The little toys Urashiki Otsutsuki had mentioned were puppets he had gotten from Otsutsuki Toneri. The Ōtsutsuki certainly lived up to their name-even ordinary puppets became something extraordinary in their hands. Otsutsuki Toneri really was a genius; it just felt as though he had put all his talent points into the wrong skills.
His own strength was not particularly impressive, but he excelled in other areas, such as making puppets.
But when it came to using puppets, Sasori of the Red Sands and Kankuro had to be mentioned too.
Sasori of the Red Sands was hailed as a genius in puppetry, but he was obsessed with pursuing eternal art. Like Deidara, he was an artist through and through, and he had gone down the path of pursuing art, never to return.
Kankuro, on the other hand, could only scavenge scraps to scrape by.
He either added flashy but useless mechanisms to Sasori of the Red Sands' puppets or assembled several puppets he did not know how to use into a new one.
For example: Patchwork Scorpion.
The Ōtsutsuki Clan's puppets were nothing like that. Every one was finely crafted and powerful.
Almost all the puppets Otsutsuki Toneri made had four arms, with a distinct moon marking on their foreheads.
Urashiki roamed the outskirts of the Land of Fire with his four Ōtsutsuki Puppets, waiting for Konoha ninja to come out on missions.
Some unlucky fool was bound to turn up. It was only a matter of time, and Urashiki had plenty of that now.
Sure enough, speak of the devil-hadn't an unlucky fool just delivered herself right to his doorstep?
As the view zoomed in and the newcomer came into sight, it turned out to be Uchiha... no, Mirai Sarutobi.
"Wake up in the morning, open the window, feeling oh-so-good..."