Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

"Obito".

A familiar voice rang out from outside the door.

Nohara Rin stood there quietly.

Seeing Obito come out, her eyes, which had been filled with worry, finally curved into a gentle crescent moon.

She very naturally handed over a warm, damp towel, tilting her head slightly.

"Wash your face, you look really sloppy right now!"

Obito paused for a moment, recalling the story that had just unfolded in "Mirror Flower, Water Moon".

His face flushed, and he hurriedly took the towel, rubbing his face vigorously twice. Then he took a deep breath, his eyes clearer than ever before.

"Lin, I'm sorry to have worried you."

Obito clenched the towel in his hand, staring directly at the girl. "That masked man... that future me, because I lost someone important to me, cowardly chose to run away, trying to drag everyone into a false dream."

"But I will never become like him!"

"No matter how much pain he has endured, no matter what his reasons are, if he denies our current bonds and this real world, then he is wrong!"

"I'm going to stop him myself! I'll beat him awake from that cowardly nightmare!"

Hearing this unwavering declaration, Lin's smile deepened.

She nodded gently, her eyes full of trust: "Yes, I believe you. Because you are Uchiha Obito."

"cough."

An untimely dry cough came from the base of the wall next to us.

Kakashi leaned against the wall with his dead fish eyes drooping. Although he tried his best to put on an indifferent expression as if he were just passing by, the slightly raised corners of his eyebrows betrayed his inner relaxation.

"You're all talk, but don't think you're invincible just because you've just awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan. You've seen that masked man's strength with your own eyes." Kakashi poured cold water on the idea without any politeness. "If you get beaten to tears, this genius will have to come and bail you out."

"You bastard Kakashi! Don't get too cocky!"

Obito instantly bristled as if his tail had been stepped on, his three tomoe transforming into a sharp triangular kaleidoscope pattern. Pointing at Kakashi, he shouted loudly:

"My left eye [Kichida] and right eye [Kunino Tsunetachi] are now top-tier spatial eye techniques! If you white-haired brat dare to charge ahead recklessly like before, I'll forcibly replace you and make you squat in the back eating dust!"

Kakashi was stunned for a moment upon hearing this extremely "domineering" declaration of protection.

Then, he snorted and turned his face away, saying, "Is that so? Well, I'm really looking forward to it, you idiot Obito."

"Hey! Aren't you two done catching up?!"

At the other end of the corridor, Yahiko, sporting a head of orange spiky hair, leaned halfway in, saying, "My stomach is rumbling! If we don't go eat some barbecue soon, Tsuki-senpai will really eat it all!"

“That’s right!” Senju Nawaki also poked his head out from behind Yahiko, grinning as he touched the First Hokage’s necklace around his neck. “Obito, you’re a key member of our [Awakening]! How can you save the world on an empty stomach?”

Although Nagato was not good with words, he still stepped forward, extended his fist, and gently touched Obito's shoulder.

Xiao Nan smiled and waved, "Come on, everyone's waiting for you."

Looking at his noisy companions, each expressing their concern in their own way, Obito pulled his goggles back up to his forehead, a wild and unrestrained smile spreading across his face.

"Alright! I'm going to eat you all into bankruptcy today!"

Chapter 162 The efficiency of childbirth in the four major countries has been significantly improved.

In the 54th year of Konoha, late winter.

Accompanied by a violent thunderstorm that swept across the entire Land of Water, the "Village of Blood Mist" policy, which struck fear into the hearts of countless bloodline families, finally came to an end in a massive coup.

The old blood fog was dispelled, and new policies began.

Meaningless infighting and killings were completely stopped, and replaced by forced "peaceful exchanges".

Most of the ninja clans in Kirigakure were sent to Loulan in batches, ostensibly to "study the latest knowledge in the ninja world."

The Fourth Hokage still holds power outwardly, but in reality, power has been taken over by Mei Terumi.

Naturally, the [Eight Thousand Spears - Heart Lock] was also implanted between her eyebrows, officially making her a member of the "Heaven's Will Project".

Inside the Water Shadow's office.

Mei Terumi looked down at the "Supplementary Terms of Aid" handed over by Loulan:

[The entire Water Kingdom must implement the highest level of maternity subsidy policy from this day forward. All newborns' formula and education expenses will be fully covered by Loulan…]

"Having a baby..."

Mei Terumi sighed helplessly, glancing down at her proud and mature figure.

Although the offers were outrageously generous, she touched her smooth cheek and inwardly grumbled:

"I'm still so young, and I haven't even found a man I like yet. Let the other people in the village do the great thing of having children."

……

Meanwhile, in the Land of Fire, thousands of miles away from the Land of Water.

Inside the special care ward of a top-secret underground hospital in Konoha Village.

