Identity

[My identity is a little special. Your performance yesterday made me feel that I could trust you.]

[Do you want to hear it?] After a brief pause, Uchiha Yu suddenly asked.

Hearing Yu's question, Haku fell silent as well.

They were currently in a wooden house on the edge of the village, with a private training ground beside it that looked as though someone trained there often. Looking around the simple room and noticing the obvious signs that someone lived there, Haku understood that this was where Uchiha Yu usually lived and trained.

Moreover, judging by Yu's serious attitude, the secret she was about to reveal was probably something significant. Learning it would likely put him at risk as well. But Haku estimated that if he failed to give her a satisfactory answer today, he would not be able to leave this place.

Besides, he was a transmigrator with a system. It should not be a problem to be brave once in a while, right? Although this system had collided with another system and gone into hibernation, it was still a system, at least.

What Haku did not know was that his decision to get involved in Uchiha Yu's affairs had been influenced by his Saiyan bloodline. After he was injured yesterday, his Saiyan bloodline had begun exerting its power for the first time in the true sense.

[Go ahead! If you're willing to reveal your secret, that means we're comrades now, right?]

Hearing Haku's answer, Yu's eyes briefly lost focus as she murmured,

[Comrades? I hope you won't regret learning about it.]

What puzzled Haku was that Yu did not continue speaking. Instead, she turned around.

When Yu turned around once more, Haku's pupils began to contract. Even though he had read the original story, it was only at this moment that he understood why Yu had been so cautious.

Uchiha Yu's clothes had not changed. She was still wearing the same black training outfit, and her long hair hung casually over her shoulders. If one only saw this much, combined with her delicate features, anyone would have praised her with, "What a beautiful little girl."

But when Haku looked farther up and saw those eyes, the only word he could use to describe them was bizarre.

Uchiha Yu had indeed awakened her eyes at the age of six. Her right eye was now scarlet, with a single Tomoe slowly rotating within it.

But her left eye had not awakened—or rather, it would be inaccurate to say that it had not awakened. Her left eye had awakened as well, but it was not a Sharingan.

There was not a trace of black in Yu's left eye. The blood vessels around her temple bulged, an unmistakable sign of a Byakugan awakening. Haku dared swear on his system that he could not be mistaken.

[So? This is your secret.] After a long silence, Haku could only ask this.

[Do you regret it?] Seeing Haku's reaction, Yu lowered her head.

[Regret what! I'm just marveling. Once you grow up, you'll definitely reach the level of an Elite Jonin, right? Does that mean I can just lie back and enjoy life in the future and ride your coattails?]

Haku's reaction seemed to be beyond Yu's expectations. After hearing his words, she stood rooted to the spot, as though she had yet to understand why she would have to let Haku ride her coattails in the future.

Under Haku's gaze, Yu's little face visibly flushed from fair to bright red.

Seeing that something seemed about to go wrong, Haku hurriedly interrupted Yu.

[Put your eyes away first. Tell me about your situation. I won't tell anyone about it. Don't worry.]

Hearing Haku's assurance, Yu came back to her senses. She first concealed her Byakugan and Sharingan, then put a colored contact lens over her left eye right in front of Haku.

[A colored contact lens?] Haku wondered inwardly. How could such a thing exist in the Shinobi World? If it did, how could the Hyuga clan have members of the Main Family threatened with kidnapping year after year?

[My father was a Chunin from the Uchiha clan. He died on a mission two years ago. After his death, the clan only provided me with the most basic living support.]

[I began to be ostracized and bullied by the other Uchiha children. With no other choice, I moved here and began living by myself.]

[My Sharingan showed signs of awakening when I learned of my father's death, but it didn't successfully awaken then. It wasn't until after I turned six that it finally awakened.]

[As for my Byakugan, I inherited it from my mother. She died in childbirth when she gave birth to me. As for the thing covering my eye, it was left to me by my mother.]

[My mother wasn't from the village's Hyuga clan. My father met her after being injured on a mission, but at the time, he didn't know that my mother had a Byakugan.]

[After my father was injured, my mother took care of him the entire time, and later, they had me. After giving birth to me, my mother told my father that she had a Byakugan only when she was on her deathbed. She also instructed him to take good care of me.]

[Later, my father brought me back to the village. Knowing that my eyes were forbidden and would be coveted by others, he built a small house alone in this forest and lived there with me. That continued until he met with an accident.]