Kawaki, Starved for Love

After receiving the news, Sasuke and Shikamaru immediately rushed back to Naruto's home.

Sure enough, all four of them—Kawaki and the others—had returned.

At that moment, Naruto's residence was in complete disarray.

A gigantic Ten-Tails juvenile had appeared in the courtyard, crushing half the house. It was fast asleep, while four Barrier Squad shinobi had erected a barrier nearby to temporarily contain it.

On the other side of the courtyard, two Medical Department shinobi were treating the unconscious Boruto and Sarada.

Boruto's injuries weren't serious.

But Sarada was clearly in bad shape. She had more than a dozen wounds of varying sizes, and even her ribs and arm had been broken. It was clear how brutal the battle had been.

Mitsuki, who had mastered [Body Modification], had barely been injured. He was helping bandage Sarada's wounds.

As for Kawaki, he sat alone on the ground, dejected, seemingly distraught that he hadn't been able to save Naruto.

"Whoosh—!"

Sasuke flashed to his daughter's side and hurriedly checked her over. Only after confirming Sarada wasn't in any danger of dying did he feel a little relieved.

Then fury erupted in his heart, and killing intent blazed in his eyes!

They had actually hurt his precious daughter this badly!

Ten years ago, Sasuke would've probably already been firing off [Indra's Arrow] like lightning.

"What happened? Mitsuki, what exactly did you run into?"

Sasuke hurriedly asked Mitsuki.

He wasn't close to Kawaki, so it was safer to ask someone from his own family.

Besides, from the looks of things, Boruto and the others probably hadn't encountered Jigen. Otherwise, they couldn't have returned alive, much less brought back that Ten-Tails juvenile.

Mitsuki took a deep breath and began explaining what had happened to the four of them.

After the four of them entered Isshiki's alternate