Sage of Six Paths X Underworld Styx

Uchiha?!

Roy narrowed his eyes, and two beams of divine light suddenly shot out from the two Great Sun within them, piercing through the mists of "history" and "life and death," following the faintly visible "Thread of Causality"... The pair of Rinnegan, overflowing with vicissitudes, fixed upon him.

As if Youyou from a state of "life and death," across a thousand years, piercing through the future, she met Roy's gaze from afar. A barely perceptible hint of surprise flickered across her aged face.

"It's not Uchiha, it's..."

Six Paths!

Those distinctive horns, inherited from the Otsutsuki Clan, included not only a pair of Rinnegan, but also a Sharingan embedded in the split between their eyebrows.

The white blouse he wore over his chest was blatantly imprinted with six tomoe. A single glance was enough to instill immense pressure... Roy recognized the Sage of Six Paths, then his gaze shifted downwards... He saw that between him and the Sage lay an invisible, bottomless River of the Underworld... The river was still and lifeless, seemingly calm, yet it actually separated him from the other side.

Roy took a deep breath, then looked up at the Sage of Six Paths. Seeing him remain silent for a long while, he spoke softly, "Sun-Earring Boy, do you recognize me?" The founder of the Ninjutsu Sect possessed extraordinary insight. From Roy's gaze, the Sage of Six Paths sensed a multitude of emotions.

There was shock, surprise, and a thoughtful expression, but no... curiosity!

It was as if he and the Sun-Earring Boy had met before, and knew each other well... The Sage of Six Paths awoke from his Chakra and briefly searched his memories. A thousand years had passed, and he hadn't realized that he had once befriended such a person as the Sun-Earring Boy during a considerable period of his life.

Besides, judging from the Sun-Earring Boy's slightly chubby face and still somewhat childish bone structure, he was clearly not very old... truly... strange! "I'm sorry, we... don't know each other." Etan, "This is the first time I've met you either."

"Splash, splash..." The once tranquil River Styx suddenly began to flow... vast and mighty, its source unknown, its destination unknown... carrying endless wilderness and deathly silence, bearing countless white bones, it drifted downstream...

Abandoning the elderly and the young from both sides of the strait, they fell into a brief silence as they pondered their thoughts...

After an unknown amount of time, the Sage of Six Paths, with his long, coffee-colored hair cascading down his back, sat cross-legged on the shore. He looked at Roy once more and asked, "Sun-Earring Boy, where do you come from, and where are you going?"

Roy's consciousness was still lingering, but his physical body was still clutching the pendant Tsunade. He smiled and said, "I'm not going to die. I'm still young, and I want to see more of the world."

"His distraction coming here was merely a coincidence..."

The Sun-Earring Boy exuded a captivating and inexplicable aura.

The Sage of Six Paths' Rinnegan shimmered with a dazzling light. He stared at Roy for a long while, then shook his head and chuckled, "Your presence here is certainly not a coincidence. I can sense both Yin and Yang energies emanating from you."

Strangely... besides the two types of Chakra, [Yin] and [Yang], the Sage of Six Paths squinted at Roy, sensing something else about the Sun-Earring Boy. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, something utterly perplexing!

"It seems it really is due to the fusion of Yin and Yang," Roy's eyes flickered as he pondered to himself... In the original story, Naruto, as Yang, and Sasuke, as Yin, were in a state of fusion when they finally broke through the fog of Chakra and saw the Six Paths... And...

Just now, my Sharingan was activated, which was [Yin]. Then, upon touching the pendant passed down from Senju Hashirama, I came into contact with the reincarnation of [Asura], which became [Yang]... Thus, this meeting that has spanned a thousand years has come about.

"Buzz..." Two distinct streams of Nen Qi emanated from Roy's body and then converged again.

Konoha, the Uchiha Clan's residence, Fugaku.

Fugaku, Tsunade, Shizune, and Itachi sat facing each other across a tatami mat. Suddenly, they noticed that Roy had closed his eyes and remained motionless after receiving the pendant! The group exchanged glances, looking at each other in bewilderment.

"It's so cold..." Just then, Itachi, who was next to Roy, suddenly sneezed and said to Uchiha Fugaku, shivering, "Nii-san, it's so cold!" Uchiha Fugaku squinted at Roy. On the side facing him, the Sun-Earring Boy's forehead was clearly steaming, so how could it be cold? He glanced at Tsunade again, wanting to ask her what exactly she had given Roy.

However, Tsunade frowned, noticing Itachi reaching out to pull Roy's arm, trying to wake him up. She quickly signaled to Shizune to pull the Sun-Earring Boy away! "Don't move him, he's acting very strangely... it's best not to move him!"

