Naruto: The Tenseigan
Chapter 13

Son of Destiny and Inheritance

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Kamizuki looked at Otsutsuki Hamura floating before him, his face filled with bewilderment.

He did not understand why Hamura would tell him these stories.

After thinking about it and failing to find an answer, he finally decided to just ask directly.

Hamura seemed to have anticipated Kamizuki's question; only after Kamizuki asked did he continue: "The reason I must tell you these things is because I know—you—do not belong—to this world—you are—the one—chosen—by fate."

Hamura said, enunciating every word.

Upon hearing this, Kamizuki's heart jumped into his throat. His greatest secret had been discovered by Hamura; what was he to do? Would he be erased from existence?

At this thought, Kamizuki's back was already drenched in cold sweat.

Seeing Kamizuki's "terrified" expression, Hamura, despite his age, couldn't help but chuckle.

He said softly, "You need not be so afraid. The one appearing before you now is not the real me."

Hearing this, the confusion on Kamizuki's face only deepened. What did he mean by "the one appearing before you is not the real me"? It was too hard to understand.

Hamura ignored his confusion and continued: "In truth, the one before you now is merely a sliver of divine consciousness I left behind long ago. The real me has likely already perished on the moon."

After saying this, Hamura's consciousness seemed a bit melancholy. "After all, so many years have passed," he added, as if speaking to himself.

Hearing Hamura say this, Kamizuki's taut nerves finally began to relax.

Hamura looked at Kamizuki and continued: "Back then, after my brother and I sealed our mother, many years passed. One day, both I, who was on the moon, and my brother, who was in the Land of Ancestors, sensed a faint, barely perceptible trace of chakra left behind by our mother."

"When my brother and I went to investigate the origin and direction of that chakra, it had vanished without a trace."

"From then on, my brother and I were never able to sense that chakra again."

"My brother was deeply worried. Unable to make sense of that chakra fluctuation, he traveled once more to Mount Myoboku to find Gamamaru (the Great Toad Sage)."

After Gamamaru heard Hagoromo's account, he told Hagoromo the prophecy he had recently foreseen.

The content of the prophecy:

In the years to come, the destroyed God Tree will be reborn and sprout new branches. Greed will eventually descend upon this world once more, leading people into an infinite dream.

Under the arrangement of the God of Fate, the Child of Prophecy will descend into the world, and in the end, the Child of Prophecy will overcome greed and save this world.

After hearing this prophecy, Kamizuki couldn't help but mutter, "Is the Naruto world really just this same old trope?"

Kamizuki remembered that in the original work, Gamamaru had told Jiraiya a similar prophecy.

At first, Jiraiya met Minato Namikaze and thought he was the "Child of Prophecy," but facts proved he wasn't. Later, he met Nagato, who possessed the Rinnegan, but he wasn't the one either.

Just as Jiraiya began to doubt the prophecy, Uzumaki Naruto appeared, reaffirming Jiraiya's belief in the truth of the prophecy.

Later, under Jiraiya's coaxing, Naruto was led around by the nose.

Now, Hamura was trying to use this same trope to coax Kamizuki.

Kamizuki couldn't help but think to himself: "The city folk have deep schemes; who takes this stuff seriously?"

"I am a transmigrator from the 21st century of high technology. If I believe in your 'Child of Prophecy' trope, then I really have lost my mind!" Kamizuki thought.

Seeing Kamizuki's look of disdain, Hamura didn't seem to mind and continued:

"Do you remember opening a large wooden chest inside the Firefly Cave beneath Rose Lake?"

Kamizuki nodded, waiting for what Hamura would say next.

Seeing that Kamizuki understood, Hamura continued:

"That wooden chest was where I placed my divine consciousness. Only my descendants could open it with their blood, and upon opening it, they would receive my inheritance."

Hearing this, Kamizuki gradually shed his indifferent expression, which was replaced by one of intense excitement.

Kamizuki's inner monologue began to run wild:

When he watched the anime in his past life, he saw Naruto and Sasuke receive the inheritance of the "Sage of Six Paths," Otsutsuki Hagoromo, during their final battle against Madara. They both embarked on a path of god-slaying, eventually defeating the awakened Otsutsuki Kaguya, the "Goddess of Shinobi," saving the world, and marrying beautiful, wealthy women.

Now that he had received the inheritance of Otsutsuki Hamura, also a son of Otsutsuki Kaguya, his mother would never have to worry about him not finding a wife or failing to walk the path of godhood.

His future achievements would surely be no less than those of Uzumaki Naruto—who only knew how to mess around but was protected by "protagonist halo"—or his good friend Sasuke. Perhaps he would even be stronger than both of them!

Although he hadn't received a "golden finger" (like a system) like other transmigrators, receiving Hamura's inheritance was already quite good.

As Kamizuki thought this, a sly smirk inadvertently appeared on his handsome little face.

Hamura looked at Kamizuki's face, which had fallen into a daydream, shook his head helplessly, and gave a light cough to bring him back to reality.

Seeing that Kamizuki's thoughts had been pulled back, Hamura asked him, "Do you know what Yin-Yang Release and the Yin-Yang Eye are?"

Kamizuki replied with some uncertainty, "I have only heard my father speak of the nature of Yin and Yang chakra, but I have never heard of 'Yin-Yang Release' or the 'Yin-Yang Eye'."

"Oh," Hamura replied flatly, and continued:

"Yin-Yang Release is the conversion of various ninjutsu based on the properties of Yin and Yang chakra."

Hearing this, Kamizuki couldn't help but recall that in the original work, Hagoromo, the "Sage of Six Paths," had passed the powers of Yin and Yang to Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke respectively.

As for what the "Yin-Yang Eye" was, how would Kamizuki know?

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