Naruto: I Survived Two Wars Without You, System!

In line with Kei Yamanaka's original plan,

In the normal storyline, he would arrive in Louran, immediately seize control of the current Queen—whose power over the Dragon Vein could be manipulated—and then capture Bai Zu, known under the alias An Lushan.

After revealing his true identity, he would extract his memories to uncover the path of future events.

Then, with a mere wave of his hand, send him off to the afterlife.

But now...

In the original story, Queen Saaya, mother of Queen Sara, was still alive.

This graceful... ahem... widow still occupied the throne.

Bai Zu hadn't even shown up yet.

Instead, someone who should've been a Sunagakure ninja from the original story—Sayo—was gazing at him like a fan seeing their idol in person.

Her wide eyes blinked so fast it looked like they might lock up from exhaustion!

Kei Yamanaka followed Queen Saaya into the magnificent tower before them. Behind the two, Sayo forcefully suppressed her excitement as she shut the heavy door.

Once the trio reached the top of the tower via the elevator inside,

Two young girls, their silhouettes unmistakably curvaceous, swiftly entered through the balcony outside the tower.

The moment they saw Kei Yamanaka,

Their faces lit up with excitement too.

This is...

Tenten? Hinata?!

"Hurry hurry hurry, Captain Tenten, the mission scroll!"

Sayo darted straight in front of Tenten, wriggling in place like an eager puppy.

"Reporting to you, Lord Kei! This is the mission scroll for the three of us. Please sign it. Also, there's a Sage Art Seal that requires your Sage Chakra to activate and unlock!"

Tenten spoke with undeniable enthusiasm.

Clumsily pulling out a mission scroll wrapped in several layers of preservative oil paper from within her robes, she handed it over to Kei Yamanaka.

She quickly swept her bangs aside, exposing the Sage Art Seal beneath.

"I have one too! Same here!"

Sayo also shoved aside the thick curtain of hair covering her own forehead, pointing at the coin-sized Sage Art Seal between her eyebrows.

"And me... same here..."

Hinata's already rosy cheeks deepened in color as she revealed her forehead mark as well.

"Uh..."

Kei Yamanaka quickly glanced at the mission scrolls in his hands.

He raised his right hand, channeled Sage Chakra, and touched each girl's Sage Seal in turn.

Instantly, the seal runes lit up.

A flood of memory images surged into him—transmitted via genjutsu—showing everything from why the three had arrived here, the mechanisms and usage methods of the underground Dragon Vein, subsequent arrangements for Louran, missions assigned to the three girls, and details regarding their rewards.

"Yes! Three years, then another three—we pulled it off after six full years!"

Tenten grabbed Sayo's hands and joyfully bounced around the hall, brimming with uncontrollable excitement and cheerfulness.

"My fried chicken, my soda, my burgers, my video games—I'm back baby!"

Sayo was equally overwhelmed with emotion, nearly spinning her twin tails around in circles.

Hinata tightly clasped both small hands in front of herself. Although she didn't hop around like her two companions, tears glistened in the corners of her eyes, speaking volumes of her emotions.

Six years... she truly, deeply missed Hanabi and her parents...

"Yahoooo~ One wish granted! Power boosted! Climbing to the apex! Perfect life!"

"Perfectly perfect! Absolutely perfect! Haha~"

"Wait, which time point are we returning to again?"

"The mission scroll said to choose a time point..."

Tenten and Sayo stared at each other with wide eyes for three seconds.

Then they dragged Hinata toward Kei Yamanaka, who had just finished absorbing the genjutsu memories.

The two girls exchanged a knowing glance with Hinata.

Hinata's face turned even redder, but under her friends' intense stares, she gave a small nod anyway.

"Three, two, one!"

As Tenten began the countdown, all three put on their most innocent, adorable expressions and sweetly chimed in unison,

"Lord Kei~"

"Choose between six days and six years—whatever you prefer."

Kei Yamanaka instinctively took a step back.

He rubbed his nose, found nothing off, and slowly relaxed.

Ugh!

Girls these days really know how to play their cards right!

This is so unfair!

"Lord Kei, love you too (＾u＾)ノ～yo~"

Tenten formed a giant heart shape over her head, then turned to chat with her friends about when would be the best time to return.

"Let's go with six days later. Six years is too long; our parents might get worried."

"If it's family, they'd probably want to see us sooner no matter what age we appear to be."

"But we genuinely lived through six whole years. From twelve years old, suddenly becoming eighteen..."

"Not a bad deal, right? We'll totally shock Lee for a full year! Wait, if that's true, wouldn't Neji start calling Hinata 'Onee-san'?"

"Ah? Th-th-this..."

"What she said! Then let's pick six days! I want Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji to call me 'big sister' too!"

"Sayo, this isn't really... well, appropriate..."

