Chapter 273: Experience Theater, Side Story, Original Naruto

Naruto also couldn't quite believe it; here he actually felt his own chakra, and even the Nine-Tails, though the Nine-Tails' state seemed off too!

"You're not joking, Naruto! You, you really felt your own chakra?" Sakura asked incredulously.

After coming here, I indeed saw strange people: Hinata turned into a delinquent girl, violent as ever; Shikamaru, foolish and dull; Kiba, who likes cats; but these people are all comrades, just changed in strange ways. Yet encountering something like myself is hard to accept! So, could there be another me here?

"I don't know why either, but I just feel something's off; however, the other's chakra is definitely mine."

"Moreover, the other also possesses sage chakra; no matter what, I'm going to check it out!"

Naruto gritted his teeth, jumped up from the spot, and headed toward the direction he sensed.

On the other side, Luode also opened his eyes, just as he thought: this world is indeed a parallel universe, and Luode senses no trace of any divine tree.

If the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path of the Ten-Tails existed in this world, I should be able to sense it, after all Luode has two Ten-Tails as pets.

The nine tailed beasts here are also strange; they don't seem to have split from the Ten-Tails' chakra,

While Luode was thinking, the two had already landed in front of him.

The newcomers were none other than Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno from the anime world, and Luode carefully sensed the Naruto from that anime world.

His body also contains Nine-Tails chakra, and it's a half‑Yang Nine‑Tails.

"You bastard, are you me? Your, your eyes." Naruto stared at the other himself opposite him; the other's state is really weird!

"Wait! Naruto, something's off, his eyes—look closely at his eyes." Sakura immediately stepped in front of Naruto and said.

This eye is full of cracks, no mistake! This is Orochimaru's jutsu; the secret scrolls of Konoha record that during the Chunin Exams, Orochimaru once used this move to sneak‑attack the Third Hokage.

In other words, this Naruto before us—or the Naruto of this world—is already dead!

"No way? Could it be that I, I, died?" Naruto was instantly shocked.

Come on! Knowing that one is dead is shocking.

"Stay calm, it's just this world's version of you; you're still alive! And this might be a plot by the Uchiha clan."

"You're Naruto Uzumaki, right? I have a question: Have you ever gone to capture the Three‑Tails? Have you ever been to Star Village? Have you ever been to Ghost Country? Have you ever been to Loulan?" Luode asked.

"Sigh! You suddenly fire off so many questions; I've been to the places you mentioned first, but the name Loulan rings a bell."

"Idiot! We previously went to Loulan to capture the centipede! As a result, you and Teacher Yamato went missing for several days, and when you two woke up, you'd forgotten a lot."

That mission in Loulan Kingdom made her feel strange; Captain Yamato and Naruto obviously went through something, yet they forgot it completely! "Hahaha, indeed, you're the Naruto I know!" Luode chuckled and said.

The Naruto from the manga world always gave him a sense of unfamiliarity; this Naruto is the one he knows best.

This Naruto has gone through various original anime plots and movie plots, experiencing more! Thus his combat experience is richer, and his strength is slightly greater than his manga‑world self.

"You jerk, your words are weird! Who exactly are you? Are you me from this world?"

"Naruto! This guy must be the caster of that jutsu, right? What did you do to this world's Naruto?" Sakura pulled out her kunai and asked.

"Don't get me wrong, there's no one called Naruto Uzumaki in this world; there's only someone called Menma Uzumaki, or rather he should be called Menma Namikaze—you should know that."

Because he possesses a portion of the Ten‑Tails' chakra, Luode has extremely keen perception; this world feels somewhat unreal, like a scrambled timeline.

Remember in that movie, Naruto actually manifested the true Nine‑Tails' form once; just a chakra‑made body proceeded to thrash this world's Nine‑Faced Fox.

Moreover, the Nine‑Tails said that this world's self is merely a defective product! It's more like a ninja beast nicknamed the Nine‑Faced Fox, able to split into nine entities and become nine puppets—clearly not an ability of the Nine‑Tails tailed beast.

