"See... Dad and Mom?" Naruto murmured softly, only to discover that the world around him had undergone another earth-shaking change.
He had thought Genma Shiranui had used the Flying Thunder God Technique again and brought him somewhere else in the village, but the surroundings made him feel incredibly stifled.
Everything around him was pitch-black, with only a faint light coming from ahead. He stood in water nearly up to his knees. It was icy cold, and every step forward sent a piercing chill through him.
Yet he still followed the call in his heart and slowly stepped forward. At the same time, he heard clear footsteps by his ear—others were walking alongside him.
When he turned his head, the first thing he saw was a pair of sinister Sharingan. He immediately understood that the one who had taken him away was no longer Genma Shiranui, but the woman called Yuuhi Kurenai.
Whether it was those four people from before or Yuuhi Kurenai, they all wore forehead protectors. They were all Konoha ninjas, and to Naruto, none of them counted as enemies.
But even if they were enemies, there was nothing he could do. After all, he was still a child who had not even left the Ninja Academy, and his grades there were practically at the bottom of the class.
"Um, you just said... you'd let me see Dad and Mom?"
"Where is this?" Naruto asked quietly.
Yuuhi Kurenai was about to answer when an angry roar suddenly came from the lit area at the end of the corridor. The sound startled Naruto so badly that he nearly fell into the water.
"Weren't you often called a monster by the villagers when you were little?"
"That is where the monster is. It is also the thing your father sacrificed his