I'm in Naruto, but the system says I'm in One Piece.

"real?!"

Upon hearing this, Shui Zhu's eyes practically sparkled with excitement.

It was as if Yu's approval was the greatest praise for him.

"That's natural." Hoshino Yu said, looking at the 'Luffy' in front of him.

It's just that his appearance isn't quite right.

Of course, he only said these words in his heart.

"But if you really want to build the Going Merry, then I'll help you build it!"

Hoshino Yu chuckled and spoke to the water column, while bending down to pick up the piece of wood from the ground.

As dawn broke and the east turned white, a ray of light shone directly on his back.

But in the eyes of the water column, it was so dazzling.

He started cosplaying Luffy's image after watching "One Piece".

Although my parents were supportive, I was still ridiculed by my classmates when I first arrived at school.

Although he eventually reasoned with those people using his fists and had followers around him, he didn't have a single true friend.

The appearance of Hoshino Yu was like the first ray of sunshine in a snowy world, warming his heart.

"well!"

After saying that, the two began building the ship.

Of course, Hoshino Yu's talk of building the Going Merry doesn't mean it will be done now.

What we need to do now is get this unfinished little wooden boat up and running.

It's a main quest, after all.

As dawn broke and the sounds of birds and animals filled the forest, the small wooden boat that the two of them had built together was finally completed.

Current progress: 100% (Completed)

[Rewards being distributed... Free attribute points have been distributed and deposited into your allocable attribute points. Please check your attribute panel.]

Seeing the task completion notification on the mental task panel, Hoshino Yu was secretly delighted.

However, he is not in a hurry to add it to his personal attributes.

Since your body is still developing, you can save these attribute points for now. You can allocate them later when your body attributes stop increasing.

Alternatively, you can add it directly to the "Spirit" attribute to boost your mental strength, making it easier to counter illusions in the future.

After pushing the small wooden boat into the pond, Hoshino Yu's eyes gleamed as she watched the water column propelled by the boat, its oars propelling it forward.

"One Piece, huh? Interesting..."

......

After testing the boat's "performance" by the pond, the two went to buy breakfast together and then went home separately.

After all, I have to go to school later, and by the time I get back to pack my things, it will be almost time.

Hoshino Yu walked down the street, eating breakfast while taking in her surroundings.

To be honest, the ninja world's technology development is really off-track, being both advanced and backward.

Houses are one thing, but if everyday items like televisions and refrigerators from the future appeared in this era, it would be considered normal.

However, given that the various countries have just experienced the Ninja World War, and there are now signs of renewed conflict, it is normal for the focus to be on military matters.

Besides introducing Luffy as a mission objective, another purpose he had in writing One Piece was to see if he could use it to straighten out Konoha's technology tree.

After all, the young mad scientist Orochimaru hasn't defected from the village yet.

Hoshino Yu stuffed the remaining bread into her mouth, chewed a couple of times, and was about to swallow when a new task appeared on the task panel in her mind.

[You have received the main quest: Help Monkey D. Luffy, recruit a navigator, a sniper, and other crew members to help his power grow.]

[Mission Reward: Naval Type 6 - Shave]

Current progress: 0%

"Tsk, building a ship is one thing, but we also have to recruit crew members?" Hoshino Yu felt a bit overwhelmed. "Where am I supposed to find them?"

"We can't exactly look for it inside the school..."

Just as he was thinking about going to school to recruit crew members from the Water Column, he unexpectedly saw a familiar figure walking out of the Ganligan Pastry Shop, carrying some pastries in his hand.

Long, straight, jet-black hair that reached past her waist; unusually pale skin; narrow, golden, almond-shaped eyes...

Although he was dressed in casual clothes and looked young, the sense of oppression he exuded was genuinely strong.

"Orochimaru? How did I run into him here..." Hoshino Yu thought to himself.

The Orochimaru I remember was much easier to get along with than Danzo.

At least he can be exonerated later and still live in Konoha Village.

And at this time, Orochimaru was still perfectly normal.

At the same time, Orochimaru, who had noticed Yu's gaze, also looked over.

As the two drew closer, Hoshino Yu, left with no other option, took the initiative to approach and interact with them.

"Good morning, Lord Orochimaru!"

Seeing the brat approach and greet him, Orochimaru was also a little curious and asked in his neutral-toned, deep voice:

Do you know me?

"Lord Orochimaru is the Hokage's disciple, and a Jonin at that. There shouldn't be anyone in the village who doesn't know him."

Without saying a word, Hoshino Yu immediately started complimenting him.

"Boring brat." Orochimaru glanced at him and prepared to leave, but then, as if remembering something, he added, "I'm quite interested in your brain."

"Could I borrow it to study, Yu-kun? I'm very curious about how you write those kinds of novels."

When the other person licked the corner of their mouth while speaking, Hoshino Yu felt a chill run down her spine and her scalp tingle.

He retracted his previous thought.

He might think someone else was joking when they said that, but who is Orochimaru?

Rascal snake, tenacious snake, perverted snake, Frankenstein's monster...

There are too many nicknames to list them all at once.

Seeing his expression, Orochimaru smiled and said:

"Don't be nervous, Yu-kun. Or do you have any drafts of One Piece that you could let me take a look at first?"

Hoshino Yu pouted, straightened her posture, and quickly said:

"Still writing, Lord Orochimaru, I'll definitely do it another day!"

After saying this, he bowed deeply and then quickly left the scene.

"Heh~ Another day? I'll remember that."

