UK:GSW Chapter 312: The Kakashi from the Parallel World Arrives and Then Kneels
"So this is the parallel world… It feels like there's no difference from our world. The air, the natural chakra and the geological structure are all the same as in our world."
"But the Roran here has been completely destroyed and turned into a lifeless ruin. Even because of the wind and sand, the former city is gradually being buried under the desolate desert."
"It really is… a completely parallel world."
In the ruins of the Land of Roran, Orochimaru expressed heartfelt emotion. Around him, a large group of puppet clones were operating various instruments and using sealing scrolls to take out a lot of equipment. At great speed they were building an outpost and a stable passage connecting to the main world.
This was the Dragon Vein core of Roran, but unlike the Dragon Vein core on the other side, this one was an old ruin. It had obviously been abandoned for a long time, and this underground facility felt like it could collapse at any moment.
Therefore, this area needed emergency reinforcement, new construction, and a large concealment barrier and outer warning post. In fact, Sasori was outside with a group of puppet clones establishing the barrier and guard posts.
Yes, Orochimaru and Sasori had traveled to the parallel world and were building the outpost base. Since the crossing experiment had entered the second stage and they could ensure they could come back, the two of them crossed with a large group of puppet clones to do the preliminary work in person. Meanwhile the main world Roran was managed by Tobirama Senju.
In fact, Tobirama Senju also wanted to come, but his actions were restricted. As an entity manifested in the real world by Uchiha Kei's Mangekyō power, he could only exist within the signal range of the spiritual network. Once he exceeded the range, he would be forced back into the spiritual network world because of losing the connection.
He could act in Roran thanks to the spiritual network signal emitter that Uchiha Kei had pulled out last time and permanently placed in Roran. It ensured that while Orochimaru and Sasori were stationed there for research, they could also log into the "Genjutsu world" at any time for study and to consult data.
Because of this, Tobirama Senju could move freely in Roran and join the research team. And also for this reason, he couldn't go to the parallel world himself and had to stay on the main world's Roran side to handle things there.
Through Sasori's exploration, the appearance of Roran in the parallel world had been figured out.
The entire country was truly nothing but ruins, and these ruins bore many signs of battle. Apparently turmoil had broken out before Roran was destroyed.
In fact, this matched the information. According to the intel extracted from the interrogation of the rogue ninja Mukade, in Roran's final days the ruling class had decayed to the extreme and no longer cared about the lives of the people, so a great uprising in despair took place.
In this timeline, with no villain named An Lushan causing trouble and no butterfly effect of Konoha's intervention, the lower class, having no way out, attacked the ruling class with despair and hatred.
Although the ruling class controlled the Roran puppet arts powered by the Dragon Vein and had absolute military strength, the angry people attacked the Dragon Vein energy regardless of everything, and eventually destroyed the main structure of the ritual place that was the country of Roran, causing the puppetry to fail.
Thus, without their greatest violence, the ruling class was completely destroyed by the angry people. In despair, the great nobles of Roran finally chose to crazily activate the forbidden power of the Dragon Vein in hopes of turning the tables.
However, the useless nobles actually had no idea what the Dragon Vein was. They simply crudely used its energy through Roran's ancient mechanisms.
As a result, the forbidden power went out of control and burst out with tremendous force. The entire Roran vanished overnight, while the country itself sank into the sea of sand as if swallowed by a gigantic sinkhole, leaving only some tall buildings exposed.
Later the Hidden Sand Village sent people to investigate but found nothing. There were no survivors; it was as if everyone had turned to ashes in that outburst, becoming a legend in the shinobi world.
If the rogue ninja Mukade hadn't possessed some secret information about the Dragon Vein, he wouldn't have come to Roran and attempted to use its power.
And now, what Sasori saw was that eighty percent of Roran was buried under thick sand, and the parts exposed to the outside had been damaged badly by the turmoil and years of wind and sand.
Moreover, because Roran was located in the desert at the edge of the Land of Wind, even those money‑minded explorers and bounty hunters rarely chose to come here to seek treasures. It was too dangerous; one careless step and they could be buried under the sea of sand.
However, this was a good thing for the Dragon Vein research team. In such an environment, they only needed a little targeted arrangement to perfectly conceal the outpost base, ensuring that as long as they didn't expose themselves, no one outside could find them.
For Sasori, constructing such a concealment mechanism was very simple. He spent only half an hour to complete everything.
After doing so much, Sasori was full of emotion. After all, in the main world, Roran still existed, while in the parallel world only ruins buried by yellow sand remained. Everything had become history and would ultimately be completely forgotten by the shinobi world. It made him feel the changes of time.
This is what people call a sudden literary mood.
Of course, Sasori was still Sasori. After Uchiha Kei's transformation he had fully become an engineering man, so his moods came and went quickly. He soon composed himself and went back.
Then he saw that centered on the Dragon Vein core, a not‑too‑big outpost base had already been built.
By now the preliminary work was done, and the two were ready to go back to continue building the stable crossing device.
But at this moment, the alarm system suddenly sounded. It detected someone breaking into the warning zone Sasori had set up and coming toward the barrier area.
This made Orochimaru and Sasori both freeze and then look at each other, feeling speechless.
The outpost had just been built, and someone had already come. Should this be called coincidence or bad luck?
Orochimaru looked at Sasori. "Sasori‑kun, will you go or shall I?"
Sasori said, "I'll go. I just happen to try out the new weapon we developed and see how it works in actual combat against shinobi."
Orochimaru smiled at this. "You mean that weapon? Indeed, that thing worked well on prisoners, but no one knows how it will work on shinobi."
With this exchange, Sasori immediately set out and retraced his steps back outside.
At that moment outside Roran, a group of five had arrived.
