Face the Fear Deepest in Your Heart

Young Sasuke had spotted a middle-aged man who looked remarkably like him, and his eyes kept darting between the man and his father.

Was this man his real father?

Had he been adopted, and was it now time to return to his birth family?

Fugaku's expression was complicated, to say the least. But after that comparison, nearly everyone believed the man's story—everyone except a few stubborn old holdouts who refused to believe in time travel, such as Kakuzu.

Sasuke from the future... Could traveling through time really happen?

Sasuke looked around and spotted many faces familiar from his memories.

His father, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and several people who had held power in Konoha as he remembered it.

But a few key figures were missing.

With something this big happening, why hadn't Sarutobi Hiruzen or Danzo appeared?

The two elder advisers were nowhere to be seen either.

And wasn't that masked man Kakuzu? What was he doing on Konoha's side? He even seemed to hold a prominent position.

Yugito, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki? Wasn't she from Kumogakure?

And what was going on with that man with shark teeth, and that other person who looked so much like a woman he couldn't tell their gender?

How had Konoha in this era become even more complicated than he'd imagined?

Fugaku could no longer keep his long face composed as he stared at Sasuke, whose side-swept bangs covered one eye.

This was his son from the future?

Honestly, he didn't want to claim him.

This gloomy, cocky-looking, one-armed middle-aged man was probably about his own age.

How could he accept having a son roughly the same age as himself?

But frustrated as he was, this was no longer just a family matter. It concerned all of Konoha.

Sasuke gazed at his father, a trace of nostalgia