Chapter 113: Uzumaki Boruto: "Shrimp let go"
"Let's go. It's about time."
When the sky was just beginning to lighten, Jiraiya stood up.
Upon hearing this, Shikamaru immediately got up from the ground as well.
The two of them came to the door of Boruto's room.
Creak.
Jiraiya noticed that the door wasn't closed. He pushed it open directly and, at the same time, gave Shikamaru a look.
The night before, Jiraiya had already told Shikamaru about the Ōtsutsuki clan, as well as the information regarding future Boruto and future Sasuke.
After learning that the one who killed the Third Hokage and Asuma was Boruto, the son of Naruto from the future, Shikamaru found it even harder to accept.
However, the hatred in his heart did fade quite a bit, and he managed to calm down.
The two discussed first restraining Boruto and questioning him to find out the reason behind everything.
The one responsible for taking action would naturally be the stronger Jiraiya, while Shikamaru would provide support from the side.
After all, the Nara clan's Shadow Possession Technique was extremely suitable for restraint.
Jiraiya formed seals with one hand, while his other hand held a specially prepared sealing tag. He slowly approached Boruto, who was lying asleep on the bed.
Although Boruto had previously displayed strength at most around the level of a chūnin, the fact that he had assassinated the powerful jōnin Asuma was undeniable. Jiraiya could not afford to be careless.
"Stop. I want to ask him about this too."
Suddenly! The tag in Jiraiya's hand was gone. A figure appeared in front of him, grabbing his arm.
"Uchiha Sasuke. So you did follow us after all."
Jiraiya looked at the adult Sasuke, who appeared under the light of the rising sun, without the slightest surprise, as if he had already expected this.
The window wasn't open, and Shikamaru was blocking the door behind them.
Wasn't this space-time ninjutsu?
Shikamaru also noticed Sasuke's sudden appearance. After a brief moment of distraction, he quickly formed hand seals and used the Shadow Possession Technique. His shadow crept along the wall toward the adult Sasuke.
At that moment.
While both of them were focused on Sasuke, Boruto on the bed suddenly moved.
"Boruto" threw off the blanket, gripping a kunai as he thrust it toward Sasuke's left eye.
Seeing this, Shikamaru hurriedly redirected the shadow that had been about to bind Sasuke, wrapping it around "Boruto" instead.
When the kunai was only a few centimeters away from Sasuke's Rinnegan, it was forcibly stopped at the very limit.
Sasuke turned his head and, upon seeing Boruto manifesting Momoshiki, was startled as well.
"Boruto, what are you doing?!"
Sasuke turned around, his eyes wide.
"Tch, what a shame. I was so close to avenging that old grudge."
"Boruto" showed Sasuke a disdainful, sinister smile.
"You are… Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki?"
Sasuke's expression grew grave as he clenched his fists.
The so-called "revenge" could only refer to what happened back then, when Naruto and Sasuke had fought Momoshiki and stabbed the Rinnegan in his palm with a kunai.
If this was Momoshiki's consciousness, then what about Boruto?
Had Momoshiki taken over Boruto's body?
Sasuke began to panic.
Naruto's son was his son too.
How could something like this happen just from bringing him along on a trip?!
At this moment, Sasuke was so worried that he forgot the intelligence he had recently gathered.
"Ōtsutsuki?"
Hearing those words from Sasuke's mouth, Jiraiya felt as though all his previous confusion was instantly resolved, like clouds parting to reveal the sun.
So Naruto's son also had something inside him, similar to the Nine-Tails.
No wonder his own strength seemed average, yet he could unleash the power to kill the Third Hokage and Asuma.
"So it was you who killed Asuma and the Third Hokage? What exactly is your goal?"
Jiraiya asked the restrained "Boruto."
"Inferior lifeform. Are you questioning me? You don't actually think your lowly tricks can restrain me, do you?"
"Boruto" arrogantly raised his chin. With a slight lift of his hand, Shikamaru's Shadow Possession Technique was absorbed.
"Damn it!"
Jiraiya inwardly cursed. He had overlooked the fact that the Ōtsutsuki clan could absorb ninjutsu.
Mainly because when Tsunade had mentioned it to him and the Third back then, she had only vaguely said something like, "Apparently, they can also absorb ninjutsu," and moved on.
She had focused far more on her suspicions regarding Shiromo and the Akatsuki.
It was only now, seeing it with his own eyes, that Jiraiya dug this memory out from a corner of his mind.
Just as Jiraiya was about to act, Momoshiki had already used Takamimusubinokami to amplify and release the absorbed Shadow Possession Technique. Everyone in the room was restrained, unable to move.
"Heh heh. Next, then…"
Just as Momoshiki was smugly preparing to make a speech, Sasuke suddenly used Body Flicker and appeared in front of him, punching him squarely in the stomach.
"Momoshiki" spat out a mouthful of sour liquid.
So you can absorb ninjutsu? Fine. You absorb, I'll absorb too.
He had just had his chakra siphoned off by Urashiki earlier, leaving his body quite weak. This was the perfect chance to replenish it.
Borrowing the absorbed chakra, Sasuke activated Amenotejikara again, catching "Momoshiki" completely off guard. He even had enough strength left to do it one more time.
But this wasn't the same as before. This time, Momoshiki was using the body of his good friend Naruto's son. Sasuke couldn't go all out.
For now, he'd just beat Momoshiki back a bit and see if Boruto's consciousness could be awakened.
"Shikamaru, hurry and help! We need to suppress the Ōtsutsuki's consciousness to save that child's mind!"
After a moment of stunned silence at Sasuke's actions, Jiraiya shouted to Shikamaru behind him. Then he charged forward himself and started punching and kicking "Momoshiki" as well.
"Understood, Jiraiya-sama!"
Shikamaru quickly stepped forward, covering "Momoshiki's" mouth. "I'll help you two restrain him."
"Mmm!"
"Mmmmmm!!!"
"Sasuke-san, and you two as well, stop hitting me! It's me, I'm back…"
After struggling for quite a while, Boruto finally got a chance to speak. His weak voice rang out amid the loving iron fists of the three men.
"What?! Your consciousness has already recovered? When did that happen? Hey, why didn't you say so earlier?!"
Jiraiya wore a face full of regret as he pulled a small jar out of his pocket. "Come, come, kid. Let me apply some medicine for you. We'll talk about everything else later."
"Thank you, sir."
Boruto was on the verge of tears.
What he and Momoshiki had agreed on was that after Momoshiki absorbed the ninjutsu, he would return control of the body to Boruto.
That was perfectly in line with how Kama (Karma) worked. There shouldn't have been any flaws.
But the moment his consciousness returned to his body, he was greeted by a brutal beating from the three of them.
Shikamaru even had no idea why he was covering Boruto's mouth.
Boruto felt deeply wronged.
He had worked so hard all for Shikamaru's son, yet now he was being treated like this.
"Ah! It hurts so much!"
As Boruto was thinking this, he suddenly felt a piercing pain spread across his body and couldn't help but cry out.
"Good medicine tastes bitter… uh, well, good healing medicine is like this. Boruto, bear with it."
Sasuke comforted him.
"Ah, I grabbed the wrong one. This is a specialty from the Amegakure Village, 'Lao Gan Ma Chili Sauce' that Konan and the others gave me before leaving Konoha!"
Jiraiya smacked his forehead and put the jar away.
Boruto: ???
(End of this chapter)