Chapter 460: Black Eyes
On the other side of the Land of Iron.
In the snowy forest, Kakashi was arranging the tracking of Sasuke when his expression suddenly changed.
Akamaru barked.
"Someone is coming!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Three familiar figures landed in front of everyone one after another.
"Gaara!" Naruto was slightly stunned, then shouted pleasantly surprised.
"Phew!"
"Finally found you guys..." Temari stopped first, standing on the snow with hands on her hips, scanning the Konoha ninja, and said to Kakashi, "There is something you must listen to!"
"Some things happened at the Five Kage Summit..." Gaara took over the conversation and said, "But, why are you here?"
In this remote and icy wilderness with no villages ahead or behind, even ninja wouldn't deliberately stay in such places.
"It's a long story..." Kakashi scratched the back of his head and sighed, "Let's talk about what happened at the Five Kage Summit first!"
"Hn."
Temari nodded and immediately narrated the series of events that happened today.
From the argument at the meeting, to Danzo secretly using genjutsu to control Mifune to speak for him, then to Sasuke invading the venue and causing havoc at the meeting, and finally the mysterious person calling himself Madara Uchiha saving Sasuke and leaving a declaration of war...
"The above... is what happened today."
Temari said slowly with a solemn expression.
Kakashi and Yamato looked at each other, their expressions solemn, and pondered.
"Madara Uchiha said this would be a war affecting the entire ninja world. I think this is not alarmist talk..." Gaara stood aside and said calmly, "If 'Akatsuki' really collects all nine Tailed Beasts, it will inevitably be a disaster for the entire world."
He looked at Naruto and said solemnly: "So, we need to form an Allied Shinobi Forces to stop them. This is a battle to protect the remaining Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails, which means, this is a war to protect you, Naruto."
"As the Kazekage, I will bet my life to protect you..."
He paused, reaching out and patting Naruto's shoulder.
"Regarding Sasuke, I am very sorry."
Naruto lowered his head and fell silent.
Gaara glanced at the others. The Konoha ninja came quite completely; familiar people like Haruno Sakura, Lee, and Kiba were all present.
Strange... why is everyone here?
He felt some doubts in his heart but didn't raise them. He nodded to everyone he knew, nodded lightly to Lee, and prepared to say goodbye and leave.
He was about to speak when he noticed from the corner of his eye that besides solemnity, there was also a bit of strangeness in everyone's eyes.
"What's wrong?" Temari frowned slightly, asking Gaara's doubt.
Kakashi hesitated for a moment and said: "We also have a piece of intelligence... very strange."
"Hm?"
"Speaking of Sasuke..." Haruno Sakura stepped forward and said, "We also encountered a person who looks very much like Sasuke just now, secretly monitoring us nearby."
"Later Kiba discovered his existence, and we chased after him, but he was very fast, and his movements and chakra didn't look like he was injured... Later when we chased here, we couldn't catch up."
Temari and the other two were stunned.
"Appeared here?" Gaara frowned, thinking carefully, "At the Five Kage Summit, Sasuke was already seriously injured... how could he appear lively and vigorously hundreds of kilometers away?"
"Moreover, judging from your description," Kakashi also interjected, "Sasuke's mind has fallen into the abyss, and the feeling of his chakra has become very dark. But the Sasuke we encountered..."
He turned his head and exchanged glances with the people behind him.
"His chakra is very clean and clear..." Haruno Sakura nodded and said.
Her perception of chakra was the most delicate, and she always remembered the texture of Sasuke's chakra... so she knew best the difference between the chakra of that person just now and the real Sasuke—
Although very, very similar, he didn't have the dark feeling of the real Sasuke.
So Haruno Sakura was certain that he was not the Sasuke she knew.
"Is it an imposter?" Kankuro stood aside and said carelessly.
"Possible..."
Kakashi said, biting his finger, wiping blood on his palm, and summoning the ninja dog Pakkun.
"Anyway, no matter who he is... we plan to track him down and figure out his identity!"
While some distance away from Kakashi and the others.
Sasuke was traveling with ordinary ninja running... In fact, he deliberately controlled his speed, and deep in his heart, there might be a small hope that they could catch up.
If possible, just guide them to find Sakura.
Sasuke traveled silently, thinking in his heart.
He hoped everyone could talk calmly, instead of fleeing as a wanted target like now.
He hoped to understand some things...
What exactly happened to Sasuke in this world? What did he do, what did he experience?
The boy's heart was somewhat heavy.
"Sasuke-nii," Yoru said squinting while licking the dried fish, "Three new people met up with Naruto-nii and the others, stopped together seeming to be chatting."
"Hn."
"Sasuke-nii," Yoru finished eating the fish meat and said while licking the meat shreds in the bone gaps, "They started following up."
"Hn."
"Sasuke-nii," Yoru casually threw the cleanly gnawed dried fish aside and asked, "Are there any more dried fish?"
"...You ate them all!"
"...Oh."
The battle between Haruno Sakura and Danzo was approaching its end.
"There is no suspense in the battle anymore... If Danzo has no other means, even if he can revive a few more times, it will be of no avail!"
Karin retreated far away, hiding behind a huge rock outside the battlefield, quietly poking out a small head, watching the battle carefully while pondering silently.
