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Chapter 44: Secret of reincarnation
The mysterious assailant approached the team that tracked Sasuke, its not calculated slowly revealed he was visibly satisfied with her little effect.
All watched anxiously, wondering who could have managed to shock Ino so violently, to the point that it loses its means.
When he appeared to light, revealing that the blonde already knew, all were amazed.
- It's impossible, Naruto whispered, rubbing his eyes. I'm hallucinating, this is the only explanation.
- Sakura-chan, Ino whispered with a desperate look, holding her hand as if she hoped to entertain the illusion to erase it.
As they tried in vain to dispel the genjustu that affected their enemy laughed again.
- It's not an illusion, she said with a smirk. It's me. I'm Haruno Sakura.
- It's impossible, stuttered the genius of Nara clan. You're dead, Haruno.
The pink haired nukenin laughed, before asking his only eye jade on Shikamaru.
- Yes, she said while her Byakugan detailed the reactions of all opponents, your old man made me beheaded.
Sakura untied her scarf, revealing her throat marked with a neat scar, which made the entire round his neck and his neck.
- I'm dead, 'she smiled, but it was not the end. Instead, she smiled cruelly, revealing a missing canine. As I said, this was only the beginning of a new life and a new fight.
- How is this possible ? stammered his former sensei before observing eyes with black sclera.
The eyes of the nukenin were proof that she was brought back by Edo Tensei, although his body was burned to erase any evidence needed to bring her back, but also that it can not have a decent burial, depriving it of dignity.
Sakura frowned. His memories were hazy blur as she remembered a long dark cut breaking the thread of his memories. A black veil had fallen on it, between the moment she saw his head rolling away from her body and the moment she woke up on a ground of blue stone. There was this long break or during the period she was dead, but she had filled these gaps.
- Do you know what my parents now? she asked in a weak voice, almost full of regrets.
- Disappeared, hastily replied Kakashi. Shortly after your performance, 'he said with more calm, they disappeared. Was never found body.
- It's normal, she whispered. They gave their lives for me.
Nothingness in his memories were blurred, but all she knew, she had seen through the eyes of his savior.
- You thought I was alone in my cell, the nukenin muttered with a glare. I was not alone. I am never alone. In the darkness, she was with me. She is always with me. During my childhood, when I was mocked by all the hotties who took for kunoichis she was already with me. My suffering and despair took shape. A second person was born in me. At first, I thought naively that it was an uninhibited alter ego that manifested only in cases of extreme necessity and that was a psychological defense mechanism, but I was wrong.
Ino's eyes widened, remembering that training a few weeks before the Chunin exams, during which she was in contact with this shadow. She had managed to infiltrate the minds of Sakura, but it was intercepted and neutralized by this silhouette exhaling a suffocating malice.
- In reality, continued Sakura did not care absolutely no expression on the face of Ino, that shadow was an avatar of my mistress. The older I got, the more my sufferings accumulated more it grew stronger. Whenever I hurt, my pain and it absorbed me, too happy to suffer no more, I fed her. The further I went the more I suffered, the more powerful it becomes.
Sakura smiled maliciously, before continuing his story.
- In my cell, she was the only one to help me. She was the only one to comfort me and give me a second chance. She spoke to me more clearly than usual. I seemed to feel her voice ringing in my jail, more than in my mind. She offered me freedom, resurrection and even greater power than I could have ever have, a power beyond my wildest dreams! It allowed me to transcend life and death!
Sakura frightened them. The young girl, barely twelve years was a still childish face, but its softness was offset by his expression vicious and conquering, as she held her hands hooked to the heavens.
- You see, she has kept his word! All she asked in return was my help. I could summon, with a drop of my blood and some chakra. My handcuffs perhaps prevented me to channel my chakra to launch a jutsu, but they did not prevent him to move naturally and to exit through my wounds. I spilled my blood and my chakra, I have mixed ink that had brought me. Then I took my farewell letter to slide a tiny fraction of my power in the ink, to send a secret message to my parents.
Sakura saw the scene through the eyes of her twin dark. Paper, squeezed between sweaty fingers of his parents had suddenly changed color. Inner Sakura had made an appearance in Haruno in the form of a black projection.
Past the amazement and disbelief, it was not difficult to convince the couple to follow its directives. The Haruno were desperate without their daughter, they could not bear that she would die without their little cherry blossom, they saw no meaning to life. In their suffering, the appearance of this figure offering to bring her their was seen as a gift.
It is well known that when you're desperate, you think much less and that the choices were rejected vigorously in normal times seemed to be perfectly acceptable.
Even if they were to make a pact with the devil, the Haruno were ready to accept everything.
At that moment, Sakura's parents were precisely the embodiment of despair.
