Chapter 450: Accident
"Haven't you always wanted to know where I heard about the Uchiha matter?"
Haruno Sakura looked at the ruins in front of her and said quietly.
"At this time last year, when the Sand held the Chunin Exams, I came here on a mission..."
She recalled the events of last year.
At that time, Haruno Sakura was trekking alone in the desert. Because it was getting late, she wanted to find a place to camp, so she came to this ancient city ruin.
Unexpectedly, she actually discovered a peculiar energy here...
Haruno Sakura narrated her story vividly.
"So at that time you 'traveled' to the world of the past?" Sasuke frowned tightly, repeating the girl's words.
He recognized every word, but combined together, it was as if he completely couldn't understand what Haruno Sakura was saying.
Traveling through time and space? Back to the past?
Could such a thing really happen?
Haruno Sakura nodded: "To be precise, it's a world very close to ours. And the timeline of that world has only developed to shortly after we entered the Ninja Academy."
Sasuke pinched his temples; he still didn't quite understand Haruno Sakura's meaning.
"Very close to our world"? Then what's the difference between the two worlds? Why would there be differences?
And how to understand the timeline?
Sasuke stared straight ahead, dumbfounded, completely unable to maintain his cool expression anymore.
Haruno Sakura could only try to explain: "Let's take an example. For instance, myself!"
"You know my talent for genjutsu is actually very high." Sakura smiled reservedly, "At the beginning, I also hesitated whether to develop in the direction of Water Style, Earth Style, or genjutsu. Later, due to a coincidence, I finally chose Water Style..."
"So in another world, you might be an Earth Style expert, or a genjutsu expert?" Sasuke finally reacted.
"Completely possible!" Haruno Sakura nodded and said, "There might even be bigger differences! For example... I might not even be an expert at all."
A weak Haruno Sakura?
Sasuke's heart stirred. Would such a Sakura exist...
He tried hard to imagine a Haruno Sakura without heroism. If the pink-haired girl became delicate and soft like a flower reflecting in water, what kind of situation would that be? Seemed quite interesting.
"Then what about the timeline?" Sasuke shook his head, throwing away the reverie in his mind, and asked again.
"When we travel to another world, we won't necessarily arrive at the time of Konoha Year 62. It might be delayed or advanced, such as Konoha Year 55, or maybe even arrive at a time before Konoha was established!"
Sasuke pondered for a moment, his face solemn: "So when you traveled back last time, was that world exactly in that year?"
The "that year" he referred to was Konoha Year 55, the year of the Uchiha Massacre.
Haruno Sakura nodded and said seriously: "That's right... In fact, I returned to that night."
Sasuke's breathing suddenly skipped a beat.
Haruno Sakura... returned to that night of swords and shadows?
In an instant, Sasuke felt suspicious and uncertain inside, with a thousand thoughts, his mind completely chaotic.
"You... what did you see?" After a long silence, he asked hesitantly.
Haruno Sakura took a deep breath and said slowly: "Go see for yourself... This is exactly the reason I brought you here!"
Letting him experience history personally, giving him the chance to understand the truth, this might be the only way Haruno Sakura could help Sasuke.
Haruno Sakura gave Sasuke a meaningful look.
Sasuke lowered his eyelids, controlling his breathing and emotions, trying hard to calm his chaotic thoughts.
"I understand."
His eyes looked firmly at Haruno Sakura, and he spoke slowly.
"Very good," Haruno Sakura's expression was also solemn, turning around and saying, "Follow me."
The place capable of time travel was a large hall in the center of the ruins.
Haruno Sakura led Sasuke familiarly through the ruins, taking a few turns, and soon arrived there.
"Do you feel it?" Haruno Sakura stepped into the hall, turning her head and saying softly, "This chakra."
A year later, the energy that took her through time and space last time still remained here. Because of cultivating Senjutsu, Haruno Sakura became more sensitive to this energy, and could clearly distinguish that it wasn't chakra, nor quite like the natural energy transformed from sunlight by the biosphere, but more like originating from the deep and heavy earth beneath her feet...
Planetary-level planet energy? Or Ley Line energy?
The girl's voice, crisp as a silver bell, echoed continuously in the empty hall, forming complex echoes. Sasuke didn't hear clearly for a moment: "What? There is chakra here?"
"You didn't feel it?"
Haruno Sakura was a bit surprised. That energy was quite massive!
Sasuke shook his head: "Didn't feel anything strange... Are you talking about natural energy?"
"Something like that." Haruno Sakura shrugged.
Still somewhat different from natural energy, but for Sasuke who couldn't sense its existence, there was no difference, so no need to explain.
"Wait until I draw out this energy, then we can travel through worlds."
Haruno Sakura said, pulling Sasuke to the center of the hall—this was the position where she traveled last time.
Then she familiarly drew out the hidden energy of the Roran Ley Line: white light suddenly rose, and massive planet energy surged from under their feet!
Sasuke's expression moved, suddenly feeling himself wrapped in a strange energy—"Wait, is this natural energy?" The boy's face changed drastically!
Previously when Haruno Sakura went to Shikkotsu Forest to cultivate Senjutsu, Sasuke checked the information and knew that the most dangerous situation in Senjutsu cultivation was being eroded by excessive natural energy, leading to permanent "naturalization" and death; and right now, his current situation seemed exactly the same as the dangerous event described in Senjutsu cultivation?
Sasuke almost subconsciously circulated chakra, unleashing his strongest ninjutsu:
"Lightning Release: Chidori Demon Form!"
At the same time, the white light suddenly flourished, the dazzling light obscuring everything...
From a distance, the ancient city was seen suddenly becoming bright for a moment, then returning to a deathly silent state.
Another world.
In the dusty ruin hall.
Sasuke coughed hard and crawled up from the ground.
When pushing himself up with his hands, he felt his right hand pressing on a soft object with excellent tactile sensation...
He couldn't help pressing a few times.
"Sasuke-sama, can you let go? Pressing hurts me, meow~"
A soft voice came from under Sasuke, passing through the thick dust.
Sasuke hurriedly moved his hand away and stood up.
The thick dust gradually settled, and now Sasuke finally saw clearly the creature he had been pressing just now. It turned out to be the ninja cat he summoned using the Combination Transformation Jutsu.
No wonder it felt furry.
He said apologetically: "Sorry, accidentally pressed on you, Abi."
"Meow is Yoru, Sasuke-sama." The orange cat said helplessly.
This big fat cat shook its fat body, tried hard to stand up, and shook off the dust. Yoru and Abi had somewhat similar patterns, but their body shapes were vastly different. If the dust hadn't obscured the view, Sasuke would never have mistaken the two cats.
"Sasuke-sama, I'm here meow~"
Another ninja cat's voice came from the other side. Sasuke looked intently; Abi was leisurely lying on Haruno Sakura's shoulder nearby, greeting Sasuke.
Seeing him look over, the girl rolled her eyes at him directly and complained: "Sasuke, you idiot, why did you suddenly use ninjutsu just now! Now I can't determine what time period we are in at all!"
"I felt a bit hypersensitive, sorry..." The black-haired boy quickly apologized with a smile, "But when releasing the Combination Transformation Jutsu just now, Yoru and Abi were not reverse summoned back to my house, so this should be before I signed the summoning contract with the cat clan?"
"Not necessarily!"
Haruno Sakura shook her finger.
Actually, there was one point she didn't explain to Sasuke: they likely traveled to the world of the main manga storyline.
And the Sasuke in the manga, she remembered, never signed a contract with the cat clan from beginning to end.
However, Sasuke's method of determining the era gave Haruno Sakura a direct inspiration.
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