An Unexpected Enemy Appears Ahead

And just as Karin sensed, they soon saw a peculiar guy flying toward them from the direction of the sea. He had very pale skin, shaggy white hair, attractive facial features, and six magatama designs tattooed on his collarbones to resemble a necklace. His eyelids were also closed. He wore some kind of ancient-looking kimono clothes. His entire body was immersed in some kind of chakra. Even Neji could now also sense that chakra energy thread coming toward his body straight from the sky. His facial expression was serious and overlooking. He fixated his gaze on Neji right from the start.

Karin opened her mouth slightly after he came this close to them. Not just his chakra type, but even his ancestry looked very similar to Neji's in her Kagura's Mind Eye, "Is he related to you in some way Neji? You two feel so similar to me...", Kiyomi also looked apprehensive, this guy really reminded her of Neji in some way. Neji also turned solemn and alert, it was the first time he felt this way in a very long time, "We're not related personally, but our clans and probably genes now are very related...", "Isn't it true? My fellow cousin from the Moon?", Neji then glanced and said toward Toneri above.

As Toneri had no eyesight, from the moment of birth, he had to learn how to sense in order to interact with the outside world. Therefore, he immediately identified Neji as the person who possessed the Tenseigan. He didn't even take a look at his companions and said coldly, "I never imagined that some country bumpkins like you Hyugas could awaken the ancestor's legendary eyes... Tell me, how did you do it, human?", Toneri first and foremost wanted to know that piece of information. After all, what would he do in the future if more Hyuga clan members started accomplishing the same? He wanted to immediately find the root cause of this strange problem.

'He is from the Moon?', Kiyomi opened her eyes wide while Karin nodded at herself for guessing correctly that they were really related. However, both of them didn't know anything else about him. This short conversation would be really earth-shattering if it spread out. Hyuga clan had a related cousin clan on the Moon from the same ancestor. That piece of information truly carried weight.

"I had my personal means. Don't worry, that process is unique only to me out of the whole Ninja World. What else do you want from me?", Neji asked while finalizing his strategy for getting out of the present situation. He understood that there was no point in trying to talk Toneri out of bothering him. He could either clash with him directly or run away. Due to living alone for so many years on the Moon, due to that extreme isolation, Toneri turned quite mentally ill, imagining himself as the new God and Savior of the whole Ninja World. His only interactions ever were with his puppets. Or at least, that was how Toneri's background got explained in the original. And judging from his behavior here, Neji determined it to be true, 'He has a worse God complex than Nagato...'

Neji was also a little fascinated at Toneri's hair and skin colors, also by those natural magatama tattoos on his collarbones. It was obvious that Toneri, due to some weird mutation, carried the biggest amount of Otsutsuki genes, from the starry sky, currently in this world. Even more than current him. Even Urashiki, a full-blooded Otsutsuki, in Boruto, treated him quite differently than other inhabitants of this world, acknowledging his blood a little, and opting to not kill him then.

Toneri's clan vanished from history probably because of some kind of genetic problems caused by radiation up there. Even though Hamura created that Giant Tenseigan, to allow them to inhabit the Moon safely, in the first place, it probably failed, as seen by how Toneri was their last member now.

The Kaguya clan died of their genetically abnormal stupidity, low IQ behavior, of always wanting to fight and perish, they were suicidal. Neji knew that it couldn't be the case for the Otsutsuki on the Moon as well, as they didn't have anyone to fight with. It could be only some other problem like radiation. Kimimaro died because he pulled his bones inside after using them, catching bacteria.

"Well, Human, I don't believe you. I'll have to search your memory for the truth. And yes, you don't deserve to possess those eyes. I'm taking them out...", Toneri proudly informed him while preparing to strike. Due to Neji being of the Hyuga clan, and having the same ancestor as himself, he called him 'human' instead of an 'ant'. That's how he viewed all the other 'dirty' inhabitants of this planet.

He wasted a considerable chunk of his Giant Tenseigan's energy reserves to get here so quickly before he left this island and escaped his pursuit. It showed just how much he respected and feared his ancestor's Tenseigan powers and how big of a threat to his plan he currently viewed it as. And not only that, but Toneri would also take it out of Neji only due to his pride. He didn't believe that anyone other than him currently in the world deserved to own those eyes, they could only be his. Even though he was much weaker on Earth than on the Moon, due to the distance that chakra energy had to travel to here, and lose much of its potency in the journey, Toneri was still assured.

