[He's about to make some manner of comment about how no, he's not in the jewelry, how would that even make sense, Naruto. But he's, uh, distracted by that last comment.]

...What?

[But--hadn't ALISTAIR said something about returning back to the point where he'd fallen through the rift, when they had the energy? Had they been lying?

But no, that doesn't make sense, either. If he had been missing, Naruto wouldn't react like it was normal for him not to be in the village at that time. Something fishy is going on here.]

The last I saw of you, we were having lunch with Asuma-san and his team after returning from Tenchi Bridge. What has happened, since then?

[And why doesn't he remember it...]