Chapter 278: Slaughter
Haruno Sakura tugged at her clothes, feeling a growing sense of tightness in her chest. That pulling sensation was getting stronger and stronger, and she felt as if she could be pulled back to her original time at any moment.
There wasn't much time left.
The Uchiha wouldn't last until dawn, and neither would she.
Haruno Sakura's mind raced.
If Sakura could stay in this world for three to five months, perhaps she could help the Third resolve the Uchiha matter.
With her on the Hokage's side, their strength would be greatly increased. Moreover, her spiritual power was extremely strong, which happened to be a counter to the Uchiha's genjutsu. She could completely beat the Uchiha into submission with her hard power.
If they don't obey, just hang them up and beat them until they do. With absolute strength, one wouldn't fear any conspiracies.
And there would be no need for such a cruel and decisive method.
But...
What a pity.
Right now, the most beneficial course of action for Konoha was to get rid of this group of traitors who had already decided to rebel tomorrow.
"I'm not interested in whether you want to annihilate the Uchiha clan or do anything else," Haruno Sakura said.
"I'm only interested in you."
Her sharp gaze was fixed on Uchiha Tobi. Through the hole in his mask, she met his eerie Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Who are you?"
Tobi sneered and replied, "I am Uchiha Madara."
"Uchiha Madara died a long time ago..."
"Is that so?" Tobi said frivolously. "Or perhaps he's still alive?"
"Hehe..." Sakura sneered.
"A petty thief who dares to call himself Uchiha Madara? That's really hilarious! A rat like you is also worthy?"
Tobi's gaze instantly turned gloomy.
"Then see for yourself whether I'm worthy or not..."
He shot Itachi a look. "You go and do it. I'll take care of her first."
"If we drag this on any longer, the commotion will be too big... It might alert them!"
No, that's not right.
It wasn't a "might." It had already alerted someone—
Just as Tobi's voice fell, the three of them simultaneously turned their heads and looked outside the courtyard.
"Who's fighting here!" Someone suddenly burst in, shouted, and appeared in the shrine's courtyard with a Body Flicker.
Standing in front of him were three figures in a standoff. Two had crimson eyes and were Uchiha clansmen. The other was a girl with light green eyes, wearing an Anbu bodysuit.
The enemy and ally lines were instantly clear.
Haruno Sakura instantly felt a trace of pity and said, "Run, quickly! They are here to kill you!"
But the person who had come was not moved in the slightest.
"Has Konoha discovered our plan?" he said, and his hands quickly formed hand seals—
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"
He opened his mouth and spat out a giant fireball, which burned fiercely, releasing a scorching heat, and rushed towards...
Haruno Sakura!
Sakura's eyes widened. He's not dealing with the people who are actually trying to kill him, but he's fighting me, the one who kindly reminded him!
That's right. There's nothing wrong with him doing this.
Anyone would do the same. Seeing a battle happening in the compound, with one side being a clansman and the other an outsider, wasn't it clear who was the enemy and who was the ally?
What's more, the Uchiha clan had already decided to launch their plan tomorrow. Anyone who was not an Uchiha, appearing here at this time, would only be his enemy.
Haruno Sakura's face was gloomy. She dodged the Great Fireball with a Body Flicker.
She reappeared on an ice shuriken a few meters away from the newcomer. With a single leap, she flashed and closed in on him, throwing a punch.
That person, after all, had a three-tomoe Sharingan. His dynamic vision was very strong, and he had captured Sakura's movement. He hurriedly twisted his body and raised his hand to block.
Haruno Sakura secretly shook her head. Her fist made contact with the opponent's arm. A little of the Monstrous Strength Technique's power was leaked, and she sent him flying into the sky with a single punch. He fell heavily, in a complete daze.
He landed right at Tobi's feet.
Tobi helped him up.
The Uchiha clansman was just about to say thanks, but was stunned to find... a kunai plunged into his chest!
What's going on? Aren't we from the same clan?
"You...!" He widened his eyes. Bloody foam trickled down from the corner of his mouth. Before he could finish his sentence, he died, his body going limp.
Tobi indifferently threw him to the ground and kicked him away.
"Why did you hold back your strength? You should have killed him with one punch," he said indifferently. "In the end, he was going to die anyway."
Haruno Sakura's face was gloomy, so gloomy it was as if water could drip from it. She was silent.
She had not intended to kill him, but she had become Tobi's accomplice in killing him.
Realizing that she had actually been colluding with the enemy to kill her compatriots, Haruno Sakura felt an extreme sense of absurdity.
What was even more absurd was that it seemed she hadn't done anything wrong.
Perhaps what the man who called himself Uchiha Madara had said was right.
No matter who killed them, the Uchiha clan had to be annihilated tonight.
