Chapter 385: Haruno Sakura VS Itachi
Haruno Sakura was extremely fast. Her Ice Body Flicker Technique, Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, was most suitable for close to medium range movement, with speed only a fraction slower than the Yellow Flash's Flying Thunder God. When used for long-distance travel, it was also remarkably fast.
Swish, swish!
The girl's figure constantly flickered on the ground, appearing on a crystal ice piece with every step, shuttling across the battlefield like a snow spirit.
From sensing the use of the Railgun to appearing in front of Itachi and Sasuke, it took only a dozen seconds.
This speed was incredibly fast, but Sakura was still a step too late.
The moment she appeared on the edge of the battlefield via Body Flicker, she saw Sasuke groan, release his Youkai state, clutch his head, and fall heavily.
Then he fainted into the arms of Haruno Sakura who had just arrived.
"Was it Tsukuyomi...?" There were no obvious heavy injuries on his body.
"Sasuke... you did it."
He successfully stalled Itachi.
Sakura wanted to say something more, but found herself speechless.
She carefully placed Sasuke on the ground, her heart indescribably heavy, and stood up.
Itachi stood not far opposite her, wrapped in a mass of chakra condensed into substance and shaped like a giant. The purple-red and translucent giant exuded a rich and ominous chakra aura all over its body. Just standing quietly, an inviolable and awe-inspiring aura rushed towards her.
In those blood-red eyes, there were no common tomoe of the Sharingan, but a bewitching black pinwheel.
Both raised their heads and looked at each other across a distance of tens of meters.
Two cold gazes collided in the air.
"Uchiha Itachi." Haruno Sakura said his name coldly, word by word, as if using all her strength.
The early summer wind rolled up the floating dust on the ground, tumbling, a bit noisy, a bit hot.
Sakura's words were as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice.
Itachi stared tightly at the girl in front of him.
Sweat on her cheeks and temples, slightly hurried breathing, blood and dirt all over her body, small wounds too late to treat, and clothes full of cuts, all revealed the girl's sorry state after the big battle.
But Uchiha Itachi's gaze became even more solemn. After a long time, he spoke slowly.
"Haruno Sakura..." He said unhurriedly, those blood-colored eyes deep and cold, his voice slightly hoarse, "You appearing here..."
"Means that Kisame has already lost."
The wind lifted Itachi's hair, gently fluttering in front of his forehead.
Although the words were a question, Itachi's tone was quite certain, because after that earth-shattering ninjutsu bombing, he could no longer sense Kisame's chakra fluctuations.
"Regrettably, he is dead." The girl's voice was cold as an iceberg, but the corners of her mouth curled up into a malicious smile, glancing at the ground and saying, "But don't worry... at least your people have collected his corpse."
Itachi's eyebrows frowned slightly, his thin and well-defined lips pursed tightly, standing silently. Then—
Itachi's attack came without any warning!
Haruno Sakura didn't even see any movement or sign of Itachi preparing for battle. He stood straight, hands hanging naturally motionless, and then the purple-red giant clenched a fist bigger than the girl without any warning, and smashed down at her with unmatched momentum!
In just the blink of an eye, Uchiha Itachi completed a swift and fierce surprise attack!
Bang—
The purple-red giant's fist wind whistled like thunder, smashing fiercely on the position where Haruno Sakura was, raising dust all over the sky.
The thick dust obscured the vision, but could not block the Sharingan's perception of chakra.
"Blocked..."
Uchiha Itachi narrowed his eyes slightly and said faintly.
But his heart was far less calm than the expression on his face. Instead, he was startled: Obviously a ninjutsu-type ninja, yet her reaction speed is so fast, able to easily block such a sudden surprise attack... No wonder she could finish off Kisame so quickly!
Indeed, relying on the enhancement of the nervous system by Sakura Rush, Haruno Sakura's reaction speed could almost be described as "acting before thinking"; although the purple-red giant's punch was fast as lightning, Sakura had enough time to react!
The dust dissipated, and Haruno Sakura's figure reappeared in Itachi's sight. A hard and thick ice wall firmly blocked the giant's fist in front of her. The latter's crushing blow only left a few shallow cracks on the ice wall!
The translucent fist stopped less than a meter above Sakura's head.
"Chakra released into the air and condensed into a substantial state..." Haruno Sakura narrowed her eyes, carefully examining this strange and powerful ninjutsu in front of her, pondering in her heart.
"This is not a secret technique comparable to White Zetsu's spore jutsu!" Sakura made this decision almost subconsciously. Although this jutsu had been firmly blocked by her, intuitively, it gave her a deep sense of threat!
Even when facing Kisame, she didn't feel so apprehensive...
"Is this the unique secret technique of the Mangekyo Sharingan—Susanoo?"
She had seen intelligence on this ninjutsu in secret documents—including some notes from Sasuke's family. There was only half a page, but the large amount of characteristics described in those few words matched this ninjutsu on Itachi perfectly.
