[Translator’s notes] Hi, and welcome to my newest fanfiction!
This story will be a bit lighter than my first fanfic, Muzan.
This time, the MC will also have a different kind of gacha system, so expect a new experience and plenty of surprises along the way!
I hope you enjoy this story too!
And don’t forget to check out my other fanfiction as well.
🙂 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ On the outskirts of Konoha, fields stretched in neat rows, crisscrossed by narrow paths.
A blond-haired boy carried two enormous buckets in his hands, finishing the irrigation of the last acre of farmland.
“Finally, today’s mission is done!” He removed his forehead protector and wiped the sweat from his brow.
“Thanks for your hard work, Aoba.
Here’s your payment.” The Konoha villager beside him pulled out five bills, each worth 200 ryo.
Accepting his hard-earned pay, Aoba smiled.
“Thanks, old man.
If you have another job next time, just give me a call.” “Of course.
Who in the whole village doesn’t know how capable you are, Aoba?” After waving goodbye to the man, Aoba headed back toward Konoha.
He had just completed a D-rank mission.
He had spent the day irrigating fifty acres of farmland for Konoha villagers.
The reward was 1,200 ryo, with 200 ryo taken as Konoha’s commission.
“Come on!
I’m almost at 100,000 ryo.” As he walked along the path leading back to the village, Aoba encouraged himself.
The reason he worked so hard on missions every day was simple, he wanted to save enough money as quickly as possible.
Half a year ago, he had bound himself to the system that every transmigrator supposedly needed.
As long as he spent money, he could draw from a gacha and have a chance of obtaining powerful ninjutsu.
What was more, the ninjutsu obtained from the gacha had absolutely no requirements regarding talent or aptitude.
He could immediately gain basic mastery of them.
Once he saved up 100,000 ryo, he could perform a 10 pull.
That was extremely important to him.
Because right now, he was only a genin, and his strength was pitifully weak.
He had graduated from the Ninja Academy four years ago, yet he still hadn’t managed to become a chunin.
With his mediocre talent, barring some unexpected miracle, he might remain a genin for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, he had bound himself to the Positive Energy Gacha System, giving him a chance to turn his life around.
Unfortunately, the system was incredibly stingy.
Want powerful ninjutsu?
Then pay up!
That’s right.
It wasn’t like he had imagined, where doing good deeds would earn him chances to draw from the gacha.
Instead, the money he used had to be obtained through means that satisfied the rules of “positive energy.” For example, earning money through his own hard work by completing missions, or borrowing money from someone who willingly lent it to him, with no interest allowed.
After all, could someone earning interest from lending money really be considered positive energy?
The core principle of the Positive Energy System was that the other party had to willingly give him the money.
Of course, finding money also counted.
If it was ownerless property, then it was simply a gift from nature.
There was another kind of positive energy as well, making money from the BOSSes in the story.
Orochimaru, Danzo, the leader of the Akatsuki…
When dealing with villains, the system was incredibly generous.
He didn’t have to honestly complete missions to earn money from them.
The problem was that Aoba couldn’t do any of that right now.
No matter which method he used, earning enough money for the gacha was difficult!
Unfortunately, Aoba had transmigrated into a life where he had grown up in Konoha’s orphanage.
After graduating from the Ninja Academy, without parents to support him, he didn’t even have a home of his own and had to rent a place to live.
If he hadn’t become a shinobi, he would have had to spend every day struggling just to make ends meet.
Let alone saving 100,000 ryo quickly.
But he worked hard.
For the past six months, he had been taking missions like a madman every single day.
And now, he was finally close to his goal.
There were two types of D-rank missions in Konoha.
One type paid between 5,000 and 10,000 ryo.
These missions were usually the most popular among teams, making them difficult for individual genin to get.
The teams that accepted them were usually newly graduated Ninja Academy students, accompanied by their jonin instructor.
Aoba’s instructor had unfortunately died during a mission.
After that, the team disbanded.
Combined with his lack of talent and insufficient strength, he had no way of joining another team.
In the end, he could only work alone.
The missions Aoba took paid between 500 and 10,000 ryo.
In reality, most of them only paid around 500 to 2,000 ryo.
The jobs involved helping Konoha villagers, or people from the Land of Fire, with minor tasks that ordinary people couldn’t easily accomplish.
Naturally, the rewards weren’t very high.
As for the higher-paying missions, taking those with his current strength would be nothing short of suicide.
So, for the sake of safety, he hadn’t tried to rush things.
“Open the status panel.” Aoba silently muttered the words in his mind.
A moment later, a translucent screen appeared before his eyes, invisible to everyone else.
━━━━━ STATUS ━━━━━ Name: Natsume Aoba Balance: 98,200 ryo Skill Points: 0 Chakra Amount: C-rank (Chunin) Taijutsu: Basic Genjutsu: Basic ━━━━ Ninjutsu: ✧ Substitution Jutsu (Proficient) ✧ Transformation Jutsu (Proficient) ✧ Clone Jutsu (Proficient) ━━━━ Items: ⚔︎ None ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It was an extremely ordinary status panel.
