Chapter 54 - 2
Chapter 2: My Body Got Hijacked by a Dead Ninja Emperor
Naruto stretched his new body.
Flesh that wasn't his own responded with sluggish obedience. His hands moved instinctively—muscle memory guiding them through simple patterns, seals, stretches—yet each movement felt hollow. Weak. Brittle.
A faint grimace tugged at his lips.
This body was... fragile.
Not just in strength, but in presence. In resilience. The kind of vessel that had never known war, had never stood beneath a blood-red moon as comrades died. Even in his world, a four-year-old child carried more natural toughness than what he felt here.
But Naruto had expected this.
He exhaled slowly, letting the breath settle the simmering disappointment. No, this wasn't divine intervention or some twist of fate. This had been planned.
Years of war against the Otsutsuki clan had taught him that brute strength wasn't enough. Their reach extended across dimensions like roots beneath the skin of creation, draining worlds like parasites. Worlds like this one.
He had tried fighting them alone for too long. That was the old way.
Now, he would fight smart.