"Are you sure this will work?"
Adult Sasuke crouched beside Boruto's lifeless body, turned his head to look at Naruto, with an expression that almost said, "You're messing with me, aren't you?"
"Of course, he'll wake up any second now."
"Like I'd let anything happen to my own son."
Naruto spoke with absolute confidence, flashing a reassuring grin at Adult Sasuke.
Meanwhile, as the two of them squatted near Boruto's corpse, Konohamaru's agonized screams echoed across the training ground...
Adult Sasuke covered his face and sighed.
'Why does it feel that this Naruto was unbelievably unreliable?'
However, just as he was about to start arranging Boruto's funeral, the little yellow-haired boy suddenly sat up from the ground.
"Huh!?"
"Sasuke-san?"
"D-Dad?"
Boruto woke up and called out to the two of them, looking very confused.
'I was clearly complaining to Grandma just now...'
'Why am I back here again!?'
'Which one is the dream??'
Boruto felt like he could hardly distinguish reality.
However, when he called out to his father, he couldn't quite meet Naruto's eyes.
Naruto didn't pay attention to the micro-expressions on the child's face. His attention was now completely on the bruised white-haired old man not far away.
"You damn brat!!"
"See if I don't beat you to death today!!"
Jiraiya had a pig-like face and his eyes were so swollen that only slits remained.
His vision was so blurry he could barely see.
But that didn't matter.
At least he could recognize the yellow-haired troublemaker.
Jiraiya limped towards the group of people, calling Naruto damn brat as soon as he opened his mouth, and vowing to 'cleanse the sect of filth'.
He felt really wronged today.
All he'd done was take a nap in a quiet spot. He didn't even go to peek into the women's bathhouse, but Tsunade had stormed over and pummeled him without warning.
He didn't need to think too much to know that it was his good student who had angered Tsunade again.
'Why, oh why had I ever listened to that old man's nonsense!?'
'If I didn't teach this brat a lesson today, Tsunade would actually murder me one of these days.'
When Naruto saw Jiraiya's expression, he took off his cloak and threw it on Boruto without saying a word, then opened a portal and dragged Adult Sasuke away.
'Sorry son...'
'Please take the blame for your father.'
'What are sons for, if not to shoulder their fathers' sins?'
'Forgive me, Boruto... this is the last time, I swear!'
Before Boruto could even process what was happening, his father and Adult Sasuke had already vanished.
"You damn brat!!"
"Look at what you've done!"
Boruto, who didn't understand the situation, raised his hand and saw a towering white-haired man.
'This is…'
'Dad's teacher??'
While Boruto was still thinking about the teacher mentioned by his father, Jiraiya's strong arms had already grabbed the back of Boruto's collar.
With one sharp yank, Boruto found himself flipped over Jiraiya's knee.
"Wait!!"
"You've got the wrong person!?"
When Boruto saw that he was about to be beaten again, he quickly opened his mouth and shouted.
But Jiraiya, who was already this angry, didn't care about so many things.
Besides, Naruto usually has a lot of tricks up his sleeve, and today he finally got the chance, so how could he let him go?
And besides…
There was only one kid in the village with this exact shade of yellow hair. Did this brat really think him, the Toad Sage, would mistake him for someone else?
"Shut up, you damn brat!"
"Today, I will teach you a lesson!"
Jiraiya roared loudly, then swung his palm and slapped hard on Boruto's backside.
"Ah!!"
"Stop!!"
"I'm not Uzumaki Naruto!!"
"Shut up!"
"You still want to deceive me?!"
Boruto's protests not only had no effect, but actually made Jiraiya's strength increase even more.
This made the little yellow-haired boy very wronged.
Jiraiya's strikes were calibrated for Naruto's freakish durability.
So how could Boruto bear it?
He fainted within a few minutes.
"Oh, really?!"
"Now you're pretending to pass out?!"
When Jiraiya saw that the yellow-haired man on his knees had stopped making any noise, he slapped him even more vigorously.
Naruto, who was hiding not far away, saw that the white-haired old man was about to beat his son to death, so he immediately stepped forward to intervene.
…
Half an hour later...
In order to make amends to his teacher, Naruto set up a hotpot feast in the training ground.
Jiraiya took a swig of sake and exhaled in satisfaction.
His injuries had already healed thanks to Naruto's potions.
However, Konohamaru and Boruto were both left with bruised faces.
Adult Sasuke and Sasuke sat on Naruto's left and right respectively.
There is no other way to arrange it, as Naruto is afraid that these two guys will start fighting again.
There were also several of Naruto's shadow clones sitting around, dressed strangely.
Uzumaki Stark, Uzumaki Yasuo…
There was even one cosplaying as Space Marine, who would shout 'Praises to the Emperor' every time he took a bite of meat.
Naruto had no idea how to even begin complaining.
"So?"
"So... you're saying this kid is your future son?"
Jiraiya looked at Boruto, whose face was bruised and swollen, with shock written all over his face.
He really found it hard to accept.
'How could Naruto's kid have such a poor physique?!'
"That's about it."
Naruto explained for a long time, but he was too lazy to explain anymore and waved for everyone to start eating.
After taking two bites, Naruto suddenly felt something was missing. He smacked his forehead and tossed his portal to fetch the mother of the child.
Then, he thought that his cheap son probably had never seen his uncle, so Naruto also brought the furious Neji along.
Once they arrived, Naruto leaned in and whispered something into Hinata's ear, making her blush furiously.
This made Neji, who was unaware of the situation, very angry.
'Damn yellow-haired delinquent!'
'It's fine if you wanted to flirt, but you even bring me along?!'
'Am I just part of their weird little game now?!'
"Mom!?"
When Boruto saw the younger version of his mother, aggrieved look appeared on his face again. He ran to Hinata with tears in his eyes, ready to complain about his father's antics.
But Neji, who was standing next to him, had already caught a glimpse of the little yellow-haired brat. He snorted coldly and tripped Boruto to the ground with his foot.
"If you call her that again..."
"I'll kill you!!"
Neji activated his Byakugan immediately and glared at the little yellow-haired brat fiercely.
Judging from his tone, it can be seen that he's not joking.
"Uncle Neji!?"
Seeing his very much alive uncle, Boruto subconsciously shouted in surprise.
"You're courting death!!!"
"Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!!"
Neji couldn't bear it any longer, so he started beating his nephew...
…
At this time, above Konoha Village, Otsutsuki Urashiki was carrying a fishing rod and scanned the entire village with his eyes.
"Hehehehe..."
"Nanadaime Hokage... I admit that you are strong."
"But if I go back to the past and find you..."
"What will you do?"
Urashiki couldn't help laughing at the thought of being able to take away the Chakra of this era's Naruto.
At this moment, Urashiki felt that the person who invented Karasuki was an absolute genius!
And, well...
He wasn't too shabby either.
As he actually came up with such a brilliant way to deal with Naruto.
Based on the information provided by Karasuki at the time, Urashiki knew that...
Naruto at this time was only thirteen or fourteen years old, which was when he was at his weakest.
"You inferior lower life forms…!"
"Just hand over your Chakra already!"
From his vantage point, Urashiki's enhanced vision quickly locked onto the group of yellow-hairs gathered near the eastern edge of the village.
And he also saw two familiar figures.
"Tch!"
"I didn't expect those two bugs to follow me here."