Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

It was all because of this guy in front of them that their once happy and harmonious family was shattered. Every day, the mother bore the scornful looks of her clan and villagers, and she also had to worry about this guy!

Today, let him wash away this stain, personally cripple this bastard, and then take him back to apologize to his mother!

Beneath the tattered clothing, a body covered in scales was revealed, and an extremely dazzling rainbow light shot into the sky, causing clouds to quickly gather in the heavens.

The storm raged, the heavens shook, and a vortex-shaped hole collapsed in the center of the dark clouds.

It was as if some enormous creature was ravaging the sky, gradually revealing its majestic and imposing figure, brutally crushing everything in its way before its dragon head descended from the clouds.

"Dragon?" Itachi Uchiha's Mangekyou Sharingan trembled violently.

"Let me use this power, a gift from a friend, to send you on your way. Warm breath!"

boom! ! !

Chapter 252 Kisame Hoshigaki: You can kill me instantly?

"Sigh, I shouldn't have placed my hopes on his rationality, especially when facing Itachi."

Sakura, who had already run some distance, looked back and saw the huge dragon head in the sky, and sighed softly.

"Is Konoha up to something shady again?"

Feeling the hot wind blowing in, Chiyo looked at Sakura with suspicion.

In past wars, in order to reduce casualties and pursue maximum efficiency in killing, various parties have actually conducted some forbidden explorations.

Among them, Sunagakure developed various bio-puppetry, Iwagakure embraced Explosion Release, Kumogakure explored chakra-based thermal weapons, Kirigakure created living ninja tools, and Konoha—the last one—focused on biological weapons!

The dragon in front of her was so ferocious that it didn't seem like a sage from Ryuchi Cave. If she hadn't heard that Orochimaru was long dead, she would have even suspected that those lunatics in Konoha had restarted their war weapons program!

"Don't worry, it wasn't Konoha who did it!"

Sakura flashed a bright white smile and gave Chiyo a thumbs up.

What does the research of Vegapunk, a scientist under the World Government, have to do with Konoha?

"Tsk, whatever, it has nothing to do with a guy like me who's about to be buried anyway."

Chiyo stopped the conversation in time, not because she wasn't curious, but because she wanted to keep her life to do something useful for Sunagakure.

Half an hour later, the setting sun gradually disappeared.

Stepping out of the border of the Land of Wind, we followed the border line to the border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Birds.

The two ninja cats from the cat house led the three to a valley in the mountains and pointed to a huge rock in the distance covered with sealing talismans.

"Looks like this is it. Let's prepare for battle!"

Sakura took out a pair of wristbands, put them on her arms, and flexed her knuckles.

Naruto, who was following behind her, took out kunai from his ninja tool bag, while Chiyo took out two storage scrolls from her satchel.

Inside the rock-covered cave, the dark figures wrapped in Venus flytraps on both sides issued another warning: "The people from Konoha and Sunagakure have arrived, right outside the cave!"

How long will it take for the seal to take to complete?

The hunched-over Sasori of the Red Sand raised his head, his gaze fixed on the leader in the center.

"three minutes!"

Pain remained silent, his tone as flat as a dead man's, "Next, I will use the Transformation Technique to create clones to buy time, but their chakra reserves will only be 30% of my original body's. Who wants to go?"

"Heh, I heard that little girl from Konoha is very strong. Let me go and test her out!"

The man, with fish gills on his face and sharp teeth in his mouth, opened his bloodshot eyes.

"Then I'll go with you as your teammate. Maybe we can even hold your funeral!"

Another man with heavy eye circles and a very wide mouth let out a strange laugh.

"Then, you two get ready!"

Payne, in the center, clasped his hands together and shouted.

The chakra used to maintain the illusion technique was remotely projected, connecting two Akatsuki members located in countries several countries away from the sealed site.

After draining 30% of their chakra, they quickly returned to the border. Then, the giant golem inside the cave spat out two white, viscous substances that combined with the two portions of chakra, finally fixing the two bodies in place.

"Go!"

At Pain's command, the two were instantly transported out of the cave using Earth Release, appearing in front of Sakura and her two companions who had entered the valley.

"I've got it! You must be Sakura Haruno!"

The shark-faced man excitedly grabbed the ninja sword behind him.

"That's wonderful! May I attend your funeral?"

The man, whose body was wrapped in bandages, also had his hands behind his back, gripping two knives tightly.

"Kisame Hoshigaki, Raiga Kurosuki!"

Sakura's gaze swept over the two of them, recalling the information about the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist that she had seen in the village's archives.

The appearance of Kisame Hoshigaki is normal, but the fact that Raiga Kurosuki joined Akatsuki and is here is somewhat unexpected.

The other party should have been dead by now, thanks to Tian Tian, ​​Xiao Li, and Ming...

"So that's it, the butterfly effect?"

Sakura's furrowed brows relaxed, and she clenched her fists.

Because of her abnormality, the changes she brings to the world seem to be growing, and it's unknown what kind of storm it will eventually create on the surface of fate.

—That's something to look forward to.

"Leave those two to me! You're a medical ninja, this isn't your battlefield."

Naruto, who had been silent the whole way, raised his hand and put it on Sakura's shoulder. "Gaara and I share the same fate, but he wasn't as lucky as me to have met you guys."

The blond boy's azure eyes burned with an unwavering will. His arms, enveloped in Armament Haki, began to turn black. He then charged towards Kisame Hoshigaki and Raiga Kurosuki. "So, I don't want his future to be too tragic! Please, Sakura!"

"Since it's a request from a partner, I'll take care of it!"

Sakura grabbed Chiyo from the side, took out a Flying Thunder God kunai, and threw it forcefully towards the sealed cave.

