Chapter 516: Trust
"Everyone of the Konoha delegation!" The Fourth Raikage's rough and bold voice arrived before he did.
With a bang, a large hole was smashed through the brick wall surrounding the courtyard.
Haruno Sakura instantly widened her eyes, seeing a burly man barging in like a whirlwind.
"You guys..." A stopped in the yard covered in dust, looked at Haruno Sakura who had entered Sage Mode and was waiting in full battle array, and was stunned for a moment.
"...Are you guys okay?"
The people of the Konoha delegation were all standing behind Haruno Sakura, their expressions either solemn or calm, with no signs of battle on them, looking completely fine.
It was just that the way they looked at him was very weird.
"It looks like nothing happened."
Being stared at by the Konoha people with such impolite gazes, the Raikage couldn't help but frown, suppressed the faint displeasure in his heart, and said in a deep voice.
"Fourth Raikage-sama." Haruno Sakura took a step forward, about to speak, but suddenly stopped and looked behind A.
More people were coming.
"Fourth-sama," several figures pushed open the door next to the gap in the wall and walked in, complaining voices sounding from among them, "Couldn't you just walk nicely through the door?"
"It's you!" Shizune's body jerked suddenly, blurting out.
The ones walking into the courtyard were Killer B, C, and the others.
Not many people came, but every Cloud ninja was tall, big, burly, and sturdy. Crowding into the yard like this, the dark mass had quite a bit of imposing momentum.
Coincidentally... the way they looked over was also quite weird.
Most of their gazes landed on the girl's beautiful face—as if looking at some flood or savage beast.
Haruno Sakura twisted her body unnaturally.
After enjoying the treatment the Raikage received just now and being baptized by the gazes of the Cloud ninja, she instantly felt uncomfortable all over.
Although the two groups of people didn't harbor malicious intentions, standing on their respective sides and staring at each other with grotesque gazes, the atmosphere spreading in the courtyard instantly became somewhat strange.
"Ahem." The girl coughed twice artificially and said, "Raikage-sama, actually..."
"We indeed encountered an attack."
The expressions of the Cloud ninja looked quite surprised.
"An attack?"
The Raikage raised his thick and short eyebrows, a bit of astonishment in his voice.
His eyes rolled, and he immediately said in sudden realization: "You also encountered that elusive masked man?"
This word "also" was used very well.
The girl raised her delicate eyebrows, a bit surprised, but also feeling it was a matter of course.
"It seems you also met that man. No wonder you appeared here." Haruno Sakura smiled, said lightly, and then began to describe the characteristics of the masked man she met in the corridor.
The clothes, body shape, and especially the jutsu used and the feeling of the chakra, were all consistent with the Raikage's memory.
"Obviously, we were attacked by the same person..." Sakura concluded.
"Hmph." The Raikage snorted coldly, "Hiding his head and showing his tail, it must be someone from Akatsuki!"
Although that mysterious man couldn't enter the most core area of Cloud Ninja and didn't crack Cloud Ninja's grand barrier, being able to sneak up beside him was already very terrifying.
A couldn't help but touch his shoulder.
If his reaction and speed weren't top-notch in the ninja world, he would probably have been completely swallowed by that weird Space-Time Ninjutsu long ago.
And then during the pursuit, he was glared at by that man's eye, and actually fell into a genjutsu world...
"Could it be that you were also hit by a strange super genjutsu and pulled into a quite realistic world?" Haruno Sakura's heart moved, blinked, and suddenly realized some things.
The Raikage nodded.
"You too?"
His expression moved, also thinking of something.
Thinking of the people and things she met in the genjutsu world, and looking at the weird gazes of the Cloud ninja looking at her, Haruno Sakura instantly gave two dry laughs: "Hehe... the me you met in the genjutsu world..."
"Couldn't have... drastically changed in temperament, right?"
She scratched her cheek, a bit embarrassed.
"You have the nerve to say it!" On the Cloud Ninja side, Karui shivered, jumped out pointing at Haruno Sakura and said loudly, "You were simply a demon over there! I—"
"That's enough, Karui!" Killer B walked over, pressed down the agitated Karui, and pulled her back, "That was what happened in the genjutsu world, not real!"
Haruno Sakura recognized that person.
Sakura had met her a few times.
A few days ago in the Raikage Building, she was the one who impulsively attacked.
And just now, in the genjutsu world, this woman whose chest was even flatter than Sakura's avenged her master Killer B, only to be instantly killed by the Water Release girl in one move. However, in the genjutsu world, she actually became well-endowed, very unscientific—there's no reason for personality to change and figure to develop in the opposite direction too!
"It's okay, tell me about it." Haruno Sakura said calmly, "What did the me in that genjutsu do?"
Karui broke free from her master's large hand, stared at Haruno Sakura for a long time, then snorted and started talking.
"In the genjutsu world, you suddenly launched a sneak attack without reason and massacred everyone in the village..."
She talked about what happened in the genjutsu.
Haruno Sakura in the genjutsu world had a personality completely opposite to the real world, cold and ruthless, cruel and vicious, taking pleasure in torturing and tormenting others.
So what they experienced was very simple, just Haruno Sakura starting a massacre in Cloud Ninja Village and brutally abusing the villagers.
The reason Karui was particularly agitated was that right from the start, she was sliced into a human stick by Sakura using the Water Blade Technique. Then the girl very kindly used medical ninjutsu to stop her bleeding, forcing her, unable to move, to watch helplessly as other Cloud ninja were defeated and abused!
Sure enough, it was like this...
The girl couldn't help but want to roll her eyes in her heart.
After she finished speaking, Haruno Sakura patiently explained: "The Haruno Sakura in the genjutsu has a personality completely opposite to the real me... so, you don't need to mind this."
"Hmph! Who knows!" Karui crossed her arms over her chest, raised her willow eyebrows, snorted and said, "You can't cut your heart out to show us. Who knows what you Konoha ninja are thinking? Who can guarantee you won't act like in the genjutsu?"
Haruno Sakura frowned.
What Karui said was actually not unreasonable.
The genjutsu cast by that masked man was not just realistic in models. Although the characters inside had opposite personalities, they acted logically. It could even be said that, excluding the twisted personalities, everything that happened inside might not be impossible in the future.
Who can guarantee the Raikage didn't have crooked thoughts?
Even if Haruno Sakura believed A was open and aboveboard, didn't she still enter Sage Mode and harbor a defensive mentality towards Cloud Ninja?
Conversely, even if the Raikage trusted Konoha's character, didn't he still lead a team over here to investigate?
Trust is very fragile.
Especially between two villages whose relationship wasn't very good to begin with.
Haruno Sakura sighed.
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