"A dozen minutes or so..."
"Need me to deal with a batch for you first...? Personally, I think you talked too big at the start. Letting the others in the family join in would at least take some pressure off..."
Neji waved a hand. "Enough talk. Just start."
At Neji's answer, Toneri could only shrug.
Then, before everyone's eyes, his body slowly rose into the air. His Tenseigan turned toward the heavens, and a beam of light shot into the clouds.
Toneri recalled what the Second Hokage had told him.
"Your eyes can recover."
"My eyes?"
"When I studied the Sharingan's characteristics before, I found quite a few similarities with the Byakugan. Now it seems they were different branches extending from the same ancestral bloodline all along."
"And compared to the Rinnegan, the Byakugan is closer to its base form, while the Sharingan seems more like a mutated bloodline ability. That mutation actually makes the ability stronger."
Tobirama confirmed this as he examined the data.
"The Sharingan can be transplanted and merged between people of the same bloodline. And according to the records left on the moon, along with the information we previously obtained from the Nine-Tails, your eyes can evolve into the Tenseigan as long as you merge them with a sufficiently pure Byakugan."
"...I know that, but I don't want to do it."
"You misunderstand. I don't intend to use that approach. At present, probably only Hinata and Hanabi in the Hyuga Clan have eyes pure enough for that method."
"This has nothing to do with strength. Although the Hyuga Clan has always maintained the purity of its bloodline, variations between individuals lead to this sort of difference... Of course, if we don't aim to evolve them into the Tenseigan, things become simple."
"The Tenseigan... That was