When Naruto opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a lush back garden filled with flowers and trees.
The little girl before him tilted her head, her delicate face full of confusion.
"Who are you? Why did you come into our back garden?"
Naruto froze for a moment, his gaze falling on her red hair. His expression immediately turned strange.
This little girl... could she be Sara, the future Queen of Roran?
Good grief, why was the time difference so huge?
The corner of his mouth twitched, but he quickly figured out the reason.
Mukade from the movie—Anrokuzan—had come into contact with the Dragon Vein on the eve of the Shinobi World War. He had encountered the Dragon Vein's energy before Naruto, so he had been sent six years into the past. By that logic, the first person to touch the Dragon Vein could be sent to a parallel world twenty-six years in the past.
And Naruto had activated the transfer four years before Mukade. That meant he should have arrived thirty years before the Fourth Shinobi World War, around Konoha Year 37.
And this time happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Second Shinobi World War.
After twenty years of recuperation, the economic gap between the Five Great Nations had grown wider and wider. The militant factions in each country reemerged under the banner of expanding equal privileges, advocating the seizure of land through force. Thus, Konoha of the Land of Fire used the Land of Rain as a battlefield, kicking off the Second Shinobi World War.
Naruto stroked his chin. Madara Uchiha of this era probably had not even awakened the Rinnegan yet.
"You still haven't answered me!" Seeing him continue to space out, Sara immediately asked again, "I'm going to tell Mother!"
Naruto came