"Tsunade, have you noticed something?" Fugaku frowned as he looked at her.

Tsunade remained silent. With her exceptional sensitivity to Chakra, she was not only intimately familiar with the human body, but also, arguably, second to none in the ninja world when it came to medical ninjutsu. Across the tatami mat, the woman murmured after a long pause, "He is experiencing [Yin][Yang 1-..."

"We'll have to wait until he wakes up to know the specifics,"

The small living room immediately fell into a long silence again. The faint sound of Uchiha Mikoto stirring food with a spatula could be heard coming from the kitchen...

"Buzz." Two streams of Nen Qi, one red and one black, each occupied half of Roy's body, clearly distinct yet intertwined... His consciousness was immersed... Across the River Styx, Roy, imitating the Sage of Six Paths, sat cross-legged on this side of the river, resting his chin on his hand and gazing at the Sage of Six Paths on the other side, saying, "You flatter me. My meager cultivation is utterly insignificant compared to yours."

"The fact that I can sit here and talk to you now is merely a convenient coincidence..."

Behind the Sage of Six Paths' white robe, a red Uzumaki Clan and nine black tomoe slowly rotated. He smiled and said, "Let me guess, perhaps it's related to another power within you?"

Roy neither admitted nor refuted it; the difference simply lay in the nature and scope of "Chakra" and "Nen Qi"...

The Sun-Earring Boy, his black hair fluttering in the breeze swept from the River Styx, nodded slightly and said, "I call it [Targeted Tracking Technique], which means tracing back to the source!"

Like a pendant, seemingly passed down from Senju Hashirama, a wisp of Chakra he poured into it years ago, but in reality... its root lies not in Senju Hashirama, but in Asura, in the one who separated his own Chakra into [Asura] and [Indra]... the Sage of Six Paths, also known as... Hagoromo Otsutsuki! The Sage of Six Paths stroked his beard and murmured softly, "Tracing back to the source... it fits quite well with [Targeted Tracking], but alas..."

The old man, with his prominent features and a swirling crimson Uzumaki Clan between his brows, looked intently at Roy and said, "You haven't 'caught' the real one yet."

"Root"..."

"Back then, I was nothing more than a mere child, who only managed to gain some power by sheer luck..."

The Sage of Six Paths, thinking of his younger brother and his mother, had fine wrinkles etched across his face, like deep ravines, bearing witness to the untold passage of time and the vicissitudes of life.

As he said, whether it's Yin/Yang, or Fire/Earth/Water/Wind/Thunder, when it comes to the source of Chakra, even he, the Sage of Six Paths, cannot claim to be number one!

However... Roy glanced sideways and winked at the Sage of Six Paths: "That person isn't on this planet, after all, right?"

The Sage of Six Paths was suddenly startled, his gaze snapping back to Roy. The mysterious Sun-Earring Boy, a smile playing on his lips, seemed to know nothing, yet also knew everything, leaving the Sage of Six Paths momentarily lost in deep confusion.

The old man squinted at Roy, his Rinnegan slowly rotating, and asked in a deep voice, "Who exactly are you?!"

Roy chuckled, sensing that this Styx River and the world of consciousness were subtly collapsing, and guessed... the convergence of [Yin] and [Yang] had reached its end due to his insufficient mental energy.

He stood up.

Letting his black hair sway in the wind, he laughed loudly, "Why must the immortals pry into the matter? If you truly want to know the answer, I can only tell you." The Sun-Earring Boy pointed to the River Styx before him and said, "I am but an ordinary person struggling to survive in the River Styx..." "Whoosh..." The River Styx breached its banks, and as Roy's Nen Qi was rapidly depleted, the other shore stretched further and further apart. The Sage of Six Paths sat cross-legged on the bank, as he had for millennia, quietly waiting. This time, he watched Roy depart, his figure gradually fading. After a moment of silence, the old man suddenly spoke softly to Roy, "Sun-Earring Boy, what is your name?"

"Ember,"

"To be honest, Immortal, my name is Uchiha..."

The Sage of Six Paths paused slightly, then smiled... That makes sense; Indra's descendants are also his descendants.

The old man suddenly stood up, and with a long, drawn-out voice, smiled at Roy and said, "Young man, you must try your best. Next time, I hope you can last longer." A faint smile appeared on Roy's lips as he turned his back to the old man, waved, and simply said, "Understood."

One more glance, and consciousness returned.

Clutching the pendant in her hand, she Youyou opened her eyes...

"Hoo~" One side of his forehead was covered in sweat, the other side was covered in frost. Roy awoke, the [yin][yang] dissipated, and he slowly exhaled a breath of stale air... like a long dragon winding its way into the sky... Recalling what had just happened, it felt like he had just had a short dream...

