System Activated

The sixth year of Konoha, the main residence of the Hyuga Main House.

Hyuga Hoshishaku looked at the ten summoning tickets accumulated on the system panel before him, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.

Six years.

It had been six years since he arrived in the world of Naruto.

Ever since he was an infant, he had discovered that he was bound to the Naruto Mobile Game System.

Yet, this system offered no check-in rewards, no starter gift packs, and provided him with no gratuitous assistance.

Aside from an attribute panel, it possessed only three functions: Gacha, Missions, and Exploration.

And the damn mission panel was filled with tasks he had absolutely no ability to complete.

For instance, defeating three ninjas every day.

Exploring outside for one hour daily.

Purchasing food outside every day to replenish stamina, and so on.

These missions were simply impossible for a child of a strictly regulated noble clan to complete.

Therefore, starting from the age of four, despite Hyuga Hoshishaku trying every possible method to complete the tasks, he could manage at most one mission per day.

Sometimes, it even took him two or three days to finish a single task.

It wasn't until he was six that he had stumbled and scraped together enough for a ten-pull.

"System, Gacha!"

As Hyuga Hoshishaku used the ten summoning tickets, the system panel flashed with light, and one icon after another began to appear.

[Grade A Ninja Kakashi Fragment x4]

[Vitality +10]

[Chakra +50]

[Mental Power +10]

[Chakra +50]

[Grade C Ninja Hyuga Neji x1]

[Mental Power +10]

[Vitality +15]

[Chakra +30]

[Grade S Ninja Tsunade Fragment x5]

[System Prompt: Because Hyuga Neji also possesses the Byakugan bloodline, your Byakugan bloodline has been enhanced.]

Looking at the draw results and the system prompt, feeling the power surging into his body out of thin air, he let out a low laugh.

A single ten-pull had yielded four Kakashi fragments, five Tsunade fragments, a complete Hyuga Neji card, and a bloodline enhancement whose effects were yet to be determined.

The Grade A Ninja Kakashi required 40 fragments to form a complete card; having one-tenth of them now was certainly good news.

He had received five Grade S Tsunade fragments at once, but since it took 100 to synthesize the full card, there was no need to rush.

Of course, what pleased him most was not the distant prospect of the elite jonin Kakashi, nor the Kage-level Tsunade, but Hyuga Neji.

Although Hyuga Neji was a genin, he was a genius who possessed the Byakugan, trained diligently, and had the ability to independently develop Hyuga secret techniques!

Furthermore, in the original Chunin Exams, if Hyuga Neji hadn't encountered Naruto with his protagonist halo, he might have passed the final exam directly and become a chunin.

For the six-year-old Hyuga Hoshishaku, this complete Neji card was the most suitable ninja for him at the moment.

He carefully sensed the three taijutsu skills brought to him by Hyuga Neji.

Especially the memories of the training process for these three taijutsu techniques.

A glimmer of realization dawned in Hyuga Hoshishaku's heart.

It seemed that through characters obtained via card draws, he could directly acquire their training memories.

If that were the case, even if he drew other ninjas in the future, the attributes and abilities of different ninjas should be able to stack.

And...

He opened the attribute panel, preparing to confirm one thing.

[Name: Hyuga Hoshishaku]

[Vitality: 100 (+145)]

[Mental Power: 100 (+120)]

[Chakra: 300 (+930)]

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[Jutsu: Gentle Fist (Novice), Eight Trigrams Palms: Rotation (Proficient), Air Palm (Proficient), Gentle Fist Art: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms (Proficient)]

[Special Ability: Byakugan (Kekkei Genkai)]

[Secret Scrolls: None]

As expected, Hyuga Hoshishaku thought to himself.

Not only had he obtained the three taijutsu skills of Hyuga Neji, but he had also acquired all of the other's attributes.

Setting aside the stat boosts from the lottery, his vitality and mental energy had directly doubled, and his chakra had quadrupled from its original level.

At six years old, Hyuga Hoshishaku felt a strong urge to perform the Uchiha Clan's signature skyward laugh to vent the frustration that had built up within him for years.

However, this was, after all, the Hyuga Clan compound, where the rules were suffocatingly numerous.

He cast a glance at his coldly decorated room.

A flicker of disgust and irritation flashed in his eyes.

He immediately suppressed his surging emotions, put on his wooden sandals, and walked toward the Main Branch training ground.

As an adult in his past life, he knew deeply that after gaining power, one must learn to control it.

Although he had the memories of the training as a foundation, these abilities had, after all, appeared out of thin air.

Even without considering the issue of proficiency, he had to account for the gap in height and age between himself and Hyuga Neji.

As Hyuga Hoshishaku approached the training ground, a stifled cry of pain drifted out from within.

Judging by the voice, it was his unlucky cousin, Hyuga Yunfei.

The unlucky cousin's father had once been a candidate for the head of the Main Branch.

It was just that his talent was inferior to his older brother—Hoshishaku's father—so he had been branded with the Caged Bird Seal by their grandfather and relegated to the Branch House.

Naturally, his son had been a member of the Hyuga Branch House since birth.

These memories flashed through his mind in an instant.

Coming from the training ground as well was the grating, adolescent voice of his own foolish older brother, Hyuga Yueye:

"The child of a scapegoat is a scapegoat all the same."

"Hyuga Yunfei, I am the next heir to the Main Branch, and you are nothing but a lowly Branch House guard!"

"If you lack a sense of proportion during training again and fail to recognize your inferior status, what awaits you won't just be a warning from the Caged Bird Seal!"

Listening to his foolish brother lecture their cousin, a cold glint flashed in Hyuga Hoshishaku's eyes as he walked straight inside.

Just as he neared the door, he spoke with biting sarcasm: "A nine-year-old who can't even beat a Branch House genin is nothing but a pathetic dead-last. You rely on acting during training; I wonder how long you intend to keep up this charade of deceiving yourself and others."

"Your performance is abysmal, and the moment you run into trouble, you choose to blame others. A piece of trash like you dares to call yourself the heir to the Main Branch? Tsk tsk tsk, I'm ashamed to share the same surname as you, my foolish brother."

As he spoke, he cast a system scan on Yueye.

[Name: Hyuga Yueye]

[Vitality: 100]

[Mental Energy: 100]

[Chakra: 500]

[Jutsu: Gentle Fist (Skilled), Clone Technique, Substitution Technique, Transformation Technique]

[Special Ability: Byakugan (Kekkei Genkai)]

Beside the training ground, behind a concealed gauze screen, the clan head Hyuga Tianren, who was busy handling affairs, raised his eyebrows in surprise at these words.

He shifted his attention away from the scrolls in his hands and activated his Byakugan to look at Hyuga Hoshishaku, who had just walked into the training ground entrance.

At this sight, he was immediately astonished.

How had his youngest son's chakra suddenly increased so much?

And why was his tone so aggressive today?

Had one of the elders bullied him again?

Thinking of what might happen later, the Hyuga clan head, currently at the peak of his power, wore a thoughtful expression.

On the training ground, the boy who had been full of arrogance just moments ago felt his face flush red upon hearing his younger brother's insults.

He looked toward the door, gritting his teeth as he spat out every word: "Hyuga Hoshishaku, did you take the wrong medicine today? How dare you insult me?"

Hyuga Hoshishaku chuckled. "Not only do I dare to insult you, I dare to hit you, too."

"I've long found you an eyesore. I must teach you a lesson today so you know who is the older brother and who is the younger!"

With that, he suddenly accelerated, lightly leaping over the limp, hollow-eyed Hyuga Yunfei on the ground, and charged straight at Hyuga Yueye.

Byakugan, activate!