Still in her father's henge form, she eyed her opponent who was standing opposite her. Jaime Lannister had gotten his Kingsguard armor back and was now holding a sword in front of him.
The same sword he probably used to kill the Mad King.
Sakura felt the weight of more than a hundred eyes on her and Ser Jaime Lannister as they prepared themselves for the Trial to start.
"Begin!" Sakura heard the King announced a moment later.
Sakura didn't launch herself at the Kingslayer as some would expect, instead she decided to wait and gauge her opponent's move. She observed as Jaime Lannister was the first to attack. He lunged forward with an outward slash which she parried swiftly. Then, the Kingslayer followed it through with a twisting swipe and a downward cut. Both of which she deflected easily. Too easily that it looked like Sakura was toying with the man, which was not farther from the truth.
Sakura hadn't moved from her spot while Jaime Lannister moved around her and tried to break down her guard. In fact, the Kingslayer's attacks didn't deter or frighten her while she continued to analyze his next move.
A moment later, she was not surprised when her opponent feinted to the left before he slashed outwards and tried to cut her head off. Sakura saw right through it and she brought her sword up to stop Ser Jaime's attack.
There was a collective gasp from the assembled crowd as steel clashed against steel. A sharp grating sound could be heard from their blades as the two opponents tried to overpower each other. Sakura didn't even made an effort. She allowed Jaime Lannister and the rest of the people to believe that the Kingslayer had a fighting chance. However, in truth, Jaime Lannister was already dead the moment he stepped in the field with Sakura.
Their swords separate as they leap back from each other, but it was only for a second. The Kingslayer did not stop his attack while Sakura simply deflected and analyzed his next action. She closely watched the shift of his eyes and the movement of his feet where she finally noticed the pattern of his fighting.
This lasted for nearly a minute where Sakura began to predict Jaime Lannister's next attack and started countering with her own sword.
Deciding that she was done gauging her opponent, Sakura poured chakra all throughout her body, which would soon make her fast and strong. Then, she began to take the fight seriously and started attacking in earnest.
Swiftly, she brought her sword into an outward slash, which Jaime Lannister barely deflected in time. However, Sakura did not stop there. With a sharp pivot of her feet, she slashed forward with half her strength and watched as Ser Jaime used both his hands to stop her attack with his sword. She noted how Jaime Lannister's hands shook at the force of her attack. Afterward, her attacks became relentless, and without breaking momentum, until the Kingslayer was forced to back away from her and become defensive. The crowd cheered her on with the King roaring his advise to wound and kill the Kingslayer in different ways.
Their swords clashed three times, which Sakura had allowed on purpose to make a show of it. She had done so to give Jaime Lannister a false hope, when she knew that she could end this fight for less than a minute.
Sakura met Jaime Lannister's eyes above their clashing swords. Her opponent might be fast but Sakura was faster. Thus, as their blades continued to clash, she used her superior strength to twist and slide her sword out of the clashing blades, where she instantly drove Ice straight through the Kingslayer's right shoulder in a blink of an eye.
Jaime Lannister wasn't able to defend himself in time as her Valyrian steel sword cut deep into his armor. She saw as a flash of pain crossed her adversary's face as she pulled out her sword from his shoulder, where blood immediately poured out from the wound.
She listened to the crowd gasp once more after her swift attack while she heard the King bellow loudly. "Well done, Ned! Now, kill that bastard!"
Sakura ignored the King while she regarded her wounded enemy.
"I draw the first blood," Sakura said coldly in her father's voice. "But what shall you do now Kingslayer with only one good arm to fight?"
"Damn you, Eddard Stark!" Jaime Lannister cursed out loud. "Damn you!"
With a deadly glare directed at her, Jaime Lannister transferred his sword to his left hand and suddenly launched himself at her.
Too slow. She thought as she saw him move.
