Chapter 489: Problem
"Mangekyo Sharingan, activate."
"Sage Mode, activate."
"...Yin Seal, activate!"
The activation of three powerful secret techniques was like the sudden opening of three giant floodgates.
In an instant, Haruno Sakura suddenly erupted with a terrifying aura that made people's hearts pound!
The astonishing momentum surged out with the chakra leaking from the girl's body, almost solidifying into strong winds, sweeping up sand and stones, hitting Kakashi's face.
Kakashi quickly blocked with his hands, stood up, and looked at the girl not far away with a frightened face.
Then, right before Kakashi's eyes.
A light green giant rose into the sky!
"Sage Art: Susanoo appears."
Haruno Sakura said lightly on top of Susanoo's head.
Beneath her feet, Kakashi held his breath.
What a majestic and magnificent giant stood before him!
The giant's height of over a hundred meters forced Kakashi to crane his neck to see the girl standing high atop Susanoo's head.
Kakashi stood right at its feet, reaching out and not even touching the height of its instep.
This level of Susanoo, even just casual punches and kicks, would be an unrivaled terrifying force, right?
Kakashi was very confident in his Kamui just now...
Seeing this move, he was completely speechless.
Not a comparison on the same level at all.
The oppressive momentum made the white-haired young man almost breathless!
Even knowing that Sakura wouldn't attack him, Kakashi instinctively palpitated, subconsciously having the urge to flee from here.
"Is this Sakura's current level..."
Suppressing the urge to run away, it took a long while for Kakashi to catch his breath, looking at the high-spirited girl with fluttering clothes at the extreme height, murmuring to himself.
Even in Konoha, dozens of kilometers away, perceptive ninja felt a faint movement in their hearts.
Akamaru: "Woof?" (Kiba aside: "What's wrong, hungry?")
Shino: "The bugs seem a bit listless today..."
As for the Hyuga family... this distance was a bit far for the Byakugan.
Top of Susanoo.
Haruno Sakura (clone body) stood on the giant's forehead and saw Kakashi's expression.
"Is this already shocking?"
It was nothing more than using a massive amount of senjutsu energy and highly Yin Release nature transformed chakra to forcibly pile up a Complete Body Susanoo in Sage Mode form. Powerful indeed, but the technical content was average.
She smiled faintly, enjoying the howling wind at the high place, looking into the distance, and said regretfully: "Pity we agreed only to show the form of Susanoo. If Kakashi saw the Sage Art: Majestic Attire God Warrior, wonder what he would think?"
Mangekyo Sage Art: Majestic Attire God Warrior was a secret technique she fused using almost all her means, extremely exquisite; just in terms of power, it completely surpassed this Complete Body Susanoo under her feet!
The main body used Body Flicker to flash onto the giant's shoulder and jumped beside the clone.
"Alright, played enough!" She took the clone's hand and said, "You were still thinking of using Majestic Attire God Warrior? Just this Susanoo, the commotion is already big enough!"
Saying that, she cast her gaze in the direction of Konoha.
The location of Training Ground No. 40 was extremely far from the core urban area of Konoha, separated by the Forest of Death with a diameter of 20 kilometers, and there was still a journey of tens of kilometers in between to reach the edge of Konoha's urban area.
Therefore, even standing at such a high position, they could only see the tall and gloomy ancient trees of the Forest of Death, their vision blocked layer by layer.
"Boring."
The clone pouted her pink lips and muttered. Using such a powerful jutsu without a suitable enemy to let her fight freely was very uninteresting.
Couldn't fight Kakashi, right?
Haruno Sakura connected with her mind, rolled her eyes at her, and said nothing.
The clone's behavior actually represented the main body's thoughts, only suppressed in the main body and not spoken out.
"A suitable opponent... is also hard to come by." Haruno Sakura stood beside her, tucking the hair messed up by the strong wind behind her ear, and said lightly.
She thought of Akatsuki's leader, Pain.
Susanoo, even Sage Art: Majestic Attire God Warrior, in front of that Pain who razed Konoha with one move, in front of his various ultimate moves, were not shocking moves. really fighting, even with all the intelligence, Haruno Sakura wasn't sure if she could win against him.
The clone nodded silently.
Because one of the clone's Sharingan wasn't a perfect Mangekyo, to save pupil power, Haruno Sakura only let Sage Art: Susanoo show its face to broaden Kakashi's horizons, then withdrew Susanoo.
Thud.
The girls landed on the ground.
"How was it, Kakashi-sensei?" Haruno Sakura laughed, "Not bad, right."
"More than 'not bad'..." Kakashi, severely blowed, said with a bitter smile, "You've left me too far behind!"
"Hearing you call me sensei, I always feel it's sarcasm towards me..."
The clone pursed her lips and snickered secretly.
"Unknowingly, you have grown to this level..." Kakashi sighed and said with emotion, "Honestly, among the current ninja, you are probably almost the strongest one, right?"
