Watching the Fourth Hokage and the kunoichi named Ranwu scramble to soothe Akaseki, the three ninja from the future were left speechless.
"This is the 'Konoha's Akaseki' you admire? He seems like a... super troublesome man..." Konoha couldn't help saying to Sasuke.
Sasuke: ...
"Um... miss? Could you let him go first?" Konoha asked Hikari.
Hikari actually looked a little younger than Konoha.
Of course, going by the year she was born, Hikari was far older than Konoha could imagine!
"Heh. Once we're done questioning him, I'm sinking him in the lake." Hikari sneered.
Konoha and Naruto could only offer awkward laughs.
They hadn't sensed much hostility from Hikari, but Sasuke... was still glaring at her resentfully.
As for whether Hikari was one of the perpetrators of the Uchiha Clan Massacre...
Konoha hadn't mentioned that earlier, and even that super troublesome "Konoha's Akaseki" didn't seem to believe it.
"How could I possibly accept a future like that?"
"Yes, yes, of course we should do our best to avoid it..."
"Minato's just worried about something unpredictable happening."
"If the predictable things are already this bad, why worry about the unpredictable ones?"
"What I mean is... we still don't understand the rules of space-time, or exactly what form the 'future' exists in."
Minato repeatedly explained to Akaseki that he wasn't completely opposed to changing the future. He had simply noticed some abnormalities in the Ryūmyaku power earlier.
When Akaseki still didn't quite understand, Minato changed tack. "Then how about this? Let's try something first... Naruto, Konoha, Sasuke, come over here. Let's see whether you can leave this place."
"Leave? You mean we can go back to our own time?" Konoha's eyes lit up.
They had only come here to help the Sand Ninja capture a rogue ninja. Now that the mission