Kirimine Ayato stared down at the trembling boy before him, voice low and flat, like someone too tired to waste emotion.
"Uncomfortable? Now you feel it? Where was that fear when you thought you could treat this body however you wanted? Why don't you come deal with me face-to-face, Hayato-kun?"
His gaze cut cold as steel—no warmth, no hesitation. Just a quiet, merciless judgment.
"Everything you did to humiliate me… I'll return it ten-fold. I'll carve today into your memory so deep you'll flinch at the thought of crossing me ever again. If I don't show you what I'm capable of… how would you ever learn?"
The moment Ayato finished speaking, Uchiha Hayato's pupils shook.Then his body jerked—like strings pulled tight by an unseen puppeteer.
He sprinted out of Ayato's house, expression slack, movements stiff.The boy dashed all the way into the center streets of Konoha, completely helpless inside his own skin.
Just as Ayato intended.
People stopped.Stared.Whispered.
Uchiha Hayato looked like a glitching NPC—lunging, stumbling, babbling nonsense.The crowd mocked him, pointed fingers, laughed.Piece by piece, his clan-born pride cracked under the weight of those stares.
By the time Uchiha Hayato's father stormed in and dragged him away, the whole village had seen it.And they wouldn't forget.
Hayato's reputation?Shattered.
"—Erase memory."
Right as his father turned the corner, Ayato triggered the skill. Hayato's mind blanked, and the entire humiliating sequence was wiped clean.
With no memory, Hayato had no evidence.And even if he suspected Ayato… he wouldn't dare act without proof.
Ayato exhaled slowly."In this world… if you're not ruthless, you get eaten alive."
He opened his system interface.
[Status Window – Kirimine Ayato]
Age: 10World: Shinobi World (Naruto)Skills: Clone, Bind, Lion BombHP/Stamina: 12/100Gold: 110Rank: Rookie (Genin-Equivalent)Weapon: None
"The XP from defeating a basic shinobi is just ten… but the requirement for Six-Paths Rank is… one hundred million? Seriously?"
Ayato frowned. The gap felt like trying to climb from a gutter to the moon.
The System's XP scaling was brutal—• Chunin Rank: 1,000 XP• Jonin Rank: 10,000 XP• Kage Rank: 100,000 XP• Super-Kage Rank: 1,000,000 XP• Six-Paths Rank: 100,000,000 XP
Reach the XP quota → Rank Up. Simple but cruel.
At least the novice starter pack had given him 100 gold, enough to buy items from the System Mall—some from this world, some synthesized by the System.
Hours later, while training, a faint pulse of energy flickered in his core.
"…Chakra extraction succeeded?"
Ayato blinked.Even naturally gifted students needed a day or two for the first extraction.He got it within hours.
"Not bad. Guess I'm not trash after all."
He washed up quickly, ate something warm, then sat on the bed and resumed training—silent, disciplined, grinding like someone whose only ally was the System.
By dawn—
"Hah… finally hit basic stamina level."
His window updated.
[Status Window – Kirimine Ayato]
Age: 10Skills: Clone, Bind, Lion BombHP/Stamina: 21/100Gold: 110Rank: RookieWeapon: None
At the Academy classroom, Ayato paused.Uchiha Hayato… had actually shown up.
Ayato's eyes brushed past him—just a glance.But Hayato, fragile from yesterday's unseen humiliation, misread it instantly.
"You… Kirimine Ayato… you mocking me? The academy dead-last dares laugh at me?! You must have a death wish!"
His voice trembled with anger—and fear he didn't understand.
Ayato just watched him, calm, expression unreadable.