About half an hour later, Stephen Yujin, the Marvel universe Yujin , finally accepted what Uchiha Yujin had just learned.
After syncing memories and learning about Marvel Yujin's current situation, Pirate Yujin couldn't help but complain.
"I thought I was having a hard time, but it turns out you're just as bad as me!"
Marvel Yujin was working at a pizza shop in a predominantly Black neighborhood, enduring daily intimidation and insults from customers.
He had to constantly outsmart the immigration office, argue with his boss over wages, and struggle just to get by.
As an illegal immigrant, he had lived in Queens for fourteen years, surviving by delivering food and relying on welfare meals.
If Pirate Yujin suffered mainly physical hardships, then in the Marvel universe, where strong discrimination against Asians existed, Marvel Yujin endured both mental and physical torment.
One time, his pizza delivery was thirty minutes late, and as expected, his boss gave him a furious scolding.
"Damn it! You can't even handle this simple task? I'm deducting this pizza from your salary! Ten times the deduction! You only make two hundred dollars this month! Hear me, you bastard! Nigga! Nigga!"
The Black boss, who cursed with "you nigga" every other word, pushed Marvel Yujin to his limit. Gritting his teeth, he muttered,
"I'm done with this shit! I quit this damn job! Damn it! Keep that money for your coffin!"
"Fuck! What did you say to me, kid?! Just wait till I see you! I'll tear you apart!"
"Why don't you take care of your daughter first? I've already seen her servicing at least sixty gangsters across the blocks."
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
Marvel Yujin, surprisingly brave, hung up the phone and swore to Naruto Yujin and Pirate Yujin, "I will survive the New York crisis and Thanos's snap!"
After running three hundred laps, dragging his exhausted body, Uchiha Yujin returned to the Uchiha clan's territory.
The Uchiha territory was located in the most remote corner of Konoha village.
The Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama, based on his understanding of Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna, and years of working alongside the Uchiha clan, came to a conclusion.
This was an evil clan.
These people were not to be trusted.
Bit by bit, the Uchiha clan was pushed out of the important areas of Konoha.
The Uchiha clan grew farther and farther from the Hokage's building.
Both sides became less and less able to tolerate each other.
Walking down the street, Uchiha Yujin heard some Uchiha clan members passing by openly cursing the Third Hokage.
The day when the Uchiha clan would rebel, and when Uchiha Itachi and Obito would slaughter the entire clan, was very close.
Back home, Uchiha Yujin simply ate a piece of bread.
He always lived like this — one person eats enough, the whole family goes hungry.
Speaking of parents, being an orphan in Konoha was the norm.
Uchiha Yujin thought back to the peaceful image of Konoha in the anime.
"How hypocritical... damn Will of Fire!"
His parents, who died on missions, never left him a single ryo in compensation.
Because the payments stopped, he was even kicked out of the house his parents had bought.
This was how the Land of Fire treated heroes of the village — it had become normal.
Even if Sasuke saved the ninja world, what did it matter?
After the war, Haruno Sakura still had to work hard to pay off her Land of Fire mortgage.
"Such a shitty world!" he took a sip of water, swallowed the dry bread, and asked the air, "What are you two eating?"
Pirate Yujin showed the screen to Uchiha Yujin, "What else to eat? Still this thing, Shiramise."
"Ugh!" Stephen Yujin saw that the drink Pirate Yujin was having looked no different from a drunkard's vomit — barely edible at all. He immediately spat out the cold pizza he was eating all over the ground.
"Bro, that's just disgusting!"
"Heh, if it weren't for this stuff, I'd be dead already. Don't underestimate this Shiramishi. To get it, I crossed half of the Crimson Hell," Yujin said with a faint glimmer of survival instinct in his eyes.
"If I don't make it back to the shelter by night, I might get poisoned unconscious by the venomous spiders."
"Of course, even if I faint, I won't die. They just rescue me, give me an antidote injection, and I suffer for a few days before being thrown back into Crimson Hell."
"Oh my god! Why do they treat you like this?" Stephen Yujin asked, confused.
"The Impel Down is complicated. Its main thing is torturing prisoners, not actually killing them," Yujin explained.
He looked up at the sky. "But sometimes, death is actually a kind of reward."
"Of course, if someone really dies, the guards won't have time to save them."
"But if you die just like that, all the suffering before would have been for nothing."
Yujin from the Marvel and Naruto worlds fell silent.
Compared to the things they had been through, it seemed meaningless in front of this Yujin from the pirate world.
"Naruto Yujin, you need to hurry. If you want us to survive, you must awaken your Sharingan."
"Although Sharingan might not be a powerful ability in the pirate world, at least it will increase our chances of survival by a little."
Uchiha Yujin nodded. "Got it, I'll start training right away."
"Brothers, let's all work hard together."
"What about me?" Stephen Yujin suddenly asked.
"You?" Pirate Yujin sighed. "Find a place to live first, then look for a job."
———————
Outside Konoha Village, a figure with a black cloth covering his mouth swiftly moved around the tree trunks.
He ran while throwing shurikens at the surrounding trees.
Dodo-do!
Thanks to the Pirate's basic physique, Uchiha Yujin's strength had greatly increased. Originally, he could only throw one shuriken at a time, but now he could throw three at once.
However…
Simply throwing projectiles like that, how could he have survived that night?
"Itachi…" Uchiha Yujin gritted his teeth and continued throwing shurikens, treating every tree as if it were the imagined enemy, Itachi.
If it weren't for Itachi, he could have hidden and quietly grown stronger, at least living until the Ōtsutsuki era.
But now? He was making a death countdown for himself…
Of course, the blame also fell on Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo, and the Akatsuki's Obito.
In short, all of them deserved to die!
Sweat soaked the ground as Uchiha Yujin had lost track of how long he had been running in the forest.
The five hundred shurikens he carried had long been used up. Now he ran while retrieving the shurikens he had thrown.
The mask that concealed his identity was drenched with sweat.
The only thing still clean on him were his eyes, which had yet to "awaken."
Suddenly! A voice sounded above Uchiha Yujin's head!
"Shuriken Throwing~ Impressive, impressive. Konoha still has those who try hard."
"Who's there!? Show yourself!"