The moment the words "Hidden Leaf Village" left my lips, the void shattered like glass.
A gust of wind rushed past me — actual wind — and suddenly my lungs burned with fresh air. My vision blurred, then sharpened…
I was sitting in an ornate wooden chair.
Scrolls covered a wide desk. A cracked window looked out over a sprawling village of tall buildings, red rooftops, and distant mountains carved with legendary faces.
Konoha.
The Hidden Leaf Village.
I reached up—
Fingers brushed silk.
A white cloak with flames of red trailing its edge. The kanji on the back:
火影 — Hokage.
My heart slammed against my ribs.
"I'm… the Hokage?"
Before I could even process the absurdity, a digital chirp snapped through my mind.
A glowing, transparent blue screen appeared:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📱 SHINOBI SYSTEM ONLINEPlayer: IsaacRole: Hokage — Leader of the Hidden Leaf Village━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Four icons unfolded:
✅ Chat Group🛒 System Store⭐ Points & Rankings🎯 Quest Log
A message blinked into existence:
Welcome, Player 1.You are now in charge of Konoha.Keep the village prosperous to earn Points.Fail… and face permanent deletion.Good luck! 😁
The God had signed it with a smiley face.
How reassuring.
Another notification chimed:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📩 Chat Group ActivatedParticipants: Isaac ✅ Lily ✅ Elijah ✅ Callum ✅ Shaden ✅━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Messages immediately flooded in.
Lily: Where the hell are we?!Elijah: I'm in some cave-like office. Stone everywhere. I think I'm the Tsuchikage???Callum: Sand. Sand everywhere. I'm not cleaning this robe.Shaden: Clouds and lightning. Yup. I'm Raikage.Lily: And I'm Mizukage… the chair is huge. Why do these robes weigh like 20 kilos?
I typed back, hands shaking just slightly:
Isaac: I'm Hokage. The system says we're leaders now. This is real.
Three dots appeared… then vanished. Nobody argued.
Before panic could rise in the chat, another alert shimmered:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎯 Tutorial Mission — Village AssessmentObjective: Review your village's current stateReward: +100 System Points━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
System Points… the store… portals to Marvel…The stakes couldn't be clearer:
Our decisions would reshape not one world — but two.
My door creaked open.
A young chunin poked his head in, wide-eyed and nervous.
"H-Hokage-sama," he stammered. "Your morning council meeting is about to begin. They… uh… want your guidance on the new academy recruits."
I swallowed.
Right. I wasn't just a strategist now — I was the leader of the greatest ninja village.
There would be no pause button.
I stood, cloak flowing behind me, and stepped into the hallway.
The God's laughter echoed faintly in my head:
"Entertain me, little rulers…"
This was a game.
But the consequences?
Very real.