No Eyes

Not long after the God Tree bore its fruit, Yuzuru completely severed the connection between the Chaotic Otherworld and the Shinobi World. With Youying's abilities, he began sealing himself into slumber within the Chaotic Otherworld, slowing the collapse of his physical body...

The history of the Shinobi World unfolded like a prewritten script. Kaguya fell in love with the emperor of the Land of Ancestors... In the end, to protect the children in her womb, she consumed the God Tree's fruit, becoming a wielder of Kekkei Mōra. With her own power, she cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi and brought peace to the troubled age...

After growing up, the brothers Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and Hamura Ōtsutsuki fought their own mother for months to protect humanity. In the end, they used Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei to seal Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, leaving her forever sealed in slumber upon the moon, far from the Shinobi World...

After releasing the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki absorbed the Ten-Tails, which possessed immense Chakra, into his own body and became the first Ten-Tails jinchuriki. Later, he divided the Ten-Tails into the nine tailed beasts...

To repair the devastated Shinobi World and find homes for the nine tailed beasts, Hagoromo began traveling through the Shinobi World. Having come to understand the meaning of Chakra's existence, he founded Ninshū upon that philosophy and began spreading it throughout the Shinobi World...

After fathering some descendants, Hagoromo's younger brother Hamura led part of his clan to the moon in order to guard the Ten-Tails' shell, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path...

While spreading Ninshū throughout the Shinobi World, Hagoromo repaired its ravaged lands and, incidentally, sealed away many Yokai and so-called gods who bore ill will toward humanity...

In truth, after Kaguya became the progenitor of Chakra and gave birth to Hagoromo and Hamura, she had once purged the Yokai and gods of the Shinobi World. After all, to the Kaguya of old, they had been mortal enemies who stood in the way of the God Tree bearing fruit. Now that Kaguya possessed invincible power, she naturally had to settle the score with them properly...

Later, Hagoromo married a human woman and had two children. His eldest son, Indra, revered power as the means to achieve peace, while his younger son, Asura, sought peace through love. Hagoromo chose Asura's philosophy for the inheritance of Ninshū, causing Indra and Asura to turn against each other. Even after their physical bodies perished, their Chakra continued to argue endlessly through reincarnation...

In the end, time buried everything. Whether it was Asura, who possessed the Sage Body, Indra, who possessed the Sage Eyes, or Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths, all became part of history...

Countless years passed, and the Shinobi World entered the chaotic Warring States Era from ancient times. In this age, shinobi clans hired themselves out to anyone able to pay a high enough price, carrying out assassination and extermination missions to make a living...

Amid that cruel era, Madara Uchiha of the Uchiha Clan and Hashirama Senju of the Senju Clan ultimately became renowned throughout the Shinobi World. The two formed a bond of love and rivalry, and later, on that foundation, their two great clans joined forces to establish the Hidden Leaf Village. The major shinobi clans joined them, and together with the Land of Fire, they formed the system of one country, one village. The other nations followed suit, creating an era in which the five great nations dominated the Shinobi World...

Afterward, Madara Uchiha, whose ideals differed from Hashirama Senju's, ultimately fought the First Hokage in the Battle of the End. After a grueling battle that lasted day and night, Hashirama Senju emerged victorious...

In the end, with Hashirama Senju's death, the Hidden Leaf Village lost the God of Shinobi who had suppressed the Shinobi World. Thus, the First Shinobi World War naturally broke out. War immediately swept across the Shinobi World, and village leaders bearing the title of Kage were buried in the earth one after another...

Having lost powerful fighters at the Kage level and unwilling to continue depleting their forces, the major shinobi villages promptly signed a truce. Thus, the First Shinobi World War came to an end, and the Shinobi World entered another brief era of peace...

Land of Fire.

Hidden Leaf Village, Hyuga Clan Estate.

"Congratulations, Elder..."

The midwife had just stepped out of the delivery room when she congratulated a middle-aged man waiting outside.

"Congratulations, Elder. It is a son..."

Upon hearing this, joy immediately appeared in the middle-aged man's pure white eyes. Then, ignoring the midwife, he rushed straight into the delivery room.

Inside the delivery room, a beautiful, full-figured woman lay weakly on the bed. In the swaddling clothes in her arms lay a quiet infant who neither cried nor fussed, his eyes tightly shut as though asleep.

The three maids waiting at either side of the bed respectfully bowed to the middle-aged man as he entered, then backed away to clear a path for him.

"How are you feeling? Is there any discomfort?"

Ignoring the surrounding maids, the middle-aged man hurriedly sat by the bed. Looking at the weak beauty on the bed and the swaddled infant in her arms, he asked gently, his pure white eyes filled with warmth and affection.

The weak beauty merely shook her head, indicating that she was fine. Yet when her clear white eyes fell upon the swaddled infant in her arms, bitterness and guilt could not be hidden from her pale, lovely face.

The middle-aged man's gaze followed his wife's line of sight. Not understanding why, he activated his Byakugan and looked closely at his well-behaved son.

At that glance, the middle-aged man froze. The infant had been born with Chakra already present within his body, and the amount was no less than that of an ordinary Chunin. This showed that his aptitude as a shinobi was absolutely first-rate, perhaps even one in ten thousand. So long as he did not die young, he would certainly become an elite Jonin of the Hyuga Clan in the future. He might even become a Kage-level powerhouse!

But before his delight could last even a moment, it was replaced by intense bitterness, because the infant had no eyes in his eye sockets. He had been born blind!

Within the Hyuga Clan, the Byakugan was not only the clan's Kekkei Genkai, but also the source of all its strength. Only through the Byakugan's abilities could the derivative attack methods based on the Gentle Fist display power greater than one plus one. Otherwise, the Gentle Fist alone posed little threat to enemies...

The middle-aged man thought of how his child, despite being born with such astonishing physical gifts, had no eyes. How could he grow up within the Hyuga Clan?

And how could he possibly inherit the position of elder of the main family in the future?

For a time, the middle-aged man's face was filled with worry. He had no idea what to do.

At that moment, a fair hand grasped the middle-aged man's broad palm, pulling his unsettled mind back from its wild thoughts.

"Dear, use my Byakugan. This child cannot be without eyes!"

The weak beauty gazed earnestly into the middle-aged man's eyes with her own pure white ones. For the sake of her child, she was willing to give up her Byakugan.

The middle-aged man fell silent. His wife's suggestion was undoubtedly the best solution, but he loved her deeply and did not wish to do this. After all, for the Hyuga Clan, losing the Byakugan was equivalent to losing everything...