As a transmigrator, Izanami's perspective far surpassed anyone else on this planet.Thousands of years had passed, and to the common people, the Sage of Six Paths and the era of the Ninja Sect had long since faded into myth.But Izanami knew the truth: they were real.
He knew that the Sage of Six Paths had not come from nothing—he had a mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and a younger brother, Hamura.He knew that after the brothers sealed their mother, the Sage of Six Paths became the first Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, burdened with a path of atonement.He knew Hamura took another path—founding a clan, marrying, having children—and eventually, in order to guard the sealed Outer Path Demonic Statue, he led a faction of the Ōtsutsuki to the Moon.
The descendants who remained on Earth, through countless generations of decline and adaptation, ultimately became the Hyūga Clan.
Just as Hagoromo wielded the ultimate dōjutsu—the Rinnegan—Hamura possessed his own supreme eye, the Reincarnation Eye, a power that governed destruction and creation alike.For Hagoromo's descendants, achieving the Rinnegan required the near-impossible fusion of the forces inherited by his two sons.But for Hamura's bloodline, the Reincarnation Eye was more attainable.It could awaken through natural convergence—or by forcibly fusing countless Byakugan into one.The latter method had led to tragedy: the collapse of the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the Moon.
Now, on the Moon, only Ōtsutsuki Toneri remained.
It was during his third year that Izanami's instincts told him to pause.To rethink.
Initially, he had planned to use his precious newbie gift—his one chance to copy a talent entry—on either Uzumaki Naruto or Uchiha Sasuke.But then he thought of Ōtsutsuki Toneri.
The last pure descendant of the Moon's Ōtsutsuki.A direct, almost unmutated bloodline—a level of purity rivalling Asura and Hagoromo themselves.
Ōtsutsuki Toneri's talent was terrifying.Uchiha Madara had only awakened the Rinnegan after fusing Hashirama's cells and aging into decrepitude.Ōtsutsuki Toneri?He needed only days to evolve his Byakugan into the Reincarnation Eye.The moment he awakened it, he entered Reincarnation Eye Chakra Mode, conjured Truth-Seeking Balls, and wielded the might to split the Moon itself with Silver and Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosions.
His raw chakra reserves and talent even outstripped Naruto and Sasuke.
If Toneri had descended to Earth early—carrying the Giant Reincarnation Eye—then unless Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara themselves were resurrected, or the Sage of Six Paths intervened, no one could have opposed him.
Had he been more ruthless—had he seized Hinata or Hanabi's Byakugan early—the entire course of the world would have shifted.There would be no Shippuden.Only the Legend of Toneri.
But fate had other plans.
Ōtsutsuki Toneri was a reclusive shut-in, hesitant and naive.Unless the Earth truly seemed beyond saving, he would never leave the Moon.
Still, Izanami remembered a crucial event.
Before his father's death, a young Toneri once descended secretly to Earth, drawn by the Giant Reincarnation Eye's influence, and saw Hinata.He fell in love at first sight but never disturbed her life, instead clinging to an ancient promise of marriage he intended to fulfill once he came of age.
It was tragic and foolish.And Izanami had no particular sympathy for such a silly, lonely soul.
But he understood opportunity.
Izanami speculated that Toneri's secret visit happened when Hinata was around three years old.It aligned perfectly—after her third birthday, internal events in the Hyūga Clan subtly shifted Hinata's status, and Hiashi Hyūga's disillusionment with his daughter deepened.
Hinata's third birthday had been her grandest.Everything fit.
Thus, Izanami gambled.Instead of lingering just on Hinata's birthday, he wandered outside the Hyūga compound throughout that entire year—patient, searching.
After all, appearances could deceive.But Talent Stats never lied.
No matter how Toneri and his father concealed themselves, as long as they were living beings and not illusions or puppets, Izanami could detect them.He just needed to find the bubbles.
And Heaven favored those who persevered.
Through careful effort and caution, Izanami found him.
The light curtain now floating in Izanami's mind confirmed it:his gamble had paid off.
On Hinata's third birthday—the same day the Cloud Ninja envoy visited Konoha—Izanami finally spotted them.In the bustling crowd, he saw the blind Ōtsutsuki Toneri and his father, standing apart, veiled in obscurity.
In hindsight, the Cloud Ninja envoy was truly lucky that day.If Toneri and his father had lingered until evening—and if they had dared to make a move against Hinata—they would have been annihilated without mercy.But fortune favored Konoha.Toneri and his father only observed from afar, using the Giant Reincarnation Eye as their medium, silently watching Hinata, who was quietly celebrating within the clan's inner grounds without attending the public festivities.Then, without disturbing anything, they left.
Izanami's gaze sharpened.
Toneri, born without eyes, naturally lacked the Bloodline Limit: Byakugan entry.No low-level talents surrounded him—only a single, dazzling, high-end red bubble:Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Red).
Izanami had seen the Ōtsutsuki Bloodline entry before on members of the Hyūga Clan—but it was different.At best, those entries were blue.Even Toneri's own father, once a pure-blooded clansman of the Moon, only had a purple Ōtsutsuki Bloodline—not even touching gold.
Only Ōtsutsuki Toneri had a bloodline entry that broke through gold, reaching the highest known grade: red.
At that moment, Izanami did not hesitate.He reached out through the Talent Stat System and copied the Ōtsutsuki Bloodline (Red).
And from that day forward, Izanami's destiny began to change.
In the next three years, his path became one of overwhelming defiance against the natural order.
After successfully extracting his Chakra for the first time, Izanami's original Chunin Aptitude (Green) talent entry evolved dramatically—upgrading straight to Super-Kage Aptitude (Gold).As the name implied, as long as he lived and continued to grow, he was guaranteed to reach the heights of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
And if he were to go a step further—seizing a Byakugan from Hinata or Hanabi, fusing it under the influence of his Ōtsutsuki bloodline, and condensing a Truth-Seeking Ball—he would stand at the level of the Sage of Six Paths himself.
A few months later, Izanami unlocked another astonishing talent entry:Full Attribute Constitution (Purple).
Only a handful in history—such as Senju Tobirama, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Orochimaru, and Kakashi Hatake—had this physique.It granted a natural affinity to all elemental Chakra types, making mastery a matter of time rather than struggle.
And that wasn't the end.
At the age of five, another seismic event occurred in Izanami's life.He awakened the Byakugan.
Not a genetic mutation—an actual activation.
Under the influence of the pure Ōtsutsuki bloodline, his eyes normally appeared entirely human, much like Uzumaki Himawari's.But once activated, the veins around his temples bulged, and his pupils turned pure white—the unmistakable traits of the Byakugan.It was a perfect evolution.
Izanami breathed a heavy sigh of relief upon discovering this.Had his eyes been in a permanent Byakugan state, he would have been forced to hide them—wearing sunglasses at all times, or resorting to cosmetic tricks like Hatake Kakashi's famously fake "journalist" disguise from the original story.
But fate was still favoring him.
The true rise of Izanami had just begun.