Chapter 497: Shinjutsu: Omnipotence

Young Naruto, who was sleeping in his room, suddenly opened his eyes without any warning.

Those deep blue eyes were like two cold stars in the darkness, sharp and clear, without the slightest hint of sleep-induced confusion.

"What’s wrong, Naruto?"

Inside him, the Nine-Tailed’s voice echoed directly in his mind, carrying a trace of confusion and vigilance.

As a Tailed Beast connected in heart and mind with Naruto, the Nine-Tailed could clearly feel the sudden, intense fluctuation in Naruto’s emotions just now.

"I suddenly have a... very bad feeling."

Young Naruto furrowed his brows and replied in a low voice.

He sat up, leaning against the headboard, his right hand subconsciously pressing against his chest.

Just now, in the depths of his sleeping consciousness, it felt as if he had been sharply pricked by a cold needle.

An indescribable feeling, a mix of palpitations, anxiety, and even... sadness?

It was a premonition carrying intense emotion, sweeping through his entire body like a tidal wave, jolting him awake from his deep sleep.

But once he was fully awake and tried to carefully pinpoint the source of that feeling, it quickly receded like an ebbing tide, leaving behind only an empty discomfort and a faint sense of unease.

Just now... did something happen? Or did... nothing happen at all?

This contradictory and vague perception made Young Naruto feel a wave of frustration and vigilance.

He wasn’t the type of person to have nightmares or hallucinations for no reason.

At his level of strength, any sudden premonition could mean a very real crisis or change.

He pulled back the covers, got out of bed silently without even turning on the light, and walked barefoot to the window.

The moonlight spilled through the window, illuminating his solemn and puzzled face.

No, I have to go check.

He thought to himself.

After putting on his clothes, Young Naruto came outside the room where little Hinata and little Hanabi were staying.

The two little girls slept in adjacent beds, their breathing steady and long, their small faces carrying peaceful expressions.

Young Naruto did not push the door open to enter; he merely stood outside, gently extending his sensory perception into the room like ripples of water, carefully investigating.

Their Chakra was stable, their life force was vibrant, and there were no abnormalities.

Young Naruto breathed a sigh of relief, but the unease in his heart had not completely dissipated.

Next, he went outside Otohime’s room.

For this ’unstable element,’ he naturally had to pay closer attention.

Though the Rank of this attention was lower than his concern for Hinata and the other’s safety.

However, the moment his sensory perception touched the door and he prepared to investigate the situation inside...

"What do you want?!"

A childish female voice rang out, filled with annoyance at having her gaming interrupted.

Immediately after, a ’clack’ sound came from the room, seemingly the sound of a game controller being tossed onto the floor.

Then, the door was pulled open from the inside with a ’whoosh’.

Otohime was wearing a white nightgown and white socks, her long silver hair draped messily over her shoulders. Her gold-and-silver Rinnegan flashed with angry light in the darkness as she glared fiercely at Young Naruto outside the door.

"Hey! You won’t play games with me, so what are you doing coming to find me in the middle of the night?"

Otohime’s gaze was highly displeased as she questioned him huffily, clearly very unsatisfied with Young Naruto’s ’middle-of-the-night room inspection’ behavior.

"Three days! Give me just three more days, and I will definitely be able to restore my Chakra, and then we will return to our original world! Stop bothering me!"

With that, Otohime didn’t give Young Naruto any chance to explain. With a loud ’bang,’ she slammed the door shut, nearly hitting Young Naruto’s nose.

Young Naruto: "..."

Having the door slammed in his face and being looked at as if he were a pervert, Young Naruto’s lips couldn’t help but twitch.

Still, confirming that Otohime hadn’t run away made him feel a bit more at ease.

So, where exactly did that sense of unease come from?

He thought about it and walked outside Kawaki’s room.

Extending his sensory perception inside, the room was empty.

"Hmm? Is that kid Kawaki not in?"

Young Naruto raised an eyebrow, but then, a knowing smile appeared on his face.

Right, that kid went to walk Sarada home.

In his mind, the scene he had witnessed during the day involuntarily surfaced.

Kawaki and Sarada, their heads close together, were studying the ’Divine Air Strike’ scroll, looking extremely focused and occasionally exchanging low whispers.

