Chapter 506: Cloud Ninja's Betrayal
At the same time as seeing Sai's head, a body fell to the ground from the tree in the courtyard.
—That was the tree Sai hid in during the night watch.
The corpse rolled to the newcomer's feet with a thud and was casually kicked aside.
The pale moonlight shone on the headless corpse. He was covered in blood, slender in figure, his two-piece outfit revealing a section of fair abdomen.
The headless corpse was displayed undisguised in front of Haruno Sakura just like that.
Sai died right in front of Haruno Sakura.
The girl gritted her silver teeth tightly, a surge of anger rising from the bottom of her heart.
She lowered her head, glanced at Sai's body a few times, and then stared fixedly at the newcomer who suddenly intruded under the tree shadow.
Those bright and clear emerald eyes suddenly narrowed slightly.
Her gaze suddenly became sharp and cold!
"Then..."
The girl parted her crimson lips, speaking softly like a whisper, but the voice clearly reached the newcomer's ears.
"Did you kill Sai, Fourth Raikage-sama?"
She asked coldly.
The big man walked out from the shade of the tree.
The moonlight shone from behind the newcomer, hiding his face in the darkness, unable to see his true face clearly, only seeing a pair of bell-sized eyes piercing in the night.
But just looking at that tower-like figure, the heavy arm guards on both arms, the short cape with an open chest, and the vigorous and explosive chakra aura, Haruno Sakura could recognize his identity with 100% certainty.
The Fourth Raikage.
He slowly walked into the bright place illuminated by the moonlight in the courtyard.
"That's right, I killed him."
The Raikage's gruff voice sounded low like beating a drum.
Haruno Sakura also walked out from under the eaves, barefoot, stepping on the cool grass.
The moonlight shone on the girl's face, reflecting on her pale face, making Sakura seem to lose her blood color.
Walked in front of the Raikage.
"Do you know what you are doing, A?" Her voice became unusually low, full of dangerous aura.
"Killing Konoha envoys, destroying the alliance between the two villages... causing the Five Village Alliance to collapse, the ninja world to be overturned by Akatsuki, and everyone including Cloud Ninja Village to be finished together. You couldn't possibly be unaware of the consequences of all this, right?!"
"No matter what Sai did, it's not a reason for you to kill him without a word... Whatever you want to do, I advise you to think it through first!"
The girl shouted in a deep voice.
She hoped in her heart that Sai just did something wrong, was caught by the Raikage, and then A killed him on the spot in a moment of anger...
But the Raikage's steady figure and calm tone shattered her fluke.
"Sai didn't do anything wrong." A smiled grimly and said in a deep voice.
"His only mistake was discovering me."
The grass under her feet was stepped out a small pit by Haruno Sakura's resentful force.
She clenched her fists so hard that the surface of her fists lost blood color, almost transparent.
Never thought that the alliance between Konoha and Cloud Ninja would actually usher in a betrayal.
For a moment, Haruno Sakura was both surprised and angry, and also felt somewhat weird.
"Are you sure..."
A few cold words burst out between the girl's lips and teeth, suppressed killing intent quietly permeating the air.
"You want to turn hostile?"
Her voice was cold and full of killing intent.
Sharp like a knife.
"Hahaha—!"
The Fourth Raikage laughed wildly: "Turn hostile? That's right, you can think so. However, you only discovering this now..."
"It's already too late!"
As the Raikage's voice fell, a loud noise suddenly came from the house on the other side of the courtyard!
That was... the sound of an exploding tag!
Haruno Sakura abruptly looked up, over the Raikage's shoulder, and saw the blazing light of an explosion not far away. A battle had actually happened right under her nose!
"Damn it... he was deliberately stalling for time just now!"
This thought flashed through the girl's mind. She subconsciously exerted force under her feet, stepping out a deep pit in the green grass, her figure instantly accelerating into a wild sprint!
"Hold on!"
Haruno Sakura gritted her silver teeth, bypassed the Raikage, and rushed fiercely towards the place where the battle occurred.
"Want to leave?"
The Raikage's eyes condensed, his figure rising violently, his sprinting speed even a line faster than Haruno Sakura's, instantly blocking the girl.
Both of their speeds were extremely fast. In a flash of lightning, there was no time to change direction, and they crashed into each other fiercely.
No one flinched. When the Raikage's sinister eyes and the girl's cold gaze met and collided in the air, Haruno Sakura already understood in her heart.
"Stop for me!"
The Fourth Raikage shouted loudly, lightning suddenly bursting all over his body. He twisted his waist and thrust his shoulder, throwing a punch. The fist wind whistled sharply, the momentum like a roaring thunder dragon, unstoppable!
Haruno Sakura's eyes were indifferent, looking at the Raikage's iron fist attacking with astonishing momentum, but her face showed neither sorrow nor joy, entirely calm.
She suddenly stopped her footsteps, tyrannical chakra condensing on her arm.
Punched out.
"Ha!"
The Raikage's huge dark fist and the girl's slender fair fist met.
Lightning blazed brightly, a loud noise deep like muffled thunder rumbled, stirring up a transparent air wave exploding like water ripples!
