I died with my phone in hand face-down, stupidly, scrolling some Naruto fan-theory thread.
The last thing I remember: white light. Not tunnel-of-light cliché, but something worse consciousness unraveling, like my very self was being written over. Next came the silence. A silence so deep it crushed thought.
Then I awoke… naked, alone, inside a chamber carved into a living tree. The walls pulsed with chakra veins, glowing pale violet. I sat up instinctively, but my body didn't feel like mine. It was strong, too strong. Muscles wrapped in something ancient—chakra coiled like serpents beneath the skin.
I remembered who I was. My name. My world. The anime. The manga. But this? This was real.
"You are the seed. You will grow into the blade that severs gods."
The voice didn't echo. It carved itself into my head like a seal. I looked down—on my chest was a black spiral-shaped mark glowing with faint red threads. A Karma seal, but twisted… not like Boruto's. This one felt alive.
[❖ SYSTEM NOTICE — SHINRAKU PROTOCOL ACTIVATED ❖]
REINCARNATION COMPLETE.
HOST DESIGNATION: SHINRAKU
BASELINE POWER: LOCKED
MEMORY RETENTION: 91%
ŌTSUTSUKI GENE INTEGRATION: INCOMPLETE
OBJECTIVE: SURPASS THE CYCLE
It wasn't a game system. It was the tree. The damn Divine Tree was talking to me—guiding me. Feeding me fragments of Kaguya's memory, flashes of Hagoromo watching the world rot from the moon, Isshiki tearing dimensions open.
Then… the pain came. A tidal wave of chakra erupted from my spine. My arms glowed with black threads. My eyes burned. In the reflection of a chakra pool, I saw them:
One eye was ashen silver, etched with concentric rings and stardust pupils — a proto-Rinnegan.
The other was void-black, shifting like oil with faint runes floating inside — the start of the Shin'engan.
"I was reborn in the Naruto world… but not as a ninja. Not a Jinchūriki. Not a Uchiha or Senju."
"I was reborn as the weapon they buried beneath Uzushiogakure."
And now… I was awake.
Location: Ruins of Uzushiogakure — Below Sea Level
Above me, the tree roots that had cradled my body began to unravel. Water rushed in from cracked walls. My instinct kicked in. With a thought, I pushed chakra to my feet and vanished in a flash of movement — not teleportation, not body flicker — something else.
Outside, the sun was setting. Blood-red skies poured over ocean waves.
And there they were.
Two shinobi—both cloaked in black. Their eyes locked onto me. One had a Byakugan. The other bore a headband marked with the scratched-out symbol of the Hidden Leaf.
"So the Seed lives…"
"Too early. He shouldn't be awake for another ten years."
They moved. I didn't hesitate.
My first instinct wasn't to run—it was to destroy.
⚔️ [FIRST FIGHT: MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINS] ⚔️
(Abilities unlocked: Chakra Thread Manipulation, Basic Gravity Pulse, Karma Seal: Phase 1)
"Come, insects. Let me show you the breath of a god not yet born."
To be continued…