67: Chapter 67 Shocking Change in the Snake CaveIn the early morning training ground, Sakura stood in front of a specially made training dummy and took a deep breath.
Under Naruto's personal supervision, he is undergoing training to precisely control his superhuman strength.
"Begin." Naruto leaned against the weapon rack, his voice calm.
Sakura gathered her chakra and unleashed a punch!The dummy swayed, leaving a clear fist imprint.
Sakura took a breath and looked at Naruto with anticipation in her eyes.
"Too disorganized."
Naruto approached, "You wasted 30% of your chakra, like spilled water."
He went around behind Sakura, so close that they could feel each other's body heat.
"Sink your waist three degrees, relax your right shoulder, and don't release your chakra all at once."
She closed her eyes, carefully sensing the flow of chakra within her body, and tried to restrain and compress it.
Naruto's focused gaze fell on her, seemingly carrying a substantial weight, causing her to involuntarily tense up and her cheeks to flush slightly.
Sakura adjusted as instructed, but her second punch was still not perfect.
Naruto gently shook his head.
He raised his hand and formed a simple hand seal, causing a light mist to rise around the training ground.
This is a simple technique that amplifies the senses, allowing trainees to more clearly perceive their own chakra mobilization.
"Continue." Naruto's voice drifted through the mist.
Sakura threw another punch, and this time, she clearly felt her chakra flow amplified several times over.
Every unnecessary leakage becomes clearly visible, and every tremor caused by improper exertion is extremely obvious.
"Too slow."
Naruto's voice suddenly appeared in her left ear, "The enemy won't stand still and wait for you to charge up."
Sakura quickly turned around and threw another punch.
"An angle deviation of five degrees." The voice came from the right again."Even an elite Chunin could dodge such an attack."
She swayed and punched incessantly in the mist, Naruto's voice following her like a shadow, precisely pointing out every minute mistake.
Sweat trickled down his forehead.
"Previously, the focus was on honing strength; now, training is about refining technique—every movement must be just right."
Suddenly, Naruto appeared directly in front of her, lightly tapping her wrist with his finger: "Now, throw a punch!"
Sakura instinctively threw a punch.This time, her chakra flowed as smoothly as hair and exploded the moment it hit the dummy!
"Boom!" A smooth-edged round hole appeared in the dummy's chest, allowing light to pass through from front to back, with splinters of wood and twisted pieces of iron flying everywhere!
Sakura maintained her punching stance, breathing slightly with her mouth open, looking at her fist with surprise in her eyes.
A strong sense of accomplishment mixed with a strange restlessness made her face flush, the blush spreading all the way to her ears.
She instinctively pulled her clothes together, the training clothes brushing against her skin, and sweat slightly seeping through the fabric.
"Very good." Naruto finally showed a hint of approval."Remember this feeling."
The training that followed was even more rigorous.
Naruto instructed her to maintain precise control over her chakra while moving at high speed and dodging attacks.
If you are even slightly distracted, you will hear his cold warning.
"I got distracted."
"Decreased self-control."
"Is this your limit?"
Sakura gritted her teeth, her pink hair soaked and plastered to her face, her training uniform outlining her curvaceous figure.
Her breathing would become rapid and shallow, with obvious rises and falls, and the blush on her cheeks would linger for a long time, as if she were drunk.
She gritted her teeth, exhausting her chakra time and time again, yet squeezing out new power under Naruto's gaze each time.
She could feel herself becoming unusually sensitive during training, and occasionally a particular movement or a casual comment from Naruto would trigger a spasm that made her blush.
As she immersed herself in training, she began to instinctively adjust herself to keep up with Naruto's guidance.
When he asks her to go lower, she quickly adjusts to the most suitable angle; when he asks her to punch faster, her chakra flow naturally accelerates.
This subtle change filled her with both fear and excitement.
Towards the end of the training, Naruto asked her to take down six training dummies at the same time.
"Knock them all down within thirty seconds."
He glanced at the hourglass."Remember, it's knockdown, not smash."
Sakura weaves between the mannequins, needing to precisely calculate the angle and force of each punch.
Sweat blurred her vision, her muscles were protesting, but she dared not stop.
Just as she felt exhausted, Naruto's voice rang out again: "Feel it, control it, make it a part of you."
This sentence was like a sudden awakening.
Sakura closed her eyes, no longer consciously controlling herself, but letting her body act instinctively.
Chakra was used as if it were an extension of his arm, and every punch was perfectly timed.
As the last dummy fell to the ground, the hourglass ran out of sand.
Sakura was almost completely exhausted.She leaned against a well-preserved training dummy, breathing heavily.Her muscles were trembling, and her eyes were unusually bright.
She felt weak, a strange sensation that made it almost impossible for her to stand, and she could only lean tightly against the mannequin for support.
The blush on her cheeks was as beautiful as the sunset.
Just then, Naruto's brow twitched slightly.
Through the soul link created by the "Heart-Binding Curse," a message arrived from Kabuto Yakushi, far away in Otogakure.
[Sasuke has betrayed us and killed Orochimaru.The Sound Village is in brief chaos, but I have taken initial control of the situation.Sasuke's current whereabouts are unknown.]
Naruto's expression remained unchanged, but Sakura, who was standing nearby, keenly sensed that the air around them seemed to have become much more tense.
He slowly raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the guild's territory, looking towards the northwest, towards the Land of Fields, where the Sound Village was located.
Involuntarily, the image of that black-haired boy, always dressed in pure white, with cold and stubborn eyes, came to mind.
In the world before the fragment traveled through time, many people made various jokes about Erzhuzi—calling him a show-off, a slap in the face, and so on.
Those jokes can't hide the fact that Uchiha Sasuke, this young man burdened with a blood feud, may be stubborn, or perhaps.He may have taken the wrong path, but he never lacked the courage to draw his sword against the stronger!
From defecting from Konoha to Orochimaru, to now killing his master and establishing his own power.
Every step he took was resolute and dangerous.
He was forcing himself to become stronger in the most extreme way.
"Naruto-sama?" Sakura noticed his distraction and called out softly.
Naruto looked away from Sakura, his eyes scanning her up and down."It's nothing, just some news from an old friend."
Sakura blinked, somewhat puzzled, but wisely refrained from asking.
"Today's training ends here."
Naruto said, "Go back and get some rest, and consolidate what you've learned today."
"Yes, Naruto-sama!" Sakura bowed respectfully, though her body was exhausted, her spirits were high.
She could feel that she was one step closer to truly mastering the essence of superhuman strength.
Naruto watched Sakura's unsteady, wobbly departure, lost in thought.
Sasuke killed Orochimaru.
This means that those Mangekyou Sharingan eyes may appear in the world soon.
Also, we can't waste this piece of meat that is Otogakure.
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