Haru is scouting her territory, leaving the care of her village with Yami. Deep inside, Haru knows that it is a terrible idea to do that, but the village can probably stand for a day in her brother's hands… maybe… If anything, the other clan leaders can deal with him…
Stopping near a cave, she looks up to the sky. The clouds are dark. There is a chance of rain. On cue, droplets of water falls to her face. With a sigh, she enters the cave, fuming that this will delay her quick scouting until tomorrow, depending on the weather… True, she could just continue scouting, but there's no point in rushing…
She walks deeper into the cave to see if she can find a stream. Activating her Byakugan, she begins her search… only to find something… rather peculiar. With nothing better to do, she approaches the anomaly. Further in the cave, she finds the… thing. A glowing thing… It resembles a pond, but honestly? No pond would glow like that! She reactivates her Byakugan. Yup. That confirms it… Whatever the thing is can block her Dojutsu.
She approaches the mysterious water, observing the surroundings. Near the pond is a corpse wearing robes of some sort. On the robe is a crescent moon symbol with a black sphere inside the arc. A clan symbol, perhaps? The symbol is unfamiliar, however. Probably from a clan that died out long ago.
Deciding to not care about old dead clans, Haru picks up a rock, throwing it to the pond. No ripples form. Probably not water, then. She gets closer, sticking her hand into the pond… She can feel no sensation from doing this. So, is it a Genjutsu?
She pulls her hand out and stands back up. This is the weirdest thing she has ever found in her territory. She ponders what to do next. A part of her, the logical part, argues that she should run back to the village once the rain stops and have a team to investigate this thing. Another part, the part that is both curious and impatient, tells her to just jump in and deal with it herself.
The logical part of her hasn't had a say in her action since the founding of the village, so she jumps into the pond… and sees a bunch of ginormous glowing balls that she feels that she must not ever touch.
"God fucking damn it!" With nothing nearby to land on to dodge the balls, she gathers up her chakra and redirects her fall using powerful gusts of wind. With the high amount of spheres to dodge, though, she quickly tires herself out.
Fortunately, she lands at the bottom before her chakra runs out. She's tired, however, her clan's low chakra level to blame for that.
"Th-that… was stupid…" She moves to take a rest, but before she does she feels a rumble. She looks around, looking for the source of the rumble and she spots it. A giant blue crab, with one pincer about the size of its body. "Oh, you've got to be fucking kidding me!"
She jumps out of the way before the crab could crush her with its massive pincer, though, thanks to her exhaustion, her landing is less than elegant. "This is just not my day…" Without much energy to use, she attempts to crawl out of the crab's field of view.
Of course, what she doesn't realize… is that the damn colossal fiddler can see all around… She doesn't get very far before the crab strikes her, sending her hurtling towards… another weirdly glowing cave-pond.
She doesn't know how long she's been unconscious, but when she wakes, she is in another cave, this time free from humongous, aggressive crustaceans with a anger issues. She's getting tired of these caves.
She gets up into a sitting position, her body sore and tired. "Fucking piece of shit cave… When I get out, I'm throwing prisoners into this hell hole!"
"Ah, you have finally awoken…" Haru attempts to get into a battle pose, but her body refuses to cooperate with her. Instead, she turns her head towards the sound of the voice, making sure to wear the angriest expression she can muster.
She comes face to face with a man, possessing a magnificent beard, shining white like the silver moon, wearing the same robe as the dead body she remembers from earlier. Huh, not a dead clan. Still unfamiliar, however. She drops her expression, since the man has his eyes shut.
Normally, when meeting with someone as a foreigner, Haru would use all the diplomacy skills taught to her since she was a child. "Fuck off…" Right now, she just wants to go home and forget her defeat against what could have been a nice feast.
The strange man cocks a silvery eyebrow. "I see your time among the humans have… made you adapt to their ways of communication…"
Oh, this guy… what is he even..? "What..?"
The man knits his eyebrows together. "Has your mother told you nothing about our plan to save the Ootsutsuki from their blasphemy against Hamura's will?"
Haru looks back into her childhood… An absent, violent father, and an uncaring, strict mother… who never talks to her… ever… Such is the ways of the world. "Yeah, my mother was a prick who tells me nothing… Who the fuck is Hamura?"
The man grits his teeth. "What?! How could she ruin the plan?! How could she not tell you anything?!" The man calms himself with a sigh. "Looks like I'll have to be the one to teach you, then…"
Haru frowns deeply, her right eye twitching. "Teach me what? The manners of your people?"
"No." He finally opens his eyelids, Haru getting an eyeful of two empty sockets. "I will teach you all the techniques you will need to eliminate those heretics from our clan!"
Haru's jaw drops. "The hell, man?!" She blocks her eyes with her forearm. "Don't just open those sockets of yours without warning!"
"Why do you think you were sent to hide out on Earth?" He points a finger at her direction. "It's so your Byakugan won't be forcefully taken from you!" He approaches her, grabbing her arm blocking her eyes. "Now, come! We have no time to lose! We need you to awaken your Tenseigan!"
Haru plants the heels of her feet on the ground, trying to resist the man. It is useless, however, for this man is just inhumanly strong compared to her. "Wait! I don't think I'm who you think I am!"
He turns his head towards her direction. "What? Nonsense! Where else would you get those eyes of yours? You're an Ootsutsuki."
She grinds her teeth, feeling a pressure on her temple. "Well, I don't know if you've ever checked, but there's an entire CLAN who have these eyes!"
