At the age of thirty-eight, Mizushiro Shuji died once, on the day Pain destroyed Konoha.
Twenty-five years earlier, he was an unremarkable thirteen-year-old student at the Konoha Ninja Academy. He had no illustrious lineage, no talent capable of changing the era, and never imagined that he would become a part of history.
Team Six, their first mission, the Chunin Exams, war, loss and reunion... It all begins with a mission report, a short sword, and an old photograph. He and the people around him grow up little by little, and step into the ninja era whose ending he already knows.
This is the story of the long years Mizushiro Shuji spent in Konoha, and of how those whose names would never be carved into the Hokage Monument lived through the era, one day at a time.
