Chương 33

"... OH COME ON!" Daniel shouted first while standing up immediately.

"RAY! YOU CAN'T JUST TELEPORT PEOPLE INTO MY HOUSE WITHOUT WARNING!" Rei just gave him the glare and that shut him up pretty fast. It was afternoon and a sunny day, thus everything was highlighted perfectly. Meanwhile the Demon Brothers looked outright horrified. Because unlike Daniel, they knew who was the person who sent them here, and in addition to the famous copy ninja. Naruto meanwhile had completely stopped functioning mentally.

"... Where are we?" Sakura looked equally broken while staring at the glowing television, smooth walls, huge glass windows and strange furniture around them. Sasuke remained silent for almost ten full seconds before finally speaking.

"... What." Honestly, that was probably the most emotionally expressive thing he had said all week. Kakashi meanwhile slowly scanned the entire room carefully. Electricity, advanced architecture., strange devices and so many weird things around, that he couldn't even name them. No chakra signatures anywhere nearby besides themselves and these demon brothers. He wasn't a sensory ninja but he could feel through his basic senses at least. And outside the giant windows...

much further away were enormous glowing buildings stretched into the distance. This wasn't genjutsu. That realization alone made Kakashi's stomach sink slightly, one couldn't just make genjutsu so vivid, and even if it was, he was sure that he could easily break apart such jutsu from the control of Rei. He was at least confident about that.

"... Rei." Kakashi spoke very carefully afterward.

"... Where exactly did you bring us?" Rei calmly sat down on a nearby chair afterward while still recovering slightly from the chakra overload.

"... Another world."

"What?" Sasuke and Sakura didn't comprehend what it meant, and Kakashi, just like others were having sense of existential crisis. Even the demon brothers who were listening to Rei couldn't believe his words.

"Daniel bring me the globe..." Rei ordered and Daniel, also keen on what Rei was going to say, soon brought back a globe.

"As you know that world we live in is round, right?" Rei asked.

"I didn't.." Naruto raised his hand and all he got in return was a scowl from Sakura and Sasuke. This was basic geography, how could he not know? Rei didn't bother to explain him.

"So imagine this is our world. Our home.. Our planet.. There we live happily ever after or at least try to.. But beyond this.." Rei said as he pointed at the empty space outward from the globe model, "... is what we call the universe.. There are different planets.. The sun around which we revolve.. There is the moon.. Here.. And also other worlds.. Other planets." Rei was trying his best to visually explain astronomy.

"The universe is huge.. Like even if you run for years you might not even reach the nearest planet.. So just think that the universe is something which is huge and has trillions of planets. Most of them dead.."

"And just like our universe, there are other universes around.. This place that we are right now is in a different universe than the universe we came from.. I know it's hard to understand but think of it as a travel between two completely different planets in completely different universes... Do you understand?" There was a huge pause. Unlike the ninjas here, Daniel's eyes went wide as Rei had started explaining about planets, Daniel understood what Rei meant.

When Rei had appeared in their lives, they thought he was very special. What they didn't expect was that Rei was an alien. But wait, didn't they take blood samples and tests for finding his actual parents? If he was an alien, the doctors would have flagged it. So what the hell was going on. Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.

Meanwhile, since Naruto didn't understand, Rei had to open the Internet and using videos he showed them what he really meant and after 10 minutes of questioning and reasoning, all of them understood where they were. And suffice to say, their whole perception of the world around them took a nosedive. Different plants? Different universe?

"So your kekkei genkai is a space-time technique, and not a sealing technique?" Kakashi had to ask. He remembered his sensei. His technique was essentially a funinjutsu, but technically it was a space-time technique.

"Yes, though sealing is the basics but space-time is the broader view." Rei admitted with a lie. He knew what his sensei was thinking, and didn't bother to correct him. Honestly, explaining multiversal travel to shinobis while sitting inside a Malibu mansion was not something Rei imagined himself doing when he got hit by Truck-kun in his previous life. Life truly was bizarre sometimes. Meanwhile Naruto still looked mentally destroyed.

"…So…" Naruto pointed toward the giant windows outside afterward.

"…this isn't just another hidden village?"

"No." Rei replied calmly.