It was just that Itachi's purple-red giant was somewhat different from the Susanoo in the records: its right hand held a sake gourd, and its left hand held a strange mirror. Obviously two unremarkable objects, Haruno Sakura intuitively felt that they were extraordinary, with a faint sense of familiarity, but she couldn't remember where she had seen information about them for a moment; fighting right now, Sakura had no time to recall carefully, so she could only let it go.
However, that mirror was probably not an offensive treasure. There was a huge gap on it, and traces of damage on the giant's left hand holding the mirror, obviously the price paid for taking Sasuke's Railgun head-on.
"You know this ninjutsu..." Itachi looked slightly moved, a little surprised.
"Of course I know." The girl responded faintly, not explaining why, and added, "I also know that legend says Susanoo is invincible in both offense and defense..."
Speaking of this, Sakura showed a cynical smile on her face: "But now it seems a bit unworthy of its name!"
"Invincible?" Uchiha Itachi lowered his eyelids. Perhaps Uchiha clan members including Obito would be angered by words questioning Uchiha's ability like this, but he was calm and said faintly, "There was never an invincible ninjutsu..."
"Nor an undefeated ninja!"
"Is that so?" Haruno Sakura's battles so far had been smooth sailing without any major setbacks, so she was noncommittal about this. "But I haven't really lost."
She raised her eyebrows, her eyes becoming sharp: "What... are you going to grant me a defeat here?"
"No." Itachi's tone was still plain, his eyes cold.
He reached out his hand, held down the fluttering hair on his forehead, and said calmly: "I'm just... going to kill you."
Dense killing intent collided tit-for-tat in this world!
In this heavy atmosphere, the girl actually sneered.
"Hehe..." She chuckled lightly, but there was no smile in her eyes, only chilling coldness. "If you can do it, you might as well try!"
The moment her voice fell, the two launched attacks almost simultaneously!
"Water Style: Severing Wave!"
"Secret Technique: Tsukuyomi!"
Haruno Sakura's ninjutsu completion speed was a few points faster than Itachi's.
While those bewitching Mangekyo pinwheels were still gathering chakra to prepare the ninjutsu, a white water line had already shot out from the girl's palm, slashing straight along the direction of her index finger.
The high-pressure water line with added Wind and Water nature transformations rushed to the purple-red giant. The cutting line that had been invincible actually became somewhat difficult on Susanoo! It was indeed the Mangekyo secret technique claimed to be immune to attacks. It was the first time Sakura cut something so solid, and the cutting speed of Severing Wave actually slowed down!
But it only slowed down.
The Severing Wave, whose power was pushed to the extreme by Haruno Sakura, had not encountered anything it couldn't cut so far. Itachi's Susanoo, though solid as a rock and impregnable, couldn't stop the thin line shooting from the girl's slender fingers!
Zzzzt—!
With an extremely ear-piercing friction sound ringing out in front of Itachi, the slender water line pierced into the purple-red giant's body. Almost in the blink of an eye, it rushed in front of the cold young man's eyes.
A strand of black hair fluttering on Itachi's forehead was cut by the water line, falling leisurely.
The sharp whistle aroused by the water line almost pressed against the center of Itachi's brows.
But it stopped abruptly.
At this moment, Tsukuyomi finally took effect!
At the same time, the high-pressure water line, losing chakra maintenance, became a spent arrow. After breaking through the last bit of distance, it weakly hit the center of Itachi's brows, leaving a small red mark, and then flowed down with a splash.
A few drops of sweat on his cheeks, along with black bloody tears in his eye sockets, also flowed down silently.
And opposite him, the girl who had been standing proudly suddenly swayed, her legs went soft, and she half-knelt on the ground.
"The outcome has been decided..." White Zetsus popped up from somewhere, looking at the two on the field from afar, saying secretly.
"Itachi won."
"Haruno Sakura, who crushed Kisame, was defeated by Itachi with a single glance. The Sharingan's ability is really too strong..."
"Yeah... Tsukuyomi is indeed the strongest spiritual attack. As long as eye contact occurs, the enemy can be pulled into the Tsukuyomi space to receive various cruel and painful tortures in a world where time and space are controlled by Itachi, until the mind collapses... No one can survive such an attack!"
"Being able to force Itachi to use this move, Haruno Sakura is already quite remarkable! At least this is the first time I've seen Susanoo beaten like this..."
"Only the same Mangekyo Sharingan can counter this ninjutsu. Sure enough, Sharingan and Rinnegan are the strongest Kekkei Genkai. In front of them, other Kekkei Genkai are just existence like ants..."
"Eh... Isn't she hit by Tsukuyomi? Why... hasn't she fallen down yet?"
Suddenly a White Zetsu raised a question.
Hit by Tsukuyomi, Haruno Sakura didn't have a Sharingan, so she should be immobile and at the mercy of others!
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