Better Not to Activate It at All

Congratulations, Host, on activating the Family Binding System.

Everyone had a family of their own. After binding with the family, you would share its glory and ruin.

Of course, the family's prosperity could also bring you tremendous improvements, whether in strength, chakra, or Kekkei Genkai.

Uchiha Habara sat in his room with a livid expression. As he looked at the panel projected onto his retina, he felt as though his mind had gone blank.

He knew what this was. If nothing unexpected happened, this should have been his Cheat/System.

But the problem was that he had transmigrated here fifteen years ago. Fifteen whole years! Other people could at least spend three years playing "If you're my brother, come slash me."

But what he had been playing was the real-life version of "If you're a shinobi, come slash me"!

He had waited so many years without ever seeing it that he had already planned to give up. Besides, his current strength was not bad either.

It had been fifteen years since Uchiha Habara transmigrated here. He had been incredibly lucky; because he had been too young, he avoided the most frenzied period of the Third Great Ninja War.

He had only gone to the battlefield near the end of the war alongside Uchiha Shisui, who was both his classmate and the same age as him, and experienced the cruelty of war.

Still, as a transmigrator, although he found the battlefield's brutality unbearable, he possessed powerful Mental Energy.

Moreover, he had always known exactly how the Sharingan evolved. Thus, throughout those fifteen years, he had constantly sought ways to improve his Sharingan.

By now, despite being only fifteen, he and Shisui had both been hailed as among the clan's most outstanding geniuses.

But Habara knew perfectly well that he was far inferior to Shisui. That Kid possessed the potential to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Although Habara himself knew how to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, he had yet to find the right emotion to activate it.

The Mangekyō Sharingan did not require you to kill the person closest to you. What it needed was an extreme mental stimulus and emotional upheaval.

Therefore, killing someone closest to you was the simplest method, but that method did not suit him at all.

After all, once he knew about this method, he would naturally be mentally prepared. It was a person's instinctive self-protection. He did not even need to try to know that he would inevitably fail.

"Without the Mangekyō Sharingan, there's No Way to deal with Uchiha Itachi going insane. In the end, I'll probably just become a Departed Soul beneath that guy's blade."

Fifteen years had passed. It was now almost the fifty-fifth year of Konoha, which meant there was less than a year before Uchiha Itachi made his move.

Furthermore, the atmosphere within the clan had become increasingly oppressive, as though a storm was about to descend.

Habara knew about that tragedy, yet he had no way to resolve it. Therefore, there was only one thing he could do—run!

He had already begun packing his belongings, preparing to turn around and flee at the right opportunity. If he could not provoke them, could he not at least hide from them?

If he ran and kept a low profile, he would have a slim chance of survival. If he stayed, he would certainly die. The choice seemed obvious.

Yet today, as he was planning where exactly to flee, a panel suddenly appeared at the corner of his vision.

The information on that panel instantly made Habara's face turn green. He had never imagined that his damned Cheat/System would activate at such a time.

Activating was one thing, but it had actually bound him to the Uchiha Clan?

Did that count as being kidnapped?

And how much longer could the Uchiha Clan even survive?

At most, it was a year. Strictly speaking, whether they even had ten months was questionable!

Even if the Uchiha Clan were saved now, what about the future?

Not to mention that guy who flew through the sky shouting about a bag of rice and flattened Konoha in one blow, even that so-called Chunin Exams could cost them quite a few people if they were not careful.

"Fuck, this isn't binding me to a family. It's basically binding me to Konoha as well! And it's not like I can take the whole clan and run away."

If he ignored Konoha, then when Konoha was in trouble, the clan would suffer along with it.

If he took the clan and ran, never mind whether anyone would listen to him—even if they did, would Konoha really let them leave?

Thinking of this, Uchiha Habara felt even more depressed and overwhelmed. But now that things had come to this, he had no good solution.

Still, he now knew that he could not run away at all. Who Knows, if he fled outside and Uchiha Itachi made his move, he might inexplicably die.

That would be far too great a loss. It did not matter if Other People died, but he absolutely could not die!

Shook Head helplessly, he could only try his best to think of a solution while seeing what else this system contained.

Current Binding: Uchiha Clan

Current Status: Extremely terrible—The clan was in a state of severe internal division, while enemies watched from outside.

Prosperity: 8848 (The basic prosperity of a normal family was 10000)

Suggestion: End the clan's division as soon as possible, stabilize its internal environment, and unite everyone who could be united to face the coming crisis together.

"Fuck, even you know how rotten the Uchiha Clan is right now! Then why did you activate now? It would have been better if you never activated for the rest of my life!"

Uchiha Habara could no longer hold it in when he saw this and directly cursed out loud. Fortunately, there was no one around, or people might have looked at him as though he were insane.

Just how chaotic and divided was the Uchiha Clan?

It was simple. One only had to look at the Beacon of Freedom across the Pacific in Habara's previous life.

There was an inherent class conflict between clan members who could become shinobi and those who could not.

And after becoming shinobi, there was another class conflict between those who could awaken the Sharingan and those who could not.

The Uchiha had also turned the Military Police Force into a "family business," creating yet another class conflict between those who could enter the Military Police Force and those who could not.

Beyond that, the Uchiha Clan was divided into two major factions: the war-minded Hawk Faction and the peace-minded Dove Faction.

The two factions fought endlessly. Other than actually coming to blows, they had done nearly everything, and everyone in the entire clan had been forced to choose a side.

In short, the Uchiha Clan embraced chaos in every possible way and split apart however it could.

What slightly improved Uchiha Habara's expression, however, was that the system had given him some things at least.

The Host was bound to the family. As the family prospered, the Host could gain more power.
Based on the family's current situation, the Host could obtain three ability training methods.

Sky Dance Technique: Allowed the user to fly through the air with the aid of chakra.

Secret Technique: Chidori: Allowed the user to throw kunai infused with Lightning Release Chakra. Each one possessed the power of Chidori. (Those without a Lightning Style affinity could obtain it through this skill.)

Glorious Evolution: Allowed the user to obtain Power Fragments by killing enemies, thereby enhancing one of your own abilities. (Available uses: 1/1)