Chapter 455: What I'm Best At...
"Ice Release: Frost Funeral!"
The Ice Release girl suddenly erupted with chakra, turning into countless ice-cold breaths. In an instant, she transformed this small battlefield into a world of ice!
The flowing river water under the bridge, under the action of the explosive Ice Release chakra, turned into frantically growing ice trees. In the blink of an eye, they extended up from the bottom of the bridge, spreading out endless ice blades, ice spears, ice swords, ice shurikens, ice kunai... turning the water surface, the earth, and even half of the sky into a world of frost!
"So... so strong!"
Karin stood aside, staring dumbfounded at this amazing ninjutsu, holding her breath, her whole body couldn't help trembling!
"Be careful, Sasuke!" She subconsciously reminded, "She is very strong!"
That girl named Haruno Sakura... her strength might be much stronger than Sasuke!
She reminded him too late.
Before Karin finished speaking, she saw Danzo easily harvested by this move. At the same time, Susanoo was also blasted into slag by the girl's punch, and Sasuke flew backwards instantly!
"Sasuke!"
Karin exclaimed.
The red-haired girl pounced out with all her might, trying to catch Sasuke, but as a result, the two crashed to the ground together, rolling a few times in the muddy water, extremely wretched!
Thanks to this buffer, Sasuke wasn't beaten down by one punch. He stood up struggling, leaning on Karin.
He held his forehead, feeling bursts of stinging pain in his eye sockets, his face full of disbelief!
"Is she really... Haruno Sakura?"
How could Sakura's fist be so heavy!
"Cough!" Sasuke spat out a mouthful of black blood weakly.
"You are injured, Sasuke!" Karin felt tight in her heart and quickly extended her forearm to Sasuke's mouth, "Bite me quickly!"
The girl's arm, white and tender like lotus root, was actually covered with hideous teeth marks, looking extremely terrifying; however, Sasuke had no thought of cherishing the beauty. He grabbed Karin's hand and bit down hard, leaving new teeth marks on the smooth skin—
"Ugh ah!" Karin screamed.
As the skin was bitten through, the massive vitality of the Uzumaki clan leaked out and flowed into Sasuke's body. The boy's weak and scarred body actually recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Such vigorous vitality... Is that girl a support ninja possessing both sensory and healing abilities?"
Haruno Sakura saw everything happening here from the corner of her eye but remained calm, letting Sasuke slowly recover his stamina.
She just turned around slowly, looked back slowly, looked at the old man as cold and hard as a rock, and said slowly.
"Danzo Shimura... what gave you, a turtle hiding its head, the courage to poke your head out?"
"If I were you, I would have taken the opportunity just now to flee far away, flee back into that turtle shell of Root, instead of staying here looking for death!"
Danzo's eyes, which were trying hard to learn from the Third Hokage to appear kind and amiable just now, simply tore off that mask now, becoming sinister and cold.
—This is very good, also saving Haruno Sakura from being disgusted by his stiff disguise.
"As the Hokage, how can there be any reason for this old man to flee without fighting when facing Konoha's enemy! On the contrary, you, actually not thinking about cooperation in front of a great enemy, but instead attacking this old man who is the Sixth Hokage..." Danzo's voice was like coarse gravel rubbing in a jar, dry, cold, and lacking vitality, "Do you also want to become a traitor defecting from the village, Haruno Sakura!"
"Flee without fighting?"
The girl sneered.
"Do you, who stayed put in the Root base and didn't act when Pain invaded Konoha, also have the qualification to say such things!"
"When the Fifth Hokage exhausted her chakra and fell into a coma to save everyone, what were you doing? You held back your troops, sitting and watching everyone in the village sacrifice. You scrambled for power and profit, forcibly taking the position of Hokage while Tsunade was unconscious."
Haruno Sakura paused.
Killing intent suddenly erupted!
Swish swish!
Her slender fingers moved, forming seals deftly, controlling the frost world to repeat the old trick: ice prisms grew frantically, sharp ice blades chased Danzo's figure, constantly compressing his space to dodge.
However, Danzo's response was also flawless: he dodged and moved among the ice prisms, his figure flipping and flying. Between advancing and retreating, he fully displayed the flexibility and agility of a ninja, showing no sign of an old man's slowness at all. It seemed that the one fighting here was not a septuagenarian, but a ninja in his prime!
"I have already seen through the routine of this ninjutsu of yours. This move is useless against me!"
During the fierce battle, Danzo actually still had the energy to speak, his voice coming out proudly.
At the cost of one life, he indeed saw through Sakura's moves and could handle this Ice Release move of hers with ease.
While speaking, Danzo was still forming seals with his hands. The moment his voice fell, he sinisterly unleashed the ninjutsu brewed in his mouth!
"Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!"
Extremely sharp air blades spewed out rapidly from Danzo's mouth circle by circle, forcibly smashing the tough ice prisms encountered along the way, destroying everything in their path, and boldly attacking the pink-haired girl in front of the old man!
Boom boom boom!
The ninjutsu erupted by the old man suddenly was by no means negligible. The massive infusion of chakra pushed the power of the Vacuum Great Sphere to the extreme! The hard ice layer also shattered layer by layer under this blow, instantly turning into countless ice slags and water mist, permeating the air and obscuring the vision.
