Visitors from the Land of Stars

In front of Tazuna's house, the air was thick with the smell of blood and the lingering chakra fluctuations left after battle.

The young Sasuke rose, his brows faintly furrowing. From what he knew of the Akatsuki, its members usually moved in pairs, but right now he had only seen Aoi Rokushō. Where was the other one?

"Boruto, you stay here." The young Sasuke turned and spoke to Boruto.

"Huh?" Boruto froze for a moment, then pointed at the wretched Aoi Rokushō on the ground. "Then what do we do with them...?"

He was still a boy, after all. Faced with a situation that required "cleanup" like this, he clearly lacked experience.

"Someone will handle it," the young Sasuke said curtly, his gaze seeming to flick, almost imperceptibly, toward the shadowed corner of a nearby house.

With Konoha Anbu here, the cleanup of the scene and the guarding of captives naturally did not require two "people of unknown origin" like them to worry about it.

The moment his words fell, the young Sasuke's figure vanished from the spot, hurrying toward the great bridge.

According to his memory, the mission in the Land of Waves should originally have involved the Kirigakure rogue ninja Momochi Zabuza and his attendant, Haku.

And in his memory, someone had indeed attacked Tazuna's family.

Now that Aoi Rokushō had appeared at Tazuna's house wearing an Akatsuki robe, then his partner—or rather, the other executor of this attack—if it was still Zabuza, then the target was naturally Tazuna, who was currently leading the villagers in building the great bridge!

Boruto watched his master disappear in an instant. He opened his mouth, then looked again at the unconscious Aoi Rokushō on the ground, and in the end swallowed his questions back down.

He had an almost blind trust