Uchiha orphan, so what if I'm ruthless?

Uchiha Taiga suppressed his slightly excited emotions and then willed it in his mind.

'Lottery!'

This system was great in every way, except that he could only draw from the lottery once a year, which was a bit frustrating.

If he could draw every day, he would have left Konoha a long time ago.

As soon as the thought arose, the system panel in front of him suddenly erupted with a burst of colorful light that only he could see.

The light exploded from the center of the panel, scattering multicolored specks in all directions before converging into a swirling, dazzling orb of light.

Red light, blue light, purple light, gold light—each color corresponded to a type of ability.

It could be a Kekkei Genkai, a secret jutsu, or some rare ability he had never seen before. The colors shifted rapidly, so fast that he couldn't even distinguish what each color represented.

He stared at the lights, his heartbeat quickening slightly. After all, it was a lottery. Even with his composed mindset, it was hard to avoid emotional fluctuations during moments like this.

Before long, the shifting lights began to slow down.

From fast to slow, from frantic to gradual.

The colors no longer jumped wildly like before, but ticked down notch by notch, as if someone were slowly turning a dial.

The red faded.

The blue faded.

The purple faded.

Even the gold faded away.

Until finally, it settled on a flowing, pure white light.

The white light wasn't blinding; instead, it was soft, glowing like a piece of smooth jade. It rested quietly in the center of the panel, no longer changing.

Then, the light condensed.

The white light slowly solidified on the panel, sketching out lines and revealing a silhouette. First came two oval shapes, followed by the details within.

Pupils, irises, the corners of the eyes.

It was a pair of eyes, identical in shape to his own, but completely different on the inside.

White sclera.

Irises as pure white as translucent diamonds. No black, no red, only white.

A pure, crystal-clear white without a single trace of impurity.

Byakugan!!!

Uchiha Taiga froze.

He stared at the pair of eyes on the panel, his expression slowly changing.

"Byakugan?"

His voice was a little tight.

"No way... how could it be the Byakugan?"

An indescribable emotion surged in his heart, best categorized as sheer bewilderment.

He had considered many possibilities—stronger taijutsu, more powerful ninjutsu, perhaps even Wood Style.

But he had never considered the Byakugan, the dojutsu of the Hyuga clan.

Especially since he already possessed the Sharingan, this outcome felt utterly baffling no matter how he looked at it.

He, an Uchiha, had drawn the Byakugan from the lottery.

What was this?

Was the system playing a joke on him?

The pair of eyes on the panel did not answer his question. The light completely dissipated, and the Byakugan turned into a streak of light that merged into his ability bar.

A new line of text appeared in the ability bar.

Byakugan (Fusing).

Having experienced the Sage Body, Uchiha Taiga naturally understood what this situation meant.

In simple terms, the Byakugan wasn't a foreign object being implanted, but was genuinely growing out from within his own body. It was a process.

Immediately after, he felt a tingling soreness emanating from his eyes.

It wasn't painful or itchy, just sore and numb. The sensation was strange, as if someone were gently pricking his eyeballs with an extremely fine needle, or as if something were stretching his eyes from the inside out.

He stood up and walked over to the full-length mirror in the living room.

The mirror reflected his face—a fourteen-year-old boy with handsome features and slightly long hair falling by his ears. He looked at his own eyes; black irises, black pupils, no different from usual.

But looking closely, he could spot some subtle changes.

The color of his irises seemed less deep. They hadn't suddenly become much lighter, but there was a definite fading trend.

That blackness was being diluted bit by bit by something.

With a thought, he activated his Sharingan.

The black pupils were dyed crimson, and three tomoe slowly surfaced.

The Sharingan was normal, without any abnormalities.

The rotation of the tomoe was smooth, and the output of his visual prowess was stable.

He pushed it further.

Mangekyo Sharingan!

The pattern on his irises emerged, lines extending outward from the pupil like a camera shutter.

