16 years old, fourth generation Mizukage

Chapter 316
To be honest, Naruto Uzumaki couldn't help feeling regretful when he stood in front of the room where the representatives of the Loulan Kingdom temporarily rested in the City of Akatsuki.

Although the memory that emerged in my mind, or finally lifted the seal, shows that in the timeline I have experienced, Queen Sara, who was rescued by myself, has been due to hard work in the process of restoring the Loulan Kingdom. Cheng died, and the chakra knife I gave her was also passed on to her daughter. The only period of intersection between herself and Queen Sara has completely ended with her return to normal time...

But for some reason, when he saw Queen Sarah's face, which was much more mature than he remembered, but also resolute and sunny, passing by, Naruto's heart still had something to do with it. An urge to ask her what the future of Loulan Kingdom will look like.

Compared with the period of history that sealed the power of the dragon veins forever, there is no way to revive the scenery of Loulan Kingdom, which was once a country of a thousand towers, nor can the people of Loulan who got rid of the enslavement of Anlu Mountain live a new life. With the history of a good life in the past, has the Loulan Kingdom on this side lived a better life?
But if you just open your mouth and ask directly, what kind of identity should you ask?

After all, I didn't really save Loulan, the Uzumaki Naruto who saved Queen Sara, but a specious person who had the same experience and the same name as him, but walked towards a completely different future...

Just when Naruto Uzumaki was struggling left and right, the door of the room was suddenly opened from the inside to the outside without warning.

"Wow!?"

Looking at the finely crafted puppet standing in front of him, with facial decorations that resembled his own bionic puppet when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, Uzumaki Naruto couldn't help being startled, and instinctively wanted to back away.

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

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

Uzumaki Naruto showed a bewildered expression, and Queen Sara, who originally only ordered the puppet she made to open the door because she sensed that someone was lingering outside the guest room door, also stood up suddenly. With a mixed expression of surprise and disbelief, he rushed to him in three steps at a time, held Naruto Uzumaki's bewildered face with his hands, and looked at him carefully.

"It can't be wrong... that's how it looks like, the Naruto-kun who came to Loulan suddenly from the other side of the dragon's vein and saved Loulan, that's how it looks."

Hearing Queen Sara's inauspicious speech, Uzumaki Naruto subconsciously wanted to push her away from him, but when he thought that after he left Loulan, he would not even be able to see her again , an indescribable sense of melancholy made him give up the idea that he might hurt the other party, and after a sigh, he said in a low tone:
"You must have misunderstood the person, Sara."

"But you called out my name right away, didn't you, Naruto-kun?" Queen Sara let go of her hands holding Naruto Uzumaki's cheek, staring at his mature face, and the rare With melancholy and thoughtful light blue eyes, he asked softly.

"Different."

Naruto Uzumaki shook his head, pointed to the puppet next to him who looked like himself when he was young with complicated emotions, and said with a subtle expression:
"I am another Uzumaki Naruto. Although I have had the same experience as the Uzumaki Naruto you know, but... the Queen Sara I know is not you."

"Another... Uzumaki Naruto?"

Queen Sara frowned her pretty eyebrows, showing a puzzled expression:
"But you look like that Naruto-kun who returned to the past because of the dragon chakra's rampage when he grew up?"

"...It seems to be? Oh, no, no, I'm not him...Is it? Isn't it? Is it or not..."

Naruto Uzumaki, who was babbling nonsense, grabbed his head, feeling that his brain was overloaded and overheated because he didn't know how to explain this matter, and it was about to turn red.

"Hey, that's how it is... No wonder Kaguya Lian would hold such a dawn meeting without warning that all the forces in the Ninja world should send people to attend. If it's because another person from the future has returned to our time , it is really worth it for him who has already stood at the top of the ninja world to do so."

A male voice with a hint of indifference and curiosity came from behind Queen Sara. The Red Sand Scorpion, who was arranging his puppets in the room, walked to the entrance of the room at some point, with a very interested look, He looked up and down at Naruto Uzumaki whose expression froze suddenly.

"Teacher...do you already know anything?"

Queen Sara turned around and asked the Scarlet Sand Scorpion.

"It's very simple. The Uzumaki Naruto you know should have returned to the era before Loulan was destroyed through the power of the dragon's veins, but the person in front of you is most likely the Hinata family that Kaguya Rei and I mentioned. Like the next head of the family, he used the treasures of the Otsutsuki clan to return to our time."

The Scarlet Sand Scorpion stepped forward, looked at Uzumaki Naruto seriously, and then continued:

"In the era when Loulan hadn't been destroyed, Kaguya Lian was still very young and hadn't had such a huge impact on the history of the entire ninja world, so the Uzumaki Naruto who went back to the past at that time should be from us. The future of the world travels back to that era."

