Toneri Ōtsutsuki

**Toneri Ōtsutsuki** (大筒木トネリ, *Ōtsutsuki Toneri*) is a descendant of Hamura Ōtsutsuki and the sole survivor of the Ōtsutsuki Clan's branch family on the Moon.

## Background

Toneri was born into the Ōtsutsuki clan's Branch family, leading to his eyes being sealed within the Energy Vessel at birth; in place of vision, he learned to sense the world around him instead. Growing up with his father on the Moon, Toneri desired human friends, unlike the puppet servants that served his family. On multiple occasions, the two would take travel to Earth to secretly observe the Hyūga Clan in Konohagakure, whom descended from Hamura's direct bloodline. Toneri's father at some point suggested that Toneri should someday marry Hinata Hyūga; the latter whom was heiress of the Hyūga clan at the time. When his father was on his deathbed, he encouraged Toneri to forget about the clan's decree and go to Earth to find friends and comrades, to live for his own sake. After his passing, Toneri thought about his ancestor's wishes, leading to him deciding to stay on the moon isolated as the last surviving member of his clan's branch family, with only the clan's autonomous puppets for company.

## Personality

Toneri carries hatred towards mankind for weaponising chakra and once plotted to destroy humanity as punishment, a goal which he states that the branch family of his clan desired for a thousand years. He usually displays a calm and cool demeanour driven to completing the Thousand Year Plan to wipe out the shinobi world. He has also shown to be hypocritical as, in spite of his hating humanity for using chakra as a weapon, he used it to attack Naruto Uzumaki and the rest of the Hanabi Rescue Team.

From a young age, Toneri used to love Hinata and dreamed of someday taking her as his bride. When he initiated his plan to destroy the Earth, he made repeated efforts to convince her to join him, so that she would not die along with the rest of the Earth's population. After Hinata initially appears to accept his marriage proposal, Toneri does his best to accommodate her, giving her free reign of the castle and promising to share all the castle's secrets with her after they're married. He attempts to bond with her by dining together and requesting that she knit a scarf for him; he takes her agreement to this request as a good sign. At the same time, he remains concerned by her frequent thoughts about Naruto and refuses to listen to her requests that he spare the Earth. When he discovers that Hinata only agreed to marry him as a pretence and a ruse to stop his plans and that, moreover, the scarf she was knitting was meant for Naruto, Toneri became enraged, accusing her of betraying him. Toneri has been shown to be selfish on several occasions: for example, he did not consider how Hinata felt about marrying him. He placed her under his control, adorned her to his wall so that he could admire her at his leisure, and then forced her through the motions of a wedding ceremony. After the wedding was interrupted by Naruto, Toneri makes several attempts to involve Hinata in killing him, but Toneri is ultimately defeated. Despite being in love with her, Toneri did not stop Hinata from leaving once he realised she and Naruto love each other.

His zealotry made him stubborn as he refused to pay heed to Hinata and Naruto's attempts to convince him to stop his destructive plan, and it took him being saved from a near-death experience for him to be persuaded. After learning that Hamura never wanted to destroy the world, Toneri expressed sincere regret in his actions. Wishing to atone for his sins, he decided that the Moon would never again approach Earth and, as a result, chose to live alone on the Moon in peace. Even years later, while staying away from Earth, he continued to watch over it, seeking to keep the peace for the planet itself.

In the novelisation of *The Last: Naruto the Movie*, Hinata believes that much of Toneri's personality results from how much of his life he spent living with puppets as his only company: Toneri has a simple view of "good" and "evil" because the puppets couldn't challenge him to develop better critical thinking skills. Although Toneri is only doing what he believes is right, spending so long with obedient puppets has rendered him unable to consider others' views or desires. Naruto considers the loneliness Toneri experienced similar to his own, to the point of thinking he'd have turned out like Toneri if he had lacked the support of Hinata and their friends.