Chapter 323: Explanation
It was actually quite interesting to watch two tiny people fighting on the field.
The ninjutsu they used, which were supposed to be earth-shattering, super-giant ninjutsu, all became small and exquisite after being scaled down.
For example, the Manda she had simulated with Water Style, although it was an exact copy, was not as ferocious and terrifying after its size was reduced by a hundred times. It was just an ordinary python a few meters long.
Even that move, "Water Style: Leviathan's Wrath," which was supposed to form a giant monster hundreds of meters in size, with a sky-covering, awe-inspiring presence, had now become a small monster only a few meters long, looking a bit cute...
However, just by looking at the size of the small people on the field and imagining that they were the small people on the field, the three students of Team Haruno Sakura could realize how huge and terrifying these exquisite miniature ninjutsu were in the battle that day!
"Sensei, when you were fighting at that time, were the ninjutsu you used this big?" Udon asked, pushing up his glasses, somewhat shocked.
Moegi and Konohamaru also looked at her with surprise.
"Of course! I'm doing this strictly to scale."
At this time, the battle on the field had replayed to the point where Orochimaru used the Majestic Destroyer Flame for the second time. Haruno Sakura formed hand seals to help the small figure on the field use a miniature version of this ninjutsu, and she continued to explain, "Let's not talk about digressions. Look at this place first. The coordination between the Second Hokage and Orochimaru's attacks was perfect! Before the Second Hokage rushed over with the Instant Water, Orochimaru had already started preparing this ninjutsu..."
"Look carefully at the timing of the ninjutsu's completion!" Sakura pointed to the battle on the field and said.
The three students gathered around to watch carefully. The battlefield, completely controlled by Haruno Sakura, could be fast-forwarded, rewound, and paused at any time. The three small figures on the field repeated the attack just now with the gesture of the girl:
The Second Hokage used Instant Water to go around to the back for a surprise attack. Sakura lifted her elbow and shattered his right wrist. At the same time, the Second left a Flying Raijin mark on her elbow. Then Sakura turned around and kicked his left hand off. The Second Hokage flickered away: this was the phase of the Second Hokage's attack.
Then came Orochimaru's Fire Style attack.
Haruno Sakura paused here: she snapped her fingers, and the fireball dissipated upwards into the air. The three small figures on the field all stood still.
"After he completed the ninjutsu, he didn't release it immediately, but brewed it for a second longer. The timing was just right. After the Second Hokage left with the Flying Raijin, the flame bullet rushed over. You have to learn this kind of coordinated combat awareness properly. This is one point," Sakura explained.
She paused for a moment, then said to the three students, "In addition to that, if you were me at that time, what would you do?"
"Jump away!" Konohamaru was the first to raise his hand and say. "Or block it with a Water Formation Wall!"
Then he was hit hard on the head by Moegi. "Idiot! How can you jump away from a Fire Style with such a large range!"
Haruno Sakura also laughed. "There's no time to cast that ninjutsu in such a short time!"
"If I were Sensei... could I use the Substitution Jutsu? If it were Sensei, she would definitely be able to use the Substitution Jutsu in such a short time," Udon said, pushing up his glasses.
"Although I can indeed use the Substitution Jutsu in such a short time... the answer is still wrong! The Substitution Jutsu is not as omnipotent as you think. It is very useful and effective in low-end battles, but against this kind of large-scale area-of-effect ninjutsu, its movement range is too small to dodge this kind of ultimate move!" Haruno Sakura laughed.
In battles below the Jonin level, the Substitution Jutsu was an absolute god-tier skill. But in high-end battles, the attack ninjutsu used would often cover all the positions where the Substitution Jutsu could be used, so the opportunity to use this jutsu was not many.
Sakura then turned her gaze to Moegi, the last one who had not given an answer.
Moegi pouted with a bitter face, thought for a while, and said, "Is it to use that Ice Body Flicker? I remember Sensei's Ice Body Flicker is faster than the Substitution Jutsu, and the movable range is larger. You can hide behind the Ice Golem!"
"Hn, the answer is barely acceptable..." Sakura-sensei rubbed her chin and said, "But it's not the best answer yet. Let's see what I chose in actual combat!"
She continued to demonstrate: Orochimaru used Fire Style, and the Ice Golem behind Sakura on the field took a few steps forward, blocking the fireball.
"Oh right!" "There's also the Ice Golem Jutsu that can block the fireball!" The three students had been obsessed with dodging the ninjutsu just now, and now they immediately reacted.
"Hn, in combat, you must learn to use all available resources around you. This is another combat insight I want to teach you today!" Sakura nodded and said, "Especially you, Moegi. You are a Water Style ninja, so you must pay attention to utilizing the water resources on the field! Because creating water purely with chakra consumes too much stamina."
"Secondly, you must always be ready to counterattack. Let's continue watching."
The battle developed to the stage where Sakura used five water dragons to bombard Orochimaru.
Orochimaru only blocked three, and the remaining two were chasing him. On the other side of the battlefield, the Second Hokage had restored his body and flickered in front of Sakura for a surprise attack. After a tragic fight and an explosion, Haruno Sakura was covered in wounds, and the Second Hokage was blasted into fragments!
The tiny girl on the field delicately simulated the injuries at that time. The large patch of blood on her chest made the three students exclaim.
"It didn't hit the heart, just an ordinary penetrating wound!" Seeing the worried looks of the three, Sakura couldn't help but find it a little funny. If I were really seriously injured, would I still be standing here now?
