Chapter 115: If I Punch You With This Fist, You Will Really Die!
"One for each of us!" Sasuke leaped up in an instant, still having the spare energy to speak even as he dodged the fierce tiger. His speed was the fastest, and as he wished, he had chosen the strongest opponent, Kazahana Dotō.
"Hmph! Courting death!" Kazahana Dotō was pleased rather than angry. The one he was wary of was the pink-haired girl, not this wet-behind-the-ears, black-haired brat. Since this brat had chosen a one-on-one, then he could have the other two hold off that girl first (Naruto had already been ignored in his mind). He would quickly finish off the black-haired youth, and then surround and attack that girl with the others!
Hn, he would soon realize who would be finishing off whom. That was the question.
And on the other side, Naruto looked at Sasuke with a gloomy expression. "Aah, that cunning Sasuke! Hogging the spotlight again!"
He avoided the ice tiger, sized up the remaining two with a dejected look, and after some picking and choosing, he went up against the male ninja who looked to be the second strongest.
And so, the weakest female ninja was left to Haruno Sakura.
"A woman against a woman, is it... ah ah," Sakura was a little speechless. "You're all quite good at picking your opponents!"
Talk was talk, but the movements of the girl's hands were not slow at all. The seals for the next ninjutsu were completed in just a few moves.
"Ice Style - Absolute Defense!"
Sakura did not dodge this fierce tiger as she had the One-Horned White Whale during the day.
This was because the female ninja's ninjutsu had clearly chosen to let Naruto and Sasuke pass and had locked onto her. She could see that, unlike the攻堅-type giant whale which focused on impact force, the ice tiger created by the Tearing Dragon, Fierce Tiger was obviously more agile and more suitable for a prolonged fight. If she dodged, she was afraid it would continue to entangle her. It was better to face it head-on.
BOOM—! The Kekkei Genkai ninjutsu was indeed a bit stronger than this half-baked Ice Style. The fierce tiger created by the Snow Ninja, which looked so imposing and savage, crashed into the ice wall created by Sakura and was actually unable to do anything to this thick, transparent wall, instantly shattering into a pile of broken ice.
However, Sakura's side was not completely unscathed—
"Not bad power..." the girl said, clicking her tongue a little as she looked at a deep crack in the ice wall. The impact of this ninjutsu was actually not as strong as the One-Horned White Whale, but its advantage was that it was more agile and could better lock onto its target. And it had already been able to crack Sakura's Absolute Defense. It was clear that these few Snow Ninja still had some skill.
That Rōga Nadare from the daytime, if he hadn't been too careless, probably wouldn't have been in such a sorry state.
"It is impolite not to reciprocate... You guys had a lot of fun blasting away with your Ice Style yesterday! As a matter of courtesy, it should be my turn to greet you with my Ice Style!" the girl said with a sneer.
"Ice Style - A Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death!"
With a light stomp of her right foot on the snowy ground, Sakura's chakra, using the ice and snow as a medium, instantly created tens of thousands of ice senbon in the air.
Her current strength was, after all, far beyond that of Haku Yuki during the Land of Waves arc, and plus, this was the home field for Ice Style. Therefore, the Thousand Flying Water Needles she cast this time was a hundred times more powerful than Haku's. The ice senbon, like a swarm of flying locusts, densely filled the sky above Kakuyoku Fubuki, leaving not a single gap!
The cold, restless chakra filled the entire arena, rendering Sakura's Ice Style with a sky-darkening, astonishingly powerful presence that made one's blood run cold.
"Hmph!" Sakura sneered. Her right hand, which had been pointing straight at the sky, suddenly clenched into a fist. With a single command, the tens of thousands of senbon suspended in the air instantly shot towards Kakuyoku Fubuki like rain and arrows!
Swish, swish, swish—
The sound of the senbon cutting through the air almost merged into one. Kakuyoku Fubuki's expression changed. She instantly squatted down, curling into a ball, and deeply buried her exposed face and neck in the protective range of her arms and legs.
Then came a dense series of "papapa" impact sounds. At the center of the ninjutsu, the endless senbon almost buried Kakuyoku Fubuki alive.
