Several kilometers from the battlefield, the members of the Uzumaki Clan could already see the two Susanoo locked in combat.
Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha seemed to have a fight they absolutely had to settle.
Even though Obito Uchiha knew full well that he could not beat Madara Uchiha, who still had the Rinnegan as a trump card.
But this was the man who had saved him, then changed his life, caused Rin's death, and condemned Kakashi to a lifetime of pain. If Obito did not even fight him once, how could he later stand beside Kakashi before the graves of Rin and those who had died because of the "Masked Man" and repent?!
Looking at the black Raikiri in the pale-blue Susanoo's hand, Kushina sighed and complained, "Honestly, Kakashi is actually going along with that brat Obito's reckless nonsense!"
An Uzumaki Clan ninja asked, "Are you saying one of the people here is Obito? The Obito Uchiha from the footage?!!"
"Yeah. The lighter-colored Susanoo belongs to him and Kakashi."
Kushina led the other Uzumaki Clan ninjas from the Warring States Period toward the direction of the Susanoo battle.
"What about the dark-blue one? Whose Susanoo is that?"
"I've never seen it before."
Kushina frowned. The only Susanoo she had seen were Obito and Kakashi's blue-green one, Itachi's red one, and Shisui's green one. Beyond those, she had never seen any other Susanoo.
Who exactly were Obito and Kakashi fighting?
"Let's go take a look first!"
If it was an enemy, then there was no way she would let her own kids be bullied!
A moment later, they arrived at the place where the two Susanoo were fighting.
Even the wind from the dark-blue Susanoo's sword could send sand and stones across the ground as if a small typhoon had swept through!
This battle was clearly no ordinary sparring match. At the very least, it was a true life-and-death fight straight out of the Warring States Period!!
"Do you know the person inside the other Susanoo?" Uzumaki Ashina asked.
"No!"
Kushina had just answered when one of the Uzumaki ninjas from the Warring States Period suddenly said, "Could it be Madara Uchiha?!"
"Madara Uchiha?!"
"Yes! He appeared in the footage before."
In the footage, Madara Uchiha had already been nearly a hundred years old and looked as if he did not have many days left to live. He was different from the person currently inside the dark-blue Susanoo, but many of his features were still recognizable at a glance. That person was Madara Uchiha!
Along the way, Kushina had listened to them describe the earlier footage in detail. When she heard that Madara Uchiha had confidently insisted Obito would definitely return, she had instinctively sensed that something was wrong!
Right now, she still could not tell whether the footage was real and her own memories were the problem, or whether her memories were fine and the footage was fake.
But either way, the Uzumaki Clan was famously protective of its own!
By then, Madara Uchiha had already been irritated by Obito's Intangibility and Hatake Kakashi's tactics.
He directly revealed the Rinnegan and used his overwhelming strength to crush them from a higher level!
The moment the Rinnegan locked onto Obito and Kakashi, the two suddenly felt as if their bodies had been restrained by something. They could neither turn intangible nor move!
Just as Madara Uchiha's Susanoo was about to swing its giant sword down at them.
Snap.
A golden chain locked the dark-blue Susanoo's arm in place!
"Hm?"
In the moment Madara Uchiha was caught off guard.
Snap, snap, snap, snap.
Nine endless golden chains, carrying dazzling light, wove back and forth through the surrounding mountains and the earth beneath their feet!!
It was like the finest embroidery, using the most beautiful silk thread to stitch a moth onto a canvas!!
The dark-blue Susanoo had actually been trapped in less than three seconds?!!
Madara Uchiha moved Susanoo's wrist and also realized the resistance in those chains.
"Mito Uzumaki?"
No. What he saw was a woman with long red hair.
And she was still holding a cooking spoon.
Opposite him, Obito Uchiha and Hatake Kakashi were also stunned when they saw Madara Uchiha suddenly restrained.
"Could this be..."
"The legendary Adamantine Sealing Chains?!!"
Although they had never seen it with their own eyes, as Minato Namikaze's disciples, they had heard Minato-sensei talk about Kushina's Kekkei Genkai. It was a technique that even the great hero of the Third Shinobi World War, the Yellow Flash, feared!
For some reason, Obito Uchiha's composure shattered in an instant!
That was...
The ability of Kushina, whom he had killed!
He never imagined that here in the Warring States Period, he and Kakashi would be saved by that very ability!!
If one had to describe what Obito Uchiha and Hatake Kakashi were feeling, it would be like the moment in the main world during the Fourth Shinobi World War, when the two of them were facing Kaguya and saw Rin take their hands and pull them forward together!
Madara Uchiha gave a cold snort. His Rinnegan flared, and the Adamantine Sealing Chains wrapped around Susanoo shattered under his overwhelming strength, breaking into pieces of golden light that fell from above.
It was so beautiful that it did not look at all like a terrifying technique feared by countless clans across the Ninja World.
Obito Uchiha and Hatake Kakashi followed the direction where the Adamantine Sealing Chains were breaking layer by layer.
They looked at the figure standing not far away.
For the two of them, time seemed to stop!
They could no longer even see Madara Uchiha standing opposite them.
That person was...
"Kushina?!"
"Kushina?!!!"
The two spoke at the same time, and hearing that name from the other's mouth, they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.