Although Sarada’s face looked almost exactly like her father’s when he was young, Young Naruto could sense that her attitude toward Pineapple Head seemed just a tiny bit softer than toward others?

Thinking of the scene of Kawaki and Sarada studying the Divine Air Strike together, Young Naruto couldn’t help but crack a fond smile.

"As expected of Pineapple Head, getting so close to Sarada so quickly..."

"Huh?"

"Wait!"

The smile on Young Naruto’s face suddenly froze.

"Kawaki... Kawaki... got the nickname Pineapple Head because of his name?"

"Then Seventh Hokage’s adopted son... Boruto is...?"

"Boruto... Boruto... Uzumaki Boruto..."

"These two names... why... does it feel... a bit... strange?"

A strong sense of logical contradiction and cognitive confusion welled up.

Young Naruto realized something was wrong, very wrong!

"Damn it!"

"It’s Eida’s Shinjutsu: Omnipotence!"

"I’ve been caught in the Shinjutsu!"

Young Naruto’s pupils shrank suddenly, and cold sweat instantly drenched his back.

He finally understood where that intense anxiety and palpitation from earlier had come from!

Although he hadn’t watched much of boruto: naruto next generations, he had still heard of the famous Shinjutsu in the Naruto fandom.

Because the utterly ridiculous incident of Uzumaki Boruto’s defection was widely discussed at the time, although he hadn’t caught up on the series in his past life, he still knew about a few famous scenes.

Among them was Eida’s Shinjutsu: Omnipotence, which swapped the identities of Boruto and Kawaki.

In the past two days, Young Naruto hadn’t paid much attention to Boruto and Kawaki. He had thought his arrival would alter the original plot points, but he hadn’t expected Kawaki to still make a move against Boruto!

The Shinjutsu was silently modifying his cognition and memories!

"Damn it, even if this is a parallel world, I am Uzumaki Naruto. Strictly speaking, I should be considered Boruto’s blood relative!"

"Why am I being affected?"

However, just as Young Naruto realized he was caught in the Shinjutsu...

That invisible, formless, yet incredibly powerful Shinjutsu force surged forward once again like a tidal wave!

Young Naruto only felt a slight dizziness in his brain, as if something had been forcibly ’overwritten’ or ’corrected’.

The intense sense of contradiction and cognitive confusion from just now melted away rapidly like snow under the sunlight.

Kawaki... Seventh Hokage’s biological son... aloof but not bad at heart... has a good relationship with Sarada...

Boruto... Seventh Hokage’s adopted son... lively and cheerful... a bit mischievous but reliable... brothers with Kawaki...

Everything seemed to have returned to a ’normal’ track.

The logic was self-consistent, his memories clear, without any sense of incongruity.

Standing outside Kawaki’s empty room, the expression of shock and vigilance on Young Naruto’s face gradually returned to calm, even carrying a hint of confusion.

"What... was I thinking about just now?"

He rubbed his temples, feeling as if he had spaced out just now, or perhaps had a very short dream?

"I guess I’ve just been too tired lately."

Young Naruto shook his head, attributing that residual, faint sense of strangeness to fatigue.

He took one last look at Kawaki’s room, turned around, and prepared to head back to his own room to rest.

In the hallway, the moonlight remained cold and clear.

Everything seemed to have returned to peace.

And the source of that unease had become vague and distant in his modified cognition, even forgotten.

This was precisely where the horror of Shinjutsu: Omnipotence lay.

The so-called Omnipotence originated from the ability of Ōtsutsuki Shibai, and was a type of Shinjutsu.

It could materialize anything, turning one’s thoughts and desires into reality.

This was the power used by gods when creating the world, an ultimate power that only deities could control.

It could not only modify reality but also fundamentally distort cognition and memories, making people accept the altered ’facts’ without even realizing it.

The night was still long.

Young Naruto’s steps halted.

The silence of the night was shattered by a shout, followed by a golden light soaring into the sky.

"Damn it, Kawaki!"

In the Shinjutsu’s initial determination, Boruto’s blood relatives only included Seventh Hokage couple and Himawari, but in the determination after Young Naruto saw through the Shinjutsu for the first time—

He was also Boruto’s blood relative.

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