Naruto stared at the laptop in Denki Kaminarimon's hands, his eyes brimming with curiosity.
"This thing is amazing! Your fingers move even faster than when you form hand seals, dattebayo!"
Naruto had never seen anything like it before, and neither had Sasuke nor Sakura.
They had no idea what the boy named Denki Kaminarimon was typing so rapidly across those rows of keys.
As for old relics from the Warring States Period like Hashirama, Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama, after watching Denki play two recordings of the Seventh Hokage-sama on it, they all found the gadget in his hands incredibly rare and fascinating.
Incidentally, ever since they reconciled, they had all been living in Kakashi's old family home.
Whenever he had nothing else to do, Madara would lie on his side on the floor with a plate of roasted rice crackers and hog the television for hours on end.
Tobirama would mock him for being childish whenever he passed by. When Hashirama came over to watch with him, however, Madara would shift aside slightly to make room for Hashirama or Izuna.
Unable to resist making a cutting remark, Inojin Yamanaka said, "There's a limit to how much of a country bumpkin you can be, you know. Do you seriously think you traveled here from the past or something?"
After being mocked by him twice, Naruto was getting annoyed.
"Who even are you?! You've got a really nasty mouth, dattebayo!"
"Shouldn't you introduce yourself before asking someone else's name? Even a country bumpkin should know something that basic, shouldn't they?"
"You already know I'm Naruto Uzumaki, dattebayo!"
Iwabee Yuino tapped the iron staff he carried with him. "Whoa! You really think you're the Seventh Hokage-sama?!"
Inojin Yamanaka snorted. "Other than your blond hair, blue eyes, orange tracksuit, and the six whisker marks drawn on your cheeks, what part of you looks anything like our Seventh Hokage-sama?"
He circled Naruto from one side to the other, even pushing Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno aside.
"The Seventh Hokage-sama's composure, wisdom, strength, and elite bearing are nowhere to be found in that puny little body of yours, okay?"
Honestly, even Sasuke, Obito, Madara Uchiha, and Indra were beginning to feel sorry for Naruto.
Naruto himself was so furious that he bit the hem of his shirt, practically ready to explode.
Thanks to his Mom and Dad constantly stuffing him with food, he was already taller than Sakura! Give it a little more time, and he would definitely be taller than that idiot Sasuke too!
"What do you mean, puny little body?! You think you're some kind of giant?!!!"
Naruto jumped up and down as he argued with Inojin Yamanaka, but Inojin's sharp tongue shot down every single thing he said. Even Sasuke was starting to get irritated. He stepped half a pace forward, putting himself partly between Naruto and Inojin.
Sasuke did not care for arguments. When there was a problem, he preferred to settle it with strength.
He immediately activated his Sharingan.
"Hey! Is that..."
Shikadai Nara, who had stayed out of the argument because he did not want to bring trouble home, hurriedly grabbed Inojin Yamanaka and stared cautiously at Sasuke Uchiha.
"The Sharingan?! You actually have the Sharingan?!!"
Sasuke gave a cold snort. "I'm an Uchiha. Is it strange for me to possess the Sharingan?"
As if backing Sasuke up, Young Obito, Adult Obito, Madara Uchiha, Izuna Uchiha, and Indra all activated their Sharingan at the same time.
A bead of cold sweat slid down Shikadai Nara's face as he wondered how he was going to tell his father about this. Outwardly, he pulled Inojin Yamanaka and the others back and apologized to the group.
It was obvious at a glance that this boy was the sharpest one among them. The Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, looked at Inojin Yamanaka.
"Do you know someone named Sai?"
"My father?" Inojin Yamanaka had never expected the man pretending to be the Second Hokage to know his father.
Naruto stared at him. "Huh? Second Hokage, you know this kid's dad?!"
Tobirama Senju replied, "While cleaning up the mess Danzō left behind, I met a boy around your age who looked a lot like this brat, so I thought I'd ask."
Needless to say, they resembled each other not only in their striking good looks, but also in their viciously sharp tongues.
At that moment, Denki Kaminarimon, who had been typing furiously on the computer, finally took a breath and addressed everyone.
"Sorry to keep you waiting. Part of the video was encrypted, and I didn't have permission to access it, so I hacked into the database and created a fake identity before downloading it."
Tobirama Senju: "..."
Hashirama, Naruto, and Ashura did not understand a word of what he had said, but that did not stop them from being thoroughly impressed.
They crowded around the laptop again and began watching the footage of the Ōtsutsuki Clan attacking the Konoha Chūnin Exam arena.
["Fox, hand over the power inside you."]
The man wore high-heeled geta, had his hair tied in a high ponytail, and possessed round, bun-like eyebrows. The way he addressed the Seventh Hokage-sama, Naruto Uzumaki, was incredibly arrogant.
As he watched the humans fleeing in every direction, his Byakugan revealed a lofty contempt for them.
He even called everyone inferior beings.
Madara Uchiha felt an overwhelming urge to activate his Rinnegan and teach the man some manners.
Obito Uchiha curled his lip, clearly just as displeased.
Although he currently possessed only the Mangekyō Sharingan, when he experienced "Naruto Uzumaki's" life in the main storyline world, he became that world's Obito Uchiha at the very end. There, he personally experienced the chakra of Six Paths Obito as the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki, along with the power of one of Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan.
Because of that, he found this arrogant Ōtsutsuki brat especially irritating.
