_____ One month later, in the snow-covered schoolyard.
"Yes, Kakashi, tilt your head and bend your legs a little, like you are exhausted. Remember you're so tired it's hard even to stand up. Rin, you put one arm under his left armpit and lean forward as if you were stabbing him with a knife."
"Okay," Rin said cheerfully, but Kakashi was not happy about the situation.
For Kakashi, the money Yuta was offering didn't matter much. After all, his father was a ninja who completed another S-level mission every time he went. But for Rin, the fifty thousand ryo Yuta had promised her was a significant amount of money. Probably more than an entire year's allowance for a girl her age.
Kakashi normally wouldn't have taken any request seriously from someone like Yuta, who had even dared to ask him to undress for money, but he couldn't stand the fact that Rin was begging him because she needed the money so badly. Obito, standing a little behind the stage, was here for a similar reason.
Yuta said he wouldn't need any of them if even one of them refused. When naive Rin heard this, she immediately convinced Obito and Kakashi. At first, Obito was happy about this, thinking that he was going to have an event with Rin, but as he looked at Kakashi and Rin, almost arm in arm, he was seething with anger.
"Obito, you stay behind the tree. It's like you're secretly watching what's going on here. And act like you're pissed off about what's going on... Or forget the last part, your expression is good enough now."
When everyone took their places as Yuta directed, Yuta smiled, raised his hand, and took a picture with the system.
From Yuta's angle, everything that was happening right now was just like Rin's death scene. The only difference was that Kakashi was the one whose chest was pierced.
Over the past month, Yuta had traveled to every corner of the Konoha and had taken dozens of photos that had won him awards. Unfortunately, he didn't have any more interesting photos to take. He still had some ideas, but they were too dangerous.
Yuta mostly received the cursed energy enhancement prize for taking these photos. He also got one silver and one gold monster summoning.
After photographing everything that could be easily photographed, such as Ichiraku ramen or the Hokage building, Yuta was left with the option of building his own scenes. And isn't a good photographer the one who captures images that no one has ever seen before?
So he gambled with Tsunade and won a large sum of money to organize today's event.
[ Photo being analyzed... ]
[ Congratulations on catching a silver moment; revenge too soon ]
[ Photo award: Solita Vista (special edition)
When Yuta saw that his plan had succeeded, he immediately gave new orders.
"Okay, now Obito and Rin switch places please"
Obito and Kakashi simultaneously grimaced and said that was enough for today, while Rin agreed without much care. Yuta looked at the description of the ability he had acquired as he waited in a corner without saying anything, waiting for Rin to convince them.
[ Solita Vista: The user removes and crushes their eye, projecting the photos taken by the system onto a screen that appears in the air for everyone to see. ]
Yuta was happy, thinking he had acquired a new talent after a long time until he read the definition of talent. What kind of maniac would gouge out his own eyes to show others something?
And you can only use the ability twice in your lifetime.
Yuta sighed, admitting that he had acquired a garbage talent, and looked up to see how the new stage arrangement was coming along.
Rin's convincing had been successful and finally, both Kakashi and Obito had taken their new places. It now looked as if Obito was piercing Kakashi's heart and Rin was watching sadly from a far corner.
"Rin, you look a little more shocked. And if possible, you can cry some tears."
As Rin did her best, Yuta raised his hand and looked at the beauty of the scene from the camera angle. At that moment he realized that Kakashi and Obito were looking away from each other in disgust.
"Obito and Kakashi, please look at each other."
Kakashi let out a "tch" and looked at Obito, who looked back at him angrily.
[ Photo being analyzed... ]
[ Congratulations on catching a silver moment; something doesn't look right ]
[ Photo prize: talent-Curtain ]
When Yuta saw that he had received another talent award from the system, he sneaked back and continued to move the trio around to take pictures, but he did not receive another award from the system.
When the bell rang announcing the end of the lunch break, Kakashi and Obito, who had been fighting amongst themselves until a moment ago, came to Yuta as if in agreement and opened their hands. Seeing their speed, Rin angrily queued for their paychecks and they each received fifty thousand ryo from Yuta.
Yuta went to sit under a rock in the distance while Kakashi returned to class feeling like he had completed his first ninja mission without being a ninja, Obito offered to buy Rin lunch after school, but Rin kept her eyes on Yuta, who sat quietly in a corner.
Obito was worried that Rin had feelings for Yuta, but Rin opened her mouth and calmed him down.
"Doesn't Yuta look very sad to you?"
Obito, who was full of love for people at this time, looked at Yuta more carefully at Rin's words.
"He really looks sad. I wonder if he's sad because he gave us all his money. We made a lot of money just by posing for a few poses and I will return some of it to him."
