"A Diplomacy mission? And Naruto's in charge?"
Adult Sasuke felt that something was off.
Generally speaking, missions like this involved politics and culture... Could the Naruto of this timeline be different from the Naruto he knew even in those respects?
But after Sasuke explained, Adult Sasuke soon understood.
The Diplomacy mission was only a pretext. Its real, additional objective was exactly what he had suspected.
Originally, this Diplomacy mission really had been a purely political visit, and the plan had been to send the Third Hokage, who had become Konoha's advisor and the Ninja Academy's principal.
But the village soon received investigative reports from the First and the Fourth Hokage.
Judging by the traces Urashiki Otsutsuki had left behind, he was very likely planning to leave the Land of Fire.
And once he left the Land of Fire, the search would become even harder—
Searching the entire Shinobi World for a target capable of space-time travel would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. It would be far too difficult.
Not to mention that if he left the Land of Fire, he would most likely target the other tailed beasts. If a tailed beast fell into his hands first, Konoha would be placed at a serious disadvantage.
So Naruto and the Nine-Tails planned to lure the snake out of its hole.
The main reason they had waited until now was that the Second Hokage had yet to finish developing his Barrier Ninjutsu designed to counter space-time abilities.
Now, after the Second Hokage had worked overtime to develop it, the Barrier Ninjutsu, Shadow-Sealing Formation, could temporarily interfere with space-time abilities—at the very least, it could block both the Flying Thunder God Technique and the Summoning Technique.
Whether it would also work against the abilities of an Ōtsutsuki, however, remained