Interfering with Destiny

"Old man, what are you doing?!"

Naruto was still in a state of extreme shock and emotion after suddenly learning that Minato was his father and the Fourth Hokage. Seeing Yue Uchiha suddenly launch an unprovoked attack, his azure pupils were instantly filled with shock and rage.

"Yue Uchiha! Don't you understand what kind of disaster this action of yours will bring about?!"

Minato's originally gentle face turned completely grim.

To protect Naruto and the dissipating space-time channel, he was forced to interrupt the memory-erasing sealing jutsu. He swung his kunai into a golden curtain of light, knocking away all the incoming shuriken.

"Clang, clang, clang--!"

Amidst the scattering sparks, the memory-sealing technique was declared a complete failure.

"Disaster? Minato, you overestimate yourself and underestimate this world."

The reason he interrupted Minato's seal was not to kill, but to conduct a mad space-time experiment.

As a transmigrator, he had always been suffocated by the invisible World Correction Force.

Changing the fate of White Fang would trigger a backlash; changing the fate of Obito would trigger a backlash. So... what if he forcibly tore a hole in the space-time of this theatrical version, causing a logical conflict between the movie timeline and the main timeline?

If Naruto Uzumaki returned to the future with the memories of "I met my dad" and "I know who the Fourth Hokage is"; if Minato Namikaze lived on with the memory of "my son is named Naruto"...

Once these two memory lines, which should have been parallel, intersected, what would the World Correction Force do?

Would it descend with divine punishment to erase him directly, or would it forcibly distort reality to patch this bug?

Yue did not know, but he dared to gamble.

His left eye, Yagokoro Omoikane, the "Dice of Probability" that could amplify infinitesimal odds to infinity, was his greatest trump card—the reason he dared to challenge the will of the world without fear of immediate erasure!

His current ocular power was enough to sustain him through one resurrection.

"Old man... who exactly are you? Why are you betraying the village?!"

Naruto's body had already begun to undergo large-scale photolysis. He roared loudly at Yue Uchiha, tears still hanging at the corners of his eyes that he hadn't had time to wipe away.

"Remember everything that happened today well, Naruto."

"Also, don't call me old man. I'm not that old; I'm only twenty-one."

"Whoosh--!"

Accompanied by an eruption of blinding white light, the entire underground of Rōran was thoroughly illuminated.

Naruto Uzumaki and Yamato, carrying a heart full of shock, confusion, and that clear memory of the past and familial affection which absolutely should not exist, vanished completely at the end of space-time, returning to the future that belonged to them.

The hall fell silent in an instant.

Only heavy panting remained, along with the remains of the completely extinguished Dragon Vein.

"You're insane, Yue Uchiha. You have forced a causality that doesn't belong to this era upon them!"

Minato Namikaze slowly stood up straight, a murderous intent burning in his azure eyes for the first time toward someone from his own village.

Naruto's appearance had led Minato to vaguely guess that he was his future son.

And Yue Uchiha's words had undoubtedly confirmed it.

As a father and as a ninja of Konoha, he would never allow any unstable factor that threatened the future of Konoha and the safety of Naruto to exist.

"I now have every reason to kill you on the spot!"

A flash of gold!

Minato's speed reached its absolute limit. As he left a residual image in place, his true form appeared before Yue Uchiha, his Body Flicker technique perfectly synchronized with the Flying Thunder God.

That specially crafted three-pronged kunai, carrying a sharp whistling sound, aimed straight for Yue's throat.

In his left hand, a high-density Rasengan had already formed, completely sealing off all possible escape routes for Yue.

This was the Yellow Flash's strike of fury!

However, facing this lethal combo at point-blank range—a strike capable of instantly killing an elite jonin—Yue Uchiha did not dodge. Instead, a violent ocular power that made the soul tremble erupted from his scarlet pupils.

"Did you think that fighting that mechanical bug earlier was my full strength, Minato?"

"Susanoo!"

A tangible, dark red chakra erupted from Yue Uchiha's body like a volcanic explosion!

The violent chakra current instantly ground the surrounding rubble into powder.

Minato's Rasengan, capable of shredding steel, collided with a massive, thick, dark-red chakra bone that suddenly extended from the void, just ten centimeters from Yue Uchiha's face!

"Creak--!"

The Rasengan ground frantically against the bone, sparking blinding light, but it could not advance even a fraction of an inch!

"What... is this monster?!"

Minato's pupils contracted to the size of pinpricks.

He looked up to see a half-body skeletal giant, dozens of meters tall and formed entirely of dark red chakra, protecting Yue Uchiha firmly at its center with a posture of shocking, overwhelming pressure.

Even though this giant was only in its nascent form, the terrifying pressure, akin to the descent of an ancient demon god, already made it difficult for Minato to breathe.

The Susanoo, the legendary divine power of the Uchiha Clan!

Manifesting directly in his face!

The dark red skeletal giant swung its massive bony arm, carrying a terrifying, overwhelming force like a swatting fly, and smashed it fiercely toward Minato!

"Flying Thunder God!"

A thousandth of a second before the bony arm could crush him into pulp, Minato relied on his terrifyingly sharp reflexes to forcibly activate the Flying Thunder God technique.

"Bang!"

Minato's figure flashed perilously onto the ruins a hundred meters away. Upon landing, he stumbled due to the intense chakra exhaustion, dropping to one knee while gasping for air.

Choza Akimichi and Shibi Aburame had also arrived at Minato's side from the distance.

Looking at the dark red giant that resembled an Asura, both battle-hardened Konoha jonin wore expressions of shock.

"Minato, are you alright? What kind of ninjutsu is that? The amount of chakra is practically like a Tailed Beast!"

Choza swallowed hard, gripping the long staff in his hands.

Minato stared fixedly at Yue Uchiha in the distance, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

The bitter battle against Mukade just now, especially the frequent overdrawing of his chakra to use the Flying Thunder God and Taiji Rasengan to protect Naruto, had already bottomed out his reserves.

Now, facing a Yue Uchiha who had activated the Mangekyō Sharingan and could even unleash such a legendary defensive ninjutsu while at his peak, the probability of their entire squad being wiped out if they continued to fight was extremely high.

The optimal solution now was to flee.

"Amenominakanushi!"

A tyrannical gravitational force instantly swept over Minato's location; the space felt as if it were about to tear their bodies apart.

Without the slightest hesitation, Minato overdrew his chakra to take Choza Akimichi and Shibi Aburame with him, using the Flying Thunder God to escape the area.

"Thud!" Minato collapsed onto the ground.

"Minato!" Choza Akimichi and Shibi Aburame's pupils constricted.

"Damn it, Minato needs immediate medical attention. We need to return to Konoha as soon as possible."