He suddenly held his arms forward and two gigantic golems, made out of the earth, suddenly appeared behind Neji and them. Their eyes glowed in strange ways and Toneri had complete control of them. Then all of a sudden, many kinds of rocks, from the ground, started dancing around Toneri as well, getting quicker and quicker, and like projectiles shot toward them all of a sudden. Neji instantly came closer to worried Kiyomi and Karin with a serious face and then did an ordinary Rotation while turning his Tenseigan on. He whispered to Kiyomi, 'Listen to my plan...'

The Rotation was quickly over, Toneri's golems were thrown back a little, as Neji destroyed their legs, and Toneri's rock projectiles god neutralizes as well. However, Toneri, still with a confident expression on his face, suddenly started summoning multiple small orange chakra energy beams toward them while looking at Neji's open Tenseigan eyes, feeling jealous and irritated. As Neji's Rotation finished, Neji had to resort to using ordinary Eight Triagrams to resolve Toneri's attacking orange chakra beams, but then, opened his eyes wide, as Toneri appeared physically in front of him.

'His base form enhanced by the Giant Tenseigan is so fast...?', Neji gritted his teeth as he had to open his Tenseigan Chakra Mode just to defend against Toneri's bodily base form attack coming. Just now Neji fully realized the terror of that Giant Tenseigan filled with Homura's entire chakra. After all, Hamura and Hogoromo were real half-Otsutuskis who could fight with Kaguya for weeks.

Neji barely parried Toneri's punch quickly while thinking gravely, 'This strength is at least Middle Six Paths level. On the Moon, he is probably at a peak Six Paths level. I'm out of his league in power for now!', Neji planned to use his rich battle experience and intellect against him, that was the only way.

However, Neji got even more shocked, as Toneri smiled weirdly as his arms suddenly got enlarged many times over, now appearing cyan in color and full of Tenseigan chakra energy, in the same way, that Hiashi used his Giant Tenseigan back then on him, 'He wants to devour my chakra! Then try it!'

Toneri smiled as his giant palm caught Neji entirely. However, as soon as he went over to draw his chakra out, his face instantly turned pale, 'What is this energy, it is not chakra!', Neji grinned now as he purposefully drew out natural energy from around them and then let Toneri's arm devour it all.

Both Neji and Toneri could currently draw out each other's chakra, however, Toneri surely had an advantage due to his overall power level. Neji didn't want that kind of duel so he tricked him like that, "Kiyomi now, slow him down to the maximum, and increase my speed as much as you can! This is our only chance!", Toneri heard that and looked surprised as Kiyomi's eyes turned red and bloody. Toneri couldn't expel that energy in any normal way, so he had to eject out his giant arm's worth of chakra and throw it all out toward the sea where it dissipated next and turned to stone.

"Good, Karin, support her with your chakra!", Neji yelled again, as he suddenly got a strange speed bump, coming straight above Toneri, toward that peculiar chakra vortex that came from the Moon. Neji suddenly began absorbing all of that chakra successfully recovering himself nearly to his fullest.

Toneri's face turned enraged, and he immediately realized what Neji wanted to do, however, he was slowed down for a while by Kiyomi's right eye, while her left eye increased Neji's speed. Therefore, he had to swiftly command the Giant Tenseigan to immediately stop sending chakra toward there.

Neji looked surprised as the chakra vortex above Toneri's head suddenly vanished away, but then he immediately appeared near Kiyomi and Karin and looked at him while thinking, 'That's it, his body could also hold some of it as a battery. However, he doesn't have an infinite supply of chakra now! And a fourth of this personal chakra reserve already got spent by my natural energy. Meanwhile, I recovered to the fullest, these are way better conditions for me! Now we could run away from here.'

Kiyomi's whole body felt very painful after using her Mangekyo abilities again this time, however, she was feeling a bit better after Karin allowed her to bite her arm as well. However, Karin who previously also allowed Neji to bite it too now collapsed from chakra exhaustion. Neji looked at this and started speaking solemnly to her, "Kiyomi, pick Karin up, we're running away!", "Gravity Kage!",

Toneri suddenly found himself massively slowed down, he lost a quarter of his chakra, while Neji got a boost of it, and this attack was really amazing on its own, therefore it could slow him out like that 'What a control of his Tenseigan's gravity ability...', Toneri thought as he watched the gravitational cage around him. He couldn't make it like that, he didn't have enough chakra control.