["My, my. You inferior creatures have transformed chakra into all sorts of interesting forms."]
The camera turned toward the voice.
From his hair and skin to his clothes, everything about the man was gray-white. He held a fishing rod in one hand and carried a bamboo basket at his waist.
Another member of the Ōtsutsuki Clan?!
On top of that, an Ōtsutsuki who looked like an attendant was standing beside the ponytailed man who had called the Seventh Hokage-sama, Naruto Uzumaki, "Fox."
The video had barely started, and they had already seen three members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan?!
Naruto and the others all turned toward Kaguya Otsutsuki.
Kaguya still wore the same ethereal expression.
"Aunt Kaguya, which one of them is the Isshiki Ōtsutsuki you told us about, dattebayo?"
Naruto's question was also on the minds of Minato Namikaze, Madara Uchiha, and the others.
Kaguya remained silent.
Impatient as ever, Obito Uchiha blurted out, "Don't tell me none of them is Isshiki Ōtsutsuki?"
"Shut up, kid."
Madara Uchiha enjoyed bullying Obito from time to time to relieve his stress.
But the moment he finished speaking, everyone heard Kaguya softly respond.
"Mm."
"Huh?"
"Momoshiki..."
Like her appearance, Kaguya's voice carried an ancient, ethereal cadence that was beautiful to hear.
"Kinshiki..."
"And Urashiki..."
"Compared to Isshiki, they are merely immature children."
Kaguya spoke slowly while the footage showed the three members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan wreaking havoc during Konoha's Chūnin Exams.
No ninjutsu had any effect on them. They absorbed every trace of chakra and turned it to their own use.
The corner of Adult Obito's mouth twitched. He had actually guessed right.
They did not appear all that powerful, but because the ninja of Konoha and the other villages were unaccustomed to fighting enemies who could steal chakra, they suffered heavy losses.
Madara Uchiha frowned as he watched.
"Even so, they're far too weak. Their Taijutsu has been completely neglected."
It was understandable that they had suffered one setback at the beginning because they did not know their opponents could absorb chakra. But why were they still being beaten down afterward?
The sight left Madara Uchiha seething.
Hashirama Senju was also struggling to contain himself. He wished they could travel to that moment and personally show the Ōtsutsuki that Konoha was not an easy target.
Just then, a blond boy whom Minato Namikaze had noticed earlier in the recording suddenly shouted and charged forward without a second thought.
A peculiar device was strapped to his arm. Each time he manipulated it with his fingers, a tiny scroll would pop out, even smaller than an intelligence scroll used on a B-rank mission.
Immediately afterward, Wind Release, Fire Release, Water Release, Lightning Release, and Earth Release techniques, each comparable to a B-rank ninjutsu, surged from the boy's hands toward the Ōtsutsuki Kaguya had identified as Momoshiki.
Naruto and the other young ninja could barely see the trick behind it. All they knew was that the flashily dressed blond boy seemed incredibly powerful, capable of unleashing such potent ninjutsu without forming a single hand seal.
"And he can use ninjutsu from all five elements!"
Naruto and Young Obito stared with naked envy.
Sakura said, "He doesn't need to form hand seals, and he can use five B-rank or higher ninjutsu in a row without worrying about chakra. That's incredible too."
"What's going on here?" Madara Uchiha asked Tobirama Senju.
Among them, only Hashirama's younger brother was skilled at tinkering with this sort of thing.
Tobirama replied, "Those miniature scrolls probably contain sealed chakra, with the formulas for the ninjutsu worked out in advance. Once the device activates a scroll, it immediately releases the power stored inside."
His expression darkened.
"With a device like that, even someone with no chakra of their own, no ability to form hand seals, and no knowledge of ninjutsu, someone who is not even a ninja, can fight like a powerful ninja."
The other adults' expressions darkened as well.
Of course, it was not because they were jealous that this invention allowed ordinary people who were not ninja to wield powerful ninjutsu.
"Only those who gain power through their own constant effort can understand its value and refrain from recklessly using it for selfish ends."
Minato Namikaze put it plainly.
Naruto glanced back at his father's face and instinctively knew that he was upset.
By observing how Denki Kaminarimon had used the "keyboard," Minato Namikaze had already worked out the functions of several basic keys. In front of everyone, he pressed the longest key on the bottom row.
[Space]
The video abruptly paused on the blond boy's anxious, frightened face. He had tried to continue using the device to attack Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, only to discover that all the ninjutsu scrolls inside it had been used up.
There was no time to marvel at Minato Namikaze's genius. Simply by watching someone else operate it, he had already figured out how to use the device called a laptop.
Naruto and the others listened as Minato lectured them.
The teenagers across from them did not dare say a word beneath the group's naturally commanding presence.
Minato's blue eyes, the same shade as Naruto's and the boy's in the recording, gleamed sharply.
"This is the Chūnin Exam, correct? Why would a Genin taking the Chūnin Exam bring a device like this into the test?!"
"Boruto, he..." Shikadai Nara had also been furious over Boruto's actions at the time, but they had grown up together as childhood friends, so he instinctively wanted to defend him.
Minato did not give him the chance.
"Someone who relies on outside tools to take shortcuts, and who even deceives and exploits the comrades he spends every day with, does not deserve to become a Chūnin! He has already lost the right to call himself a ninja!!"
This was the first time Naruto had ever seen his father condemn someone so harshly.