Akatsuki Cave Base
At this moment, the whole place was in a mess.
Countless pieces of rubble and puppets were scattered everywhere.
At the very center, in order to avoid the sealing technique of Granny Chiyo, Sasori shot out the [Regeneration Core] from his main body. Sasori, who had already changed into a puppet body, was stabbed in the heart of the [Regeneration Core] by the two puppets, the 'father' and the 'mother'.
"It's really boring, but I'm almost unable to move. Before that, I'll do something useless as a reward for you defeating me. Little girl, you really want to know the news about Orochimaru. Ten days later, go to the Sky Bridge in Kusagakure Village."
Seeing Sakura recover from her fatal injury after Chiyo's 'Reincarnation' took away some of her life energy, she learned from Chiyo that this ninjutsu was originally prepared to resurrect Sasori's parents.
Sasori's consciousness gradually became blurred. Just like in the original work, before his death, he revealed news about Orochimaru.
"What's going on?"
Sakura was startled and asked quickly.
"I have a spy among Orochimaru's subordinates, and I will meet him there."
Having said this, Sasori's voice gradually weakened.
The 'father' and 'mother' puppets that had stabbed his regeneration core heart with a knife also seemed to lose their support and slowly fell down as Sasori's life gradually faded away.
After learning the news about Orochimaru, Sakura stopped caring about Sasori and turned to Granny Chiyo and said, "Granny Chiyo, it's all over now. You are really amazing."
Granny Chiyo was lying on the ground, shaking her head dejectedly. She was about to tell Sakura that Sasori had let her win when suddenly a black shadow appeared silently between Sakura and the Sasori puppet and supported the regenerating core puppet.
The black shadow was wearing a red cloud black robe, had clean black hair, and a scratched Konoha forehead protector on his head. It was Fujiwara Kirito from before.
"Sakura, be careful behind you." Upon seeing this, Grandma Chiyo shouted urgently, and at the same time raised her hands with all her strength, fiddled with her index fingers, using chakra threads to stick to the falling blades of the surrounding Sasori [Hundred Puppet Army] puppets, and attacked Kirito's back.
When Sakura heard this, she turned around suddenly, saw who was coming, and her pupils contracted immediately.
Under normal circumstances, Sakura would have been so frightened that she would be unable to move.
But now, having just "defeated" fellow Akatsuki member Sasori, she was full of confidence and felt that she had truly become stronger.
Whether it was courage or concern for Karin and Chinatsu, she suddenly punched at Kirito with great strength.
Boom—
The earth trembled, smoke and dust rose, and countless small pieces of rubble rolled down from the top of the cave.
"Oh my, little girl, are you so self-righteous now that you think defeating Sasori means you've lost all sense of self?"
Kirito's leisurely voice suddenly rang out in the thick smoke.
"How could this be?" Sakura's pupils suddenly dilated, her face turned pale, and a look of disbelief flashed in her eyes.
The smoke cleared.
The figures of Kirito, Sakura, and Sasori appeared.
Sakura's super-powerful punch was caught by Kirito with one hand from the front, and she was unable to move.
Kirito's other hand was supporting Sasori's puppet, his palm pressed on the regeneration core that was pierced by the blade, and a special blue light came out of his palm. It was the god-level medical ninjutsu he obtained by saving the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, Fu.
As long as the person is not completely dead, it only takes about ten calories of chakra to revive him.
Fifty calories are consumed for one day of death.
Two days after death, it consumes 100 calories.
With each additional day, the chakra required for resurrection increases exponentially.
The ninja tools controlled by Chiyo seemed to be blocked by some invisible force and were frozen in mid-air.
Kirito snorted coldly, and they were instantly flung away, scattering all over the cave.
"Of course. With your insignificant strength, how could you possibly hurt me? If it weren't for Granny Chiyo's puppet control, and if Sasori wasn't facing an enemy who was his only relative, do you think you or Granny Chiyo would still be alive today?"
Kirito said lightly.
"Asshole, I'm asking you what happened to Senior Sisters Chinatsu and Karin?" Sakura roared, gathering all her strength and swinging her other fist at Kirito.
"Before asking other questions, it's not polite to attack someone by surprise." Kirito exerted a little force with his right hand. With a snap, Sakura's hand bones were broken. The punching movement stopped abruptly. She couldn't hold back and knelt on the ground screaming, "Ah!"
"Asshole, what did you do to Senior Sisters Chinatsu and Karin?" Sakura's voice trembled, her face was pale, and big beads of sweat as big as soybeans appeared on her face. The intense pain in her wrist almost made her faint.
At this moment, Chiyo's voice suddenly rang out from beside Sakura, "Enough, Sakura. This is not a shadow clone, but the real body. Since the real body is here, it means that his shadow clone should have been defeated. The two girls should be safe now."
Her originally depressed mood suddenly became hopeful, and her eyes were fixed on the Sasori's regeneration core.
As if she had seen something incredible, her pupils widened with disbelief.
"Have you figured it out?" Kirito let go of Sakura, kicked her unconscious, and sent her flying into Chiyo's arms.
"Yes, but I'm very curious about your purpose in doing this. Is it worth it for you to spend so much chakra? You slaughtered the Sarutobi clan and the Shimura clan. Joining such a terrorist organization doesn't seem like someone who would save his companions."
Chiyo nodded. As someone who could develop medical ninjutsu like [Reincarnation], she naturally recognized that Kirito was using some kind of advanced medical ninjutsu to revive Sasori.
"It only consumes ten cards of chakra. For me, that's nothing. Besides," Kirito turned around and pulled out the blade inserted into Sasori's regeneration core. With his other hand, he extracted the toxins from the regeneration core. "Such an outstanding puppeteer will never appear again. It would be a pity if he died like this. I still need him to make toys for my daughter."
"Daughter?" Grandma Chiyo was stunned.
"Yes. Daughter." Kirito nodded.
At this moment, the puppet that had stopped moving suddenly started to stir. Sasori slowly woke up, and what came into view was Kirito's familiar figure. "What am I..."
"Yo, are you awake?" Kirito said with a smile.
Sasori glanced at Chiyo who was holding Sakura across from him, then looked down at the regeneration core in his chest, feeling the chakra gradually recovering, and asked hesitantly, "Kirito, why?"
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to save you. It's just that if you die, my daughter won't have a toy puppet in the future." Kirito replied.
"For your daughter?" Sasori pursed his lips. A rare smile appeared on his face. "This really is like you… You always regard your family as more important than anything else."
(End of this chapter)