Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

"Hey......"

Renji's voice was a little hoarse as he looked at Sasuke and his calm eyes.

He lowered his head deeply.

"Thank you."

Sasuke did not respond.

He slowly raised his head, gazing up at the closing crack in the sky and the three blurry figures.

Anomalies have struck once again.

A golden beam of light, identical to the previous three, descended again without warning from the closing crack.

It precisely enveloped Sasuke.

"what?!"

Everyone present wore expressions of shock.

"Sasuke?!"

Yoruichi's voice suddenly became sharp at that moment, and almost the instant the pillar of light fell, she transformed into a purple afterimage and rushed towards the center of the pillar of light.

However, before her fingertips could even touch Sasuke's clothes, she was forcefully repelled by a sticky force.

"Hey kid, what are you doing?!"

Yoruichi forcibly steadied herself in mid-air and landed on the ruins. Her cat-like eyes were fixed on the calm figure in the pillar of light, and her voice was filled with anxiety that she herself did not realize.

Why should we go with him?!

"Why would you think I'm 'going with him'?" Sasuke's voice was flat, devoid of emotion.

He denied this claim, stopped looking at Yoruichi, and calmly gazed at Aizen's figure in the pillar of light.

Yoruichi's breath hitched.

No... go with him?

So what does this mean?

Before Yoruichi could sort out her thoughts, Sasuke's voice rang out again.

"Yoruichi, which do you think can see farther, a caged bird or an eagle outside the cage?"

This question left Yoruichi stunned.

Sasuke slowly turned his head, his dark eyes looking at her intently for the first time through the golden light barrier.

"The sky here is too low."

"So low that even an eagle like you, who should be soaring in the sky, can only argue endlessly on this small piece of land."

He took one last look at the crack that was slowly rising in the light and about to close, and a barely perceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Aizen said he would stand in the heavens.

"Perfect timing, I was just thinking of checking that out too."

Sasuke slowly raised his hand, as if trying to grasp the light descending from the sky within the golden pillar of light, "to confirm this so-called 'god'..."

"Do they really have the right to sit in the heavens?"

The moment the words were spoken, a burst of golden light shone brightly.

Sasuke Uchiha's figure was completely engulfed by the pillar of light, slowly rising, and finally disappearing into the dark rift leading to Hueco Mundo.

Only Yoruichi Shihouin remained, standing there blankly, gazing up at the sky that had returned to its gloomy state.

.........

A moment later, Sasuke felt the solid ground beneath his feet.

He slowly opened his eyes, but the boundless yellow sand and endless night that he had expected to represent Hueco Mundo did not appear.

Sasuke looked around. The familiar wooden architecture, the rows of shop signs, the faint outline of the training ground at the end of the street...

Without a doubt, this is Konoha.

He's back...

Sasuke frowned deeply, a strong sense of unease welling up inside him.

He looked down at himself; his two Zanpakuto were still hanging quietly at his waist, and he was still wearing the slightly damaged Shinigami uniform he had worn after his battle with Byakuya.

But physically, he was in the form of a fifteen-year-old; apart from that, everything seemed fine.

But why...?

Why does this place, Konoha, which he has lived in for more than ten years and knows to the bone, now give him a strange sense of unfamiliarity?

The layout of the streets seemed slightly different, and some shops he had never seen before appeared in the locations he remembered.

Is it an illusion?

Sasuke's Sharingan quietly activated, but everything he saw was incredibly real, and the flow of chakra was perfectly normal.

Just as he was deep in thought, a whirlwind of yellow figures suddenly rushed out from around the corner in front of him.

He was a boy who looked to be around twelve years old, with short blond hair that shone brightly in the sunlight, and he was wearing a stylish black coat.

While turning around and loudly complaining to those behind him, he didn't notice Sasuke in front of him at all and just crashed straight into him.

After a muffled thud, the blond boy felt as if he had bumped into a wall and, caught off guard, landed hard on his backside.

"it hurts!"

The blond boy rubbed his butt, his face instantly filled with displeasure. He suddenly raised his head and shouted angrily at Sasuke, "Hey! Can't you watch where you're going?!"

Sasuke merely glanced at him coldly and said nothing.

Just then, another figure emerged from around the corner, right behind them.

It was a girl with black hair and black eyes, wearing a pair of striking red glasses. Her expression changed when she saw the scene before her.

"Honestly! I told you not to run so fast!"

The girl quickly stepped forward, grabbed the head of the blond boy who was about to continue complaining, and pressed him down forcefully, while she herself bowed deeply.

"I'm so sorry! This guy was too reckless and caused you trouble!"

The voice was clear and crisp, full of apology.

Sasuke shifted his gaze from the blond boy to the black-haired girl, his brow furrowing almost imperceptibly.

For some reason, he felt a strange sense of familiarity with this girl.

Just as the girl raised her head to apologize again, her voice suddenly stopped. Her black eyes, hidden behind her glasses, widened abruptly the moment she saw Sasuke's face.

She stared blankly at Sasuke, her breath seemingly caught in her throat.

After a long while, those bloodless lips trembled slightly.

From deep in his throat, he squeezed out a name that was almost incoherent.

"...To-To-san?!"

Chapter 118 You are not me! My future can never be like this.

"...To-To-san?!"

dad? !

The moment those words were uttered, Sasuke froze on the spot, a long-lost look of bewilderment appearing in his eyes.

Before he could think any further, the blond boy next to him clutched his stomach and burst into laughter.

"Pfft—Hahahaha!"

He pointed at the black-haired girl, tears welling up in his eyes as he laughed, "Sarana! Are you out of your mind?!"

"This guy looks only a few years older than us, why do you call him 'Dorsan'?! Did you get your head stuck in a door?!"

"Shut up! You idiot Boruto!" The girl called "Sarana" blushed instantly.

She turned around abruptly and delivered a merciless punch to Boruto's head.

"boom!"

Boruto's laughter stopped abruptly, a large bump bulged on his head at a visible speed, and he saw stars.

Sarada ignored him and turned back to stare intently at Sasuke, her mind in turmoil.

"It can't be wrong..."

She said to herself, "My father looked exactly like this when he was young in that slightly yellowed family photo."

The problem is... the spirited young man in front of me and the always taciturn figure are completely different people.

Is it a transformation spell? Or some other kind of illusion?

"Dear father..."

Sasuke murmured the word to himself, looking at the girl in front of him who wore glasses and had the Uchiha clan crest on her body, his mind still a mess.

He suddenly looked up and around, finally discovering the source of that intense sense of unease.

The familiar Fire Shadow Rock in the distance now has three more portraits on it.

He didn't recognize the fifth one, and the sixth one...

Sasuke's pupils contracted sharply the moment he saw that face.

It's Kakashi?!

That lazybones actually became Hokage?!

Then, his gaze slowly shifted to the last face, which also seemed strangely familiar.

"..."

Sasuke lowered his head blankly, looking at the girl in front of him.

The girl with glasses had just referred to herself as...father in a confident tone.