This was a small step for Uchiha Rikusei, but a giant leap for mankind.
Rikusei climbed down from Susanoo and set foot on the Lunar Soil. Gazing at the distant craters, he mused silently.
He took a deep breath, feeling the air and the pull of gravity on his body. The results of a series of tests told him that the moon's surface had both oxygen and gravity.
He guessed that Hamura Otsutsuki had transformed the moon into a place suitable for humans to live, though he couldn't rule out the possibility that this was simply another quirk of the Naruto world's astonishing setting.
Beside him, Uchiha Madara gazed into the distance, his eyes profound. The slowly turning Earth lay before them, and dazzling light streamed from above its azure surface, stretching their shadows across the ground.
Rikusei walked over to him and followed his gaze toward the Earth bathed in rosy light. "Doesn't it make you feel how vast the starry sky is, and how small humanity is?"
"Indeed." Standing amid the cosmos, Madara gazed at the magnificent nebulae and nodded in agreement. "Even the vast Shinobi World is no more than a lone boat adrift in the universe."
"No, it's not just a lone boat. There's life on the sphere beneath our feet, for example."
He gazed toward the direction where he sensed chakra and said it casually.
Rikusei stopped rummaging through his ninja pouch for something to light a flame with. Together, they waited for the life hidden deep within the moon to appear.
They didn't have to wait long. A colossal Puppet bird slowly descended nearby, stirring up the pale Lunar Soil.
The Hexagram patterns on the bird revealed who they were. Rikusei knew they were Main Family shinobi. A dense crowd surrounded a tall, thin