The Second Dream

Tomorrow is the day the Ninja Academy opens. After finishing dinner, Kamizuki felt a wave of exhaustion wash over his brain.

Consequently, he returned to his room early to get some rest.

As soon as he lay down on the tatami, he drifted off into a dream.

The moment he entered the dream, the first thing Kamizuki saw was that strange old man with horns on his head from last time.

This time, the old man was staring at Kamizuki with a beaming smile, looking as if he were saying, "I am very satisfied."

No matter how Kamizuki looked at this old man, he felt that his smile was so punchable that he had an urge to give him a hard slap; he felt the guy was truly asking for a beating.

However, he ultimately held back that impulse, silently chanting in his heart: "Impulse is the devil, impulse is the devil..."

Seeing Kamizuki enter with an expression of struggling to hold back, the old man couldn't bear to watch him just stand there without asking anything.

He finally spoke: "I am Hamura Otsutsuki, the ancestor of your kin."

"What!" With a look of shock, Kamizuki stared at this strange old man in disbelief.

He thought to himself that in the scene he saw last time, he had seen a young Hamura Otsutsuki, and back then, Hamura was quite handsome! Why did he become so wretched-looking now that he was old?

The current Hamura was slightly hunched, his face covered in age spots, his pair of Byakugan lacking the spirit of a young man, and the pair of horns on his head looked extremely weathered.

At this moment in the dream, Kamizuki stood straight, just a few steps away from Hamura Otsutsuki, who sat cross-legged in mid-air with his eyes closed.

Suddenly, the hovering Hamura opened the eyes he had just kept shut, locking his gaze with Kamizuki's. The moment their eyes met, a flash of light erupted from Kamizuki's Byakugan. As this light flickered, his eyes transformed into the same full-moon appearance as that day.

When Kamizuki's eyes turned into full moons, stories began to play out within them like a movie.

The story began:

A young man was constantly training and fighting. Later, after a battle, he met another youth named Hashirama Senju. After spending time together, he discovered that he and this youth named Hashirama Senju were like-minded.

Later, he founded a clan. He changed his original surname and named this newly established clan "Hyuga," meaning the clan that faces the sun. This youth was the first patriarch of the Hyuga Clan, Tenin Hyuga.

Afterward, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha led Tenin Hyuga and several other powerful clans to jointly establish the Hidden Leaf Village.

Through the election of the various clan heads, Hashirama Senju became the First Hokage of Konoha.

Under the joint efforts of these large and small clans, the Hidden Leaf Village grew stronger day by day.

Later, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha gradually discovered that they had more and more disagreements, differing in their views on many matters, and slowly, many conflicts began to arise between them.

Initially, both tried to make the other accept their own viewpoints through communication, but neither could convince the other, and eventually, their arguments grew more frequent.

In the end, Madara Uchiha left Konoha in a fit of anger. Not long after leaving, Madara Uchiha decided to have one final battle with Hashirama Senju; whoever won would be the shadow of Konoha and lead the village according to their own will.

Before the battle, Madara Uchiha made many preparations. He first subdued the Nine-Tailed Fox, Kurama, and then secretly returned to Konoha to find Tenin Hyuga, hoping that Tenin Hyuga would help him defeat Hashirama Senju during the decisive battle.

However, he was rejected by Tenin Hyuga. What Madara did not know was that Hashirama had also approached Tenin for the same reason, and both had been rejected by Tenin.

Because at that time in Konoha, besides Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, only Tenin Hyuga's strength could rival theirs. Whichever side gained Tenin's help would essentially tip the scales of the battle in their favor.

But Tenin Hyuga did not want to get involved in the affairs between Hashirama and Madara, so he chose neutrality, helping neither side.

Ultimately, Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju engaged in a life-and-death battle at the Valley of the End.

The two fought for three days and three nights, ending with Hashirama Senju's victory and Madara Uchiha's death.

The first sequence of images ended there, yet a second sequence began to play in Kamizuki's mind.

The scene of the second sequence began:

On the battlefield of the final conflict of the First Ninja World War, there were only two people, each representing their respective nations.

One represented the Land of Lightning, the First Raikage, Ay.

The other represented the Land of Fire's Hidden Leaf Village, Tenin Hyuga.

Their battle lasted an entire day, and in the end, Tenin Hyuga used his strongest ocular technique, the "Thousand-Eye Byakugan," to defeat the First Raikage, Ay, and claim victory.

The conclusion of this battle also signaled that the First Ninja World War ended with the Land of Fire defeating the Land of Lightning.

Tenin Hyuga, the Hyuga Clan he belonged to, and their Kekkei Genkai, the "Byakugan," shook the entire Ninja World because of this great battle.

Although these two sequences of images lasted a long time, they flashed through Kamizuki's eyes in an instant.

After watching these stories, Kamizuki felt his brain go numb due to the overwhelming amount of information. He shook his numb head slightly to clear his mind before turning his gaze back to Hamura.

At this moment, Hamura was still hovering in mid-air not far from Kamizuki.

The two stared at each other for a while longer. Hamura gathered his thoughts before speaking to Kamizuki: "The first time you entered here, and the scenes you saw this time, are all the original history of this world."

"After Mother consumed the fruit of the God Tree, she possessed chakra, and she used this chakra to bring peace to a world originally torn by war."

"But Mother gradually became greedy. My brother and I eventually had to rise up against Mother together. Through our joint efforts, we sealed Mother inside the moon."

After Hamura finished speaking, he remained hovering in front of Kamizuki, watching him.