She clenched her fists, her knuckles cracking softly.
For the first time, she felt so helpless!
The rustling of footsteps sounded again.
Another Uchiha clansman ran over, panting. "What happened—Ugh!"
Before he could finish, Itachi had already appeared behind him. His long sword, dark and without a trace of mercy, pierced through his body, and then he pulled it out.
Another Uchiha fell.
Swish, swish, swish—
Another four or five Uchiha appeared on the scene. The Great Fireball from just now had clearly alarmed the people living nearby.
Two Uchiha corpses were lying on the ground. In the courtyard, two Uchiha were facing off against another ninja.
The enemy and ally were clear.
"Don't be afraid, we're here to help you!" "Avenge our clansmen!" "Kill her! The news of the rebellion plan cannot be leaked!" "Don't let her run! Otherwise, the plan will be ruined!"...
They shouted as they rushed over together.
Haruno Sakura looked at their blindly charging figures.
A feeling of extreme complexity welled up in her heart.
Sorrowful.
Ridiculous.
No wonder they had to be annihilated.
She was actually here, colluding with Konoha's enemies, to deal with Konoha's ninja.
And Konoha's ninja were here, treating Konoha's enemies as comrades, to deal with a Konoha ninja.
How absurd!
How foolish!
No... from the moment they had decided to do the "big thing" tomorrow...
Sakura and these Uchiha people were already no longer comrades.
She formed hand seals again. "Ice Style: Swallow Snowstorm!"
The ice shuriken that shot out from in front of Sakura were faster than they could have imagined. Two clansmen, who were too slow to dodge, were instantly pierced by the shuriken. One of them fell to the ground, and the other was also unable to move.
The remaining three, who were lucky, were not strong. At most, they were at the one-tomoe level.
At this time, they had already rushed in front of Haruno Sakura. Sakura didn't even blink. She suddenly kicked out, a Wing Chun hidden kick filled with anger. She had only used a small half of the Monstrous Strength Technique's power, but she had fiercely kicked the one charging at the very front, sending him flying and crashing into the two behind him!
Bang, bang, bang!
The three of them slammed into each other and were sent flying, lying on the ground and groaning, their breathing shallow. The one at the very front, his body was bent at a strange angle. He was taking more breaths in than out.
"Quick, quick, help me!" the youth who was lying on the ground, seriously injured, looked at Tobi and pleaded.
Tears and snot were streaming down his face, sticking to it. He was crying and wailing.
"How unsightly." Tobi walked over, squatted down, and fumbled for a few kunai from the youth's ninja tool pouch.
Blood hissed and gushed out.
It soon formed a small, dark red puddle on the ground, faintly reflecting the bloody moonlight.
The youth soon breathed his last.
"W-What are you doing?" the other middle-aged man, whose thigh had been pierced by an ice shuriken, trembled and stammered.
"You haven't figured it out?" Tobi stood up and tilted his head at him.
He threw the kunai in his hand at the few people lying on the ground. After three thuds, three more lives were extinguished.
"I'm helping them... to eliminate their arrogance, to stop their foolishness, and then, to cleanse the sins of the Uchiha."
He said slowly.
The round moon, at some point, had emerged from behind the clouds.
It faintly sprinkled down its bloody moonlight.
It made Uchiha Tobi's gaze look even more sinister and ferocious.
Eliminate their arrogance, stop their foolishness, cleanse the sins of the Uchiha...
By committing an even greater sin.
The last remaining middle-aged man instantly broke down.
He cried and shouted, limping as he stumbled and rushed out of the shrine.
And then, he was stopped by Itachi, who was guarding the side.
His long sword was pointing straight at his chest.
"Kagen... please stay here. Leave your life behind."
This man named Kagen, looking at the long sword in Itachi's hand, took two steps back in panic. He finally understood what was going on.
"S-Sorry! I shouldn't have supported the coup. M-Our clan shouldn't have betrayed Konoha! Please, please give me a chance!"
He knelt down and begged for mercy, kowtowing like he was pounding rice, his expression frantic, even more unsightly than the youth who had been begging bitterly.
You are not some nameless nobody in the Uchiha...
Uchiha Itachi's eyelids drooped, his voice tinged with sorrow.
"Is that all?"
"What?"
"Your last words... are those all?"
Kagen did not respond—
Itachi's long sword had already pierced his heart.
The seventh one.
Watching as the few Uchiha clansmen, who had intended to rebel, were slaughtered like pigs and dogs, falling in front of her, Haruno Sakura's face was as cold as frost, her mood indescribable.
"How about it?"
Tobi turned his head and looked at Haruno Sakura.
"You wanted to witness the history of the Uchiha's downfall, didn't you?"
"Then come and act with us!"
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