"Boruto, Sasuke!" Naruto sensed two familiar presences suddenly appear in his home and cried out in delight.
"Naruto, what's gotten into you?" Sasuke couldn't help asking when he saw the Seventh Hokage's delighted expression.
"Don't you know? You've both been missing for days!" Naruto explained.
"Boruto!" Hinata, who had been cooking, sensed the familiar presence too. She immediately dropped her utensils, rushed over, and swept Boruto into her arms without a word.
"Mom!" Feeling his mother's worry, Boruto spoke up to reassure her.
"Where did you go? What happened to Urashiki?" Naruto asked, his expression turning serious.
"A lot happened over the past few days. Let's sit down somewhere and talk!" Sasuke said, wearing his usual aloof expression.
Naruto nodded. "Hinata's almost finished cooking anyway. Let's talk over dinner!"
"All right!" Sasuke nodded with a faint smile.
"So you traveled into the past of a different space-time?" Naruto asked at the dinner table, shoveling rice into his mouth.
"Yes!" Sasuke nodded.
"Dad, I've got something great to show you." Boruto carefully took a family photograph out of his shoulder bag.
Naruto took the photograph. Looking at Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya, his younger self with short hair and straight bangs, and Boruto beside him smiling with his eyes closed, he felt his eyes grow damp. "Looks like the me in that world is really happy!" Naruto said, touched but also filled with regret.
"Yeah! Dad was really fun in that world. Only, he wasn't a Ninja anymore-he was one of the Holy Light Clerics. He kept saying he wanted to become a Legion Commander," Boruto agreed.
"Not a Ninja, but a Holy Light Cleric? What's that?" Naruto looked at Sasuke in confusion.
"That brings us to the biggest difference between their world and ours: the existence of a powerful organization called the