To be honest, when standing in front of the room where the representatives of the Loulan Kingdom were temporarily resting in Dawn City, Naruto Uzumaki couldn't help but feel something similar to regret.

Although the memory that came to mind, or finally lifted the seal, showed that in the timeline that she had experienced, Queen Sara, who had been saved by herself, had died of illness due to overwork in the process of reviving the Loulan Kingdom, and the chakra knife she gave her had also been passed to her daughter, and the only intersection between herself and Queen Sara had completely ended with her return to normal time......

But somehow, when he saw Queen Sara's face that was much more mature than his own memory, but the same resolute and sunny, passed in front of him, Naruto Uzumaki's heart still had an urge to ask her what Loulan Kingdom had become next.

Compared with the history that he experienced that sealed the power of the dragon vein forever, there was neither the scenery that could revive the land of a thousand towers in the country of Loulan, nor the history of the people of Loulan who were freed from the slavery of An Lushan to live a good life again, did the Loulan country on this side have a better life?

But if you just open your mouth and ask directly, in what capacity should you speak?

After all, he wasn't the Naruto Uzumaki who really saved Loulan and saved Queen Sara, he was just a plausible person who had the same experience and the same name as him, but went to a completely different future......

Just as Naruto Uzumaki was wrangling left and right, the door to the room suddenly opened from the inside out without warning.

"Wow!?"

Looking at the finely crafted body standing in front of him, with a face decorated like his own bionic puppet when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, Naruto Uzumaki couldn't help but be startled, and instinctively wanted to step back.

But before Naruto Uzumaki could make such a move, he saw that the puppet that looked very similar to himself also showed a very vivid expression of astonishment.

"Naruto...... Monarch? Is that you, Naruto-kun? ”

Naruto Uzumaki showed a bewildered expression, and Queen Sara, who had only commanded the puppet she had made to open the door because she sensed that someone was standing outside the door of the guest room and was wandering, also stood up suddenly, with a mixture of surprise and disbelief, rushed to him in three steps and two steps, held Naruto Uzumaki's bewildered face with her hand, and looked at it carefully.

"You can't go wrong...... That's what it looks like, the Naruto-kun who suddenly came to Loulan from the other side of the dragon vein and saved Loulan is like this. ”

Listening to Queen Sarah's very bad speech, Naruto Uzumaki subconsciously wanted to push the other party away from him, but when he thought that he hadn't even been able to see her a second time after leaving Loulan, an indescribable sense of melancholy made him give up this idea that might hurt the other party, just after a sigh, he said in a low tone:

"You must have mistaken someone, Sarah."

"But you called out my name in one bite, didn't you, Naruto-kun?" Queen Sara asked softly as she let go of her hands holding Naruto Uzumaki's cheeks and stared at the other's much more mature face, as well as her pale blue eyes with rare melancholy and worry.

"It's different."

Naruto Uzumaki shook his head, and pointed to the puppet beside him who looked like he was a young man with mixed feelings, and said with a subtle expression:

"I'm another Naruto Uzumaki, and I've had the same experience as the one you know, but ...... The Queen Sara I know is not you. ”

"Another ...... Naruto Uzumaki? ”

Queen Sara furrowed her good-looking eyebrows and showed a puzzled expression:

"But you look like the Naruto-kun who went back to the past because of the rampant dragon vein chakra, when he grew up?"

“…… Seems to be? Oh no, no, I'm not him...... Is it? Isn't it? In the end, it is or is it not......"

Naruto Uzumaki, babbling gibberish, gripped his head, feeling like his brain was overloaded and overheated because he didn't know how to explain it, and was about to start to turn red.

"Oh, I see...... It's no wonder that Kaguya would hold a dawn meeting that required all the forces of the ninja world to send people to participate in it without warning, if it was because there was another person from the future who had returned to our time, it was indeed worth it for him to do so as he was already standing at the top of the ninja world. ”

A cold and slightly curious male voice came from behind Queen Sarah, and the Red Sand Scorpion, who had been tidying up his puppet in the room, walked to the entrance of the room at some point, and was looking up and down Naruto Uzumaki, whose face suddenly froze, with a very interested look.

"Teacher...... Do you already know something? ”

Queen Sara turned around and asked the Red Sand Scorpion.

"It's very simple, the Naruto Uzumaki you know should have returned to the era when Loulan was not destroyed through the power of the dragon vein, but this person in front of him is most likely like Kabaya Ren and the next head of the Hyuga family I mentioned, using the treasures of the Otsuki clan to return to our era."

The Red Sand Scorpion stepped forward and looked at Naruto Uzumaki seriously before continuing:

"In the era when Loulan was not destroyed, Kaguya Ren was still very young, and he hadn't had such a huge impact on the history of the entire ninja world, so the Naruto Uzumaki who returned to the past at that time should have traveled back to that era from the future of our world."

"But now, with Kaguya Ren already leading the ninja world to an unimagined path, Sara, the Naruto Uzumaki you know is most likely no longer there......

