Inside a magnificent palace somewhere, Ōtsutsuki Toneri's eyes burst forth with a blue-white glow!
He covered his eyes, trembling with excitement!
"The eyes are pulsating!"
"Soon! My Tenseigan will appear soon! ง(*Ӧ)ว"
"When that time comes, destroying those two intruders will be a piece of cake! ୧⍢⃝୨"
"By then, I will..."
"Hyūga Hinata, my bride..."
"After the human world is destroyed, you and I will become the progenitors of a new world!!"
...
"Shinju... Shinju... did you get caught in a genjutsu again?"
After his consciousness returned, Shinju heard Naruto calling him.
"No, I received a message left by the predecessors," Shinju explained, pulling Naruto out of the shrine.
"Do you know where that white-haired guy is?" Naruto asked in confusion.
Shinju shook his head: "I don't, but no matter where he's hiding, we have to find him!"
After leaving the small city, Shinju and Naruto continued searching for Ōtsutsuki Toneri's traces inside the moon.
This time, Shinju went straight for the human wave tactic!
"Sage Art: Multi-Shadow Clone Technique!!"
"Swish swish swish...!!"
Tens of thousands of shadow clones appeared, blotting out the entire sky!
With a wave of his hand, the multitude of clones flew out on command!
The moon's volume is much smaller than Earth where the Ninja World is located.
The habitable internal space of the moon is roughly only the size of a dozen Lands of Wind combined. Finding someone here is way easier for Shinju than finding someone in the Ninja World!
Unfortunately, after searching the outside with tens of thousands of clones and practically overturning the entire interior of the moon, they still couldn't see even a shadow of Ōtsutsuki Toneri!
"That's weird. I can't see him on the ground at all," Shinju analyzed quietly.
Standing next to him, Naruto leaned in: "If he's not on the ground, could he be living in the sky?"
Saying that, Naruto pointed a finger at the sun in the sky.
Shinju slapped his forehead: "That makes sense!"
"It's impossible for a sun to exist naturally inside the moon, so this sun must have been created by the moon's Ōtsutsuki clan!"
"If Toneri isn't on the ground, he must be up there!"
"However, since that place can shield my chakra sensory abilities, it must be reinforced by a special barrier formation..."
"Just to be safe..."
Saying that, Shinju waved his hand!
A massive amount of chakra condensed into a chakra blade tens of kilometers long!!
Then!
"Whoosh!"
Shinju's hand dropped, slashing the blade right onto the artificial sun!!
"Crack!"
The artificial sun was sliced cleanly, splitting into two halves!!
When the sun-like shell was cut open, its internal structure was finally revealed before Naruto and Shinju's eyes!
Inside the massive artificial sun were dozens of floating islands of various sizes!
On the largest island, a magnificent palace was built!
After the artificial sun was sliced open, Shinju sensed Toneri's chakra signature inside that palace!!
...
Inside the palace.
Ōtsutsuki Toneri had imagined dozens of ways the two intruders might break into the artificial sun, but he never imagined their method would be so simple and crude!!
They sliced open the sun created by his ancestors with a single slash!!
The crucial issue was that his Tenseigan hadn't fully gestated yet. With his current abilities, he was afraid he couldn't handle these two reckless brutes...
While he was thinking, Shinju was already charging towards his palace with Naruto!!
Helpless, Toneri had no choice but to control the puppets created by his ancestors to try and stall for time...
...
Outside the artificial sun, Shinju, flying in mid-air, encountered attacks from hundreds of puppets!
However, these puppets only looked intimidating; their combat power was even lower than Konohamaru's. He casually sent two clones and knocked them all down!!
The two of them didn't waste much effort before storming into the palace!
Toneri looked at Shinju and Naruto barging into the palace, gulping nervously.
The puppets didn't stop them at all! They arrived way too fast!
Upon seeing Toneri, Shinju reached out his hand directly: "Behave yourself and hand over the eyes."
Toneri: "Impossible! My ancestors' will is about to be fulfilled by me!! I will obtain the strongest Tenseigan, destroy the foolish Ninja World created by the Sage of Six Paths, and marry Hyūga Hinata! ヽ('⌒´メ)ノ"
Naruto: "What did you just say?! ꐦ≖ ≖"
Toneri: "Obtain the strongest Tenseigan!! ୧⍢⃝୨"
Naruto: "No, the last sentence!! (▼ヘ▼#)"
Toneri: "Marry Hyūga Hina..."
"Bang!!!"
Toneri didn't finish his sentence before he was suddenly sent flying!
And standing where he had originally been was Uzumaki Naruto!
At this moment, Naruto had already activated the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, his face full of displeasure:
"You messed with my father-in-law, gouged out my sister-in-law's eyes, and now you even want to touch my girlfriend!! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻"
Shinju: (||๐_๐)
Where did Naruto learn that kind of talk?
On the other side, Toneri, who was punched flying by Naruto, was embedded directly into a massive floating island!
However, as an Ōtsutsuki clan member with firm faith, he wouldn't be defeated so easily!
"Hyūga Hinata is the bride I had my eyes on long ago. She possesses the Byakugan with extremely high purity. After destroying the current Ninja World, I will nurture new life together with her! (o´Д`o)ノ"
Naruto didn't expect Toneri to be so stubborn even when death was imminent, so he went up and delivered another combo of punches.
Shinju watched from the side as Naruto and Toneri fought back and forth, simply instructing,
"Don't break his eyes, those eyes belong to Hanabi," and then couldn't be bothered to interfere further.
He started pondering: How to stop the moon?
According to what those souls said, the Tenseigan is what's driving the moon to crash into the Ninja World continent, so he needs to find the Tenseigan first.
Originally, Shinju thought Toneri's pair of eyes were the Tenseigan, but based on his chakra perception, he could feel that although Toneri's eyes were changing, they were fundamentally still Byakugan and didn't possess the ability to drive the moon...
Thinking of this, Shinju activated Sage Mode to sense the chakra signatures inside the artificial sun...
Two seconds later, Shinju opened his eyes and looked at the massive floating sun-and-moon stone statue in the space!!
That place blocked his chakra perception; there must be something wrong with it!
Not far away, Toneri, who was fighting Naruto, panicked when he saw Shinju moving towards the statue. He hurriedly tried to come over to stop him, but before he could take two steps, he was pulled back by the enraged Naruto...
After seeing this scene, Shinju was even more certain of his guess.
A few seconds later, Shinju arrived in front of the stone statue. He didn't even think about looking for an entrance; he just raised his hand and blasted it with Dust Release!!
"Buzz—!!"
The Dust Release beam instantly opened a hole in the stone statue, then continued to move, finally tearing the statue directly in half!!
With this, Shinju finally saw with his own eyes the legendary 'Tenseigan' hidden inside the stone statue!
Facing the brilliant golden sphere of light the size of a house, he couldn't help but sigh: "This is way too big..."