But her heart was also warm.
Haruno Sakura cleared her throat and returned to the main topic. "Hn, after watching this part, do you have any thoughts?"
The three stared at each other. It was Konohamaru who scratched his head and said, "I feel that Grandpa Second Hokage's movements were very fast, but Sensei's reaction was also super fast. The fight was over in an instant. I couldn't even see what happened clearly!"
After Sakura played it back in slow motion and explained a few sentences, the three finally understood what had happened in the blink of an eye.
"The Second Hokage's Flying Raijin Body Flicker is so amazing! And after missing a hit, he immediately used the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique!" Konohamaru exclaimed in amazement.
"Lord Second leaving the Flying Raijin mark at the moment of the attack just now, that was too cool!" Udon also said.
"Sensei is the most powerful!" Moegi shouted at the two. "The Flying Raijin is a move that absolutely cannot be dodged, but it was still cracked by Sensei!"
"Sensei is also amazing!" Konohamaru echoed her, and asked Sakura very seriously, "But how did Sensei dodge that move? Isn't it said that the attack of the Flying Raijin cannot be dodged?"
It was rare for Konohamaru to ask a question seriously.
Haruno Sakura smiled slightly. "It's not really unavoidable. back when the Golden Flash faced the A-B Combo of the Cloud-nin, that is, the current Raikage brothers, he didn't kill them either. As long as the reaction is fast enough, it can still be dodged."
"Moreover, the Second Hokage's Body Flicker is slower than the Fourth Hokage's, plus the fact that he was summoned by the Reanimation Jutsu and couldn't display one hundred percent of his strength, so it's not strange that I could dodge this blow."
"Back to the main topic."
"This part of the Second Hokage's fighting style is worth learning from. He thought of the form of the next attack the moment his attack was thwarted. The first Body Flicker attack failed, and he immediately left the Flying Raijin formula. The second Flying Raijin didn't instantly kill me, and he instantly used the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique. The attacks were linked one after another!" Haruno Sakura said seriously.
"And your biggest problem right now is that your attacks are not well connected. One move is just one move."
"For example, Konohamaru, every time you use the Great Fireball, you wait foolishly for the result," she said here, shaking her head with a headache. "Do you think the Great Fireball is some kind of ultimate move that will have a result as soon as it is used! According to statistics, the hit rate of the Great Fireball on the battlefield is less than one tenth. Only one out of ten Great Fireballs can hit a person!"
"Sensei, I know I was wrong!" Konohamaru hung his head and accepted the lecture.
"You can't just say you know it verbally. You have to put it into action and make changes!" Haruno Sakura patted his head. "I'll pay special attention to this point when we spar later."
Glancing at the two snickering beside her, Sakura raised her eyebrow. "You two too! When coordinating as a team, you fought decently, but when fighting alone, you like to make these small mistakes! I'll keep an eye on you during the spar later!"
Moegi and Udon hurriedly put on serious faces. "Yes, Sensei!"
The girl looked around at the three who were standing solemnly, acting like good babies. Udon was even holding a pen and taking notes. She nodded with satisfaction.
Although these three students of hers were a bit mischievous, as long as she put on a stern face, they were still very obedient.
During this period, after doing a batch of low-level missions and consolidating the foundation, Haruno Sakura was gradually increasing the proportion of time occupied by training, preparing to reduce the amount of missions.
It was time to start strengthening their combat power!
Because the Chunin Exams were coming soon.
"Finally, there is the issue of combat initiative. I sacrificed the Ice Golem just now to block the fireball in order to gain time to cast a ninjutsu counterattack and seize the initiative," Sakura finally explained. "This content is still too abstract for you to understand for the time being. You can write down this concept first. In the future, after the battle is over, remember to think back from the perspective of combat initiative. Slowly, the concept will form."
The three students nodded their heads repeatedly like chickens pecking at rice.
They then finished watching the remaining part of the battle. The three watched the exciting battle as if intoxicated, almost forgetting to breathe.
Until the demonstration was over, they were still immersed in the battle, speechless for a long time.
"Alright!" Sakura clapped her hands and said with a smile. "Let's stop the replay here for now! Today's tactics class also combined examples and told you a lot of content. Remember to recall it a few times after you go home!"
"This battle was quite exciting, right? In the future, when we have time, Sensei can replay Sensei's battles with others for you." She opened her right hand and counted on her fingers one by one. "Let me think. Besides this one, the battles with 'Kage'-level opponents include the battle against Sasori of the Red Sand and Deidara, and the battle against Kakuzu and Hidan."
"For weaker enemies, there was the one against Kimimaro and the Sound Four. Hn, forget about the one in the Land of Snow. The battle with Kabuto during the Chunin Exams counts as half a match."
As she counted, Sakura felt that she didn't have enough fingers, so she just let the rest go. "Before that, there were all small battles, skipped and not recorded!"
"These were all life-and-death battles without any holding back," Haruno Sakura held out her left hand again. "Slightly more formal sparring matches include the Jonin assessment battle with Might Gai-sensei, the battle with your Naruto-niichan during the Chunin Exams, a few matches during the Anbu assessment, and I also fought with Sasuke; finally, there are the countless daily training matches, so I won't mention those!"
After counting meticulously, she realized that in these two years, she really had... continuous large-scale battles.
If she hadn't experienced so many cruel life-and-death battles, how could Sakura have grown to her current level so quickly?
Her growth had been a step-by-step, solid advance, and she had gone through countless difficulties and dangers to get here.
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