"Dad, where is this?"
Yūji looked at Cave, which was nothing but Pool and green light, and asked with some confusion. He originally thought that the passage to the moon would be some kind of magnificent teleportation array or Space-Time Rift, but he didn't expect it to be just an ordinary-looking Pool.
Adult Naruto did not answer immediately. He moved his eyes away from Big Yellow and fell on his clear reflection in Pool. He was silent for a moment. Then he raised his head and looked at Yūji. He asked a question that sounded a bit ridiculous:
"Yūji, if I told you that the Pool in front of you... is the road to the moon, would you believe it?"
His voice echoed in the empty Cave.
"Moon?"
Yūji repeated subconsciously, raising his head and looking up almost instinctively.
All that catches the eye is the uneven, green-lighting Rock dome.
Only then did he realize that he was still deep in the cave and couldn't see the sky at all, let alone the moon, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face.
"Isn't the moon in the sky?"
He scratched his head and looked at the bottomless Pool in front of him, unable to connect it with the moon hanging in the sky.
Adult Naruto anticipated his son's reaction. He stood up, glanced at Pool, and then looked at the faint green light in the depths of Cave. His tone became distant and solemn, and he began to tell an ancient secret buried in the dust of history:
"This road is not natural, it originated from Sage of Six Paths."
Upon hearing this name, Yūji's expression immediately became solemn.
He had been exposed to the legend of Sage of Six Paths since childhood and knew that it was the source of Shinobi World, all Chakra and Ninjutsu, and that it was an almost god-like existence.
But the other party shouldn't be able to beat dad, otherwise dad wouldn't have said that.
Naruto continued, his voice appearing particularly clear in the silence of Cave:
"That year, Sage of Six Paths performed the unprecedented ultimate Sealing Jutsu'Super·Planetary Devastation'."
He paused, as if he was sketching the epoch-making scene in his mind:
"With unimaginable power, they peeled off the earth and gathered it into a huge sphere, sealing his mother in its core.
That sphere was sent into orbit around Shinobi World and became the moon we see at night."
Sage of Six Paths sealed his mother?
Yūji looked shocked, why did Sage of Six Paths seal his mother?
"After the seal was completed, Sage of Six Paths stayed in Shinobi World, spread Ninshu, and guided mankind. And his younger brother Hamura, in order to guard the seal for generations and prevent his mother from breaking the seal, led a descendant and moved the whole family to the new moon, established a new settlement there, and shouldered the guardianship responsibilities of Eternity."
Naruto's eyes fell back on the mirror-black Pool again:
"The two places are separated and connected by blood. Sage of Six Paths left this passage, a secret path that can connect the Shinobi World earth and Moon Sealing Site."
He points to Pool:
"This seemingly ordinary Pool is actually a stable and ancient 'portal'.
It was created by Sage of Six Paths's profound Yin-Yang Release attainments. Passing through this pool of water will lead directly to the interior of the moon, the 'Li·Moon' space established by Hamura and his descendants."
Yūji felt excited when he heard it. He walked to Pool, squatted down, and looked at the green water carefully.
"So we can swim to the moon from here?"
Yūji's tone was full of disbelief.
"You can say that, but it's not exactly a tour, just go in directly.
Don't worry about ventilation or water pressure, just relax and follow me."
Naruto said, stretched out Left Hand to hold Yūji's hand, and with his right hand easily picked up Big Yellow, who had turned back into a puppy and was looking at Pool warily, and held it in his arm.
Then, before Yūji was fully mentally prepared, Naruto had already taken steps, pulled his son and hugged the dog, and walked directly into Pool.
The moment their bodies touched the water, the surrounding scene distorted and changed instantly.
After stepping into the interior of Pool, the expected feeling of darkness and suffocation did not come over me.
On the contrary, there was a soft and hazy Yellow Eyes shimmer all around.
This light does not come from a light source, it is more like Pool itself is emitting light, or they are traveling through some kind of luminous medium.
The light is not dazzling, but carries a warm and drowsy rhythm, just like the rhythm of a mother's lullaby.
This light seems to have a special soothing effect.
Almost at the same time that he entered the light field of Yellow Eyes, Big Yellow, who was held in Naruto's arms, began to fight with his eyelids. His little head tilted, and he let out a comfortable whimper in his throat. He fell asleep immediately, and even snored slightly, sleeping extremely sweetly.
And Yūji, although he still wanted to stay awake mentally and observe this strange passage, an irresistible tiredness surged into his heart like a tide.
He felt that his thinking became slower, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and the Yellow Eyes light in front of him began to rotate and blur.
He tried hard to hold his father's hand and stay conscious, but his body relaxed uncontrollably, and the expression on his face gradually changed from the initial excitement and curiosity to a look of languor, as if he hadn't slept for days and nights.
"Dad... I'm a little sleepy..."
Yūji mumbled something vaguely, and his consciousness began to sink into the warm darkness.
Only Adult Naruto, in this drowsy dim light of Yellow Eyes, still remains absolutely awake and calm.
He held his son's gradually relaxing hand steadily, holding the sleeping Big Yellow in his arms, and like a calm extraditer, he steadily moved forward in this Yellow Eyes light passage between reality and reality.
I don't know how long it took, but when Yūji felt his clear consciousness return again, he saw something unforgettable in his life.
An endless, deep and vast darkness, dotted with countless light spots that are bright or dark, flickering like diamond fragments.
The darkness was so pure, so vast, as if it could swallow everything; and those light spots were so far away, so Eternity, exuding a cold and mysterious brilliance.
The starry sky, no, it's the universe!
Then, his vision captured a more specific scene.
He found that he seemed to be standing on a desolate gray-white land. And diagonally above his sight, a huge and heartbreakingly beautiful planet with blue and white lines intertwined, quietly suspended in the dark background of the universe, exuding a soft radiance of life.
Shinobi World!
That is the home where they live, fight, laugh, and cry. Seen from such a distant perspective, it is so complete, so... small and yet great.