Over a millennium ago, a black substance in the form of a spiral appeared out of nowhere, near a hut in the distance of a near remote village. From the darkness came a man in white clothes, and in his hands he held a tiny figure covered in rags. The man left whatever he was carrying on the ground near the hut and then disappeared back where he had come from.
The day was sunny, barely dawn when an old man ambled back to the village along the dirt road near the forest and meadows. He could barely walk, proved by the wood stick he used to help himself stay up. The man was limping on one leg before he came to a stop. He coughed blood over his forearm. "It is time," he said, and looked to his right where he found a small box containing what appeared to be a baby. But the baby didn't seem to move. It looked like a statue made of a black type of rock.
Despite being taken by a stranger, the child was not afraid, and would not have cried even if he could because he knew he would continue to live on.
The baby could not see, hear, speak, or even move.
Over time, the people in the village treated him with great reverence because everyone who touched him found they gradually gained something which they lacked. This occurred because the baby possessed the power to share out his own soul. Anyone who touched him received a fragment of his soul, and those fragments healed the wounds which their own souls alone could not. As their wounds slowly healed, the various aspects of each person were all imprinted upon the fragments of the baby's soul which they had received until those fragments returned to him at the moment of their owners' deaths. Even though none who touched the baby lived for much longer, the people continued to gather around him. As he blessed them with happiness before death. As the baby regained the fragments of his soul that he had shared out, the body gained function. In time, when his deaf ears became able to hear, he realized the people had called him by an unusual name: "YHWACH". He understood this was the name of the God these people worshiped, and he took this name for his own.
Some years later a legend became popular of a young man with long black hair dressed in black who made his way from village to village healing the sick. While growing up in the kingdoms of man, Yhwach discovered how to wield his power. The deaths brought by sharing his soul were not premature and he could control when to take their souls back with his own soul-shard along with all their memories, abilities, and talents engraved on it.
Yhwach now a tall handsome man with a long face, broad chin, and pronounced cheekbones formed a family and got married. A year later, he came back home from another village, and when he arrived from his long journey, he found his wife dead along with their unborn child. There was the first time he experienced loss. His reddish-brown eyes became moist as he stood there. He wanted to understand. What had happened? And that's when his iris tripled, giving him the ability to understand everything he saw, and his wish got granted by a higher power.
After a short memorial and burial, Yhwach left his mortal life behind. He was not the type of man to show emotion, no, and as the years went by, his heart hardened and became empty. Yhwach realized that man's sin gave birth to war. Almost in his first 100 years of life, he had no need for violence. But then something awoke in him. His true mission. To create a world without death.
200 years later, in the Land of Ancestors.
"Shut up! Do you want to die? Don't say another word about the emperor," said a woman dressed in farm clothes holding her teenage son who was running towards the main dirt road where many horses with soldiers dressed in white were passing by.
"They say the bastard is over a hundred years old! Is he immortal? I'll die before he does," said the black-haired teen, picking up a stone to throw at the emperor who rode with his soldiers.
The emperor had formed the Lichtreich (Empire of Light) in the Land of Ancestors, over 200 years ago. Today he had returned in all his glory to his people. The villagers came out with flowers and gifts as he rode with his face up to the heavens. Something was troubling him.
"Look at him, even now he doesn't look older than my husband. He is a living miracle. He is the way to immortality," said the voice of a woman in the crowd.
And so the teen threw the stone. When it approached the emperor, it vaporised.
"How dare you insult his Majesty!" cried one soldier at the front, drawing his sword.
The emperor stopped, which made everyone stop in line. Silence fell among the crowd as the emperor got off his horse and amble towards the teenager. The young man could not move, and his body trembled from an invisible pressure that held him in place. Then he saw the emperor's eyes, which had three pupils, which made him close his own eyes out of fear. Then the emperor placed a hand on his head and the young man opened his eyes again.
"You have 18,000 seconds left," he told the teenager who ran away screaming towards the forest.
The emperor walked back to the soldier in front of the line. A young man with big brown eyes and black hair tied up.
