Did the Fourth Hokage really have to die at the hands of the Nine-Tails?
Did Uchiha Itachi really have to bear the stigma of being a traitor?
Did the prophesied child of the shinobi world, its savior...
really have to be Uzumaki Naruto?
No. None of that is inevitable.
Yuyi Xiu said: "Loneliness is a garden, but there's only one tree in it. Despair has fingers, but it can only grasp dead butterflies... Let me bear alone all the darkness, sins, and bloodshed of the shinobi world, and descend into the abyss... I'll leave behind the light to illuminate the world... while I sink into darkness for all eternity..."
But!
From now on, I am also the one and only god of the shinobi world.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.