Chapter 276: Two Haruno Sakuras; The Night of the Massacre
This Haruno Sakura... was not her.
What the girl Haruno Sakura meant was that this pink and tender little loli in front of her was not her from a few years ago.
She was an adult who had transmigrated. Even if she had to pretend to be a child, there was no need to act like this.
So, her previous guess had a loophole...
The pink-haired girl took a breath.
"Is it you?"
She asked.
She used Chinese, which she hadn't used in a long time and felt a little unfamiliar.
The little loli, shrinking behind Haruno Mebuki, showed no reaction.
"Is it you?" she asked again, her voice louder.
She stared intently at her younger self. The latter was frightened by her loud voice and burning gaze and shrank back even further.
"What are you saying to my daughter?" Haruno Mebuki said with a trace of anger. "Did you barge into my house just to do such an inexplicable thing? Please leave!"
The girl ignored the reprimand of her mother from another world.
The atmosphere in the living room was a bit stiff. The little loli was so scared she was on the verge of tears.
Haruno Kizashi slammed the table, stood up, and shouted angrily, "You've already disturbed my daughter. She's very afraid of you! Please leave my house, or I won't be polite!"
Sakura sighed. Her right hand formed a seal in front of her chest, and three figures suddenly appeared beside the three adults of the Haruno family—Sakura's ice clones pressed down on their hands.
"Please calm down. I have no ill intentions," the ice clones said. Haruno Kizashi tried to pull his hand out, but found that the clone's strength was unbelievably strong, not something a Chunin like him could resist.
Haruno Sakura squatted down and looked straight at the little Sakura who was hiding behind her mother.
She continued to speak urgently, "If you understand, then answer me. You were an old man of nearly thirty in your last life. Stop pretending to be a little girl! Answer me, I am the future you!"
When little Sakura heard her words, her eyes showed no fluctuation. She looked as if she didn't understand at all.
Haruno Sakura took a deep breath.
This isn't an act. She really doesn't understand.
She finally confirmed it. The two of them had the same parents, the same hair, the same eyes, but not the same soul.
She had not traveled to the world of a few years ago.
But to the world of the original story!
Haruno Sakura suddenly stood up and said to the three of them with a hint of apology, "I'm sorry. I was being presumptuous."
She dispersed the ice clones and bowed sincerely to the three of them.
"I'm very sorry... Oh right, this little girl of yours, she has the talent of a ninja. Her chakra control is very strong, and she has a talent for genjutsu and Tsunade's Monstrous Strength Technique. Please train her more..."
"Who are you?" Haruno Sakura's father, Haruno Kizashi, frowned. In his mind, this girl had already been identified as a powerful and strange person.
"I am..." Haruno Sakura was stunned for a moment, then paused and said with a smile, "You can call me Tobi. I came in a hurry and didn't bring any gifts. I'm really embarrassed. I can only give you a little advice."
She glanced at the calendar. July 10th.
In that other world, yesterday was July 9th.
The two were exactly six years apart.
Sakura slowly closed her eyes. This date was a bit special. It was the anniversary of the death of Sasuke's parents. Every year on this day, he would try his best to take a day off...
In other words, tonight was the night of the Uchiha massacre! How could it be such a coincidence...
Haruno Sakura had no time to chat with her parents from this world.
Thinking of this, she said urgently, "You will realize that I am right... Please let her become strong!"
"You must not tarnish the name of 'Haruno Sakura'!"
After speaking, she turned to leave.
"Wait, who on earth are you?" Haruno Mebuki called out to her. Sakura turned her head and met her gaze.
"You have the same hair as Sakura, the same eyes... could it be that you..." she said hesitantly.
"Ma'am, you've mistaken me for someone else," Haruno Sakura was stunned for a moment, then categorically denied it, and smiled sweetly.
Ignoring the others in the room, Haruno Sakura pushed the door open and left. She didn't have much of a relationship with them. Sakura was just a passerby created by an accident.
She walked out of the Haruno's house.
Haruno Sakura could feel that the pulling sensation was getting stronger and stronger, as if indicating that she was about to leave this place!
"I was planning to go and ask the Third, but it seems there's no time now..." she said, looking up at the night sky.
The incident was about to happen. It might even be happening now.
The moon was as round as a platter, its color like blood.
What exactly happened on the night of the massacre?
Anyway, I'm about to transmigrate back. I'll just be a little bolder and sneak in to take a look...
Haruno Sakura touched the Yin Seal on her forehead. That energy was still motionless. During this period of recuperation back in the village, she had had no place to consume her chakra, so her chakra had been saved up very quickly, and she already had quite a lot in reserve.
To be blunt, at this time in Konoha, with the Sannin gone, the old being old and the young being young, there was a gap. There should be no one, from top to bottom, who was her opponent. So there was no one who could stop her!