"Hey, hey, it's really rude of you to ignore me like this!"

Kisame Hoshigaki formed hand seals, his chest swelled, and he opened his mouth to spew out a violent torrent.

—Water Release: Exploding Water Wave!

The two Hidden Mist Ninja Swordsmen instantly soared into the air, like giant serpents swimming in the sea, riding the tide of water jutsu towards Sakura and Chiyo.

A ninja's war strategy: in team battles, eliminate the healing ninja first!

"Haha, what a wonderful friend's funeral!"

Raiga Kurosuki plunged his twin swords, Raito Kiba, into the water. His chakra, already of the lightning attribute, became even more terrifying after being amplified by the swords.

—Thunder Burial, Thunder Feast!

"Don't come near us, you're getting in our way!"

The blond boy roared and slammed his hands on the ground, followed by a massive eruption of pure white phosphorus, which resembled wax.

The white torrent surged forth, rapidly turning yellow and heating up upon contact with the air, eventually forming a raging wall of flames that collided with the water imbued with lightning. The fire and lightning intertwined as they hurtled towards the sky.

This brief obstruction allowed Sakura to successfully use her space-time ninjutsu to take Chiyo away.

"Hmph, they got away?"

Kisame Hoshigaki sneered, his eyes flashing with light. "Hey Raiga, catch up with them!"

As soon as the order was given, Raiga Kurozuki was about to give chase when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head and knelt on the ground, retching.

"Poison?" Kisame Hoshigaki also sensed something was wrong with his body and turned to look at the wall of fire that was constantly emitting white smoke.

The moment Kisame realized the source of the poison, he began forming hand seals, and his chakra rapidly gathered.

Manipulating the remaining moisture on the ground to form a water prison, completely enveloping the white phosphorus created by Naruto.

Kid, I know both Wind Release and Water Release, can you kill me in a second?

"Wind Escape·Big Breakthrough!"

Kisame Hoshigaki exhaled a whirlwind from his mouth, and a storm began to blow away the white smoke that filled the surroundings, threatening to destroy the battlefield that Naruto had created for him.

"Hehe, finally!"

Naruto was waiting for the moment when the opponent used Wind Release. He bit his finger and pressed it into the air, activating the Summoning Jutsu. Immediately, a deep red toad was summoned from the smoke.

He opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of oil into the sky. The oil projectile flying into the sky was shattered by the opponent's wind release and turned into a sparse rain of oil that began to fall.

At the same time, the white phosphorus trapped in the water prison exploded, and the fragments flew into the sky, forming a dense mass of floating debris that emitted a dazzling light as it rubbed against the air.

The cloud-like flames surged, generating phosphorus oxide vapors that rose during combustion. These vapors mixed with viscous grease to form a true adhering white phosphorus incendiary bomb, spewing intense light as it fell.

—White Phosphorus Starfall!!!

Before Kisame Hoshigaki and Raiga Kurosuki's horrified eyes, raging hellfire descended from the sky, completely engulfing their vision.

In the end, half of the valley was covered by the omnipresent, blazing firelight.

No life can survive in this hell anymore.

Naruto withdrew his hand, glanced at the sealed cave in the distance, then looked back at the giant dragon fighting against the phantom of the god behind him, and decisively chose to turn back!

Chapter 253 Battle of Space-Time Ninjutsu

As the light of the Flying Thunder God Technique faded, Sakura and Chiyo suddenly appeared in front of the sealed cave.

"Space-time ninjutsu? I didn't know you knew that!"

Chiyo took out a scroll from her bag, unfolded it, and broke the storage seal, revealing a large stack of explosive tags in front of them.

Using a throwing technique, they covered the entire boulder with explosive tags. As the two retreated at top speed, a violent explosion tore open the entire cave.

Inside, Gaara, who had lost his last bit of chakra after standing on the giant golem's finger, collapsed to the ground.

"Evacuate as soon as possible, do not engage her in battle!"

Payne hesitated for a moment, then turned to remind Deidara and Sasori.

However, his voice was no match for the girl's speed.

Sakura, wielding the giant sword of lightning, was reflected in their pupils.

Regardless of the consequences, launching a powerful slash with a stun attack upon meeting someone is typical pirate behavior.

If you can handle it, then we can chat and talk; if you can't, then you're just a nobody on the side of the road, not worth wasting my time on.

"The mighty sword of light!"

The intense heat, enough to incinerate everything, and the freezing air, enough to freeze everything and bring death, flowed onto the blade. The thermal cycle propelled friction and ionization, producing a deafening thunderous roar.

--cut!

In an instant, a ravine appeared cleanly and neatly in the sealed cave, cutting the mountain above in half.

"cough!"

Deidara, who was only grazed by the aftershock, coughed up blood in mid-air as he was sent flying backwards, and Sasori's puppet, Hiruko, also had its tail hook shattered.

The giant sword, imbued with Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki, slashed at the Gedo Mazo, actually cutting into its skin inch by inch.

"Roar!"

Perhaps sensing the danger, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path began to roar.

"Tsk, so hard." Sakura was prepared that she wouldn't be able to cut through the other person's body in one go.

After all, it was a planet-level weapon used by the Otsutsuki clan to invade planets and extract chakra, so it wasn't something that could be destroyed so easily.

So Sakura sheathed her sword and gathered her strength, preparing to deliver another blow to the thing in front of her.

"Damn it!"

On the other end of the Illusion Technique, Pain's expression turned grim. The Gedo Mazo intensified its chakra extraction from him the instant it was injured.

"We can't let her continue attacking the golem!" Payne murmured, as if he had made a decision.

With his hands forming hand seals, he summoned the Gedo Mazo. The illusion technique dissipated, and Deidara and Sasori were left standing there, facing Sakura directly.