Uchiha Clan, Where Did You Go?

Young Sasuke digested the massive amount of information, only feeling that the abnormalities in this space-time ran deeper than he had imagined.

The Uchiha Clan's "migration," or perhaps defection...

The young Sasuke who had joined the Anbu, Hinata's drastic change in personality, the mysterious boy Menma who had appeared out of nowhere, the powerful and bizarre Asura, and Uchiha Hikari, who had burst onto the scene and single-handedly crushed Iwagakure...

Just then, Jiraiya seemed to remember something and added in a relatively more relaxed tone, "Oh, right. There's also a legend that's been spreading among those former Sunagakure ninja who fled the Land of Wind. There's no solid evidence, so just take it as hearsay."

Young Sasuke raised his eyes to look at him, signaling for him to continue.

"Apparently, back then, the reason the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, had such an intense conflict with Asura wasn't just border friction and territorial disputes. There was an even stranger reason." Jiraiya rubbed his chin as he recalled it.

"They say that deep in the desert where the Land of Wind borders the Land of Stars, an extremely terrifying chakra fluctuation once appeared. Some eyewitnesses even claimed they saw... Tailed beasts. And more than one."

"One of them resembled the Nine-Tails, but some fleeing Sunagakure ninja swore up and down that deep in the desert, they caught a glimpse of a colossal beast with ten tails."

Jiraiya spoke casually, as if he really were only recounting some absurd rumor.

Yet to Young Sasuke's ears, it was no less than a thunderclap exploding in his mind!

"The Nine-Tails?!" Young Sasuke's heart shook violently.

Wasn't the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki Naruto?

And based on his brief initial interactions with the Naruto of this space-time, he had confirmed that the Nine-Tails was likewise sealed inside Naruto!

How could