"That's not true." Haruno Sakura quickly waved her hand and said modestly, "Not mentioning Cloud Ninja, Stone Ninja and them. Stronger than me, I know at least one or two."
Not counting the advantage of intelligence, Pain counts as one. If Orochimaru prepared fully and summoned the First Hokage with 80% strength, she would also suffer—although whether Orochimaru could control Hashirama with 80% strength was a question.
And Naruto of that world, able to enter Sage Mode and Nine-Tails Mode simultaneously, and defeated Pain without sufficient intelligence support... she felt inferior.
And that mysterious masked man, although Haruno Sakura wasn't afraid of him head-on, she couldn't do anything to him who had no intention to fight.
"Is there anyone stronger..." Kakashi blinked, unable to imagine a ninja stronger than Sakura, and how strong that would be.
"Let's not talk about this." He finally threw these useless distracting thoughts to the back of his mind and laughed, "I'd better master my Kamui first."
The white-haired young man felt motivation surging up.
"Continue training, Sakura!"
In the afternoon, an uninvited guest came to the training ground.
"You are here!"
Sasuke's sudden appearance interrupted Kakashi's training.
"I went around the Forest of Death to find you... Is Kakashi-sensei practicing the Mangekyo Sharingan? How is the progress?"
"Not bad."
Kakashi raised his eyebrows and laughed: "Heard that you also awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan, Sasuke?"
"Hn, just awakened a few days ago."
Sasuke smiled slightly, his smile couldn't help but carry a bit of smugness.
Even in the Uchiha clan where geniuses came forth in large numbers, awakening the Mangekyo at this age was still extremely rare.
Sasuke had enough capital to be smug.
"Awakened when going out with me." Haruno Sakura leaned over and added.
She walked to Sasuke's side, nudged his ribs with her elbow, her eyes flowing with a sly smile in her brows: "Right, Sasuke?"
The girl's tone carried a teasing meaning.
The smile on Sasuke's face froze instantly.
"Did something happen?" Kakashi asked. He had heard about the condition for awakening the Mangekyo, said to be killing the most important person to oneself. Could it be he killed Sakura at that time?
However, Haruno Sakura was clearly standing here perfectly fine.
"Nothing happened... let's not talk about this." The boy tried to change the subject clumsily.
Sasuke recalled the scene at that time now, still remembering the grief and despair rising from the bottom of his heart when seeing Haruno Sakura's corpse almost crushing him, which even made him have nightmares for several nights.
However, thinking back that he mistook the clone for the main body and made a big oolong, the grief of falling into the abyss in Sasuke's heart instantly turned into indescribable embarrassment and awkwardness.
Simply wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
"Actually at that time... hehe, not talking about it."
Seeing the expression on Sasuke's face about to turn dark, Haruno Sakura decisively admitted defeat, stopped teasing Sasuke, held back her laughter and said: "So... Sasuke, do you need something from us?"
Sasuke forced a straight face and said seriously: "A personal matter and a business matter. Personal matter is I want to join your training... because I also need to train the Mangekyo."
"Business matter is Tsunade told me to call you back, she has something to tell you."
"Sakura, come with me."
"You guys go first." Kakashi waved to Haruno Sakura and laughed, "I'll practice a little more, then go back to rest. Practiced enough today, let's stop here for now."
"...Alright."
Since Kakashi said so, Haruno Sakura had no objection. She stopped the Clone Jutsu, retrieved her spirit and the clone body, waved goodbye to Kakashi, and left silently with Sasuke.
With a few Body Flickers, the two left Training Ground No. 40 and crossed the Forest of Death.
As a classic test question of the Chunin Exams, the Forest of Death was a nightmare in the minds of many Genin, but revisiting the old place now, Sasuke and Sakura felt no pressure, turning into afterimages quickly skimming over the crisis-ridden dense forest, like a leisurely stroll.
Haruno Sakura followed behind the boy, watching him pretend to turn his head inadvertently several times, secretly looking at her, looking like he wanted to speak but stopped.
Couldn't help but smile.
She seemed to see similar expressions on her friends' faces often recently.
That night, on the way Sasuke "dropped her off" home, before saying goodnight, when he finally didn't ask that question, it was the same hesitation.
"You... do you have something to say to me?"
When Sasuke pretended to turn his head inadvertently for the fifth time, his gaze was caught by the prepared Sakura.
Sasuke hesitated for a moment, but still asked.
"Sakura... you have the Mangekyo Sharingan, right?"
Was it seen just now?
The expression on Haruno Sakura's face remained calm and composed, without panic of being discovered.
Because logically speaking, Sasuke should have been the first to know about this.
It's just that at that time, the clone closed her eyes. Later, when Sasuke fought against himself from another world, he didn't notice Haruno Sakura retrieving it nearby either.
"Yes."
Haruno Sakura admitted calmly.
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