Chapter 399: Return Journey
Regarding how to deal with this unexpected gain...
Undoubtedly, the first option Haruno Sakura considered was to keep it for her own use.
However, besides the formidable genjutsu Kotoamatsukami, Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan had other abilities... which she actually didn't think much of.
A non-Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was just so-so. If it were a few years ago, Haruno Sakura, who was still advancing towards Kage level, might have been excited about this and even developed her own combat system based on the Sharingan; but for the mature Sakura now, those functions could be described as tasteless ribs—of little value but a pity to discard.
Copying ninjutsu? Did she need this function? This ninjutsu master had long reached the level of developing her own ninjutsu.
Dynamic vision? Chakra vision? The super-fast reaction speed of "Sakura Rush" and powerful spiritual perception could also achieve the same things, and the effect was probably even stronger.
Susanoo? Leaving aside whether a single eye could activate this move, and ignoring that using this move would degrade vision a bit each time, a ninjutsu with attack power inferior to the Water Pistol Technique and super high energy consumption was nothing special in her eyes—perhaps the biggest significance was looking cool.
Haruno Sakura was a little conflicted.
"So this thing is really tasteless to eat but a pity to throw away..." Sakura sighed.
She washed her hands and the eyeball clean with Water Style, and then searched all over her body before finding a clean glass bottle that wasn't damaged by the battle, and put the Sharingan inside.
Looking at a naked eyeball alone was a bit horrifying, but after overcoming that disgusting feeling, one could vaguely see the elegance of Shisui of the Body Flicker back then from this clear and clean Sharingan.
Putting the bottle away close to her body, the girl stroked her chin and muttered: "Could it be that I have to hand it over to the state... cough, slipped of the tongue, it should be handing it over to the village?"
However, handing it over was useless...
If handed over, it would be given to her master, the Fifth Hokage. However, Tsunade obviously wouldn't transplant Uchiha's stuff. This sensitive item would likely be sealed and kept strictly, or given to the strongest person Tsunade trusted most to use it.
—Wouldn't Haruno Sakura herself be the most suitable candidate for this?
As for other choices, like giving it to Naruto or Sasuke? Haruno Sakura wasn't reluctant, just that it was meaningless. Naruto probably wouldn't accept this thing, and the Sharingan's compatibility didn't match him either; Sasuke had his own Sharingan. As for Kakashi... one Sharingan had already almost squeezed him dry.
The Ice Style girl didn't come up with any good ideas even when she walked out of the cave carrying Sasuke on her back.
Instead, while she was distracted, her Body Flicker Technique almost bumped into a Root ninja guarding outside the cave, startling Sakura.
"H-Haruno Sakura?" Guarding outside was the sensory ninja Ryuichi (Note 1) who had been waiting for dozens of days... ptui, dozens of minutes. Seeing Haruno Sakura walking out of the cave leisurely without any Root ninja following behind her, he subconsciously shouted, "Where is Lord Danzo! Where are the others!"
The pitch-black and completely silent cave behind the girl obviously answered his question.
"Root ninja?" Haruno Sakura glanced at Ryuichi and responded indifferently, "So there's a fish that slipped through the net."
"You killed them all?" The Root ninja's eyes widened, asking fearfully.
"Maybe a few survived..." The pink-haired girl revealed a malicious smile and said, "If they haven't bled out yet."
The muscles on Ryuichi's face twitched uncontrollably, not knowing whether it was due to shock or fear. He stood hesitantly by the roadside, wanting to stop Haruno Sakura, but his feet seemed rooted, unable to move at all.
After all, he was just a precious sensory-type ninja. Even in the demanding Root, sensory ninja were not required to participate in combat.
Being able to stand here was enough to prove his courage. You know, the one walking out of the cave was the ninja who had unscathedly dealt with Danzo and a group of Root elites!
Unknowingly, Haruno Sakura had also become a "Great Demon King" level existence in the eyes of ordinary ninja...
"Scram."
The Great Demon King had just obtained a good thing and was in a good mood, so she didn't make things difficult for this small sensory ninja—of course, even if she was in a bad mood, Sakura wouldn't use killing to vent her emotions; she just released a little killing intent slightly. With a burst and retraction of chakra, an imposing aura like a deep pool and towering mountain pressed firmly on Ryuichi. The latter's legs went soft, and he lay directly on the ground sweating profusely.
The huge gap in strength made Ryuichi tremble even when looking up, let alone giving birth to any improper thoughts in his heart!
It wasn't until Haruno Sakura disappeared from his sight for a long time that he stood up with lingering fear.
When Uchiha Sasuke woke up, it was already evening, approaching sunset.
His first reaction upon opening his eyes was a tremor in his hand, then immediately reaching out to protect his front, probably thinking he was still fighting Itachi. After a second, the black-haired boy realized from the quilt covering him that the battle was over.
Not killed, nor feeling seriously injured, but lying in bed.
"So... did Sakura win?"
Then, where is this?
He climbed out of bed, fumbled to put on his ninja forehead protector and other things, and walked out of the ninja marching tent.
A fire was burning in the clearing outside the tent, and a marching pot was on the fire pit, probably boiling soup for dinner.
The person Sasuke was looking for was sitting on a stone not far away, curling her body and shrinking her feet, fiddling with some ninjutsu in her hand.
This ninja, who was just regarded as a murderous Great Demon King, had absolutely no aura of a Great Demon King at this time. The uniform torn to tatters in the previous battle, probably only left with the function of fan service, had been changed. She was currently wearing a home T-shirt and shorts; probably because she just took a bath, her casually tied hair still carried strands of dampness. After the sharpness and vigor belonging to a ninja naturally subsided, what Sasuke saw before his eyes was just an ordinary girl in the prime of youth.
—As long as he ignored the chakra fluctuations in her hand.
Developing a new ninjutsu?
Unfamiliar chakra fluctuations moved Sasuke's heart, and he looked intently; the ninjutsu created by Haruno Sakura were all extremely powerful techniques. Being able to witness her new ninjutsu development process at close range was also an extremely rare experience for him.
He saw the pink-haired girl in front of him holding a debonded sandal in one hand, and holding a mass of white paste-like unknown liquid in the other hand applying it to the cracked place, with a bitter face, muttering: "It shouldn't be... this viscosity is already very high, why can't it be repaired? Could it be that my development idea for this Glue Style jutsu went wrong?"
Uchiha Sasuke: "..."
Sure enough, he shouldn't expect too much.
The boy who had been squatting at the tent door for a good while finally attracted Haruno Sakura's attention—or more accurately, although she sensed the change in chakra as soon as he woke up, she only found time to greet him now.
"You're awake... Sasuke."
If her hand wasn't shaking the sandal along with the greeting, Sasuke might have felt warmer...
"Did you beat him?" Sasuke asked directly.
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