"Dad, are we going to impersonate Auntie Haruno Sakura?" Kale whispered to Dad.
Learning to be good is hard, but sliding into bad habits happens in an instant.
The once soft little girl was still shy with strangers, but under Ino's daily "nurturing" of killing hostages and raiding bandit dens, she was no longer so resistant to doing "bad things".
Ino and Kale were both dressed as travelers. Coming to this familiar yet strange Konoha Village, she felt uncomfortable all over.
Seeing the four relief sculptures on the Hokage Rock, her discomfort reached its peak.
The first three Hokage were the same: Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, and Hiruzen Sarutobi. But when it came to the Fourth, it was suddenly different.
"The Haruno Sakura of this side might still be in the village, how can we impersonate her? Let's just go in like this."
Ino muttered in her heart, Is Sakura really some hidden big shot? Why is her dad, who is mediocre in the Seventh Universe, the Hokage in the Sixth Universe?
Using the excuse that they came from afar, she indirectly inquired from a few residents who looked talkative and learned that this old man, Kizashi Haruno, was originally also very ordinary. It was only after receiving the news of his daughter's birth that he worked hard and finally defeated Orochimaru and Minato Namikaze to become the Fourth Hokage.
The old man's potential amazed Ino. She had seen the Kizashi Haruno of the Seventh Universe; he seemed to be a tall old man with no visible potential or willpower. But here, he had leaped to become the Hokage. It was truly amazing...
"Dad, that person looks like you..." After learning sensory abilities, Kale used them every now and then. She soon discovered the Ino Yamanaka of this side.
Gentle personality, conservative clothing, speaking with honorifics—a soft girl.
Ino pinched Kale's cheek: "She's nothing like me. This personality is a bit like you, soft."
The Shikamaru of the Sixth Universe was a fool who couldn't even calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division smoothly and needed to count on his fingers.
Choji, on the other hand, was a calm and steady handsome guy.
Ino scratched her face. Everything here is a mess. She focused on searching for Naruto's chakra.
Naruto was comatose in the Seventh Universe, bringing the Yang Nine-Tails down with him. His soul arrived here, and according to her guess, it should also carry a portion, or a very small portion, of Tailed Beast chakra.
"Found it, let's go."
Ino pulled Kale along. A quarter of an hour later, they were observing outside Minato Namikaze's house.
It was the same old saying: without sufficient tempering, potential could not be converted into strength.
The Minato Namikaze of this universe lacked that hero-like fighting spirit and spirit of sacrifice. The general environment was relatively peaceful, and he hadn't experienced that many wars. Now he looked just like an Elite Jonin similar to Asuma.
Kushina Uzumaki had turned into a housewife, and the family of three lived happily together.
Looking at the young man dazing in front of the window, Ino was speechless for a while. She lowered her voice: "Naruto?"
Hearing the familiar call, Naruto turned his head foolishly.
"No wonder you couldn't pass the Chunin Exam. Do you not even want the most basic ninja qualities anymore? Don't look towards me!"
Naruto nodded subconsciously, while keeping a straight face and looking straight ahead.
Naruto hadn't turned into Naruko. Compared to that slightly absurd Limited Tsukuyomi from before, this was undoubtedly a real world.
He had used his limited brain cells to think for several days but hadn't figured out his current situation, let alone how to break the game.
"Ino... is that you?"
"Rude! You must call me Lady Hokage!"
The joy on Naruto's face was indescribable. Thanking Grandpa Third in heaven for his blessing, he had finally found the organization!
He wished he could go back to sweeping the streets right now; he didn't want to stay here for a single day longer.
The situation here was simply too weird. Not to mention a brainless person like him, even if a smart person came over, they would be dumbfounded.
In a specious environment, facing a village of ninjas, wanting to disguise as another person was really a difficult task for Naruto's IQ.
He felt that his parents here had long seen the clues, but due to various reasons, they chose silence.
Ten seconds later, Ino knocked out the local Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki. She looked at Naruto.
"Strange, your soul seems to have been divided... This hidden danger must be solved, otherwise you will have this strange symptom next time." Ino signaled Naruto to give her some chakra. She found a similar chakra signature in the far distance, immediately took Kale's small hand, had Naruto place his hand on her shoulder, and teleported the three out of Konoha Village.
"Great Spiralling Ring!" Just as the three manifested, a half-black, half-white compressed chakra ball smashed towards them face-on.
In the eyes of the current Ino, this move was too ordinary.
Ignoring the high-speed rotating force of the chakra ball, her five fingers grabbed it in reverse. With a crisp crack, the "Great Spiralling Ring" in the black-haired youth's hand was directly crushed by her. The ki blast erupting from the chakra shattered the white mask on his face. His forehead was cut, and fresh blood flowed down.
The youth possessed a face extremely similar to Naruto's, only his expression was quite gloomy.
"Who are you?" His voice had barely fallen when Ino grabbed him by the throat. After a stalemate of two seconds, he fainted.
"Who is he?" Naruto asked.
"He should be the Naruto Uzumaki of this side. It seems he used some kind of sensory ninjutsu to capture your soul fluctuations, and then used the Tailed Beast chakra to summon you over. To hide himself, he even used a modified version of the 'Vanishing Facial Copy Technique' on you. Your current body actually isn't this appearance."
Naruto didn't understand at all.
Ino patted the back of the black-haired masked man's heart, and Naruto felt that there seemed to be something extra in his body.
"Solved. Do you want to take this body back, or should I extract your soul and take it back?" Ino gave Naruto a choice.
Extracting the soul sounded terrifying, but Naruto didn't want to go home in another body either. Boruto was almost one year old. He wasn't the child who didn't know anything back then; how weird would it be to go back like this?
"That... that extracting the soul, it doesn't hurt, right?"
"It doesn't hurt. It's very quick."
As an Underworld big shot, extracting a soul was as simple as drawing blood. Ino patted and grabbed, extracting Naruto's soul, then stuffed it casually into a crystal ball, signaling Kale to hold it.
Mission accomplished, so it was time to hurry back.
Ino made a gesture, letting Kale stand a bit further away.
The daughter held the crystal ball and retreated more than ten steps quite obediently.
Ino erupted with Super Otsutsuki Mode, then located the Seventh Universe and forcibly opened the Crossing Moon Bridge.
The sensory ninjas inside Konoha Village discovered an energy reaction in the northwest direction that was unknown times more terrifying than a Tailed Beast. One didn't even need sensory ninjutsu; using eyes to look, one could see the massive golden pillar of light over there.
"Dragon Pulse?"
"Some kind of Forbidden Jutsu?"
People said all sorts of things. The Fourth Hokage, Kizashi Haruno, had quite the spirit of sacrifice and immediately left the village to investigate.
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