Watching Hoshino Yu's retreating figure, Orochimaru's lips curled into a slight smile, and then he walked towards the Hokage Building.

......

Hoshino Yu went straight to the front of Namikaze Minato's house.

After knocking, the door slowly opened shortly afterward.

"Yu, are you all better?"

Looking at Hoshino Yu, who was lying in bed barely alive yesterday, now standing in front of the door with breakfast in his hand, Minato Namikaze's eyes were filled with a hint of suspicion.

"Yes," Hoshino Yu said with a smile, stuffing the bread and milk into Minato's arms. "Look, I'm even going to buy you breakfast, how could it not be good?"

Minato Namikaze felt something was off, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

He naturally noticed Hoshino Yu's changes.

He sensed a light in the other person's eyes, unlike their previous indifferent attitude.

At the same time, his aura changed slightly, his movements became lighter, and his hair became a little curly.

Although it was not much different from before, he still noticed the subtle changes.

Minato's doubts naturally drew Yu's attention.

"I can tell what this kid is thinking the moment he sticks out his butt."

Hoshino Yu smiled but didn't intend to say anything more.

Chakra nature can only be determined by testing with test strips, and if an adult is not with you, you can only buy chakra tools when you are a genin.

We can use lightning-attribute chakra as an explanation later.

After finishing breakfast, the two of them put on their schoolbags and went to school together.

When they first arrived at the classroom, it was still relatively sparsely populated, but when they saw Hoshino Yu, who had skipped several days of classes right after the start of the semester, it immediately caused a slight commotion.

Most of the sounds were girls' cries.

And those kids he had beaten before, their eyes filled with resentment.

Hoshino Yu ignored him and simply sat down and chatted with Minato.

The noise in the classroom only subsided when Yuichi Tanaka arrived.

Seeing Hoshino Yu sitting obediently next to Minato, he greeted him warmly:

"Yu-kun, are you feeling better?"

"Thank you for your concern, teacher. I'm all better now."

"Okay, let's continue the lesson."

......

At first, Yu was listening attentively to the lecture.

Yuichi Tanaka's lectures are interesting and quite lively, but they are mostly basic things.

Minato listened attentively, while Hoshino Yu picked up a pen and paper and began writing a novel while contemplating the development of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

"On the feasibility of electromagnetic railguns..."

"Whether elementalization combined with blades can make one a slicing machine on the battlefield..."

Hoshino Yu kept thinking.

He always felt that Enel in One Piece was too immature in developing the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

The power of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, just the high temperature generated by the lightning alone, is already incredibly powerful.

And don't be fooled by the peaceful times we have now; the Ninja World War could break out at any moment.

At least in the border areas, there are already some frictions.

He doesn't simply assume that the Shinobi World War, which broke out 37 years later in the original story, will continue to be deduced according to the original timeline.

He wouldn't be surprised if a major battle broke out tomorrow.

"Yu, you still need to pay attention in class." Minato noticed that Yu was writing a novel and reminded him quietly after glancing at it.

"Listen, don't worry, my knowledge base is probably bigger than yours."

Seeing this, Minato was somewhat helpless, but since Yu said he was listening to the lecture, then he must have been.

This is the boundless trust between best friends.

After the day's classes ended and school was over, Hoshino Yu took Minato to a pond in the forest.

He did go looking for water columns, but the result was that no one in his class wanted to go to sea for the time being.

There's no other way but to take it slow and steady, since the ninja world is still dominated by ninjas.

As for bringing Minato to train his ninjutsu, there's no need to worry about anything going wrong in the wilderness.

Moreover, the commotion he created would attract the village's ninjas, which was exactly what he needed.

Showcase your talents appropriately.

"Yu, I still don't know what nature transformations my chakra has..."

"Just give it a try. If it doesn't work, just try another one." Hoshino Yu took out three scrolls from his shoulder bag and waved them in front of Minato. "There are three, we can't all of them be useless, can we?"

"I'll go first, I haven't tried this one yet."

Yu handed the red and purple scrolls to Minato, and then pretended to unroll the white scroll before examining it closely.

After examining it for a moment, he closed the scroll and threw it to Minato, then began to try forming hand seals.

As the fingers flew, the three seals of Xu, Wu, and You were quickly formed.

The chakra within his body circulated through his meridians, and was then drawn by hand seals straight to his throat, completing the wind attribute nature transformation.

"Wind Release: Breakthrough!"

Hoshino Yu blew air into the pond, but after blowing for a long time, there was still no change.

"Ahem, it seems Wind Release isn't for me," Hoshino Yu said to Minato, feigning embarrassment.

All of this was for the ninjas who were spying using the "telescope technique" and hiding in the shadows to see.

It's just a low-level balancing act; let Hiruzen and Danzo confront them.

"It's okay, Yu-kun, try the other two."

Minato truly lives up to his nickname "Little Sun," offering comfort and encouragement in quick succession.

Hoshino Yu nodded and quickly formed the three seals of Wu-Hai-Yin.

"Fire Release: Flame Bullet!"

He suddenly contracted his abdomen and exerted force, while his chest bulged. In an instant, a scorching red fireball, accompanied by a heat wave, burst out of his mouth, instantly engulfing the space several meters in front of him. The air was distorted and trembled from the heat!

The fireball wasn't very big, but Minato, who was standing next to it, narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to block the heat wave.

He was the one who felt the power contained in the fireball most directly.

"Yu-kun, you're so strong!"