"Different planet. Different universe. Different civilization." Naruto's brain officially blue-screened afterward. Sakura meanwhile had started asking questions at machine gun speed now.

"Wait if there are different universes then does that mean there are different histories too? Different countries? Different wars? Different cultures?!"

"…Yes."

"… WHAT?!" Sasuke meanwhile remained unusually quiet now while observing everything around him carefully. Unlike Naruto, who got distracted every three seconds, Sasuke immediately noticed the details. He asked if there shinobis and Rei replied that people didn't have any chakra or anything of that sort or any kind of system. What surprised Sasuke was despite any presence of chakra the buildings outside looked wealthier than most noble compounds. This world felt… peaceful. Or at least peaceful on the surface.

Kakashi meanwhile sat down slowly on the couch afterward while holding his forehead lightly. The Copy Ninja had fought missing-nin, ANBU, jinchuriki, bloodline users and even faced the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God before. Yet somehow…

"another universe" genuinely managed to give him emotional damage.

"… Minato-sensei would've loved this." Kakashi muttered weakly, under his breath, not heard by anyone. Meanwhile the Demon Brothers had already adapted suspiciously quickly to modern entertainment. Gozu currently held a soda can while Meizu aggressively explained explosions from an action movie to Naruto. The two brother had let go of their metal gloves and also their masks, and by now they got the hint that Rei didn't much bother with them.

Rei didn't even pay any attention, and thus in order to climb the good books, they started explaining Naruto, while Sasuke and Sakura joined in.

"No look! That metal carriage is faster than a horse!" Naruto immediately looked impressed.

"…CAN I DRIVE ONE?!"

"No." Daniel answered instantly from the kitchen.

"Aww…"

"Especially not after you tried to climb the balcony railing five minutes ago!" Rei added in.

"Besides we are too young to drive one. We need to grow older to do something like that. Laws are very strict here." Naruto looked deeply betrayed hearing that. Meanwhile Sakura had discovered the kitchen appliances now. She got to know about the microwave, about a small mixer/grinder, the air conditioning, the refrigerator....

"…Civilization here is cheating." Daniel honestly couldn't even argue against that anymore. Soon afterward Rei finally stood up again. His chakra still felt slightly unstable internally, but at least now he wasn't accidentally freezing nearby furniture anymore.

"…Come." Everyone looked toward him afterward.

"Since you're already here, might as well understand this place properly." And thus began probably the strangest house tour in Team 7 history. The balcony became the first victim. The moment the group stepped outside overlooking Malibu itself, silence immediately followed. Because the ocean stretched endlessly beneath the afternoon sunlight while enormous modern buildings glittered in the distance. Roads curved across the hills while cars continuously moved below like streams of metal insects.

Naruto's jaw dropped completely.

"…The sea is HUGE…"

"Hey we just came from the sea side.." Sasuke pointed out.

"Oh yes.. Hahaha.. But the sea here is so beautiful.. It's so huge.." For someone raised mostly inside Konoha, seeing an open ocean from this height genuinely looked overwhelming. Even Sasuke looked slightly stunned now though he tried hiding it behind his usual emotionally constipated face. Then came the mobile phone demonstration.

"…IT'S A MINI TELEVISION!" Naruto shouted while aggressively poking Daniel's phone.

"Don't drop that!" Daniel panicked instantly.

"…Why does it have buttons?"

"…Naruto that isn't even the important part." Sakura grabbed the phone afterward before freezing slightly herself.

"…Wait… people can talk through this?"

"Across the entire planet." Rei nodded lightly.

"…Bullshit." Sasuke finally spoke. Then Rei showed them internet videos afterward. That somehow made things worse.

"…Wait wait wait." Naruto pointed dramatically afterward.

"People here can just watch whatever they want whenever they want?!"

"…Yes."

"…THIS WORLD IS AMAZING!" Rei finally took them to show the cars from close by. This was the thing that these children were more interested than anything else. Meanwhile Meizu had already started flexing because he arrived earlier than Team 7.

"We already know these things."

"Shut up." Gozu immediately muttered.

"You thought the windshield wipers were attack mechanisms yesterday." It was a long and hilarious process of trying to explain them the basic things.