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

"Oh, right. But since it's your first training session today, I'm taking you back with me. If you still can't move next time, you'll be left outside the village. Ino too!"

Sakura knew the pain of having one's will broken, so she didn't make things too difficult for the newcomers. She stepped forward and picked them up one by one.

"This treatment is so unfair!" Shikamaru protested, his head tilted down and his blood rushing to his head.

"Otherwise, I can't carry you on my back while Ino is being lifted up like this, can I?" Sakura lifted Shikamaru even higher, showing him the sleeping Ino.

"Tch, you can use clones!"

"No, I want to conserve my chakra."

"...A cunning woman!"

"Hahaha!"

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In the end, he used a clone to send Choji and Shikamaru back to their home.

Sakura carried Ino, who was covered in sweat, to the mountain flower shop. After greeting Aunt Rino, who was busy serving customers on the first floor, they entered the residential area on the second floor.

Because her parents were away from home for a while, and she had to go to work at the hospital without anyone to do the housework, she simply turned off the water and electricity at home and came to stay with Ino for a while.

After tossing Ino into the bathroom, Sakura familiarly went to the dining room to enjoy the dinner that Aunt Rino had prepared for her.

Just as they were enjoying their meal, a cry for help came from the bathroom: "It hurts!!! Sakura, help me!"

Amused, Sakura put down her chopsticks and headed towards the bathroom.

After opening the glass sliding door, I saw a certain unlucky girl fall headfirst into the bathtub, and then couldn't get up because the parts of her body that were injured by the domineering force couldn't be used.

"What kind of play is this? Are you prioritizing novelty over style?"

Seeing her friend's disheveled appearance, Xiaoying's emerald eyes sparkled with a smile.

"Ugh, I can't move, can you help me wash?"

Having already lost all semblance of dignity in front of her friends, Ino resigned herself to her fate, shrugging her shoulders as if to say, "You figure it out."

Looking at Ino's increasingly beautiful figure, Sakura wiped her nose and swallowed.

"All right!"

Chapter 264 Black Zetsu: Breaking Path Dependence and Improving Cognitive Granularity

Late at night, when the last light on the upper floor of the flower shop in the mountains went out.

In an underground facility in the Land of Frost, thousands of miles away from the Land of Fire, Obito, wrapped in bandages like a dumpling, opened his eyes.

He moved his body slightly, but felt excruciating pain.

In the end, he could only slam his head on the bed, staring blankly at the dim yellow light on the ceiling.

"Are you awake?"

A hoarse sound came from beneath the ground, and the Venus flytrap rose from the ground, opening up to reveal a black and white face.

Under the light, the black parts seemed much lighter, and there was a lingering sense of weakness in the voice.

"Black Zetsu, are you injured?"

Obito opened his mouth, making a dry, thirsty sound, "What's wrong with me?"

“You have been unconscious for nearly a month, and you have been surviving on the facilities left by the squad.”

Black Zetsu didn't stand for long before showing signs of fatigue in his movements, hunching over as he walked to the side and sat down.

Logically speaking, as a creation of Yin-Yang Escape, he shouldn't be in this state.

However, a month ago, when the girl with the sword retaliated against the Otsutsuki clan's sneak attack, the sword she swung actually injured him.

A strange power remained in his body, impossible to expel or restore, which led to a significant reduction in the Black Empire's surveillance of the Five Great Nations and the Ninja Villages during this period.

The appearance of the Otsutsuki clan, the rise of Sakura Haruno, the Five Great Nations going berserk, and Pain also risking losing control...

All signs made Black Zetsu increasingly aware that a major change was about to occur in the ninja world, so in this month he overturned many of his past plans and rearranged a targeted strategy.

"Internal division?"

Obito raised an eyebrow as he looked at the plan Black Zetsu handed him.

"Konoha is rapidly growing stronger after the integration is complete. In order to fulfill your and Madara's long-cherished wish, we must weaken them!" Black Zetsu bowed respectfully to Obito.

"But infiltrating their ranks is by no means easy."

Two white Zetsu walked over and opened the plan for Obito, reading it page by page.

"Don't worry, according to my intelligence network, there are also factions within them that are stirring up trouble."

Black Zetsu thoughtfully presented Obito with a wandering monk's robe and identification documents from the Land of Fire.

He had never been so grateful at this moment for the daimyo system that his mother had reformed and that had lasted for thousands of years, and for the ninja era that those two traitors had created after betraying his mother.

The powerful ninjas are used as military consumables, while the daimyo, who is granted divine right of kings, controls ordinary people to engage in production and economic development. This system of clear distinction between the two sides can easily ignite greed and discontent if either side is slightly disturbed, instantly detonating the long-standing conflict between the daimyo and the ninjas.

The Twin Jades of the Land of Fire... Hmph!

"If I go to the Land of Fire, what will happen to Akatsuki?"

After reviewing the plan, Obito waved to dismiss the White Zetsu, but his mouth twitched in pain as he aggravated his wounds.

The wounds inflicted by domineering power are partly physical, but the more troublesome part lies in the mind. This pain will persist until an equal will is used to counteract it or until the physical healing influences the mind over time.

"Ah Fei, who is impersonating you, and I will be responsible for keeping them in check."

Black Zetsu reached out and took the plan that White Zetsu had returned, then burned it. "If Konoha interrupts the plan by force, please execute the backup plan!"

To prevent Obito, that idiot, from messing things up again, Black Zetsu even thoughtfully prepared a backup plan for him.

