Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

"Lord Tobirama, please don't be nervous. We've just come to see our seriously injured 'comrades.'" Uchiha Tsuki was completely unconcerned about Tobirama's killing intent. Instead, he turned to Hashirama and said, "Clan Head Hashirama, thank you for your miraculous medical skills. Without you, my two friends would probably not have survived."

"Haha, doctors are compassionate! Besides, you represent the voice of peace within the Uchiha clan!" Hashirama waved his hand heartily, then looked at Minato with some curiosity, "However, your friend Minato called me 'First Hokage' as soon as he woke up, which is a strange title."

Minato opened his mouth, about to ask something.

In that split second, his gaze passed over Hashirama Senju's broad shoulders and landed on Uchiha Tsuki standing behind him.

He gave him a barely perceptible shake of his head, then blinked twice rapidly and rhythmically, his eyes conveying an extremely clear warning and implication.

As the Fourth Hokage, known for his exceptional intelligence and high emotional intelligence, Minato Namikaze's brain completed a frantic process in a fraction of a second.

The living, young Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju;

Rough canvas tents and ancient layered armor;

And Uchiha Tsuki, who severed the Shinigami contract on the night of the Nine-Tails' death and brought them here.

This is all so strange.

Minato forcibly suppressed his endless worries about Naruto and Konoha. His face, which had been tense with shock, instantly relaxed. He gave a bitter laugh, reached out and rubbed his temples, pretending to be weak and suffering from a splitting headache after recovering from a serious injury.

"I'm sorry... Lord Hashirama."

Minato's voice was hoarse, tinged with confusion and lingering fear. "My mind is still a complete mess. I just had a terrible nightmare about our clan's deceased 'first elder'... When I saw you on the verge of death, I thought the elder had come to guide me. I misspoke, please forgive me."

Chapter 50 Is this the past?

"Hahaha! So that's how it is!"

Hashirama Senju, unsuspecting, patted his thigh casually. "After suffering such a severe penetrating wound, even my soul was almost unstable. It's perfectly normal to be a little disoriented when I wake up! Don't worry about it!"

"Brother, one should always be wary of others."

Tobirama Senju was not so easily fooled.

He crossed his arms, his azure eyes like cold blades, scanning back and forth between Minato, Kushina, and Uchiha Tsuki.

"How could an unknown person possess such tenacious vitality, and this Uzumaki clan member with genuine red hair... Uchiha Tsuki, how did you manage to save these two extraordinary people with just a single move?"

"Lord Tobirama is too kind."

Uchiha Yue remained calm and took over the conversation in a flat tone, "In chaotic times, everyone has some skills."

Minato felt his wife trembling beside him and immediately gripped Kushina's hand tightly under the covers.

Kushina was also in a state of turmoil. Her mind was filled with thoughts of the newborn Naruto, but as an excellent ninja, she swallowed the question that was about to come out of her mouth because she felt the immense power and hint coming from her husband's palm.

"My child... my poor child..."

Kushina buried her head in Minato's arms and burst into tears.

This was not entirely acting. As a mother who had just been separated from her newborn child, her grief was real and extremely moving.

"Oh dear, this..."

Hashirama Senju couldn't bear to see such tragic scenes of life and death, and he was immediately at a loss, with deep sympathy welling up in his eyes.

Mito Uzumaki stepped forward, gently sat down on the edge of the bed, and softly patted Kushina's back.

Sharing the same bloodline of the Uzumaki clan, Mito felt an innate sense of closeness and pity for this red-haired girl with a tragic fate.

"Good child, don't cry. War has taken away so much from us, but as long as we are alive, there is still hope," Mito comforted softly. "This is the Senju clan's territory. No one can hurt you anymore. Take good care of your wounds."

"Thank you so much, Mito-sama," Kushina replied, her voice choked with emotion.

"Alright, now that they're awake, let them get some rest."

Hashirama sighed, abandoning his usual carefree demeanor, and turned to look at Uchiha Tsuki and Minato.

"You two can stay here in peace. Yue, I'm very interested in your suggestion to 'end the chaos and establish a ninja village.' Once your two friends are feeling better, let's find some time to sit down and have a good drink and discuss it in detail!"

"It would be an honor, Clan Head Hashirama." Yue nodded slightly. "Furthermore, I would like to have a private talk with my friend. I wonder if Lord Tobirama would agree?"

"Hmph." Tobirama snorted coldly, said nothing more, and turned to follow Hashirama and Mito out of the intensive care tent.

As the tent flap was pulled down heavily, the footsteps outside gradually faded into the distance.

The air inside the tent froze completely in that instant.

Once outside the tent, confirming that Tobirama had gone far away and left no means of gathering intelligence, Hikaru silently walked to the tent entrance, drew his short sword, and skillfully set up a small warning barrier and soundproof barrier, completely isolating himself from external perception.

As for why Tobirama didn't leave behind any means of gathering intelligence?

