When Xingye heard that most annoying voice, he was utterly terrified.
Given the system's previous utterly stupid actions, he was now extremely frightened.
He was afraid that this guy wouldn't just turn him into a child, but would turn him into a single-celled organism.
[Host: Xingye]
[Ninjutsu: None]
[Taijutsu: None]
[Genjutsu: None]
[Summoning Beast: None]
[Chakra Amount: None]
[Bloodline Limit: None]
[Overall Strength: Trash]
[Other: None]
Upon seeing the text suddenly appear in his mind, Xingye knew his system was finally working properly.
Having thoroughly read various light novels—no, various fictional novels—he immediately recognized this as the character panel!
Seeing his own screen completely empty, all marked as "None," and his strength rating still "Trash," he closed the panel without a second thought.
[Task 1: Make one of the heroines, Uzumaki Mito, develop a favorability rating of 80 towards the host! Progress (20/100)]
[Reward: Complete Immortal Body!!! One of the Uzumaki bloodlines.]
When he saw the task issued by the system, his hair stood on end; he knew without even looking that it was bad news.
After reading the full details of the task, as he expected, it was indeed designed to mess with him.
"I'm only three years old!! How do you expect me to get Uzumaki Mito to develop a favorability rating of 80 towards me?"
"I'm going to sue you for employing child labor!"
At this moment, Xingye's mind was racing with a million "Damn it!" curses.
[Ding! Objection invalid, and besides, host, you have nowhere to sue me, hehe.]
After cursing the system a few times, his mood improved considerably.
And when he saw the reward, he reluctantly accepted the task.
Although it wasn't a complete immortal body, the bloodline of the Uzumaki clan was still incredibly powerful.
"But how do I increase her affection? I'm only three years old, and Uzumaki Mito is probably over thirty by now."
"How could I possibly fall in love with a three-year-old who hasn't even grown any hair yet? She's not a pervert."
At this moment, Xingye encountered the biggest problem of his life.
Question: How to make a beautiful woman in her thirties fall in love with a three-year-old child!
Just when he was at his wit's end, the unreliable system gave him an unfinished request.
[Ding! Favorability isn't necessarily love; it can also be the affection between family members! Host, your thoughts are too dirty!]
Upon seeing the system's explanation, his lips twitched.
"It's clearly you who didn't explain the situation clearly! It's absolutely not that I wanted to be a traitor! Absolutely not!"
Time slowly passed as he bickered with the system.
Starry Night, now only three years old, couldn't stay awake for long and had unknowingly fallen asleep.
While holding him, Mito Uzumaki smiled slightly upon seeing the little guy asleep.
She assumed he had listened to her complaints and fallen asleep.
Little did she know, Starry Night hadn't actually listened to much; he was just tired of arguing with his system.
Mito Uzumaki grew increasingly fond of the little guy.
"Since you've appeared in my room, it means we're destined to meet. Tomorrow, go ask Tobirama, Hashirama's younger brother, if anyone in the village has lost a child."
"And then nothing, little one, you're mine from now on…"
"I've adopted a little brother!"
She had originally intended to adopt this little one as her child, but for some inexplicable reason, she suddenly didn't want to.
Uzumaki Mito shook her head, no longer dwelling on such a small matter, and began to think about the little one's name.
Just as she was thinking of a name, her eyes inadvertently caught a glimpse of the night sky through the window.
The sky was completely clear, filled with a galaxy of stars, dazzling and beautiful, each star hanging against the black night backdrop.
The words "Starry Night" suddenly appeared in her mind.
Uzumaki Mito looked down tenderly at the little one in her arms, and then whispered:
"Let's call you 'Starry Night.' We won't add a surname, because you belong neither to the Senju clan nor the Uzumaki clan."
"You belong only to me! You are the best gift God has given me!"
…
A thousand years in a glance, the world changes.
After arriving in the ninja world under the starlight, time flew by, though not a true thousand years had passed.
Three years had already gone by in the blink of an eye.
He was now six years old, and during that time he had made many friends his own age and even some playmates.
But most of them were just his little shadows, since his mental age was already over 20, and he naturally wouldn't play with children a few years old.
