Trees Chapter 316 Okay, Okay! Boruto, Just Wait! I Will Remember This Grudge!

"Naruto, how could you treat Boruto like that?"

"No matter what, he's still your son."

"How could you use Gamabunta to hit your own child?"

In the end, Kushina couldn’t bring herself to actually hit her son, so she just restrained him with chains formed from her Zanpakuto and gave him a stern lecture.

Naruto nodded repeatedly, but in his heart, he was cursing that little brat a thousand times over.

‘Good, good, good!’

‘Boruto!’

‘I taught you the Kitsunehameha, gave you revival items and recovery tools...’

‘You stole my books, but fine, I didn’t hold it against you… one book wasn’t enough to ruin our father-son bond.’

‘You turned into a Jashin and terrorized the Shinobi World, but I still gave you the benefit of the doubt, thinking you were led astray by that Otsutsuki...’

‘But…!’

‘You actually went to your grandma to complain about your dad, huh?’

This was something he absolutely could not let slide.

Naruto gritted his teeth so hard they might’ve cracked.

During this period of time, he had even paused Uzumaki Stark’s research on the Boruto World, willing to let things go.

But now, with this burning urge to discipline his son, Naruto suddenly remembered that door panel he had given away years ago.

‘Just you wait, brat.’

‘Do you really think I can’t track down your world?’

While internally plotting his revenge, Naruto kept up his act, apologizing profusely to Kushina.

"Sorry, sorry...!"

"I won’t do it again, I swear."

Seeing her son so obedient, Kushina nodded and released the chains.

Minato stood by without saying a word. He had a strong feeling that his son was anything but well-behaved.

But after some consideration, Minato decided it was best to keep his mouth shut… unless he wanted to get scolded by his wife and earn his son’s resentment.

"Mom!"

"You have no idea all these years..."

"I've had it worse than Boruto!"

While being freed, Naruto launched into a dramatic retelling of all the suffering he endured at the hands of two certain white-haired men.

From small things like Kakashi never bringing him lunch when they went out, to big things like Jiraiya constantly kicking him around.

Whenever something good happened, they called him ‘beloved student’, but the moment things went wrong, it was ‘damned brat this, damned brat that’.

Kushina’s expression grew darker and darker as she listened.

Seizing the moment, Naruto sweet-talked his mom, leaving her dizzy with anger and affection.

"Damn it!"

"I always said we shouldn’t let Jiraiya raise you!"

Kushina grew angrier the more she listened and punched Minato, who was standing beside her.

"Um..."

"Kushina, I think we should hear the full story first..."

Minato took the punch, and seeing his wife’s furious expression, he realized Jiraiya wouldn’t escape a beating this time.

As Jiraiya’s disciple, he felt he should at least try to mediate.

But Minato’s words only made the atmosphere even more tense. Naruto and Kushina both turned their eyes to him.

A flash of anger passed through the mother and son’s eyes.

"Alright..."

"Carry on."

Minato shut his mouth and quickly stopped playing peacemaker.

Seeing the situation was about right, Naruto casually tossed out a portal and dragged Kakashi, who had been lounging under a tree reading an e-book, straight to the scene.

"Naruto?"

"Don’t drag me..."

"I’ve got things to do in Konoha."

Kakashi grumbled, acting like the village’s busiest man, as if the reconstruction of Konoha would collapse without him.

If only the white-haired slacker had put down his phone, Naruto might have believed him.

Clang…

The golden chain rattled again, and with a whoosh, Kakashi was hung in the air.

"Kushina-san!?"

Seeing his teacher’s wife in a rage, Kakashi was instantly reminded of the nightmares he used to have.

"Kakashi! It seems like I didn’t hit you hard enough last time!"

Kakashi: “???”

Noticing Naruto smirking at the side, Kakashi immediately realized that something was wrong and hurriedly opened his mouth to explain.

"Wait!!"

"Kushina-san, let me explain…!!"

Bang, bang…

Before Kakashi could finish, he was lashed twice by the chains. The pain made him forget what he was about to say.

Kushina crossed her arms, her face dark as she coldly declared, "We’ll talk after I’m done beating you."

Naruto grinned when he saw this and took out his phone to record this precious moment.

At the same time, he turned to Minato and asked what exactly had happened.

Earlier, when his mom had drawn her sword and unleashed Bankai, Naruto had been too stunned to react before getting tied up.

Minato glanced at Kakashi, who was being whipped like a spinning top, and sighed deeply.

‘Sorry...’

‘Kakashi, it’s not that sensei didn’t try to help you...’

‘But today’s beating is truly unavoidable.’

Minato silently mourned for his student for three seconds before explaining the events at the Pure Land to his son.

"It all started with the Queen of Roran, Sara..."

Naruto: “???”

Minato explained how Sara had guided the souls in the Pure Land to gain Shinigami powers and how the Sage of Six Paths had gone mad.

And how the souls in the Pure Land were being corrupted.

"Huh?!"

"What what?!"

"The Sage of Six Paths grew red hair and suffered an ominous fate in his later years?"

Naruto even pinched his thigh, wondering if he’d misheard it.

But then he remembered when Hidan had summoned the evil god, and how the Sage of Six Paths had kept making ominous declarations before leaving...

‘Damn it!!’

‘Did the Sage of Six Paths get infected by my son?!’

After realizing the severity of the situation, Naruto leaned back, sucking in a sharp breath.

‘No wonder after using Impure World Reincarnation with Sasuke for a long time, there was no change at all. It turned out that the Pure Land had undergone drastic changes.’

Naruto listened as Minato explained how Sara had led the deceased in the Pure Land to transition from Shinobi to Shinigami, then formed a massive organization called the ‘Pure Land’s Seireitei’...

Just thinking about it felt absurd.

Naruto was now certain that the Shinobi World he remembered had completely derailed.

‘At least there weren’t any fellow transmigrators running around...’

‘This was worse than being thrown into the 40k universe as a Space Marine.’

The only thing that still felt familiar to Naruto now was the Akatsuki.

"Well, that’s pretty much what happened."

"Your mom and I pulled our Zanpakuto from our souls."

"If it weren’t for those red-haired monsters appearing in the living world today..."

"Maybe we’d still be fighting in the Pure Land."

Naruto rubbed his head, not daring to mention that his son Boruto had become a Jashin.

Otherwise, if his parents found out about this, they’d definitely hang him up and whip him like they were doing to Kakashi.

"Then..."

"What about the Sage of Six Paths?"

Minato shook his head, looking regretful.

"We can't find it."

"Sara searched the entire Pure Land but found no trace of him."

"But the dead souls kept getting consumed by their desires and turning into red-haired monsters..."

"Those who resisted became Shinigami, while those who failed turned into those things."

Naruto listened as his dad described how troublesome those monsters were, then flexed the hand he’d used to whip Shinno earlier...

‘Wait...’

‘I don’t think they were that hard to fight?’

"Kakashi! Tell me!"

"Where’s Jiraiya-sensei hiding?"

When Kushina saw Kakashi’s white hair, she immediately thought of that irresponsible old man.

Today...

She was going to settle the score with Jiraiya.

"Kushina-san, stop! Stop! I’ll talk!"

Kakashi, showing no backbone, immediately spilled Jiraiya’s whereabouts.

"He’s been filming a movie at Orochimaru’s hideout recently!"

"Ask Naruto! He knows the location!"

Naruto: “???”

‘Jiraiya... filming a movie??’