[Happy Lunar New Year's Eve!] Minato: Good News, My Son Is Strong. Bad News, My Son Is an Idiot

Rōran.

Bang!

Naruto Uzumaki smashed one of the inexplicable puppets with a punch, his expression grim.

Damn it, Sasuke was missing!

This place might still have been Rōran. He could vaguely recognize the ruins he had seen before in its buildings.

There was no problem with the location, but something had gone terribly wrong with the time.

All the Flying Thunder God Coordinates he had placed had vanished.

Or rather, they had not vanished. They were clearly still there, yet they were like flowers in a mirror and the moon on water, impossible to touch.

The sensation was strange, almost like... something destined to be born that had not yet been born?

He narrowed his eyes and looked toward the distant High Tower.

Naruto Uzumaki remembered the kunai he had seen before the surging Dragon Vein swallowed him-the one embedded in what looked like a closed eyeball atop the altar.

The Sealing the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, had left here...

A complicated emotion flashed through his eyes. After wrestling with himself for a moment, Naruto Uzumaki shook his head.

If his guess was right, he had traveled roughly twenty years into the past.

Damn it, why wasn't Sasuke here?!

The thought filled Naruto with frustration. He casually thrust out a Rasengan, smashing another group of puppets.

If only Sasuke were here, he would have had a proper discussion with him about time paradoxes.

The two of them had talked about that subject plenty before. But after discovering the state of his original Flying Thunder God Coordinates upon his arrival, Naruto found his already impatient nature even harder to rein in.

The past could not be changed!

And remembering the Onion-Eyed Old Man who so often visited his dreams at night only made Naruto angrier.

*That old bastard was definitely behind