"They are coming, in 17,987 seconds. The woman will be alone, bring her to me unharmed."
"Yes, your Majesty!"
"Do not fail me, Tenji."
Five hours later, two flashes of light descended on the green fields towards the forest that night. There was a glimpse of men and horses heading in their direction in the distance, but it didn't bother them much. Two humanoid figures appeared out of the light. The two figures had pale skin, but one of them had a long, curving horn which grew from his left brow and wrapped around the back of his skull before jutting outward from his right temple, resembling a crown. The other was a woman with extremely long, sweeping white, and possessed white clear eyes. The iris and pupil of his right eye of the man was yellow with a black wheel-like pattern with eight spokes coming out of the centre, while his left eye was as the woman's.
The man had an elegant white long-sleeved open tailcoat over a pair of baggy black pants over his naked feet. The woman shared a long dress that covered her feet with the same black symbols patterns as the man's tailcoat.
"I'll let you choose the recipient for the Karma," the man said as he threw his hand forward, creating a black spiral-shaped gate. "Find a vessel."
The bushes behind them shivered. The man made a sudden movement of his arm, throwing something that human eyes could not follow.
There was a sudden, brief scream.
As he walked behind the bushes, there was a brown-eyed, short-haired teenager covered in blood with a black stick driven through the centre of his chest. The boy tried to speak, but only spat blood and soon became motionless and his eyes turned white. The man stared at the young man as his corpse disappeared. He moved forward, and a cracking sound under his feet followed.
"I'll be back in about a year's time. I need to prepare six more worlds for harvest. Try not to step on the ants of this primitive world." She nodded as he left the scene, and the gate disappeared.
Soon after, the men arrived at the site on horses. The entire field was empty and there was no one around. She raised her arm, covering the lower half of her face, ready for an attack. The men in front of her were the only witnesses. These strangely dressed men's clothing comprised a long white double-breasted coat with straps and a white bib with buttons. The coat was tied at the waist with a black belt adorned with a decorative buckle and worn over white trousers and boots.
"A woman?" said one man in the front who carried a stick with a spearhead that held a flag in the centre that had a round circle containing a white symbol as a three-pointed star.
"She came from the heavens?" murmured the other one holding a similar flag.
"Listen up woman! We have a request from his majesty Yhwach!" When the third man spoke, the woman did not hesitate to raise her head to him. He had all her attention, yet the man began to sweat and stammered. "H-H... His Majesty Yhwach has requested an audience with the strange visitor from another world!"
An aura came out of her entering the bodies of the men present, their eyes becoming white and large like a tame dog. Just as if they were controlled, they gave her a horse and took her back to their leader.
Time later, the woman walked in front of the great gates with the symbol of these men inside a castle on the outskirts of the land. She approached the throne and sat down on her knees without saying a word a few feet away from the emperor of these lands. The throne was on its back to her and beyond it was the open balcony, directly overlooking the hills was an immense tree, you could even claim it to be the largest tree in the entire world.
"Welcome to the Empire of Light visitor," said the voice of the man sitting on the throne who was out of her sight.
"My name is Kaguya," said the woman, emotionless.
"The one who protects the Divine Tree." The man claimed her words for his own.
Kaguya stood up and walked to his side to have a look at him, veins formed near the woman's eyes and they changed slightly. This man had a slightly different chakra path system than other humans in this world. It was similar, but he had an additional system, Isshiki had told her that humans did not have access to the chakra yet in this world. So this lower world was perfect for her low level of power to find a vessel while Isshiki prepared the other six worlds for harvest. But this man's eyes were not like the other species in this world, and the woman wondered if he was a descendant, since he certainly did not have pale skin or a Byakugan to mirror a low rank Ōtsutsuki.
"Tenji," Yhwach called, and Kaguya came out of her thoughts and looked at his men, but they did not respond. "I see. They served me well," when he finished his words, his men exploded from the inside into a pool of blood.
Kaguya turned his attention back to him.
"Now we are alone."