"But now, under the circumstance that Kaguya Rei has led the ninja world to an unimagined path, the Uzumaki Naruto you knew, Sara, has a high probability that it no longer exists...

After all, the reason why Uzumaki Naruto is called Uzumaki Naruto is that the core problem is that the four generations of Hokage Namikaze Minato and his wife died together in the Nine-Tails Rebellion, and now that they both survived, then the child named Naruto , no matter what, it should be named as Bo Feng's surname. "

"Then, what's going on with this Naruto-kun now..."

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

"Didn't you say that? He is Uzumaki Naruto from another world, but there is no Kaguya Lian in that world. What you Loulan experienced after being destroyed by Anlu Mountain is also different from ours. In the end, There is obviously a huge gap in the ending... That's why he said that the Sarah he knew was not you."

It is rare for the Red Sand Scorpion who has said so much to step aside, motioning for Uzumaki Naruto to enter the room to elaborate, on the indifferent face that has been transformed into a puppet, there is also a touch of playfulness in a very humane way smile:
"I don't know why you came here, but I really want to hear you talk about the future that Rei Kaguya knows... Judging from your age, since you re-seal Otsutsuki Kaguya as the son of prophecy, It must have been a long time, right? What happened to bring you back to our time, Uzumaki Naruto?"

"...Sorry, probably, it's not time to say it yet." Uzumaki Naruto thought for a while, then shook his head and rejected the Red Sand Scorpion's invitation.

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

The tone of the Scarlet Sand Scorpion became a lot colder at first, but soon, his tone returned to normal, muttering to himself:

"However, that guy Kaguya Lian, from the very beginning when people were passing on the information, he agreed on the time of the dawn meeting, even if he wanted to save the news until then, it wouldn't be considered as making people wait... Tsk, You annoying guy, have you already calculated everything?"

"That, teacher?"

Queen Sara looked at the Red Sand Scorpion who was talking to herself, and asked tremblingly:
"Also, do you want to invite Naruto-kun in?"

"You and him find a place to talk, don't be annoying in front of me."

The Red Sand Scorpion waved his hand indifferently, and Queen Sarah's body was thrown out of the room together with her puppet by the Red Sand Scorpion. Accompanied by a dull sound of closing the door, the two of them were locked together like this. In the corridor of the embassy, ​​they looked at each other.

"...The Red Sand Scorpion, does he actually have this kind of personality?"

Looking at the closed door, Uzumaki Naruto put down Queen Sara who was caught by him, and asked in surprise.

"If Master Mizukage hadn't suppressed it, probably not."

After getting along for so long, Queen Sara knew exactly how indifferent the Red Sand Scorpion was. She first patted on her clothes, and tidied up the clothes that had become a little messy due to the series of actions just now. Then she danced her fingers and wrapped the Naruto puppet beside her with a bandage. After finishing this series of rectifications, she turned around and showed an embarrassed smile at Uzumaki Naruto.

"I'm sorry, you're a visitor, but you've been turned away..."

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

Uzumaki Naruto scratched his head, and began to look around looking for a place where the two of them could talk. Seeing Uzumaki Naruto's uncomfortable appearance, Queen Sara shook her head helplessly and pulled him back. Naruto Uzumaki's bandaged right hand, leading him towards the empty, towering rooftop of the embassy.

"Although you seem to have grown up a lot, your style of dealing with people doesn't seem to have changed much, Naruto-kun."

"A lot has changed."

Watching Queen Sara push open the door of the embassy's rooftop with ease, Uzumaki Naruto followed her up to the rooftop covered by transparent glass, looked up at the huge satellite fortress in the sky, and sighed Qi said:
"In the mouth of that guy Kaguya Rei, I have been criticized to the point where I am..."

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

Queen Sara smiled lightly and leaned on the edge of the roof, looking back at Naruto Uzumaki with a helpless expression, "It's better to say that the people who will be seriously criticized by Master Mizukage are basically the successors whom he places high hopes on." Candidates, as well as those with the possibility of change and the value of saving, if they become a guy who has no value for criticism in the eyes of Mizukage-sama, that would be a terrible thing."

"I thought that only the ninjas at Kirigakure would talk about him in such a tone of longing and admiration..."

Uzumaki Naruto looked at the sincere love and gratitude on Queen Sarah's face, and couldn't help scratching his head with some emotion, and said with a sigh:
"It seems that he is born to lead the world and change the world."

"When Naruto-kun said that, did he feel that he was not doing well enough?" Queen Sara blinked and asked Naruto Uzumaki a question.