The fist force backfired, and the Raikage and the girl both took a step back simultaneously.
"Such strong power!"
The Raikage's silkworm-like eyebrows frowned tightly, his rough face tense, his hand faintly numb.
Under the dark face, the Fourth Raikage was secretly shocked. He had already activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode, integrated his waist and stance, and accumulated momentum to punch. In terms of strength and speed, this was his peak strike currently!
Actually only breaking even with Haruno Sakura.
The size difference between Haruno Sakura and him was huge. A's arm was thicker than her thigh... even thicker than her waist! In such a head-on hand-to-hand combat, he actually couldn't suppress the hastily striking girl?
The dread in the Raikage's heart instantly intensified a layer.
He abruptly shook his right hand with aching bones and muscles, the blood and qi in his body still vaguely surging. Haruno Sakura attacked again at this moment!
"Ha!"
With an angry shout, the girl's figure leaped up like a spring.
"Nintaijutsu High Roundhouse Kick!"
Rotating shoulders and twisting waist, turning hips and swinging legs, shoulder, hip, and knee straight into a line. Haruno Sakura's heroic posture hanging in the air was like a vigorous cheetah. She was seen whipping a roundhouse kick in the air, sweeping towards the Raikage!
Wing Chun and many Chinese martial arts have the saying of kicking not above the knee, because high kicks are extremely difficult and have too big flaws, extremely hard to perform in actual combat, easily outweighing the gains. However, it's different in the ninja world. With the assistance of chakra and ninjutsu, the flaws of high leg techniques can be somewhat made up for, and their powerful characteristics are demonstrated.
And this high roundhouse kick, benefiting from the girl's extremely high physical flexibility and coordination, Sakura's posture completely stretched out, thus having enough time to accumulate the strength and explosive power brought by Nintaijutsu!
The high roundhouse kick kicked out in the air, actually tearing the air in mid-air, making bursts of silk-tearing sounds. The whole calf and fair instep swept towards the Raikage in the sky like a whip!
"Get lost!"
Haruno Sakura shouted angrily.
A's face tightened abruptly, staring fixedly at the girl's attacking roundhouse kick; he violently lifted a breath of chakra, the Lightning Release Chakra Mode on his body bursting with lightning, the brightness actually climbing again, turning into dazzling incandescent white!
Chakra poured out wildly, pushing A's Lightning Release Mode to an even stronger realm.
The burly man's white hair stood on end, veins popped out, arcs of light faintly appeared on his body. The muscles on his left hand seemed to swell a circle out of thin air, fiercely meeting Haruno Sakura's unparalleled high roundhouse kick!
Arm and calf collided head-on.
The Raikage's fierce and unreasonable eyes collided head-on with Haruno Sakura's cold and awe-inspiring eyes.
The violent and arbitrary Lightning Release Mode collided head-on with the all-conquering Nintaijutsu!
Violence collided head-on with purer, higher-level violence.
Boom—!
At the moment of collision, the thick and hard steel arm guard, under the effect of the incoming abundant huge force, deformed and collapsed like tofu, shattering into irregular slag fragments.
The incandescent white Lightning Release Armor, forcefully resisting the power of the roundhouse kick, made a harsh sizzling noise, and didn't last too long before being crushed into countless electric sparks under the bombardment of the huge force, disappearing into the air like bubbles.
Then, that seemingly fair and tender delicate foot kicked onto A's arm.
The Fourth Raikage's pupils shrank violently.
Only hearing a loud noise, the Raikage's burly body flew backward, crashed into the courtyard wall, crashed down a piece of brick wall with a bang, and smashed a deep pit in the ground.
"Ugh..."
The girl groaned and retracted her right leg.
Half of the trouser leg on the right side of the pink pajama pants was completely gone. The exposed white tender skin was scorched pitch black by lightning, skin and flesh torn open, exceptionally hideous.
As the price of head-on collision, besides skin damage, the leg muscles were numb in waves and extremely sore.
She was burning with anxiety, but her entire right leg was still too numb and sore to move. She could only suppress her impatience and use Yang Release medical ninjutsu to heal herself first.
However, in this short time delayed by the Raikage, the sound of battle began to decline, and the surroundings suddenly returned to silence.
That was a desperate silence.
Haruno Sakura turned her head and tried her best to look, but could no longer hear the angry shouts of battle or see the fire of explosion.
As if the loud noise and bright light just now were just a hallucination of the girl.
Her heart suddenly sank, sank to the bottom.
Even sank to an abyss deeper than the bottom of her heart, falling endlessly.
Where are the people?
Where are Shizune and the others?
Haruno Sakura subconsciously summoned Katsuyu, wanting to enter Sage Mode to search for their chakra.
But A's low and rough voice came from behind.
"I said just now..."
The rough and bold big man got up from the pit, the lightning on his body still blazing, only his left hand hanging somewhat weakly by his side.
"You are already too late."
Haruno Sakura's eyes were cold, her whole person cold as an iceberg that wouldn't melt for ten thousand years.
She looked at the corner, where a burly man walked out.
Carrying a motionless figure on his shoulder.
"No one escaped." The person said to the Raikage.
"They have all been caught by us, brother."
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