Sasuke's expression was terrible.
Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha, it did not matter. Both of them were absolute disasters!
Gaara of the Desert had become Kazekage, and he looked ready to protect Naruto Uzumaki to the death, whether in his own name or in the name of the Ninja World.
And right at that moment, Young Obito brought up how, in another world, Naruto Uzumaki was probably getting beaten up, kneeling, and hyperventilating around this same time because Sasuke Uchiha had sunk into darkness and could not pull himself out.
It was downright fatal!
"Getting beaten up? Kneeling? Hyperventilating?"
Fugaku Uchiha was a little lost. What was all this supposed to mean?
Izuna asked when he did not understand. "Big brother, what are they talking about?"
Madara Uchiha was very particular about this sort of thing. He immediately used Susanoo to poke Young Obito on the head and have him explain it to his younger brother.
While watching the Five Kage confront the Masked Man in the footage, Young Obito briefly explained the whole "getting beaten up, kneeling, and hyperventilating" meme to those who still did not know.
Damn.
That hit hard.
After hearing it, Fugaku Uchiha and Tajima Uchiha were both numb. Wasn't this going a little too far?
Madara Uchiha's mouth twitched as he listened. That blond kid was even more impressive than Hashirama. He was practically an Uchiha magnet, with a pull comparable to Madara's Chibaku Tensei.
After hearing it, Hashirama Senju burst into laughter and patted Naruto's shoulder with open admiration.
"You're even better than me, Naruto," he said emotionally. "If back then I had been like you, putting down the burdens of being the Senju Clan Head and the Hokage to go this far for Madara, maybe he wouldn't have been deceived by Black Zetsu and ended up growing old and dying alone."
"Big brother! Don't make the clan and the village sound like burdens!"
"That's not what I meant. Tobirama, don't nitpick my words~~"
"Hmph!" Tobirama Senju gave his older brother a pointed look.
Butsuma Senju's fist had already clenched hard enough to punch him straight into reincarnation.
Tobirama: I'm not scolding you because Father is about to beat you.
Hashirama: "Uh..." Looking at the "十" on his father's head, the God of Shinobi chickened out for a split second.
Madara Uchiha was also embarrassed as hell because of Hashirama's words.
He snorted. "As expected, you and I really don't get along!!"
As a father, Fugaku Uchiha felt that he should apologize to Minato Namikaze, but he could not bring himself to lower his pride, leaving him conflicted and torn.
Sasuke wanted to cover Young Obito's mouth as he listened.
Young Obito said, "I swear I didn't exaggerate! That's exactly what happened."
Naruto thought back to the life of Naruto Uzumaki from the other world that he had experienced through the mission scroll.
"That's probably about right." Naruto nodded in agreement with Obito. "When Sasuke starts acting difficult, he really is hard to deal with. Even Kakashi-sensei can't do anything about him."
Sasuke poked him in the forehead. What did he mean, acting difficult?! What did he mean, hard to deal with?!
Speaking of this, Young Obito was excellent at tattling.
"That Sasuke back then," he said, pointing at the footage, "even said he was going to kill Kakashi!"
Kakashi's dead-fish eyes drooped, and he sighed helplessly.
"Sigh. I never thought being a sensei would become a high-risk profession..." He suddenly wanted to read Icha Icha Paradise again. Only the world inside books could satisfy his pursuit of love and justice.
Tobirama Senju habitually wanted to take a jab at the Uchiha again.
"So this is why I say you Uchiha, aren't your brains all..."
Clang.
Izuna's blade stopped in front of Tobirama Senju's chest at incredible speed.
"Go on. Say it."
At a speed ordinary people could barely follow, Tobirama Senju had already raised a kunai to block the blade in front of him. He had forgotten that Izuna Uchiha was extremely protective of the Uchiha.
The children from Team Minato and Team Kakashi were startled. The ordinary people standing a little farther away did not even notice what had happened, because it was simply too fast.
Hashirama and Madara saw it, but if the two of them intervened in their younger brothers' fight, it would not look good. It could very easily turn into Great Buddha versus Susanoo.
Two pairs of vermilion eyes met, and both of them put away their weapons at the same time. Izuna's Mangekyō Sharingan also faded back into black eyes.
No one could have expected Tobirama Senju's single sentence to freeze the air.
"Do you Uchiha all have a tendency to kill your teachers?" After thinking about it, he denied his own words. "No, not really. I once had a subordinate named Kagami Uchiha, and he was quite good. But he was an exception, not someone who could represent the entire Uchiha."
Izuna Uchiha said, "Obito Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha are the exceptions in our clan! Don't fire off sweeping attacks at all of us!"
Madara Uchiha felt a little awkward. Did Izuna still not know that Sasuke was his chakra reincarnation?
Poor Young Obito had tried to tattle, only for the Second Hokage to defeat magic with magic.
Adult Obito really wanted to kneel before his younger self! The matter had finally been glossed over with great difficulty, so how could he bring it up again?! Was the footage not torturing him badly enough? Did he have to sprinkle salt into the wound and grind it in too?!!
To cover the embarrassment, Minato scratched his cheek and laughed.
"T-this is indeed one of Konoha's less friendly traditions. We'll have to change it in the future."
It was not just Obito killing Minato, or Sasuke wanting to kill Kakashi!
Based on the information they had gathered so far, in other parallel worlds, there was also Orochimaru killing the Third Hokage, and Nagato killing Jiraiya!! What kind of sin had caused all this?!!