If she wanted to do something.
She took a few quick steps and disappeared into the night with a Body Flicker. When the three members of the Haruno family came out, the girl's figure had already disappeared.
Haruno Kizashi and Haruno Mebuki looked at each other.
Kizashi cleared his throat, his expression serious. "Honey, you have to believe me. I'm devoted to you!"
While a light-hearted, warm family comedy was playing out at the Haruno's house...
Haruno Sakura had already infiltrated the Uchiha's compound.
Using the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, she had cleverly frozen a small puddle in the compound into a block of ice and had used the space-time Body Flicker to pass through the blockade line set up by either Root or the Anbu.
The Uchiha and the village were not on good terms. This was something everyone knew by now.
There was news that the Uchiha wanted to rebel, some said they wanted a coup, and some even said they had colluded with outsiders to make a move against Konoha. The news was spread in a fantastic way, and no one knew if it was true or false.
The only thing they knew was that the atmosphere in the village was getting more and more tense, more and more strange.
The Uchiha and the village, who were sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams, seemed to be about to reach the end of their fallout.
However, to make an analogy, just as in the stock market in her previous life, when it was in a bull market and was rising unreasonably, everyone knew that this game of passing the flower would one day collapse, but they didn't know which day it would suddenly fall—only the banker knew the answer.
And in Konoha, everyone knew that something would happen on the Uchiha's side sooner or later, but they didn't know which day it would happen. Only the Uchiha themselves, as well as the Third and Danzo, knew that they were going to launch a coup on July 11th, which was tomorrow.
The time to annihilate the clan was chosen on July 10th.
The day before the coup, the day the Uchiha were most excited.
The Uchiha people had not noticed the slight abnormality: through various coincidences and reasons, all the Uchiha, including those in the Military Police Force, had already returned to the compound.
And all the outsiders had been driven out for various reasons.
The compound was sealed off by Danzo and his Root. It was extremely difficult for anyone inside to break through the blockade.
The time for the massacre was set.
Uchiha Itachi jumped down from a rock—it was the rock that Shisui had been standing on before he had thrown himself into the river and committed suicide.
He had been standing there for six hours.
From the afternoon, when he had sent Sasuke off; to the evening, when the sunset clouds were like fire, like blood; to the night, when darkness fell, and a blood moon was high in the sky.
"It's about to begin..."
Itachi looked at the sky. The silver moon seemed to have Shisui's reflection in it. The night was getting deeper. He knew he had to start moving.
"No, it's about to end."
Everything about the Uchiha clan would end tonight.
Including its clansmen, its history, its glory, and its future.
And from today on, everything about Itachi would also be destroyed by his own hands.
He would no longer be the Light of the Uchiha, the Pride of Konoha.
But the sinner of the Uchiha. A traitor to Konoha.
He returned to the compound, took out his long sword, and walked to the shrine at the edge of the compound.
This was the place he had agreed to meet with "Tobi."
Itachi waited for a while, staring at the small pond in front of the shrine, suddenly lost in thought. Then a chakra fluctuation came from behind him. The space suddenly distorted, and the masked Uchiha Tobi appeared behind Itachi.
Itachi gripped his long sword alertly. He sensed Tobi's presence and, without turning his head, just said emotionlessly, "Uchiha Madara... you're here."
—Tobi was, at this time, moving in the ninja world under the name of Madara.
Tobi's crimson Sharingan glanced at the long sword in Itachi's hand and said calmly, "You're already prepared... then let's begin."
"The old, the women, the children, and the infants," he said coldly to Itachi, "all of them must be killed."
The orange-red mask concealed Tobi's expression. He only revealed that one brilliant Mangekyo Sharingan, staring at Itachi.
The tomoe in Itachi's eyes, at some point, had turned into a pinwheel pattern.
He turned his head and looked back at this man who called himself Uchiha Madara.
Everything that was about to happen tonight was being pushed by him from behind. This man who walked in the darkness.
The conflict, the separation, and even the enmity between the clan and the village.
A killing intent gradually emanated from Itachi's body.
But he knew that he could not kill this person. His strength was still not strong enough...
And at this point, it was already too late to do anything.
Uchiha Tobi did not bother to distinguish whether this killing intent was directed at him or at the clansmen.
His gaze moved from Itachi's sword to his eyes.
"Not a single one can be left."
The gazes of the three Mangekyo intertwined. A thick killing intent began to emanate from Tobi's body.
An ominous feeling.
"The compound to the south of the shrine, I'll leave it to you to handle. To the north—" He suddenly stopped.
The two of them turned their heads at the same time.
Uchiha Itachi and Tobi turned their gazes to the small pond that had suddenly frozen over.
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