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

"If you ask me, why do I like romance novels?

It is a beautiful longing for an unreachable ideal, and it is also a complete explanation for Dushan Qishin.

"I don't know how to love people. 』

So you look at me and just smile.

We met for the first time in our lives, and they are as good as twins. "

-Xuan Ye's "Scarecrow Watching the Wheat Field"

"Speaking of Sakura-chan, you seem to always talk about being kind, courteous and thrifty? What does that mean?"

"Ah, that can be said to be some kind of self-restraint. Being gentle, kind, respectful, thrifty, and tolerant. I don't really want to achieve these so-called virtues. I just use a sentence to remind myself to cultivate my moral character."

Uzumaki Naruto recalled a certain conversation during a casual chat, as if it was a lifetime ago.

With a look of disbelief on his face, he squatted down next to his unconscious teammate, staring in horror at Haruno Sakura, who was dancing with human bones in the purple barrier.

That's...Sakura-chan?

The man whose clothes were torn to pieces and whose bones were protruding from his body.

Like a monster.

"Be kind, courteous, thrifty and accommodating."

Human bones cut through the air as blades.

The executioner sang and danced.

"Wen is the warm splashing blood."

Mixed with the screams was the sound of flesh being cut open.

"Good is a stump of good and bad parts."

The severed body flew into the sky, but still could not escape the confinement of the barrier.

"Gong, it's a hunched corpse."

The dying man was still struggling, a trail of blood was dragged on the ground, and the God of Death was demanding his life.

Both outlaws and do-gooders will be treated equally by death.

"Frugality is picking up scattered bones"

Someone rushed forward with all his might, and with one strike the white-haired god of death's bone blade came out of his hand.

Before the man's smile widened, more bone blades emerged from the successor of the Corpse Vein, spreading all over his body.

"Let me return you to the pure land."

He was like some beast that uses thorns as life-saving tools, and those sharp points directly penetrated the people surrounding him.

"Sakusounomai"

The long white-haired God of Death danced gracefully, and with his graceful steps, the enemies fell one by one.

The fresh life in his hands is just a delicate flower waiting to be picked.

He is a gardener and cuts these moth-eaten rot flowers.

Scattered around him, fallen flowers danced into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

The first thing Uchiha Sasuke saw when he opened his eyes was the shocked expression on his blond teammate's face.

The young man propped himself up, blinked his blurred vision back into focus, and swallowed hard at the scene not far away that looked like a hell on earth.

There was no way that Haruno Sakura was completely ignorant of Uchiha Itachi---even if he had a premonition, that was the only thought in Uchiha Sasuke's mind at that moment.

The villagers of Wave Country in the distance couldn't bear it anymore. Tsunami reached out to cover Inari's eyes, but the boy broke away.

"Sister Sakura did all this for the Kingdom of Waves. I want to witness it until the last second!"

The young mother was convinced by her son, and so were the people of the Land of Waves, just as Inari had rekindled their hope not long ago.

The two genin boys looked at each other, and Uzumaki Naruto finally couldn't hold it back: "Kakashi-sensei, do you really don't need to stop Sakura-chan?"

Hatake Kakashi frowned, took a deep breath and exhaled long.

He knew that Haruno Sakura was extraordinary, but he couldn't imagine how hard it must have been for someone to live in Konoha with a corpse's bone veins.

He knew that Haruno Sakura had taken on additional confidential tasks during this trip to the Country of Waves, but he didn't know if Haruno Sakura had hidden anything more from him.

"Kakashi?"

Even Uchiha Sasuke couldn't stand it anymore.

What unfolded before their eyes was a one-sided massacre.

Just like when the Uchiha clan was wiped out.

Kakashi: "Zabuza, Haku, what do you say?"

They were branded with a curse by Sakura, and they might know their students better than themselves. Kakashi sighed inwardly.

The tall escape nin half leaned on the decapitating sword, kicked Kado at his feet, and glanced at the Konoha jounin: "Kakashi, forget about the naivety of the genin in peacetime, and your IQ has declined with them?"

"It is indeed not necessary to eradicate the remnants of Cardo, and it is not within the scope of your mission. However, when ninjas like us leave the country of Waves, even if the bridge is completed, there is no guarantee that these desperadoes will come back to persecute the villagers."

