[ Analyzing photo... ]

[ Congratulations on catching a golden level moment; unmasked Kakashi ]

[ Photo prize: Ten shadows technique(special edit) ]

[ Analyzing photo... ]

[ Congratulations on catching a bronze-level moment; A not-so-ordinary dinner ]

[ Photo prize: ??? energy +300 ]

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Before going to bed, Yuta decided to check and wait for the rewards for the photos he had taken tonight at Tsunade's house. Since he didn't know when the people who ran this damned village would take action against him, he decided to take every opportunity to get stronger as early as possible.

Yuta was especially interested in the prize called the ten shadows technique, but he was worried that he wouldn't be able to control it because he didn't have what was called cursed energy and that Mahoraga would destroy the whole village as a result. Against ninjas who had mastered the use of different elements and attacks, Mahoraga should not have been so invincible.

Yuta thought about the reincarnated MCs and systems in the stories he had read and decided that it would be best to start with the newbie gift pack and opened the newbie gift pack.

[ Congratulations, you have won the cursed blood (customized) prize by opening the newbie gift pack ]

[ Cursed blood: After receiving cursed blood, people with low resistance to cursed evolution will evolve into curses. If your resistance to cursed evolution is high, your body will start to burn this blood and your cursed energy will increase significantly during this process. Customization effect: unknown ]

"Wait, system, what the hell is cursed evolutionary resistance?"

Before Yuta had time to say anything else, purple veins appeared all over his body. Yuta was about to scream at the sudden, terrifying pain when he lost consciousness and dark energy began to pour out of his body, taking the form of an egg covering him.

________ A few minutes ago

Sakumo Hatake went to Anbu this morning and used the shadow clone technique to take care of the many things he had to take care of and soon became very tired. When he returned home and saw that both of his sons were not at home, he remembered that Danzo had threatened to harm his sons in a confrontation.

So he immediately drew his sword and went to where the root organization was hiding. Although Sakumo had always been a reasonable person, he had no tolerance for anything that would risk the life of the child left to him by the alien he loved.

When Sakumo angrily attacked the roots, Danzo guessed that he had misunderstood something and stood up to Sakumo. And Sakumo had misunderstood.

Danzo looked at Sakumo's back as he returned to the village in search of his son and muttered that today was his lucky day. Then he smiled and sent two ninjas to investigate.

Sakumo, of course, found out what was going on faster than Danzo's ninjas and arrived at Tsunade's house. After a full day of action after action, Sakumo fell asleep shortly after dark.

God had other plans for Sakumo, however, and a few hours after falling asleep, Sakumo jumped out of bed feeling a surge of energy that sent goosebumps down his spine. His first thought was that the nine tails sealed in Kushina's body had escaped.

He soon realized that the source of the energy was too close to him and too weak to be a nine-tailed fox.

Sakumo immediately jumped out of bed, grabbed the sword hanging on the door of his room, and ran downstairs. Sakumo ran up the stairs so fast that he didn't even need to cover the soles of his feet with chakra to ignore gravity and run along the walls or ceiling.

When Sakumo realized that the source of the energy was coming from his youngest son's room he rushed in without taking any precautions, unfortunately, he was not fast enough and the last thing he saw was a small hand trying to get out of the black energy. In a few seconds that hand was also sucked into the egg-shaped black substance.

Sakumo was sure that the hand belonged to Yuta, so he immediately tried to smash the black matter, but no matter how hard he tried, the egg was unharmed.

Using his swordsmanship might have destroyed the egg, but he might have risked his son's life.

Sakumo used some special ninjutsu to try to find out who was responsible, but the results showed that no one had entered the room for hours, and he could still feel Yuta's presence inside the egg.

Sakumo stayed here almost all night thinking about what could have happened and then decided that it was the result of the new bloodline experiments that Danzo had told him about.

After Sakumo decided to hide the black egg, he met his son who had just woken up. Meanwhile, Kakashi had gotten out of bed to check on his little brother.

Since Sakumo slept for a long time after a hard day like yesterday, Kakashi got up early to check on his brother and make breakfast. When Kakashi saw that his father was already awake, he realized that he didn't have to worry about that this morning and left the house for his morning practice.

Sakumo let out the breath he had been holding when he saw his son go out into the garden without asking him anything. He wanted to think of a more realistic lie to distract Kakashi, if possible.

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And so began a five-month period during which Yuta was sent to a distant country to fight a deadly disease...

At the end of an entire yearly cycle, the sky and the earth had accepted the sovereignty of the snowflakes. At least that was the case for the fire kingdom.

Snowfall at this time of year was natural for the ninja of the hidden leaf village, and they even developed special ninjutsu for it.

