Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

"Exactly one day, no more, no less."

Kisuke Urahara pushed a cup of hot tea toward Sasuke and replied with a grin, "Starting from yesterday afternoon when you and Mr. Kurosaki were carried back together."

One day...

PS: When you arrive in another world, time in the original world is stopped. The day referred to here is when Sasuke returned from Konoha while he was still unconscious. He remained unconscious for a while before waking up.

There is no such thing as a flow rate of time.

Chapter 42 Hell Butterfly

Sasuke took the cup of tea, raised his head, and stared directly at Urahara Kisuke with his eyes, which had regained their cool and aloof expression.

"During the time I was in a coma, did anything unusual happen to my body, or rather, my soul?"

Kisuke Urahara paused slightly in his fanning motion, a barely perceptible glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes.

"Abnormal? No."

He shook his head decisively, "Your spiritual pressure is very stable. Apart from some internal injuries from your clash with Gillian, everything else is normal."

"What's wrong, Sasuke-kun? Did you have a nightmare?"

Sasuke remained silent for a moment, seemingly weighing how to begin.

Ultimately, he decided to reveal some of the information.

"Just now..."

Sasuke frowned slightly. "I went to that world again."

"Oh?"

Kisuke Urahara was now truly intrigued, leaning forward slightly. "Again? While you were unconscious?"

He looked at Sasuke with great interest and added, "But Sasuke, your body has been lying here perfectly fine the whole time. This doesn't seem like the 'transmigration' I know."

Sasuke didn't explain this and continued talking to himself.

“I stayed here for a long time, but when I went back to that world, everything was exactly the same as when I left, and it seemed that time had not passed.”

"Maybe it's the same in this world, which is why you feel like I've been lying here all along."

"!!!"

Kisuke Urahara's smile vanished completely.

He stood up abruptly, his body gleaming with an almost fanatical light.

"Time hasn't passed?"

He muttered to himself, as if confirming that he hadn't misheard, "Time is relatively still in the world that was traversed, what an astonishing law!"

He strode up to Sasuke, his voice brimming with barely suppressed excitement: "Sasuke-kun, you told me last time that you went there because you heard a 'voice'."

"So how did you get through this time?"

"...I don't know." Sasuke's voice was calm.

"Huh? You don't know?" Kisuke Urahara looked somewhat surprised.

Sasuke glanced at him, took the unremarkable asagi from the wall, and placed it horizontally in front of him.

"After falling into a coma during the battle with Kylian, I woke up to find myself in that world and tried various methods to return."

"Later, I unexpectedly tried to perform 'blade Zen' on this knife."

He paused, recalling the scene, "Then, I entered a blood-red world and saw the source of that voice from last time."

"After my conversation with it ended, my inner world began to crumble, and then I came back."

"I see......"

Urahara paced slowly, rapidly connecting all the clues in his mind.

From this perspective, the key to time travel is probably the Hollow inside Sasuke's body.

Thinking of this, Kisuke Urahara stopped pacing.

He slowly raised his head, but did not offer his analysis and deductions as Sasuke had expected.

He simply closed the fan abruptly and then looked out the window.

"What beautiful black butterflies."

Sasuke frowned slightly and followed Urahara Kisuke's gaze to look out the window.

I didn't see any butterflies, only the slightly glaring sunlight and pedestrians on the street.

What riddle is this man playing now?

Kisuke Urahara offered no explanation and walked to the shop entrance on his own.

Sasuke's eyes turned cold.

Without hesitation, he followed her out.

Outside the Urahara store, a completely black cat was crouching in the shadow of the store's eaves, seemingly dozing off.

"Oh, Yoruichi-san."

Kisuke Urahara's voice was languid, with a hint of teasing, "The weather's so nice today, are you out enjoying the sun and scenery too?"

"You don't need to pretend to be so relaxed anymore, Kisuke."

The black cat slowly opened its golden eyes, its voice low and deep, "You know, they've already arrived."

No sooner had Yoruichi finished speaking than Sasuke appeared beside her.

"them?"

A hint of doubt flashed in Sasuke's eyes, but he immediately realized what was going on.

Yoruichi refers to the pursuers sent by Soul Society to capture Rukia Kuchiki.

After all, Rukia relinquished her Shinigami powers to humanity and remained in the human world for so long; it's impossible that the Seireitei wouldn't react.

Sasuke wasn't surprised, and simply asked, "When?"

"If things go quickly, it might happen tonight."

......

Karakura Town First High School.

Rukia Kuchiki stood by the window, her gaze unconsciously drifting towards the outside.

On the playground, physical education class has just ended.

Kurosaki Ichigo was walking towards the school building with several classmates, his arms around their shoulders, a cheerful smile on his face, as if he had completely recovered from yesterday's battle.

Rukia became somewhat heavy-hearted.

Ichigo Kurosaki...

The information that a Hollow appeared and was then repelled has probably already reached the Soul Society.

And that damned Uchiha brat...

Rukia felt a surge of anger just thinking about that guy.

Despite being comrades-in-arms, they always act superior and say things that can drive you crazy.

But ironically, in the most dangerous moment, he was the first to step in and shield her...

What an incomprehensible bastard.

"Ring ring—"

The school bell rang, interrupting Rukia's thoughts.

Ichigo casually pulled out a chair, sat down, tossed his textbook onto the table, and yawned.

Just then, the classroom door was gently pushed open.

A familiar figure appeared at the doorway.

It's Ishida Uryu.

His hands were wrapped in thick bandages, his face was a little pale, he pushed up his glasses and walked straight back to his seat.

Kurosaki Ichigo looked at him with some concern in his eyes.

"Don't worry about it too much, it's not your fault."

Rukia, sitting next to Ichigo, suddenly reminded him, "He brought this on himself."

Ichigo Kurosaki awkwardly turned his head away: "I...I didn't. His injuries aren't enough to make me worry about him."

Rukia stared at Ichigo, her voice tinged with amusement: "Who said they were worried? I just said don't worry about it."

Ichigo Kurosaki clenched his fist: "You bastard..."

Rukia smiled at Ichigo, then suddenly noticed a strange black butterfly flying past the window, and her expression suddenly became somewhat complicated.

.......

It was dusk long after school had ended, outside Ichigo Kurosaki's house.

Hun struggled to climb onto the second-floor windowsill and peered inside cautiously.

In the room, Rukia was sitting at her desk, looking serious, her pen moving quickly across the paper as if she were writing something important.

"Boss!"

Soul performed a beautiful backflip and landed steadily on Rukia's desk, hands on his hips, striking what he considered his coolest pose.

"I, your humble servant, am leaving for a while to find my true love! Don't miss me too much, although I know it's going to be difficult, hahaha..."

He was lost in his own fantasy when, out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently caught sight of the paper Rukia had drawn.

【message......】

Soul's laughter abruptly stopped.

"Leave a... message?!"