"Hmm me too."
Obito and Rin, feeling bad about Yuta, walked silently through the snow and as they approached him, they realized that Yuta was sitting on a rock, mumbling as he was about to fall asleep in the thinking man's position.
Yuta was mumbling about how easy it was to buy people and complaining that the snow was too bright.
When Obito and Rin heard his words, they changed their direction and started walking straight toward the school. It wasn't the first time Yuta had skipped class after all.
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Yuta's eyes were dazzled by the light reflecting off the snow when he saw that all the children were already in class.
Sighing to himself, he complained that he was definitely allergic to light. The snow that covered the entire Konaha made it easier for the sun's rays to spread through the clouds. And whenever it was as bright as it was now, Yuta felt bad, as if all the energy had been sucked out of his body.
Moreover, this level of light was not only making him lazy but also, in his own words, stupid.
Yuta tried for a while to remember what he had done last time. He had gone out with Kakashi, Obito, and Rin to take some parody pictures of the day Rin had died, and after two pictures the system hadn't rewarded any pictures, and he had sat on the rock he was sitting on now because he felt tired.
Thinking about what happened next, Yuta couldn't remember anything and decided that he must have fallen asleep. Actually, he was right. He had fallen asleep, but it had only taken a few seconds. Yuta looked around and decided that this sleep must have lasted for hours.
With a deep sigh, Yuta decided that school might already be over and started to leave the schoolyard, but before he could take a few steps he felt someone grab the neck of his dress and lift him into the air.
Fortunately, before Yuta could suspect if the person behind him was an enemy, he heard the familiar voice of his bald teacher.
"You brat, you think you can do whatever you want just because you have Tsunade-sama behind you? If you continue to skip class this time, you will be kicked out of school."
Yuta only giggled a few times in response. He had already realized from the teacher's words that school was not over.
"What are you laughing at!"
"Kekeke 'Tsunade-sama'. If you are not afraid, why do you call her like that?"
The teacher blushed furiously at Yuta's words and spat all over the place as he shouted at him. "Cause of respect, you brat. I've had enough of you and you're coming to class with me now."
At this time, the most valued people in Konoha were the sannin. Their popularity even surpassed that of the Hokage. It could even be said that one of the reasons why the Hokage was still able to maintain his position despite all the wrong decisions was because he was Sannin's teacher.
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When the teacher scolded Yuta enough, he released him to stand on his own two feet. The bald teacher turned around and started walking towards the school, thinking at first that Yuta would follow him, but when no sound came from behind him, he turned back and checked.
When the teacher didn't see Yuta at first, he was surprised that he had managed to escape from an experienced ninja like himself, but when he looked closer, he saw that there was a gap in the middle of a snowdrift of almost ten centimeters. That was exactly where he had released Yuta.
When the teacher went back to look at the human-shaped gap in the snow, he saw that Yuta had fallen asleep lying in the middle of the snow. What really caught the teacher's attention were the frightening blindfolds under Yuta's eyes.
Looking at Yuta in his current state, one could easily guess that Yuta had not slept for days. The teacher took pity on Yuta and took him to the infirmary, then returned to his classroom. It was then that he remembered that Yuta had been in class in the morning, looking as sleepy and lazy as ever, but without his blindfolds.
The young teacher, known as Ibiki Morino, stood at the door of his classroom and looked at his fists. In fact, he knew countless ways to keep this brat awake, but his duty as a teacher would not allow him to do so.
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After lying in a closed room for a while, Yuta woke up and remembered what had happened. After hesitating for a while whether to go home or not, he was picked up by the medical ninja working in the infirmary and sent to his classroom.
Standing at the door of the classroom, Yuta turned his head and looked at the woman in glasses standing at the other end of the hallway, watching him carefully. "Sighhh..."
When Yuta realized that he couldn't escape anymore, he reached out his hand to open the classroom door. Actually, Yuta had already decided not to skip class and become a model ninja.
If he skipped classes and became an untrustworthy figure in the eyes of important people like the Hokage, he would face more problems when he exposed the bloodline, which he planned to reveal soon.
The biggest reason Yuta decided to become an honest ninja without hiding his abilities was when he migrated to this world. As long as he managed to reveal his abilities and survive the first attack from Danzo, he would be sent to the front line as a monster-summoning master.
Just the other day it was announced that the total education period had been reduced to three years, so even though the war had just begun, Konoha was already suffering from a human shortage. Such a period is the best time for a ninja with strange powers to gain acceptance in the village.
As Yuta turned the doorknob and entered, the teacher interrupted his announcement, turned his head to look at the visitor, and then started the announcement all over again.
