Facing Sasuke charging straight at her, looking ready to clash head-on, a cold smirk curled at the corner of Sakura's lips.
She had planned to hold back, but who would've thought this guy was so recklessly suicidal?
Fine then, she'd use just a tad more strength.
Tsūtenkyaku!
With a single stomp, the pink-haired girl leaped high into the air!
"Die!"
Sakura roared, her chakra surging violently to her foot in an instant. The blue-pink chakra flames were strikingly vivid against the night sky!
!!!
Wait, is Sakura actually trying to kill me?
Seeing that kick aimed straight at him, Sasuke's scalp tingled with dread. He tried to dodge its range, but a random rock protruding from the ground tripped him flat on his face!
Damn, this is bad!
No way to dodge!
But Sakura, seeing Sasuke suddenly sprawled on the ground, furrowed her brows even deeper.
Sure, her kick looked terrifyingly powerful, but she'd planned to pull back the moment it connected with Sasuke.
But with him hitting the dirt like that, she couldn't adjust her midair trajectory, which meant…
Sasuke dodged again!
In that moment, Sakura understood.
This had to be some kind of dojutsu never seen in the original story!
Otherwise, with Sasuke's perennial bad luck, how could he possibly get this lucky?
Looking at Sasuke, now out of her attack's path, Sakura stopped holding back. Her chakra surged to its limit!
With a single Tsūtenkyaku, the ground shattered beneath her foot!
Sasuke, facing the kick, rolled clumsily to the side in a desperate dodge!
Countless shards of earth and stone shot outward, the high-speed debris sharp enough to wound like weapons!
Yet, unbelievably, not a single piece of shrapnel harmed Sasuke!
Even the stones that landed on him were soft clumps of dirt!
Standing amid the rubble, Sakura eyed Sasuke as he scrambled to his feet, her mind already forming a hypothesis about his dojutsu.
"Is it a dojutsu that manipulates reality to avoid unfavorable outcomes?"
"And it seems to last quite a while, too."
Sasuke's face darkened at her words.
As expected of Sakura, huh?
She'd already picked up on the clues and started piecing together intel to deduce his dojutsu.
"Well, who knows," he said coolly. "If Sakura wants to find out, you could always beg me."
Sakura's lips twitched, her expression souring.
Beg him?
Where did he get the nerve?
"Playing mysterious, huh?"
Three shuriken appeared in Sakura's hand, seemingly from nowhere.
Whatever his dojutsu was—avoiding danger or something else—Sasuke's fundamentals were far inferior to hers.
Strength, speed, reflexes, chakra reserves—Sasuke couldn't match her in any of them.
Even if he had some high-level dojutsu, without the power to back it up, it was all just talk!
Sasuke's dojutsu was probably similar to Uchiha Obito's.
A tricky mechanism…
Heh, well, she loved crushing tricky mechanisms!
No matter how flashy you get, brute force breaks it all!
"Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!"
With a flick, she hurled the three shuriken, which multiplied into a sky full of black rain, cascading toward Sasuke in an overwhelming barrage!
A complete, no-blind-spot assault!
Since this was just a spar, Sakura held back from using her monstrous strength or oversized shuriken techniques.
Even so, this was more than enough to give Sasuke a run for his money.
Under the moonlight, the black rain of shuriken engulfed Sasuke!
Sasuke's scalp prickled at the sight.
Crap, he'd pissed Sakura off!
Quick as lightning, he pulled a kunai from his pouch, frantically deflecting shuriken after shuriken!
One after another, the shuriken clattered at his feet, but Sakura was already closing in!
"Don't act all high and mighty in front of me!"
Her hand shot toward Sasuke's throat like a bolt of lightning. He stumbled back, but her grip followed him like a shadow, relentless!
Sasuke, unable to shake her, formed hand seals in a flash.
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
But the moment a small spark flickered from his mouth, Sakura's hand, wreathed in solid pink chakra flames, clamped down on his mouth!
