Shizune was stunned for a moment and asked, "What?"
Tsunade got up from the bed, walked up to Shizune, and started touching her face directly.
"Lady Tsunade?" Shizune didn't resist but found Tsunade's behavior rather strange.
"So weird… this is so weird…" Tsunade murmured softly.
Shizune suddenly looked much younger, and the layout of the house seemed somewhat different as well.
She walked into the bathroom, looked at her unchanged reflection in the mirror, and touched her own face.
"Did I drink too much last night and haven't sobered up yet…?" she muttered.
"You didn't drink last night," Shizune suddenly said from beside her.
Tsunade snapped her head toward Shizune so abruptly that it startled her.
"Y-You really didn't drink last night."
"..."
Tsunade then noticed the calendar in the living room.
She quickly walked over, grabbed it, and held it in her hands.
"Shizune."
"Hm?"
"How old are you this year?"
"…18."
"And me?"
"Uh?"
"Aren't you not letting me mention your age?"
Tsunade swallowed hard before asking, "Am I… 40 this year?"
Shizune cautiously replied, "F-Forty… just… just a little over…"
She was bewildered by Tsunade's behavior.
Did Lady Tsunade suddenly realize she wasn't young anymore, and the mental pressure was making her lose it a little?
Tsunade plopped down onto the sofa, covering her face with both hands, muttering something about "time reversal."
Shizune stepped forward. "Lady Tsunade?"
But Tsunade suddenly lifted her head, grabbing Shizune's shoulders with both hands, her face full of excitement.
"Shizune!"
"Ah?" Shizune was startled by Tsunade's abrupt reaction.
"I have something huge to tell you, something absolutely shocking! You mustn't be scared."
"…What is it?"
Shizune thought that even if Tsunade told her she was actually eighteen years old, she wouldn't be surprised at this point.
Tsunade's eyes widened with excitement.
"I'm from the future!"
Shizune: "..."
"I'm serious! I really came from the future!"
"…Is that so?" Shizune responded with an awkward laugh, convinced that Tsunade must have hit her head or something.
"I mean it!" Tsunade noticed the disbelief in Shizune's eyes and became anxious.
"I can tell you things that will happen in the future. Ask me anything you want to know."
Shizune was silent for a moment before suddenly asking, "Who will be my boyfriend in the future?"
"You won't have a boyfriend in the future. Just like me, you'll stay single."
Shizune: "..."
Tsunade cleared her throat. "Ask another question."
She felt that saying something like that would only make Shizune believe her even less.
This girl had such a tough fate—why hadn't she gotten a boyfriend yet?
Back then, she really should have pushed her and Kakashi together!
Shizune, now wearing an expression of "I'm just watching you act," asked again, "Who is Rin's future boyfriend? Is it Obito? Or Kakashi?"
Tsunade froze. "Who?"
"Rin! Did she accept Obito in the future or not?"
"..."
Tsunade didn't answer immediately but instead racked her brain, trying to recall.
"You're asking about Kakashi's teammate from when he was a kid… Nohara Rin?"
Shizune looked puzzled. "Who else would I be talking about?"
Rin had even visited their house just the other day.
Tsunade frowned. "She… didn't she die a long time ago?"
..............
The Palace.
"What? I married Naruto?!"
After learning what had happened from everyone, the only thing Hinata couldn't accept was that the other world's version of herself had married Naruto.
"Him? Why him?!"
Everyone, however, found her reaction highly entertaining.
Ayano chuckled. "You even had kids together."
Hinata: "..."
Seeing Hinata's utterly defeated expression, Naruto scoffed, "It's not like I wanted to marry you either! Even if I died, I wouldn't marry a woman like you."
Hinata immediately exploded in anger and charged at Naruto, determined to teach him a lesson.
Naruto, seeing this, had no choice but to turn and flee.
Now that Hinata had returned to normal, everyone's worries faded.
Instead, they started regretting not asking her more questions while they had the chance.
Meanwhile, Ayano seemed a little down.
The Hinata from the other world had told her she would have another daughter in the future, which dampened Ayano's mood since she had always wanted to give Makoto a son.
Ayari consoled her, "Come on, don't overthink it. Makoto already said the two worlds aren't the same. Maybe this time, you'll have a son."
Ayano pouted, "How is that possible? Can the gender even change?"
"Why not? That world didn't even have Makoto, yet Hinata and Naruto still ended up together. Anything's possible."
When Ayari heard more details from the other world's Hinata, everything started making sense.
If Makoto hadn't existed, then she really would have married Hizashi…
But in a world without Makoto, she felt she wouldn't have lived happily.
Even her future son would have died young.
Sigh…
That night, Kushina quietly snuck into Mikoto's room.
"Why did you suddenly think of coming to my place?"
Squeezed together on the same bed, Mikoto asked with a smile.
When Kushina had come in, she had thought for a moment that Makoto was about to play some kind of romantic trick on her.
"I have something I want to talk to you about," Kushina said.
Mikoto thought for a moment before asking, "Is it about what happened with Naruto and Hinata these past two days?"
"Mm… That Hinata said that in her world, Makoto doesn't exist. You remember that, right?"
"You're not thinking about who Naruto's father would be if Makoto didn't exist, are you?"
"...How did you know that's what I was thinking?"
Mikoto sighed helplessly. "With that expression you had earlier, anyone in the house could tell."
Hearing this, Kushina just wrapped the blanket around herself tighter and remained silent for a while before finally saying, "I really did think about it, but..."
"But that world's Naruto said he had no parents..."
"If Naruto didn't have me, and Makoto wasn't there either, just how hard would his life have been?"
Mikoto also thought of that timid-looking Naruto and felt her heart tighten.
She had long since regarded Naruto as her own child, loving him no less than she did Sasuke.
Kushina continued, "I've been thinking these past two days… If Makoto hadn't been there, it wouldn't have been a good thing for me…"
"At the very least, it certainly wouldn't have been good for Naruto. That Naruto went back to his world a few days ago—back to a place where he has no parents..."
Sensing something off in Kushina's tone, Mikoto gently patted her shoulder.
Kushina then murmured softly, "Now, I feel really grateful to Makoto. He gave Naruto a complete family, a happy and beautiful childhood."
Mikoto smiled and said, "Why don't you go and tell Makoto?"
But Kushina buried her head in the blanket.
"I don't want to tell him."
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