On his hospital bed, Hiruzen Sarutobi, his body wrapped in thick bandages, struggled to open his eyes.

"hiss……"

As soon as he woke up, Hiruzen felt every muscle in his body was protesting and screaming.

Especially his cheeks, the severe swelling, as if he had been stomped on dozens of times with the sole of a shoe, made him gasp in pain.

"Hiruzen...you're awake."

On the next bed, Danzo Shimura, who had lost his right arm and whose face was ashen, was still replaying the psychological blow the Second Hokage had dealt him in his mind.

"Orochimaru... has defected... the Second Hokage's Edo Tensei..."

Hiruzen clutched his throbbing forehead, the events of that night flashing through his mind like a shattered slideshow.

Under the subtle interference of Uchiha Tsukuyomi's artistic [Trigger-Type Eye Technique] and [Mirror Flower Water Moon], the memories of that night from these two Konoha high-ranking officials became extremely strangely blurred.

They clearly remembered that Orochimaru had desecrated the soul of the previous Hokage with cruel methods;

I remember that the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, briefly regained his senses, rejected the policies they had implemented over the years, and severed Danzo's arm with a Water Severing Wave.

But what happens after that?

What happened after the Second Hokage's soul dissipated due to the collapse of the Edo Tensei?

Why were they beaten to such a terrible state?

They don't remember any of it.

It was as if an invisible scalpel had brutally removed that memory from their minds.

In that blank space of memory, the only thing left is an emotion.

A bottomless loathing for the Uchiha clan!

They didn't know where this almost pathological sense of disgust came from, but whenever the words "Uchiha" appeared in their minds, an uncontrollable sense of humiliation would surge up in their subconscious, and they wished they could order the complete eradication of this clan from Konoha the next day.

Life must go on. Even though they were deeply saddened by the Second Hokage's rejection, Konoha still cannot do without them.

The teacher is still watching over them from the Pure Land.

"Hiruzen." Danzo turned his head, his eyes flashing with chilling killing intent. "The Uchiha clan... can no longer be allowed to live."

Hiruzen didn't argue as usual. Instead, he wearily closed his swollen eyes, remained silent for a long time, and then let out a heavy sigh.

After a period of frantic deviation, the gears of history, skillfully manipulated by Uchiha Tsuki, began to mesh again with a sickening clang. The Konoha leadership's purge of the Uchiha clan smoothly returned to its original course.

……

While the Konoha leadership was plotting how to purge the Uchiha clan from his sickbed.

The core laboratory is located underground in Loulan.

"Om-!"

A pure, natural energy flowed continuously into Uchiha Yue's spiritual sea of ​​consciousness through the [Bright Seal] network at his brow!

Yue tallied the time she had used Sage Mode and the amount of energy she could draw upon, a smile playing on her lips.

His current Sage Mode is probably comparable to Hashirama's, especially considering he can access Hashirama's cells externally and use the Mangekyou Sharingan.

One person should have no problem fighting both middle-aged Hashirama and middle-aged Madara.

"Sage chakra of this purity... That old toad from Mount Myōboku is really efficient."

After reaching an agreement with the Great Toad Sage half a month ago, Mount Myōboku officially agreed to be incorporated into the bottom-level port of the [Ming Seal].

To Yue's surprise, Mount Myoboku not only showed no defense or resistance to this network port, but also demonstrated a high degree of cooperation.

The Great Toad Sage seems to be gambling on a future that can break "fate," as he transmitted the high-purity natural energy accumulated over thousands of years on Mount Myōboku via the internet in just half a month.

"Lord Yue."

Sarah pushed open the door and entered, holding a thick data report in her hand.

"The financial reports for the four major countries' three-year maternity allowance and industrial orders for this quarter have been calculated and require your routine inspection and approval. In addition, the highest-level communication meeting you scheduled is about to begin."

"Oh? Is it time yet?"

Yue stretched, stood up, straightened her white trench coat, and walked towards the communications conference room.

A moment later, inside Loulan's super-large holographic communication room.

Four beams of chakra light lit up simultaneously.

The Fourth Raikage A, the Third Tsuchikage Onoki, the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, and the recently appointed Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi.

The four Kage, who stood at the pinnacle of power in the ninja world, appeared as holographic projections, standing in front of the conference table.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Uchiha Yue sat in the main seat, smiling as he surveyed the four holographic projections before him.

His gaze lingered on the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, for a couple more seconds.

Compared to their last meeting, the Kazekage's cheeks were sunken, and his already gloomy demeanor now exuded a sense of exhaustion.

“Lord Fengying,” Yue picked up the red tea on the table, her tone tinged with concern, “it seems that you have indeed been leading by example and sparing no effort in implementing the birth policy I have issued. This spirit of sacrificing oneself for the country deserves praise, but you should also be careful to exercise restraint.”