Aside from his balance, everything else was almost painful to look at.
Aoba pulled one of the bills from his pocket to use as his living expenses.
With a thought, the other four bills vanished into thin air!
The balance on the panel immediately changed from 98,200 ryo to 99,000 ryo.
“Only 1,000 ryo left.
I just need to complete one more mission tomorrow!” He clenched his fist, his heart filled with excitement.
The translucent screen changed, switching over to the system’s gacha interface.
There were all kinds of ninjutsu in the prize pool, Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique, Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall…
There were also various other rewards, Soldier Pills, medical kits, shuriken, kunai…
But Aoba’s attention was drawn to the three great ninjutsu at the center of the prize pool.
Rasengan, Flying Thunder God Technique, and Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags!
There was no need to explain Rasengan.
It had been created by the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.
An A-rank ninjutsu, its power was no joke.
And Rasengan could be upgraded even further.
Big Ball Rasengan!
Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!
Flying Thunder God Technique needed even less explanation.
An S-rank Space-Time Ninjutsu, it was the technique that had earned Minato the title of Konoha’s Yellow Flash.
The official Naruto site also identifies Flying Thunder God as the Space-Time Ninjutsu Minato was famous for.
As for Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags…
That was the Second Hokage’s signature technique.
By using explosive tags to summon more explosive tags, it could produce a chain reaction of explosions approaching infinity.
The technique is associated with Senju Tobirama and is known as Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags.
The only problem was that the technique could easily injure its own user.
It wasn’t something an ordinary shinobi would dare to use.
One mistake, and you were done for.
There was another problem, too.
Explosive tags were expensive.
Aoba shook his head repeatedly.
I can’t afford it.
I really, really can’t afford it!
The transparent screen displayed the gacha rules.
━━━━━ RULES ━━━━━ ⚠️ Spend 10,000 ryo to purchase one bag of Soldier Pills and one free gacha draw.
⚠️ Spend 100,000 ryo to purchase 10 bags of Soldier Pills and one free 10 gacha draw, guaranteed to contain at least one B-rank ninjutsu.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As the saying went, a single pull could produce a miracle.
But the risk was huge.
If your luck was bad, all ten pulls could give you nothing but garbage.
The advantage of a 10 pull was the guaranteed reward.
Even the worst possible outcome would still give him a reasonably powerful ninjutsu.
That was why he had chosen to be patient and save up the full 100,000 ryo before drawing.
Once he obtained the guaranteed B-rank ninjutsu, his strength would increase dramatically.
Then he could join a shinobi team and take on more difficult C-rank missions.
His rate of earning money would increase.
He’d have more and more chances to draw from the gacha.
With this positive cycle continuing, becoming a top-tier shinobi would no longer be far out of reach.
Before long, Aoba arrived at Konoha’s market district.
The villagers called this place Konoha’s main street.
There were food shops lined up on both sides.
Barbecue restaurants, sushi shops, dango shops, senbei shops…
Naturally, Aoba’s favorite was Ichiraku Ramen, famous for its good food at an affordable price.
He walked into the shop and took a seat.
“Teuchi-ossan, one bowl of pork miso chashu ramen!” “Coming right up!” Teuchi-ossan narrowed his eyes and nodded.
A bowl of pork miso chashu ramen cost 90 ryo.
With 200 ryo in his pocket, Aoba could afford two bowls in a row.
“Aoba-niisan, you’re here for Ichiraku Ramen too?” While he waited, a girl entered the shop.
It was Hyuga Hinata, the heiress of the Hyuga clan.
Aoba turned to look at her.
“You too?” Hinata shyly nodded.
“Um…
yes.” Her two index fingers kept poking against each other, and she didn’t dare look directly at the boy sitting beside her.
The girl was visibly nervous.
Every time she saw Aoba-niisan, she couldn’t help becoming tense.
It was strange.
Whenever she met other people, she could always keep her heart calm.
This is…
so embarrassing!
Hinata thought to herself.
Aoba smiled and patted the stool beside him.
“Sit down first.” Then he called out to Teuchi-ossan again.
“Could you make another bowl of pork miso chashu ramen?” “Sure thing!” The two of them were quite familiar with each other.
Aoba knew that Hinata ordered the exact same food as him every time she came here.
As for how they had met, that went back several years.
They had first encountered each other on a snowy day.
Back then, Hinata had been a tiny little thing.
She had fallen down on a road at night.
Aoba had happened to be passing by, so he helped her up and escorted her home.
After that, Hinata often came to him to talk about her worries and troubles.
Aoba had always encouraged her and helped her work through her difficulties, guiding the girl out of her lowest moments.
As time passed, the two became very close.
In Hinata’s heart, Aoba was different from everyone else.
He was the light of her life.
Gathering all her courage, she looked at the boy beside her.
“Aoba-niisan, I…
I have something I want to tell you…” CREATORS’ THOUGHTS Hidden_Quill Thank you so much for reading!