After negotiating the 'compensation', Naruto directly used the Rinnegan to project Toneri's spirit into his own mental space.
"Celestial being! Don't you dare…"
The image of Toneri pulled inside was the same as outside, and the eyes in his sockets hadn't disappeared either, so he could clearly see the scene within this space.
—Or rather, since they all existed in the form of spiritual energy, there naturally weren't any visual limitations anymore.
Toneri was first startled by Kurama's huge body, and then before he could speak, his ancestor walked over on his own.
"You… you…"
Because he was born without eyes, Toneri could only perceive people through Chakra, so he couldn't access records or portraits of what his ancestor looked like.
He couldn't recognize who this white-haired old man before him was, but the bloodline within him instinctively felt close to the other.
Hamura just stood there gazing at Toneri, as if he had too many words all jumbled together, momentarily unsure how to begin.
Finally, with the Sage of Six Paths' assistance, he recounted the events of the past once more.
"No! I don't believe it! You must be deceiving me! This is Genjutsu!"
Having been raised since childhood with the 'destroy the Ninja World' education from his elders, Toneri had long ingrained this view deep within his mind, even regarding it as the meaning of life. Naturally, he couldn't abandon it just because of a few words from Hamura.
Not to mention he had never seen Hamura's appearance before and was still suspicious of his identity.
"It's you! You're trying to trick me!"
Driven by some emotion, Toneri didn't trouble Hamura before him… instead, he pointed at Naruto and shouted angrily.
In response, Naruto simply pointed at himself.
'Huh? Is he talking about me?'
"What reason would I have to deceive you? If I really wanted to deal with you, could you possibly defeat me?"
Naruto's words left no room for Toneri's pride, leaving this guy who had lived alone since childhood momentarily speechless.
But he stubbornly refused to believe.
If he admitted it, it would mean his ancestors and those main family's members all died meaninglessly, and his years of persistence and plans were all a huge mistake.
After all, he was young and had a stubborn personality, easily getting stuck in a dead end.
Seeing this, Naruto rolled up his sleeves, intending to help 'persuade' the other party properly, but the Sage of Six Paths reached out and stopped him.
"Leave it to Hamura."
And Hamura didn't remain silent either. Instead, he somewhat forcefully walked between Toneri and Naruto, staring intently at the Tenseigan in the other's eyes and said.
"If you don't believe it, go to the moon's core. Go with repentance to that ruin. The truth is there."
"Moon's… core?"
This was the first time Toneri had heard there was something inside the moon… he thought their branch family hiding beneath the lunar crust was already deep enough.
However, Naruto, who had been watching the excitement nearby, awkwardly raised his hand.
"Well…"
…
Rumble!
Under gravity's control, the path crushed into a mass at the moon's center by immense force was cleared again, allowing Toneri to set foot there for the first time.
Fortunately, the ruin's quality was good enough, and Naruto's 'star-piercing' strike hadn't hit the core directly, otherwise today's matter really wouldn't have been explainable.
Just as Hamura said, upon arriving at the ruin, another 'younger' Hamura, who recorded the truth of the past, appeared.
That was a residual consciousness of Hamura, like the Minato in Naruto's seal, not the same as the main body.
And this guy Toneri was also someone who said one thing but meant another.
Verbally claiming impossibility, his heart had long harbored doubts… otherwise, he couldn't have triggered this consciousness.
Under the consciousness's memory infusion, Toneri witnessed with his own eyes the final moments before Hamura's death, and how the lunar lineage later split due to disagreements over Hamura's final words, ultimately fighting and completely destroying the main house.
At the end of the memory, the consciousness, like Hamura's main body, spoke the true meaning of those final words from back then.
The will twisted by the branch family for hundreds of years was finally purified, and Toneri revealed an expression of having his worldview reshaped, to the point that even after Naruto brought him back to the Ninja World, this guy still hadn't fully recovered.
The reason for bringing him back was also Hamura and the Sage of Six Paths' intention.
Firstly, there was nothing left on the moon, so there's no need for Toneri to stay there waiting to die.
Instead, it was better to let him do something for the Ninja World, at least to have an extra helper when the next Otsutsuki attacked.
Secondly, they also wanted this child to witness with his own eyes what the Ninja World, which he considered 'hopeless' and 'must be destroyed', was really like.
This world indeed was filled with various conflicts and conspiracies, but one couldn't ignore the beautiful things that already existed.
There had never been a world that was absolutely perfect, nor one that was absolutely imperfect.
These things could only be judged after personal experience.
"Alright, my work is done last night, the ransom… cough… education fee has also been paid, so we'll part ways here."
In a certain large forest, Naruto waved at Toneri and turned to leave.
"Wai… wait, where are you going?"
Hearing this, Naruto turned his head and raised an eyebrow.
"Kid, uncle is in a hurry to get married, no time to play with you—"
After saying this, he was about to turn when, as if remembering something, he came back and tapped Toneri's head.
"Don't you dare lay a hand on the Hyuga Clan of the Ninja World, or you know the consequences…"
In their earlier communication, Naruto had also learned that this guy had intended to directly seize the eyes of Hyuga Clan's members for himself.
"I won't. I already have these eyes…"
Now Toneri had used that large Tenseigan on the moon to obtain his own Tenseigan, so he no longer needed to replace them with Byakugan.
"…And, as someone guilty, I won't easily approach them either."
Even without acting, after understanding the truth, Toneri still felt guilty about his previous thoughts.
Moreover, he didn't think his current self was worthy of that [Byakugan Princess] anymore.
Naruto could sense that this emotion wasn't feigned, so he nodded.
"Alright then, you stay put here. Someone will come find you soon. That's the Ninja World's guide I arranged for you."
"Guide? No need…"
"Less nonsense. If I don't have someone watching you, I'm also afraid you'll cause trouble."
With that, Naruto waved his hand.
"She's a very approachable kid. Just tell her I sent you…"
His voice faded, and Naruto's figure teleported away, leaving only Toneri standing alone in place, staring blankly at the towering treetops.
On the moon, there weren't such spectacular plants… actually, the moon had almost no vegetation at all. The only plants were the crops they grew in the lunar crust.
Lost in such random thoughts, Toneri actually obeyed Naruto's words, standing there obediently without moving, like a puppet.
Until—
"There's someone here! It should be him, right?"
A vibrant female voice sounded, attracting Toneri's attention.
He instinctively prepared to attack, but sensed another Chakra within the other party's body before acting, so he stopped.
This kind of Chakra, he had also felt in Naruto.
"Hi! Hello!"
Fu, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, flying down from the treetops, greeted this fair-skinned person with a smile.
'Sure enough, just as Naruto said, he looked like a silly guy.'
But that was fine… she didn't care about the other's intelligence level when making friends.
"Well… I, I am Uzumaki Naruto's…"
Perhaps dazzled by the brilliant smile on this wheat-skinned girl's face, Toneri even bit his tongue while speaking.
"I know, I know~"
Fu didn't mind Toneri's appearance at all, instead very familiarly putting her arm around his shoulder and patting it like a good buddy.
"You're Naruto's friend, so you're my friend!"
"My name is Fu, what's yours?"
"…Toneri."