After all, the core problem why Naruto Uzumaki is called Naruto Uzumaki is that the four generations of Hokage Bo Feng Shuimen and his wife died together in the Nine-Tails Rebellion, and now that the two of them have survived, then the child named Naruto should be given the surname of Bo Feng. ”

"Then, what's the situation with this Naruto-kun now......"

Queen Sara and Naruto Uzumaki covered their heads together and began to fall into a dizzy, whirling dilemma.

"Didn't you say that? He is Naruto Uzumaki in another world, but there is no Kabaya Ren in that world, and what you Loulan experienced after being destroyed by An Lushan is also different from ours, and there is obviously a huge gap in the final ending...... That's why he said that the Sara he knew was not you. ”

It was rare for the Red Sand Scorpion to say so much to step out of the way, and motioned for Naruto Uzumaki to enter the room and say more, and a playful smile appeared on the indifferent face that had been transformed into a puppet:

"I don't know what you mean, but I'd love to hear you about the future that Kaguya Ren knows...... Judging from your age, it must have been a long time since you resealed Kaguya Otsuki as the Child of Prophecy, right? What happened to bring you back to our time, Naruto Uzumaki? ”

“…… Sorry, probably not yet. Naruto Uzumaki thought for a moment, shook his head and declined the invitation of the Red Sand Scorpion.

"Do you want to save the suspense for Kaguya's dawn meeting?"

The Red Sand Scorpion's tone became a lot colder at first, but soon, his tone returned to normal, and he muttered to himself:

"But Kaguya pity that guy, from the very beginning, when people were passing on the information, they said the time of the dawn meeting, even if they wanted to leave the news until that time, it couldn't be regarded as making people wait too long...... Tsk, obnoxious fellow, has you already calculated everything? ”

"That, teacher?"

Queen Sara looked at the Red Sand Scorpion who was talking to herself, and asked with some trepidation:

"Also, do you want to entertain Naruto-kun in?"

"You find a place to talk to him, and don't annoy people in front of my eyes."

The Red Sand Scorpion waved his hand indifferently, and Queen Sara's body was thrown out of the room by the Red Sand Scorpion along with her puppet, and with a dull sound of the door closing, the two puppets were locked up in the corridor of the embassy, looking at each other.

“…… The Red Sand Scorpion, is that guy actually this kind of character? ”

Looking at the closed door, Naruto Uzumaki asked in surprise as he put down Queen Sara, who had been caught by him.

"If it weren't for Mizukage-sama's suppression, probably not."

After getting along for so long, Queen Sara also knew very well what an indifferent character the Red Sand Scorpion was, she first patted her clothes, sorted out the clothes that had become a little messy because of the series of actions just now, and then danced her fingers, wrapped the Naruto puppet next to her in a bandage, and after completing this series of rectifications, she turned around and showed an embarrassed smile at Naruto Uzumaki.

"I'm sorry, but you came to visit the door, but it turned out to be a closed door......"

"It's okay, it's okay, anyway, the person I'm looking for isn't the Red Sand Scorpion......"

Naruto Uzumaki scratched his head and began to look left and right looking for a place where the two could talk, and seeing Naruto Uzumaki's uncomfortable appearance, Queen Sara shook her head helplessly, grabbed Naruto Uzumaki's bandaged right hand, and led him towards the empty, towering rooftop of the embassy.

"You look like you've grown a lot, but you don't seem to have changed much in your way of being a person, Naruto-kun."

"It's changed a lot."

Watching Queen Sara easily push open the door of the embassy's rooftop, Naruto Uzumaki followed her up to the rooftop shrouded in transparent glass, and looked up at the huge satellite fortress in the sky, and said with a sigh:

"In Kaguya's mouth, I've been criticized for being indecent......"

"It doesn't matter, does it? Anyway, for Mizukage-sama, who was born to know, it is not normal for us mortals not to make mistakes. ”

Queen Sara chuckled and leaned against the edge of the rooftop, looking back at Naruto Uzumaki with a helpless expression, "It's better to say that the people who will be seriously criticized by Mizukage-sama are basically the successor candidates he has high hopes for, and there are also the kind of change possibilities and saving value, if you become a guy who doesn't even have the value of criticism in the eyes of Mizukage-sama, it will be a terrible thing." ”

"I thought that only the ninjas on the other side of the fog would talk about things related to him in such a longing and adoring tone......"

Naruto Uzumaki looked at the sincere love and gratitude on Queen Sara's face, and couldn't help but scratch his head with some emotion, sighed and said:

"It seems that he was born to be the one who is suitable to guide the world and change the world."

"When Naruto-kun said that, did he feel that he hadn't done a good enough job?" Queen Sara blinked and threw a question at Naruto Uzumaki.

"Didn't you already see that, Sara?" Naruto Uzumaki smiled bitterly, "Just as defeating An Lushan doesn't mean that Loulan will be able to regain her life, getting everyone's recognition and becoming a Hokage doesn't mean that my dream has come to an end......"

