, but his mental state seems..."
The medical ninja shook his head and sighed.
Kakashi looked at Shinji with a complicated expression and instructed the medical ninja beside him, "Take him to the hospital for treatment; I'll go report to the Hokage."
...
Hospital.
Lying on the hospital bed, Shinji was still in a daze.
However, he could feel his body gradually recovering, and the slight trembling of his fingers was the best proof.
At the same time, chaotic images flashed through his mind.
"Uchiha Shinji..."
Based on the chaotic images in his mind, as well as the scene in the morgue earlier, he slowly pieced together his current situation.
He seemed to have transmigrated into the body of an eight-year-old Uchiha boy that shared his first name, "Uchiha Shinji."
The time was the night of the Uchiha Clan's massacre.
But he couldn't understand how, after a good sleep, he ended up transmigrating into the Naruto world, and worse, into a corpse in the morgue.
Without a doubt, the real Uchiha Shinji was already dead, killed by Uchiha Itachi's blade!
"What was that voice earlier..."
The strange voice he heard when he woke up in the morgue also made him particularly uneasy.
In short...
His mind was now a chaotic mess.
The confusion from absorbing Uchiha Shinji's remaining memories, the shock of the unexpected transmigration, the uncertainty about the future, and the fear of the unknown—these emotions all filled his mind, making it impossible for him to calm down and sort everything out.
Hiss...
Suddenly, he gasped.
He had just absorbed the final memory fragment from Uchiha Shinji's life.
It was the moment when Uchiha Itachi swung his blade.
Perhaps due to fear, the memory in Uchiha Shinji's mind had become completely distorted; everything else in the scene was blurry and twisted, except for Itachi's cold, scarlet Sharingan, which was incredibly clear.
"It feels like I really got cut!"
Shinji's back was drenched in cold sweat.
Just by merging with some memory fragments of Uchiha Shinji, he had inevitably suffered a massive mental shock.
Before he could catch his breath, he realized his vision had suddenly become blurred.
His black pupils were instantly dyed red, followed by the appearance of several tomoe, forming a three-tomoe Sharingan.
But it wasn't over!
Next, the three tomoe spun, the black dots spreading into the scarlet pupils, transforming into three interwoven black circles forming a triskelion pattern.
After completing this transformation, the black circles dissipated, the scarlet faded away.
His pupils returned to their normal black, and the moment before seemed like nothing more than an illusion.
Mangekyo Sharingan!
Shinji was shocked.
Although the eye's transformation was brief, he knew it was no illusion; he had indeed awakened the legendary Mangekyo Sharingan of the Uchiha Clan.
The Sharingan had been triggered by Uchiha Shinji's intense emotions before death.
But he died too quickly. After awakening the three-tomoe Sharingan, his life ended, and then Shinji arrived. The new soul stimulated the Sharingan, completing the awakening of the Mangekyo.
Who would've thought this guy was a genius!
After realizing all this, Shinji was amazed.
He knew that intense emotions like resentment, hatred, love, and the like could stimulate the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan to awaken.
But for Uchiha Shinji to complete the awakening of the three-tomoe Sharingan and even touch upon the Mangekyo at the moment of death was surprising to him.
After all, the last person to achieve such a feat was Uchiha Obito, who started the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Even Uchiha Sasuke, after being intentionally provoked by Uchiha Itachi, witnessing the death of his parents under Tsukuyomi, only managed to awaken a single tomoe Sharingan.
So, this Uchiha Shinji, who left no trace in the original timeline, was actually one of the rare Uchiha Clan members with the potential to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.
Am I going to be Uchiha Shinji from now on...
Shinji felt a bit lost.
He had taken over Uchiha Shinji's body and memories. In the future, he might have no choice but to live as Uchiha Shinji.
[Dimensional invasion detected.]
[Countdown: 9]
Suddenly, the mysterious voice echoed in his ears again.