The snow that covered the earth and sky was not normal for the ninja of the Hidden Stone Village, who had sneaked across the border of the Land of Fire with big dreams in their hearts at the start of the Third Great Shinobi War.

At every opportunity, they gathered together to praise the natural beauty of their surroundings and to increase their determination to conquer the land of fire.

Snowflakes were not a common sight in the land of Earth, and when they were, it was so cold that people could not even stick their noses out of their houses.

In the land of Earth, with little vegetation and water cover, winters were naturally harsher than in many other parts of the world. In the land of Fire, on the other hand, snow breaks the harshness of the weather and makes the winter season more livable and glorious.

As the group of ninjas, numbering almost a hundred people, built a few fires, warmed themselves, and talked about the winter in this country, a silver-haired man watched them from hundreds of meters away.

When Hatake Sakumo saw that some of the ninjas who dared to violate the land of fire were chunin and genin, he realized it was a distraction and asked the Anbu ninja next to him for a scroll.

After receiving the scroll from the anbu, he immediately unfolded the paper and wrote down his predictions and what had happened. After refolding the scroll, he used the summoning technique to summon a small eagle tied the scroll to the eagle's foot, and sent it to Konoha.

"Sakumo senpai, I think the necklace around your neck is broken. Be careful not to scratch your skin. There may be someone among them who can feel blood."

Sakumo tilted his head, wondering what he was talking about, and saw that the jade he had been carrying in his bosom for five months had broken.

In the next second Sakumo's eyes widened to the point that his pupils covered his entire eyeballs and he lunged forward, kicking the tree branch with all his might, not caring that the branch he was standing on was shattered.

Before the Anbu ninja realized what had happened, he saw his Senpai running at lightning speed towards the village. Probably not even the specially trained ninja eagle was as fast as him.

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As Yuta's consciousness slowly began to recover, the black layer around him slowly cracked.

After Yuta opened his eyes and realized he was in a dark room, he continued to sit where he was. His mind was now blank like he had drunk a large amount of alcohol or watched short videos on a social media platform for hours.

Yuta stood there for a while, remembering who he was and where he was. What seemed like a very long process from his perspective, in reality, took only a few seconds.

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When Yuta realized what had happened, he decided to finish his unfinished business, thinking that he was still in his bed and couldn't see because it was night.

He used the system's other function to see what effect the cursed blood had on him before he started receiving the system's other rewards.

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Name: Hatake Yuta

Age: 6 months

Race: ???Curse????

Strength: 1,1

Speed: 1,1

Defense: 1,1

Soul: 1,1

Chakra: 0

Cursed energy 110

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Yuta looked at his statistics for a short while and sighed, wishing he had looked at them earlier.

He completely ignored the fact that his race was listed as Curse. After all, turning into a curse makes you a monster that feeds on humans, and ordinary people can't even see you.

"haha... That's not even possible. Right? HA ha h..."

Without hesitation, Yuta used the system to claim his two remaining rewards. First, he felt a wave of sticky energy spreading through his body, then a shadow covering his body.

Yuto checked his stats again and saw that his cursed energy had increased. Just as he was about to close the statistics window again, a small detail caught his attention.

In the age section, it said that he was six months old. Considering that he had only been in this world for a month, it seemed that this body should have already lived before him by five months.

As Yuta came to terms with the fact that he might have killed another soul and taken its place, he thought of the orphanage where he had opened his eyes after coming to this world. The woman there, holding Yuta in her arms, had told him that he was too weak for a newborn baby.

As Yuta continued to remember details, he became sure that he regained consciousness a few hours after birth.

After a very short pause, Yuta tried to crawl to where the door to his room should have been, but he realized that his body was much bigger than before.

When he suspiciously tried to stand up, the feeling of knee pain he used to experience was not there. Yuta stood up and went straight for the door, but it was not there. Just then, strange patterns flashed under Yuta's feet and he felt a substance surrounding him that prevented him from moving.

Unable to get rid of it using his strength, Yuta was trapped in a dark room. Meanwhile, as time passed, his eyes became accustomed to the darkness and he was able to identify his surroundings more easily. It was not a bedroom but a square space with nothing but a single door and a carpet.

At first, Yuta thought that this trap could not harm him and did not make any move, because now he understood more or less what was happening.

The cursed blood had been transforming his own body for five months, his body had grown almost as big as that of a five-year-old boy because of the curse, someone had kidnapped him and brought him here, and it was probably none other than the lovely eye collector.

Yuta thought that people might be watching him through some ninjutsu, so he didn't use the ten shadows technique to escape and waited. He had already made a big enough perpetrator by standing up and walking away, from this second on he had to continue being the baby he was five months ago as much as he could.

