At the end of an entire yearly cycle, the sky and the earth had accepted the sovereignty of the snowflakes. At least that was the case for the fire kingdom.
Snowfall at this time of year was natural for the ninja of the hidden leaf village, and they even developed special ninjutsu for it.
The snow that covered the earth and sky was not normal for the ninja of the Hidden Stone Village, who had sneaked across the border of the Land of Fire with big dreams in their hearts at the start of the Third Great Shinobi War.
At every opportunity, they gathered together to praise the natural beauty of their surroundings and to increase their determination to conquer the land of fire.
Snowflakes were not a common sight in the land of Earth, and when they were, it was so cold that people could not even stick their noses out of their houses.
In the land of Earth, with little vegetation and water cover, winters were naturally harsher than in many other parts of the world. In the land of Fire, on the other hand, snow breaks the harshness of the weather and makes the winter season more livable and glorious.
As the group of ninjas, numbering almost a hundred people, built a few fires, warmed themselves, and talked about the winter in this country, a silver-haired man watched them from hundreds of meters away.
When Hatake Sakumo saw that some of the ninjas who dared to violate the land of fire were chunin and genin, he realized it was a distraction and asked the Anbu ninja next to him for a scroll.
After receiving the scroll from the anbu, he immediately unfolded the paper and wrote down his predictions and what had happened. After refolding the scroll, he used the summoning technique to summon a small eagle tied the scroll to the eagle's foot, and sent it to Konoha.
"Sakumo senpai, I think the necklace around your neck is broken. Be careful not to scratch your skin. There may be someone among them who can feel blood."
Sakumo tilted his head, wondering what he was talking about, and saw that the jade he had been carrying in his bosom for five months had broken.
In the next second Sakumo's eyes widened to the point that his pupils covered his entire eyeballs and he lunged forward, kicking the tree branch with all his might, not caring that the branch he was standing on was shattered.
Before the Anbu ninja realized what had happened, he saw his Senpai running at lightning speed towards the village. Probably not even the specially trained ninja eagle was as fast as him.
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As Yuta's consciousness slowly began to recover, the black layer around him slowly cracked.
After Yuta opened his eyes and realized he was in a dark room, he continued to sit where he was. His mind was now blank like he had drunk a large amount of alcohol or watched short videos on a social media platform for hours.
Yuta stood there for a while, remembering who he was and where he was. What seemed like a very long process from his perspective, in reality, took only a few seconds.
When Yuta realized what had happened, he decided to finish his unfinished business, thinking that he was still in his bed and couldn't see because it was night.
He used the system's other function to see what effect the cursed blood had on him before he started receiving the system's other rewards.
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Name: Hatake Yuta
Age: 6 months
Race: ???Curse????
Strength: 1,1
Speed: 1,1
Defense: 1,1
Soul: 1,1
Chakra: 0
Cursed energy 110
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Yuta looked at his statistics for a short while and sighed, wishing he had looked at them earlier.
He completely ignored the fact that his race was listed as Curse. After all, turning into a curse makes you a monster that feeds on humans, and ordinary people can't even see you.
"haha... That's not even possible. Right? HA ha h..."
Without hesitation, Yuta used the system to claim his two remaining rewards. First, he felt a wave of sticky energy spreading through his body, then a shadow covering his body.
Yuto checked his stats again and saw that his cursed energy had increased. Just as he was about to close the statistics window again, a small detail caught his attention.
In the age section, it said that he was six months old. Considering that he had only been in this world for a month, it seemed that this body should have already lived before him by five months.
As Yuta came to terms with the fact that he might have killed another soul and taken its place, he thought of the orphanage where he had opened his eyes after coming to this world. The woman there, holding Yuta in her arms, had told him that he was too weak for a newborn baby.
As Yuta continued to remember details, he became sure that he regained consciousness a few hours after birth.
After a very short pause, Yuta tried to crawl to where the door to his room should have been, but he realized that his body was much bigger than before.
When he suspiciously tried to stand up, the feeling of knee pain he used to experience was not there. Yuta stood up and went straight for the door, but it was not there. Just then, strange patterns flashed under Yuta's feet and he felt a substance surrounding him that prevented him from moving.
Unable to get rid of it using his strength, Yuta was trapped in a dark room. Meanwhile, as time passed, his eyes became accustomed to the darkness and he was able to identify his surroundings more easily. It was not a bedroom but a square space with nothing but a single door and a carpet.
At first, Yuta thought that this trap could not harm him and did not make any move, because now he understood more or less what was happening.
The cursed blood had been transforming his own body for five months, his body had grown almost as big as that of a five-year-old boy because of the curse, someone had kidnapped him and brought him here, and it was probably none other than the lovely eye collector.
Yuta thought that people might be watching him through some ninjutsu, so he didn't use the ten shadows technique to escape and waited. He had already made a big enough perpetrator by standing up and walking away, from this second on he had to continue being the baby he was five months ago as much as he could.
What was more important was that Yuta thought Danzo wasn't gay. Probably when Danzo got bored of watching him, someone would give him a dress and summon him to his presence. After all, nudity was not something Yuta was used to.