"Why did you kill your men?" asked Kaguya.
"They were no longer my men, they were under the control of a certain someone." She didn't answer him, so he continued, "Several millennia ago, that tree appeared out of nowhere, and grew into a massive tree before the very eyes of the people of this village. Where is the man who planted that tree?"
She didn't respond and ambled to the balcony to look up to the heavens.
"I see your future." Yhwach said.
Kaguya immediately turned to him.
"He will devour you."
"He will devour me? Not if I take your dojutsu for myself." Kaguya stretched her hand forward and her nails reached toward Yhwach. He moved his head, dodging her nails as they struck the throne.
"Is that what you truly desire, to face this man alone?"
"His name is Isshiki Ōtsutsuki. As I am right now, I cannot fight him. And what I wish... is for peace. No war. No more fighting."
"I dislike conflict. For peace, I end wars in this world and take over their lands. And when all the lands of men in this world are under my empire, there will be everlasting peace."
Kaguya withdrew his nails from the throne.
"They will come for me."
"There are more Ōtsutsuki that know of this world?"
Kaguya nodded, "Three, and probably more. You told me you could see my future? Can you see theirs?"
Yhwach rose from his throne and walked towards the balcony, and stared at the heavens. "It seems those worlds you speak of are beyond my capabilities. If the other Ōtsutsuki were in this world, the subject would be different."
"If you can see the future, you will ask me for the Divine Fruit that is growing on the tree right now, as payment for your help." Kaguya looked at the stars.
"Not this one. You will transcend when the fruit is complete. We will need your power for the coming battle."
"He will return in a year's time."
"Then we will have to be ready. I will take the strongest men in my army and send them to the tree. Sacrifices are necessary for peace." His last words made her look down in thought.
"I'll take the fruit. You will help me defeat Isshiki Ōtsutsuki and give me a powerful army enough to defeat any threat that dares to break the peace I will secure in this world. In return, one of the divine fruits will be yours."
"One last thing," said Yhwach as he drew a silver cup from under his cloak. "Drink my blood, and I'll pour a Schrift into you."
"What?" Kaguya took the cup.
"I will give you a Sacred Letter, an initial of the power I will bestow on your soul. We need all the power we can get to best him."
A year passed since the arrival of the mysterious woman from the heavens. Yhwach's men did not question his orders, but there was an uproar among them when the emperor gave them the order that they should serve and treat the woman in the same way as him. Many rumours spread between the castle and the lands that the emperor had a concubine who had come from distant lands. But the subject was soon forgotten, and they served with the same appreciation to the woman who was the equal of their emperor.
Inside the castle balcony, a brown-eyed woman with long black hair tied in a chignon with a pink bandana approached Kaguya who was sitting on her knees looking up to the heavens. For a few seconds she said nothing. She stood and watched in silence.
"Aino, we will soon set out on different paths."
"Lady Kaguya?"
Kaguya stood up but temporarily lost her balance, "I need to get my strength back." She said, staring out into the distance at the Divine Tree.
"Lady Kaguya!" Aino held her up, "Could you be ...with child?"
"I must get to the Divine Tree…" Kaguya took will strength to walk to the back stairs of the balcony, leading to the road towards the Divine Tree.
"Shouldn't we inform the emperor?"
"He knows. He told me I would know when time was right."
With no more words between them, Aino helped Kaguya to the Divine Tree. On arrival, Aino felt heavier, and both collapsed to the ground. Kaguya stood up to continue, but Aino kept getting up to help her.
"Wait," said Kaguya.
"I know that all those who come here dry up like branches. The tree is cursed. But you are not affected. It chose you, and for that. Nothing will stop me from helping you, Lady Kaguya."
"Aino."
On the path of pain and sorrow. Aino did her best to get Kaguya as close to the tree as she could. From the ground with her tired eyes, she saw how Kaguya stood in the centre and raised her arms to the heavens. From the top of the Divine Tree, a bright light descended into her hands. Kaguya took a bite, and Aino closed her eyes forever. The Divine Tree had drained her completely of her life.