In a flash, Sakura merely stepped to the side and watched as Jaime Lannister stumble clumsily forward. No longer wanting to prolong the fight, Sakura decided to attack without holding anything back. Now, with his back turned to her, she poured chakra into her blade and did an upwards slash. Her movements almost lazy but her Valyrian steel blade sliced smoothly right through her adversary's chest plate and straight into his back, where her blade bit into his flesh. At once, Jaime Lannister let out a yell of pain and surprise at her sudden attack.
It didn't end there, however, and so with a whirl of her blade and with her foot sliding on the ground, Sakura slashed outwards multiple times. Her attacks just a blur to the spectators while her blade cut with perfect precision.
First, she aimed for the Kingslayer's back legs where she intent to cripple him like he would have done to Bran if she hadn't save her brother. Then, with another whirl and twist of her blade, she brought down her sword with enough force to severe Jaime Lannister's arms from the shoulder. Her Valyrian sword, which was imbued with chakra, was so sharp that she easily sliced right through her opponent's armor and bone, like she was cutting butter.
Immediately, there was a howl of agony which came from the Kingslayer while a drizzle of warm blood rained over Sakura after she had cut off Jaime Lannister's arms in front of more than a hundred people.
There were a soft thumping sounds as Jaime Lannister's severed arms fell to the ground. Soon, the man himself fell down as well; armless, but most of all, with no functioning legs. She watched as blood instantly poured out of the Kingslayer's severed arms and wounded legs. At the same time, she listened to the screams and shouts from the shocked audience, but she ignored them all in favor of watching her enemy suffer.
"AAARRRGGGHHH!" Jaime Lannister was screaming such an excruciating scream, but Sakura had no intention in ending him soon.
She wanted Jaime Lannister to suffer after what he had almost done to her and her brother. Death for him was too final and swift. She preferred to see him suffer for a very long time.
"NOOO! JAIME!" Sakura heard someone scream from the crowd and she immediately caught sight of Cersei Lannister sobbing and screeching at the top of her lungs. "JAIME! NOOO! JAIME!"
"Kill him, Ned!" Sakura heard the King's loud order through the cacophony of voices. "Kill the bloody bastard!"
For a moment, she contemplated about protesting against the King's order, but then she decided to follow instead.
"As you wish, your grace," She said as she walked towards the pathetic and bleeding figure on the ground.
Jaime Lannister looked up towards her with such an agonized look on his face as he lay there in the pool of his own blood with his severed arms lay haphazardly beside him.
However, she didn't feel any sympathy for her enemy. The only emotion she felt was extreme satisfaction for making Jaime Lannister suffer.
For a moment, she gazed down at the Kingslayer with a cold expression on her face as she said, "Any last word Kingslayer?"
The wounded man regarded her for a brief second before he replied.
"My father won't be happy about what occurred here." The Kingslayer managed to grit out through his obvious pain. "He will go to war for my sister and I, if we are both killed."
"It doesn't matter if Tywin Lannister will go to war for you and your sister. For the King and I will crush him the moment he makes a move against us. After all, King Robert and I have more allies than your father will ever have." She said to him.
The Kingslayer fell silent thereafter while he glared at her.
"Then, kill me." The former Kingsguard said after a moment. "Use your sword and be done with it."
"Gladly," She stated without hesitation right before she brought her sword up and drove it straight down unto Jaime Lannister's chest, where she pierced his heart with Ice.
She watched as the light dimmed from the Kingslayer's eyes as he died instantly. What followed afterwards were something of a blur. All Sakura recalled was the screaming voice of Cersei Lannister and Robert Baratheon's roar of triumph after she had killed the Kingslayer.
Then, before anyone could stop her, Sakura hurried away and sneaked back towards her father's solar. She did not want her father to awaken while she was still pretending to be him.
As she arrived in the solar, everything was the same as she had left it. Her father was still sitting unconscious on the chair after she had deactivated the genjutsu surrounding the room. Afterward, it was easy to cast the false memory on her father using genjutsu, which would make him believe that he fought the Kingslayer.
Once that was done, Sakura slowly rouse her father up, but she hastily left the solar before her father completely awakened. She could only hope that her father won't break the memory genjutsu, lest her involvement in the fight would be discovered.