"Next week we will have an exam, and it is completely to test your fighting ability. Right now our village is on the verge of entering a new Shinobi war and with this exam we will select the most talented people in the school and try to train them specially."
Yuta smiled when he heard what the teacher had said and thought: the first butterfly effect is finally here, huh?
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[ Profile ]
Name: Hatake Yuta
Age: 8 months
Race: Curse of Darkness
Strength: 16
Speed: 18
Defense: 14
Soul: 14
Chakra: 190
Cursed energy: 9951
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Looking at his profile screen, Yuta could probably guess that he had passed a gene for strength and speed because he could easily punch through a tree with his fists. But when it came to chakra, he asked Tsunade to be sure. The answer he got was that the amount of chakra was almost half the amount of a genin.
Although Yuta didn't know any ninjutsu at the moment, he had already learned to resist gravity by gathering his chakra under his feet.
Looking at his increasingly cursed energy and statistics, Yuta raised his hand and whispered the lines needed to activate the Curtain technique.
"Yami yori idete yami yori kuroku sono kegare o misogiharae"
(Emerge from the darkness, blacker than darkness. Purify that which is impure)
As Yuta finished speaking, a barrier appeared in the woods behind the Konoha, a barrier that could not be spied through.
It was now almost three in the morning. This was when Yuta felt the most physically energized. After Tsunade from the casino had fallen asleep, Yuta covered her and, after making sure she was asleep, came here, hiding in the shadows.
After the curtain was set, Yuta looked at his remaining rights to draw new summons. He had two bronze-level summons, two silver-level summons, and one gold-level summons.
Yuta planned to draw only bronze-level summons for now. He didn't plan to draw them until he was sure he could defeat the monsters that would come out of the silver-level summons.
"Huff..."
After taking a deep breath, Yuta used the system to use one of his bronze summoning rights.
As Yuta waited to be forcibly swallowed by the shadows, a staircase of shadows descending underground appeared one step in front of him. When Yuta saw that the system was not forcing him, he smiled, put his hands in his pockets, and began to descend the stairs.
With each step, Yuta could feel the stairs disappearing behind him, but he didn't even look back.
As Yuta felt himself nearing the end of the stairs, a countdown screen appeared.
When the ten-second countdown was over, Yuta was still descending the stairs and in no hurry, when suddenly a screen appeared that Yuta had not expected to see.
Yuta stopped and looked at the screen for a while and wondered why the system had not shown him this screen before. Maybe the system didn't want to break the magic since his previous opponent's only advantage was to look like a human.
[ Draw result: Stingray curse ]
[ A sweet cursed spirit that can fly without obeying the laws of gravity. Its attack ability is close to zero and its defense is not high. Very suitable for use as a flying vehicle]
[ Weaknesses: Cursed energy ]
Yuta kept walking, anticipating that this time his opponent would be quite easy, and after a while the stairs ended. Knowing that a few inches beneath his feet was the entrance to the indestructible arena, Yuta controlled the darkness beneath his feet and went into free fall.
As Yuta fell straight down into the center of the arena, he saw a pink figure swiftly floating towards him. Considering that it was a cursed spirit with almost no ability to attack, it was not hard to guess that the cursed spirit would try to hurt him by crashing into him.
As the pink flying stingray quickly approached Yuta and prepared to crash into him, it saw Yuta's hands surrounded by red translucent flames that made it feel in danger.
Yuta was preparing to face the pink figure when suddenly he saw the pink figure change direction and fly back the way it had come.
After Yuta fell to the ground, he regained his balance by crouching down and stood up again. Although he had a small body, he had good defense, so this level of height did not cause him much pain.
Yuta looked at the pink figure as it spun around in the distance and guessed that it would move to hit him after increasing its speed, but a system screen in front of him told him how wrong that thought was.
[ The stingray curse is too afraid of you to attack you, so it has decided to surrender. ]
Yuta raised one eyebrow as he read the system's message and found himself appearing in the middle of the forest.
The next second Yuta checked the darkness to call this cowardly monster.
A dark hole appeared in the ground in the clearing in front of him and the next second a pink stingray emerged from the hole and began to hover around Yuta. Yuta tried to talk to it, but the only response from the pink stingray was a chick-like sound.
After studying this stingray for a while, Yuta realized that it could indeed be used as a vehicle. Although the Pink Stingray was a brainless and weak beast, the way it flew was quite comfortable and its flying speed was as fast as the average chunin's running speed.
Yuta took one look at the pink stingray and decided that he could fit in with Tsunade, so he clasped his hands together, leaving only the pinky finger of his left hand exposed. Then shadow hands emerged from the ground and pulled the pink stingray into the shadows.
It was time for him to use the other Bronze summoning draw.
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