Konoha Year 48.
Hyuga Clan compound, delivery room.
Hiashi Hyuga stood anxiously beside his wife’s bed, sweat beading across his forehead.
Please let it be a boy…
Recently, rumors had been spreading throughout the village about the Uchiha clan head’s brilliant young son—Itachi Uchiha.
The Hyuga could not afford to fall behind.
Just then—
“Waaah! Waaah!”
A newborn’s cries filled the delivery room.
“Congratulations, Clan Head. It’s a boy,” one of the medical attendants announced with a broad smile.
Hiashi’s face lit up.
He carefully took the swaddled infant into his arms.
The baby was red-faced and wrinkled—objectively speaking, not particularly attractive.
To Hiashi, however, he looked perfect.
His joy soon gave way to surprise.
The child had stopped crying.
Instead, his pale eyes were fixed directly on Hiashi before slowly moving around the room, as though he were actually examining his surroundings.
Hiashi had no idea that inside his newborn son lived a soul from another world.
Hiashi Hyuga?
This is…
Naruto?
A world this chaotic?
The infant stared blankly for a moment.
Why couldn’t I have been sent to some martial arts world instead?
Traveling the land with a sword on my back sounds a lot more appealing than this.
In his previous life, his name had been Zhou Tianli.
He had always loved Naruto and had often fantasized about personally beating down some of the people who annoyed him in the story.
So after realizing that he had actually been reincarnated into the Naruto world, Tianli didn’t panic.
He accepted it surprisingly quickly.
If he had to describe this world in one phrase, it would be—
A world of chaos.
War could erupt at any moment.
Tomorrow was never guaranteed.
Human lives could be cheaper than dirt.
That was the shinobi world.
Since I’m already here, I might as well live this life properly.
Not long afterward, another baby was born.
His twin sister.
Hiashi soon chose names for both children.
“The boy will be called Tenriki Hyuga. I hope he can one day achieve something worthy of our ancestor, Hyuga Tennin.”
He then looked toward the second child.
“As for my daughter… Hinata Hyuga.”
Tenriki froze.
What the hell?
I became Hinata’s twin brother?!
Even with his normally steady temperament, that revelation caught him completely off guard.
Before he could fully process it, a voice suddenly sounded inside his mind.
[Transmigration successful.]
[World: Naruto]
[Date: Konoha Year 48, July.]
[Limit Break System binding…]
1%…
10%…
50%…
100%…
[Binding complete.]
Tenriki was startled.
But only for a moment.
He quickly calmed himself.
So this is my cheat?
A mechanical voice responded.
[Greetings, Host. I am the auxiliary interface of the Limit Break System.]
Tenriki immediately got to the point.
What can you do?
[The system possesses no unnecessary functions.]
[When the Host reaches a bottleneck, the system can forcibly break through that limit.]
Tenriki’s eyes brightened.
Breaking bottlenecks?
That’s useful.
[Skill progression is divided into five ranks.]
[Novice → Proficient → Master → Transcendent → Ultimate.]
A thought immediately occurred to him.
Even something like Basic Swordsmanship can eventually reach Ultimate?
[Correct.]
Tenriki became curious.
And what would Ultimate Basic Swordsmanship actually look like?
The system answered without hesitation.
[Without chakra, a single slash can split a mountain.]
[With sufficient chakra, a single slash can cut through the Moon.]
Tenriki’s tiny eyes bulged.
Holy shit!
His mind immediately jumped to the scene from the Naruto movie where Toneri Otsutsuki used the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to slice the Moon apart.
Compared to that kind of destructive power, even techniques like massive Rasenshuriken suddenly felt far less impressive.
The system continued.
[However, accumulation before reaching Ultimate is extremely difficult.]
[Recommendation: Select Basic Swordsmanship as the initial progression path. Its early advancement requirements are comparatively low.]
Tenriki barely had to think.
Fine.
I choose Basic Swordsmanship!
The Hyuga main family had welcomed two new children, and the entire clan compound was filled with celebration.
When Tenriki and Hinata reached one month old, an ecstatic Hiashi spared no expense.
A grand feast was held throughout the Hyuga compound, with relatives, clan members, friends, and prominent figures from Konoha invited to celebrate the twins’ birth.
It was there that Tenriki saw several people he immediately recognized.
Danzo Shimura, with his dark and oppressive presence.
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
And members of the Uchiha—the clan Tenriki knew was heading toward tragedy.
From Tenriki’s perspective, the future destruction of the Uchiha had never been something that could be blamed on a single person.
The policies inherited from the Second Hokage, the growing distrust under the Third, Danzo’s interference, and the escalating hostility between the village and the clan would all contribute to the disaster.
Hiruzen might later regret what happened, but Tenriki had little patience for leaders who allowed a tragedy to unfold and mourned it only afterward.
His personality had always been straightforward.
Scheming, manipulation, and political hypocrisy were exactly the kinds of things he disliked most.
Still, the celebration itself brought something Konoha badly needed.
The village had not fully recovered from the Nine-Tails’ attack.
For one day, however, the enormous Hyuga celebration brought a little warmth back to the streets.
There were more smiles than usual.
For once, Konoha felt almost peaceful.
Days passed.
Tenriki gradually grew.
And it didn’t take long for people to realize that Hiashi’s son was anything but an ordinary child.
Tenriki almost never cried without reason.
Whenever he needed to be changed or fed, he would make enough noise to attract attention.
Otherwise, he remained unusually quiet, calmly watching the people around him.
Hiashi was delighted.
“My son really is a genius!”
His mood improved so dramatically that even the servants noticed.
A man who normally carried himself with stern dignity suddenly seemed far more approachable, and the atmosphere throughout the Hyuga compound lightened with him.
Before long, rumors began spreading beyond the clan.
Another genius had appeared in Konoha.
A prodigy who might not lose out to Itachi Uchiha.
The comparison soon reached the Uchiha district as well.
Hinata, meanwhile, developed much like an ordinary child.
Unfortunately, standing beside Tenriki made “ordinary” look unimpressive.
Hiashi’s attention naturally drifted toward his unusually gifted son, while Hinata received far less of his focus.
And as Tenriki grew older, the difference became increasingly obvious.
By the time he was one year old, his memory alone was enough to astonish the clan.
Within a week, he had memorized the names of most members of the Hyuga household.
Within a month, he had gone through nearly every publicly accessible book in the clan’s collection.
And those were only the most obvious examples.
One extraordinary performance after another firmly established Tenriki’s reputation as a genuine prodigy.
“Aunt Miko, good morning.”
“Grandpa Tomie.”
“Uncle Koga.”
“Aunt Daemi.”
Walking through the courtyards of the Hyuga compound, the one-year-old Tenriki politely greeted every elder he encountered, bowing with all the seriousness of a tiny adult.
“Young Master Tenriki!”
“Look at him. He’s so well-mannered!”
The older clan members practically beamed.
Some were even flustered by how respectfully he treated them.
After all, Tenriki had already been regarded as the leading candidate to become the next head of the Hyuga Clan.
Yet despite being barely over a year old, he greeted his elders properly and remembered people by name.
How could they not adore him?
Then, naturally, someone thought of the Uchiha prodigy.
Itachi Uchiha was supposedly talented beyond belief.
But from what they had heard, the boy was always quiet and cold, with an expression that could practically freeze the air around him.
Their own young master was talented and polite.
The comparison alone was enough to put the Hyuga clan members in an excellent mood.
As far as they were concerned, the Hyuga had finally produced a genius who could stand beside the Uchiha’s best.
And Tenriki was only getting started.