"They were weaker than I thought."
Hinata muttered as she sealed the puppets that were controlled without chakra strings.
After Zetsu has told her the way to moon last night, she decided to give Shiori-sama a surprise by awakening Tenseigan.
Despite her orders. It seems that since her Byakugan has evolved a lot, it actually resisted Kotoamatsukami to a degree. Moreover, the Kotoamatsukami that Shiori has is the weaker version. Unlike the one that is with Itachi.
Zetsu was afraid of something, so he actually didn't come with Hinata to show her the exact location. Perhaps wary that the 'Otsutsuki's on the moon might find him using Hamura's Giant Tenseigan?
But after knowing the area and finding the cave where there is a water body, where water isn't wet, she easily got on the moon. The gaslighting genjutsu simply didn't work on her.
She is currently on the moon, before a blind guy with pale white skin, without any eyes.
"Hinata, you have come for me-"
She instantly killed him with a bone strike straight to his chest.
He is the only living person on the moon.
Was.
She let her symbiote engulf him, and extract his DNA and chakra. Then, she cracked open his skull, and took out his brain.
Her symbiote form had monstrous mouth, and she relished on eating a brain after so long.
Finally, after integrating his DNA into her own symbiote body, her Byakugan actually started to evolve.
"Finally!"
Hinata grinned as the chakras within her fused, and her eyes slowly turned from lavendar to blue.
She could feel her strength skyrocket. Her eyes were intoxicating her with power.
"It's Tenseigan!"
She jumped in joy, finally fulfilling her mission.
Suddenly, she could see the entirety of the Moon. And found a lurking special sort of chakra in a puppet in the ruins.
She rushed there, and before the puppet could speak to her, engulfed it with her symbiote and absorbed the chakra into herself.
The power of her new eyes skyrocketed even more. The chakra was really special.
Her eyes stabilized due to the special chakra, and her whole body was brimming with chakra.
And that's not all.
Her black symbiote body turned white, her white symbiote symbol turned blue, and 6 tomoe markings adorned her back.
But along with this transformation, something else also happened.
She broke free from all the genjutsu, brainwashing, and the remaining effects of the Kotoamatsukami that she was put through the Hive Mind.
"W-what has happened to me!? Why!?"
Hinata, finally free, couldn't help but cry as she recalled her memories.
Her killing Neji and her father.
And... her sister...
"I... did all that..."
She muttered, feeling lost and hollow.
It was all a mission of ROOT.
Wait... was she really Hinata? Or Shiori-sama's symbiote who had taken over this girl?
Feeling lost, she headed towards the Giant Tenseigan.
She was feeling sad because she killed Neji and Hanabi.
But, she was feeling reallyyyy good that she had killed Hiashi.
She was really confused.
"Should I love Shiori-sama... or hate her?"
She couldn't determine what to do.
She enveloped the Giant Tenseigan with her symbiote self, seeping into it, trying to get to Hamura's Tenseigan that is holding all the Byakugan's together with its gravitational pull.
Should she give Hamura's eyes to Shiori-sama? Or take it for herself?
She used her Tenseigan to see what Shiori-sama was doing.
And after what she saw, she was angry.