"Didn't you already see it, Sara?" Uzumaki Naruto smiled bitterly, "Just like defeating Anlu Mountain doesn't mean that Loulan will be able to regain a new life, and getting everyone's approval to become Hokage doesn't mean that Loulan will be born again." It means that my dream has come to an end..."

Queen Sara didn't speak, but just recalled that before being found by the two envoys sent by Kaguya Lian, she tried hard to rebuild Loulan's past glory but there was no progress. Instead, her body began to deteriorate. He patted Naruto Uzumaki on the shoulder very understandingly.

"It will get better... By the way, do you want to see Loulan now, Naruto-kun?"

"Eh? What do you think?"

"Put your hand out and just relax."

"Is that so?"

Naruto Uzumaki stretched 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 making two seals, she clenched her hand into a fist and pressed it against Naruto Uzumaki's outstretched fist.

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

But soon, his consciousness was supported by a group of floating clouds floating above the golden land, and the image of Queen Sarah also appeared beside him, pointing to the tower standing on the ground below. At the top, the city of Thousand Towers, full of voices and heavy traffic, said proudly:

"Look, Naruto-kun... this is the current Loulan."

Looking down following the guidance of Queen Sara, under the towering Thousand Towers, there is an endless stream of people. People dressed in different styles of costumes from various countries are buying the goods they want on the streets and regaining their homes. The descendants of Loulan enthusiastically entertained every customer coming and going, introduced their products to them, and proudly introduced those amazing towering towers to the first-time visitors.

And among the people coming and going, groups of puppets of various colors controlled by imperceptible chakra lines are parading on the street in a uniform pace, which is not only a beautiful landscape as the city of thousands of towers and the city of puppets, At the same time, it is also the ubiquitous and reliable guard in this prosperous city, showing the strength and pride of Loulan today.

"It seems... when we first met, it was like this, overlooking the bustling crowd below from a high place."

Uzumaki Naruto looked at the descendants of Loulan with sincere smiles on their faces, and at those puppets who were almost indistinguishable from real people in appearance, performing their duties on the street, and said nostalgicly.

"But this time, the cheering crowd below are no longer puppets with false smiles."

Queen Sara also thought of the scene when she was rescued by Uzumaki Naruto, her eyes were gentle and she said happily:

"Thanks to you, Loulan was freed from An Lushan's terrifying ambition."

"But Loulan can become so prosperous now, it is mainly thanks to the support and ideas of Master Mizukage?"

Naruto Uzumaki looked at those puppets who were obviously controlled by the chakra lines hanging from the pipes between the thousand towers, but were doing things completely different from those in the An Lushan era, and had mixed feelings for a while.

"Indeed."

Queen Sarah looked at the tallest spire in Loulan City and said with emotion:

"Without Mizukage-sama's persuasion, it would be impossible for us to make up our minds to lift the seal of the dragon veins. Similarly, without the order established by Mizukage-sama and his power to maintain order, a puppet like the teacher who can maximize the power of the dragon veins Master, it is absolutely impossible for us to help us regain the glory of Loulan."

"Order...and enough power to maintain order?"

"Sir Naruto."

"Ok?"

"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 the grown-up Naruto Uzumaki, and Naruto Uzumaki looked at Queen Sara with a sincere expression, and memories and guilt surged uncontrollably at this time His heart, even the tone that made him respond, became a little trembling.

"However, it was only when I saw you again that I remembered these things that happened in Loulan... In my world, not only did I fail to provide any help for your efforts to rebuild Loulan, I even kept going When I travel back, Loulan will still look like desert ruins..."

"Because Naruto-kun's memory was sealed when he returned to your time, and Naruto-kun's time is not only far from mine, but also has more important things to deal with, right?"

Sarah straightened up, looked at Naruto Uzumaki with clear eyes, without any blame or dissatisfaction, and responded softly:
"To see Naruto-kun who saved Loulan again, and to see Naruto-kun grow up to be the son of prophecy to save the world, I am already satisfied... and Loulan's current appearance should also make Naruto-kun feel relieved Bar?"

"Relax? But, but Loulan over there..."

"It's not too late."

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

"I believe that Naruto-kun is not the kind of person who will still ignore the existing problems after he finds a solution... As long as Naruto-kun can help Lou Lanzi there after returning to his own time The villagers rebuild their homes, and there will be no regrets when we meet today."

"Neither you nor I are far from powerless to change the status quo. We can only sigh and wait for death to conclude everything for us, Naruto-kun?"

　The more I write, the slower I start to feel that there is no plot that can arouse the enthusiasm for creation...

　　Ugh

　　I am far from being a mature author who can fully control the work.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)