[Naruto] The Legend of Xuan Ying (Sakura Sakura)

[There are two tragedies in life. The first is not getting what you want, and the second is getting what you want. -Oscar Wilde]

During breakfast time, except for the teenagers who were looking forward to today's practice, the other two ninjas in Team 7 were a little listless.

"One week." Haruno Sakura drank all the miso soup in the bowl, and her sudden speech attracted everyone's attention.

She put down the bowl and chopsticks and said, "Zabuza's injury will take about a week to recover."

"A week..." Hatake Kakashi repeated, looked at the two eager teenagers, raised his palms to try to grasp, and replied: "My condition will return to full strength in about 3 or 4 days. However, We can’t guarantee that Cardo hired Zabuza and that masked boy, right? Sakura.”

Haruno Sakura frowned and thought.

She recalled the battle situation when she encountered Zabuza, and maybe she shouldn't take it for granted that everything would be as simple as the shonen manga.

After all, the world of ninjas is full of conspiracies, open and covert attacks, and death without a place to die.

The girl decided to go to practice with Team Seven in person as originally planned, but at the same time she also sent a shadow clone and Uncle Dazuna to the bridge.

She formed several shadow clones, one of which stood beside Dazna, while the others scattered.

Everyone wisely turned a blind eye to this, except Uzumaki Naruto who still asked: "Sakura-chan, why do you have to create so many shadow clones?"

Taking advantage of her slight height advantage, Haruno Sakura rubbed the blond's head and replied with a perfunctory smile: "Go and help Uncle Tatsuna speed up the construction of the bridge."

After finishing speaking, without giving Naruto a chance to ask any more questions, everyone set off separately in front of the client's house.

The half-finished bridge is very spectacular. Dazna and a few workers are sweating, but there is a girl on the side, half lying and half lying in a strange posture, with a copy of "Intimate Paradise" covering her face.

Another villager withdrew from the construction project after communicating with Dazna.

Dazna could understand his old friend's scruples, but also resented his cowardice. He was a little angry, more depressed.

It was Cardo who took away the courage of the Kingdom of Waves.

He laughed at himself, but strengthened his consciousness, and joked half-seriously: "Sakura, didn't you say that shadow clones are coming to increase my manpower? Why don't you think about putting what you said in the morning into practice? ?”

"If you ask me to destroy this bridge, I'm good at it."

Being rejected was unexpected by Dazna. He laughed a few times and was not very disappointed. Seeing that it was getting almost dark, I called it a day and got ready to go home.

"When my daughter asked me to go back, I stopped by to buy lunch ingredients..."

In this way, Haruno Sakura and Tatsuna came to the vegetable store on the street. She looked at the barren appearance of the store with a heavy face.

On the way back, even though Haruno Sakura was clearly dressed in a relatively wealthy manner, not many people approached them.

Maybe it's her obvious ninja attire, maybe it's the two real swords on her back, or maybe it's just that her bag is a scroll.

But Haruno Sakura witnessed several pickpockets, several robberies, and even left a few coins for begging children.

At this moment, she happened to receive feedback from one of the shadow clones, and sighed: "The daimyo's mansion is still gorgeous. Although it is not as beautiful as the daimyo of other countries, the gap between the rich and the poor..."

Dazuna glanced at her who suddenly mentioned her name. He didn't feel strange about this and asked more questions. He just added: "After Cardo came, this place became like this. The adults became more and more timid, and the orphans were hungry." It is also common to hear of people dying on the streets and being sold to other countries."

He clenched his fists and looked at the crowd on the street, with firm will burning in his eyes: "So now we need that bridge very much. It is a symbol of courage. In order to allow the people of the Country of Waves to accept the situation and accept it, they can find their way back to face reality. courage.”

Haruno Sakura stared at Uncle Tatsuna seriously and was moved by him. Probably the world always has hope because of the existence of these people.

"As long as the bridge can be completed...by then, everyone will..."

"Will it really go back to the past? When the bridge is completed and the economy of the country of Waves recovers?"

"Of course everyone will come back!" Dazina, whose deep faith was questioned, was a little excited, and his enthusiasm was extinguished for a moment. However, when he saw the girl's serious expression, he swallowed those arguments back into his stomach.

He took a deep breath and forced himself to ask calmly: "Why do you say that? Once the bridge is completed, Cardo will not be able to control the economic lifeline of the Country of Waves."