If the political forces in the Land of Fire are violently defeated, Obito will act as the second daimyo of the Land of Fire.

Afterwards, as long as a few remaining bloodlines are sent to the other four great nations, the blame can be shifted onto Konoha, inciting fear among those great nations and daimyo towards the Land of Fire.

In short, the goal is to make the troublemakers around the strongest tailed beast take action and wait to be besieged, or to wait for the village to weaken before being besieged.

One-track mind becomes a double-edged sword!

"The backup plan, I understand..."

Upon hearing those four words, Obito felt his vision blur and instinctively obeyed Black Zetsu's command.

"Yes, you only need to trust me. As the embodiment of Lord Madara's will, I will serve your ideals well, all for a peaceful world without war and smoke."

Upon seeing this, the Black Zetsu, whose body was covered only by a thin membrane, smiled even more wildly and unrestrainedly.

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On the other side, the gate to the Fire Temple in the Land of Fire.

Two men dressed in black robes arrived at the wrong time and stood before the gate filled with sealing chakra.

"Isn't this a temple? Is it really possible to be in a place like this?"

The man carrying a sickle on his back cast a questioning glance at his companion.

"Who knows, but..."

The man wearing the black mask clenched his fist, which was slowly stained black. "The ability to combine organizational missions with making money is truly captivating!"

boom!

The gates of the Fire Temple were forcibly breached, and debris crashed into the temple, breaking many torii gates.

The panicked monks crawled out of the building, and when they saw the intruder's black robe with red clouds on it, panic spread.

"That coat is the legendary..."

"They've broken through all the seals surrounding the temple!"

"Go and report to Lord Jiraiya immediately!"

A monk dressed in white robes quickly ran into the main hall. Not long after, a monk dressed similarly to the others, with a waistband printed with the Land of Fire's inscription, walked down the steps one by one.

"May I ask what brings you two here? If there's nothing else, please head back!"

Although he already knew that his head was being targeted, Di Lu still wanted to resolve the dispute through words.

"Chiriku, one of the Twelve Guardian Ninjas with the talent of the Immortal Clan, has a bounty of twenty million... Two, do not damage the corpse, Hidan!"

"Kakuzu, you're really after the money. You'll be going to hell!"

Hidan unslung the scythe from his back, slammed it to the ground, and began his charge toward the land.

Almost at the same time, Kakuzu went out with him, and the black veins on his arm emerged and converged to form a mask, which then opened its mouth and spat out flames.

A violent tremor erupted once again above the Fire Temple, and the fierce battle nearly leveled the entire temple.

After a fierce battle, Jiraiya collapsed to the ground, lifeless. Hidan picked up his body and threw it to Kakuzu.

Kakuzu took the body and slung it on his back. His cold gaze swept over the monks buried under the rubble. After confirming that they were of no value, he followed Hidan and left.

At the same time as the death of Jiraiya, the capital of the Land of Fire was less than 30 kilometers away from the Temple of Fire.

A man dressed in the robes of a wandering monk and wearing a mask arrived at a somewhat dilapidated mansion.

This was once the residence of a great figure who was one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, and it was also a place where dignitaries from all walks of life in the Land of Fire would flock to the door and even queue up.

However, as the Twelve Guardian Ninjas were disbanded due to internal strife, the status of the people living here plummeted, and the place gradually became deserted.

"who!"

The moment the wandering monk stepped into the courtyard, three ninjas descended from the sky, each holding a weapon to his neck.

"I have come to see... oh no, Lord Kouto!"

The monk clasped his hands together and bowed devoutly to the group.

"Oh, a monk who knows my past name wants to see me? Is he here to repay a debt of gratitude or to seek revenge?"

A man, also dressed in a monk's robe, with a scar on his dark skin, stepped forward.

"Neither. I have come to deliver two things to you, sir: an intelligence report and a plan."

The monk respectfully took out two scrolls from his robes and presented them to the man with both hands.

"Hmm? What intelligence? What plan?"

The scarred man did not take the scroll from the other party, but continued to gather information.

"Regarding the death of Chiriku, one of the Twelve Guardian Ninja, and how to dismantle Konoha from the Land of Fire's court!"

The monk, whose hood hung low, raised his head, and three black tomoe slowly rotated in his scarlet pupils.

"Uchiha?"

He paused for a moment upon seeing the iconic Bloodline Limit, then burst into laughter, "Hahaha, interesting, come in and talk!"

Chapter 265 The Jonin Leading the Team—Sakura Haruno!

"A provocation! This is a provocation against us!"

In the Hokage's office, a furious Tsunade slammed her fist into the desk, cracking it.

Shizune, holding Tuntun, helplessly hid to the side, unsure whether to advance or retreat.

Information about the Fire Temple has been sent directly to Konoha by the surviving monks, even faster than Konoha's own intelligence network.

To be honest, even the most despicable ninja who goes out on assassination missions will only kill someone by beheading them.

Instead of brazenly showing up at someone else's door, demolishing a landmark historical site, killing dozens of innocent bystanders, and then leisurely traveling around their territory.

This gang from out of town is really too rude, slapping the local gang in the face like that.

Thinking of this, Shizune couldn't help but sigh softly, "So what does Lady Tsunade plan to do? Hunt them down?"

"Yes, hunting!"

Tsunade clenched the sawdust in her hand. "Activate the special communication signal and summon the Jonin and Chunin squads remaining in the village. These two are the ones we absolutely cannot let get away!"

Tsunade threw a kunai, which landed on the Akatsuki member information handbook that Sakura had previously provided to them.