Hinata and Kaguya's Battle of Wits

Kaguya Otsutsuki was actually a very greedy person, filled with an intense desire for power.

Kaguya had long noticed the Tenseigan in the Tenseigan Chamber on the moon, but unfortunately, eyes could not be converted into Chakra Fruit.

The only way to obtain that Tenseigan was through a transplant.

After all, an eye was an organ!

Yet Hinata had a way to absorb that Tenseigan. Kaguya felt that perhaps she had underestimated this junior!

Kaguya gave her a murderous look. "Tell me the method, and then we'll see who moves faster."

"What do you mean by that?!"

Hinata snapped, "I'm a descendant of Ancestor Hamura. By rights, I should be the one inheriting Ancestor Hamura's eyes."

Kaguya fell silent for a moment. "...Hamura is my child!"

Hinata: "..."

Fine then!

Hinata nodded reluctantly.

Kaguya asked, "How do you plan to absorb that eye?"

Hinata gave Kaguya a puzzled look. "With my eye's dojutsu! Doesn't your Rinnegan also have a technique for absorbing chakra?"

Kaguya Otsutsuki: Had I really overestimated her?

If an eye's dojutsu power could be absorbed so casually, the Otsutsuki clan would have slaughtered one another long ago in order to evolve their eyes.

Even converting someone into a Chakra Fruit required the cooperation of the person being converted.

However...

Hinata had actually always been curious why the Otsutsuki clan had not slaughtered one another to evolve their eyes...

How did the Tenseigan evolve?

According to Hokage lore, there were two ways to awaken the Tenseigan.

First, someone with Otsutsuki clan blood transplanted a Byakugan.

However, Hinata had considerable doubts about this method!

The reason was simple. Kaguya Otsutsuki, standing right in front of Hinata, possessed both Otsutsuki clan blood and the Byakugan, yet her Byakugan had not evolved into a Tenseigan!

Therefore, in Hinata's view, the first