The Great Fireball Technique died before it could even begin!
?!
That's allowed?!
Sasuke's mind reeled in shock, but there was no time to think. Lightning crackled over his body, aiming to paralyze Sakura, but his infamous Lightning Release was utterly powerless against her pink chakra flames!
This is cheating!
Once Sakura got in close, it was a forced taijutsu showdown, and ninjutsu was completely useless!
A ninjutsu-type ninja caught in close quarters by a taijutsu-type was already at a disadvantage, but Sakura's pink chakra flames shut down ninjutsu so thoroughly it was absurd!
Seeing Fire and Lightning Release fail, Sasuke gripped his kunai like a ninja blade and thrust it at Sakura.
Sakura raised a delicate brow, utterly unfazed by the incoming kunai. The hand gripping Sasuke pulled back, and with a single finger, she flicked the kunai, sending it spinning out of his grasp and flying into the distance!
Sasuke's arm went numb, his shock deepening.
He knew Sakura was strong, but neither her earlier Tsūtenkyaku nor the punch that had sent him flying before compared to the sheer awe of this moment!
With a casual flick, she'd disarmed him of a tightly gripped kunai!
If she could flick away a kunai like that, wouldn't a ninja blade be just as easy?
"Hmph."
Facing Sasuke's stunned expression, Sakura let out a soft scoff, pressing her advantage.
She wanted to see just how much that mysterious dojutsu could do in this hopeless, close-range deadlock.
"Sakura!"
Sasuke, backpedaling furiously as she closed in, roared her name.
"What the hell are you yelling for?!"
Sakura snapped, annoyed by his sudden outburst.
Did he think she was Naruto, that idiot, passionately shouting mid-fight?
The sky had grown dark, unnoticed until now, as if rain was coming.
This is…
Sakura's heart sank with exasperation.
It was clear skies just moments ago, and now it's about to rain?
Sasuke's dojutsu was getting ridiculous…
Still doggedly pursuing him, Sakura was curious to see what else could happen.
And then the rain began…
Large droplets fell in front of her. If she kept chasing Sasuke, her trajectory would send one straight into her eye.
A sinking feeling hit her.
It was like the whole world was conspiring to help Sasuke.
Falling leaves, uneven ground, rain…
One "coincidence" after another kept disrupting her in this spar.
These were trivial things in everyday life, but now they were happening constantly, all perfectly timed to throw her off.
Sasuke was like the world's favorite child.
In that moment, Sakura understood his dojutsu.
It wasn't like Izanagi, avoiding danger by altering reality.
It was something far simpler—and far more absurd: luck!
The most ordinary kind of luck from everyday life!
If Sasuke led an army into battle, a meteor might just fall from the sky and wipe out an enemy force twenty times his size!
Closing her eyes, Sakura shattered the raindrop in her path. Her pale hand shot toward Sasuke like lightning!
But at that moment, a faint glow flickered in the sky…
Sakura's eyes snapped open.
+!
A damn meteor actually appeared!
And it was heading straight for her!
Though only the size of a house, its high-speed descent was enough to disrupt her plan to grab Sasuke!
"What a ridiculous dojutsu," Sakura said, her tone calm as she eyed Sasuke, who was still retreating with a smug grin.
"The current me isn't someone Sakura can—"
Sasuke's words cut off mid-sentence.
Because Sakura's hand had already seized his collar. Facing the meteor hurtling toward them, she raised her fist.
No way, is Sakura planning to…?
Sasuke's eyes widened in terror.
Though the meteor was only house-sized, its high-speed impact carried the force of an S-rank technique!
But Sakura, staring at the flaming meteor, didn't flinch.
A mere pebble thinks it can stop me?
Forget this little rock—even if the moon itself came crashing down, it wouldn't stop me!
"Let the moon come!"
Tossing out a cryptic phrase that left Sasuke baffled, Sakura, still gripping him, charged straight at the meteor!
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