He dismisses her claims. "Pft! Don't be silly! You're just running away from your responsibilities, aren't you?"
Her eyebrow twitches. "No… You're stealing me away from my responsibilities!"
"Well, whatever those responsibilities were, this one is more important!"
"Well, I don't believe you!" This man is just so stubborn! Sighing in defeat, she decides to ask a burning question in her mind. "Where the hell am I, anyway?! You mentioned Earth as if it's far away from here."
"Why, you're on the moon! A fitting home for an Ootsutsuki!"
Haru's jaw drops as her inner world shatters. 'Th-there's actual people on the freaking moon?!' She thinks. 'Oh God, is Yami actually RIGHT about something..?' Her resistance drops, and the man drags her away to train her in the Tessaiga, or whatever...
And so, Haru's journey of learning techniques that her body is incapable of handling begins… Of course, Gumansansho, the man with the weird delusion of being her father somehow, is one terrible teacher.
"I don't understand why it's not manifesting… The requirements are simple! Byakugan and Ootsutsuki chakra… That isn't ambiguous at all!" Her current sensei complains.
"That's actually a dumb requirement… If the Byakugan originated from the Ootsutsuki, then, by default, someone who naturally has the dojutsu IS an Ootsutsuki somewhere along the family tree…" While the Gumasansho never taught her the origins of the Byakugan, that information was heavily implied in one of his rants.
"Oh, hush you, and your weird earth logic…" He rubs his chin in deep thought. "Perhaps you need to become a sage… Yes… I'll teach you how to use natural energy like an extension to your body!" He gathers chakra, mixing it with something unfamiliar. Without warning, he darts towards Haru, shoving the sphere into her body.
"Hey! What the hell?!" She moves to punch him, but her body is feeling heavy for some reason. She looks down and her mouth gapes in horror at her arm slowly turning into stone. "What the fuck?!"
He ignores her plight. "Now, normally, humans have to learn this technique at the location of powerful animal summons, like toads or snakes…" He starts pacing. "But, their technique is slow! Due to necessity, our clan learned a faster method to gather natural energy to make up for the fact that we seal our eyes and become blind!" He gives her a satisfying smile. "Now, you just have to balance it with your spiritual and physical energies… Quickly, before you turn into stone."
"You goddamn shit head! Why didn't you tell me that BEFORE I started turning into a fucking statue?!" Only her head is free at this point. She's too angry to even TRY to balance the three energies. "How is the Tenseiga worth this shit?!"
Gumasansho's face twists with malice. "The Tenseiga is NOT worth all this trouble! It is a useless sword that can't even do it's JOB, requiring this thing called compassion to even become remotely useful!" He lifts his pointer finger in a scholarly fashion. "The TenseiGAN, however, has much more uses… It can even do the Tenseiga's job of bringing life back to the dead…" Haru's eye twitches as her body continues its petrification.
Before she transforms into the first living human statue on the moon, Gumasansho places his palm on her shoulder, reabsorbing whatever he injected into her, slowly turning her body back into flesh.
"Hmm… This training could take a while… I guess your lack of experience with natural energy will make you… slower compared to the rest of our clansmen…" And a while it does. She's lost count on how long she's been on this miserable rock, but her estimation ranges to weeks, almost a month at least. But, at long last, she finally learns how to balance the three energies while trying to punch Gumasansho's face off his body. Too bad he can dodge like a boss and she can never get a strike in.
"Oh, I'm so proud of you, honey! Even with you hanging out with mostly humans, you STILL learned how to balance natural energy faster than one!" He gives her a big smile her real father never gave her when he was alive. Of course, he still technically abducted her, so it isn't as heartwarming as she thought it would be. "I have a gift for you."
He hands her a white kimono with a high collar. Around the neck area are six magatama markings. At the back are nine magatamas arranged in a square formation with a dot enveloped inside several rings with two short horizontal lines connecting at the outermost ring. "Um, I know what it is… but what does it signify..?" She asks him as she puts it on. It looks pretty cool, afterall.
"That, my dear, was the kimono once worn by Hamura himself! Well, his brother also wore a similar looking kimono, but that's beside the point!" He turns around, raising his arms in the same manner someone would to praise the sun after months of snow. A good sign of him starting a monologue of something he cares deeply about. "This signifies your start of becoming the next Hamura! Soon, you'll learn how to perfect the Sage mode, eventually leading you to gain the Six Paths Senjutsu… granting you the use of Truth Seeking Balls and the ability to use Six Paths Sage Mode! Then, you'll learn how to awaken the Tenseigan, once you control all three energies the way an Ootsutsuki does! Once you gain that power, any war that can occur will-" In his distraction, his guard went down, giving Haru the chance to strike.
During his monologue, Haru managed to collect some natural energy, so she used it with her air palm, blasting him hard enough to break through the walls of the cave, probably knocking him unconscious. Haru doesn't really care. "Fuck you, you stupid delusional ass! This sage crap uses too much chakra!"
She walks towards the portal, now that no one is around to see her escape. She jumps in, dodging the giant fiddler crab using her new ability to fly, which an Ootsutsuki can do for some reason, and flies towards the other portal, dodging the giant glowing balls that scream trap, and exiting to the cave in which she entered. She collapses on the ground, her chakra mostly gone after less than a minute.
She crawls towards the cave entrance, seeing that the sun is shining down on her. She rises from the ground to get back on her feet. "Fuck this cave…" She walks towards the direction of her village.
