Qingyun froze at Karin's words, then realized what she meant and inwardly shook his head in resignation. These reincarnations of Asura and Indra really were destined to love and fight each other.
In the original story, the villagers of Konoha had shunned Naruto for various reasons, even treating him as a demon fox, making his childhood extremely difficult. Only after entering the Ninja Academy had he begun to find companions, as the Shinobi Clans tacitly allowed their children to approach him.
And because of Sakura Haruno, Naruto had also been at odds with Sasuke Uchiha.
He had never expected that, even after he changed Minato Namikaze's fate and let Naruto grow up in a happy home, Naruto would still clash with Sasuke Uchiha as always—and even earlier than in the original story.
He wondered whether, with him around, Naruto and Sasuke, the two Children of Destiny who would save the shinobi world, could still grow as they had in the original story.
The mention of Sasuke Uchiha reminded Qingyun of his second disciple, Uchiha Itachi. When he had taken Itachi as his disciple, he had sensed an unusual chakra within him.
He had not had time to deal with it then, but now that Itachi was growing older, he needed to find time to extract that chakra from Itachi's body.
Seeing Qingyun lost in thought, Hinata and Karin did not dare disturb him. Karin took Hinata by the hand and led her out of the courtyard.
Not long after Hinata and Karin left, Qingyun sensed an unusual mental fluctuation. It first swept through his courtyard, then followed the traces of Hinata's departure and attached itself to her.
That unusual mental power snapped Qingyun out of his thoughts. He sent out his own mental power to scan the area, and the