- I can give you back your daughter, bring her back alive if you want, 'she suggested. In exchange, I need two lives. One to bring your daughter, the second for me to embody my power, and so complete the ritual. This is the only way that Haruno Sakura back in this world.
- Will it be stronger? Kizashi Haruno asked a man in the pink beard turning gray. Will she be happy?
- Happiness is a perception that depends designs each honestly answered the shade, it will be to her to get it. In terms of power, I do not intend to let her die a second time. It will become more powerful than it has ever been. However, she added with a tone colder, choose quickly. His soul has not been found, but once it is immersed in the flames of Jigoku, it will be too late.
Needless to say, Sakura's parents were desperate for their beloved daughter. They even agreed to be used as sacrifices. An enhanced version of the Edo Tensei was possible to recreate a body, while the shadow could re-enter the body and soul of the woman who had hosted all these years. Regarding the genetic material necessary for the return of Sakura, it was enough to get some hair of the Kunoichi, remained attached to the brush hardwood handle.
- My parents have given their lives for me, Sakura continued with an expression suggesting she was crying for a moment to another. They gave me life and loved me enough to accept death for giving me. It's a thing I can not thank them enough.
Sakura coughed, before resuming the thread of his narrative.
- My story does not stop here, 'she added with a grin. As I kept my word and my savior allowed to incarnate through me, she decided to thank me. She did not simply brought back to life, she also taught his techniques. I nourished, so that she could enjoy my darkness to return to this reality. I traveled away from this world, benefiting from his knowledge, to the point of entering another reality that should be familiar to some people. I had always had an affinity for the dark, but with him, I am only dust. However, despite my weakness, she took me under his wing as a student. I know that I used to get his way, but in this reality, everyone enjoys the gifts of others. In exchange for this knowledge, I agreed to help and do everything for her to come back and finally get a solid body.
- You did not driven in Gensokyo, cut Naruto who seemed pleased to have put his finger on this lie, based on this flaw in the story of his former comrade. Yukari-sama control the Great Barrier Reef and it does not feel thee enter, nor has heard of your presence.
- You're right, murmured the young kunoichi to claims mismatched eyes, conceding the point before resuming. But I have never said that I had trained in Gensokyo.
Sakura smiled as she thought of this beautiful revelation that she was about to do.
- I was elsewhere, Naruto, in a world that few know and whose rare to hold this knowledge would rather bury him very quickly. You ask if Reimu or Marisa Palace Reimaden told them something. Normally, this should, Sakura smiled with savage joy.
- Whether you're alive or dead, calmly said Shikamaru, it changes nothing. Even if you are resurrected, you remain a death sentence. My father may be able to grant you a favor, but I need you we doors assistance.
- Help you ? sneered the nukenin sarcastically. To be pardoned perhaps? Think that's enough? she added, shuddering fun. I gain nothing to help you, especially if to go against the interests of the one who saved me. As if you could do anything against it, however, or even against the Akatsuki.
Kakashi frowned, not liking the turn that took this flood of revelations.
- You're not you agreed with them? if he exclaimed with a clearly perceptible disappointment in his voice. You have not fallen so low?
- No, she confessed. I am not a member of the Akatsuki. However, I work very closely with them, because our interests overlap. Anyway, there is no hope to face them. You will not win.
At this point, the atmosphere became agitated and a small whirlpool appeared in the void. The air seemed distorted prior to reveal another figure, dressed in one of claims coats that characterized the organization of deserters previously mentioned.
- I see you've done your job well, murmured the masked man with a deep voice.
- Yeah, threw the kunoichi with a careless tone, but it was ridiculously easy. You are here for what? she added, rejecting a pink hair behind her right ear.
- Not much, Tobi said in a playful tone. I have a little discussion to have with you at eight lair tomorrow morning. It will be consecutive to a new one that just fell, although I think Zetsu burning desire to reveal itself.
Sakura smiled, pleased that Tobi managed to annoy his enemies still best she could do. Moments later, Zetsu appeared, emerging from a branch, without even worrying about the presence of the shinobi of Konoha.
- That's it, whispered the darkest part is finished.
- What ? Sakura asked with interest. The Seventh Seal or the battle of the two brothers?
- Both, sang merrily Zetsu, to the delight of the masked man and his accomplice. Sasuke won. Uchiha Itachi died.
All shinobi of Konoha startled, stunned by the news.
All who knew the tragic story of Sasuke knew that the purpose of the avenger was to eliminate his brother. It had been quite explicit in his will, to the point of desert and hurt his comrades to wreak vengeance.
Now it was done.
However, this was more obscure fate of Sasuke. The most optimistic could think that the avenger could finally rebuild in peace. The others knew that now it deserter had no more goal and now, his actions would be even less predictable. No one could claim to know the true goals and ambitions of this assassin who recoiled at nothing to get his way.