"A direct hit!" But Sakura's expression showed no joy at all.
Before long, the rain of senbon stopped.
Where Kakuyoku Fubuki had been standing, the ice senbon had already piled up like a small mountain, completely submerging her. Then, the mountain of senbon shook for a moment, and Kakuyoku Fubuki walked out from it leisurely.
"She even withstood the Thousand Flying Water Needles..."
Sakura's expression immediately became a little grave. The over-saturated attack of the ice senbon had not been able to break the armor's defense. Kakuyoku Fubuki had even walked out completely unharmed.
It seemed that at least B-rank and lower ninjutsu were not to be considered.
"Your ninjutsu doesn't seem to be working!" Kakuyoku Fubuki said, flexing her arms and legs and laughing viciously. "Why don't you use that water jutsu from before?"
"Why use an ox-cleaver to kill a chicken?" Sakura smiled with contempt.
Actually, it wasn't that she didn't want to use this move. The ninja opposite her was staring at her with full concentration, just waiting for her to form the hand seals for a water jutsu to immediately dodge. Under these circumstances, thinking of using the Water Gun Jutsu to finish off the opponent was probably not very realistic. After all, no matter how fast her hand seals were... it was impossible to be faster than the enemy's reaction.
The opponent is a bit like my old self, the girl thought, a little surprised. Both have a defensive ninjutsu that can block many ninjutsu and taijutsu, and also have a few water/ice jutsu with decent attack power... To some extent, she's like a weakened version of Sakura.
So what about her weaknesses? What is the common weakness of a ninjutsu-type ninja? A thought stirred in the girl's heart.
The fact that the opponent was so on guard against her Water Gun Jutsu was actually her biggest flaw—
Why not... scare her a little first? No sooner said than done. The chakra in her body mobilized, and she formed the Tiger seal with her hands. "Water Style—!"
As expected, the moment the female ninja, whose nerves were stretched taut, detected this chakra fluctuation, she felt as if she had been pricked by a thorn in her back and forcefully leaped away.
An opening!
The Snow Ninja's overreaction immediately exposed a huge gap. Sakura, who had only been pretending, immediately dropped the hand seal. Her nin-taijutsu suddenly activated. She stomped her foot, and her figure shot out, instantly disappearing from the Snow Ninja's sight.
"Where are you looking?!" When she reappeared, Sakura was already standing behind Kakuyoku Fubuki!
Not having activated Sakura Rush made the girl a little unaccustomed to the huge explosive power and extremely high speed brought by her nin-taijutsu. She had wasted a little time on balancing her body, but the female ninja's poor reaction speed still gave her enough time to adjust her posture and launch an attack—
The blue light of chakra flowed like water on the girl's body.
She took a lunge step, a blue light flashed on her leg, and she suddenly stomped on the ground. The immense rebounding force was born from the heel of her foot.
Then she turned her hips and twisted her waist. The blue light followed the movement, bringing up the surging power, carrying it to her shoulder and elbow, and then came the final raising of the elbow and the punch!
"Monstrous Strength Technique - Star Cannon Hammer!"
The secret technique, Monstrous Strength, personally taught by Tsunade, was mixed with the taijutsu movements of other martial arts schools to form Haruno Sakura's style of nin-taijutsu.
The Monstrous Strength Technique was a secret art that used a unique method to enhance the muscles with chakra, thereby gaining incredible power. And the Star Cannon Hammer was a taijutsu movement that condensed the power within the body into one force and channeled it to the fist to be blasted out. The power of this punch lay in using the martial arts movement of Wing Chun—the Star Cannon Hammer—to deliver the immense force brought by the Monstrous Strength Technique. With the two superimposed, it was faster and more powerful than when Sakura attacked with just the Monstrous Strength Technique.
It was no exaggeration to say that this one punch could create a small earthquake!
"If I punch you with this fist, you will really die!"
The girl's icy gaze seemed to be saying this to Kakuyoku Fubuki.
This was indeed an unstoppable and unbeatable punch.
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