This resulted in those little brats becoming his shadows because of his mature personality, and he couldn't shake them off.
Just as Hoshino sat on the roof of the Senju clan's ancestral home, lost in thought,
a clump of grass on the ground swayed slightly.
A less alert person might have mistaken it for grass rustling in the wind.
But Hoshino, who had been trained as a ninja by Mito Uzumaki since the age of four, didn't see it that way.
"Little Tsunade, don't hide anymore, I can see you."
Hoshino looked down at Tsunade, whose little bottom was peeking out, and thought she was quite cute.
Tsunade.
Six years old this year, the same age as him. Although she was currently thin, in a decade or so, she would be generous and wealthy—wealthy in appearance, not in wallet.
The woman nicknamed "Cow Chariot" by netizens is a gambling addict and the granddaughter of Mito Uzumaki.
However, through casual inquiries he made with Mito since childhood, he discovered that Tsunade might not be Mito's biological granddaughter.
This question had actually been on his mind since watching Naruto; she's clearly the granddaughter of both Hashirama Senju, who possesses the Senju bloodline, and the Uzumaki bloodline.
But her blonde hair is very unusual.
At first, he thought that one of Tsunade's fathers or mothers was blond, but he eventually found out from Mito Uzumaki.
She herself was Hashirama Senju's second wife, while Tsunade was the granddaughter of Hashirama Senju's first wife.
Just as Hoshino was pondering, Tsunade, hiding in the bushes, visibly trembled upon hearing the sound. She clearly hadn't expected her perfect disguise to be seen through!
"Don't call me Tsunade! You stinky Hoshino! Now that I've been discovered, I'll attack!"
Once discovered, Tsunade abandoned her disguise and jumped onto the roof, using the landing point on the house as a springboard.
Then, he took out his cheap wooden kunai and attacked Hoshino.
Hoshino, clearly familiar with her personality, knew she would charge in if discovered.
Without hesitation, he slightly shifted his body, easily dodging Tsunade's kunai attack.
Then, with fluid grace, he grabbed her small hand, turned, and bound her body from behind.
His other hand gently pinched Tsunade's chin, rendering her completely immobile.
Hoshino whispered in her ear:
"By seniority, I'm Mito-neechan's younger brother, higher in rank than you, so naturally I can call you Tsunade."
"Well, have you given up yet?"
Feeling a sudden warmth near her ear, Tsunade's cheeks flushed slightly.
But still stubbornly persisting, she feigned defiance and said,
"Hmph, I won't admit defeat! If it weren't for Grandma Mito always secretly giving you extra training, I wouldn't have lost to you."
Tsunade's cheeks puffed out, clearly very unhappy that her grandmother favored this guy more.
Hoshino smiled awkwardly upon hearing this, then released Tsunade from his arms.
Uzumaki Mito truly treated him like her own son, fulfilling almost every wish.
It could be said that she poured all her emotions into him.
Even more than her granddaughter.
However, his superior strength compared to Tsunade wasn't entirely due to Uzumaki Mito's training.
It was more because he possessed the bloodline of the Uzumaki clan, a reward naturally given by the system after completing a mission.
After three years of living and working with Uzumaki Mito day and night, he had successfully raised her favorability rating to 80!
During this time, he had spent far more time with Mito than with Tsunade, his granddaughter.
They were practically inseparable, thanks to the past two years and the flirting techniques he'd learned on Earth.
Finally, he'd landed this mission!
"What are you thinking about? Hurry up, or the Ninja Academy classes will be over!"
Tsunade shook Hoshino, bringing him back to reality.
"Okay, let's go."
He'd taken away a large portion of the affection that Mito Uzumaki usually showed Tsunade, but this hadn't affected their friendly relationship.
In fact, compared to Tsunade's relationship with Mito, she was clearly closer to him.
Because he'd taken away Mito's affection from her, he himself had become even kinder to Tsunade.
Thus, they became close childhood friends.
...
(Little Tsunade, hands on her hips, pretending to be angry, said, "Since you've taken away Grandma Mito's affection, then you must Show some Affection to this book.)