He also watched Neji and his teammates flying away expeditiously, 'However, how are you going to deal with this...?', Toneri thought next and smirked a little. He then connected himself back to the Giant Tenseigan's chakra and then concentrated hard to perform some kind of earth-shaking attack. It was beneficial to him now that Neji was running away because even he didn't want to face that.

Toneri could use the close proximity between the Giant Tenseigan, on the Moon, and the nearby meteors and other astral objects that orbited it. He could then nudge their gravity field just a little bit to make them fall down onto the Earth. It didn't require much of Tenseigan's chakra, as they were close already, and natural forces would bring them down to Earth once their gravity field is changed a little bit. The problem was, however, guiding them straight to his targets' positions on the Earth.

Moreover, with Neji's abnormal speed, he needed to make them also extraordinarily fast. That required a great amount of energy to accomplish, so, Toneri was willing to do only two maximum. He still needed to preserve the Giant Tenseigan energy reserves for his Earth destruction plan later.

Neji, Kiyomi, and unconscious Karin were already flying above the open sea, when all of a sudden, Neji started noticing the sea above them getting darker and darker, for a few moments, then he opened his eyes wide, 'What on Earth... He could even summon meteors?', Above them was an island-sized dark meteor. And moreover, it moved extremely fast, making it impossible to dodge.

Neji panicked but then composed himself, 'I just hope there aren't others, this one I can tank!', "Silver Wheel Reincarnation Armour!", It was the second new ability Neji devised with his Tenseigan, alongside the Gravity Cage, that Toneri didn't have in the original. Though it was supposed to work by rotating small pieces of Truth-Seeking Balls right around his body as armor, accomplished with his otherworldly chakra control, this time he had to enlarge it to protect Kiyomi and Karin as well.

Kiyomi felt like she was in another dimension after noticing the large meteor above them, but then she was shocked because she, Karin, and Neji suddenly got engulfed in some kind of silver sphere, "This guy summoned that meteor on us, however, my Truth Seeking Balls should protect us this time!", Neji quickly explained, and then with his gravity powers launched the ball forwards. Soon, they heard earsplitting noises as the silver orb, they were inside of, got hit by that gigantic meteor.

But, as Neji predicted, his human-sized ball of silver Truth-Seeking Balls protected them well. Now Neji already used most of his chakra, so he could only pray to God there were no more of them. However, God didn't seem to hear his voice, as another meteor suddenly pushed below the clouds.

"Damn, he could summon more of them! Kiyomi, I'm sorry, but once this comes near, I will try to contain it with my gravitational powers using my last bit of chakra for a while. You then need to speed us both, to the shore of the Land of Fire, before it falls down on us again, and then we may get the chance to survive this!", Neji spoke loudly and anxiously, as he didn't want to die. Just after he got so powerful, and got rid of the Curse Mark, for this to happen, Neji thought this was all a big nightmare. However, once the sound of the meteor approached even more, he had to calm down.

"Ahhh!!", Neji suddenly yelled, giving in his last atoms of strength to try and stop it from falling just for a while. Whereas Kiyomi, who was now sweaty and pale as a sheet tried to speed both of them forward, to the shore, away from the meteor, using her last atoms of energy and dojutsu power. Her whole body hurt like it was being split apart in various directions. Not in a million years would she have guessed that this day would've gone like this. She was just a jonin level shinobi not long ago.

Fortunately, he still couldn't be killed this time! They got to the shores of the Land of Fire, and Kiyomi collapsed from exhaustion in the meanwhile. Neji was barely carrying her and Karin on his back. However, they survived!, "Toneri I will get my revenge! I will eat your flesh...", Neji menacingly murmured, however, he still continued to run forward no matter the pain he felt. His Tenseigan was already shut, and his chakra reserves were completely dried up as well. However, his abnormal Senju regeneration ability still allowed his body to continue moving forward, 'This way it was harder to find us!', Neji quickly shut all of their Tenketsu points, completely erasing their chakra presence. He truly didn't expect that Toneri could even summon meteors on him like Madara Uchiha. He nearly perished this time around, and he was completely embarrassed in front of his new subordinates!