In the footage, the "Masked Man" had finished arguing with the Kage present, and neither side could convince the other.
Of course, at that time, the Masked Man was only one step away from achieving his ambition. He no longer cared what the Kage or the ninja villages thought.
["In that case, fine."]
Kushina Uzumaki watched Obito Uchiha, wearing that orange mask, arrogantly step one foot onto the second-floor railing.
["I declare war here. The Fourth Shinobi World War officially begins!"]
Although the voice was not Obito Uchiha's usual foolish one, Kushina knew that troublesome kid far too well.
"Addicted to cosplay, are you? You really think you're Madara Uchiha now?!"
["The Fourth Shinobi World War?!"]
["Are you joking?!"]
["I'm not foolish enough to joke about something like this. The next time we meet will be on the battlefield, everyone."]
The footage ended as the "Masked Man" disappeared into a spiral of swirling air.
For the people of the Warring States Period, who were watching a "movie" for the first time, and such a long one at that, the sheer amount of information was overwhelming. On top of that, they felt exhausted.
Ashina Uzumaki needed to have a proper talk with this clan member from the future.
After seeing the footage vanish, Kushina realized she still had not returned to Konoha, and she began to grow anxious.
She did not even know who had suddenly brought her to the Warring States Period, much less how she was supposed to get back.
The moment she imagined being unable to find a way home and having to stay in this era for the rest of her life, wouldn't Naruto and Minato only end up finding her grave in the end? And it would be a grave from the Warring States Period, belonging to someone who had grown old and died without ever finding the way home!
That was too cruel...
Mito Uzumaki said, "If you truly cannot return to the future, then the most likely possibility is that you will no longer exist in the future at all, right? Perhaps your husband will marry someone else? And your son will never be born?"
That thought instantly broke Kushina Uzumaki's composure.
"That absolutely can't happen, dattebane! I absolutely cannot stay in this era forever, dattebane!!!"
Just thinking that her adorable son might never be born into the world, might never feel the love of his parents, and might not even get to eat delicious ramen made Kushina Uzumaki so frantic that she nearly unleashed the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
After hearing Kushina Uzumaki describe the Uzumaki Clan's tragic annihilation and miserable future, and after seeing the footage in the sky, they still could not fully believe it, but they had no choice but to guard against the Uchiha Clan.
"Mito."
"Yes, Clan Head."
The young Mito Uzumaki saluted the Clan Head of the Uzumaki Clan.
"After I leave the clan, you will manage the family in my place."
"!!!" Mito Uzumaki froze. She had thought she would be the one sent to negotiate with the Senju.
An Uzumaki clansman said, "Clan Head! Mito-sama is only twelve years old. Entrusting the clan to her now..." Was that not a little too early?
"It is only temporary. I am not leaving forever!" Ashina Uzumaki had inherited the Uzumaki Clan's fiery temper, and no one truly dared to defy him.
He looked at twelve-year-old Mito Uzumaki. "As the Princess of the Uzumaki Clan, this is training for you." His stern expression paused for a moment. Then he sighed and said in a heavy voice, "If multiple clans truly join forces to attack the Uzumaki in the near future, then you do not have much time left."
Mito Uzumaki's pupils shook, and she accepted the task.
Beside them, Kushina Uzumaki was seeing Mito-sama from the Warring States Period for the first time. She blamed herself, wondering if it was because of her appearance that Mito-sama, as a child, had been forced to shoulder the responsibilities of a Princess too early.
"No. We should be thanking you."
The young girl's eyes shone brightly, and her voice rang firm and clear.
"Because you told us news from the future, we can prepare early and come up with more plans to deal with the Uzumaki Clan's crisis."
Ashina Uzumaki said, "Exactly. That is why I need you to come with me to the Land of Fire and explain the situation to the Senju Clan."
"Huh?!"
Kushina Uzumaki was stunned.
Right now, she felt like the heroine of one of those countless time-travel dramas, inexplicably transported several decades into the past, seeing Mito-sama, who had once treated her so gently, and even meeting the Clan Head of the Uzumaki Clan from the Warring States Period!
This was also the first time she had ever seen so many red-haired clan members!!
She was so excited that she could hardly control herself, and nearly every sentence carried her strange verbal tic of "dattebane"!!
But Kushina was not some little girl from a time-travel romance drama. She was not going to simply accept things as they came, happily build a great career in the Warring States Period, meet handsome men and beautiful women of this era, and leave behind some legendary romance!
She was a woman with a husband and a son!
"I still have to go home and cook, dattebane!!!!"
Her cry rang through the clouds.
...
At the Kannabi Bridge, Minato Namikaze seemed to sense something and glanced into the distance.
Adult Obito Uchiha looked at them, seeing that they had still not returned to the world of the mission scroll, and asked, "Did something go wrong, Minato-sensei?"
"I can't really explain it, but it feels like something unexpected has happened."
"Something unexpected?" the children from Team Minato and Team Kakashi asked in confusion.
Minato Namikaze thought for a moment. "It feels like someone familiar is playing a prank on us."
Sakura said, "But Naruto is here."
"Yeah." Naruto thought about the people he knew. "Aside from me and Obito, there doesn't seem to be anyone else who likes pranks, right? And someone who can even prank my dad, who has the Yellow Flash's kind of luck."
Minato rubbed his son's head with a very gentle smile, but he did not say aloud what he was thinking.
There was one person Naruto had not had many chances to spend time with so far.
And Naruto's prank-loving personality...
Just happened to come from her...