Every Secret Identity Is a Genius Ninja

As a bona fide, ordinary villager of Konohagakure, Nanase Yan was perfectly content with her everyday life as someone who could never be chosen, until one day her childhood sweetheart suddenly disappeared.

She got her hands on a manga. She could write in it, setting up her family and creating clan members. She decided to use this divine artifact to bring her childhood sweetheart back!

Nanase Yan looked at her mother, whose family had been ordinary villagers for generations, then at her father, who had married into the family and didn’t even have a surname: …

W-what should she do? This was a world that believed only in bloodlines!

Oh no! Her noble, unchosen status as an ordinary villager was actually going to get her looked down on one day! (Sweating buckets.)

Looking at the ninjas in the manga who could destroy heaven and earth on a whim, Nanase Yan had a brilliant idea. She wrote a name in the clan member field: Nanase Koshimizu (formerly known as Uchiha Koshimizu).

Ding!

Creation successful!

The story begins.

(The male cast currently includes four secret identities, her childhood sweetheart, Little Card, Curly Hair, and Jump’s handsomest import.)

[Little Scene]

Koshimizu: Big brother, I’ve beaten every Uchiha there is! I’m going to marry into the Nanase family for Little Yan!

Shisui: As long as you’re happy?

Koshimizu: Big brother, you wouldn’t want your little brother to marry into the Nanase family all alone, would you? I’d lose face in front of everyone else! Come with me!

Shisui: Huh? I have to marry into the family too?

Koshimizu: Hehe, just kidding. The other clan members are coming too! ദ്ദി˶•̀֊•́)✧

PS (Content warnings): Other than the warnings below, there are no additional warnings. If you have any triggers, please don’t read this and risk ruining your mood.

Your comments and support are the biggest motivation for this humble author to keep writing!

This is my first time trying a secret-identity story. It’s all about that selfcest flavor. [The secret identities and the original body share one soul. They have their own thoughts rather than being puppets, because they grew up in different environments.]

[Some characters will discover the secret identities.]

The protagonist is self-serving and selfish by nature, not a saint, but she isn’t heartless either. She’s basically an ordinary person. [Character growth.]

[The early story is all about the characters as children!!! They’re all real kids!!!]

I once wrote Qiye Ying, who held herself to a saint’s standards. This time, I want to write Nanase Yan, who holds everyone else to a saint’s standards. (After letting herself off the hook, even the air feels fresher.)

All the combat power belongs to the secret identities. The original body will always be a genuine ordinary person (though, of course, she later becomes the head of the world’s most powerful clan. That’s the whole point of this little scheme). The bullying of villagers in Konoha features prominently. Trying to fill in or add details and plot points to the original story is one of the author’s great joys in writing fanfiction.

The world-saving plot is just the backdrop. At heart, this is still a romance.

There may be plot holes, but I truly don’t have the energy to reread the whole thing.

Please don’t give me writing advice. I’m too busy, and just keeping up with my own ideas takes all my energy.

If you drop the story, please don’t tell me. Let’s meet again when fate brings us together! If you curse me over plot points I never even wrote (what does that even mean?), I’ll curse you right back.

If you can’t wait for updates, you can read my completed work, The Great Writer and the Philosopher, paired with Itachi.

By the way, Itachi gets very different treatment in this story than in the last one. Those who know Lu Liang will understand.

Theme: The heavens keep moving with vigor, so a noble person should strive without rest.