Solved?
Danzo looked at the motionless water mist, a bad intuition suddenly rising in his heart, and then in the next instant—
"Regrettably, you as Hokage... I don't acknowledge!"
The girl's emotionless words came from behind Danzo.
Accompanied by the cold breath bursting out with the voice, sprayed on the back of Danzo's neck, giving half of his body chills.
Danzo only felt a pain in his heart and looked down.
An ice blade pierced his heart.
How could she... appear behind me?
On the verge of death, Danzo's heart was blank.
Then, he revived again, reborn in front of Haruno Sakura.
"The fourth time..." Karin, who had been watching the battle between the two from a distance, was extremely astonished, "Danzo has revived for the fourth time! What exactly is this ninjutsu?"
"However, I have seen through that girl's ninjutsu!"
Seeing Haruno Sakura perform the Ice Body Flicker for the second time, Karin, with extremely strong analytical ability, instantly saw the clue.
"Sasuke, listen to me!" The red-haired girl ended the treatment for Sasuke, withdrew her arm, and said urgently, "That Haruno Sakura is using a Body Flicker Jutsu, similar to the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Jutsu! But her Body Flicker requires using ice blocks as a medium—"
"It's the Ice Release: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals Jutsu."
Sasuke stood up with difficulty, interrupting Karin's words with a gloomy face.
His thoughts traveled back to a few years ago, back to the time in the Land of Waves, recalling the boy using Ice Release encountered in the mission...
The move Haruno Sakura used was almost the same as that boy's move, except she treated the entire frost world as ice mirrors...
The only thing to worry about was instead her extremely fast execution speed and extremely strong attack power!
He looked gloomy, staring coldly at the battle happening on the field.
The calmness and strength shown by Haruno Sakura during the battle finally made him realize something.
A person could never undergo such changes within a short year, let alone turn a girl who was always so weak and timid in front of him into this indifferent and cold appearance now.
But her eyes, the emotions she revealed, also indicated that she was indeed the Haruno Sakura who treated him as a companion.
What exactly... happened?
No, Haruno Sakura's matters were no longer important.
It didn't matter anymore.
Anyway... in the end, he would eventually kill her. Kill all these people. Complete his revenge!
So, just focus on what weaknesses her ability has.
"Not bad analytical ability."
The Ice Release girl's clear and cold voice suddenly sounded from behind the two.
Karin widened her eyes, panic rising suddenly in her heart. Without thinking, she turned around abruptly and kicked out!
"Fancy fists and embroidered legs," Haruno Sakura knocked her down to the ground with a casual palm strike, curling her lips disdainfully, "Don't mix into battles of this level!"
"Ice Clone?" Karin pushed up her glasses, propping herself up from the ground, saying in astonishment.
"You said those things deliberately for Danzo to hear, right..." Sakura glanced at the guarded Sasuke and said coldly to the astonished Karin, "I warn you, dare to play this kind of little trick again next time, and I'll slaughter you...!"
After speaking, the clone dissipated into a pile of ice blocks on its own.
And on the field, Danzo obviously heard Karin's words.
Revived for the fourth time, he narrowed his left eye and glanced at the glistening ice blocks under his feet.
"So that's it!" The old man sneered, "Ice Body Flicker Jutsu performed with the help of ice blocks..."
He jumped up abruptly, his chest puffing high, and sprayed out the accumulated chakra in one breath!
"Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!"
Boom boom boom boom—!
Continuous roars resounded through the entire battlefield instantly!
Danzo spared no expense in consuming massive amounts of chakra, unleashing endless Wind Release ninjutsu. Violent explosions covered the entire world of ice blocks!
In this endless bombardment, the glistening and hard ice blocks turned into powder, ice slag, or water mist one after another, dissipating into nothingness.
"To restrict Haruno Sakura's Ice Body Flicker Jutsu, he actually blasted all the ice blocks to pieces? A very decisive decision... Danzo actually has such decisiveness!" Obito Uchiha, watching the show from the side, watched silently and analyzed in his heart.
On the field.
Haruno Sakura jumped out of Danzo's bombing range, landing on the river surface not far away, standing loftily, arms crossed, watching indifferently as the old man bombed with ninjutsu seemingly ceaselessly.
Until the last complete ice block shattered into powder under the bombardment of Wind Release.
Danzo finally stopped his ninjutsu.
That Ice Body Flicker with speed so fast he couldn't react at all, finally couldn't threaten him now.
The old man turned his head, his turbid old eyes looking at Haruno Sakura who had been standing by with folded arms.
"Well done."
"Now... the moves I commonly used last year and the year before last can't be used."
The Ice Release girl swayed her body gently with the river breeze. Under the exquisite black sandals, after the Ice Release disappeared, the thawed clear river water flowed quietly, occasionally surging with small white waves, covering the girl's fair feet, leaving wet water lines on her ankles.
The girl suddenly chuckled lightly.
"Then I'll just use the moves commonly used this year."
She glanced at the clear river under her feet, her expression still indifferently calm—
"By the way, what I'm best at is Water Release."
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