Naruto: From the Start, I Was Waiting to Die, but Cuddling Made Me Young Again?

After dying from overwork, the office worker Haimen transmigrated to the world of Naruto. He didn’t become a child prodigy or gain a Kekkei Genkai. Instead, he became a useless seventy-two-year-old man from the Uzumaki Clan, a genin who’d been stuck at the bottom for decades, with his chakra exhausted and just seventy-two hours left to live.

He thought it was the heavens’ final cruel joke.

Then a red-haired girl sobbed as she threw herself into his arms. “Grandpa Haimen, I don’t want to become a monster…”

[Ding! Sunset Years System activated! High-concentration emotional intimacy detected: Youth +50! Biological age reduced by seven years!]

He looked down at Kushina in his arms, then at the wrinkles fading from his own skin, and fell into thought.

So… being cuddly makes you younger?

The closer you get, the younger you become?

And you can unlock the Uzumaki Clan’s hidden bloodline, too?

Wait a minute…

Danzo is planning to sabotage the sealing ceremony? Minato is still a young kid? The Land of Whirlpools is about to fall?

Well, in that case, this “useless old man on the verge of death” has no intention of dying, starting today.

“Third Hokage, this old man has a small favor to ask. Could you have those young ladies come keep me company again? Just a chat, of course. For the sake of peace in the village.”