Presumably because Hashirama was nearby, Tobirama behaved himself and didn't do anything suspicious.

That's good, it saves Tokizuki from having to rack her brains to explain to Tobirama.

Of course, to ensure stability, he still used the Mirror Flower Water Moon and the Yin Release technique, directly covering the entire area with an illusion, completely avoiding any means of eavesdropping.

Once the intelligence was confirmed to be safe, Minato Namikaze's weakness and confusion vanished instantly.

He slowly sat up straight, and the wisdom of the Fourth Hokage burst forth in his deep blue eyes.

He stared intently at Uchiha Tsuki not far away, lowered his voice, and said, word by word:

"Uchiha Tsuki, isn't it time to give me a reasonable explanation?"

Minato looked around at the ancient furnishings and said through gritted teeth, "Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Mito Uzumaki... and what you said earlier, if I'm not mistaken, we've arrived in the era before Konoha was founded?"

Kushina wiped away her tears, and despite her still weakness, she forced herself to sit up, her eyes filled with wariness and anxiety: "Where's Naruto?! You brought us here, what will happen to our Naruto?!"

Faced with the Hokage couple on the verge of going berserk, Uchiha Tsukuyomi casually pulled over a wooden chair and sat down.

"Minato, do you remember our first encounter in Loulan?"

Fortunately, foreshadowing had been laid beforehand, preventing Minato from losing his memory; otherwise, he would have had to spend countless hours trying to persuade him.

"Dragon veins... So, the centipede of yesteryear traveled from the future to the past, and now, you've used the power of the dragon veins to take us to an even more distant past, the Warring States period."

As the Yellow Flash, Minato's logical reasoning ability was terrifying; he could instantly reconstruct the truth with just one word.

"As expected of the Fourth Hokage, it's so much easier to talk to smart people."

“That’s right. This is a year or two before Konoha was founded. The current Hashirama Senju is still alive, and the chaos has not yet been quelled. This is a truly ‘historical’ era for you.”

"why?"

Kushina gripped the bedsheet tightly, her knuckles turning white. "Why did you save us?"

"Save you? No, I'm just conducting an experiment."

Yue chuckled softly, leaning forward slightly, her eyes gleaming with rationality.

"In the original 'destiny,' you two had to die on the night of the Nine-Tails' death to seal the Nine-Tails and make Naruto the Jinchūriki of this generation. This was the written ending."

"And I want to verify whether you can live in another time and space."

"In this world, the dead are not allowed to be resurrected unless... you disappear from the 'register' of that world."

"And looking at the results now, the experiment was a success."

Minato understood.

He remained silent for a long time. As the Hokage, he had come into contact with many secrets that ordinary people could not understand.

He had personally experienced the spacetime correction properties of the dragon vein in Loulan.

“So…” Minato’s voice was hoarse, “in the timeline of Konoha 51, we were already 'dead'?”

"Completely dead."

"The future will probably be that the Third Hokage has returned to take charge, Naruto has become the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and although he has become an orphan, at least his life is not in danger. As for you, your names have been engraved on the memorial stone, and you have become heroes who protected the village."

"orphan……"

Don't be so desperate.

Yue stood up, walked to their bedside, and looked down at them.

“You are ‘unregistered’ in this era, you are spirits who should have died. The will of the other world has no jurisdiction over this place, so I can use Yin Release to lock your souls and let Hashirama Senju use Yang Release to repair your bodies.”

Yue extended a finger and pointed it at Minato.

"I can give you a promise."

"Use your strength to assist me, help me test some things..."

"Wait until the time is right..."

The moon's eyes were full of temptation:

"I will open the portal of time and space again and take you back..."

Chapter 51 This Uchiha is intelligent

After calming Minato and his wife down, Uchiha Tsuki walked out of the intensive care tent alone.

Night had fallen, and most of the Senju clan members in the camp had gone to rest, except for the patrolling sentries.

Instead of returning to her dilapidated tent where she was "confined," Yue strolled leisurely along a stream at the edge of the camp.

He wanted to take a good look at the Senju clan's territory and see how it differed from the filthy Uchiha clan's territory.

Although Tobirama Senju restricted his area of ​​activity, he was happy to breathe in the forest full of natural energy as long as he didn't touch the core barrier.

"laugh-!"

Suddenly, a sharp, high-frequency cutting sound, as if the air itself could be torn apart, came from a hidden spot upstream of the stream.

Accompanying this was an extremely restrained yet chilling chakra fluctuation.

The moon stopped, its remaining right eye slightly narrowed.

He silently concealed his presence and, using the shade of the tree canopy, approached the source of the sound.

Under the moonlight, at the end of the stream was an open space.

Tobirama Senju was standing in knee-deep stream water, his hands forming hand seals in an extremely slow and awkward manner.

"Water Escape..."

Tobirama took a deep breath, his chest bulging, and then exhaled sharply forward.

A very thin jet of high-pressure water shot out from his mouth, instantly slicing a boulder in front of him in two!