This year's New Year's Festival is the worst one yet.
This was genuinely what Hakushi thought.
The reason was the daughter Ruri had given birth to for him.
Nearly two months had passed since the day of birth, arriving at the evening of the festival in January of the following year.
At this moment, Hakushi did not participate in the lively festival outside but stayed in the monotonous and dull laboratory, locking his daughter in a cage made of Chakra metal for experimental observation.
Ruri and Ayane, who had returned from the Land of Earth, were also here accompanying Hakushi. The former was worried; the latter needed to use her Byakugan.
In addition, there was one Jonin each from the Uchiha Race and the Uzumaki Clan to assist them, as some matters needed to be understood from them.
Imprisoned in the cage made of Chakra metal, the baby girl grasped the metal bars with her plump little hands, her eyes flickering with a red light—that was the Sharingan.
And it had evolved to the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, the limit of a normal Sharingan.
The smile on her lips carried a touch of innocence and a hint of evil, giving an overall impression of ferocity.
While one hand gripped a metal bar, she wailed wildly, as though she were a frenzied beast and not a baby girl.
In her eyes, there was almost no trace of rationality, instead, she seemed to be in an abnormal frenzy for some unknown reason.
Ayane activated her Byakugan, beginning to inspect the meridian system within the baby girl's body, a heavy look on her face.
"This amount of Chakra isn't something a child could have; it far exceeds the Chakra amount of a normal Jonin. It's practically like a newborn Tailed Beast."
Ayane gave such an evaluation.
She had personally observed Tailed Beasts with her Byakugan, including battling the Fourth Raikage, who had Tailed Beast Level Chakra, several times over the past few months.
Hence, she concluded that the Chakra volume within this baby girl was an abnormal form that defies Ninja common sense.
If it were a Tailed Beast itself, it would make sense, but the one before them wasn't a Tailed Beast—merely a newborn baby less than two months old.
For the first time in twenty years, Ayane felt like she'd seen a ghost.
Though reluctant to admit it, this baby girl surpassed her in terms of Chakra volume.
This was no different from the nonsense stories in old tales.
The Jonin from the Uzumaki Clan on the side also used Perception Ninjutsu to examine and said, "It's not just the powerful Chakra. Our Uzumaki Clan's Perception Ninjutsu can differentiate every Ninja's Chakra traits. Ms. Ichihime's Chakra traits are the strangest I've ever seen. It's not quite evil, nor does it align with coldness; it's simply pure chaos. According to reason, Chakra, when disordered to this degree, would directly erupt from inside the Ninja, dispersing into the air."
This is just like how a Ninja cannot control Tailed Beast Chakra from reckless absorption, and because of the excessively turbulent power, the body cannot withstand it, leading the berserk Tailed Beast Chakra to explode from within, dispersing into the air, thus resolving their crisis.
However, this baby girl, named 'Chiba Ichihime' by Hakushi, contained such extremely chaotic Chakra within her, and instead of releasing it from within, she compressed it violently within her body.
This method puzzled and confused the Jonin from the Uzumaki Clan.
It was the first time he'd seen such a situation and didn't know how to explain this problem beyond his comprehension.
Presumably, the abnormal Three-Tomoe Sharingan was also a product of some unknown mutation caused by this extraordinarily frenzied state.
"Ruri, has anything like this happened before in the Uchiha Race?"
Frowning, Hakushi asked if such incidents had occurred in the Uchiha Race in the past.
Ruri looked worriedly at her daughter in the metal cage and shook her head as she answered, "As far as I know, newborns in the clan haven't shown such anomalies before."
Less than two months old and already self-activating the Three-Tomoe Sharingan—this fact is too shocking and terrifying.
Moreover, since birth, her Chakra has been increasing at an unnaturally fast pace. Although accumulated Chakra at this moment couldn't compare to a Tailed Beast, at such an exponential growth rate, matching or even surpassing a Tailed Beast is only a matter of time.
More than joy, Ruri was more worried that this abnormal state might cause significant problems for her daughter's future.
To this, Hakushi had no good solution either.
Since Ichihime's birth, her Chakra has accumulated rapidly each day, and her temper has become increasingly aggressive.
Initially, Hakushi didn't pay much attention, merely considering it his daughter's extraordinary talent.
Until a few days ago, when she suddenly activated the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and her Chakra erupted in an unusual state, startling Hakushi.
To prevent injuring his daughter, Hakushi spent a great deal of effort to control her.
However, merely restraining her actions was to no avail.
One thing was clear: his daughter Ichihime possessed talent incomparable to ordinary people. This extraordinary growth state concerned both Hakushi and Ruri.
"There's no other way. It seems we'll have to temporarily control her with medication and Sealing Techniques. Later, once she's grown up a bit, we'll teach her how to guide this power within her body."