Chapter 138: Daughter?

"Dad...???"

Shiramiki even doubted whether he had misheard in his semi-conscious state, and that she had actually called him Old Eight.

Under these circumstances, being called Old Eight would have been much easier to accept than Dad.

The Kingdom of Loulan... a red-haired girl...

Who else could it be besides Sara?

Then Sara... why is she calling me Dad...???

"Your daughter???"

Nono and Pakura looked at Shiramiki in astonishment, with expressions...

Just like a newlywed wife discovering that her husband's daughter is already as old as she is, looking that shocked.

"Are you out of your mind?! How old am I even? Where would I get a daughter this big? Can I give birth to children at two years old?" Shiramiki somehow still had the strength to roar.

"I've long suspected that you're actually a forty-year-old pervert." Nono said with a certain tone, believing no teenage brat could possibly turn three villages upside down like he did.

"Hey hey hey! Don't think you can talk nonsense just because you've got my flesh and blood in your belly! Even if I die, you're still my captive!" Shiramiki pointed fiercely at Nono.

Nono trembled with anger.

"Nanny? Is it Nanny?" The red-haired girl's eyes lit up as she skipped over and cupped Nono's dirt-smudged face. "Ah... was Nanny actually this cute when she was young? If you stayed this pretty all the time, Dad would definitely marry you!"

"Nan... ...ny?" Nono tilted her head, her glasses sliding right down.

"You guys are... together?" Pakura was completely lost.

Shiramiki's brain had turned to mush, and the blood loss was making him nearly pass out.

"Oh my, Dad is about to kick the bucket, let me give you a nurse first." The red-haired girl chattered with playful remarks from her past life, squatting down as blue chakra flared from her hands to staunch the bleeding wound on Shiramiki's neck, not forgetting to drop another absurd comment:

"Dad really was young back when he was young..."

"Palmar Sage Technique...?" Nono stared blankly at the rapidly healing wound on Shiramiki's neck.

The Palmar Sage Technique was the highest-level medical ninjutsu of Konoha, the condensed essence of Lady Tsunade's wisdom, and it was strictly kept confidential. Even she had to beg the leader for a long time to learn it. Which bastard leaked it out?

"Didn't Nanny teach it to me?" The red-haired girl raised an eyebrow with a wicked smile, an expression... truly as cheap and identical to Shiramiki's as if cut from the same mold.

"What?!" Nono had no idea when she had become a traitor.

"Oh, almost forgot, this is food I brought for you." The red-haired girl pulled a sealing scroll from her ninja tool pouch, and with a *poof*, countless amounts of food burst out.

Cola... instant ramen... three-color dango... chocolate bars... everything Shiramiki had been thinking about right before he thought he was going to die.

Things were getting bizarre...

Shiramiki slapped himself twice, not rushing forward to devour it: "Did we eat those red mushrooms with white spots because we were too starved... so all of this is just a hallucination?"

The red-haired girl squinted her eyes with a smile, saying nothing.

"Whatever I think of appears... then can I fantasize about getting a big-chested wife?" While Shiramiki was still standing there dazed, Pakura and Maqui lunged forward, tearing open the packages and devouring the food.

The carbonated cola immediately choked them into a coughing fit.

"Damn it! Even if it's poison, I'll eat it!" Shiramiki lunged forward like a madman, tore open a pack of chocolate, swallowed it without chewing, took a fierce gulp of cola, and even though it went down his windpipe, he kept desperately drinking.

Everything was so real. The entire clock tower was filled with the sounds of starving ghosts eating and coughing from choking. Even Kakuzu got a fresh jar of blood overflowing with chakra to drink.

Shiramiki didn't forget to take Tobi out and pour a bottle of pure water into its mouth.

"I'll do it... Granny is so pitiful." The red-haired girl took Tobi over and fed it water just like holding a baby.

"Ugh...?! How long have I been asleep? ... What did I miss... My granddaughter is already this big?" Tobi was completely baffled too.

While gnawing on a vacuum-packed giant chicken wing, Shiramiki concentrated his remaining shred of rationality to think...

Suddenly thinking of something, he swiftly picked up a can of cola and looked for its manufacturing date...

Loulan New Calendar Year 15...

As expected... just as he guessed, this girl came from the future.

In the original story, Naruto had also traveled through time to this point in Loulan, except now, for some reason, the time traveler had become his own daughter.

"Did you finally figure it out? And here I thought Dad could be smart. Hee hee hee..." The red-haired girl giggled.

"What... what kind of situation is this...?" Nono's cheeks were stuffed like a hamster, asking unclearly.

"She might really be my daughter... who time-traveled from the future..." Shiramiki looked at the red-haired girl with a complex gaze.

"What?! In the future, I still haven't run away, and I even became the wet nurse to your daughter!!!" Nono almost passed out, unable to catch her breath.

"So... whose daughter am I with you?" Shiramiki accepted having this daughter surprisingly fast.

"Guess?" The red-haired girl smiled shyly.

"Sara...?" Shiramiki pondered; only this Loulan red-haired queen Sara whom he hadn't met yet seemed to fit the description.

Could it be that once he's here, he's about to have a romantic encounter with the queen?

Hehehehe... Just thinking about it was exciting.

Having just gotten warm and fed, Shiramiki's imagination began to run wild.

"No—way!" The red-haired girl raised a single finger and wagged it.

"What?" Shiramiki's beautiful dream instantly shattered.

If not Sara... who could it be?

There were only so many red-haired people in the ninja world...

"Kushina? ... What the hell am I thinking..."

"Asuka? No, no, no... impossible."

"Nagato... Sasori... ugh!"

Shiramiki's guesses drifted further and further off course...

Finally, his face turned ashen green like a moldy turtle, and trembling, he pointed at the girl: "No, no, impossible, it couldn't... be with... Karin..."

"Ugh! You perverted Dad, I am Karin!!" The red-haired girl akimboed her hands, thoroughly annoyed.

"Oh, it's Karin... Ah哈哈哈... I completely didn't recognize you without glasses..." Shiramiki scratched his head with a silly grin.

"Don't even mention it... If you hadn't shown me those books when I was little, how could I have gotten nearsighted so early!" Karin pouted, took off her glasses from her ninja pouch, and put them on.

Beast...

Everyone cast contemptuous glances. Anyone could guess that the books Karin was talking about were probably that black sacred scripture full of romance.

"Bullshit...!!" Shiramiki blushed fiercely. There was no way he would give Karin *Make-Out Paradise* at such a young age just for a mere 100 gold coins.

"It's Inuyasha that Dad drew! What are you thinking about?" Karin shot Shiramiki a side-eye.

"Phew... That scared me to death... So in the future, I became a manga translator/carrier?" Shiramiki let out a sigh of relief.

"*Make-Out Paradise* was something I found in your nightstand drawer and read myself when I was five." Karin's next sentence almost gave Shiramiki a cerebral hemorrhage.