Konoha Hospital.
Inside a ward.
"..."
Adult Sasuke silently watched Boruto on the hospital bed.
Boruto looked thoroughly glum too. Before today, he had been the one visiting Mr. Sasuke in the hospital. He had never expected their roles to reverse in the blink of an eye.
Still, he now understood who Uncle Neji had learned that preemptive fighting style from.
But honestly, after hearing how his dad had subdued him, Boruto suddenly felt that Uncle Neji, whom he had thought was already brutal enough, still had room to improve...
"Do you feel anything?"
After a long silence, Adult Sasuke asked.
"My head hurts, I want to throw up, and I feel sick..."
Boruto answered honestly. It felt as though he had at least a moderate concussion.
"That wasn't actually what I was asking. The Fifth Hokage... Lady Tsunade's medical skills are such that if she says you're fine, then you really are fine.
I meant the issue with Momoshiki Otsutsuki."
"Mr. Sasuke, aren't you being a little too cold? At least show me some concern..."
Boruto sighed, then frowned. "Unfortunately, though, I really don't remember anything."
"All I remember is that guy called Kisame Hoshigaki charging at me. Uncle Neji was about to intercept him, and then everything went blank..."
Adult Sasuke was clearly dissatisfied with that answer, but even examining Boruto with his Rinnegan revealed nothing.
With an Ōtsutsuki lurking inside Boruto, there was nothing he could do either.
His experiences in this timeline had made Adult Sasuke realize that the Ōtsutsuki Clan was even more troublesome than he had imagined.
Meanwhile, outside the ward.
"Naruto did this?" Tsunade flipped through the examination records, her face full of shock. "These injuries are serious. An ordinary person could easily have ended up paralyzed or in a vegetative state. What