In the Moon Palace, Hanabi had regained consciousness, only to find herself trapped in darkness and helplessness.
After finishing her day's training, she had drifted off to sleep. In her hazy awareness, she felt someone pick her up, reminding her of how her sister had once been kidnapped by Kumogakure.
She wanted to open her eyes and fight back, but she could not muster any strength.
Her captor then carried her through the air for a long time, passed through a passage of blurred light and shadow, and finally brought her to a cold, quiet room, where he took her eyes.
Only six years old, Hanabi compared what had happened to her with an event she had witnessed from Sasuke's perspective in the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
"Quickening... ah, what a beautiful quickening~!"
A young man's self-intoxicated cry drifted through the air.
Feeling the waves of tingling in his retinas, like the trembling of butterfly wings, Toneri felt that his life had reached its pinnacle!
"Are you... Otsutsuki Toneri?" Hanabi summoned her courage and asked.
"Huh?" Toneri froze for a moment, then slowly turned his closed eyes toward the girl on the bed, whose eyelids were also shut. He wondered, Strange. Did I mention my name?
Still, he replied coldly, "That's right. I am Otsutsuki Toneri. Do you have something to say?"
It really is him! But wasn't this supposed to happen when I was nine? Why has it already...
With no time to dwell on that, Hanabi said, "Please stop what you're doing! There's no turning back down that path! You're destined to fail!"
"Oh? Why?" Toneri asked coldly.
She wanted to say that her brother-in-law Naruto would follow him to the moon, beat him into the ground, rescue her sister, and take back her eyes... but then she remembered that