I opened my eyes and saw Naruto holding me in his arms with a worried look on his face. I couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Naruto……?"

"You're awake!" Naruto was pleasantly surprised, "How are you? Are you okay?"

I was a little confused and said, "...You didn't enter my memory?"

"I went in."

"Then you...didn't you see how I was born?"

He tightened his grip on my shoulders a little, and looked at me firmly: "I saw it."

"……and you……"

"What's wrong with me?"

"Don't you feel like you've been deceived?" I whispered, "Those memories you saw of me in Konoha, those memories of me getting close to Naruto, were all because... he was my target."

"Oh, yeah!" Naruto was slightly stunned, as if he just realized it, "So that's how it is! After I saw how you were born, I didn't even think about it that much... I just thought, I don't want to leave you alone anymore, so I came out."

"Naruto, you are not hiding your unhappiness again, are you?" I looked at him worriedly and put my hand on his heart.

Actually, this is useless, but I always feel as if being close to his heartbeat can bring me closer to his heart. "Didn't you say that you always subconsciously suppress your bad emotions? If you blame me, get angry with me, feel sad and disappointed, I will accept it!"

Naruto looked at me and his brows softened, "I didn't hide anything."

"But... don't you care...? Our relationship has been based on deception since the beginning... You regard me as a friend, but I..."

"But if it weren't for that mission, Chaolu wouldn't have come to me."

His deep blue eyes stared at me steadily: "I don't feel angry at all, I just feel lucky! I am so important... It's great!"

Looking at his brilliant smile, I felt guilty, touched, and sad: "Naruto...you are so nice!"

"Because Chaolu is also very nice! Even if you approached me for other reasons at the beginning, your concern and closeness to me afterwards were all real. There are all kinds of reasons for people to get to know each other anyway!"

I couldn't help but feel relieved and started laughing at him.

"I'm really worried..." I held his hand tightly, "I'm really worried that after you know the truth, you won't forgive me..."

"I would never do such a thing." Naruto reassured me in an extremely reliable way. "I, who have only seen your memories, will not blame you. The Naruto in your world... the 'me' who has truly spent all these years with you, will not blame you either."

"really?"

"You don't actually have to tell me all this about your life experience... You are going to confess to your Naruto, so you want to test my reaction first, right?"

"Naruto actually thought of this!"

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm not stupid!" Naruto paused after joking, and looked at me with some concern: "...Why do you want to confess to him? If you are afraid that he will not accept it, he will not take the initiative to pursue it if you keep hiding it."

"I... have a plan, and I want to get his support. In order to gain his trust, I want to tell him everything about myself."

"what's the plan?"

I was about to speak, but I couldn't help but hesitate: "If I tell you, if you don't agree, you won't cross the world to stop me, right?"

"It's a pity. Although I don't want to be separated from you, I don't know Uchiha Madara's Tsukuyomi." Naruto hesitated for a moment when he said this. "Do you... know who Uchiha Madara is?"

"understood."

"Then you..." He carefully observed my expression, "Are you okay?"

"I find it hard to accept that this is his fate."

Naruto didn't know how to comfort me, but his expression was so sad, as if he felt the same way as I did. He lowered his head and held my hand tightly.

After a moment of silence, Naruto said, "Anyway...he died in the end to protect his companions."

I knew what he wanted to say—he wanted to tell me that Obito's final performance was still heroic, but I didn't want to discuss that with him.

I didn't want to talk about Obito with him, or anyone right now.

"Naruto……"

"Ok?"

"If I support the resurrection of the Ten-Tails, and even the resurrection of Kaguya, will you stop me?"

Naruto was surprised and asked, "Do you think Uchiha Madara's plan is feasible?"

"The final results of my plan and his are different. But the processes are somewhat similar. I want to seize Kaguya's power. In order to change the fate of this world, I think it would be safer to obtain the chakra of the entire world."

"Change the fate of this world?"

"Uchiha Madara can use his Tsukuyomi eye technique to affect the whole world. This method inspired me - why can't I also use my eye technique to affect the whole world?"

"One of your eye techniques is Kamui, and the other one is..."

"Twist of fate."

Naruto frowned, "What do you want to do?"

"Using a person's unfinished fate as a fulcrum, I can distort the time that has flowed through him so far. Among the people I care about, Kakashi is the oldest, so I want to use his fate as a fulcrum - to make him go back to before everything happened. I want to distort his fate of 'watching himself lose all his companions, with only regret left until the end of his life'... If I have enough chakra, I can send him back to the beginning of regret and let him stop the loss of his companions.

I think the root of human suffering is the lack of choice. Itachi-sensei had no choice between the village and the family at that time... So I want to give the people I care about another chance. I want to give them another chance to choose their fate... If his remorse was strong enough, maybe he could save Obito, Rin, and even your father... the Fourth Hokage. In that case, you wouldn't have lost your parents at birth, and if the Fourth Hokage was alive, the Uchiha clan might have another way to go, and Sasuke wouldn't have lost all his family. "

"That sounds... too ethereal, Chaolu."

"Yeah, even I feel like I'm just talking in a dream when I say this. So I'm worried whether I can get the support of Naruto and Sasuke... Because if you can't support me, then we can only use force. If possible, I don't want to fight with you."

"As for me..." Naruto said, "I can't support you."

“…Is it really not possible?”

"But I represent myself. Not the 'me' in your world. I cannot abandon the ties with other companions for you. In this world... you came too late and stayed too short... But, the 'Naruto' in your world..." Naruto paused, "Naruto in your world, to him, you are his first friend, the first light of the world. I think, just like you don't want to fight him, I don't think he can take up arms against you. If he wants to stop you, he must be worried that you will lose your place in the world after failure. But maybe you can convince him to stand on your side."

"Even if my plan is as vague as a dream?"

"Even if your plan is as vague as a dream." Naruto smiled, "If you need him, you long for him to stand by your side, and you feel that your future cannot be without him... If he is indispensable to you and too important to lose... Even... If you are willing to die with him... As long as he knows this... Compared to getting the approval of countless strangers, maybe he would rather dream with the person who is most important to him."

"I'm willing to die with him..." I reached out and gently stroked his cheek: "...because Naruto is always lonely. In order to avoid being invaded by loneliness, he longs to be recognized by others..."

"Yes. You've already abandoned him once, Chaolu. But because it was you, I don't think he will blame you... This time, as long as you say you want to be with him... If it were me... I would go with you."

"Just like how you defeated Sasuke. Because you were willing to sacrifice your life for Sasuke, because you were willing to take on everything for Sasuke... and I should also make such a resolution - because Naruto is so important."

"Yes... So, are you willing to die with 'me'?"

"Naruto……"

"Ok?"

"Thank you."

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