"First of all, the commission you gave us is to escort, not to annihilate the Cardo gang members... Don't put on that miserable expression yet. Kakashi-sensei and I want to help the country of Waves. If nothing unexpected happens, we will do it. "Invite" Cardo out of the Country of Waves...and don't show your moved face so early."

Haruno Sakura waved her hand and continued: "The point is not Cardo, you know? The geographical location of the Country of Waves is too special. I'm afraid that sending away the jackals will actually facilitate the invasion of tigers and leopards."

"Do you mean..."

"Mist Hidden Village, the Kingdom of Water."

The girl's tone was determined, and Dazina sincerely hoped that the other party was joking as usual, but her green eyes were full of sincerity.

Suddenly his heart began to beat with fear, and the image of Kesha's remains flashed through his aging mind. The happy face of the Land of Waves that he had envisioned countless times seemed to be shrouded in darker thunderclouds.

"I will try my best to negotiate for the Kingdom of Waves. After all... I don't want to see the war ignite again in my lifetime, even if the Kingdom of Waves is actually unable to resist the Kingdom of Water... The main body is coming soon, so I will disappear first. .”

Arriving home, Haruno Sakura's shadow clone disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Tatsuna didn't know how strong Haruno Sakura was as a ninja, but he knew that in the face of the conflict between countries' interests, both ninjas and civilians were just trying to block the car, and they would only be displaced by the times.

He walked into the house and smiled, but it was not a sarcastic smile.

For some reason, he felt that the girl's rare serious voice made people want to believe it.

It was getting late.

On the other side, in the forest not far away, all members of the seventh genin squad were slowly returning.

If you don't know them, you will think that they are two adults and two brats. The two teenagers were obviously embarrassed and exhausted.

Suddenly, the woman walking in front stopped for no apparent reason and snorted and laughed.

Just a shadow clone, don't make an agreement without authorization!

Although she was complaining like this, she felt relaxed inside. Perhaps one of the benefits of the shadow clone technique was that it occasionally allowed her to detect the true voice in her heart.

The silver-haired man walking next to the girl was concerned: "Sakura, what's wrong?"

"No, two shadow clones reported back at the same time and sorted it out for a while." Haruno Sakura answered and then said: "You guys should go back first, I will be there later."

"Why, why? Sakura-chan, I will wait for you to go back together. If someone suddenly attacks, Sakura-chan will be in danger alone!"

Naruto's diligent attempts to please him were suppressed by Kakashi's big palm.

The Jonin first looked around, and after confirming that it was not an enemy attack, he asked: "Naruto and Sasuke go back first, how about I wait for Sakura to go back together? Anyway, Sakura should have set up a barrier around the client's house."

He was a little worried that the female students were just like him when he was young. They were arrogant and arrogant because they relied on their genius. They thought they could control everything, so they took risks and did stupid things.

There are too many bloody real-life cases of genius ninjas.

"No, I'll just send a letter. Why are you so nervous?"

"Can't I see the content of the letter?"

Sending a letter, could it be a secret message sent back to ANBU?

"It's not that I can't watch it, but..."

Before the girl could finish speaking, Hatake Kakashi interrupted with a smile: "Okay, that's the decision. Naruto and Sasuke will go back first!"

"Eh? Oh...I can do it..."

The girl shrugged indifferently, took out her pen and ink, leaned against the tree trunk, and began to write.

Uchiha Sasuke grabbed Naruto who wanted to step forward to peek at the content, but he double-checked and opened his Sharingan in an attempt to peek.

However, the actions of the two were quickly discovered by the Jonin. Before being driven back, the black-haired boy saw Haruno Sakura writing "Greetings to the Sandaime Hokage" on the scroll bar.

"Okay, okay, go back quickly. If we take too long, dinner doesn't have to wait for us."

It's a pity that Kakashi didn't leave him time to solve his doubts.

The last ray of twilight was swallowed up by the night, and Hatake Kakashi and Haruno Sakura really failed to make it to dinner time.

Tazuna, who had seen the strength of the two of them, didn't take it seriously and comforted Tsunami, who was a little worried.

When the two young genin were secretly wrestling with each other, clearly already full, but still bothering Tsunami to give them another bowl of rice, Chi Guiren's conversation finally came from outside the door.

"Sakura, that's... ah, it's not that I don't believe in your strength, but if you have to take care of the bridge at the same time..."

"No problem no problem!"

"Wait for reinforcements...or at least just focus on dealing with that side..."

