Although the cloaked man only showed up after Naruto lost consciousness to stop Kakashi from killing him. So much so that Naruto, who had just awakened his consciousness, was impossible anyway, and his success in surviving was due to the cloaked man's intervention. Not to mention that the man in the cloak showed Naruto at this time, and even the appearance and figure of the whole person, compared to his original appearance, he was deliberately disguised......

But that didn't prevent Naruto from being 100% sure that before he fell unconscious, he didn't have any impression of the guy in front of him who was pretending to be mysterious. And judging from the fact that the person in front of him treats himself, although he is not very friendly, but he can barely be said to be hostile, it should be this, until he was poisoned and unconscious, he never intervened in the battle, let alone the man in the cloak who did not appear in his field of vision and perception, saved his little life from the murderous Kakashi in time!

At the end of the day, if it weren't for the man in the cloak who saved his life, Naruto wouldn't have believed it......

In this timeline, even Kakashi, who is a teacher who has guided the other party's growth, and has a relatively close and trusting relationship with himself, is determined to kill himself in the timeline, Kakashi will suddenly sober up and stop at the last minute for no reason, and let an unrelated person, without using any equipment, to restrict Naruto's freedom of movement, guard Naruto alone!

It was precisely because of this determination that Naruto was able to calm down quickly after he woke up. Immediately, before the cloaked man appeared, Naruto, who was aware of the cloaked man's existence, had already guessed the identity of the other party.

After all, if Naruto is not mistaken, this place where the prophecy tablets are stored is a place where only the core members of the Uchiha clan have the right to know about their existence. In the eyes of outsiders, it is just an ordinary temple used by the Uchiha clan to worship their ancestors, and at best, it is quite brilliant because of the former glory of the Uchiha clan. Even with the friendship between Naruto and the other members of the Uchiha clan, which is far less intimate than with Kakashi, in addition to the Fugaku couple, there is naturally only Sasuke, who is in line with the true identity of the cloaked man.

As for why you swear that he is Zuosuke, and not one of Itachi or Fugaku......

In this timeline, the heavy damage and calamity suffered by the Konoha Ninja Village are very likely to be created by another "Naruto" himself......

In the original plot, he has fallen in love with the village, and in order to protect the village, he can choose the weasel who killed his relatives in righteousness, if it is really the true identity of the man in the cloak?

Well, I'm afraid that before Kakashi can make a move, Itachi will already use his full body to dismantle Naruto in eight pieces! Even after death, the corpse will be completely incinerated into ashes by the never-extinguishing Amaterasu Black Flame. In the end, just like Danzo who died at the hands of Naruto, he didn't even have a chance to be reincarnated with filthy soil and forcibly pulled back to the present world as a tool man, right? Not to mention the possibility of opening your eyes again and regaining consciousness as you do now!

In addition, the reason why Naruto firmly believed that the person in front of him was Uchiha Sasuke, and not his father Uchiha Fugaku, or his mother Uchiha Mikoto, was even simpler......

Although the figure, appearance, and voice have been deliberately disguised. But Mai Trin is a full-time housewife and does not belong to the combatants. Therefore, in this timeline, in the case of strong hostility towards "Naruto", Mikoto, who is obviously not suitable for guarding a "dangerous person" like Naruto alone, can be directly ruled out of suspicion.

And after eliminating two people one after another, Fugaku, who was the only one left, was quickly removed from the list of suspects by Naruto.

Because Naruto knew in his heart that as the patriarch of the Uchiha clan, the type of ninjutsu that Fugaku was good at, like Itachi, was based on the Uchiha clan's iconic fire escape ninjutsu.

But after the person in front of him appeared, in order to guard against Naruto's sudden attack, it can almost be said that he was instinctive, and he secretly brewed the ninjutsu he was good at to prevent it, but the chakra fluctuations revealed were changes in the nature of Lei Dun. Obviously, only Sasuke who accepted Kakashi's guidance and chose to develop a thunder ninjutsu that was more in line with his chakra nature would meet this condition.

In this way, after a simple elimination method, even if Naruto, who had just regained consciousness, was more or less unconscious due to the residual influence of the toxin, it was time to deduce the identity of the other party from this almost explicit detail.

"The response was pretty fast...... It seems that the toxins that Kakashi injected into your body have indeed been cleaned by you. ”

Of course, Naruto was able to guess the identity of the "man in the cape" so easily, which means that the "man in the cape" did not want to hide the fact that he was "Zuosuke" from the very beginning. After a brief moment of silence, the man in the cloak, or the left suke of this timeline, naturally switched back to his original voice in response.

"Although this way of meeting is somewhat awkward, I hope that you can cooperate with me and answer my questions...... Of course, if you're not convinced by the previous result and want to keep playing, I can ......."

"Don't, don't! Excuse me...... I didn't want to fight in the first place, it was purely in self-defense! Who made Kakashi-sensei unreasonably want to kill me as soon as they met......"

It's just that Naruto felt a little surprised that although the person in front of him was the same as his own conjecture, it was indeed Sasuke himself. But from childhood to adulthood, Zuosuke, who has grown up together to the present, now presents a voice, and even the temperament that the whole person shows to Naruto, but vaguely, makes Naruto feel a little deliberately alienated strange. Even Naruto, who was already dripping in his heart, simply gave up the idea of escaping for the time being, and sat cross-legged on the ground again, pretending to be aggrieved and spreading his hands in response.

