The temperature in the laboratory was a little low. Perhaps sensing what was about to happen, Toneri seemed somewhat nervous.
Shin comforted him. "Don't be afraid. We're going to transplant eyes for you, so you'll be able to see clearly from now on."
Toneri grabbed the hem of Shin's clothes with one hand and nodded obediently. "I'm not afraid, Hokage."
Toneri had already undergone a physical examination at the hospital. He had been born without eyes, and some of the nerves in that area were missing. That had made Shin abandon his original plan to give Toneri a pair of Byakugan.
Those missing nerves seemed to suggest that ordinary eyes were unworthy of Toneri's body.
But as long as it was a human body, it could be altered.
After Kabuto examined Toneri once more, he said they could perform a comprehensive operation on Toneri's eyes, restoring everything he lacked before transplanting the eyes.
Shin could not help but wonder if Toneri had undergone such an operation in the original story when he received Hanabi's eyes.
He brought Toneri directly before that pair of Byakugan.
"Toneri, can you sense anything?"
Toneri's expression shifted slightly as he reached toward the glass container holding the Byakugan.
"Eyes," he said.
Kabuto was quite surprised by this. Even Byakugan were merely dead objects outside a human body.
Shin said to Kabuto, "I don't think that kind of operation will be necessary."
He then opened the glass container. The pair of eyeballs soaking in fluid flew out on their own under Shin's control and slowly drifted before Toneri.
As the pair of Byakugan drew close to Toneri, green radiance suddenly lit up around his body.
"It's the Ancestral Vein..." Shin murmured. The green light was Chakra, and it felt exceedingly familiar to him. Hamura's blood also