System Activated

In year six of Konoha, at the Hyuga Main Family's estate.

Hyuga Hoshishaku looked at the ten Summoning Tickets saved up on the System Panel before him, a faint smile playing on his lips.

Six years.

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

Ever since he was a baby, he'd known that he was bound to the Naruto Mobile Game System.

But this system had no daily rewards, no beginner's gift pack, and no free help to offer.

Aside from a status panel, it had only three functions: summoning, missions, and inspection.

And the damn mission panel was full of tasks he had no way of completing.

For example, defeat three ninjas every day.

Explore outside for an hour each day.

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

These were tasks a child in a well-regulated, powerful clan simply couldn't complete.

So, starting at the age of four, Hyuga Hoshishaku had tried every way he could think of to complete his missions, but at most he managed one a day.

Sometimes he could only complete one every two or three days.

It wasn't until he turned six that he'd finally scraped together enough for a ten-pull.

"System, summon!"

Hyuga Hoshishaku used ten Summoning Tickets.

A flash of light swept across the System Panel, and one icon after another appeared.

[A-Rank Ninja Kakashi Fragment x4]

[Vitality +10]

[Chakra +50]

[Spiritual Energy +10]

[Chakra +50]

[C-Rank Ninja Hyuga Neji x1]

[Spiritual Energy +10]

[Vitality +15]

[Chakra +30]

[S-Rank Ninja Princess Tsunade Fragment x5]

[System Notice: Since Hyuga Neji also possesses Byakugan blood, your Byakugan bloodline has been enhanced.]

Looking at the results and the system notice, he felt the power that had suddenly filled his body and chuckled under his breath.

One ten-pull had given him four Kakashi fragments, five Princess Tsunade fragments, a full Hyuga Neji card, and a bloodline enhancement whose effects he couldn't yet make sense of.

It took forty fragments to assemble an A-Rank Ninja Kakashi card. He had a tenth of them now, which was good news.

The S-Rank Princess Tsunade card required a hundred fragments, and he'd gotten five at once. There was no need to rush.

Of course, what made him happiest wasn't the promise of Kakashi, an elite Jonin, or Princess Tsunade's Kage Level strength. It was Hyuga Neji.

Though Hyuga Neji was a Genin,

he had the Byakugan, trained relentlessly, and was a genius capable of developing Hyuga secret techniques on his own!

Besides,

during the Chunin Ninja Exams in the original story, if Hyuga Neji hadn't faced Naruto, who had the protagonist's plot armor, he might have passed the final exam outright and become a Chunin.

For six-year-old Hyuga Hoshishaku, Neji was the most suitable ninja card he could get right now.

As he carefully sensed the three Taijutsu skills Hyuga Neji had given him,

especially the memories of practicing those three techniques,

Hyuga Hoshishaku gained a sudden insight.

It seemed that when he obtained a character through summoning, he could directly access that person's training memories.

If so, then even if he summoned other ninjas in the future, their attributes and abilities should stack.

And also...

He opened the status panel, ready to confirm something.

[Name: Hyuga Hoshishaku]

[Vitality: 100 (+145)]

[Spiritual Energy: 100 (+120)]

[Chakra: 300 (+930)]

[Technique: Gentle Fist (Beginner), Eight Trigrams Palm: Rotation (Proficient), Air Palm (Proficient), Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms (Proficient)]

[Special Ability: Byakugan (Kekkei Genkai)]

[Secret Scroll: None]

Just as he'd thought, Hyuga Hoshishaku mused.

He'd gained not only Hyuga Neji's three Taijutsu skills but also all of his attributes.

Even without counting the numbers from the summons, his vitality and spiritual energy had doubled, while his chakra had quadrupled.

At that moment, six-year-old Hyuga Hoshishaku badly wanted to learn the Uchiha Clan's signature head-thrown-back laugh, to release the frustration he'd been bottling up for years.

But this was, after all, the Hyuga Clan compound, a place overflowing with rules.

He glanced around the plainly furnished room.

A trace of disgust and irritation crossed his eyes.

Then, suppressing his surging emotions, he put on his wooden sandals and headed for the Main Family training ground.

Having been an adult in his previous life, he knew all too well that once you gained power, you had to learn to control it.

He had the memories of training to rely on, but these abilities had appeared out of nowhere.

Even setting aside the question of how to use them,

he still had to account for the difference in height and age between himself and Hyuga Neji.

As Hyuga Hoshishaku approached the training ground, a muffled cry of pain came from inside.

From the sound of it, it was probably his unlucky cousin, Hyuga Yunfei.

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

But he had lacked the talent of his older brother, who was Hoshishaku's father, so their grandfather had branded him with the Caged Bird Seal, making him a member of the Branch Family.

Naturally, his son had been born into the Hyuga Branch Family.

These memories flashed through his mind.

From the training ground came the nasal voice of his foolish older brother, Hyuga Yueye, too:

"A scapegoat's child is a scapegoat too."

"Hyuga Yunfei, I'm the heir to the next Main Family head, while you're nothing but a lowly Branch Family guard!"

"If you still can't control yourself next time we train, if you can't remember your place beneath me, the Caged Bird won't be the only warning you get!"

Hearing his foolish brother lecture their cousin, a cold glint flashed in Hyuga Hoshishaku's eyes. He headed straight inside.

As soon as he reached the doorway, he mocked, "A nine-year-old can't even beat a Branch Family Genin. You're a useless dead-last, and all your training is just an act. I wonder how long you plan to keep fooling everyone—including yourself."

"Your performance is terrible, and the moment anything goes wrong, you blame someone else. And a piece of trash like you dares to call himself the heir to the Main Family head? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I'm ashamed to share your surname, you foolish brother."

As he spoke, he used System Inspection on Yueye.

[Name: Hyuga Yueye]

[Vitality: 100]

[Spiritual Energy: 100]

[Chakra: 500]

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

[Special Ability: Byakugan (Kekkei Genkai)]

Beside the training ground, beyond a concealed gauze screen, Hyuga Tianren, the clan head, was attending to his affairs. Hearing this, he raised his brows in surprise.

He turned his attention away from the scroll in his hands and activated his Byakugan, looking toward Hyuga Hoshishaku as he entered the training ground.

The sight left him astonished.

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

And why was he so confrontational today?

Had one of the elders bullied him again?

Thinking about what might happen next,

the Hyuga Clan Head, at the peak of his strength, wore a contemplative expression.

On the training ground, the boy who had been looking so haughty now heard his younger brother insulting him, and his little face flushed bright red.

He looked toward the entrance and gritted out each word. "Hyuga Hoshishaku, have you lost your mind 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 been sick of you for ages. Today I'm going to teach you a lesson and show you who's the older brother and who's the younger!"

As he spoke, he suddenly sped up, lightly leaping over Hyuga Yunfei, who lay limp on the ground with vacant eyes, and charged straight at Hyuga Yueye.

Byakugan, activate!