"Where am I? What happened?"
Deep beneath the Rōran Ruins, Naruto, who had been rescued, opened his eyes. All memories of traveling through time had vanished.
He only vaguely remembered seeming to have had a very gentle, beautiful dream.
"Right, where's that bastard Mukade?" Remembering the important matter, Naruto hurriedly jumped to his feet.
"He disappeared. After the pillar of light vanished, Mukade was gone." Sakura stood with her hands on her hips, glaring at Naruto in displeasure. "Naruto, you were way too impulsive. What if something had happened?"
"Ah, sorry, sorry." Naruto scratched his head with an awkward laugh.
At that moment, Kakashi also woke up.
He slowly rose to his feet and looked around, confusion flashing through his eyes. "Where is this?"
"Kakashi-sensei, are you all right? This is beneath the Rōran Ruins." Sakura looked at him anxiously.
"But!"
Kakashi frowned. Just now, he had clearly appeared in a city whose architectural style resembled Rōran's, and he had even seen his younger self!
According to the intelligence provided by Sunagakure, the Missing-nin Mukade isn't skilled in Genjutsu, so the chances of me being caught in one are very low.
Could it have been a dream?
But that dream had been far too real!
And besides...
At that thought, a startling realization suddenly flashed through Kakashi's mind.
More than a decade ago, before the Third Great Ninja War, back then...
He really had seemed to follow Minato-sensei and the others to the Land of Wind on a mission!
The target of that mission seemed to have been someone named Anrokuzan, a minister of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran?
Kakashi narrowed his eyes and desperately tried to recall the details, but no matter what he did, he could not remember anything specific about that mission...
Just then, the Rōran Ruins