Naruto's Past, Minato's Guilt!

Unlike Naruto and the others, Yamato was a seasoned veteran, a mature shinobi.

Upon arriving at this parallel Konoha, Yamato was not distracted by the bustling scenery around him; his focus remained entirely on the deeds of Kizaru and Konoha that Minato had recounted earlier.

Having entered this world and interacted with its officials, especially the high-ranking ones, Yamato gradually moved past his initial confusion and shock, beginning to collect and analyze intelligence rationally.

After gaining a preliminary understanding of the events in this parallel world, Yamato vaguely realized that the difference between the two worlds lay in the existence of Kizaru.

The fundamental reason the two worlds developed so differently was that this world had Kizaru as the Fourth Hokage, while his own world completely lacked the existence of Shimura Kizaru, the God of Shinobi.

Summing this up, the clever Yamato hit upon a direction for intelligence gathering that might prove helpful to his own world.

Assuming that, aside from Kizaru's presence, the events and characters of the two worlds were nearly identical, did that not mean the conspiracies and villains discovered in this world might also exist in his own?

Among the deeds Minato recounted, what concerned Yamato most was the existence of Madara Uchiha.

In this world, the owner of the Rinnegan was Madara Uchiha, who was also secretly forming an organization of rogue ninjas to collect the Tailed Beasts.

The things Minato described immediately reminded Yamato of the Akatsuki.

The same organization of rogue ninjas, the same collection of Tailed Beasts, and the same presence of the Rinnegan.

This simple association led Yamato to instinctively speculate whether the Akatsuki in his own world might also be a conspiracy orchestrated by Madara Uchiha.

Thinking of this, for the sake of the village and Naruto's safety, Yamato decided