The death prophecy was temporarily put to rest within the team, thanks to Asuma's intervention.
Soon,
everyone set off again, heading for the Land of Demons.
Sasuke walked over to Shinji and asked casually, "Shinji, you don't actually believe that ridiculous stuff, do you?"
Shinji glanced at Sasuke and saw how nervous he was.
The guy was clearly scared!
But Shinji didn't call him out. He just said, "Don't worry. With a Jonin like Asuma around, we'll be fine!"
Sasuke immediately insisted, "I'm not scared!"
Shinji grinned, then let the smile fade from his face.
It wasn't that Shinji had dismissed Shion's prophecy.
Prophecies sounded far-fetched at first, but in the Shinobi World, Shion wasn't the only one capable of making them. The Great Toad Sage of Mount Myōboku also had the power to see the future.
And prophecy wasn't all!
Things like peering into fate, changing it, or even making it repeat might sound unbelievable, but they were all possible in the Shinobi World.
So there was no need to make a fuss over a prophecy!
From what Shinji remembered, Shion's prophecies were more like glimpses into one possible branch of the future. In other words, she only foresaw one of several possible outcomes.
That branch simply had a high chance of coming to pass, which was why her prophecies had never been wrong before.
But in the original timeline, she had been wrong once!
She had prophesied Naruto's death, but it never happened. Because of Naruto, the future took a different path—one where he survived.
So Shinji could now draw two conclusions.
First, an enemy powerful enough to threaten him was closing in on the team heading to the Land of Demons. Second, that enemy would arrive soon!
The reason he had reached the second conclusion
was that