Unevolving Species

The unknown assailant hurls floating weapons toward Sasuke, who bats them aside with his blade and threatens the man directly. The enemy grabs the sword so his boy can slip in for a strike, yet Sasuke's Rinnegan swaps his position with the younger attacker in an instant. He follows up with a compressed sphere of flame, only for the foe to raise his son as a living shield, and both are swallowed by the blast. Struck by Sasuke's ocular skill, the man names himself Shin Uchiha, prompting Sarada to note it matches the boy's name too.

Sasuke orders Naruto to guard the children and presses the attack, but the adult Shin steers a blade into Naruto, forcing him to drop his chakra cloak from the wound. With that shielding gone, incoming weapons find their mark, and Sasuke throws himself over Sarada, ending up pinned and paralysed. Sakura reaches them in time to hammer the elder Shin into the earth. As she apologises to Sarada, Shin's creature warps both attackers away, sweeping Sakura along with them. Back at their hideout, the father commands her to move his wounded son's organs into his own body to undo the harm she caused.

Published as chapter 706 within volume 73, this entry belongs to the Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring arc. Viz released it under the title Without Evolution.