The battle on the field, due to Danzo's inability to fight back, had evolved into a game of Ice Giant Whack-a-Mole.
Boom boom boom—!
The Giant God Warrior bombarded the earth successively. Each blow seemed to create a small earthquake. The roar was gloomy and heavy, resounding through the clouds, making Karin's eardrums buzz!
Under the attack of the giant's fists and feet, Danzo dodged and moved with agile movements inconsistent with his age, his figure flying up and down like a rabbit and a falcon, dodging Haruno Sakura's attacks dangerously several times, which was amazing.
However, with only defense and no chance to attack, no matter how brilliantly and critically Danzo dodged, there would be a time when defense failed after a long time.
On the field, after thrillingly avoiding Haruno Sakura's attacks several times, Danzo was finally forced into a dead corner.
"Can't dodge anymore..."
Surrounded by precipices composed of ruined gravel, with almost no space to dodge, the old man panted heavily, watching the huge hand above his head shrouding him like covering the sky and sun, his face turning green!
Dust dispersed, sand splashed, gravel flew!
Indistinctly, Danzo's figure reappeared on the other side.
On the right arm, the ninth Sharingan closed.
"Every time he dies, one eye closes..." Karin confirmed this point again.
After Danzo's secret of repeated resurrection was exposed to the girl's sight several times, Karin had cracked the secret of this ninjutsu.
Each Sharingan corresponds to a chance of resurrection. Although she didn't know what jutsu this was, the effect of the jutsu was obviously to resurrect him at the cost of the permanent closing of the Sharingan!
"The ninth eye..." Karin whispered to Sasuke, "Danzo only has the last Sharingan left, which is the last chance of resurrection!"
"The battle between these two... is about to end soon!"
Sasuke nodded silently.
Danzo was obviously about to die. Haruno Sakura didn't show any sign of holding back against him.
His mood wasn't happy at all because the object of revenge was about to die.
He saw Danzo's strength in his eyes. Even if it was obtained by trickery and cheating, with many trump cards, he could be called powerful. Sasuke was confident of defeating him, but he would also pay a considerable price.
But Haruno Sakura... didn't use her full strength at all, beating Danzo without him being able to fight back, as if a cat playing with a mouse!
Why... are you so strong?
Sasuke's mood at this moment was cold and complex.
Danzo, resurrected for the ninth time, subconsciously glanced at his right arm again.
"No need to look," the girl's clear and cold voice came from above, "You only have the last Sharingan left."
Danzo was startled in his heart.
Was the secret of the jutsu... discovered?
The girl seemed to see through what he was thinking and chuckled lightly: "Do you take others for fools? Resurrecting so many times, anyone could see through the problem of your jutsu..."
"Izanagi."
"Your jutsu... is called this name, right? At the cost of permanent loss of vision of the Sharingan, twisting the reality unfavorable to oneself back, even reversing death, thereby achieving the appearance of resurrection. So, you only have the last chance of resurrection left."
"Didn't expect... you actually know about Izanagi." Danzo said coldly.
"What else do you know?"
"I know much more about the Uchiha matters than you imagine..." Haruno Sakura smiled faintly and said calmly, "But why should I tell you to let you delay time?"
Danzo was startled.
Killing intent condensed in the air like frost. Without thinking, the old man jumped up abruptly. Behind him came the roaring sound of the giant's palm hitting the ground.
That overwhelming power vented onto the earth, actually making the soil ripple and spread out like water waves!
Danzo didn't have time to rejoice that he dodged the fatal blow.
Sharp whistling sounds of breaking air came from above. As soon as Danzo landed, he subconsciously bent backward. The force was so great that the muscles and bones all over his body seemed to be cracking. Using this, the old man's body bent at an angle beyond the limit, dodging the horizontal slash of another hand by a hair's breadth!
"Already saw through your attack pattern...!" Danzo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then—
Silver-white water line fell from the sky, passed through Danzo's body, and cut a very thin slit on the ground.
The old man's face maintained the relaxed expression of the last moment, with a bit of astonishment, and then his body split in two, falling to the ground left and right.
"Saw through my attack pattern?"
Watching Danzo resurrect for the last time and appear on the ground, a contemptuous arc hung on the corner of Haruno Sakura's mouth.
On the old man's right arm, the last Sharingan closed slowly.
"Danzo Shimura, you are finished."
Haruno Sakura stood high and said coldly.
Looking down from the height she stood, Danzo's figure was as tiny as an ant.
Her fingers moved slightly, controlling the ice giant's hand to raise high.
Then, smashed down fiercely towards Danzo!
Sudden change occurred: Danzo's right arm suddenly turned into a giant tree, wrapping around the ice giant and binding it! Danzo abruptly tore off his right hand, taking the opportunity to leap up, jump a few times on the immobile ice giant, and rushed in front of Haruno Sakura!
The bandage covering the right eye was opened by him at some point.
Revealing a bewitching Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Did he turn the tables?" Obito's heart moved.
"Finally delayed enough time..." The old man sneered.
"It is you who is finished... become my puppet, Haruno Sakura!"
He stared fixedly at the girl's clear black and white eyes.
Wait—
Danzo was suddenly stunned.
Haruno Sakura... why does she have black eyes?
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