Naruto: I Survived Two Wars Without You, System!

Queen Saaya of Louran held her daughter Sāra by the hand.

Together with Kei Yamanaka, Tenten, Hinata, and Sayo, they made their way toward the heart of the Dragon Vein.

Although she felt reluctant to part with the three girls, she knew they had spent countless nights gazing up at the stars, longing for their families.

In the future, they would surely meet again!

Bright incandescent lights bathed the dim tunnel in light.

Tenten, Hinata, and Sayo each gently ran their fingers along the tunnel walls, their eyes filled with the same sense of reluctance.

Every inch of this place had been painstakingly built by them alongside the people of Louran.

Six years...

How many six-year spans could one person truly have...?

Well, considering that members of Konoha's leadership tended to live unusually long lives, perhaps they really did have many more six-year periods ahead.

But those days filled with laughter, tears, moved to tears, and grievances—

Would become lifelong, unforgettable memories.

After emerging from a subterranean passage nearly a hundred meters long,

An enormous underground architectural complex gradually appeared.

Inside the towering caverns, rows of thick chakra pipelines, each over a meter wide, were neatly arranged.

Inside the orderly workshops, the strong, healthy citizens of Louran worked diligently at their assigned tasks.

Some used the energy from the Dragon Vein to power large machines for manufacturing parts; others mass-produced various types of basic civilian necessities.

They looked like simple goods,

But Kei Yamanaka knew that after the merger of the Lands of Wind, Fire, and Earth, as well as the battles against Kirigakure and Kumogakure, ordinary civilians across the ninja world were inevitably affected by war.

And these goods would become urgently needed supplies in the post-war era!

Kei gave Tenten, Hinata, and Sayo a thumbs-up—three seemingly fragile little girls.

Their mission this time had truly been executed brilliantly!

As for whether all of this might influence the future—

Even if ninja productivity surged, it would only lead to population growth. How much real change could that bring?

Passing through the densely packed underground production area,

Queen Saaya, still holding Sāra's hand, led the way deeper underground, into ancient structures clearly belonging to a far older era.

"The light rising above Louran, a heart full of mixed emotions, the Dragon Vein must be protected! Blades strike true, eyes turn to the heavens, storms of sand rise, brilliance dazzles—petals twirl and fall. The golden light passed down through time and space cleaves through darkness, bringing forth blossoming life…"

Mother and daughter hummed an ancient melody.

Deep beneath its hidden lair, the Dragon Vein seemed to answer their song, glowing with a unique violet chakra light that pulsed like a heartbeat, illuminating the shadowy corridor.

"Hmm?"

Kei glanced at Saaya and Sāra walking ahead.

The lyrics of the song they sang differed slightly from those he had remembered from his past life.

From what he recalled, the last two lines used to be:

"The radiant light passed down on the spiral path severs the dragon's hands leading inward."

Yet now, they had changed to:

"The golden light passed down through time and space cuts through darkness and brings forth blooming life..."

Had these changes been caused by his journey through time?

No, that shouldn't be it.

In the original storyline, Minato Namikaze sealed away the Dragon Vein at the end of the Third Great Ninja War.

It wasn't until Bai Zu's appearance later on that the seal broke.

After that, the Dragon Vein disappeared completely.

Which means Minato most likely never used the power of the Dragon Vein, let alone traveled back in time to change anything.

"So... someone from an era even before the distant past must've connected with the Dragon Vein, gaining a similar ability as Gamamaru to glimpse a corner of the future?"

Kei Yamanaka mused idly for a while.

When he couldn't find an answer, he simply stopped overthinking it.

The Naruto world held many secrets—whether it was Moryo, the Greer Stone, or that so-called flying fortress known as the Kūnin Fortress, if he tried hard to trace each origin carefully, he'd definitely drop dead from sheer exhaustion.

Sāra, who had been holding hands with her mother Saaya the entire time, kept casting furtive glances at Kei Yamanaka.

Looking him up and down, head to toe, then toe to head again.

Her youthful face—no older than thirteen or fourteen—shifted through expressions—sometimes hopeful, sometimes conflicted, sometimes confused and puzzled.

Compared to the Queen of Louran from the original story, whose mother died early and who had long been treated like a pawn, the current Sāra was clearly more innocent.

Her face gave away everything.

Noticing Kei looking her way with an inquiring gaze,

Sāra bit her lip, choosing her words carefully before asking.