"No, I'm not worried. The strength of that masked boy is... unfathomable. Although I can't take care of the battle, I can at least assist."

"You're just a genin! Besides, there's nothing the shadow clone can do..."

"I have my own way. Why do you think I was assigned this mission? Mainly because I need..."

Uchiha Sasuke, who was sitting by the door, tried his best to hear the conversation outside the door, but he could only vaguely hear single words such as "shadow clone" and "mission".

Haruno Sakura coughed twice, then opened the door of the client's house and said hello: "We are back... Hey, Naruto, Sasuke, stop before you vomit! Ms. Tsunami, please don't stop. It’s enough to feed these two idiots, and getting proper nutrition is also a compulsory subject for ninjas.”

She raised her head and complained to the people around her: "Kakashi-sensei is also in charge of them!"

"Okay, you two are not allowed to waste food!" Kakashi Hatake scolded him perfunctorily, then returned to the original topic: "Sakura, I think..."

"Don't listen, don't listen!" Haruno Sakura put down the scroll behind her and sat down. She took the job from Tsunami and thanked her. Then she changed the subject: "Tomorrow I have to do a very important practice. Kakashi-sensei, you have to help me." busy."

"Yes~Yes~" The Jonin also took his seat and began to eat, lowering his eyes to cover up the worry in his eyes.

Sasuke, who originally planned to forcefully eat another bowl of rice, put down his rice bowl obediently after being scolded. Naruto did the same thing when he saw this.

The black-haired boy thought for a long time and asked, "Is there any information we need to know about the mission?"

"Well, when Zabuza Momochi attacks again, you two must be able to contend with that masked boy and let Kakashi-sensei concentrate on dealing with Zabuza first. All you need to know is this."

Haruno Sakura answered lightly, without any intention of explaining in detail.

"I understand." Uchiha Sasuke didn't ask any more questions.

Instead, Uncle Dazuna suddenly interrupted: "Sakura, you're not going to do anything dangerous, are you?"

Hearing this, the girl stared deeply into her client's eyes, which made Dazuna feel a little creepy.

"Mr. Tatsuna, although I can't bear to see you lying about your mission level and ignoring the lives of ninjas like us. But I have to admire you. You are the hero of the Land of Waves."

After all, she didn't answer directly.

-

In the next few days, Haruno Sakura still took the opportunity to learn the plot of the original work, pretending to mention the late hero of the Land of Waves unintentionally.

She knew that the trajectory of the world had already changed, but she did not dare to let go of any changes that might make the situation worse.

After Uzumaki Naruto heard about the past of the Land of Waves, he devoted himself more and more to training. He even stopped going back to his client's house and always slept directly in the forest.

Fortunately, the sharp-tongued Sasuke brought the meal prepared by Miss Tsunami for him, so that he was not over-consumed and starved to death in the wild.

In this way, Class 7 lived an almost repetitive life for several days.

The only day that was different was that one early morning when Naruto was still sleeping in the forest, when the rest of Team 7 went to the forest, they met a boy with skin as white as snow.

Sasuke and Kakashi had an ominous premonition when they first saw that person, and glanced at Haruno Sakura at the same time with tacit understanding. And that premonition was quickly fulfilled.

I saw Haruno Sakura chatting up the boy with exactly the same tricks and gestures as when he first arrived in the Land of Waves and met Tsunami, and even his lines remained unchanged.

The beautiful young man was dumbfounded and didn't know how to respond. This was definitely not the first time he had been accosted, nor the first time he had been mistaken for a woman, but the person who was accosting him now was a female... ninja.

"Ah, you said 'beautiful women come out of the water country', but I'm a man, right?"

"Boy? No problem!"

"Ahahaha, I'm sorry, young man, my student disturbed you."

Uchiha Sasuke had already walked away pretending not to recognize him. Hatake Kakashi grabbed the back of Haruno Sakura's forehead tie and dragged the student away from what he regarded as a "scared innocent villager."

"Really, I haven't met beautiful people during previous missions. Why are you so out of control when you come to the country of waves?"

"Because I've been a little fast recently..." Haruno Sakura seemed to want to say something, but suddenly changed her words: "No, it's not that Kakashi-sensei has been refusing to obey me, I want to say that I still have to cast a wide net. one time."

Kakashi looked at the student with a gloomy expression for a moment, thinking there was something special going on. After hearing this answer, he felt that his worry and care were wrong after all!