As she stood, Kaguya's forehead split open revealing a third eye, red in colour with several concentric circles and nine tomoe. Her eyes widened and her hair floated as if alive, and two horns grew from her head. Kaguya's whole body was struck with a current of energy and wrapped around her in a blue aura. Creating a great explosion among the roots of the Divine Tree, she hurled herself up and flew off to the heavens.
Soon after, the man known as the emperor of these lands was standing over the sky above her, and she stopped at his level.
"If you change the rules. You'll change the ending."
"This will bring a peaceful era for everyone."
"If you remove me from the equation, there's no guarantee you'll win against the Ōtsutsuki."
"You think mere food can betray me? Even if she ate the fruit before it was ready, she has no chance against me without the Ten-Tails. You should have found a vessel. Your life doesn't matter to me, you only exist to upgrade me." The man's voice just came out of the black spiral in the air behind them. "Strange. I didn't know that ants in this world would have access to particular dojutsu."
"You think you can..." Yhwach turned around but was quickly immobilized, "What? What did you do to me?" he said, with large open eyes and a partially open mouth.
"I'll show you," Isshiki used his right eye with an odd pattern to activate his power, and suddenly giant black rods appeared from underneath him and through his chest, legs and arms. Isshiki spat blood. "Wh-what did you do?"
"With the Almighty I can not only see all possibilities of the future, and plan ahead, but I can choose a specific event that will happen and bring the result to the present. Like this."
Hearing that Isshiki released his power breaking the black rods and jumping back only to be pierced by white bones. He looked down and the white bones had appeared from nowhere in his legs, and abdomen as if they had been teleported. His lower body soon began to change to a grayish color, and disappear into mere ashes. "But this..." Isshiki looked back and saw Kaguya coming out of a black, checkered crack in space and time. "Where have you been? Help me! You will be my vessel!" Isshiki shouted, grabbing Kaguya by the shoulders as she stared at the ground.
"Even assuming that was possible. Haven't you noticed that I was the one who killed you?" Kaguya said, looking into his eyes and suddenly with the power of the Byakuyan a blast of invisible force sent him backwards to the ground destroying his lower body which was already in ashes.
"Wh-What the hell is this...?" asked Isshiki, crawling away on the dirt.
"The basic power of mind erasure which Kaguya had used was very useful. Using my blood, I engrave a letter of power into her soul to increase that ability, the Vanishing Point." Yhwach said, and turned his back on him.
"With this power I can make my existence vanish from within the minds of others, causing them to forget that I ever existed and thus..." Isshiki jumped off the floor towards Kaguya, grabbing her shoulders in mid-conversation and placing his energy through her, forming a pattern of black lines on her body.
"HaHaHaHaHa is done! The Karma was placed!" Isshiki's hands phased through Kaguya's body, and the face of joy and triumph soon became one of terror and fear. "What is going on!" he shouted as the remains of his body slowly turned to ash and reached his torso.
"This power contains three special abilities. The second one causes my existence to vanish, making my body completely intangible. When using this version, I left behind an afterimage that acted as a decoy for the Karma, giving you the impression that the Karma was placed on me."
"You!" were Isshiki's last words as his entire body disappeared into ashes in the wind.
"Sadly, you died before I showed you the full extent of this power." Kaguya said and lost her balance for a few seconds. Yhwach appeared from behind and held her up.
"Are you sure you want to create a world of peace to reign an army of brainless seeds, while I can create an army with imaginable powers while my own power grows?"
"When will the others come?" Kaguya asked.
"I can't see their future in the far reaches of space, but I know they won't set foot on earth until a millennium in the future."
"That's how long it will take for the fruits planted in the other dimensions recently by Isshiki. Will you be alive until then?"
"As long as I keep absorbing souls, I don't have to worry about longevity. The Soul Society will have to wait until that time comes. As far as I can see, I will not have to move certain pieces for a certain child to be born in darkness."
"Then we shall rule over this world... Together with our own children."