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They stole a lifetime of happiness. The payment is eternal agony. Naruto and Sasuke broke the fundamental law of the cosmos to save their own past. Their reward: the Temporal Containment Facility, a cold, white hell where every memory of love is purged with crushing discipline. They are prisoners and anchors, held captive beneath a silent, watchful King. After a failed escape, they face the final punishment: chained, stripped bare, and beaten until their bodies are shattered and their minds are empty. The torment is absolute, designed to leave them compliant husks, forever fueling the timeline they dared to disrupt. But the King of Time has one last command for his younger self. With a sudden, devastating snap, Naruto is hurled out of the prison and into the vivid scene of his own childhood, staring at the face of the boy who will become his everything: Sasuke. He lunges forward, desperate to warn the past, when the reality of the prison asserts its final, brutal claim. The cosmic power is too much for his broken body. The world tears apart. Naruto feels his spine seize, his heart explode, and the ghost of the chains returns. He collapses, not in a cell, but somewhere dark and unknown. He is left with only the raw, visceral pain of the whips and the single, terrifying name echoing in his shattered mind. The war for their past is over. The price of their future has just been paid.
Chapter 1: The Rain and The Red Knife