Among them, three wore Hidden Sand headbands and two wore Hidden Leaf headbands.
Of the three wearing Hidden Sand headbands, two were disguised as ordinary people and were ANBU of the Hidden Sand, while the remaining one had purple face paint, looked very strange, and carried something wrapped in bandages on his back. It was his puppet.
This Sand shinobi's name was Kankuro.
Among the Hidden Leaf shinobi, one stared with big dead‑fish eyes, had spiky black hair, wore the Leaf's standard green vest, and had a piece of armor like a helmet on his face, looking rather unusual.
His name was Yamato, a unique shinobi who could use Wood Style.
The other had silver spiky hair, his left eye covered by a shinobi headband, wore a black mask on his face, and also wore the Leaf's jōnin vest. He was the Leaf's Copy Ninja, Kakashi Hatake.
Yes, this group had come to the outside of Roran.
As for why they were here, it was because of the disappearance of Naruto and his team during their crossing.
Although before crossing, Orochimaru and the others tried to set the time anchor so that the crossing time would be locked to shortly after Naruto and his group had crossed, in theory the Dragon Vein's time‑travel ability could do that. But because all the technical theory was still in the exploration stage, and because Tobirama Senju, who understood the secrets of the Sage of Six Paths, had led the team to skip the phase of studying the specific principles and go directly to the usage stage, the control over the time link between the two worlds couldn't be so precise.
Even though they tried to adjust, the final result was that the time flows of the two worlds didn't differ much. At least, when the link between the two worlds was established and twelve days had passed in the main world, three days had passed in the parallel world.
Moreover, once the link was established, the time flow also became anchored, making the time in both worlds the same.
Thus, to this world, Naruto and his group had been missing for three days.
This made the Hidden Sand and the Hidden Leaf very anxious.
In this world, the Hidden Sand and Hidden Leaf were in a honeymoon period, and this mission to pursue the rogue ninja Mukade was something the Hidden Sand took the initiative to hand over to the Leaf, a sort of shinobi diplomacy.
Mukade's bounty on the bounty lists wasn't low. He was about 0.8 of Asuma's level, and his strength wasn't strong. It was friendly for the Leaf to complete it, counted as actively giving them merit.
Knowing this, Kakashi Hatake, as the leader of the diplomatic team, assigned the mission to three youngsters to complete, essentially giving them merit and experience for free. He and Yamato, as genuine Leaf jōnin, only needed to wait patiently.
In the end, a task they thought would take one day dragged on for three days without any news. When they sent people to investigate, they discovered the three had disappeared.
This was serious. Of the three, Sai was basically transparent—if he died, it would only mean the Leaf lost a pretty good youngster. The key was the other two.
Haruno Sakura was Tsunade's disciple, trained for many years and inheriting Tsunade's skills. She was already being called a little Tsunade and was destined to be a future medical master of the Leaf.
And Naruto was even more extraordinary—he was the Leaf's Nine‑Tails Jinchuriki, Jiraiya's disciple, and had another hidden identity as the son of the Fourth Hokage.
If anything happened to these two, the friendship between the Hidden Sand and Leaf would collapse and might even lead to war between the two countries.
Don't doubt; this really could happen. To the Hidden Sand, it was a serious diplomatic incident, because the mission to hunt Mukade was issued to the Leaf by them as a joint operation.
Thus there was the scene of Hidden Sand shinobi and Hidden Leaf shinobi running to Roran to investigate.
These five were all jōnin and the vanguard. The Hidden Sand would continue to send reinforcements.
In fact, if not for the Hidden Sand's council suppressing it, the current Kazekage Gaara would have mobilized the Hidden Sand to search for Naruto. Because Naruto was his most important friend. His relationship with Naruto fully represented the deep bonds between friends shown in the Naruto story.
Now, after arriving at Roran, the five naturally conducted a search and investigation, hoping to find the missing people—after all, all traces left before Naruto's crossing pointed here.
With caution and solemn hearts, the five entered Roran and began searching everywhere, trying to find the missing people. But because Roran was buried by wind and sand, searching here was not easy.
Then, under these circumstances, the five were ambushed.
Yes, they were directly attacked by Sasori hiding in the shadows.
This shinobi researcher, who had been fully retrained, no longer had the original notion of appearing before the enemy and personally defeating them. Now his position was that of a researcher and engineer, and such a profession naturally hid in the back. Fighting was too disgraceful.
Furthermore, the method used was one that left the five unable to defend—indeed, the entire shinobi world couldn't defend against it.
Because what Sasori used was a sonic bomb that had only recently been developed, and it was enhanced with shinobi world black technology. When the sonic bomb exploded, the chakra attached to it gave it penetration, meaning that even blocking one's ears couldn't resist the attack.
On top of that, the area of attack was a narrow passage the five had found that led specifically into the interior of Roran, making the shock of the sonic weapon stronger and leaving no room to dodge.
Thus, under the sonic attack, the five directly felt an unprecedented ringing. It was a completely indescribable pain that made every cell in their bodies tremble. It was pain that a mortal body could not resist—an attack the shinobi world had never seen.
Everyone knows that most shinobi are glass cannons. Except for a few individuals, they can't take much damage. Coincidentally, the five present couldn't take much.
Thus the five foamed at the mouth and fainted one after another. Only the strongest, Kakashi, held on a bit longer. His brain buzzed, limbs lost strength, his spine went numb, and his body fell as if his bones were emptied. As his eyes blurred, he glimpsed the shoes slowly approaching.
Then Kakashi's pupils shook. Before his consciousness fell completely into darkness, he felt utterly despairing and thought it absurd. It was—
"Sasori of the Red Sand? Why? Isn't he already dead?"
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