Chapter 207: Ninjutsu Heart
"How about it, you bastard? This kind of pain, it's great, isn't it!" Hidan said with a smug laugh as he slowly pulled the steel blade out of his chest. "The pain from that slash you gave my neck just now, I've returned it to you, one hundred percent!"
The deeply comatose Yūgao, of course, could not answer his words.
However, Haruno Sakura, who was at her side, was enraged. Her chakra exploded with a roar, and her hands immediately came together in front of her chest, about to form hand seals—
"Water Style: Wind Blade Ra—"
"Stop!" Shino roared, and with a sudden wave of his hand, he forcefully stopped the girl's ninjutsu.
"Sakura, didn't you notice?" he said hurriedly. "That person's secret technique can transfer the damage he receives to Yūgao... that is to say, you can't attack him now, you can't hurt him... otherwise Yūgao will really die!"
Sakura was instantly stunned. She had read so much material on ninjutsu, but this was the first time she had ever heard of such a bizarre secret technique. In that case, if she had just cut Hidan in two at the waist, wouldn't Yūgao have also been cut in two?
Her eyes instantly widened, and she asked, "What is going on?"
"This is his secret technique..." Shino's tone was grave as he slowly said, "Through some method, for example, it might be through the pattern under his feet and the paint on his body, Hidan seems to have connected his body with Yūgao's. So once he is injured, Yūgao will also suffer the same injury!"
"And he's also immortal. He won't die no matter what injuries he sustains. This is the most troublesome part!"
Sakura was silent, biting her lower lip hard.
How do you fight an enemy like this?
At this moment, Hidan was still spouting nonsense: "Don't you worry, I'll send you two down to reunite with her soon!"
The girl's brow furrowed tightly. She looked at Hidan, who was pointing his bloody, huge scythe at them, and maintained the medical ninjutsu on Yūgao, saying nothing.
"Don't be in a hurry... your ceremony will begin soon!" he said with a sinister smile. "You will soon be able to taste this ultimate pain, hahaha!"
Thud! A low sound of breaking earth was suddenly mixed in with his wild laughter. Hidan looked down and saw Kakuzu's black tentacles drilling out of the ground.
"Hey, Hidan, we should go!" The man, whose upper body was hidden in the earth, revealed only his head and said to Hidan, looking up. "Their reinforcements will be here soon!"
"I've only just taken care of the first person!" Hidan said, frowning with dissatisfaction.
He glanced at the girl who had taken off her mask and suddenly thought of something. "Hey, Kakuzu, that pink-haired girl was your opponent just now, right? After fighting for so long, you still haven't finished off a little kid? Hahahaha, when did you become so weak!"
"Shut up, Hidan. She was originally your opponent!" Kakuzu shouted with a gloomy face. "It's just that you got half your body smashed to pieces by her one punch, sent flying a hundred meters, and couldn't get up for half a day, so she became my opponent..."
With Kakuzu bluntly stating the facts, Hidan's face became ugly.
He instantly remembered Sakura's tyrannical, unstoppable punch. It was the first time he had been beaten so miserably. Half of his body's flesh and bone had been turned into a pulp. The intense pain was simply worse than death!
At that time, it had taken him more than a minute to recover. The pain had really gone deep into his bones. The thought of this filled Hidan's face with hatred, and he said through gritted teeth, "One more time, let me fight her again! The pain she gave me just now, I will definitely return it to her as it was, no, a hundred times over!"
"Her Body Flicker and taijutsu combination, have you figured out a way to deal with it? If you go again, you might not just be smashed to pieces, you idiot!" The man hidden in the earth waved his hand impatiently. "Hidan, are you going or not! Their support troops will be here soon. If we don't go now, it will be too late!"
Kakuzu's anxiety did not seem to be fake, and Hidan also quickly reacted.
"I know, I know!" he said with a frown and a look of annoyance.
He shook the blood off his scythe, stopped his secret technique, and returned to normal from that hideous appearance.
"You just wait," he said, pointing at Sakura and Shino. "The next time we meet, I will definitely kill you and make you into a sacrifice for Lord Jashin...!"
"..." Haruno Sakura and Shino looked at him coldly, silent.
From his appearance, the damage-sharing secret technique seemed to have stopped...
If they were to charge up and fight him now, they might be able to keep him here. If they used the Wind Blade Raging Stream to cut off his head and limbs, even if he were immortal, he wouldn't be able to move, right?
Unless he was a tentacle monster like Kakuzu...
But Sakura immediately suppressed this thought.
Not to mention that with Kakuzu on the side, it was uncertain whether they could really keep Hidan here.
The most important thing was that she was currently using all her strength to perform medical ninjutsu and simply couldn't free her hands to attack the enemy.
So she could only watch as they left behind some parting words like "we'll meet again," patted their butts, and left.
However, before leaving, Kakuzu added one more sentence, "It's a pity that I didn't get to see your proficient Wind Style in this battle... Take good care of your body. The next time we meet, I will be taking this precious tri-element heart of yours!"
After speaking, the two of them turned into a puff of smoke and left with a Body Flicker.
This left the slightly stunned girl, still pondering the words Kakuzu had said before he left.
"Proficient Wind Style"?
That was intelligence that was deliberately used to mislead others... Who on earth leaked it?
She shook her head, shaking off these complicated thoughts. Yūgao's injuries had not yet improved, and Sakura had no mood to think deeply about the content of this.
She had no interest in considering who was leaking secrets, whether they had deliberately leaked false intelligence, and why Kakuzu had said this before he left...
She just looked down at Yūgao, whose mask had been removed, revealing a pale, bloodless face.
"Her chakra reaction is already weaker than even a baby's..."
Shino said gravely, squatting helplessly beside Yūgao, tightly holding her gradually cooling hand.
He bit his lower lip hard. His scarred face showed a tired and sorrowful expression.
"Shino... I still have one last desperate method," Sakura said through gritted teeth. At this point, she could only use some whimsical methods!
She condensed a large amount of chakra in her hand.
"I'm going to use the shape transformation of Ice Style and the nature transformation of Water Style to create a temporary heart and install it in Yūgao's body!"
Shino was stunned.
"Is... that feasible?"
To infuse one's own chakra into a lifeless object and enhance it was something that most ninja could do.
However, to inject chakra into a living object was extremely difficult—this was usually in the category of a high-level secret technique or genjutsu, such as the Hyuga clan's Gentle Fist or Tsunade's Body Pathway Derangement. Even so, secret techniques and genjutsu could only inject a small amount of one's own chakra into another's body. The life force and chakra contained in a living being itself were a natural barrier to foreign chakra. When fighting on one's home field, even if the strength gap was large, it would be leveled by the home field advantage.
So hearing that Haruno Sakura was going to pour such a large amount of chakra into Yūgao's body to form a ninjutsu heart, Shino was also half-believing, half-doubting, wondering if this could be achieved.
It was just that, as Haruno Sakura had said, this was also the only way out of a desperate situation.
They could only give it a try...
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