"Lord, are you... the Golden Radiance?"

"Well... although it might sound a bit conceited to admit directly, unless some unforeseen event occurred, I guess so."

Kei rubbed his nose, instinctively assuming the "Golden Radiance" Sāra referred to was the same one mentioned in the prophecy song.

"Oh~ So then you're the one destined to become my successor..."

Sāra's little mouth was abruptly covered by Saaya.

Then this graceful Queen of Louran flushed red, offering Kei an apologetic smile.

"Kei-sama, I'm truly sorry. Because of Tenten and others, I learned some things about the future, and occasionally told the child that the fated Golden Radiance would become Louran's sovereign ruler. Sāra probably misunderstood."

"It's fine. Sāra is a very lovely child."

Kei waved his hand dismissively, understanding immediately.

He knew exactly what title she had almost said.

Too bad!

Saaya reacted too quickly; the words didn't get spoken!

Tenten laughed so hard her teeth showed, Hinata covered her mouth trying not to giggle, and Sayo dramatically slammed the wall in amusement.

Saaya shot them a glare of irritation.

Then she pinched her daughter Sāra's ear and hurried forward deeper into the Dragon Vein sanctum.

Smiling all the while, Kei followed closely behind.

Faced with Sāra's resentful glance, he shrugged both hands upward with an expression clearly saying, "Not my fault!"

They proceeded all the way to the Dragon Vein's innermost sanctum.

Saaya and her daughter Sāra combined their efforts to channel the Dragon Vein's power, opening the previously sealed gate.

A blinding pulse of violet light erupted from the doorway.

As the glow faded,

Kei stepped closer.

Standing before a massive structure resembling an enormous well-like edifice.

The thick Dragon Vein energy had completely turned liquid, boiling like water and churning violently within the well-like structure, emitting harrowing waves of energy.

A stone bridge stretched from the entrance all the way to the central platform inside the well-like chamber beneath their feet.

This was precisely where Louran's Dragon Vein energy converged—the control switch for the entire Dragon Vein!

[Slashing the Dragon's Hand]... So this is where the dragon's claw extends from the vein?

Kei Yamanaka stepped forward onto the stone bridge. Behind him, Saaya and her daughter Tenten followed with Sayo, then resealed the stone door.

When it came time to return Tenten and the others to their original timeline, there would certainly be powerful energy fluctuations.

And Dragon Vein energy could easily have harmful effects on ordinary people.

Standing before the Dragon Vein switch—an eye-shaped stone mechanism—Kei Yamanaka gestured for Hinata, Tenten, and Sayo to step closer.

He raised his hand and once again used [Sage Chakra] to lightly tap three times on Tenten's forehead.

Amidst a faint chakra mist, a device the size of a washbasin—perfectly sized to fit over the Dragon Vein switch—materialized in his palm: the [Time-Space Controller].

He placed it directly atop the Dragon Vein control mechanism.

As soon as the device activated, glowing with streaks of purple Dragon Vein energy, Kei quickly set the precise time coordinates for travel, then stepped away from the central platform.

"Saaya-nee, Sāra-chan, we'll come find you again when we return~"

Tenten waved goodbye to Saaya and Sāra.

"You got the honorifics wrong!"

Sayo muttered bitterly but also began offering farewell words to Saaya and Sāra.

Hinata took out a pair of treasured gloves from within her robe and handed them to Sāra, her big eyes filled with reluctance.

"Cunning Hinata, hiding a gift like that! Sayo and I didn't even prepare anything!"

"N-no, I didn't mean it like that… I just thought… she might like it…"

Amidst the heartfelt farewells from the three girls and the gentle parting words from Saaya and Sāra,

A violent surge of Dragon Vein energy erupted.

In just a few seconds,

Tenten, Hinata, and Sayo vanished entirely from the platform.

Then, the Dragon Vein energy receded back into the well-like structure.

Kei Yamanaka narrowed his eyes slightly, watching every detail of the space-time transition.

After deep contemplation for half a moment,

He glanced down at the still-churning Dragon Vein energy beneath his feet—hardly diminished—and silently marveled at the sheer magnitude of this power.

"Wait one minute."

Kei said to Saaya and Sāra.

He stepped toward the Dragon Vein switch once more and, recalling the information from the previous Genjutsu memory, tuned it to connect to the past again.

Then, standing up, he gave a casual wave goodbye to mother and daughter.

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