"White."

Zabuza called the boy, his tone filled with disapproval.

"No problem. Sakura-san trusts Kakashi-san, just like I trust Zabuza-san."

Shiro smiled sweetly at Zabuza, causing Zabuza to take back all the thousands of words he was preparing to refute without any conscious thought.

Zabuza suddenly felt that something was wrong. Now that he was under the command of Haruno Sakura, his status relationship with the boy had changed, and it was infinitely closer to equality.

He felt that he would be pinched by Bai Na.

Zabuza added: "Kakashi, please pay attention to the decentralization of power at the top of Konoha. Going straight to the Kado base is a confidential mission directly sent by the Hokage; but the annihilation of the remnants of Kado is a mission from behind the scenes."

Following Bai's train of thought, he was happy with it.

Hatake Kakashi frowned again and asked his guess: "I thought Sakura planned to leave you two in the Land of Waves."

He already knew something in his heart, but now he just had no way of knowing what the grudge between Haruno Sakura and Shimura Danzo was.

In any case, Kakashi believed in Haruno Sakura. Since she had personally told him "I am not a fundamentalist", then she who wanted to be like "Sarutobi-sensei" was leaning towards the Hokage faction.

Zabuza looked at Kakashi with caring eyes for the demented old man, and replied in a strange tone: "How is that possible? We are Kirigakure's escape ninjas, and your students have no intention of using us as abandoned children. "

"Ah, that's right, I forgot about it for a moment."

The two genin's eyes wandered between Shiro and Zabuza. They hadn't fully figured out how Kirigakure and I became our side.

Even though Haruno Sakura was a teammate of the same age as them, they always felt that they were far behind and could not keep up with her no matter how hard they tried.

Sasuke looked thoughtful. He realized that in his subconscious, he still hoped that the man would still be his gentle brother, and that the genocide and other things were just victims of the undercurrent in the Ninja Village.

Like Haruno Sakura.

Naruto was still asking: "So what do you mean, I said, although those people are bad guys, do you want Sakura-chan to kill them like this?"

Naruto wasn't really hypocritical enough to worry about his enemies, he was just afraid that his teammates would bear the weight of more lives. Even if you are as crude as him and believe in ninja, you have always known that one day you will raise the butcher's knife.

After killing them all, will Sakura-chan really be fine?

The weight of kunai and shuriken has always been heavy.

"That's right, because this is a mission, because we are ninjas. We ninjas are just tools. We only have missions wherever we go. We live in lies of using and being used, and we cannot have our own pursuits. .”

Shiro answered Naruto gently, with a hint of helplessness.

This kind of view cannot be said to be agreed or disagreed with, it is just what he has been told by most of his life, the environment he has been in and the education he has received.

Kakashi continued: "Although historically ninjas initially did behind-the-scenes work, such as intelligence and spies... But from the Warring States Period when hundreds of ninja families began to develop to one country and one village now, there is no doubt that ninjas have already become We have created a weapon for war. Fortunately among all, since the first Hokage established the ninja village system, the status of ninjas has been slightly higher than that of civilians and samurai, and has even approached the status of aristocrats."

"Hmph, that's just you, the great nation of Konoha Fire Country, taking it easy."

Zabuza scoffed with disdain.

"Tools, props, tasks, being used...do you have to be like this if you want to become a real ninja?"

Naruto's tone dropped: "You obviously said you trust each other just now. Shiro, you obviously like Zabuza so much. You just walked towards Sakura-chan because of Shiro. It's obvious that this is the case, but you still say that ninjas are just Tools?"

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, but instead he lowered his head.

"No, brat, maybe you're right, ninjas are human after all."

"Naruto-kun, I think you may be right. If it is really just a prop, I cannot exert such power for Mr. Zabuza."

Haku and Zabuza spoke at the same time and said similar words.

The two ninjas who had been together for many years looked at each other and smiled together.

Zabuza was the one who turned away his eyes first. He was never able to compete with the boy's purity.

Kakashi Hatake patted the two genin on the shoulders and said softly to them: "Watch Sakura carefully with your eyes wide open. That's how ninjas who have really touched human lives take lives lightly."

