DreamersGN Chapter 25 Sasuke: Having a friend like you, a loser who drags me down, is really...
Chapter 25 Sasuke: Having a friend like you, a loser who drags me down, is really...
Within the mirror wall, the timeline of Valley of the End 1.0—
Naruto Uzumaki lowered his head, and a surge of red chakra rapidly condensed within his body!
The lake's surface was rippled by that chakra! The sheer power was unbelievable; the person on the other side of the Mirror Wall was the same guy who had failed the Chunin Exams multiple times?!
His hands transformed into beast-like claws, grabbing the hand choking his neck and forcibly freeing him.
Sasuke Uchiha sensed danger and jumped back several meters in an emergency.
The two stood on the lake in the Valley of the End...
When crimson chakra formed a terrifying, gigantic monster behind Naruto, the people in the previous connected worlds watching from the other side of the mirror were stunned! Especially the ninjas who had experienced the Nine-Tails' rampage many years ago! Once again, their will was shattered by the Nine-Tails' terror and power!!
A nine-tailed fox?!
"It's a nine-tailed fox!!"
Even those genin who had never actually seen the Nine-Tails realized that it was the disaster that nearly destroyed the village 13 years ago, killed Iruka-sensei's parents and countless outstanding Konoha ninjas, and was only eliminated with the sacrifice of the Fourth Hokage!
Why...?
"Why is it on Naruto's body...?"
"How come Naruto's chakra looks like the Nine-Tailed Fox?!"
"Such a serious injury! It healed in the blink of an eye!!"
"It happened the same way during the mission in the Land of Waves! The senbon needles on my body were simply ejected by chakra just from tensing my muscles!"
"And the chakra has also taken on a shape resembling a fox's head!"
Not only that, Naruto's face in the mirror image, where he is fighting Sasuke, looks even more like a wild beast!
His canines were even larger than Kiba Inuzuka's beast form! The whiskers on his face had become even darker! His crimson beast-like eyes, rather than showing anger, were filled with the sorrow of betrayal; he was weeping because Sasuke really wanted to kill him.
"Sasuke! I won't let you fall into Orochimaru's hands! Even if it means breaking all your arms and legs! I will stop you!!"
"Naruto, what exactly are you?!"
"Your friend!" Naruto Uzumaki exclaimed. "That's why I said I wouldn't let you fall into Orochimaru's hands! That's why I said I'd stop you even if it meant breaking all your limbs!!"
Sasuke felt the pain in his arm, just as Naruto sensed Sasuke's killing intent. Sasuke knew that Naruto was not joking at this moment.
Naruto hadn't ignored his earlier words; he certainly knew Orochimaru had killed the Third Hokage and orchestrated the Konoha Crush! But following Orochimaru was his only path to revenge! Even if he became someone else entirely, what did it matter if he could kill Itachi?!
What kind of friend are you talking about! You don't understand at all!
That feeling of losing everything! That fear of being threatened! Even you are Itachi's target! Why don't you understand! If Itachi isn't killed! You and Kakashi! Next time, it won't just be a simple injury!!!
"How could you, a bastard without parents or siblings, possibly understand how I feel?!" Enraged by Naruto's stubbornness, Sasuke grabbed him by the collar and roared, "You've lived alone from the very beginning! How could you possibly understand my pain?!"
These words might have really hurt Naruto, to the point that he didn't even fight back when Sasuke beat him up afterwards.
People in several worlds on the other side of the mirror wall were also getting anxious.
Even Sasuke, who had just finished fighting Zabuza and Haku's timeline in the Land of Waves and had just participated in the first written exam of the Chunin Exams, muttered under his breath that Naruto was an idiot!
These two were the most conflicted, torn between the urgency of revenge and Naruto's unwavering obstinacy! Why wouldn't that guy just let them go?! Why, even if they might be killed, did he still risk his life to pull them back?!
"I……"
"I truly don't have any real parents or siblings, and I don't know what it's like to have parents and siblings..."
The Fourth Hokage, now reanimated, looked at the world beyond the mirror wall, feeling incredibly distressed.
At the same time, he felt guilty for not realizing that the masked man back then was Obito. If he had recognized Obito back then and brought him back to the right path, many things would probably be different.
Naruto would not have lacked parental love, and the Uchiha clan would have truly reconciled with Konoha under the leadership of Naruto himself, the Hokage, and Obito, a young Uchiha who also aspired to become Hokage. There would have been no tragedies like those of Sasuke and Itachi.
Naruto in the Fourth Shinobi World War told his father not to blame himself...
Meanwhile, on the other side of the mirror wall, in the Valley of the End 1.0 timeline—
Naruto, who fought Sasuke at the Valley of the End, also offered an explanation: "Although I don't have parents, when I was with Iruka-sensei, I wondered if it would feel like this if I had a father by my side..."
Recalling the family bonds he had fantasized about, Naruto, whose fox form hadn't yet faded, smiled: "When I was with you, Sasuke, I secretly thought about it too..."
"If I had brothers, it would probably feel like being with you."
"!!!"
Sasuke hadn't expected Naruto to respond like that! Just as he was about to ask him something...
[“Uchiha Sasuke, do you agree with the statement, ‘Uchiha Sasuke is incredibly unlucky to have a friend like Uzumaki Naruto!’”]
What?!
Sasuke and Naruto were shocked. They looked at each other, both with the same bewilderment in their eyes!
Something that looked like a remote control fell into Sasuke Uchiha's hands.
[The red button on the option selector indicates agreement, and the blue button indicates disagreement.]
"—Please make your choice, Uchiha Sasuke."
"Please note that this poll is anonymous."
Having mastered the rhythm of controlling the Four Red Yang Formation, Minato Namikaze created a shadow clone, preparing to meet his son from another parallel world and have a good talk with Sasuke...
"boring."
After saying a cold sentence, Sasuke Uchiha from the Valley of the End 1.0 threw out the selector.
【"bite!"】
"The Valley of the End 1.0 'Uchiha Sasuke' has been selected."
["Please select the Naruto Bridge in the Land of Waves 2.0 'Uchiha Sasuke' option."]
Eh? !
So decisive?!
The option was activated the moment it was thrown!
Speaking of which...
"Sasuke, which one did you choose?" In the previous timelines, Naruto was practically hanging on Sasuke, asking him whether he had chosen to agree or disagree.
But no matter which world Sasuke was in, he either remained silent or eventually got so annoyed by the questions that he simply said he had chosen to agree.
"Having a loser like you as a friend?! Do you really think I'm lucky?! You're such a complete idiot."