"Ugh!"
Rengoku felt his stomach churning violently. After dry heaving a couple of times, he rubbed his splitting headache while struggling to sit up.
He stared blankly at the unfamiliar surroundings and muttered to himself, "Where the hell did this throw me to?"
Rengoku shook his still-heavy head hard, secretly sighing to himself that the power of time and space truly was supreme.
When he had been inside that endless space-time tunnel, all the energy in his body had become completely chaotic, and he had almost lost control over his own body.
And during that long journey, he had only retained an extremely faint level of consciousness.
Now that he had finally burst out of the space-time tunnel, the energy inside his body was only just beginning to return to normal.
At that moment, Rengoku suddenly sensed a presence behind him.
Once his bodily energy had fully recovered, his keen perception immediately detected something abnormal.
Before he could even turn around to see who it was, a voice reached his ears, "Mr…"
Hearing that form of address, Rengoku turned his head, a hint of surprise appearing on his face.
"Naruto? How did you suddenly grow this big?"
Rengoku looked Naruto up and down in disbelief, his eyes filled with astonishment. However, he reacted right away.
"Oh! You're Holy Mother... Naruto."
Rengoku stood up and began to look around.
He discovered that the architectural style and layout here were quite similar to the Roran he remembered.
He thought to himself, 'This should be Roran, right?'
The Naruto opposite him clearly did not recognize him, which meant that this time he had not only traveled through time, but the spatial plane he was in had also undergone a massive change.
However, for Rengoku, who possessed an extensive reserve of knowledge, it did not take long for him to grasp the current situation.
"You know me? What is Holy Mother? Are you an Uchiha?"
Naruto froze for a moment and asked in a silly, clueless way.
Rengoku did not respond to Naruto. At this moment, his mind was racing, thinking about how he could smoothly return to his original world.
"Hey! Say something already! Mister!"
Naruto seemed a bit impatient and reckless, and actually rushed forward, trying to grab at Rengoku.
However, Rengoku merely gave a light wave of his arm and easily knocked away the hand Naruto reached out.
"Don't bother me. I'm thinking about something. Stay quiet and stand to the side first."
Rengoku said with a serious expression. Then he added, "And besides, I'm only five years older than you, so you should call me big brother."
Hearing this, Naruto was instantly stunned, his face showing a thoroughly speechless expression.
"I am indeed an Uchiha, but I'm not from your time-space."
Regardless of whether Naruto understood or not, after casually explaining a couple of lines, Rengoku stopped paying attention to him.
Rengoku thought it over carefully and felt that he could use the Dragon Vein here to go back.
But then a problem arose. Did he need to act according to the original course of events?
Thinking of this, Rengoku turned his head to look at the seemingly silly Naruto beside him, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.
After all, this was a time-space that he had not yet altered. If he seized the opportunity properly, could he gain some benefits from it?
So Rengoku cleared his throat, deliberately coughed once, and then asked, "Naruto, have you ever thought about seeing your father?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Naruto looked as if he had been struck by lightning, his whole body going stiff.
Immediately after, he widened his eyes and stared at Rengoku in disbelief, shouting, "What did you say? You know my dad?"
Facing Naruto's intense reaction, Rengoku slowly shook his head, while pointing down at the ground beneath their feet as he explained, "This is Roran from twenty years ago. As far as I know, your father was carrying out a mission here back then."
"Huh? Is that really true?"
Naruto was a bit excited and a bit suspicious. Even though he was a scatterbrain, he was still half-believing and half-doubting at this moment.
"Mhm," Rengoku nodded firmly and confirmed, "If you don't believe me, come with me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Rengoku's figure flashed, shooting toward the dome like a bolt of lightning.
Seeing this, Naruto hesitated for a moment, but quickly made up his mind and followed closely behind Rengoku, heading upward together.
Although there were no stairs leading to the dome from below, for ninjas like them, this level of difficulty was nothing at all.
Relying on chakra adhesion, they could easily step on the walls and climb upward rapidly, like geckos.
Before long, the two of them arrived at the dome.
There was a huge glass panel there for lighting. Rengoku casually reached out and pushed it.
With a sharp "crash," the glass instantly shattered into countless fragments that scattered everywhere.
Right after that, Rengoku leapt forward and jumped out through the hole in the dome.
Naruto was just a tiny bit slower. When he jumped out as well, he was shocked to find that Rengoku, who had been right in front of him a moment ago, had vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.
"Mister?"
Naruto shouted anxiously, his voice echoing through the open space. However, the only thing that answered him was silence.
Naruto felt a bit dazed and thought to himself, 'How can someone just disappear like that?'
Filled with confusion and unease, Naruto began to lift his head, searching everywhere for Rengoku's figure.
At the same time, he took the opportunity to carefully observe the surrounding buildings.
Up here, towering structures of exquisite design and masterful craftsmanship were everywhere.
They stood scattered across the land, as if they were giants guarding this place.
Each tower had its own distinct character. Some were carved with intricate and magnificent patterns.
Others had dazzling gemstones set into their spires, leaving one's eyes reeling.
"Mister, where are you?"
Naruto shouted as he rapidly weaved between the towers, leaping from one to another in succession.
From time to time, he stopped, lifting his head to look up at the sky.
All of the towers here rose high into the clouds, piercing straight into the heavens as if they were about to stab through the firmament itself.
"So spectacular…"
Naruto could not help but murmur softly, his eyes full of awe.
"These towers are really too tall."
Just as he was immersed in this breathtaking scenery, a sharp, piercing sound of something cutting through the air suddenly came from not far away.
Naruto's heart jolted. He turned his head to look, only to see three black figures rushing toward him at incredible speed.
When they got closer, he saw that they were three ferocious-looking, fully armed combat puppets.
Faced with this sudden turn of events, Naruto was momentarily stunned and flustered, not even having time to react.
In the blink of an eye, the three puppets landed like ghosts and formed an encirclement, trapping Naruto right in the center.
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