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Shinobi Compendium: Secret Record of the Origins of Ninjutsu
Here we will discuss how chakra gave rise to ninjutsu, and how this faded into secret folklore.

Descent
To obtain the fruit of the Divine Tree, the Rabbit Goddess descended.

From the moment they assumed humanoid form, mankind had walked a world of strife waging war against one another. The ground was stained with blood, and as if drinking it in, the Divine Tree took root in the earth. In time, the Divine Tree bore a single fruit, and a clan migrated from another world in search of it. They were the Ohtsutsuki Clan. Kaguya, leader of the Ohtsutsuki, ate the Divine Tree's fruit and became the progenitor of chakra, and with that tremendous power subdued the world in the blink of an eye.


 * →↓ The towering Divine Tree. It bore a forbidden fruit that would bestow power to whomever ate it.

Rule
She who ruled alone and coveted all chakra.

Ohtsutsuki Kaguya had brought an end to the turbulent times. Dubbed the Rabbit Goddess, she received the blessings of the people and gave birth to twins.


 * ↓ The birth of Hagoromo and Hamura. Kaguya's chakra had become dispersed.

However, Kaguya ruled by herself and often resorted to cruelty. The Byakugan, the Sharingan, and the Infinite Tsukuyomi—these jutsu wielded by Kaguya were regarded with fear, awe, and reverance by the people. At some indefinite point, the Rabbit Goddess had instead become known as a Demon. Then Kaguya found herself ruled by her own desire to possess all chakra.

Moon
The Ohtsutsuki brothers used the power of Six Paths to seal the Ten Tails.

Kaguya's desire to unite all chakra eventually turned her against Hagoromo and Hamura, her own twins, to whom she had dispersed her chakra while giving birth. Devising a plan to absorb their chakra, she integrated with the Divine Tree and challenged the twins to battle...


 * ↑ The Ohtsutsuki brothers fighting an incarnation of the Divine Tree, the Ten Tails. It seems that they were also doing battle with their mother.

The twins, assuming that the Ten Tails was an incarnation of the Divine Tree, and that it had attacked them to recover the chakra from its stolen fruit, met it head on. After a desperate struggle, they invoked Six Paths Planetary Construction. Transforming it into the moon, they sealed it away.


 * ↑→ The husk of the Ten Tails, the Gedo Statue, was sealed in the moon. Hamura took leadership of the clan and decreed that they would stand guard over the statue.

Ninshu
A power that links individuals brought about peace and order.

Inheritance
The fate of Ninshu was entrusted to the love of mankind.

Reincarnation
From the darkness an endless conflict was orchestrated.

Ninjutsu
Thus Ninshu became Ninjutsu and man was forced to endure eternal war.

Six Paths
A secret jutsu that created everything from nothing.

Secret Traditions
The vestiges of Shadow and Light Style that became the foundation of many jutsu