Kaguya Ōtsutsuki

Black Zetsu begins narrating Kaguya's story to Naruto and Sasuke. Long ago a meteorite struck the earth, and from the crater a great tree took root. Years afterward, villagers near the tree saw a glowing object streak across the sky. A young emperor, Tenji, ordered his soldiers to chase the light, and by morning they brought before him a woman named Kaguya, found where it had fallen. When he asked her name she stayed silent, and as suspicious soldiers moved to imprison her as a foreign spy, they collapsed. Kaguya then declared herself the guardian of the God Tree.

Given a servant and a place at court, Kaguya spent her nights gazing at the sky and longing for peace. Tenji met with envoys from a rival land, Suzaku and Genbu, to resolve a dispute over a lake, but he judged their supporting document a forgery, aware they had faked such claims before to seize territory by war. As tensions flared at the border, Tenji marched to the front and told Kaguya to hide if he failed to return. A spy learned of her movements and attacked her hiding place, only for Kaguya to slaughter the attackers effortlessly, terrifying the enemy. Suzaku produced a witness exposing her killings and demanded her execution under Tenji's own decree, and Tenji reluctantly gave the order.

This is episode 460 of Naruto Shippūden, part of the arc Kaguya Ōtsutsuki Strikes, adapting chapter 681. Fleeing toward the God Tree with her companion Aino, the pregnant Kaguya deflects a barrage of arrows but cannot hold against the sheer numbers. Aino, trying to warn Tenji of her pregnancy, is struck down along the way. Cornered, Kaguya eats the God Tree's chakra fruit, awakening the Rinne Sharingan, casting the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and trapping all those it catches within the tree's roots. The episode uses the opening theme Blood Circulator and the ending theme Blue Lullaby.