As a transmigrator, Izayoi's narrative level was exceptionally high, at least higher than anyone else on this planet.
A thousand years had passed, and many people believed that the Sage of Six Paths and the Ninja Sect were merely figures and forces from mythological tales.
But Izayoi knew it was all true.
He also knew that the Sage of Six Paths had a mother and a younger brother.
After the two brothers joined forces to seal their mother, the Sage of Six Paths became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and embarked on a journey of atonement.
Meanwhile, Hamura Otsutsuki took wives and concubines, expanding his family through offspring.
When the Sage of Six Paths was no longer the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, he placed the Gedo Statue on the moon.
To guard the Gedo Statue, Hamura Otsutsuki led a portion of the Otsutsuki Clan to settle on the moon.
The branch of the clan that remained on Earth gradually evolved into the Hyuga Clan over the millennia.
Just as the Sage of Six Paths possessed the Ultimate Eye Technique, the Rinnegan, his two sons had the potential to awaken the Rinnegan if their polarities merged.
Hamura Otsutsuki also possessed an Ultimate Eye Technique, the Tenseigan, which held the power of destruction and creation.
His descendants, as long as they met conditions similar to the "merging of polarities," had the potential to awaken the Tenseigan.
Moreover, unlike the difficulty of obtaining the Rinnegan, there was a secret method to fuse a large number of Byakugan into a Tenseigan.
The Otsutsuki Clan on the moon was destroyed because of the latter.
Now, the only one left on the moon should be Toneri Otsutsuki.
At the age of three, Izayoi had a sudden realization and temporarily abandoned the idea of copying the talents of Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, as he thought of Toneri Otsutsuki.
As the last descendant of the branch family of the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon, Toneri Otsutsuki possessed pure Otsutsuki bloodline. His level of ancestral reversion was equivalent to that of Asura Otsutsuki and Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
This purity granted Toneri Otsutsuki a talent akin to the Sage Body.
Uchiha Madara only awakened the Rinnegan after fusing with Senju Hashirama's cells, and it took him until his old age.
In contrast, Toneri Otsutsuki only needed a few days to evolve his Byakugan into the Tenseigan.
Upon awakening, he could immediately enter the Tenseigan Chakra Mode, condense Truth-Seeking Balls, and unleash the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, which could split the moon.
His talent and Chakra were even more astonishing than those of Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke.
If he were to come to Earth from the moon, he would undoubtedly be the most overpowered character.
If he brought down the medium for using the Giant Tenseigan, then unless Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama were resurrected, or the Sage of Six Paths intervened, the Shinobi World would be under his control.
If he were ruthless enough to seize Hinata or Hanabi's Byakugan in advance, there would be no "Shippuden," only the "Legend of Toneri."
Unfortunately, Toneri Otsutsuki was a chuunibyou otaku. Unless he reached adulthood, he wouldn't descend from the moon unless he was certain that the Shinobi World was beyond saving.
However, Izayoi knew that Toneri Otsutsuki had once visited Earth and the Leaf Village during his childhood, before his father's death. Through the medium of the Giant Tenseigan, he secretly caught a glimpse of Hinata.
He fell in love with her at first sight but did not disturb her life, instead planning to come down with an ancient promise to propose when he reached adulthood.
Little did he know that his "fiancée" already had someone she loved, and his feelings were one-sided.
Izayoi had no comment about this foolish, chuunibyou otaku.
He speculated that the year Toneri Otsutsuki came must have been when Hinata was three years old.
Because after her third birthday, the death of Hizashi Hyuga, who died in place of his brother, caused a slight change in Hinata's status.
The personality she displayed afterward further disappointed her father, Hiashi Hyuga, in his eldest daughter.
Hinata's most lavish birthday celebration was when she turned three. Thus, Izayoi decided to take a gamble.
He would use his only chance to copy a talent on Toneri Otsutsuki.
There would be plenty of opportunities to obtain the talents of Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke, but Toneri's talent was a one-time chance. If he missed it, he would have to wait until two years after the end of the Shippuden arc.
Now, the personal information displayed on the screen confirmed that Izayoi had gambled correctly.
He hadn't just wandered around the Hyuga Clan on the day of Hinata's third birthday; he had been wandering around all year.
Appearances could be deceiving, but talent bubbles never lied.
Being able to see the bubbles above a target, no matter how Toneri Otsutsuki and his father disguised themselves, as long as they weren't puppets or invisible, they couldn't escape Izayoi's eyes.
Fortune favors the diligent. Through Izayoi's efforts and caution, he finally spotted the blind Toneri Otsutsuki and his father in the crowd on Hinata's third birthday, which also coincided with the day the Cloud Ninja envoy arrived in the Leaf Village.
It must be said, the Cloud Ninja envoy was truly lucky.
If that father and son had stayed until nightfall and dared to kidnap Hinata, it would have been disastrous.
However, the pair only used the medium of the giant Tenseigan to take a distant look at Hinata, who wasn't attending the celebration but was celebrating her birthday within the clan, before leaving the Leaf Village.
Toneri Otsutsuki, born without eyes, didn't possess the talent bubble for the Kekkei Genkai: Byakugan.
Nor did he have any other low-level talents. There was only one grand, red bubble—the Otsutsuki Bloodline.
Izayoi had seen this talent on members of the Hyuga Clan before, but the colors were different.
The Otsutsuki Bloodline talent on those individuals was, at most, blue.
Even Toneri's father's Otsutsuki Bloodline talent was only purple, not even gold.
Only Toneri's talent color surpassed gold, reaching the currently known highest level—red.
Without hesitation, Izayoi copied that talent.
In the following three years, Izayoi began to defy fate.
After completing his first Chakra extraction, Izayoi's talent bubble—Chuunin Aptitude (Green)—upgraded to Super Kage Aptitude (Gold).
As the name suggested, as long as he didn't die prematurely and grew up smoothly, he would undoubtedly become a figure like Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara in the future.
Once he transplanted Hinata or Hanabi's Byakugan and condensed the Truth-Seeking Ball, he would reach the level of the Six Paths.
A few months later, Izayoi unlocked a new talent—All Attributes Constitution (Purple).
It turned out that Izayoi had the same all-attributes constitution as Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Orochimaru, and Kakashi Hatake.
When he was five years old, Izayoi unlocked another new talent.
At the time, it had truly startled him.
Because... he had activated the Byakugan!
Yes, he had activated the Byakugan, not that his eyes had turned into the Byakugan.
Under the influence of the Otsutsuki Bloodline, Izayoi's eyes, like Himawari Uzumaki's, were normal in their usual state. When the Byakugan was activated, the veins at his temples would bulge, and his pupils would turn white.
This discovery brought Izayoi a sense of relief. Otherwise, he might have had to wear sunglasses all the time or, like Kakashi Hatake in the original story who disguised himself as a reporter, go out and buy some colored contact lenses.
(End of Chapter)