I, Uchiha Hikaru, have joined the chat group.

Chapter 411 Shadow Clone, Emerging from Seclusion!

"……it's over."

With Madara and Pain's voluntary retreat.

This unprecedentedly fierce battle has finally come to an end.

Kushina was getting into the swing of things and wanted to chase after him to play a little longer, but Minato Namikaze stopped her.

At this moment, most of Konoha Village, from the training grounds and rivers to the forests and even the towering Hokage Rock, had been completely destroyed in the aftermath of the battle, leaving behind a landscape riddled with holes. Only the central area, protected by Jiraiya and the others using the "Four Red Yang Formation," remained largely intact.

—This level of loss is much less severe compared to the attack by the Six Paths of Pain eight years later in the original timeline.

but……

Minato Namikaze sighed again.

"The construction of these training grounds and Shadow Rocks may take years or even decades, but their destruction can happen in an instant..."

"The battle between Lord Hashirama and Madara Uchiha back then was probably like this..."

"...Hey, Minato, what are you muttering about over there? Get over here right now!"

Kushina was thinking of revisiting Konoha Village to settle old scores with Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others when she turned her head and saw Minato Namikaze reminiscing in the same spot. She couldn't help but urge him on impatiently.

Upon hearing his wife's voice, Minato Namikaze had no choice but to turn around and descend slowly with her from the sky to the entrance of Konoha Village.

the other side.

Jiraiya, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the others also dispelled the "Four Red Yang Formation" at the right time, and led the ninja squad behind them out to meet the outside of the village.

"Minato, Kushina, is it really you two?"

"What on earth is going on? You two were already... Could it be that you really were resurrected through some kind of secret technique?"

Jiraiya looked puzzled.

He was originally the first person to identify the Minato couple.

But as the aerial battle came to an end, he realized that the Minato couple of today were completely different from the ones he remembered. Their physical appearance and aura had undergone a dramatic transformation. With all these changes, even if their souls remained the same, a feeling of familiarity mixed with strangeness was inevitable.

even……

Knowing that the opponent's strength was enough to rival Madara, even Jiraiya couldn't help but feel a sense of instinctive worry.

Minato Namikaze was alright.

He was naturally a steady and reliable person, and having joined the chat group early on, he had observed many events in Konoha Village from the perspective of a group member. Later, he even spent several months living like father and son with Naruto, listening to the latter recount many of his experiences over the years. Therefore, standing with the people of Konoha now, he felt no sense of distance and even greeted them politely.

"It's been a long time, Jiraiya-sensei. And the Third Hokage, Shikaku-sensei, Fugaku-sensei..."

Kushina, however, was different.

She was resurrected in the One Piece world, and immediately went to the "Hypertime Chamber" with Minato for two years. Now she has returned to Konoha for the first time since her resurrection.

and so……

"I'll stop beating around the bush."

"Lord Jiraiya, Lord Hiruzen Sarutobi, what would you like to say about Naruto's experiences in the village over the years?"

Kushina got straight to the point.

As the previous generation's Jinchuriki, she wasn't entirely unprepared for Naruto's fate. However, as a mother, after witnessing her son bear the name of "Demon Fox" and live a more miserable life in the village than she had in her childhood, she found it difficult to suppress her emotions and had to speak out.

"Forehead……"

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked embarrassed.

Jiraiya was equally speechless.

Minato Namikaze, standing nearby, chuckled and tried to smooth things over with a hint of helplessness: "Alright, let's get into the village first... Naruto and our resurrection are a long story, one that can't be explained in just a few words."

"……good."

Kushina reluctantly nodded in agreement.

As the group turned and entered the village, many of the Konoha villagers surrounding them began to raise their arms and shout slogans such as "Long live the Fourth Hokage!" It was as if they had returned to the scene when Minato Namikaze attended the Hokage succession ceremony after the Third Shinobi World War; at the same time, it was also like the scene Naruto experienced after returning from Mount Myōboku and defeating Pain in the original story.

Past, present, future...

The scenes from the three different time periods were unified at this moment.

This evoked a complex mix of emotions in Minato Namikaze.

"It's a pity we should have invited Miss Hikari to come along. She's the one these villagers should truly thank..."

……

At this moment.

Hikaru Uchiha, now living in the Dragon Ball world, had no interest in the Naruto world or even in the chat groups.

Her mind was now completely focused on something else—

More than ten days later.

The shadow clone she left in the "Time Chamber" has finally emerged.

To be precise, it was actually Uchiha Hikaru who, sensing that the shadow clones were not in good condition, deliberately canceled the technique.

then.

After a brief delay, an extremely complex stream of memories was transmitted from a distant time and space where the shadow clone was located to Uchiha Hikaru's main body.

ten years!

It has only been two and a half years since Uchiha Hikaru woke up underground in Konoha Village.

However, ten years have passed since this shadow clone was created.

Even though she spent most of those ten years alone in the alternate dimension of the "Time Chamber," the memories she accumulated were still immense. So much so that Uchiha Hikari felt as if a surging tide had swept in from a distant shore, engulfing her consciousness in a vast swamp in a very short time!

In this situation.

She could barely maintain her own consciousness, like a reef standing in the ocean, slowly digesting the vast and terrifying memories around her.

About "ki"; about ninjutsu; about Sharingan eye techniques;

There are also discussions about Yin-Yang Release, spiritual power, Haki, and even swordsmanship...

Ten years is far too long, enough for the shadow clone to train through all these techniques from different worlds until it reaches a bottleneck and then breaks through it.

now.

The results of all these efforts, in the form of a mental storm, appeared one after another in Uchiha Hikari's sea of ​​consciousness, which she painstakingly digested and absorbed bit by bit. This process of receiving memories alone lasted for more than an hour.

In reality...

Her aura began to rise steadily and evenly!

(End of this chapter)