Only Time Can Tell

UNDERSTAND ME

CHAPTER 3

UNDERSTAND ME

SARADA UCHIHA

Boruto's an idiot. He just left Inojin, Shikadai, and I with this whole mess to clean up, just like always. I could punch him. Actually, rethinking that, I will punch him next time I see him. Right now, I'm regretting my decision to tell Sasuke about me, or even allow Boruto to tell Naruto, I have a sinking feeling that the future might not be the same when we do get back.

"Am I really that bad?" Naruto said quietly. His entire personality had changed in time it took for Boruto to screw everything up.

"No. Not really." I said. "You don't show up a lot, and it hurts your family life. Boruto is taking it especially hard."

"Did I really just send shadow clones?" Naruto shook his head. "I just can't imagine myself doing that."

"You change a lot." I nod. "You're more like Boruto when you're younger, but now that you're in your 40s. You're...different."

Suddenly Sasuke decided to stop avoiding me and start speaking. "So what about me? Who do I marry?"

"My mom, Sakura Uchiha."

"SAKURA?!" Sasuke's eyes went wide. "I marry my stalker?! What the hell is wrong with me?!"

"No, no, no! Mama is amazing, you love her, she's not your stalker!" I quickly tried to explain. If he didn't marry her, then I wouldn't exist.

"I just can't imagine..." Sasuke crossed his arms. "Sakura? He asked again.

'Yeah."

"How did you even get here?"

"Let me explain..."

It took a while to explain, Naruto was constantly interjecting his thoughts and opinions, and Sasuke would make him shut up. Once I had told the whole thing though, both of them were silent.

"You wouldn't have any ideas???" I asked hoping for a second that they might.

"No idea." Sasuke said thinking hard. It's funny, his face looks almost the same as mine when I think. This is my papa.

"You guys are so screwed." Naruto confirmed.

"My guess is that you would have to find the scroll again but in this time period." Sasuke said after a while.

"That was my idea too. But this world has changed so much from the future. We just don't know where to start."

"Well, I know my way around." Sasuke offered. "I could help you find places to look. But your most ultimate thing to fear is that anything you do now might change the futures of anyone. Anything you say now could impact the future drastically."

"Exactly!" I was so relieved that Sasuke and I are on the same page. Meanwhile, Naruto wouldn't stop staring at Shikadai, who was avoiding eye contact and had shoved his hands in his pockets.

"So? Now that you're all chummy, what happens? It doesn't change the fact that we still don't know what to do about being stuck here." Shikadai said.

"I know. But I've got one question." Naruto said. "What's an email?"

By the time I had finished trying to explain what emails were, they were more confused than they had started out. I just gave up trying to explain it to Naruto, almost completely certain that his brain was literally the size of a tennis ball.

"So, Papa, do you know any places that would be worth looking for this scroll?" Right as he was about to answer there was a huge banging sound from a house a few hundred meters away. Dust and dirt were rising, and swirling into the sky. Almost like something had exploded but not quite.