"I'll grant you everything else, Senior."
Naruto's voice was steady, carrying a composure beyond his years.
As he spoke, he extended a finger, pale golden chakra glowing around its tip, and lightly touched the ancient seal imprisoning Kaguya Otsutsuki.
The sealing formula was intricate and arcane, imbued with the power of the brothers Hagoromo and Hamura at their peak. Even with Naruto's current mastery of sealing jutsu, he could not grasp its entirety in such a short time. He could only sense the tremendous energy and exquisite balance within it.
"But when it comes to understanding power..."
He raised his head, his azure eyes looking straight at the sealed Kaguya before turning toward Hamura's spirit beside him.
"Aren't you curious about the real reason your mother cast Infinite Tsukuyomi all those years ago?"
Hamura's deeply wrinkled brow abruptly furrowed, like dry, cracked tree bark suddenly being squeezed.
The truth behind Mother's Infinite Tsukuyomi?
Hamura's heart jolted. Although he did not know what Infinite Tsukuyomi was, he assumed it referred to his mother's use of a divine technique to perform a sacrifice.
It was a question he had buried in his heart for a thousand years, and the source of his deepest anguish and struggle when he and his elder brother chose to seal their mother.
Could this blond boy know something?
"You know?"
Within the seal, Kaguya, who had remained almost as still and silent as a stone statue, slowly raised her head as well.
Beneath her long white hair, those pure, flawless Byakugan eyes, so empty they made the heart tremble, truly focused on Naruto for the first time, revealing a deep, searching curiosity.
What... was this descendant of the planet saying?
*He knew her purpose? How was that possible after so much time? She had never even told