Uchiha Sasuke had already opened his Sharingan.

Uzumaki Naruto raised his head with tears in his eyes.

The picture of hell in the barrier has come to an end.

"Is killing someone something a ninja will definitely encounter? Have you all killed so many people?"

Tatsuna had been silent for a long time behind Kakashi. When he suddenly spoke at this moment, he could only describe it as "brave".

This is probably the sentiment that allowed him to persist in building the bridge when everyone had lost hope.

"Zabuza and I have both experienced great wars in the ninja world. The war was so chaotic that no one knew how many people they had killed. They could only rely on instinct to kill the enemy when they saw it. There were also many who accidentally injured their companions."

The one who answered him was Kakashi of the Sharingan, a name that became famous during the Third Ninja War.

He added: "Zabuza and Haku specialize in assassinations, so they should be more impressive."

Tatsuna lowered his head and looked at the bruised teenagers, finally able to understand what Sakura Haruno said to him many times, "The lives of ninjas like us are also life" and "I can't understand that you ignore the lives of ninjas like us." What kind of bloodshed is buried.

Thousands of worries were tangled together, and in the end he could only sigh briefly: "That's right."

This is the tragedy of the times, and he has no words to say.

The last enemy fell, and the purple barrier disappeared. The long-haired man who took people's lives dropped the bone blade and squatted in the middle of the mess.

Hatake Kakashi suddenly noticed that there was a speedy aura approaching the bridge.

Although he believed that Sakura, who was mixed with Uzumaki blood, would not fail to notice, he still wanted to step forward to protect the student.

It's a pity that he suffers from the after-effects of chakra deficiency.

The person jumped onto the bridge from the sea, and something seemed to be summoned as a springboard during the process. Kakashi Hatake could not see clearly.

Uchiha Sasuke's voice was unusually unstable: "Is that... wood escape?"

At this time, the advantage of the innate Sharingan comes out.

Is it Tenzo?

Hatake Kakashi's guess was quickly verified.

The person who came was a man with brown hair and a tall, thin young man's build. He was dressed in ANBU attire, with a familiar mask on his face.

"Senior Tenzo... the reinforcements are coming too slowly."

The man's voice was no longer calm and calm as before, it was trembling and a little bit coquettish.

"I came from the other side of the continent..."

The man wearing an ANBU mask seemed to want to refute, but suddenly changed his mind: "No, I'm sorry, I was late."

The evil ghost that had been killing people not long ago disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by a huddled, trembling man.

"Why is it hurt so badly?"

The ANBU members were careful not to step on the broken bones and flesh on the ground. They picked up the male nin across the mess on the ground and took him close to the area where Team 7 was.

"If you hadn't come earlier, we could have sneaked into Cardo's base together and easily eliminated the Black Hoe Thunder Fang. The lightning from the Thunder Knife will be very painful."

"Oh, okay, okay, it's my fault, it's my fault."

With every step he took, the civilians of the Kingdom of Waves in the distance retreated.

"Really, the last time we met, you were going to become a member of the seventh genin team, and I was still teasing you to stop 'tarnishing' Kakashi-senpai..."

Kakashi recognized the person, relaxed his guard, and said hello: "Tenzo? I didn't expect you to be the reinforcement."

He deliberately did not ask the younger generation what he meant by his words.

Everyone else was worried about Haruno Sakura's serious injury. Only Zabuza and Haku were happily eating at the hands of their current boss.

"Well, long time no see, Kakashi-senpai."

The ANBU replied, first placing Haruno Sakura next to Sasuke on the ground, and continued what he had just said: "Now I would rather you take action against Kakashi-senpai. You must have lost control just now."

It sounded like a question, but it was in an affirmative tone.

The face under the mask was full of distress, and he rubbed his still trembling, silver-white head.

The long-haired man shrunk his body even smaller and simply returned to his girlish figure, curling up in the overly large clothes.

Tenzo did not shy away from gender differences. He stretched out his hand with a familiar hand and wrapped Haruno Sakura's clothes more tightly. He also removed the Konoha forehead protector and bandage from her neck, and then placed his palm on the girl's rarely exposed back neck.

"Wow!"

