When the food arrived, silence settled for a few moments, and everyone focused on eating. But Kai remained distracted, staring at the table as if something inside him was closing in. Then he suddenly said: "Hey, Ino... what if Tobirama Senju was innocent? I do not think he would poison his brother Hashirama Senju?"
Ino became confused and said: "I really did not say his brother was the reason... but it is close to reality that Hashirama loved the Uchiha, unlike Tobirama. The relationship between the Uchiha and the Senju was toxic: war, killing, rape, and other things, and in the end the village of Konoha was founded, and the Senju ruled the white-eyed people and also many powerful clans, among them the Uchiha. The First Hokage loved the Uchiha clans more than the Senju, so there is a possibility Tobirama felt threatened and did what he did."
Then Katie intervened: "I followed the anime and manga, I do not think it is that simple... but Kai, what is the connection between Atori Uchiha and your disturbing dream? And did he really live in that era?"
Before she could finish... Kai heard a sharp voice inside his ear: "Atori Uchiha... you clone... come, let us finish this battle in the other valley now."
His body froze. The table trembled. His heartbeat rose violently. His eyes turned red, and the world in front of him began to fade. He shouted: "Help! Ino! Katie!" Then he felt as if he was falling at tremendous speed into darkness: "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" And in a moment... he lost consciousness.
When he slowly opened his eyes, he found himself near a river... silence filled the place. He could hear the sound of the river. Kai stood up and spoke with a trembling voice full of fear: "What is this? Where am I? I feel different... where is this place? What is this dense green forest?"
While he was still asking himself, he moved toward the river and placed both hands forward to wash his face, but he saw his reflection in the river water. He was startled in shock: "What is this?"
He began touching his face and his black clothes, and on his hands there were black bandages, and on his right leg a pouch carrying kunai blades. Kai was astonished, still trembling, thinking about what had happened. The last thing he remembered was being in the restaurant with Katie and Ino talking about the ninja world.
Suddenly a girl came running over the water with ninja movements and shouted from afar: "Atori, brother! I found you! Where have you been all this day? Father is asking about you."
Kai almost lost his mind: "Brother? Father? I do not even have a sister."
When she came closer she said: "You annoying one, let us go and stay quiet. Father is angry because you did not attend the Dark Darkness technique training, which is an illusion skill that turns off the enemy's eyesight."
Kai did not understand what she was saying. His mind was confused, he felt dizzy, and he fell to the ground unconscious.
The mysterious girl who said she was his sister looked in surprise: "Hey, you, Atori, wake up... hey you..."
That was the last thing Atori heard before losing consciousness.
After moments, Kai began waking up again and found himself inside a house made of wood and natural materials, smelling a very beautiful scent, like a fragrance from heaven.
Atori stood up, and a tall beautiful woman came to him, with black hair, delicate features, wearing unified black clothes, and black eyes. She said: "Atori, what is wrong, my dear?"
Before asking who she was, he preferred silence and said: "Nothing."
She told him: "My dear, do not exhaust yourself using the Sharingan every time or fighting, you are still at the beginning of the third stage, or rather at its third level."
Kai was surprised by her words but remained silent and went outside.
There he found that girl in the middle of the old Japanese house and pink flowers, the same girl who had told him she was his sister, slender and wearing her natural clothes but also carrying the clan symbol.
Here Kai understood that he was in the ninja era or in the Naruto world, but he was not fully certain and did not want his mind to be shocked. He did not want to enter hysteria.
Kai said to himself: "I will adapt with them unconsciously. I will not speak about anything. I will let them introduce this place and myself to me, whether I am Kai or Atori."
While he was speaking to himself, his mysterious sister threw a kunai toward his face at tremendous speed.
Kai avoided it instinctively, and it pierced the wood of the house.
The mysterious girl was surprised: "Atori, you improved. You avoided it without using Sharingan. It seems you are training in a secret place. Come on, tell me."
Kai + Atori remained silent.
The woman laughed from afar and spoke with an emotional tone: "Atori is not the type to train secretly. How could he not be strong without using Sharingan even with a simple kunai, while our leader is Lord Madara Uchiha, and the greatest leader is Lord First Hokage Hashirama Senju."
Kai thought: Madara Uchiha... Hashirama Senju...
Here the picture began becoming clear to Kai.
He began understanding that he was truly in the ninja world, but he wanted the information to enter his head little by little.
The woman spoke to the girl: "Hey, Sukonai, why do you not leave Atori alone for a while? I am confused about him today, he seems unusual. Is it youth stage, or is he training something new? As you know, last time he shocked us with the news of summoning a giant bat."
The girl Sukonai Uchiha, fifteen years old, laughed wickedly: "I remember the giant bat, he made a contract with the king of bats."
Kai listened to them carefully with both ears while thinking:
Bat... Sharingan at third level... Madara... Hashirama... yes, I am in the ninja era.
Now I must not behave strangely with them. I must understand all this and find a solution for Kai to return to his world.
But since I am here now, I must uncover the secret of the Hokage's death.
Damn... I wish I had been one of the anime and manga fans and completed Naruto's world.
I will act as if I know the events while learning everything.
While he was thinking, Sukonai suddenly said in a voice:
"(Mangekyō Sharingan)."
In an instant her eyes turned red, with a symbol like a black hole in the sky, as she approached Kai and said to him:
"I knew it. You are not my brother Atori. You are something else... you are Kai from another world."
Kai was shocked and overwhelmed with intense fear.
He said to her in a frightened voice: "What... how did you know all this without me telling you?"
Sukonai: "From the moment at the river, I knew you were not my brother. And now I used my Sharingan and my Mangekyō Sharingan on you. My special ability reads thoughts. You are Kai from another world."
Then she continued:
"The question that I still cannot find in your mind and thoughts, besides searching for the secret of the First Hokage... what is that terrifying thing that summoned you to our world and wants to fight you?"