After accepting the mission to rescue Gaara, Team 7, having only just returned, set out once more for Sunagakure.
This time, Ino Yamanaka did not accompany them, and Sasuke returned to his place.
Along the way, Naruto Uzumaki carefully recalled memories from his previous life.
More than ten years had passed since his rebirth. Some things had gradually grown blurry, but he still remembered that Akatsuki had started with Gaara. By the time they arrived, it had already been too late.
In the end, they had relied on Chiyo's forbidden technique to bring Gaara back, but Chiyo had lost her life because of it.
Naruto had always regarded this matter as a regret. Now that he had the chance, he naturally had to do his best to make up for it.
"By my calculations, it will take around two days to reach Sunagakure. Akatsuki will move quickly, so we must set out immediately after arriving in Sunagakure. But the One-Tail..."
Naruto fell into deep thought. He had his own plans. He wanted to save Gaara, but he did not want to stop Akatsuki from obtaining the One-Tail.
The failure of his previous life had left him constantly pondering where he had gone wrong. He had single-mindedly pursued peace and trusted the shinobi world, only to meet with a painful defeat in the end.
On the other hand, he had not agreed with Uchiha Shin's methods back then, yet in a certain sense, he had to admit that they might truly be capable of bringing peace.
He did not know about the later events involving the Myriad Worlds, so he naturally assumed that the other timeline had attained peace under Shin's Divine Kingdom.
In truth, his understanding was not wrong. Even with the later events involving the Myriad Worlds, the Divine