Shadow of Yuki, Trace of Peach

The Konoha Uchiha estate was already cordoned off by Jonin guards, layers deep inside and out!

A slug clone larger than any house loomed over the tent's former location!

The slug's small clones were using Sakura's chakra to fuel the Slug Technique, lying across the medical stretcher beside Sasuke's chest as they healed him!

But even that wasn't enough. Shizune and the Medical Team members gathered around, jointly performing the 'Living Regeneration Technique'!

As his injuries gradually stabilized, Shizune's assistant wiped the sweat from her brow. She turned her gaze to the other stretcher.

"Sakura! How are things on your end! Do you need help!"

On the stretcher before Sakura, Naruto lay sprawled, his abdomen covered with enhanced Medical Ninjutsu casting formula talismans.

Sakura had tied up her hair, the Yin Seal on her forehead unsealed, its stripes crossing her cheeks and arms, connecting to her hands shrouded in the green glow of Yin Healing Wound Destruction!

"I'm fine here! No help needed for now! Naruto has Kurama's chakra protecting him! In theory, he should be able to heal on his own. The biggest problem is these spikes sealing his chakra pathways!"

"But these spikes are of unknown origin. I don't dare touch them lightly!"

As Shizune switched her chakra frequency, she glanced sidelong at the spikes in Naruto's body, furrowed her brow, and said in a grave tone: "You're right not to touch them. Those spikes are highly suspected to be the same Black Rods Pain's Six Paths used back then!"

"Pain's Six Paths..." Sakura's eyes narrowed.

Shizune said: "That's right. I was the one who analyzed the corpse of Pain's Animal Path that Jiraiya-sama retrieved! I absolutely cannot be mistaken! Those are the same medium for homogenization!"

"What, so it's just Pain..."

Sakura kept one hand maintaining the treatment, then freed her other hand, coating it with the azure of a Chakra Scalpel as she swept it toward Naruto's lower body!

"Crack!" The spikes embedded in his thigh, knee, and calf were cleared!

Then, she swept in the opposite direction!

"Crack!" The spikes in Naruto's ribs, collarbone, and shoulder were cleared in succession!

"Sakura, you..." This bold maneuver left Shizune stunned.

"I thought they were Truth-Seeking Orbs used by Madara and Obito! That's why I didn't dare touch them! Turns out they're just rods that snap easily!"

Sakura finished flatly, then said in a low voice: "Kurama! You can hear me, right! Naruto's sealed pathways are cleared! Immediately transmit chakra to the wounds and cooperate with me to heal Naruto!"

Kurama sighed: "Hmph... Quite something, aren't you! No wonder you're the woman who keeps both Naruto and Sasuke in line!"

"Whoosh!" As a massive amount of chakra flowed to the site, Sakura's Yin Healing Wound Destruction thrived like a fish in water. Naruto's abdominal wound healed at a visible rate!

Watching Naruto's eyelids twitch as he regained some awareness, Sakura said in a low voice: "Naruto, I know it's too much to ask you to talk now! But the situation is critical! I need you to explain things to Shikamaru in simple terms!"

At that moment, Shikamaru, who had been waiting at the door, strode forward accompanied by several remaining Jonin guards, and said gravely: "When your shadow clone on duty at the office disappeared, I knew something was wrong! What the hell happened!"

Naruto only managed to force out four words: "Uchiha Chen!"

Sakura's brow furrowed tightly.

Uchiha... Chen?

A name bearing the Uchiha name, yet never heard before.

They'd just dealt with Shin Uchiha, and now another Uchiha Chen pops up?

How many lost clansmen did Sasuke have!

Shikamaru showed an incredulous expression: "Uchiha Chen! He... he did this to you and Sasuke?"

Naruto nodded firmly.

"Hey! What methods did he use! Did he really Impure World Reincarnate Madara!?"

What...!?

Impure World Reincarnation, Madara!?

One word stirred a thousand waves. Everyone present, including Sakura and Shizune, turned with nearly suffocating stares!

"This... what the hell is going on!" After an unknown time, a cry of shock rose from the crowd.

The name Uchiha Madara alone reawakened the shadow of the Fourth Great Ninja War that time had long since faded.

In the dead silence, Naruto raised his hand to cover his eyes.

He didn't want everyone here to see... that even the Hokage himself, in the aftermath of war's memory, still had fear in his eyes.