As the saying goes, "When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood; when nothingness is taken for existence, even existence becomes nothingness."

"This dream within a dream is quite novel and interesting..."

The faint smile lingering at the corner of his mouth hadn't completely faded... Roy exhaled, then looked up and noticed that Uchiha Fugaku, Tsunade, Shizune, and Itachi were all looking at him with concern.

The Sun-Earring Boy smiled gently and said, "I was feeling dizzy from eating too much, so I took a short nap."

Fugaku x Tsunade x Shizune:."

We looked at each other, speechless with emotion.

Itachi cautiously approached and nudged his arm, saying, "Nii-san, Kassan (Mother) hasn't made breakfast yet."

Where would one get carbon monoxide poisoning?

As expected, before Itachi could finish speaking, Roy grabbed his head and instantly subdued him, forcing him to obediently shut his mouth.

"Itachi, who says you can't faint from carbon monoxide poisoning if you don't eat?" Roy gave the Sun-Earring Boy's head a good rub, then turned to Tsunade and said, "Tsunade, I don't usually accept gifts for nothing. I'll take the pendant. If you need anything, just let me know if I can help." The pendant contained a wisp of Senju Hashirama's Chakra. According to the panel's instructions, although the effect of direct absorption wasn't as good as "Life Energy" and "Power of Faith,"... considering the quality of Chakra's Hashirama and the immense "activity" it contained...

For Roy, the improvement is undoubtedly... huge!

"I don't need it!" Tsunade crossed her arms, raised her chin slightly, and said proudly, "Take it if I give it to you. I'm not so old that I need a brat like you to help me!"

Shizune, standing nearby, glanced at Tsunade and Roy, her gaze shifting between them, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Hiss... hiss..." Wisps of steam rose from the teacups. Fugaku sat quietly to the side, refilling tea for the group. Itachi leaned against Roy, half-sitting in his lap, glancing at Tsunade and then at Shizune. His precocious maturity was evident; he seemed to sense something, his sensitive nature already showing signs of understanding. Roy took the tea Fugaku had poured, sipped it, and nodded in deep agreement. "That's true. After all, it's our first meeting, we're still quite unfamiliar with each other. So, how about this..."

Roy gently placed the teacup on the table, his clear, bright eyes calmly looking at Tsunade, and said, "Then let your younger brother and daughter talk to you. After all, they understand you and know what you need..."

Fugaku and Shizune glanced over... Before they could even focus their attention on Roy, a sharp "smack" rang out, and the tatami mat, unable to bear the weight, let out a mournful cry, leaving two deep handprints on the smooth tabletop!

Itachi sat in Roy and looked up.

Tsunade braced herself on the tatami mat, leaning forward, her large, snow-white breasts almost spilling out. Her face was nearly touching Roy's, her nose almost touching his, as she stared at him in disbelief and asked, "What did you say?"

It's getting closer.

The woman's unique body fragrance wafted over...

Roy remained expressionless, smiling as before, and said, "I said I'd have your younger brother and daughter talk to you, after all..."

"As Tsunade's closest confidants, they should know Tsunade preferences..."

Tsunade's gaze swept across Roy, her eyes fixed on him.

His lips trembled and moved... Before he could speak, Fugaku interrupted him with a single sentence, pulling him back to reality!

"Jin, don't be ridiculous!" Uchiha Fugaku glared fiercely at Roy: "Nawaki and Kato Dan, heroes of Konoha, are not to be joked about!"

"Shut up!" Smack! Tsunade, smashing the tatami mat to pieces with a single blow. The loud noise alerted the kitchen! The kitchen curtain was pulled back, Uchiha Mikoto poked her head out, asking anxiously, "Anada, what's wrong?"

Fugaku frowned, remaining silent as he stared at Tsunade and Roy.

Then I saw one

Tsunade stared silently at Roy, her voice trembling as she asked, "Do you really have a way?"

Roy maintained his smile, casually glancing at Tsunade. A flush of excitement and a hint of longing flickered in the Chakra emanating naturally from the top of Tsunade.

The Sun-Earring Boy said seriously and solemnly, "Of course!"

"I have always admired heroes who died for their village, whether they were Senju Clan or Uchiha, wouldn't you agree, Hokage -sama!"

Roy's gaze suddenly pierced through the roof and looked up at the sky!

A hazy gaze suddenly trembled, causing the Crystal Ball on the large desk in the Hokage's office to quiver slightly...

The Sarutobi Hiruzen's old eye to sting slightly, and he twitched violently!