They whispered among themselves for a while before finally agreeing to return six days after the original timeline.

Actually separating from loved ones and friends for a full six years.

That constant ache of missing someone every moment—it was something they only needed to feel once. Why should the people who care about them suffer needlessly?

"Lord Kei, thank you for bringing them to Louran."

Queen Saaya gazed at the cheerful young women, her regal, graceful face brimming with warmth and affection.

When the three girls first arrived in Louran, they were barely twelve or thirteen.

They were simple, lovely girls—pure-hearted with no hidden motives at all.

Their focus was solely on developing Louran, which back then was nothing more than rows of shabby mud-brick huts.

After six years, watching Louran grow steadily into what it is today—

how could Queen Saaya not feel deeply grateful?

"Don't thank me—it was mutual benefit. If anyone deserves thanks, it's them. After all, *they* chose Louran."

Kei Yamanaka waved his hand dismissively, not accepting Queen Saaya's gratitude.

Having read those genjutsu memories sealed within the Sage Art, he could now understand just how tough those six years must have been for Tenten, Hinata, and Sayo.

After all, when he first arrived in the Naruto world, he had struggled through countless adjustments himself.

From over a decade later, the technologically advanced "Five Spirit Ninja Zone," to this barren wasteland called Louran, a place so desolate that not even birds leave droppings.

She had lived on nothing but sand for six long years.

During that time, because of the Dragon Vein's restrictive curse, while benefiting from its protective power, she couldn't stray too far from Louran either, and could only obediently stay here to complete her mission.

Unless one shared Bai Zu's kind of relentless ambition,

Enduring this would undoubtedly be an immense trial of willpower and resilience for all three of them.

"Mm."

A soft smile curled Queen Saaya's lips.

In these six years, she had long since come to regard Tenten, Hinata, and Sayo as her own younger sisters and daughters.

They had become as close to her as family.

"Kei-sama, we've made our choice! We want to return to our original timeline, six days after we left!"

Tenten, pulling the two other girls along with her, stood before Kei Yamanaka and announced their final decision.

"Alright then. Time to distribute your mission reward now."

Kei nodded with a slight smile.

Focusing inward, he recalled the Genjutsu memory from moments ago.

He distilled part of his training experience with the Flying Thunder God Technique—the knowledge originally granted by the system—combined with spatial jutsu techniques he had mastered later, as well as sword cultivation and usage methods contained within [Guaranteed Severing Blade], then condensed all of it into his fingertip using Yin Release Sage Art energy.

Then, gently pressing his index finger to the active Sage Art Seal still lingering on Tenten's forehead.

Perhaps because of the Dragon Vein's energy influence,

Tenten's natural spatial sensing talent was far greater than what had appeared in the original storyline.

With the power of this Sage Art Seal,

as she slowly integrated and absorbed the training memories he passed on, her power would likely undergo a world-shaking transformation!

Having done this once already,

Kei quickly sealed his personal mastery of over a dozen Yamanaka Clan secret techniques into Sayo's forehead next.

In the future when all Five Great Ninja Villages merged, most ninja clans' secret techniques had become publicly accessible via mission contribution exchanges.

By comparison,

what made this six-year mission valuable wasn't the techniques themselves, but rather Kei's personal cultivation insights and experiences!

Right now, he was undeniably a Six Paths-level powerhouse.

From such a high vantage point, the upper limits of many jutsu had been raised several tiers!

If she could truly absorb everything he gave her completely,

Sayo could very well rise to become one of the most powerful and renowned ninja in the shinobi world!

As for the last one—Hinata.

Beneath her shy, flustered expression,

Kei took hold of the small glass bottle that had separated from the seal.

A pair of pale-blue Tenseigan eyes glimmered softly within the glass bottle!

Under Hinata's bewildered and confused gaze,

Kei opened the glass bottle, activated his Sage Chakra, and rapidly formed hand seals according to the Genjutsu memory from earlier.

After more than fifty intricate hand seals,

completely wrapped in Sage Chakra, Hinata's Byakugan pulsed with a soft white glow.

The pure Hyūga lineage within her had been completely awakened.

A vast amount of [Tenseigan Chakra] poured out from the glass vial in Kei Yamanaka's hand.

In an instant, the Tenseigan within the vial crumbled to ash and vanished entirely, and Hinata returned to her former self.

"Hmm, your eyes and bloodline will need about half a month to fully transform. Take care until then, or you might accidentally hurt someone."

Kei Yamanaka warned gently.

From the genjutsu-extracted memories earlier, this pair of Tenseigan had also been cultivated by Orochimaru.

That guy really mass-produces Tenseigan and Mangekyō like they're nothing.

His storage chambers are practically overflowing!

But...

In the genjutsu memory, his main body had instructed him to start working on bringing Jiraiya and Orochimaru together sooner rather than later...

Damn it!

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