- This is perfect, said the masked man with a tremor in his voice that indicated he expected it.
- Go ahead, said Sakura, I'm sure he will accept. I would find you at the safe house
The masked man withered, disappearing from the clearing, while revealing his sharingan, ultimate provocation to further sow doubt among his enemies.
- Let's go! Kakashi ordered.
- Do not you get it? Sakura added by interposing, floating in her kimono hacked. You can not catch someone using a Ninjutsu Jikukan. It is useless to tire you, you will not prevent Sasuke to realize his destiny.
Sakura smiled, watching the village shinobi of the leaf.
- To control someone, just know manipulate the share of hatred and darkness in his heart. After the death of Itachi, we want Sasuke replaces in the organization and it adds to the list of enemies of Konoha. As soon as he will know the truth about Itachi and the massacre of the Uchiha clan, he will join us voluntarily. If you want to understand both the big picture, I advise you to talk to the elders of your village. You should look at the underside of the bottom of things, she added, taking a quote from his silver-haired professor.
Sakura turned around, preparing to leave.
- Wait Sakura, Naruto called out. If you follow this path, we can not do anything for you. Come back to us and let us help you. Deliver him up from his grip.
- Because you think I have not done them of my own free will? she replied, amused. We are all tools, we are all manipulated by the powerful. The fatso, the depressed, the jaded, the widowed, the corpse, the youkai and machine, she lista by mocking the pain caused by his words and she read in the eyes of people insulted, we are all puppets.
Shikamaru sighed. He knew that the young woman was doomed. She would never be forgiven.
- You are yourself condemned Sakura declared genius.
- No, it is you who come to condemn you, she cut. I am already a long time.
- You can not expect to survive long if you stay alone, Shikamaru added, as if she had said nothing. You can always increase your chances of survival by helping Konoha. Answer our questions, go useful and get a chance to live.
- I do not want your help, spat rose. The only help I need is that of my savior. I have no interest in me again thrown into a cell, especially if it is to be in the hands of losers. However, you did well me laugh. This deserves a reward and it would not be a bad idea to answer your first question. Anyway, it will not change, this will only plunge you into despair. You can do anything against him, or even against my mistress.
The cherry blossom watched them calmly, ready to reveal truths, but she felt disturbed by the look of Ino. Her friend seemed unable to hate her, she seemed to want to understand.
Faced with this look that made her nostalgic, Sakura felt she had to admit the truth.
- There are years, she began with a softer tone, I had sworn to protect the innocent, it was my nindo. At that time I was just a silly naive. It's funny how a chance meeting can change things. Death tends to make you realize that the answers to some questions are so obvious. In this world there is nothing innocent. Then I'll follow the same path as my savior chosen. If I have more perfect, nor reason to live, then it remains for me to choose the name of what I'm going to die. I will help to create a new world, but for this it must first burn the old in the flames of hatred.
Ino clenched his fists, leaving the rubber contract around his cold, inert fingers.
Sakura had changed since his last visit. His soul was the perfect extension of the body which took the place of the body.
Where was her friend spent a radiant smile and contagious optimism? Death was a frightening unknown, but who was the woman who had submitted Sakura? What an abject managed to convince Sakura corrupted his soul knowingly?
- Sakura, Ino whispered, not you. You lie to us and you lie to yourself. I know you're hooked for life, you're not a nihilist. If you still have a background of happiness, optimism or altruism, help us. Tell us who this man is. Tell us who the person you call your mistress.
The pink haired nukenin frowned. The words of her best friend seemed to resonate in his chest at the precise location or necrotic stood a piece of muscle and lacks any beat. It was as if hear again the voice of her best friend, the one that had saved her from the isolation and suffering, managed to again propel some heat in his veins.
This feeling was curious, but he quickly dispelled. The resurrected soon found that isolated the cold numbing the pain in it. Sakura left the black net more corrupt his mind, despair ahead of enjoying that would befall his former allies. She licked her lips, from a blue tongue on her pale cyanotic lips, watching the shinobi of his old village, his friends become enemies.
- You can not do anything against the masked man, she simpered with falsehood. You are nothing against the power of Uchiha Madara.
Pleased to see their bewildered expressions, Sakura decided to add a layer.
- And even he, she added, is nothing compared to the power of Mima-sama.
With that, she flew to fashion the inhabitants of Gensokyo, before heading away from here.
- It can fly? Naruto whispered seeing the silhouette slide toward the horizon and decreasing in size. Even here ?
The real question that haunted Naruto was no longer about who Sakura she served, but to know who was really his mistress, this Mima Reimaden.
He had an unpleasant feeling. Although Reimu and Marisa probably had information about this being, he already knew he would not like the answers they give him.