The crimson background and black patterns were exactly the same as before. There were no changes, no anomalies; it activated perfectly.

He stared at the Mangekyo in the mirror and carefully felt it out.

His visual prowess... was growing?

It was growing as if being nourished by something.

In truth, his Mangekyo's visual prowess had already been growing. Ever since he fused with the Sage Body, this growth had never stopped.

Fundamentally, it was the ultimate Yang Style of the Sage Body nourishing the ultimate Yin Style of the Mangekyo. The two had reached a delicate balance within his body. Although he hadn't yet reached the level of the Creation of All Things, he was definitely marching in that direction.

His Sage Body was on par with Hagoromo Otsutsuki's. However, compared to Hagoromo Otsutsuki, who could naturally evolve the Byakugan into the Rinnegan, Taiga was naturally lacking.

After all, compared to Hagoromo Otsutsuki, he lacked a mother named Otsutsuki Kaguya, and similarly lacked the chakra originating from Otsutsuki Kaguya.

If he wanted to possess the Rinnegan, it would naturally require a process.

But now, this growth speed had accelerated. The fusion of the Byakugan was speeding up this process.

Uchiha Taiga stood in front of the mirror, fell silent for a moment, and raised a hand to rub his eyes.

"This is bad."

He seemed to have thought of something, and his expression suddenly turned bizarre.

"I've fucking become a mutt."

A mutt of the Uchiha and the Hyuga.

If he walked out with a pair of Byakugan, what would others think?

His parents in this life were both named Uchiha, so how did two Uchihas give birth to a Byakugan?

What a mess.

He lowered his hand and continued staring at himself in the mirror.

The Mangekyo was still spinning, the crimson hue reflecting on his face, making him look somewhat ethereal.

Then, he felt another change.

Chakra.

The chakra within his body began to grow active.

It was as if something had awakened inside him, calling out to his chakra, and his chakra was responding to that call.

Starting from his eyes, it traveled down his meridian system, spreading throughout his entire body.

Every single cell was quivering slightly.

He could feel the chakra throughout his entire body celebrating.

Celebrating the birth of the Byakugan.

This was a bit hard to process.

Uchiha Taiga closed his eyes and felt it carefully.

The chakra seemed active but not chaotic, as if his body had entered a rapid growth phase. Even his chakra reserves were increasing imperceptibly.

He opened his eyes.

"Could it be that the fusion of the Byakugan triggered some underlying logic of the Sage Body?"

He couldn't figure it out just yet.

But he guessed that there must be a connection between the two.

The Sage Body was the ultimate Yang Style, and the Byakugan was the Kekkei Genkai of the Hyuga clan, which was essentially also the eyes of the Otsutsuki clan.

Yang Style nourished the body, and the body hosted the Byakugan. There might really be some connection between them that he hadn't figured out yet.

As for what he would become after the fusion was complete, he didn't know yet, but he could wait.

The only thing he cared slightly about was the Hyuga clan.

The Byakugan was the lifeblood of the Hyuga, and every pair of Byakugan was treated as the clan's core secret. If they found out that a pair of Byakugan was out in the wild, and on an Uchiha no less, who knew how they would react.

But on second thought, he stopped worrying.

Just like his discord with the Uchiha clan, his evaluation of the Hyuga clan was even lower than that of the Uchiha.

Trash!

A bunch of garbage clinging to the Caged Bird seal, dividing their clansmen into the Main House and the Branch House. Calling them trash was a compliment.

If they really wanted to try and assert their dominance over him, it would be quite a show.

Uchiha Taiga withdrew his thoughts and took another look at himself in the mirror.

The fusion of the Byakugan would take time, but based on his previous experience fusing the Sage Body, the process wouldn't be too long.

Maybe a few days, maybe a few weeks, but it wouldn't exceed a month at most.

What would he become once the fusion was complete?

He didn't know, but he was looking forward to it.

Looking at the system panel again, there were already obvious changes on it.