Chapter 204: Sai: "Three Ugly Women, hahaha"
After Might Guy and Yamato thoughtfully "took care of" Kakashi, they were just about to leave. As soon as they opened the door, they ran straight into two people.
"Huh? You two, aren't you Tsunade-sama's disciples? Are you here to treat Kakashi-senpai?"
Seeing Sakura and Ino, Yamato was overjoyed and hurriedly welcomed them inside.
"My god…"
After Sakura and Ino went in and saw Kakashi lying on the bed, white milk overflowing from beneath his mask, his expression full of pain, tears sliding from the corners of his eyes…
"Oh, sorry, I forgot about that."
Yamato suddenly remembered something and quickly reached under the blanket to pull Kakashi's pants back up.
He had forgotten to pull them up earlier after checking whether Kakashi had pooped his pants.
Sakura and Ino exchanged a look and saw the same thought in each other's eyes.
Kakashi-sensei really has way too many "bonds."
"Kakashi's been unconscious all day. To prevent malnutrition, we gave him some milk and things like that."
Might Guy picked up a tissue and wiped the milk from under Kakashi's mask.
"It's fine, leave it to us."
Sakura and Ino exchanged another look. As expected of best friends, they were still perfectly in sync.
If you're worried about malnutrition, why not use an IV drip? Why insist on pouring milk into his mouth?
And milk is milk, what do you mean by "milk and things like that"?
The adult world really is too sinful.
Sakura and Ino helplessly rubbed their foreheads.
"Hm? Was there fighting outside just now? What's with the blood on your hands?"
Seeing the bloodstains on the two of them, Might Guy was startled.
Had he missed another battle to protect Konoha again?
"No. We were entrusted by Tsunade-sama to guard the Hokage Building together with Shizune."
"Earlier, one of Danzo's subordinates came causing trouble at the Hokage Building, so we…"
"So you fought bravely in a bloody battle and defeated the enemy? Not bad, it looks like Konoha's younger generation is full of youth!"
Might Guy gave them a thumbs-up.
Danzo's subordinate going to the Hokage Building,
Wasn't that the person who had run off earlier when they were staking it out?
After giving a few brief instructions, Yamato and Might Guy left.
Sakura and Ino finally let out a sigh of relief.
They had indeed fought Danzo's subordinate, but it wasn't some heroic, blood-soaked defense of the Hokage Building.
Leaving aside their own strength for the moment, Shizune, as their senior sister, was quite capable.
And since it was a defensive situation, of course traps had been set up.
After all, the Hokage had ordered that all nonessential personnel were forbidden from entering the Hokage Building that day, anyone who came was an enemy.
So the moment Sai stepped into the Hokage Building, he was marked as an enemy.
And he truly was one.
As a Root member, Sai didn't use poison, but he knew a lot about it.
Unfortunately for him, this was poison prepared by Shizune, a student personally taught by Tsunade, the peak of medical ninjutsu.
Sai was poisoned without even realizing it.
When he saw the three guarding the Hokage Building, Sai took out his brush and, in a very calm and honest manner, said,
"Three ugly women, could you move aside? I'm here under Danzo-sama's orders to…"
Three ugly women?
Damn it, he was already an enemy, and he still dared to provoke them like that?
Tsunade, and the disciples she took in, all had hidden (or not-so-hidden) violent tendencies.
Hearing that, they immediately snapped.
Shizune took the lead, rushing forward and slicing Sai's brush in half with a chakra scalpel.
Sakura and Ino hadn't trained with Tsunade for very long yet, and hadn't fully mastered monstrous strength.
But even so, their physical power in taijutsu wasn't weak to begin with.
Back when they had been sent to the hot springs to massage Shiromo, Shiromo had given the two of them a small piece of guidance.
This tip not only improved their strength, but also strengthened their sisterly bond.
Because this move required extreme control and coordination.
Control was the foundation of medical ninjutsu, and coordination required long-term emotional synchronization.
That's right, this move was the monstrous-strength version of the Lariat.
The instant Shizune cut the brush, Sakura and Ino appeared on both sides of Sai and charged at him.
Under this monstrous-strength Lariat, Sai let out a scream, and the hand he used for drawing was directly broken.
Strike while he's down.
The three of them began beating the fallen Sai with fists and kicks.
They still kept him alive, though, specifically to hand him over to Morino Ibiki for interrogation.
After finishing the beating and treatment, the three handed over the Sai who had been beaten into a pig's head to Morino Ibiki.
Ibiki saw the half-dead Sai's mouth moving, as if he was saying something.
Out of a sharp instinct for intelligence, Ibiki started reading his lips.
"Three, ugly, freaks, really, vicious, hearts."
"Uh…"
Only after reading it did Ibiki realize something was wrong.
He was still provoking them?
The three angrily turned back and beat Sai again.
Even more terrifying was that all three were medical ninjas, beating him while healing him at the same time.
It was even worse than whipping someone with alcohol and disinfecting while beating.
Ibiki watched and couldn't stop saying these three were perfect for the Interrogation Department.
In the end, Ibiki stopped them. If they kept going, Sai would turn into handmade beef meatballs.
Ibiki took Sai away for interrogation.
Since the torture part had already been done by those three, Sai confessed directly.
Ibiki obtained intelligence about Danzo.
At the same time, he also discovered that Sai hadn't been provoking them.
He genuinely believed that Sakura, Ino, and Shizune were ugly women.
Ibiki became curious, then in Sai's mind, what kind of person counted as a beauty?
It turned out Sai believed that having no extra expressions, no intense emotions, and similar traits defined beauty.
…Why did that sound like Sasuke in everyday life?
Ibiki even took out a modified photo of Danzo in women's clothing, and Sai still regarded it as a cold, elegant beauty.
Ibiki was utterly shocked.
Has Danzo's brainwashing of Root members reached this level?
Even their sense of aesthetics had been twisted.
Finally, Ibiki handed the gathered intelligence over to Shizune.
As for the "ugly women" matter, after hesitating for a moment, Ibiki told them about it too.
He hoped they wouldn't take it to heart, this was the viewpoint of someone whose worldview had already been warped.
Sai wasn't provoking them. He truly believed the three of them were ugly.
Ibiki said this hoping they would feel relieved and let it go.
But clearly, Ibiki understood the human heart and interrogation,
He absolutely did not understand women.
No wonder in the Boruto era he was still single, and in fights could only pick up rocks and smash people.
After learning that Sai had "sincerely" believed they were ugly, not trying to provoke them, the three became even angrier.
When Sai was transferred to the medical department, it had to go through their hands, so he got beaten up again.
That was why Sakura and Ino had so much blood on them.
Not because they were violent.
It was because Shiromo had told them that kindness and gentleness were for their own people, toward enemies, they had to be as cold and ruthless as winter, and absolutely never be naïve saints.
(End of this chapter)