Naruto: Driving the Entire Shinobi World Mad with a Hellish Simulator

What's the cruelest punishment in the world?

It's making someone who has struggled in darkness experience, just once, the ultimate happiness that should have been his but that he missed forever, then mercilessly dragging him back to reality.

Chiba was Konoha's perennial dead last. To survive in a shinobi world where human lives were worth less than weeds, he used the [Emotional Simulator] to become a devil who manipulated people's hearts.

After the beginner tutorial, “What If You Became Hokage,” he gave Kakashi “What If Obito Were Still Alive,” Uchiha Itachi “I’m Class Monitor at an Ordinary High School,” the Third Hokage “Anti-Corruption Simulator,” Sasuke “What If Your Brother Hadn’t Wiped Out the Clan Simulator,” and Naruto “What If the Fourth Hokage and Kushina Survived the Nine-Tails Incident.”

“Kakashi, this is a world where Obito is still alive. Laugh all you want.”

“Itachi, this is a peaceful modern world without chakra. You and Sasuke are just ordinary brothers.”

“Naruto, look. Your mom and dad are cooking every day, waiting for you to come home...”

Chiba sat in the shadows, watching Kakashi sob uncontrollably in the street, watching the aloof Itachi kneel in a pool of blood, howling with regret, and watching the past Hokages lose their faith as the virtual screens shattered their beliefs.

Countless tears and madness became the steps that led him to godhood. He gained supreme power that could transcend dimensions.

When his secret identity was exposed in front of the entire shinobi world at the grand assembly, the manhunt he expected never came.

Naruto walked up to him with red-rimmed eyes, his voice trembling:

“Thank you... for letting me hold my mom, for real, just once in a dream.”