Konoha, Year 54.
Inside a wooden house, a young man slowly opened his eyes.
Shaking his dizzy head, he looked around.
When he saw the wooden walls and the furnishings of the room, he froze.
This wasn't his room.
He clearly remembered pulling an all-nighter binge-watching Naruto last night—then suddenly blacking out.
Now he'd woken up in a strange place.
Unable to sit still, he quickly stood.
That's when he noticed his clothes had changed.
The high-collared robe looked familiar.
Right—he'd just seen it in the anime last night. The outfit of the Uchiha clan.
His mind went blank.
Damn it, had he transmigrated?
He hurried to a mirror.
Reflected back was a handsome young man with spiky black hair.
The hairstyle was different, but the facial features were identical to his own.
Turning sideways, he caught sight of the fan-shaped crest on his back.
The Uchiha clan emblem.
He was stunned.
He rushed to the window to confirm his suspicion.
Outside, carved into the mountain, were four enormous stone faces: the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Hokage.
There was no doubt now. This wasn't some prank—no one would go to such extremes.
He had really crossed over.
But instead of excitement, he felt despair.
The Naruto world wasn't all hot-blooded passion.
It was a terrifyingly dangerous place.
And of all places, he'd landed in the Uchiha clan.
Suddenly, his head throbbed. Waves of information flooded his mind, forcing him to clutch his head in pain.
After several minutes, the pain eased.
The new memories left him grimacing.
The current year was Konoha Year 54.
The Fourth Hokage had already died during the Nine-Tails' attack.
The village leadership suspected the Uchiha clan had orchestrated the disaster.
As a result, the Uchiha had been forced to move their compound to the outskirts of Konoha, exiled from the village center.
Having seen the original series, he knew it wasn't the Uchiha at all—it was Uchiha Obito, long estranged from the clan.
Technically, Obito was Uchiha, but he hadn't acted for the clan's sake.
And yet, Konoha's higher-ups never stopped to think: if the Uchiha really could control the Nine-Tails, why would they meekly accept being pushed out of the village center?
The truth was simple: this was political infighting, dressed up as "maintaining stability."
Eventually, tensions between the clan and the village elders would reach a breaking point.
And then the Uchiha would be annihilated—betrayed by not one, but two of their own.
Uchiha Itachi, who killed his father, mother, lover, and clan.
Uchiha Obito, who lost the woman he loved and descended into madness.
He could never understand what hatred Obito bore for the clan that drove him to such slaughter. Obito's parents had died in the war, not at the clan's hands.
And Itachi… even worse.
The clan leader's own son, instead of protecting his family and strengthening the clan, raised his blade against them.
These two traitors were beyond twisted—utterly consumed by their warped ideals.
They didn't just kill shinobi—they wiped out civilians too.
They were more disgusting than even Danzō or the Third Hokage.
At least Danzō and Hiruzen were enemies.
But these two had Uchiha blood flowing in their veins and still committed such atrocities.
It was infuriating.
As a transmigrator, he couldn't accept it.
The Uchiha were a true powerhouse.
With the Senju clan fading, no other family in Konoha could rival them alone.
They were the village's strongest military force.
And yet, they were destroyed in one night.
The Third Hokage—brilliant at internal strife, but utterly incompetent in war.
During the Third Great Ninja War, Konoha had beaten the Stone Village, yet he still signed an unequal treaty.
The whole village was furious, and he was forced to step down.
Later, with the Fourth Hokage's death, he took power again.
And immediately, he began his suppression of the Uchiha.
Even if it was Danzō who gave Uchiha Itachi the order, without the Hokage's tacit approval, how could such an operation—wiping out an entire clan—have been carried out inside the village?
Did they think the Hokage's Anbu were just there for show?
And what was the result? Hiruzen himself later died, abandoned with no one to save him during Orochimaru's assault on Konoha.
How had those two brain-dead clan members been so thoroughly brainwashed by a man like the Third Hokage?
Was the so-called Will of Fire really that miraculous?
The him of this world and the transmigrated him weren't just identical in appearance—they even shared the same name.
Ryosuke.
Since he had crossed over, he was now Uchiha Ryosuke.
But at the moment, Ryosuke was utterly dazed.
Even if he had transmigrated into a civilian, or a low-level shinobi, the situation wouldn't have been this bad.
Sure, ordinary ninja were cannon fodder, but at worst he could resign and live quietly.
But as an Uchiha, he was staring straight at death.
In less than three years, those two clan traitors would carry out the massacre.
Dying was bad enough.
But what was worse was having your eyes gouged out afterward.
Not even death offered peace.
His current self wasn't particularly powerful, but he had at least awakened the one-tomoe Sharingan.
True, compared to Sasuke who awakened his at age seven, or Itachi who reached three-tomoe at thirteen, he was far inferior.
Still—it was a Sharingan.
And yet, according to the original timeline, after dying he'd have his eyes dug out and turned into research scraps.
At least he wasn't unlucky enough to have his eyes grafted onto Danzō's disgusting right arm.
That was a small mercy.
Most likely, his one-tomoe Sharingan would just end up discarded after being used as test material.
Ryosuke sighed.
With just a single tomoe, he couldn't possibly stand against those two clan traitors.
He had to think of a way to escape Konoha.
But leaving directly would brand him a rogue ninja.
Damn it—what kind of unreasonable rule was that?
Even if he fled, Danzō's shadow network would hunt him down.
The biggest problem was the memory he now carried: he still had a grandfather alive.
And not just any grandfather—the same face as his own grandfather from his past life.
In this world, his parents had already perished in the Second Great Ninja War, one slain by the Cloud Village, the other by the Stone Village.
Thinking of them filled him with rage.
Parents he had never even met, yet who looked identical to those he'd lost in his old life.
The Uchiha—founders of Konoha alongside the Senju—had sacrificed so much for the village.
And this was their reward.
It was all because of those two traitors, and the so-called village elders.
Without the Uchiha and Senju, there would have been no Konoha for the others to rule.
And now the Senju had withered away, and soon the Uchiha would as well.
From then on, Konoha would no longer be the village that once shook the entire shinobi world.
For now, his plan was to convince his grandfather to leave the village with him.
Hide away in some remote corner of the world where Danzō's shadows couldn't find them.
Then, once the Fourth Great Ninja War had ended, he could reemerge.
But convincing his grandfather would be difficult—because his grandfather was none other than the Uchiha clan's Great Elder.
A man so respected even Uchiha Fugaku had to show deference.
And with that level of status, persuading him to leave the clan behind would be nearly impossible.
Just then, a mechanical voice echoed in his mind.
"Host detected: transmigrated. Binding automatic cultivation system…"
"Binding successful."
Uchiha Ryosuke's face lit up with joy.
Bound to a system—this was his ticket to survival.
Just hearing the name filled him with hope.
Automatic Cultivation. That had to mean it could increase his strength.
Three years remained before the massacre.
Plenty of time to become powerful enough to crush Itachi and Obito.
The very thought made him tremble with excitement.
With a system, he'd been handed a new life.
Now he just needed to study it carefully.
"System, introduce yourself. What functions do you have?"
The mechanical voice answered.
"This system is the Automatic Cultivation System."
"It can help the host establish training regimens, and assist with automatic cultivation."
"The host may also view the personal cultivation panel to monitor progress."