Time: May 18, Year 54 of Konoha, 3:30 PM.
Location: Ninja Academy playground, the first-year practice field.
More than a month after the school started, the first-year students were finally having their first small test.
Not long ago, the shuriken-throwing test had just finished, and now it was time for the taijutsu match.
The students formed a circle, either standing or sitting, watching the two figures fighting in the open space.
The two figures were very small, with chubby, baby-fat faces, looking only about five or six years old.
One had blonde hair, the other silver hair; one had blue eyes, the other red.
The blonde child kept attacking the silver-haired child, but his random punches were easily deflected by the silver-haired child.
Due to an overly forceful straight punch, the blonde child's stance became unstable, his body tilting forward slightly.
Seizing the opportunity, the silver-haired child ducked and closed in, grabbing the opponent's arms and performing an over-the-shoulder throw, sending him flying.
As the heavy sound of a body hitting the ground echoed, the referee, Iruka, immediately announced the result: "Naruto Uzumaki is down. The match is over. The winner is Yagyu!"
"Both sides, make the seal of reconciliation!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the blonde child slowly got up from the ground, unwillingly saying, "Damn it, I was so close to winning."
Hearing this, Iruka's forehead was covered in black lines.
Every move had been countered, where did he get the nerve to say he almost won?
However, Iruka didn't say anything to discourage Naruto. After all, having recently resolved his own inner conflict, his attitude toward Naruto had changed.
"Hey... Yagyu, why are you spacing out? Are you looking down on me?"
As Naruto walked up to Yagyu and held out his index and middle fingers to make the seal, he suddenly noticed that the opponent who had just defeated him was dazed, and immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.
Yagyu snapped back to reality and instinctively said something hurtful, "Sorry, I didn't hurt you, did I?"
Naruto instantly exploded, "Damn it, you really are looking down on me! Just wait, I'll definitely beat you and that arrogant Sasuke one day!"
"Well, you'd better work hard then. I'm not going to let you catch up."
Yagyu suddenly grinned.
This confident smile made Naruto freeze for a moment, and it also stunned Iruka and the watching classmates nearby.
Yagyu, this guy, seemed to suddenly become more cheerful!
But that cute face, still full of baby fat but already showing signs of future handsomeness, made his smile incredibly charming. Many of the young girls blushed, some even screamed out loud.
"Yagyu-kun is so handsome!"
After making the seal of reconciliation with Naruto, Yagyu returned to the group, half-heartedly accepting his classmates' compliments while intensely staring at the virtual screen only he could see.
If it weren't for his strong mental fortitude, Yagyu would have been trembling with excitement.
If it weren't for the setting, he might have even screamed to release his emotions.
After six years of transmigration, he finally awakened his cheat ability!
Yagyu, a transmigrator, six years old this year.
Unlike those who transmigrated by possessing someone else's body and living with their name, or those who physically crossed into another world, Yagyu was born in this world, as his mother's child after ten months of pregnancy.
Unfortunately, he was born on the same day, month, and year as Naruto.
The moment he was born, the Nine-Tails incident occurred. His mother was fatally wounded protecting him and died, and his father, a Konoha Chunin, was killed instantly by the Nine-Tails' AOE attack while assisting the Third Hokage with his squad.
Transmigrating only to be left alone, Yagyu was bewildered.
This was way too stereotypical!
Had he become the protagonist of some novel?
But as he grew up, Yagyu realized he was overthinking it.
Transmigrating into the Naruto world, where bloodline supremacy ruled, and being born an ordinary orphan without a special bloodline, this start doomed him to be cannon fodder.
If he was lucky, he might live long enough to have Madara Uchiha grab him by the throat during the Fourth Great Ninja War and ask, "Do you want to dance too?"
To be praised by Madara as "the strongest," one had to be an extreme genius in some field. Otherwise, no matter how hard you worked or how talented you were, Kage level was your limit.
Being the same age as Naruto and Sasuke, Yagyu was stuck in Konoha until the age of twelve, which made reversing his fate nearly impossible.
After a few years of realizing that he truly didn't have a cheat ability, Yagyu decided to give up and be a minor character.
He no longer fantasized about reaching the peak of the ninja world. He just hoped to survive the Konoha Crush Plan, Pain's assault on Konoha, and the Fourth Great Ninja War, and then marry a beautiful, well-endowed supporting character. That would be enough.
However, it seemed like Lady Luck was deliberately playing a joke on him.
Just now, when Yagyu defeated Naruto...
A golden light suddenly flashed from Naruto's body, and a golden beam shot out, forming a floating golden orb nearby.
This golden orb was the reason Yagyu had been stunned.
A few seconds later, the golden orb automatically flew towards Yagyu, like auto-loot in a game.
When the orb merged into his body, a virtual panel appeared in front of Yagyu.
The panel displayed Yagyu's personal information.
[Host: Yagyu]
[Age: 6]
[Bloodline Limit: None]
[Inventory: Asura Chakra (Gold)]
Yagyu's information was extremely brief, with his name and a small avatar to the left.
Below that was a game-like inventory, a 5x5 grid.
In the first grid was the golden orb.
However, when Yagyu saw the information about the golden orb, his breath caught, filled with both excitement and fear.
Excitement because this thing was one of the few items in this world that could allow someone to change their destiny.
Naruto and Sasuke became saviors because they were reincarnations of the sons of the Sage of Six Paths.
The Asura Chakra and Indra Chakra granted them the ultimate Yin-Yang powers.
Possessing Asura's Chakra meant inheriting the Sage of Six Paths' true Sage Body.
Possessing Indra's Chakra meant inheriting the Sage of Six Paths' Sage Eyes.
When one side fully developed their Sage Body or Sage Eyes, and then combined a bit of the other's chakra, they could awaken one of the ultimate eye techniques capable of both destruction and creation—the Rinnegan!
Madara Uchiha was the best example of this.
The fear was that Asura's Chakra had a connection to the Sage of Six Paths.
Each generation's reincarnations of Asura and Indra were one of the Sage's trump cards for dealing with the possible resurrection of his mother.
Did Naruto drop this entirely, or did he only lose a part of it?
Or, like in games, was this just a dropped item and it had no effect on Naruto at all?
Of course, the most crucial question was: would fusing with this thing make him influenced by Otsutsuki Asura? And would the Sage of Six Paths come looking for him?
Yagyu didn't know.
All he knew was that right now, he was extremely tempted!
Uchiha Sasuke desired power for revenge. Some people desired power to save or destroy the world… Yagyu desired power because, in his previous life, he was just an ordinary person.
He couldn't get superpowers in his previous life, but in this life, he had the chance to touch such extraordinary power. Even knowing he was destined to be cannon fodder in the end, and that he would face life-and-death crises in the future, Yagyu still chose to become a ninja.
And now, an opportunity to go from cannon fodder to a game-breaking power was right in front of him.
If he was going to be cautious and hesitant, he might as well hang himself!
With this thought, Yagyu's gaze suddenly became resolute.