"You cannot bring that into the Hyuuga compound," says Hiashi's father venomously.
Hiashi looks his father in the eye and says, "I am protecting him from an army of moon aliens. I am simply bringing work home with me. Plenty of people do it."
"That is too dangerous. Get it out of here!" orders Hiashi's father, pointing his walking stick at Toneri.
Hinata runs up to Hiashi, grinning. "Is this a new friend for me?" she asks.
"Yes," says Hiashi.
"Sweet!" Hinata grabs Toneri by the hand and drags him away yelling, "NEJI! HANABI! OUR DADS GOT US A FRIEND!"
"Hiashi, that kid is the single greatest thing you have ever made," says Hizashi.
"Thank you," says Hiashi. "Father," he adds, turning to the man in question. "What have you got against Toneri?"
"Oh so you gave it a name," growls Hiashi's father. "I guess you'll be wanting to keep it too?"
"As a matter of fact, yes."
"Take it back to where you found it," says Hiashi's father. "I don't care what happens to it, you are not keeping it here!"
"Do you honestly expect us to leave that little boy to the mercy of an entire army of oppressive dictators?" demands Hizashi, glaring at his father.
"Shut up!" Hiashi's father swings his walking stick at Hizashi, an angry expression on his face.
Hiashi blocks the blow with his arms and stares into his father's eyes. What he sees there surprises him. Hurt. Pain. No anger at all. "I think it's time you told us your tragic backstory, Father," says Hiashi firmly.
"Very well, if you must know," says Hiashi's father, lowering his stick. "I will tell you. I will tell you about your mother."
Hanabi Otsutsuki, the princess of the moon kingdom, second child of the Moon King, is lost in a part of the palace she has never been in before. Hanabi was bored so she decided to explore a bit. After losing her tutor quite on purpose, Hanabi set off to explore places her father told her not to go.
After a few minutes of aimless wandering- exploring, Hanabi hears the unmistakable sound of a small child crying in distress. She quickly activates her byakugan to locate the child. Hanbi runs down hallways she has never walked, passing servants who seem unconcerned for the hysterical toddler being attacked a few corridors away.
When she reaches the room where two grown men are trying to remove the screaming, terrified child's eyes, Hanbi breaks down the door and demands, "What the bloody hell are you doing to that baby?!"
The two men stand up casually like they were doing nothing wrong. "Ah, Princess Hanabi," says one. "We are doing an eye operation, nothing you need to worry yourself about."
Hanabi snatches the toddler away from the men and glares at them. She hold the boy close and says angrily, "Have you even heard of sedatives?"
"Look, princess, this practice is as old as our civilization," says they other man impatiently, crossing his arms. "We take the branch clan members' eyes to fuel the Tenseigan and generate power for our entire civilization. So give back that branch whelp."
Hanabi is horrified. She had noticed that all the branch members were blind, but her father and mother refused to tell her why.
And now she knows.
Hanabi beats the stuffing out of those two men and carries the toddler off. Hanabi, unsure what to do now, returns to her room and calms the baby down by singing to him. Hanabi rocks the toddler in her arms and contemplates what to do next. She is about 99% sure she just committed some kind of criminal offence.
About half an hour after Hanabi rescued the toddler, her father bursts inter her room. Angry beyond reason, he marches up to her and demands, "Turn over the child to me and I will forget this."
"No!" Hanabi refuses. "You'll just let them gouge his eyes out! Why can't we take eyes from dead people, instead of little babies?"
"They are the branch clan. It is their duty to sacrifice their eyes for the greater good," explains Hanabi's father patiently. "You are just prolonging the inevitable. No one can escape their fate."
"You're wrong!" argues Hanabi. "Everyone's fate is their own to command."
Hanabi's father slaps her across the face. "No one can escape their destiny, our paths are written long before we were born."
The toddler, who Hanabi is holding in her arms, wakes up from his exhausted nap and starts crying again.
"Hand over the child," Hanabi's father repeats.
Hanabi has two choices. Hand over the child or get the hell off the moon taking the child with her. It takes her .0000000000000000000001% of a second to decide. "No," says Hanbai and pushes past her father. She runs out of the room, the child in her arms, and heads towards the nearest door leading out of the palace.
"Stop Hanabi!" her father yells, alerting the guards.
The guards give chase and Hanabi leaps out of the nearest window. Using chakra to keep the fall from hurting her, Hanbi lands in the courtyard and makes a break for the gates. Behind her, she can hear people yelling to close the gates. The palace gates begin to swing closed, and Hanabi uses a burst of chakra to propel her through them before they close completely. With her pursuit slowed down considerably, Hanabi can focus on making sure she goes the right way, rather than just far away.
Hanabi has heard of the gateway to the Earth, and has a good idea where the gateway is. What Earth is, however, is something Hanabi does not know. The only things she knows for sure are that everyone on Earth is inferior and lacks intelligence, and her people do not go there. The fact that Hanabi probably won't be pursued to Earth means that it is her best option. Now all she has to do is find the door. Hanabi continues her flight away from the palace, trying desperately to remember something - anything - that will help her find the doorway. After a while, Hanbi hears the guards looking for her. Hanabi does not know what to do. She does not know where to go, where to hide.
"Young lady," says an old man who is sitting nearby, leaning against a rundown building. "Where are you going?"
"To Earth," says Hanabi. "It is the only place I can go. I've broken a law, defied tradition and refused to obey the king. But I do not know where the gateway to earth is."
"Follow me," says the Old Man, standing up slowly. He has a strange staff in one hand, which he leans on as he walks. "I have been to Earth many times. The people there are good and kind for the most part. I will show you a place you can hide."
Hanabi has no other options, so she follows the old man. He quietly leads her through the streets, and out into the forest. They travel for quite some time, during which the toddler stops crying and starts sucking his thumb. The old man stops when they reach a cave.
"Go inside," says the old man. "And jump into the water. It is special water and will transport you to Earth. I will follow shortly."
Hanabi obeys and goes into the cave. Inside, there is a strange blue pool of shiny water that lights up the cave. It looks magical, so Hanbi walks over and jumps right in.
Hanabi staggers out of the cave at the other end of the gateway, thoroughly exhausted. What the hell is up with all the bubbles? The toddler is whimpering around his thumb, which is still firmly lodged in his mouth. He's probably hungry and tired and thirsty and traumatized. Just like Hanabi. Hanabi sits down and waits for the old man to follow her.
After about half an hour, the old man emerges from the pool. "I just ensured you will not be followed," he says. "The entire moon now knows that you left with an infant from the branch clan and are going to live on Earth out of protest against the practice of taking the branch clan's eyes. They also know that if anyone tries to follow you for any reason, I will destroy them on the spot."
"Who are you?" gasps Hanabi, standing up and backing away from the old man.
"Hamura Otsutsuki," says the old man. "Now, if you come with me, I will take you to the village where my Earthling descendants, the Hyuuga clan, lives. You should blend in there just fine."
Hamura Otsutsuki? The man who founded their clan and their entire civilization? "But...but aren't you supposed to be dead or something?"
"Or something," says the old man, nodding. "It's definitely the or something option. My brother is in the same situation. Now come with me to the Village Hidden in the Leaves."
Hanabi follows, keeping a safe distance away at all times. This old guy is crazy.