What was more important was that Yuta thought Danzo wasn't gay. Probably when Danzo got bored of watching him, someone would give him a dress and summon him to his presence. After all, nudity was not something Yuta was used to.

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Yuta waited motionless for nearly two hours, thinking Danzo was watching him, sometimes making strange noises like a baby who doesn't know how to control his vocal cords.

He was actually imitating a person he had seen in a previous life. He had seen in a movie that someone who had suffered severe brain damage after a car accident would make a monotone sound in response to people's words and look at them in surprise.

It was during this period of waiting that Yuta realized that those men were behaving like newborn babies. Babies, like that one, would not close their mouths for long, causing saliva to drip from their mouths onto the floor. The only difference between the sounds they made was the tone of their voices.

Realizing these details, Yuta opened his mouth occasionally, made an "aaaaaaa" sound, and looked around blankly.

Unfortunately, what Yuta was doing made no sense because he had not been captured by Danzo as he had thought. It was Sakumo Hatake himself who locked him in this basement when he turned into an egg.

Sakumo had spent a long time learning A-level ninjutsu in case anyone approached him while he was away. The effort Sakumo had put into learning this trap-type ninjutsu, which was far removed from the ninjutsu he normally learned, showed how much he had grown attached to Yuta in the month they had spent together.

As Yuta waited there, a suspicion arose in him that no one was watching him. If no one was watching him, wouldn't it be foolish not to take this opportunity to escape?

Luckily, before Yuta could act, the door to the room he was in opened and a powerful beam of light hit him in the face.

Yuta immediately focused and reacted as he had just planned. Yuta was actually planning to cry as if the light was hurting him, but after a second he realized that the exposure to the light really made him feel bad.

When Yuta opened his eyes to see what kind of light was causing this feeling of weakness and disgust, he locked eyes with Hatake Sakumo standing in front of him.

"AaaaAaaAaaAaaAaaaaaaa?..."

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At first, Sakumo thought that the boy must have come here by chance, but when he looked at the black pieces of bark a little behind the boy and the boy's dark eyes, he realized that it was not at all as he had imagined.

Yuta was unable to come up with a new plan due to the suddenness of the situation and continued to pretend as he had planned to do when he met Danzo.

Sakumo stood there for a while, shocking Yuta's heart, and then in one swift move he bent down, released Yuta, and pressed him to his chest.

It took almost an hour for Sakumo to cry and hug Yuta like that. Finally, Sakumo calmed down again and tried to analyze what had happened.

Somehow Yuta had been trapped in an egg and aged almost five years in five months. The problem was that he still had the intelligence of a baby. If Sakumo had brought him back home like that, the Hokage and Danzo would have immediately realized that something was not right. And it would have been impossible to explain the situation to Kakashi.

"I take this as a joke, Sakumo-senpai. You don't really think I'd be a stepmother to a child, do you?"

Yuta watched the conversation between Tsunade and Sakumo with his mouth open. And he wasn't even acting.

"I'm not asking you to be a stepmother. Just treat him like a little brother and make sure he quickly reaches the level of his peers mentally..."

Sakumo was about to continue when he felt a powerful surge of chakra and looked up to see Tsunade looking at him with reddened eyes. He no longer needed anyone else to tell him what he had done wrong.

"Please don't misunderstand. I'm not asking you to be a big sister to him. Ahem... I mean, just be his teacher for a while. I will definitely repay you."

Tsunade was a little angry that Sakumo reminded her of her dead younger brother and told Sakumo to be more respectful if he was going to ask her for something. Only a few seconds after Tsunade said these words she regretted them because Sakumo really did not hesitate to kneel before her.

When Tsunade saw her Senpai, who had helped her so many times, bowing to her in this way, she hurriedly picked him up. With Sakumo's strength and seriousness, Tsunade respected him even more than the Hokage.

"Okay, I'll take care of him, but you have to pay a hundred thousand ryo every month."

Well, not as much as money...

Sakumo coughed up a little blood when he heard the words one hundred thousand ryo, but he didn't hesitate to accept the offer.

And so Yuta found himself living with Tsunade.

------ As time went on, Yuta began to act because he did not have the body of a baby and was being fed random meals by Tsunade.

He looked at Tsunade walking and began to walk and run as if he were a genius baby. He learned whatever words Tsunade said and started to speak.

Tsunade continued to teach him to write, thinking that he was not a genius but an ordinary baby. In just a month, Yuta became a child who could speak and write fluently and even throw shuriken at a level that would qualify to enter ninja school.