Naruto & Sasuke's Inaction: A Blueprint from Me and Madara
Chapter 31

Plan Set in Motion

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Obito looked at Chen in surprise. "Mizuha, you can share it with me too?"

Madara spoke before Chen could answer. "Of course. Did you forget, Obito? Chen's Gohōkaku used Mizuha's Kotoamatsukami to completely erase the Chakra traces in the brain!"

"Huh?" Obito froze for a moment, then suddenly looked enlightened. "Oh! I remember now. I really have been rather forgetful lately!"

Madara grumbled inwardly: Obito, don't tell me you never noticed at all...

Chen smiled. "That's partly my fault for not explaining beforehand. Mizuha can indeed be shared, provided that I touch the person I'm sharing it with using my palm. And throughout the other person's casting process, my hand cannot leave them."

"I see." Obito closed his eyes. "Bzz!" When he opened them again, Kamui Mangekyo had appeared in his eye sockets.

Chen circled behind Obito and pressed his left palm against Obito's spine.

Obito asked, "Do you use Mizuha first, or do I use Kamui first?"

"In theory, we can do both at once, but I should go first."

As Chen spoke, he turned to Madara. "Uncle Madara, I'll leave the emergency work to you."

"Emergency work?" Madara's brow furrowed slightly.

"Buzz!" Chen's left eye flickered with vermilion light!

—Mizuha!

"Come on, Obito. You've already been enhanced!"

"Ah!" Light flared in Obito's eyes.

—Kamui!

"Whoosh!" An enormous spatial vortex with a radius of ten meters burst from his eyes into the void ahead!

"Crack!" At the center of that vortex... a black spatial fissure slowly opened like a clam shell!

Obito was shaken to the core. "So powerful! This effortless feeling of breaking through the upper limit of my Dojutsu Power actually surpasses the combined boost Naruto and that pink-haired brat gave me back then!"

"Mizuha... what a powerful supporting dojutsu! It feels like nothing can stop my Kamui anymore!!"

Obito felt as though his life had reached its peak.

"Crack!"

In the span of a thought, the fissure at the center had already been pried open to the size of a round mirror!

A familiar scene appeared. A torrent of murky liquid, steaming as it rushed toward them, made Obito's face change. "Not good, the first place we connected to was that Acid Sea Space!"

Obito's Edo Tensei body could handle it, but Chen was a living human of flesh and blood!

"Boom!!" At that moment, Madara stepped forward. Deep azure aura formed a skeletal barrier before them, blocking the acid's corrosion!

"Hiss, hiss, hiss." Looking at the round holes instantly corroded through the skeleton before him, he narrowed his eyes. "Acid capable of instantly corroding Susanoo... is this the 'emergency' you mentioned, Chen?"

"Whoosh!" The fissure widened until it completely overlapped with the Kamui vortex, fully revealing the scene of surging murky currents within the Acid Sea Space!

The acidic torrent erupted like a burst dam, about to swallow Susanoo's skeletal remains!

At that moment, Obito gathered his Dojutsu Power, and Kamui rose again!

—Mizuha: Kamui!

"Crack!" The gushing torrent was ripped apart and diverted by a second Kamui vortex. Then, as a second fissure formed at its center, a brand-new spatial scene covered the Acid Sea!

It was a space filled with scorching magma and volcanoes!

"Ah... it's the very first space." Obito wore a nostalgic expression.

Lava Space. The magma in this space was relatively stable, and it was not completely saturated with pressure like the Acid Sea, so it did not gush out when the spatial barrier was breached.

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Still, it was not suitable as a foothold either!

"Next!!" Light appeared in Obito's eyes again.

—Mizuha: Kamui!!

"Crack!"

After it opened, they could vaguely see several raised diamond-shaped structures.

"Let's go in first! Chen, you should catch your breath too!"

"Alright." Chen nodded. After all, he had just gone through a great battle against Naruto and Sasuke, and his Dojutsu Power was not all that abundant.

His hand couldn't leave, right? Madara used a Susanoo Bone Palm raised from beneath their feet to carry Chen and Obito together, then leaped into the other side of the Space Gate!

"Whoosh!" The instant Chen lowered his hand, the vortex flowed in reverse and instantly collapsed into a black "anchor point"!

Before the anchor point vanished, it transmitted a strange "vibration."

"Crack!" On the moon, a crisp cracking sound rang out beside Toneri's ear.

He cautiously raised his hand and touched the glass-like crack in space. Deep within his hollow eyes, realization emerged alongside profound worry.

Ever since Naruto defeated him on the moon thirteen years ago and he lost the power of the Tenseigan, he had remained on the moon, silently watching over the fate of Hinata, the Byakugan princess in his heart, as well as Hinata and Naruto's son, Boruto!

"Boruto... Boruto's destiny has become twisted. He will no longer bear the fate of becoming the savior of the world!"

"What exactly happened on Earth?"

"The force of world transformation conveyed through this crack—an original concept of the author's, understandable as the opposite of world correction force—is so powerful that I have no way of intervening at all right now."

"Princess of the Byakugan, I fear I can no longer continue watching over you and Boruto!"

"Where exactly will this world go?"

"Space has already become unstable. The only thing I can be sure of is... the Person from the Heavens will descend from here, and I, I too will... Wait, the thing awaiting me... isn't Eternal Slumber?"

"In that frost and haze, the person walking toward me is... is... who? Right now, I... I can't see anything."

Even Chen himself had not expected it.

His act of connecting to Amenominaka from the outside world in order to launch the plan had prematurely triggered the spatial crack that, in the original timeline, would only have been caused when Katsumi summoned Nue with Gozu Tennō.

And it allowed Otsutsuki Toneri to see an entirely different future through Boruto.

The gears of fate had never stopped turning. They had merely meshed along different tracks...

They would ultimately guide the express train of the shinobi world toward the future Chen desired!

After landing, a sudden oppressive heaviness struck them.

Chen took two steps back before steadying himself.

The daytime sky was dotted with pink halos. Pale green land lay surrounded by mountains, while countless orderly triangular protrusions covered the ground.

"So this is Supergravity Space..." It was Chen's first time setting foot here as well. Back when he was still inexperienced, he had not been reckless enough to enter Kaguya's Dimension with Haniyasu. That would have been no different from suicide.

"..." Madara had once been absorbed by Kaguya and experienced that battle amid sensations of fire and flood, so he had a vague impression of it.

Of the three, Obito was the one most deeply affected.

Back then, he had shielded Naruto and Sasuke here, been struck by the Ash Bone, and crumbled into ashes across the ground.

But time had passed, and the ashes he left behind had long since been scattered by the wind into every corner of this space.

He gazed at the place where he had once fallen apart, lowered his eyes, and let out a wistful sigh.

"I never thought I'd return to the place where my worthless life came to an end..."

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