0: Prologue: Fate intertwined

The world had been rewritten before.

History bent and twisted, altered by hands both mortal and divine. Some memories endured, lingering like ghosts in the minds of those too stubborn to forget. Others faded, swallowed by time itself.

But some things—some bonds—refused to break.

Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha had walked the edge of existence and returned. They had fought against fate, shattered time, and rewritten reality with their own hands.

But at what cost?

Naruto was no longer a name spoken in Konoha. His face had been erased from Hokage Rock. His past—his very existence—had been stolen away.

Yet, Sasuke still remembered.

No force, no god, no law of time could take that away from him.

As the two stood at the crossroads of destiny once more, the question remained:

If a bond defied time itself… could it ever truly be forgotten?

The winds whispered. The stars held their breath.

And their story began again.