Chakra flowed out from the Anbu's palm, and Haruno Sakura seemed to whimper in pain. The black thorn-like mark around her neck was twisting like an evil insect at this moment.

"Tenzo, what are you doing? I remember you don't know medical ninjutsu!"

Kakashi Hatake had been curious for a long time and was finally able to confirm that the mark was indeed a curse mark, but he was not happy at all.

Looking at Haruno Sakura who gritted her teeth and had tears in her eyes, he wanted to step forward and reach out to stop Tenzo, but he fell to his knees due to lack of chakra.

"Senior!" Tenzo seemed to want to get up and help Kakashi, but couldn't leave.

He hurriedly explained: "No, although this is not a medical ninjutsu, Xuan and I... I mean, Sakura and I's chakra..."

Mochi Zabuza supported Kakashi and lent him his decapitating sword to use as a crutch.

Heroes cherish heroes, and after two battles, they can be considered to have some kind of friendship.

He looked at the client and the strange ninjas next to him, considered his words, and signaled Kakashi with his eyes: "Our chakra properties are similar, and Sakura has always suffered from the bloodthirsty and bellicosity brought about by the blood inheritance limit of the corpse." She is impulsive, so a lot of the time I will be the one...soothing for her, in various ways."

"cherry?"

Kakashi asked the girl for confirmation.

Haruno Sakura's expression became much more relaxed and her breathing became much more steady. She replied: "Well, Tenzo is right."

Hatake Kakashi relaxed his muscles and sat down weakly. He looked at his two juniors with a heavy expression.

So Sakura has been flirting with others for no reason lately? If I had known this, if I promised her...

No, this doesn’t seem right, does it?

The mystery surrounding Haruno Sakura was so deep that Kakashi's shrewd mind could only make random thoughts.

At this time, Bai Ye stepped forward and approached Haruno Sakura. Before raising his hand, he explained: "If it is the blood boiling caused by the Blood Succession Limit, my Ice Release can also have some easing effects. Are you willing to let me try it?"

Haruno Sakura finally stopped shaking, but she was still in a weak state. She forced herself to smile and replied: "Sure enough, keeping you is the right choice. But next time, I just killed a lot of people and I have calmed down long ago."

Bai nodded and stepped back.

The people of the Country of Waves tremblingly gathered around, and Shiro promised that he would clean up the tragedy on the bridge for them.

Tenzo sighed inconspicuously and said to Haruno Sakura: "You can obviously wait until I come, or you can ask Kakashi-senpai and several other ninjas to help."

"I don't want Naruto and Sasuke to be stained with blood so early, before they start to find the meaning of life, and I don't want Kakashi-sensei and Haku... Zabuza's part, well, I did lose control, I Forgot about him.”

The girl answered with a somewhat depressed voice.

Momochi Zabuza didn't know whether he should be grateful or angry.

Bai couldn't hold back his laughter.

Seeing that everything was settled properly, and with the presence of his trustworthy junior in his prime, Kakashi Hatake sat down relaxedly.

Haruno Sakura looked at Kakashi jokingly and said:

"Kakashi-sensei, don't relax too quickly."

"Eh?"

"I should have warned you. After all, you are not an Uchiha, and your current chakra level is not enough, so you can't abuse that eye anymore."

"Ah."

"I also told you that your body has been eaten away by the Yin chakra until it is completely destroyed."

"Yes, it seems that it is this time."

"The most important thing is that I told you very objectively and rationally from a doctor's perspective. Whenever you use it again, I will recommend that you receive special treatment."

"Um... ah?"

Alarms sounded in Kakashi's mind.

"So, Kakashi-sensei, I sincerely recommend that you receive special treatment."

Haruno Sakura smiled, looking at the silver-haired jounin's tired and handsome face, showing an embarrassed expression.

The jounin recalled what "special treatment" was, although he kept mumbling about it when the doctor explained it to him.

The girl added: "Kakashi-sensei's condition is characterized by tyranny of Yin-type chakra, while mine is caused by excess Yang-type chakra, so I must admit that this is also very helpful to me. It is a win-win treatment."

"I will carefully consider it."

Hatake Kakashi closed his eyes, almost as if he had made up his mind to die.