My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 23 What is a villain?

A valley somewhere in the Land of Frost.

Wearing a straw hat, Hyuga Yuto walked through the wind and snow.

The massacre three hours earlier did not affect his state of mind much—it was too utterly crushing, and the bandits who treated human life like dirt were killed, so he felt no pressure when he killed them.

Hyuga Yuto is not a pervert who enjoys killing and gouging out eyes, nor is he a righteous messenger who punishes evil and promotes good. He has only one purpose in killing that group of bandits—to obtain a huge amount of money!

The Naruto world has a long history and a well-established, self-consistent system. Although there are supernatural powers like chakra, and top-tier powerhouses can move mountains and fill seas, everyone, including those powerful individuals, still lives in the same world and the same society.

Since we live in society, we naturally become connected with others through relationships, gratitude, morality, dreams...

In the ninja world, money is still very important, even extremely important!

Many years later, even a powerful organization like Akatsuki cannot completely detach themselves from work and focus solely on their tasks. They still need hardworking and dedicated individuals like Kakuzu to earn money. Not to mention, if Akatsuki were short of funds, they wouldn't be able to afford those stylish fire cloud robes.

Of course, Yuto Hyuga also needs money.

The bandits were exceptionally skilled at plundering money. If all the spoils from this raid, including jewelry and silver ornaments, were converted into money, it would be equivalent to the reward for carrying out ten A-level missions!

This is a large sum, enough to serve as start-up capital for Hyuga Yuto.

With less than six months to go before the Third Shinobi World War, he had to be prepared.

In the wind and snow, Hyuga Yuto ran towards his destination, his feet leaving only shallow indentations in the snow, which were quickly covered by falling snow and disappeared without a trace.

Along the way, although he did not pay special attention, his White Eyes, which he activated every now and then to ensure safety, still allowed him to see countless skeletons buried under the snow.

Many of these children were being held by adults.

If there is a heaven, I imagine that if a child dies in this manner, they will quickly find their parents... if there is a heaven.

Hyuga Yuto sighed inwardly, unable to describe the feeling. He felt much the same way when Tsunade saw him off a few days ago.

Hyuga Yuto knew very well that this probably proved that he still had a conscience, knew compassion and gratitude, and was not a beast. If he were in another environment, he could even be called a "good person".

However, even though Hyuga Yuto still has human emotions and bottom lines, he knows what his role is in this world.

—The villain!

A villain in the making!

Whether he's a minor villain who dies midway through his life or a major boss who survives to the end, Hyuga Yuto is a villain.

What is a villain?

Character, moral standards, strength, past actions... none of these are sufficient to determine whether someone is a villain.

There has never been only one standard for becoming a villain—whether or not you oppose the protagonist!

The one standing opposite the protagonist is the villain.

Will Hyuga Yuto stand on the opposite side of Uzumaki Naruto?

Since he was carved with the image of a caged bird when he was three years old, Yuto Hyuga can answer with certainty:

Yes, I will definitely be Naruto's enemy in the future, with no room for negotiation.

Hyuga is the enemy, therefore Konoha is the enemy, therefore Naruto is also the enemy. This is a very simple logical chain.

In fact, in the first few years, Hinata Yuto was somewhat resistant to becoming a villain.

Standing on the opposite side of the protagonist, the pressure is immense. Hinata Yuto would bet that if the villains in those literary works knew from the beginning that their opponent was the world's beloved protagonist, most of them would lose their will to fight.

Moreover, Hyuga Yuto faces even greater psychological pressure. As a transmigrator, he still has some bottom line deep down. He might be able to be ruthless enough to do something too beastly, but it wouldn't feel comfortable to do it.

To be fair, Naruto Uzumaki, the protagonist of this world, is a good person from any perspective.

Even if he's good at talking his way out of things, he's still a good person.

It's actually quite unpleasant to go against good people.

However, today, after killing all the bandits, Hyuga Yuto walked through the snow and looked at the countless corpses buried underground, and his mood gradually calmed down.

He suddenly realized that even if the great Naruto Uzumaki became Hokage and the savior, the world hadn't changed... at least, it hadn't become significantly better.

Neji Hyuga is dead, but the Caged Bird Seal is still carved on the heads of the branch families; the five great ninja villages still exist in the world, and the living conditions of those small countries have never been guaranteed; the nine tailed beasts are still scattered in various places, and it is hard to say that they have gained freedom.

Naruto Uzumaki, at the Six Paths level, during his years of unparalleled power, along with the equally invincible Sasuke Uchiha, maintained order in the old world.

The five great nations coexist peacefully, the ninjas put aside their hatred, and the common people live in peace and contentment... Under Naruto Uzumaki's golden chakra, there is naturally no conflict, nor would there be any.

Has the world changed? Yes, it has.

Has the world not changed? It has never changed.

If we extend the timeline to the entirety of history, in a sense, Naruto Uzumaki did almost nothing.

As Hyuga Yuto hurried on his way, he suddenly remembered the words of a writer he greatly admired in his previous life:

"Almost all the villains in fantasy novels are charismatic and radical revolutionaries who dare to imagine a completely different world order and are eager to ignite the seeds of change before the conditions are ripe."

"On the contrary, all great, bright and righteous heroes are defenders of the mainstream ideology. They have conservative values ​​and lack creativity. They have almost no other pursuits besides fighting monsters and going home to hug girls."

As he ran, Hinata Yuto felt a weight lifted from his shoulders.

Villain it is, fighting against the prophesied child, sounds pretty cool...

The boy suddenly chuckled.

Hinata Yuto's thoughts were racing, and before he knew it, he had arrived at his destination—an abandoned temple.

He was already very familiar with this kind of place, so he used a transformation spell to change his body shape into that of an adult, put on the straw hat again, changed into a wide robe, and slowly walked in.

With practiced ease, he stopped beside the third stone pillar from the right at the entrance, made a few hand seals, and pressed them with chakra.

A secret passage appeared, and Hyuga Yuto descended the stone steps. Under the light of oil lamps embedded in the rock walls, he entered a spacious underground stone chamber.

"Welcome to the Frost Kingdom branch of the Gold Exchange, sir," a woman wearing a rat-faced mask said softly inside the stone chamber.

Please state your name.

Hinata Yuto's lips curled slightly beneath his straw hat as he revealed the false name he had chosen, a name filled with memories, to facilitate his activities in the underworld:

"Shinichi Kudo".

(End of this chapter)