"Ask, as long as I know, I'll tell you everything...... However, I'm curious, since you want to get information from me, why don't you just let the ninjas of the mountain clan search my memories when I'm unconscious? ”

"If it's dealing with ordinary people, it's really a simple and effective way...... But if you're looking for you, not necessarily. ”

In the face of Naruto's curious inquiry, Sasuke, who did not see the slightest change in tone, only responded ambiguously with two sentences, and did not delve further into this topic. Then there was a slight pause in his words before he spoke again, asking Naruto pointedly.

“…… Hinata, is she okay? ”

"Huh? What does it mean, what does it mean that the search object is me, and the result is not necessarily...... Could it be that my own memories can still be faked? ”

At the same time, Naruto, who has always been good at wordplay, naturally instinctively sensed something wrong from his ambiguous words. But before Naruto had time to ponder it carefully, Naruto, who had not yet fully sobered up, habitually laughed and ridiculed in a serious manner according to the previous mode of getting along with Sasuke.

"Hey, do you still need to ask? Of course it's very good...... Wait a minute, why do you suddenly care about Hinata? I warn you, it's my daughter-in-law, mine! Friends and wives can't be bullied, don't you want to do anything crooked about my Hinata?! ”

"How good ......?"

It's just that what surprised Naruto even more was that compared to the past, the words that should have been used to each other for a long time now reached Zuosuke's ears, but they made Zuosuke's figure tremble uncontrollably. Even the words that followed were a little vibrato, revealing an unconcealable sense of anticipation and excitement.

"What about Hinata? Why didn't I come back with you...... Did you stay outside the village? ”

"Shhh...... I said, you kid, why do you suddenly care so much about Hinata? Aren't you afraid that Xiang Lian will know that she will be jealous and let you kneel on the washboard? ”

This abnormal behavior made Naruto finally realize that the hidden inside story behind this incident may be far more bizarre and complicated than the result of his own imagination. So much so that he rolled his eyes angrily, and after teasing each other, Naruto restrained his indecent appearance, paused for a moment, and replied along with the words.

"Before determining the feasibility of the spare Eucalyptus, of course, it is with you and Xiang Ryu in the past, staying in the past time and space...... Now it seems that I am still quite prescient, and I don't know which of you is crazy, and you will kill ...... when you meet."

Between the words, in Naruto's mind, no matter what kind of changes Zuosuke has experienced in front of him, but eight or nine are inseparable, and he must have completed time travel with his future self. And on the premise that he should also have some understanding of this method of crossing as a backup means, even if he has already experienced it himself, Naruto doesn't mind telling the other party what he "already knows" to the other party generously. In order to express to the other party, he is from the "past" Naruto, and the "Naruto" they hate is not the same person at all.

Well, at least so far, not the same person...... Probably.

However, what Naruto never expected was ......

“…… Past ...... Spacetime...... Who the hell are you! ”

At first, Sasuke, who was able to talk calmly, did not show a look of understanding or relaxation after hearing Naruto's pretended grievance words. Instead, after whispering for a moment, he used the Chidori spear in his hand to stab directly at Naruto less than three inches in front of him. On the side, just like Kakashi Naruto had met earlier, his tone gradually tended to be indifferent, and he shouted coldly word by word.

"At this juncture, pretending to be Naruto Uzumaki...... Are you sent by other ninja villages to deliberately watch the jokes of Konoha Village! ”

"Huh? What is pretending...... Even me, a nobody at the tail of the crane, is it worth someone else to pretend to be?! ”

No matter how Naruto guessed and speculated, Sasuke's change was still beyond Naruto's calculations after all. So much so that his brain, which had not fully sobered up, fell into a blank, and Naruto, who really didn't want to take the blame for some reason, and had a life-and-death duel with his companions, blurted out a complaint without even thinking about it.

"Let's not mention, I, who has the Nine Lamas sealed in my body, is a Nine-Tailed Human Pillar Force that no one can pretend...... Didn't you travel with me to the past? Didn't I tell you when I went back to pick you up......?"

Between the words, in Naruto's imagination, no matter what happened in this timeline, it was just a small episode in the process of time travel, and he still had to return to the timeline before his departure after all, and go to pick up Hinata and the others who stayed there. So that at the end of the subsequent time travel, as in the initial departure, to meet the "past" self.

In the face of this development, which has long been a foregone conclusion, the ending of this episode is nothing more than Naruto figuring out what happened and solving the mess with his own hands, returning to the original timeline. Later, in order to prevent similar things from happening, I informed Hinata and others of what happened here in advance, as a remedial measure just in case.

After all, the various matters of the past, although they are already "history", rarely leave room for Naruto to set out to change his fate......

But for the illusory future, the timeline we are in today is only one of many possibilities. And as long as we know in advance what happened here, and avoid the occurrence of key events in advance, can't we usher in a new future that is completely different from here?

Of course, for the time being, the possibility that the fate and direction of the future will be more easily changed by Naruto compared to the past that has become history, is just the theoretical result of Naruto's assumption......

On the premise that Naruto made up his mind that he would share what happened here with Hinata and the others, Zuosuke, who had "ended time travel" in front of him, should have known early on that Naruto had made a solo round trip in this timeline. Even with a deliberate mention, it should be enough for Sasuke to treat the "Naruto" who destroyed Konoha Village and the current Naruto as two relatively independent people.

"The nine-tailed demon fox sealed in your body is indeed impossible for ordinary people to fake it...... But the current Vortex Naruto has enough means to give up this title to others. ”

It's a pity that before Naruto could finish speaking, Sasuke interrupted Naruto's words with a somewhat mocking tone, and it echoed in Naruto's ears again. And then under Naruto's gaze, word by word, he said the fact that Naruto was far more stunned than his companion inexplicably facing his sword.

"What's more, the time travel you swear to mention ......"

"From beginning to end, I didn't participate at all!"