A few days later, within the Uchiha clan grounds.
Naruto, Hinata, and the others were seeing Sasuke and Boruto off. Due to the backlash of time and space, the two of them had no choice but to return to the future and end this journey through a parallel world.
"Boruto, take care."
Before leaving, Hyuga Neji patted Boruto on the shoulder, already acknowledging this new friend deep down.
Boruto's face was full of awkwardness, but he still seriously said goodbye to the uncle he had once wanted to treat like an older brother. After all, in the era he lived in, Uncle Neji had already been dead for more than ten years.
After Neji left, Boruto looked toward Naruto and Hinata not far away and asked, "Father, Mother, do you have anything you want me to say to my dad and mom over there?"
Naruto frowned slightly before saying, "Tell him to give you more homework?"
Boruto waved his hand repeatedly. "Forget it. Even if he assigns homework, he doesn't have time to check it anyway. He's the Seventh Hokage, he's busy all day."
Hinata, who had only recently accepted Boruto emotionally, smiled softly and said, "I don't really have anything to say. I just hope the Hinata over there can become stronger. If she's always just a housewife, she won't be able to keep up with the person she loves."
On the other side, Sasuke was saying goodbye to Sasuke and Shisui.
Sasuke raised his head, looked at the older Sasuke, and said, "I've already learned all the ninjutsu you taught me over the past few days. But even if I know Itachi killed the clan for my sake, I still want an explanation from him."
The older Sasuke remained silent. After all, he and the Sasuke of this era were people from two completely different timelines.
At most, he could only represent himself in understanding Itachi's thoughts. He could not represent the Uchiha clan, nor this Sasuke.
After a long silence, the older Sasuke said in a low voice, "Take good care of Mother. Brother killing brother would be too cruel for her. Try to choose a place without many people around, and resolve the conflict between you and Itachi properly."
Uchiha Shisui crossed his arms and sneered, "Of course we know that. You should hurry back to your own world already. Your family is still waiting for you."
But by the end, Shisui's tone had softened considerably.
After the farewells, everyone watched as the older Sasuke and Boruto disappeared into the spatial vortex. Even their chakra fluctuations vanished completely, making it obvious they had already left this world.
After Sasuke and Boruto left, only Naruto, Hinata, Shisui, and Sasuke remained in the clearing of the Uchiha clan.
Uchiha Shisui glanced at Sasuke before looking toward Naruto and saying, "Menma-sama, in order to avoid future information leaking out, should we erase our memories? If Black Zetsu gets hold of this information, I'm afraid something bad could happen."
Hearing this, Hinata and Sasuke's expressions changed, but after seriously thinking it over, they still nodded.
What Shisui said made sense. With their current strength, if they fell into Black Zetsu's hands, there was indeed a chance the information could leak and create unnecessary risks.
Thinking of this, Hinata took the initiative to step forward and said:
"Naruto-kun, use genjutsu on me. I want to forget these memories."
Sasuke followed up immediately. "I think the same. Let me forget meeting that Sasuke. Traveling through time and space is way too bizarre. Keeping only the memories related to the battle is enough."
After staring at Hinata and Sasuke for several seconds, Naruto shook his head and chuckled.
"Since I took the initiative to introduce Boruto and Sasuke to you, I never intended to seal your memories. On the contrary, only after we share a common goal can we truly unite better."
"That's why I won't erase your memories. The same goes for you, Shisui."
"But necessary precautions still need to be taken. For the time being, none of you should leave the territory of Konoha. I'll find a way to help you quickly improve your strength."
"Quickly improve our strength?" Hinata and Sasuke both looked confused.
Sasuke could at least understand his own situation. He already possessed the three-tomoe Sharingan, and together with the techniques and combat skills taught by the older Sasuke, reaching the level of the Five Kage would not be difficult.
But Hinata only possessed the Byakugan and the Dead Bone Pulse. Reaching Kage-level strength in a short period of time sounded nearly impossible.
Naruto grinned slyly. "I'll keep it secret for now. You'll know when the time comes..."
That was precisely why he wasn't worried about Hinata and Sasuke leaking secrets.
Even the older Sasuke didn't know some of the truly important information about the future, let alone the two of them.
Even if information about the Fourth Great Ninja War or the identities of Obito and Pain were exposed and discovered by Black Zetsu, it would not create much chaos.
Compared to them, Shisui actually knew more, at least regarding the Eye of the Moon Plan.
After Hinata and Sasuke left, Shisui immediately said impatiently, "Menma-sama, our next step should be stopping Obito from carrying out the Eye of the Moon Plan and preventing Otsutsuki Kaguya from being resurrected."
Naruto glanced at Shisui and smiled lightly.
"Nagato already gave up collecting tailed beasts a long time ago. He's busy farming in Amegakure and plans to annex the surrounding small nations to establish the sixth great country in the ninja world."
"What about Obito? There's no way Obito would give up the Eye of the Moon Plan. He must still be lurking somewhere in the ninja world."
"Obito is indeed troublesome. If we want to completely deal with him, we'll probably need to cooperate with all Five Great Ninja Villages... We'll handle him later."
For the time being, Naruto had no real way to deal with Obito. Finding Obito was even harder than defeating him.
Kakashi's Kamui Sharingan was connected to the same dimension as Obito's, but the exact location within the real world was still unknown. As long as Obito refused to show himself, Kakashi would never be able to locate him through Kamui space alone.
The top priority now was digesting the spoils they had obtained and increasing their strength as quickly as possible.
After all, although he and Sasuke had successfully defeated an Otsutsuki together, it did not mean he had truly stepped onto the level of the Otsutsuki clan. Compared to the genuine monsters among the Otsutsuki, he still had a very long road ahead of him.
Not to mention, there were still several beings in the ninja world stronger than him.
Otsutsuki Isshiki, Otsutsuki Hagoromo, and Otsutsuki Kaguya, who was still sealed away.
After thinking for a moment, Naruto formed hand seals and created a shadow clone carrying one-third of his chakra. Then he said to Shisui, "There's no need for you to stay stationed in Konoha for now. Return to Uzushio Village with my shadow clone... I'm worried Obito might make a move."
"Yes, Menma-sama."
Shisui nodded before disappearing from the spot together with Naruto's shadow clone.
Watching Shisui leave, Naruto turned and walked toward the Uzushio stronghold.
The reason he sent Shisui and the shadow clone back to Uzushio Village was very simple: to protect the Dragon Vein core hidden there and bring it under his control.
As for what came next, he planned to study the Rinnegan and the Otsutsuki treasures left behind by Urashiki.
These were treasures capable of rapidly increasing strength, especially Urashiki's Rinnegan. The ability to rewind time was practically equivalent to predicting the future in battle, an absolutely heaven-defying boost.
And yet, even with such a broken Rinnegan, Urashiki still fought like complete trash.
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