MM Racing Page 118
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"Sa...Sasuke?!"
Naruto called out in confusion.
He looked at that familiar yet utterly unfamiliar face, that mature and aloof demeanor.
That Sharingan, which I'd never seen before and which exuded a terrifying aura...
My brain didn't catch up for a moment.
Sasuke ignored Naruto's shock.
His gaze shifted to the bottom of the pit.
Boruto was covered in black mud, looking like a drowned rat just pulled out of a mud pit.
He sat at the bottom of the pit in a disheveled state, coughing violently and spitting out the muddy water he had swallowed.
Although the devastating lightning release just now saved him, the impact of the close-range explosion still took its toll.
He looked up and saw the familiar figure at the edge of the pit. It was as if he had seen a savior. He let out a long, relieved sigh of relief.
"Sasuke-san! You've finally arrived! If you hadn't come, you could have been collecting my corpse!"
Boruto looked visibly shaken and aggrieved as he made his accusation.
"Mr. Sasuke?"
Naruto was even more confused when he heard this address.
He looked at Sasuke, who was unbelievably mature.
Then he looked at the disheveled blond boy at the bottom of the pit, who called himself Boruto and looked almost exactly like him.
Finally, his gaze was fixed on Sasuke's face, a face that was both familiar and utterly unfamiliar.
Countless huge question marks, like boiling bubbles, exploded wildly in his chaotic mind:
What happened to Sasuke?
How could he know this imposter?
What did he just call me?
Did he almost call me "Dad" just now?! And that eye...
What exactly is that? !
"Hey! Sasuke! What on earth is going on?!"
Naruto pointed at Boruto at the bottom of the pit and at the edge of the pit where Sasuke was an adult.
His voice rose to a crack due to confusion, urgency, and a hint of anger at being "betrayed" by his best friend.
"Who is this guy who looks like me?! And you... what happened to you?! What happened to your eyes?! You call him Boruto?! Why are you helping him?! He injured our mission target!"
The adult Sasuke looked at his blond best friend (the younger version), who had a volatile expression, eyes full of question marks, and was brimming with youthful spirit.
A complex and indescribable emotion flickered in that deep, eternal kaleidoscope Sharingan.
There's a longing for the carefree days of youth, and a sense of helplessness at the impulsiveness of this fool in front of me.
There was even a barely perceptible trace, buried deep within...
The warmth of friendship.
He remained silent for a few seconds, seemingly considering how to explain this chaotic time-space paradox to his "younger" self.
Finally, he spoke slowly in a calm tone, with a familiar undertone that said, "As expected, you're still as noisy as ever after all these years":
"Below the leader, be quiet. Things are much more complicated than you think."
He paused, his gaze sweeping over Boruto, who was struggling to climb out of the pit, before the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan gradually shut down.
Finally, all eyes fell back on Naruto:
"That troublesome brat..."
Sasuke's lips seemed to twitch slightly upwards, as if he were smiling, or as if he were bearing some unspeakable burden of destiny.
He raised his hand, pointing to the mud-covered, blond-haired, blue-eyed boy in the deep pit, and with a strange power, declared clearly, word by word:
"His name is Boruto Uzumaki."
Sasuke's gaze fell on Naruto's face again, and the purple ripples in his Rinnegan seemed to deepen.
"he is……"
"—Your future son."
These words were like a Tailed Beast Ball exploding in Naruto's mind!
All the doubts, anger, and shock were shattered by those few words at that moment!
He stood frozen in place as if under a spell, his blue eyes wide open and his mouth agape as if it could fit an egg.
My mind went blank, with only those six words echoing repeatedly: the son of the future... the son of the future... the son of the future?!
Meanwhile, the deepest sealed space within Naruto's body.
Absolute, deathly silence.
On the vast surface of the water, Naruto's completely petrified and foolish appearance was reflected, as well as Sasuke's calm yet earth-shattering announcement.
Minato Namikaze's anxiety and worry froze instantly, turning into utter bewilderment and blankness.
He opened his mouth as if to say something, but no sound came out, like a fish out of water.
My future...son? Naruto's? Isn't that my grandson?
The Nine-Tails' enormous, mocking face froze completely.
His golden vertical pupils were wide open, and his mouth remained half-open.
It forgot to retract its fangs, and its huge body seemed to be frozen by an invisible force, even the tip of its tail was stiff and motionless.
Just now it was mocking Old Spot's wild ideas... Son? Really a son?!
Only Uchiha Madara, seated atop the Nine-Tails' head, possessed the crimson Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
That knowing and arrogant air of having foreseen everything, and of having complete control over the situation, rippled clearly like a stone thrown into a calm lake.
He didn't even look at the shocked Minato and the stunned Kurama; he simply raised his chin slightly.
A deep voice, carrying a hint of "I knew it would turn out this way" with a touch of sardonic mockery, broke the suffocating silence of the sealed space:
"Hmph. What did I say?"
His gaze seemed to pierce through the barrier of space, landing precisely on the petrified blond boy (Naruto) outside.
"The resonance of bloodlines, the shared origin of chakra, and..."
Ban's lips curled into a meaningful smile: "...The boy couldn't hide his dependence and grievance when he looked at his 'father'."
"Wasn't the answer already written on their faces?"
The sealed space remained deathly silent.
But this silence was filled with a shocking and mind-blowing storm.
And... an unbelievable shock at the terrifying insight into a certain ancient relic.
The nine-tailed fox's enormous head turned, extremely stiffly and very slowly, toward the proud figure above it.
For the first time, his golden vertical pupils were filled with a kind of blankness, a sense of bewilderment as if his worldview had been shaken.
It opened its mouth, and a dry, hesitant, almost dreamlike syllable came out of its throat:
"...Old...Old Spotted Head...you...guessed?"
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"he is……"
"—Your future son."
The adult Sasuke's deep and clear declaration was like a bombshell dropped into the frozen air.
Naruto felt as if his brain had been blasted by an explosive tag, leaving it blank and buzzing.
He stood frozen in place, his blue eyes wide open, his mouth unconsciously agape as if it could fit an egg.
All the doubts, anger, and shock were shattered by these few words at that moment.
Only that thunderous echo remained, reverberating repeatedly within the skull: the future son... the future son... the future son?!
He mechanically turned his stiff neck, his gaze like a rusty gear, slowly and laboriously moving toward the blond boy who had just crawled out of the mud pit, covered in charred mud, and coughing violently.
The contours of her eyebrows and eyes...
That familiar blonde hair and blue eyes...
Aside from being younger and more naive, he's less silly and more impatient.
It's...it's like we're cut from the same mold!
An indescribable current, a mixture of utter absurdity and a strange sense of familiarity, instantly coursed through Naruto's body.
It sent chills down his spine and made his hair stand on end.
This feels so weird! Even weirder than when I first met the Nine-Tailed Fox!
"Uncle Sasuke!!"
A furious scream shattered the eerie silence.
Boruto finally managed to cough up the muddy water he'd choked on, his face flushed red. Ignoring his disheveled state, he went to the adult Sasuke and whispered, "You...how could you just blurt that out?! Weren't we supposed to keep it a secret?! Is it really okay to just tell Dad everything like this?! What about the time paradox?! What if we can't go back?!"
He looked very worried.
Is my future identity just going to be revealed like this?
Even when my dad was a teenager, it was completely "beyond the curriculum"!
That’s not how the script was written!
The adult Sasuke's deep eyes calmly swept over Boruto.