Akihara Kagura.
This name often comes with many suffixes.
Insidiously cunning, with a calamitous power akin to that of a monster.
Whether it's Konoha or a significant event in the Ninja World, Akihara Kagura always has a hand in it, steering the course of many affairs with his slow, hidden manipulations.
In front of others, Akihara Kagura always maintains an air of arrogance, seemingly reckless and brainless in his actions. However, beneath the surface lies a terrifying schemer that plunges the entire Ninja World into unfathomable chaos!
Everyone in the Ninja World thinks...
If it weren't for Akihara Kagura, there wouldn't be so many troublesome incidents in the Ninja World, and surely everyone could live in peace.
"..."
Uchiha Sasuke remembered.
The night before he arrived in this world, he participated in the Five Great Countries meeting as a Hokage Assistant, where many people covertly mocked Akihara Kagura's heinous deeds, and even criticized Jiraiya, one of the Sannin of Konoha, for writing books to redeem Akihara Kagura...
That old fool...
Is someone like Akihara Kagura even redeemable?
Which of the Great Country Ninja Villages hasn't suffered from Akihara Kagura's malevolent influence?
Now...
He truly witnessed...
A world perhaps without Akihara Kagura.
Uchiha Sasuke finally found the world's biggest problem, the absence of Akihara Kagura is the biggest problem, what would a world without Akihara Kagura look like?
Is this Akihara Kagura's doing?
Trying to show him what a world without him would be like?
What a joke! Is there anything worse than a single person manipulating the entire world!
Surely...
It would be peaceful, right?
Uchiha Sasuke instinctively thought this Ninja World must be decent.
Facing the puzzled gazes of his Team 7 companions, Uchiha Sasuke casually fabricated a reason to brush off his teammates: "Akihara Kagura... is the name I gave to a ninja crow... it often accompanied me in training..."
"..."
The members of Team 7 didn't seem to suspect anything.
The name Akihara Kagura was very unfamiliar, and since Uchiha Sasuke had never left the village, mentioning the name so casually made it seem like Akihara Kagura was really just the name of an ordinary ninja crow...
However...
Uchiha Sasuke couldn't help but secretly observe everyone present, watching Naruto Uzumaki noisily ask for more ramen, watching Kakashi Hatake lounging lazily beside him.
A world without Akihara Kagura...
What would Kakashi-sensei and Naruto be like?
Seemingly no different?
No...
There are still differences.
Uchiha Sasuke's gaze suddenly became a bit complex.
With the experience of the third leader of Root, Uchiha Sasuke was no longer the naive boy he once was; he could spot incredibly subtle differences at a glance.
For instance, this world's Naruto Uzumaki excessively loves to cause a ruckus, desperately wanting everyone's attention, hoping that his companions wouldn't ignore him, and even when parting after eating ramen, his back seems particularly lonely and solitary...
For instance, this world's Kakashi Hatake-sensei is excessively lax, even his eyes carry an air of lethargy, indifferent about anything as if there's no difference between living and dying for him...
At the fork in the village's main intersection.
Uchiha Sasuke stood at the intersection's center, watching his mentor and companions walk in different directions, his gaze becoming increasingly complex.
This complexity...
Suffocates Uchiha Sasuke.
If his mindset was truly only twelve years old, perhaps seeing Kakashi Hatake and Naruto Uzumaki like this wouldn't have made him notice these things...
However, he could sense their emotions, he also knew some truths, knowing why they were like this...
Naruto Uzumaki was ostracized as a demon fox by the village from a young age, never experiencing affection, always alone, yet paradoxically is a warm-hearted fool who wants everyone to feel loved...
Kakashi Hatake-sensei lost his father at a young age, finally finding life-and-death partners in Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin at twelve, yet Uchiha Obito sacrificed himself to save him, asking him with his dying breath to take care of Nohara Rin, only for Nohara Rin to die at Kakashi-sensei's hands...
Right...
This world's Kakashi Hatake-sensei perhaps doesn't yet know the truth of Nohara Rin's death, and probably doesn't know that Uchiha Obito is still alive either.
Kakashi-sensei in the real world, under Akihara Kagura's covert manipulation, only 'coincidentally' learned that Uchiha Obito is still alive...
Naruto Uzumaki is the same...
This world's Naruto Uzumaki didn't receive Akihara Kagura's care, didn't have his childhood neighbor Karin's companionship...
After all...
Karin was also brought to Konoha by Akihara Kagura.
Uchiha Sasuke couldn't help but think of Karin, she had always been his equal opponent, he greatly respected her as a rival. How is Karin doing in this world?
A world without Akihara Kagura...
That woman, Karin, should be strong too, right?
After all, she was once his greatest rival!
Besides Karin...
There are many people and many things...
In the real world, everything and everyone is intricately connected with Akihara Kagura, everyone's fate in the Ninja World is influenced by Akihara Kagura...