The New Uzumaki Legend of Naruto

"That's Gen Uesugi and his family, right?"

Menma confirmed to Izumi as he looked at the child running toward his father with hatred on his face.

Quan nodded, clicked a few times in the void with his bare hands, and the scene returned to a room in the general's mansion.

Mifune was wearing black mourning clothes and sitting opposite Uesugi Gen's mother, who was also dressed in the same style.

Mifune thought about it for a moment, and said with half sadness and half anticipation:

"General Uesugi asked me to take care of you before he died. I hope you will continue to live here. I will treat Yuan and Jun as my own children."

Mrs. Uesugi took a deep breath, with a trace of hatred in her tearful eyes, and said with some determination:

"I know Kenshin has his own ideas, but I can't accept the fact that my husband-killing enemy raises his own children. I'm sorry!"

After saying that, Mrs. Uesugi turned and left, leaving Mifune kneeling on the ground feeling guilty and unbearable.

"The rest of the story is the same as what Uesugi Yuan told."

Quan connected to the void, and scenes of images quickly flashed before Menma and Ma's eyes. Including the death of Mrs. Uesugi, Gen Uesugi was taken into the Shogun's Mansion by Mifune, and Gen Uesugi left the Shogun's Mansion after learning the swordsmanship of the Uesugi family...

It wasn't until the last scene, when the image of the checkpoint where Gen Uesugi was ordered to take charge of the border between Tian Country and Iron Country flashed by, that Menma and his wife returned to reality and returned to the teahouse.

Looking at the tea cup that was still steaming, Menma's pupils shrank, and he quickly sensed the passage of time.

He suddenly widened his eyes and said with some surprise:

"Not a single moment of time has passed since we left?"

"This is the power of time. What we look at is the past, and what we return to is naturally the present."

Izumi held the hot tea on the table with both hands and took a sip, then winked at Menma:

"The same goes for the Blade of Time, the ability of my Samsara Eye. It allows people to spend time in the long river of time, and finally the body and soul dissipate together.

"It's just that the evil god's body was a little special at that time. I just destroyed his soul, but his body was still there. But..."

The corners of Quan's mouth slowly raised, revealing a shallow dimple.

"I chose to use that move because I was sure that his body would not be erased by the passage of time. Otherwise, Menma-sama would have no research materials."

"The power of time?"

Although in a world of chakra, it is somewhat contrary to talk about things like the law of time, but Izumi's ability forced Menma to face its existence.

In the original work, each Otsutsuki family has their own abilities that can be called bugs, and he can't guarantee that there is no one with an ability that is even more incomprehensible than Izumi.

Now that we have encountered it, the top priority is to find a way to crack it.

Otherwise, there is no guarantee that someone like Otsutsukiura will not appear in the future and kill him in the past.

Thinking of this, Menma felt that the hairs on his back stood up, and he asked the question solemnly:

"Is it possible to use the power of time to appear in the past and kill me or you?"

Hearing Menma's question, Izumi also frowned and drew a strange pattern in the void with his bare hands.

Menma watched her movements and felt a gray energy flowing in the space.

After a while, Quan shook his head:

“With my current abilities, I can’t even exert any influence on the world a second ago.

"Maybe there will be such a thing, but they will crush us like an ant, so why kill us in the past?"

Quan stared blankly into space and smiled to himself. As she spoke, she gestured on the tea table:

“Theoretically, traveling back in time is possible.

"If our world is compared to a straight line, there may be countless branch lines on this straight line. Each branch line is a new timeline, a world similar to ours but different.

"Traveling back to the past is just adding a branch line. It is too difficult to truly affect the straight line we are on."

Izumi sighed and got a new cup of tea for both Menma and himself.

Izumi's explanation was somewhat similar to the parallel world that Menma had heard about in his previous life, but he had only heard about it and had no specific understanding. Unexpectedly, this theory had been verified in the ninja world.

"The truth in the world really all leads to the truth!"

......

Early the next morning, several male voices of varying pitches came from the conference hall of the Iron Kingdom General's Mansion.

"Mifune! The Kingdom of Iron is a neutral country, why do you want to participate in the Ninja Council of the Kingdom of Whirlpool?"

An old man wearing a loose kendo uniform, who was older than Mifune, had a pale face and his gray beard was trembling greatly.

Another old man with a relatively kind face added:

"Besides, we are samurai, why should we join the Ninja Council? The affairs of their Ninja World have nothing to do with us!"

The debaters were sitting around a mahogany round table. As usual, Sanfune took the lead, with the flag of the Iron Kingdom hanging above his head.

What was different from the past was that there was a plain white flag symbolizing the Kingdom of Whirlpool in the hall, hanging brand new above the lower head.

Mifune looked at the national flag, which represented strength, and sighed helplessly from his nose.

He spent a whole day persuading the young people who were in power in the Iron Kingdom. Unexpectedly, today this group of elders got the news from nowhere. The Iron Kingdom was going to negotiate with the Whirlpool Kingdom to join the association this morning, and the results were different. They all rushed here to express their opposition.

Standing behind Mifune with his sword in hand, Uesugi Gen, who had been silent all this time, raised his eyes and looked at the clock on the wall, and couldn't help but say:

"We are all doing this for the Kingdom of Iron. After joining the Ninja Council, our lives will only get better and better."

"Uesugi Gen, I respect your father as a former general, so you are qualified to stand here. You have no right to speak here!"

The old man with a loose kendo uniform and a hot temper glanced at him disdainfully, and then stared at Mifune.

"you..."

When Gen Uesugi heard the other party mention his father, his eyes turned red and he was about to draw his sword.

Seeing this, Mifune hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold down Uesugi Gen's movements, and analyzed helplessly to the elders:

“The prerequisite for the Iron Kingdom to remain neutral is that we have enough power to protect ourselves.

"You all also know the strength of the Uzumaki Kuniyo organization. Today they are seeking our joining in a peaceful manner. When they come back here tomorrow with swords, will it be Elder Yagishang who will step forward to resist, or Elder Watanabe?"

When Mifune called his name, his sharp eyes swept over the two old men who had just spoken.

After hearing this, the kind-faced elder Watanabe couldn't hold back the anger on his face.

As a warrior family, he would never allow himself to say anything to let others come forward to fight, but he also knew that when facing a powerful country like the Whirlpool Kingdom, he or the Iron Kingdom had no chance of winning.

"Squeak!"

At this time, the door of the conference hall was slowly pushed open, which slightly eased the awkward atmosphere in the venue.

Everyone in a stalemate turned their faces and looked toward the door.