Chapter 451: Visitors from Another World?
"Summoning Jutsu!"
Haruno Sakura formed the seals directly and performed the Summoning Jutsu for the Slug Sage.
The girl slammed her hand onto the dust-covered floor, and the black tadpole-like formula instantly spread rapidly from her palm, then—
As if somewhat reluctantly, a slug over ten meters long was summoned.
"Haruno Sakura-sama?"
The slug bent down, looking at the girl in front of it in confusion.
Is this Haruno Sakura? The slug of this world, feeling the familiar yet unfamiliar chakra on the girl, was filled with questions.
Wait, this doesn't seem to be Haruno Sakura... Although she looks very much like Sakura—perhaps her features are more exquisite, more matured.
The slug carefully sensed the girl in front of it, and the doubts in its heart increased instead of decreasing: in its impression, the new contractor Haruno Sakura did not have such a special temperament, let alone that powerful energy hidden in her slender body.
Haruno Sakura isn't this powerful!
"No, you are not Sakura-sama! Who are you?" The slug stepped back vigilantly and asked in a deep voice, "Why can you summon me?"
The two people in front of it looked at each other, their expressions filled with helplessness.
"It recognizes me, so it should be the era after I became Master's disciple... at least after Konoha Year 60." The girl spread her hands, speaking words that the slug found baffling.
"It seems the Haruno Sakura of this world is not too different from you!" The boy said in a deep voice.
"That's hard to say."
The conversation between the two completely confused the slug. "Haruno Sakura of this world"? What on earth is going on?
"Who exactly are you?"
The slug showed vigilance and repeated coldly.
The girl who looked very much like Haruno Sakura chuckled, seemingly not caring about the slug's guard at all: "We have no need to hide it from you... so I'll just tell the truth."
"I am Haruno Sakura."
The slug clearly showed an expression of disbelief: "Do you think I wouldn't even recognize my own contractor—"
"To be precise, I am Haruno Sakura from another world."
Haruno Sakura directly revealed the answer.
"Are... are you kidding!" The slug was very surprised, waving its tentacles excitedly, "Do you think I would believe such absurd remarks?"
"Of course you will believe it, because what I said is the truth!" Haruno Sakura smiled, "In my world, I have also been to Shikkotsu Forest and met your main body."
She casually mentioned some secrets of Shikkotsu Forest and the Slug Sage.
These details, which were not particularly important but only known to contractors, precisely proved Haruno Sakura's identity—at least proving she had indeed been to Shikkotsu Forest and met the Slug Sage.
The slug knew very well that in recent years to decades, the only two who had been to Shikkotsu Forest were Tsunade and Haruno Sakura.
Could she really be Haruno Sakura?
The slug was visibly shaken.
Being able to summon it already explained a lot of problems—the main body of the Slug Sage couldn't be fooled by any random tricks. Only a true contractor could summon its body!
"Anyway, we are not bad people." Seeing the slug hesitating and indecisive, the girl smiled calmly and said, "At least I didn't summon you to do anything bad..."
"I just want to ask you, what Konoha Year is this?"
The pink-haired girl and the black-haired boy looked at the slug with burning eyes simultaneously, waiting for its answer.
"Alright, answering this small question is fine..." The slug thought for a moment and said.
"This year is Konoha Year 63."
"Year 63?" Haruno Sakura and Sasuke widened their eyes, looked at each other, and were dumbfounded.
Neither of them could imagine that this time travel had such a large error. They actually came to...
The future.
The future one year later!
Haruno Sakura regained her calm first and continued to ask composedly: "So, have any major events happened recently?"
"You don't know?" The slug carefully scrutinized the expressions of the two, "I finally believe you are indeed Konoha ninja from another world."
"Because... Konoha was completely destroyed not long ago."
The slug answered in a gloomy voice.
"This news is already known to the whole world."
"What?!"
Haruno Sakura couldn't help but open her mouth and exclaimed.
She completely couldn't imagine that the story in Shippuden would develop to such an extent!
"Can I trouble you..." Haruno Sakura's beautiful face was gloomy as she said coldly, "to introduce the cause and effect."
"Alright, guests from another world, please listen carefully."
The slug stepped back two steps, found a comfortable position to sit down, and narrated the matter vividly...
Haruno Sakura and Sasuke also tensed up and listened carefully.
Only when they heard the end, where Pain used the Rinne Rebirth Jutsu to revive the killed people, did Haruno Sakura and Sasuke obviously breathe a sigh of relief.
"Wait!" Sasuke frowned tightly after listening to the slug's story, "What was 'I' doing during this period? Why was Naruto always appearing?"
"Where is Uchiha Sasuke? Is he dead?"
"Uchiha Sasuke..." The slug glanced at Sasuke and said lightly, "He defected from Konoha."
"Defected?" Sasuke's eyes widened abruptly.
"Sakura, Naruto, and Kakashi all stayed in Konoha. How could he defect? This is impossible!"
The black-haired boy said loudly in disbelief.
Even during the time when he was most emotional recently, the thought of defecting from the village never appeared in his mind...
Because the few remaining bonds he valued were all in the village.
How could he in another world abandon these bonds and defect from the village?
"You have to ask yourself about this..." The slug responded indifferently, "Uchiha Sasuke."
"If there is nothing else, let's end this summoning for now. I need to notify the main body about this matter." It added.
"Alright, after you go back, Katsuyu," Haruno Sakura interjected, "please remind the Slug Sage to keep our matter a secret for the time being. We don't want to expose our identities."
Exposing the secret to the Slug Sage was no problem; after all, it didn't care about worldly affairs and kept its mouth shut.
"No problem."
Dropping this sentence, the slug turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared on the spot.
In the empty ruin hall, only the boy and girl were left instantly.
"Do you have any thoughts, Sasuke?" Haruno Sakura asked, looking at Sasuke's expression of thinking hard.
"I want to meet myself in this world." Sasuke said coldly, "I must figure out why he left Konoha... otherwise, I'm afraid I won't even sleep well..."
Such a self, Sasuke completely couldn't accept!
"Then, I also want to meet you and Naruto of this world!"
Speaking of Naruto and Sakura, a trace of smile finally appeared on Sasuke's handsome face which was kept straight.
What kind of people would the heroic and reliable Naruto, and the gentle and graceful Haruno Sakura be?
"What about you?" He asked back.
"Me too." Haruno Sakura laughed, "I am also full of interest in myself, Naruto, and you of this world..."
"Just that in this case, we might need to split up, because we in this world are not together..."
Saying that, the girl slowly walked out of the hall.
The moonlight outside the hall was the same as when they came.
The full bright moon and dazzling starlight hung high under the purple-black night curtain, like gems embedded in the night curtain, brilliant and colorful.
Under the beautiful night scenery, Haruno Sakura, who just learned about Konoha's many disasters, felt her gloomy mood relax somewhat.
"Rest first, Sasuke!"
She turned back and smiled beautifully at Sasuke, who was still standing in the middle of the hall as if his legs had taken root.
"These things can't be rushed... rest well first, set off early tomorrow morning!"
"Alright... listen to you."
Sasuke sighed, followed behind the girl's figure, and walked out of the ruin hall.
The night deepened.
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