Obito touched his right eye. "When Rin was killed by Black Zetsu using Chidori while possessing Kakashi, I felt that this world was a lie."
"Because I wanted to escape this world, I awakened Kamui, which let me escape reality."
"If Teacher Kushina hadn't slapped me, I probably would have lost all hope in the world, just as Madara planned."
Obito knelt before Minato and Kushina. "Teacher Minato, Sister Kushina, I'm sorry. It's all my fault that your son Naruto lost his family."
Kushina hauled Obito to his feet. "Obito, what are you saying? What happens in the future has nothing to do with you. You've already escaped that spiral of loneliness."
"Rin is here, Kakashi is here, and we're all here!"
"Yes! You're all here!"
Obito couldn't hold back his tears. He also felt fortunate. His future self had lost everything and must have been filled with despair.
Otherwise, he would never have attacked Minato and Kushina, who treated him like family.
Sakumo asked worriedly, "Minato, aren't you afraid that telling us everything about the future will change it?"
Minato said, "It won't, because Naruto's timeline is already very different from ours. We're in two parallel timelines."
"What are parallel timelines?"
Obito looked at Minato with wisdom shining in his eyes.
Minato then explained the concept of parallel timelines to everyone.
Parallel timelines, also called parallel universes, referred to countless independent space-times that existed alongside their current universe, separate from one another and without interfering with each other.
Every parallel timeline had its own complete space, time, matter, and life, amounting to countless variations of the world.
Minato explained it in the simplest terms possible. "Liao Wu had a kekkei-genkai illness when he was little. There were two possible outcomes for him. In one, he didn't survive the illness