They glanced at one another from the corners of their eyes.
If only one of them had seen wrong, that would be one thing, but there was no way both Obito and Kakashi had mistaken her, right?!!
"My rotten little brat isn't someone you get to bully, dattebane!!!"
Dattebane.
Hearing that familiar verbal tic, the shock came too suddenly this time. Obito Uchiha truly could not hold it in anymore!!
"Kushina!!"
Why?!!
Why was Kushina Uzumaki, who had died because of the "Masked Man's" vile actions all those years ago, standing alive and well in the Warring States Period?!!
At that moment, Obito Uchiha's mind completely lost the ability to think.
He simply could not imagine what could have caused such a thing.
...
On the other side, Naruto and the others, who were staying at the inn, had let Kakashi-sensei's ancestor go.
Young Obito had even kindly given him a friendly reminder that he absolutely had to promote having three or four children. Three or four children were not too few, and seven or eight were not too many. He had to make sure Kakashi was born smoothly, and it would be even better if he could make the Hatake Clan prosper so Kakashi would not be so lonely.
The look in that young Hatake Clan ninja's eyes before he left...
He was so embarrassed that if he did not leave, he would probably have found a crack in the ground and crawled into it!
After that matter passed, Naruto noticed that Sasuke's mood was not quite right. He looked restless and anxious.
Eventually, when he could no longer bear it, Sasuke took the initiative to ask Minato Namikaze. Since his father had been revived, another twenty-four hours should already have passed, so why had no new clan member been revived?
Minato shook his head. "I didn't sense anything this time either. It does seem a little strange."
In the middle of the night, Naruto accompanied Sasuke around the town several times, but they did not see a single Uchiha clan member. They even nearly got attacked by ninjas from some unknown clan.
Naruto said, "Could they have been revived directly inside the Uchiha Clan instead?"
Sasuke had no other choice, so he could only go back first.
"Could it be that when the mission scroll said it would fulfill Sasuke's wish, it only meant reviving four people, dattebayo?"
Sasuke was worried about that too, which was why he had been so down.
There were too many people he wanted to revive. Call him greedy if they wanted, but he wanted his mother, Shisui, and all those relatives from the clan who had kindly told him to be careful on his way when he was little. He wanted every single one of them brought back.
The Uchiha Clan, his parents, and Itachi too. He hoped they could all return to the time when he had been happiest.
Even if his older brother was always busy with missions and brushed him off, that was fine.
As long as the whole family was together...
"Speaking of which, what exactly did Obito's wish mean?" Naruto suddenly brought this up.
Sasuke suddenly remembered. Before this, reviving one clan member every twenty-four hours had gone smoothly. It was only after Obito's wish appeared on the blank mission scroll that it had suddenly stopped working!!
He stood up and strode straight over to knock on the door of the room where Young Obito and Kakashi were staying. Sakura and Rin, who were staying next door, also got up worriedly and asked what had happened this time.
Sasuke did not want to trouble the two girls. Naruto saw through him and casually made up an excuse that Sasuke "didn't dare get up to pee alone," nearly making Sasuke faint from anger.
The four boys, Sasuke, Naruto, Obito, and Kakashi, gathered in one room and studied Young Obito Uchiha's wish.
[I hope the "Masked Man" can get a chance to start over.]
"This is way more troublesome than Itachi's wish," Naruto said, scratching his head. "What were you thinking at the time?!"
Young Obito tried hard to recall. "Back then, we saw my experiences in your world together. Madara Uchiha used Rin's death to turn that version of me into the Masked Man. When I thought about the unforgivable things the Masked Man had done, I couldn't forgive that version of me either, but I also felt he was pitiful. I could imagine how badly it would hit me if something happened to Rin and Kakashi, so I thought, wouldn't it be great if everything could start over?"
Young Kakashi said, "Minato-sensei said that once history has already happened, it can't be changed. It can only produce a brand-new parallel world, right?"
"Just like all the parallel worlds we've changed so far," Sasuke said, rejecting the idea. "Things that have already happened can't be reversed. Even if they are changed, all that does is create a new parallel world."
Naruto sat cross-legged on the floor with his hands tucked in, thinking hard and letting out a strained groan that sounded like he was constipated.
"What are you thinking?"
At this point, after experiencing so many trips across worlds, no one would casually ignore Naruto's thoughts anymore.
Although sometimes...
Fine, although most of the time, he was still a master of acting like a fool.
But whether it was his unbelievable luck, or the courage Naruto showed every single time by holding on to the very end, those things had confirmed his identity as the No. 1 most unpredictable ninja, while also letting him turn the impossible into the possible again and again, creating miracles.
Seeing Sasuke take the initiative to ask for his opinion, Naruto stared at him with his big blue eyes.
"I remember Dad and the Second Hokage from the era when Konoha was founded once said that they thought the mastermind behind the mission scroll might be trying to find some kind of rule."
"!!!"
Young Kakashi said, "What they're looking for is a way to break the rule that the future cannot be reversed by changing history!"
In different worlds, whether or not the apple was eaten could create a change that altered the course of an entire world!
But reversing history would only create a new parallel world!
So the mastermind behind the mission scroll had been searching all along for a way to break that rule! A way to make history that had already happened change the original world after being altered!!