Chapter 206: The Dying Woman
"Our battle, I'm afraid, will have to end here!" Kakuzu said, and the suffocating killing intent that had been emanating from him also gradually faded.
It seemed he had lost the desire to continue fighting.
Sakura's delicate brows furrowed slightly, not understanding Kakuzu's meaning.
Does he think... that the battle can be declared over by him alone? He's already a battle-hardened man. He shouldn't be so naive.
"You think if you say that, I'll end the battle and let you leave?" the girl said coldly.
Although she no longer had much confidence in winning the subsequent battle against Kakuzu, and the fight just now, apart from exchanging a wave of skills, hadn't advanced the situation in any way, Sakura was still capable of entangling Kakuzu and stalling for some time until the supporting Konoha ninja arrived.
She would not easily let go of an enemy who had killed a fellow village ninja.
Not to mention that the opponent was also a member of the Akatsuki.
It was said that that organization had designs on Naruto's Nine-Tails... so since she had caught its tail, it was impossible to let them go easily.
Kakuzu didn't say much more. If Haruno Sakura was dead set on keeping him here, then the situation would become very troublesome.
His strength was indeed formidable, but Sakura's tactics also gave him a huge headache, filling him with a sense of frustration that he couldn't display his full abilities.
Just that astonishingly fast Ice Body Flicker was already a headache. An opponent of the Namikaze Minato type was a complete counter to him. No matter how strong his ninjutsu was, if it could never hit the enemy, there was nothing he could do.
Fortunately, Haruno Sakura's Body Flicker still had a big flaw. Not to mention that its speed was a line slower than the Golden Flash, the fact that the medium used for the flicker was a conspicuous block of ice was far worse than the Fourth Hokage's inconspicuous Flying Raijin formula or a kunai with the formula written on it.
So much so that Kakuzu had even formed a habit. As long as Sakura used an Ice Style ninjutsu, he would reflexively want to destroy the resulting ice blocks until they became ice slag that could not be used for a Body Flicker.
What made him even more wary was that water jutsu with its astonishing cutting power.
He always felt that this move looked very familiar—very much like the Second Hokage's Water Style: Water Severing Wave!
But when used from that girl's hands, its power was even greater, its casting speed was faster, the commotion was smaller, and the chakra consumed was not like that of an S-rank ninjutsu.
This made that move many times more practical than the Water Severing Wave.
He still clearly remembered how that heart in his main body had been destroyed. It had been just an instant, and his tempered body had been cut open!
Faced with such a jutsu, even Kakuzu, who had several lives, did not dare to be careless, as if walking on thin ice.
The reason he had said the battle was about to end was naturally not because he was confident of defeating Haruno Sakura in a short period of time.
But on the other battlefield, the winner and loser were about to be decided.
Kakuzu pointed his finger at the battle on Hidan, Yūgao, and Shino's side.
"You no longer have the spare energy to mind my business," he said with a mysterious sneer. "Take a closer look at the situation over there. They're about to decide the winner!"
And then Haruno Sakura heard a short, tragic scream. It was Yūgao's voice!
Then she clearly sensed that her chakra was rapidly dimming.
"Damn it..." Sakura's face changed. That kind of rapidly dimming feeling was a reaction that only appeared when someone was seriously injured!
"It seems that on our side, we can only call it a temporary end!" Kakuzu said, his ferocity gone, his calm gaze carrying a hint of sinister horror. "Before I take your life next time... you'd better take good care of that heart of yours for me!"
Haruno Sakura glared at him fiercely.
The next battle?
I'm afraid that by that time, she won't be someone Kakuzu can easily deal with!
For the time being, let's just let him go. She had to rush over immediately... to see what on earth had happened.
With a wave of the silver line in her hand, a "Water Style: Super Water Gun Jutsu" forced Kakuzu back.
Sakura quickly formed hand seals, condensed an ice mirror in the direction of Shino and Yūgao, and then used the Body Flicker of the Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, teleporting over in an instant.
She only hoped that Yūgao's injuries were not too serious, that she could handle them with her medical ninjutsu. Otherwise...
Haruno Sakura appeared beside Shino with a Body Flicker.
She saw Yūgao lying on the ground, her life force almost completely gone, a spreading pool of blood under her constantly flowing, extending into the distance.
A sinister, large hole had appeared in her chest. The flesh, bones, and internal organs in the opening had completely disappeared!
Through the bloody hole in her body, Sakura could see the dirt behind her, which had been stained black by the blood.
Shino had his hand pressed on her chest, futilely using the one crude medical ninjutsu he knew, trying to stop her bleeding.
But he couldn't stop it at all!
Sakura's eyes instantly widened.
"Let me," she rushed up at once, pulled Shino away, and said, "I'll stop her bleeding!"
Although she hadn't spent much effort on her healing ninjutsu, it was still much better than Shino's. Under her precise chakra control, the medical ninjutsu quickly took effect and stopped the bleeding from the wound.
However, Yūgao's condition showed no sign of improvement at all. On the contrary, she was growing weaker and weaker...
Her chakra signature was also becoming more and more like that of a lifeless object, that is, a corpse.
Sakura had been in a panic just now. After calming down a little, she finally realized as if waking from a dream that what Yūgao needed was not to stop the bleeding, but a heart!
Her heart... was completely gone.
The function of the heart is to pump blood to all parts of the body. It is connected to the most important veins and arteries and is the most important organ in the human body. Without it, blood cannot circulate at all. Once the most basic circulation of the human body stops, even a ninja will die in a very short period of time.
To save Yūgao, Sakura had to quickly think of a countermeasure.
However, she was at a complete loss.
If a person doesn't even have a heart, how can they be saved? Such a serious wound, it wasn't a matter of simply stopping the bleeding and letting it heal. She had to create another heart to complete the function of the body!
Sakura only felt a chill spread from the bottom of her heart, rushing straight to her temples.
I have to think of a way, I have to think of a way... The girl's thoughts were in a mess. Of all the medical ninjutsu she had learned, not a single one could handle this situation!
The more urgent she became, the more she couldn't think of a way.
An emotion was building up in her heart. It was extreme anger, and also extreme panic. Haruno Sakura clenched her jaw, feeling the veins on her forehead pop, her temples throbbing.
Suddenly, a wild laugh came.
"Hahaha, don't waste your effort!" Sakura turned her head and saw that the arrogant and annoying laughter was coming from a strange man not far from the battlefield. "She's already beyond saving!"
She widened her eyes and saw that the man's skin color was extremely unnatural, as if it were painted with a strange black and white pattern, very eye-catching, giving people a strong feeling of evil and foreboding.
"...Is this Hidan?" Haruno Sakura looked for a second or two before she reacted. Apart from the black and white paint on his body, the man's features were very similar to the person she had sent flying just now. "He's not dead?"
When she had been fighting Kakuzu just now, she had not dared to be distracted and pay attention to who had rushed out to intercept Yūgao and Shino outside the battlefield.
She had never thought that it would be this Hidan, who had clearly had half his body smashed to pieces by her punch and was deader than dead.
And right now, not only was Hidan not dead, but his chest, with a sharp steel blade also piercing his heart, he was still alive and kicking, speaking to her with a full voice!
This... what is going on?
Why, after suffering such an injury, can he still act as if nothing has happened? Could it be... another immortal body?
Thinking of this possibility, Sakura felt her scalp go numb!
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