He regulated his emotions, trying to keep calm as he stated the fact.

"No... that guy, he, didn't Impure World Reincarnate Madara! At least I didn't see Madara's reincarnation appear. He relied solely on his own power to utterly defeat me and Sasuke!"

After Naruto's words came a silence so deep it was chilling... The name Uchiha Chen was thus etched into the heart of everyone present.

"Dad!! I want to see Dad!! Let me in!!" From outside the courtyard wall came a young boy's urgent call.

"Young master!! You can't go in! This area is under lockdown! It's dangerous!!" Followed by the troubled voice of the gate-guarding ninja.

"Move!! I want to see where the person who beat my dad is!!!"

The boy with the pineapple-head hairstyle forced his way through the crowd.

On the stretcher, Naruto closed his eyes in dejection. "Boruto, sorry you have to see your old man looking so pathetic..."

On the other side.

With Chen amplifying Mizuha Kamui, Obito effortlessly pried open the barrier of the Supergravity Space, revealing a scorching desert before them.

"Desert Space, the place where Sasuke got lost back then. We went through a lot of trouble to bring him back."

Continuing to activate Kamui, the desert scene was replaced by a vast expanse of ice and snow.

Obito's expression shifted, and Chen nodded to Madara.

Madara understood, using Susanoo to carry the two of them as he stepped inside.

Once they landed, the Kamui vortex shrank and vanished.

Before them was a familiar glacial landscape, different from the past only in that heavy snowflakes were drifting through the Ice and Snow Space today.

Obito's gaze turned nostalgic.

Back then, when Black Zetsu left his body, he lost consciousness. When he opened his eyes again, it was in this frozen wasteland.

After hearing a brief update on the war from Naruto's Shadow Clone and Sakura, he immediately threw himself into the battle—until he was buried in the Supergravity Space.

If the Supergravity Space was where it ended, then this Ice and Snow Space was where it began. The true start of atoning for his past sins.

"When I opened my eyes in this Ice and Snow Space back then, I resolved to leave my life here to repay my past crimes... I never thought, after all those twists and turns, I'd end up back here."

Obito sighed, reaffirming his resolve: This time, I will leave no regrets!

"Let's continue, Chen."

Chen gazed at the falling snow in the Ice and Snow Space, lost in thought.

In the original timeline, around this same season, Sasuke had gone alone to a place called Kaguya's City.

And there, he found the scroll Kaguya had left behind.

Moreover... he encountered the duo of Momoshiki and Kinshiki.

Kaguya's City—I don't know exactly where it is, but outside the temple where Sasuke fought Kinshiki, heavy snow like this was falling in the sky.

Thinking about it carefully, this Ice and Snow Space—no, not just the Ice and Snow Space, but all the spaces within Kaguya's Amenominaka—is actually quite vast...

"Chen? What are you thinking about?"

Madara's question snapped Chen out of his thoughts.

"Ah, nothing."

Whether Kaguya's City is actually in this space or not, for now, there's no need to stir up trouble...

Acid Sea, Lava, Supergravity, Desert, Ice and Snow... they had passed through all the subsidiary spaces.

"Next stop should be our destination!"

The main space of Amenominaka, and the place where Team Seven's battle against Kaguya truly came to an end.

—The Outer World.

Chen steadied his mind, focusing the Dojutsu Power in his left eye. Obito concentrated fully, coordinating with him.

—Mizuha Kamui: Kamui!

"Whoosh!" The moment the Ice and Snow Space's barrier broke, a wilderness of deep red soil appeared through the Space Gate!

Without a doubt, this was their destination—the Outer World!

Madara's Susanoo carried the two of them inside, and the Space Gate closed!

In this frozen wasteland, only the white snow silently adorned the solitude from the sky.

After an unknown amount of time.

—"Whoosh!"

A Black Vortex stirred space-time without warning... a burly figure descended upon this place!

His fists hung past his knees, each the size of a bowl. A wide white haori covered half his face and his entire body. One Byakugan was exposed, and a thick horn jutted out from the edge of his hood, pointing diagonally at the sky.

After looking around, he spoke in a respectful tone to the young man sitting on his shoulder—smaller in build, wearing a headscarf and stepping on high-heeled wooden clogs.

"The Space-Time reaction that just appeared should be right here... Lord Momoshiki!"