Although everything originates from the Ōtsutsuki clan, this world probably lacks the Little Ten‑Tails you're looking for.

"So! What is this body of yours? Why, why are you me? And you also have Nine‑Tails inside you?"

At that moment, in Naruto's mental world, the Nine‑Tails' voice rang out.

"Kid! I sense that he also has a me inside him, only the condition isn't right.

"His whole spirit is suppressed, and his chakra is strange—it's not mine, it's the Ten‑Tails'."

In the mental world, the Nine‑Tails fox looks extremely tense, its fur all standing on end, baring its teeth in a fierce expression; the Ten‑Tails' chakra makes it very tense.

"Don't even think about tricking me into letting you out; stay put here, you dumb fox." Naruto said.

"If you want to leave this false world, you must rely on my power; in this world I can help you for free—believe me!" the Nine‑Tails said.

"Dealing with myself doesn't require borrowing your power." Naruto said and then withdrew from his mental world.

"The multiverse contains all kinds of worlds; anything can happen. You said you went to Loulan before—I can tell you.

"Part of your memory has been sealed; I can unlock it, and then you'll understand what I'm saying." Luode said.

There's no choice; we still need this Naruto to bring me to another world, and only then can we summon the true form to descend.

"You mean part of my memory has been sealed? What does multiverse mean?"

"How do we know you're not sent by the clan to deceive us?" Sakura asked.

"This explanation is a bit complicated; you've personally experienced it—you've been to other multiverses, you just forgot.

"Each universe differs; for instance, in some multiverse worlds you and Sakura ended up together.

"Or like this world, where your parents aren't dead and all your companions have changed personalities.

"Of course, there are also worlds where you died—for example, during the Ghost Country arc that priestess once prophesied you would die, right? And in another world, your luck isn't great; you died from some accident." Luode said.

Geez! In the original manga movie, after just beating a boss and settling the fusion of this world's Menma and Obito Uchiha,

those two just left, but we have no idea what the principle actually is!

Is it necessary to defeat this world's Naruto‑variant Menma or beat Obito Uchiha to leave? Or perhaps after a certain time the two can just leave? When those two return, I must stay by their side and then sneak across together.

"We don't believe you." Naruto said.

"Yeah, what if you're an accomplice of Madara Uchiha?"

"I really am not that idiot's accomplice; I even killed him once, though that was in another world, and he's actually not a member of the Uchiha clan." Luode said.

Obito as a big boss—early on, before revealing his identity, he certainly had presence, but once his identity was exposed, his coolness plummeted! "You say you know the true identity of that masked man; he isn't Madara Uchiha, right?" Sakura asked.

"Exactly! I know her true identity, if you're willing to believe me.

"After we leave this world, I'll tell you his full identity, as well as his abilities and the weaknesses of those abilities." Luode said.

"That shady Obito, I'm more than willing to take him on."

"First tell us who he is."

"Please! I've already shown enough sincerity; if you don't believe me, then let's part ways here! Or are you two wanting to fight me?" Luode said.

"So the final question: you want to go to our world, right? You guy, what do you intend to do in our world?" Xuanwu Mingren asked.

"This world's Xuanwu Mingren, your intelligence is on point! You can guess my purpose, but I also didn't plan to hide it."

"Your world has something extremely dangerous, called the infant Ten-Tails."

"If left unchecked, it will cause massive damage to your world in the future, it will devour the entire planet; I will capture that thing and destroy it." Luode said.

"Please! This time I'm really going to do a good deed! Help you take care of the Ten-Tails, although it's just dealing with the small one."

"In the mental world, the Nine-Tailed Fox suddenly spoke: 'What he said is actually correct; the Ten-Tails is indeed that kind of world-devouring monster.'"

"We can act together temporarily, but you must tell me your true identity; if you really are here to help, then we will be deeply grateful." Xuanwu Mingren said.

"We can't so easily believe his Naruto; what if your counterpart in another world was killed by him?"

"Your counterpart in another world was killed by Huoye, and that has nothing to do with me."

"Huoye? I was killed by someone named Huoye!" (End of chapter)