These were his parents. No matter the era, they had always been such outstanding ninja.
As their child, he was...
"All right, let's go in."
Kushina turned to Naruto. By then, Mirai had already pushed the door open and entered.
He raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked at the trembling figure huddled in the corner before him...
Before Mirai stood a thin, shivering figure. She looked up at Mirai in terror, then at Kushina and Naruto as they followed behind him one after another, clearly frightened.
"Don't be afraid. We're not bad people..."
When Kushina saw Princess Sara before her, she remembered the time she had been discovered by ninja in Jinba Village on the border of the Land of Fire.
Back then, she had been just like the girl before her—a frightened little bird.
Hovering on the edge of life and death every day... Perhaps the next moment, she would lose her life.
Clearly, Sara would not easily believe Kushina's words. Fear had left her body weak, and she could only curl up instinctively to avoid being hurt.
Naruto tried to explain, but Mirai stopped him. He knew that under the current circumstances, any explanation would be futile.
"I know that in your eyes, we're all foreign invaders—the murderers of your mother, aren't we?" Mirai said.
Those words seemed to touch the softest part of Sara's heart. Her eyes suddenly stung. She did not know where she found the courage, but she pushed herself up against the wall and shouted through her tears at the three of them, "You bastards killed my mother, and now you want to kill me too! But... I'm not afraid, because I'm the princess of Rōran!"
Sara knew that in her current state, she had no room to resist at all. But at