Elsewhere, inside the medical room.
"Oh~."
Ino looked at Karin with a smile, speaking in a very soft voice.
Karin: (ω) (bows head)
"Well no, it's okay, being petite is cute too, pfft." Ino patted Karin's shoulder, comforting her.
Karin: (﹏)
"Your Sasuke is still reliable, though he has small issues occasionally, but he's still better than the guy next door, who can't even be sure of his own wife's size. But this is good for you, you still have a chance."
Karin: (〃'▽'〃) That's good.
"But, now that the size is out there, it shouldn't be too far off, so, um, you better not get too happy too soon." Ino looked at the relieved Karin and couldn't help but tease her with a giggle.
Karin: Σ(д|||)
"Mom, why do I feel like something's off between you and dad?" Boruto suddenly said, looking at Naruto and Hinata.
"Mom? Dad?"
Ino's heart skipped a beat.
"Don't talk nonsense, kid."
Hinata coughed twice, speaking with a strange expression.
"Oh-ho?"
Jugo's face gradually revealed a mischievous smile.
"Boruto? Right, let me ask first, what's your full name?" Karin also laughed, looking at Ino with a teasing gaze, and asked with a smile that seemed to turn the tables.
"Uzumaki Boruto."
Boruto replied.
"Oh, my last name is Uzumaki."
Karin dragged out the tone in a playful manner, continuing with a sly smile: "So, Boruto, who are your dad and mom?"
Ino's heart raced, if she wasn't mistaken just now, Boruto was talking to Hinata, and in Konohagakure, the only male Uzumaki is Naruto, so...
Holy moly!
"It's Hinata and Naruto."
Boruto answered normally, as if answering the simplest question.
Ino: (*⊙~⊙) Hold it together.
Compared to the shocked Hinata, Naruto wasn't too surprised, because he knew where the core difference between the two worlds lay, and he could also sense the hidden power in Boruto's eyes and the Uzumaki bloodline, he had known the answer all along.
Ino turned stiffly, showing an unnatural smile towards Naruto on the other side.
"Eh heh?"
Naruto chuckled, looking like a person who enjoys the fun.
"Sorry, I don't know what's going on either."
Hinata also apologized, but her lips couldn't help but curl up while doing so.
"It's fake, all fake, the matters of the world next door have nothing to do with this one!" Ino lifted her little legs, squatting on the hospital bed with her arms around her legs, muttering to herself in self-isolation.
"Hey, don't worry too much, it's just a little accident, right? Just a tiny deviation, it's not a big deal, relax, relax. Aside from the established reality next door, you still have a chance." Karin patted Ino's back while laughing and comforting her.
'What do you mean aside from reality!'
Ino felt even worse being comforted, almost crying.
"What's going on here?"
Boruto looked at the distressed Ino, then at the secretly amused Naruto, and at the schadenfreude-filled Karin, as well as the indifferent Hinata and Jugo, feeling like he suddenly understood something, yet not quite completely.
The adult world is truly complex. I'll have to ask Mom about it when I get back.
Ino may be upset, but she's not foolish enough to take Boruto's words as the future. After all, another world is naturally different from theirs, and it's normal for there to be discrepancies and different outcomes. At most, she's just a bit depressed.
"So, you turned into this sorry state after being defeated by Naruto from another world?" Young Sasuke asked with his arms crossed and head tilted.
"Something like that."
"I see."
Young Sasuke nodded, his lips quickly curving into a wild grin. "I, Sasuke, have never been weaker than anyone. Naruto, of all people, defeat me? Come, I'll give you a one-on-one special training. When you return, beat him up, then straighten out Konohagakure and the entire ninja world."
"Is that really a good idea?"
Adult Sasuke felt his face heat up. He was a father now, and the thought of being trained by his younger self was both beautiful and embarrassing.
To be honest, it's a bit humiliating.
"What's wrong with that? Haven't you thought about why you wanted to become strong in the first place? What was your original intention? Wasn't it to gain your family's recognition and live a better life? When you sought revenge, you had no family, so it didn't matter what you did. But now it's different. You have a wife and children. Why should you sacrifice yourself for thankless tasks?" Young Sasuke argued.
"But... Naruto is the Hokage."
"So what if he's Hokage? So what if it's Naruto? If he's wrong, he needs to be corrected. We can't let him lead astray a village or generations of people like Hashirama did, causing Konohagakure to regress with each passing generation," Young Sasuke said proudly.
"But Naruto is managing Konohagakure well now, and the whole village is developing."
"Hahaha, that's laughable. Konohagakure developed well when Hashirama and Madara were alive too. But what happened after Madara defected and Hashirama died? Could Konohagakure still develop? Hahaha, how naive. You're an adult, yet so naive!" Young Sasuke scoffed.
"The five great ninja villages are at peace, and the relationships between the five countries are good and close. We're different from them back then," Adult Sasuke countered.
"Stop kidding yourself. Look at the history books, the Konohagakure archives. When the First Hokage was alive, the other four countries were more obedient than grandchildren. If that fool hadn't been so lenient, the Kages of the other villages wouldn't dare bargain with Konohagakure!"
Adult Sasuke wavered again, beginning to realize the issues with Naruto and the serious problems with the First. His biggest obstacle now was actually his pride.
"How is your eye power now?" he asked after some thought.
"Eye power? Hmm... I haven't really calculated it, but it's probably several tens, maybe hundreds of 'Kakashi units,' I guess," Sasuke said after thinking.
"Units? What's that?"
Adult Sasuke asked, puzzled.
"Oh, that. One 'Kakashi unit' is the amount of eye power Kakashi has. It's just a term we use because it rolls off the tongue," Young Sasuke explained.
"If I remember correctly, Kakashi-sensei has activated his Mangekyou Sharingan, right?" Adult Sasuke questioned with a skeptical look.
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Hmm? Then tens or hundreds of 'Kakashi units' would mean..."
Adult Sasuke was shocked.
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