The sun sank toward the west. Beneath Homeland Mountain, weeds surrounded the graves. A woman stood before them, scooping up a ladle of clear water and pouring it over the Memorial Stone to wash away the dust for the departed.
Inscribed on the Memorial Stone were one familiar name after another.
Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Boruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno...
The woman pressed her palms together and closed her eyes in prayer. "Seventh, forgive me for failing to protect the village. Everyone was killed. I was the only one who survived. I've searched everywhere for Momoshiki, but he hasn't appeared since then, so... I haven't been able to find Aunt Hinata either. I'm sorry. First, I want to find the survivors on this land and lead them in rebuilding their homes."
"Dad, my dream was once to become Hokage, but that's never going to happen now. So I've decided to follow the path you once walked. You'll be watching me from heaven, won't you?"
"Boruto, if you hadn't met with disaster back then, we would be together by now, wouldn't we?"
Watching all this from the shadows, the exposed eye of the "spiral-faced man" held a somewhat complicated expression.
"Only Sarada Uchiha survived. Is the situation in the Fifth Space-Time even bleaker than I imagined?"
It was Yu. Wearing Tobi over his body, he had traveled through a space-time rift with Urashiki to reach the Fifth Space-Time. But rather than rush to Takamagahara, he had first visited the lands of Mitsuki Country. He had never expected to find such a desolate scene, and could not help sighing.
This space-time had come into being through the interference of Momoshiki, a time traveler. Although Ryushiki had eliminated Momoshiki, the fates of many people had already been rewritten.
Naruto had become the hapless victim