Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
BGM: "Melancholy of Verdigris" composed by Mafumafu, sung by GUMI.
Moonrise Recall
It drifted, nameless and shapeless. It had no substance, no shape. It was nothing.
An eternity later, a spark of light appeared, and it knew one thing.
It turned from the light, and knew one other thing.
It turned into the darkness, and knew its light was not the source.
It reached for the source, and broke:
It was nothing, but this was everything. To exist in this place, it became something.
Now it was something, but it did not know what. To learn what, it searched.
In its search, it found many other things.
Each of the many things had once been nothing, just as it had, and in this it belonged.
None of the other things knew nothing, as it had, and in this it did not belong.
It wanted to be more, but it did not know more, so it searched for something that would.
It did not find what it sought, so it made:
It took what was, shaped and molded and changed it to be like itself, made it know, made them know.
Now, the other things knew nothing.
Still, the other things were something.
Now, they would want more.
They would find more. It had made them. What they found was its own.
This is what it did not know:
For every thing, there is an equal opposite.
For every light, there is darkness.
For every action, there is a reaction.
For every one of its ten principles, there was an opposing principle.
This is how it was stopped:
Six opposing principles were born as one.
One was male, so his counterpart of four opposing principles was female.
Four is not equal to six, so another came into being. Somewhere upon the earth, a being of flesh and blood sacrificed its spirit of its own will, and in doing so placed itself outside the balance.
Five is not equal to six, so another came into being. Somewhere upon the earth, a spirit took mortal flesh of its own will, and in doing so placed itself outside the balance.
And so creation was set:
Ten originating principles. A grasping thing.
Ten opposing principles. A dreaming thing.
Two who were and were not nothing, and so were something outside the cycle.
And so they are counted:
(6 – 4 – 2 ≠ 0)
0 + 10 = 10
10 – 10 = 0
0 – 10 = -10
-10 + 6 + 4 + 2 ≠ 0
-10 + 6 + 4 + 2 = 2.
Creation was imbalanced. The imbalance needed to be corrected.
2 must be sacrificed.
Author's note: Watch the numbers.
(And yes, this is a prequel of sorts for Reincarnation Syndrome. Forgive the rather lame attempt at numerological symbolism above, but it was the only way I could think of to make my point.)