Queen Sara didn't speak, but recalled that before she was found by the two messengers sent by Kaguya, she tried to rebuild Loulan's past glory but never made any progress, but her body began to deteriorate in the past, and gently patted Naruto Uzumaki's shoulder with a very understanding force.

"It's going to be fine...... By the way, do you want to see the current Loulan, Naruto-kun? ”

"Huh? What do you think? ”

"Just stretch your hand out and relax."

"Is that so?"

Naruto Uzumaki held out his right hand to Queen Sara with an expression of confusion.

"yes, that's fine."

Queen Sara took a deep breath and, after simply closing two seals, clenched her hand into a fist and pressed it against Naruto Uzumaki's outstretched fist.

As a result, Naruto Uzumaki's eyes went dark, and his consciousness began to fall downwards at a rapid pace.

But soon, his consciousness was lifted by a cloud floating above the golden earth, and the image of Queen Sara also appeared beside him, and pointed to the city of a thousand towers that stood again on the earth, full of people and traffic, and said with great pride:

"Behold, Naruto-kun...... This is the current Loulan. ”

Following Queen Sara's guidance, you can see a steady stream of people dressed in different styles of clothing from different countries shopping for their own goods on the streets, and the descendants of Loulan, who have regained their homes, warmly entertain every customer who comes and go, introducing them to their wares, and proudly introducing the stunning towers to first-time visitors.

And between the coming and going, groups of puppets of various colors controlled by the imperceptible chakra line are parading the streets in a neat and unified manner, which is not only a beautiful scenery as a city of a thousand towers and a city of puppets, but also a ubiquitous and reliable guard in this prosperous city, showing the strength and pride of Loulan today.

"Like...... When we first met, we looked down on the crowd below, just like we do now. ”

Naruto Uzumaki said nostalgically as he looked at the descendants of Loulan who had a genuine smile on their faces, and then at the puppets who were almost indistinguishable from real people in appearance and performed their duties on the streets.

"But this time, the cheering crowd below is no longer a puppet with a false smile."

Queen Sara also thought of the picture of herself being rescued by Naruto Uzumaki, and said with soft eyes and happiness:

"Thanks to you, Loulan was able to free herself from An Lushan's terrible ambitions."

"But Loulan has become so prosperous now, mainly thanks to the support and ideas of that Mizukage-sama, right?"

Naruto Uzumaki looked at the puppets who were obviously also controlled by the chakra line that hung down in the pipes between the thousand towers, but they were doing something completely different from the time of An Rokusan, and he had mixed feelings for a while.

"That's true."

Queen Sara looked at the tallest minaret in Loulan City and said with emotion:

"Without Mizukage-sama's persuasion, we would not have been able to make up our minds to lift the seal of the dragon vein, and similarly, without the order established by Mizukage-sama and his strength to maintain it, a puppeteer like the teacher who can exert the power of the dragon vein to the extreme will never be able to help us regain the glory of Loulan."

"Order...... And is it enough to maintain order? ”

"Naruto-kun."

"Huh?"

"Thank you for remembering me and for being willing to come and see me alone."

Queen Sara took a step back and bowed deeply to Naruto Uzumaki, who had grown up, and Naruto Uzumaki looked at Queen Sara with a sincere expression, memories and guilt uncontrollably welled up in his heart at this time, and even the tone of his voice when he opened his mouth to respond, became a little trembling.

"However, it was obviously when I saw you again that I remembered these things that happened in Loulan...... In my side of the world, not only have I not been able to provide any help to your efforts to rebuild Loulan, but even when I crossed back, Loulan was still in the ruins of a desert......"

"Because Naruto-kun's memory was sealed when he went back to your era, and Naruto-kun's era was not only far from me, but there were also more and more important things to deal with, right?"

Sara straightened up, looked at Naruto Uzumaki with clear eyes, without any blame or dissatisfaction, and responded in a gentle tone:

"I'm already satisfied to see Naruto-kun who saved Loulan again, and to see Naruto-kun grow up as a child of prophecy who saves the world...... And the way Loulan is now should be able to put Naruto-kun at ease, right? ”

"Put your mind at ease? However, it's Loulan over there......"

"It's not too late."

Sara stretched out her hand to Naruto Uzumaki, just as she had made a promise to Naruto Uzumaki, who was about to return, and said confidently and seriously:

"I believe Naruto-kun is not the kind of person who will sit idly by and ignore the problems that exist after finding a solution...... As long as Naruto-kun can help the people of Loulan there rebuild their homes after returning to his own time, there will be no more regrets in our meeting today. ”

"Neither you nor I are far from being powerless to change the status quo, and can only sigh and wait for death to make a final decision on everything we have, Naruto-kun, right?"

The more I write, the slower I get, and I don't feel that there is any other plot that can particularly arouse the enthusiasm of creation......

alas

I'm nowhere near being a full-fledged author with full control over my work.

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