Year 54 of Konoha.
Inside a wooden house.
A young man slowly opened his eyes.
Shaking off the dizziness, he glanced around.
Once he saw the furnishings and wooden walls, he was stunned.
This wasn't his room.
He remembered binging Naruto anime all night, then suddenly blacking out.
When he woke up, he was in a completely unfamiliar place.
He couldn't help but stand up.
Instantly, he realized his clothes had changed.
This high-collared robe looked really familiar.
Right, he'd seen it in the anime last night—Uchiha clan attire.
He was dumbfounded.
No way, did he really transmigrate?
He rushed to the mirror.
In it was a handsome, spiky-haired young guy.
The hairstyle was different, but the face was exactly the same as his own.
He turned and checked out the red-and-white fan on his back.
Stunned again—that was the Uchiha clan crest.
He immediately walked to the window to confirm his suspicion.
Outside, he saw four gigantic faces carved into the mountain—the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Hokage.
No doubt about it, he had definitely transmigrated. No prank would go this far.
He didn't feel excited, just a little desperate.
After all, the Naruto world wasn't some happy, hot-blooded place.
It was seriously dangerous.
Especially being in the Uchiha clan.
Suddenly, a wave of pain hit his brain, and a flood of memories rushed in.
He grimaced in pain, clutching his head, trying to make it stop.
After a few minutes, it eased up.
But after processing the info, he looked bitter.
It was year 54 of Konoha.
The Fourth Hokage was already dead from the Nine-Tails attack.
Konoha's higher-ups suspected the Uchiha of causing it.
The whole clan had been forced to relocate to the village outskirts and was basically shunned.
He knew from the anime the Nine-Tails attack wasn't the Uchiha's fault, but Obito's—who had already left the village.
Obito was technically Uchiha, but not on their side anymore.
Didn't the Konoha higher-ups ever think, if the Uchiha could control the Nine-Tails, why would they allow themselves to be sidelined?
In the end, it was just village politics, dressed up as "for the sake of stability."
The rift between the Uchiha and the Konoha leadership kept growing, until it couldn't be fixed.
And then came the two biggest traitors.
One—Itachi—killed his father, mother, girlfriend, and clan.
The other—Obito—lost the love of his life and went totally nuts, murdering his own clan like it was nothing.
He really couldn't understand what grudge Obito had against his own people to go this far—like someone killed his mom or something.
Though actually, Obito's parents died in the war.
Itachi was even scarier.
The clan leader's son, and instead of helping the family, he picked up the butcher's knife.
Those two traitors were absolutely next-level evil, totally unhinged.
They didn't just wipe out the clan's ninja, but also every civilian—no survivors.
Those two were even more disgusting than Danzo or the Third Hokage.
At least Danzo and Hiruzen were open enemies of the Uchiha.
But these two had Uchiha blood, and still did something that low.
Absolutely outrageous.
As a transmigrator, he couldn't wrap his head around it.
The Uchiha were a true powerhouse.
Without the Senju, no other clan in Konoha could stand up to them alone.
That was the village's top fighting force.
And they got wiped out just like that.
The Third Hokage was only good at fighting his own people and clueless with outsiders.
He even "won" the Third Ninja War against Iwagakure but still signed an unequal treaty, causing public outrage and getting forced to step down.
Then, after the Fourth Hokage died, he took the job back.
And immediately started messing with the Uchiha.
Even if it was Danzo who gave the order, there's no way a massacre could've happened without the Hokage's approval.
What, did people think ANBU only existed to eat and do nothing?
After all that, he himself died during Orochimaru's revenge attack on Konoha, with no one to save him.
He couldn't understand how those two clan idiots got brainwashed by the Third Hokage.
Was the Will of Fire really that magical?
He and the original owner looked the same and even had the same name—Ryosuke.
Now that he was here, he was Uchiha Ryosuke.
Uchiha Ryosuke was completely dizzy.
Even transmigrating as a civilian or a regular ninja would have been better than this.
Sure, regular ninja were cannon fodder, but worst case, he could just quit and lay low somewhere.
He really didn't want to wake up every day facing death.
In less than three years, those two clan traitors would start the massacre.
Dead is dead.
The worst part is that, after dying, his eyes would get gouged out.
No peace, even in death.
He wasn't strong in this world, but at least he had awakened a single tomoe Sharingan.
Not as impressive as Sasuke at age seven or Itachi at thirteen with three tomoe.
But still, it was a Sharingan.
According to the anime, after dying, his eyes would be taken for experiments.
Luckily, not bad enough to end up in Danzo's right arm.
At most, his one-tomoe Sharingan would be used for testing, then tossed aside.
He sighed.
With only a one-tomoe Sharingan, he didn't stand a chance against those two clan maniacs.
He'd have to find a way to escape Konoha.
But if he ran, he'd be labeled a rogue ninja.
What the hell kind of rule was that? Completely unreasonable.
Even if he did manage to escape, Danzo's Root would hunt him down.
And from his memories, he still had a living grandpa—identical to his grandpa from his previous life.
In this world, his parents died in the Second Ninja War, killed by Kumogakure and Iwagakure.
That made him furious, since both sets of parents looked the same.
The Uchiha, as founders of Konoha, had sacrificed so much for the village.
And ended up like this.
All thanks to those two traitors and the so-called Konoha higher-ups.
Without the Uchiha and Senju, the others would have nothing.
Now, the Senju are gone.
And soon, the Uchiha will be, too.
After that, Konoha will never be the same powerhouse again.
For now, he'd wait until his grandpa showed up, then try to convince him to leave together.
Hide somewhere in this world—no way Danzo's Root could find them.
Then, just wait until after the Fourth Great Ninja War, and come out again.
But convincing his grandpa would be tough, since he was the clan's Grand Elder, even Uchiha Fugaku respected him.
That made it really hard to persuade him to leave the village.
Just then, a mechanical voice sounded in his head.
『Detected transmigration. Auto-Cultivation System binding...』
『Binding complete.』
Uchiha Ryosuke's face lit up.
System binding—this was his chance to rise!
Even the name sounded awesome.
Auto-Cultivation meant he could get stronger, right?
Three years until the massacre.
Maybe he really could get strong enough to punch Itachi and stomp Obito.
The thought was exciting.
With a system, he'd just gotten a second chance at life.
First things first, time to check out the system.
"System, introduce yourself. What can you do?"
A robotic voice answered in his mind.
『This system is called the Auto-Cultivation System.』
『It can help the host create training routines and automatically cultivate.』
『The host can view their personal training panel and track progress.』