Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 121 Sasuke guesses the truth
"Crack!"

A cracking sound came from the depths of the black liquid.

Sakura slammed her fist into it, her arm wrapped in chakra to prevent further contamination from the black liquid.

At this time, the two of them clearly noticed that the black liquid began to show signs of disintegration. The tentacles shook, and the body shrank rapidly, and soon separated from Sakura's body.

The black liquid continued to rush towards the distance, appearing to be very anxious.

Sakura, no longer entangled by the black tentacles, began to fall to the ground and was caught by Sasuke. He looked closely and saw that Sakura's eyes were closed and her expression was very painful. He could see obvious black gas lingering around her body.

……

At the same time, at the Short Book Street Office.

Hidden in the darkness, only a wisp of black smoke followed closely behind Tsunade Shizune. Suddenly, the black smoke began to change, no longer as condensed as before, but began to disappear bit by bit.

Finally, the black smoke disappeared completely.

At this moment, Tsunade suddenly looked behind her.

"Tsunade-sama, is there a problem?"

She met Shizune's slightly puzzled gaze and shook her head.

"nothing."

Ever since she started gambling with the big man, Tsunade had a bad feeling.

But now that feeling is gone.

Maybe it's an illusion.

……

Uchiha clan.

"Sakura, Sakura?"

Sasuke patted Sakura's cheek gently, feeling anxious about his companion's sudden loss of consciousness.

"His brows are furrowed, but he just can't open his eyes... Is this an illusion?"

He injected a small amount of chakra into Sakura's body, trying to break the genjutsu, but it had no effect.

Moreover, the black air surrounding Sakura made Sasuke feel extremely uncomfortable, as if the negative emotions that he had buried deep inside were about to be completely brought out, making him hysterical.

"Calm down, calm down... Naruto is far away from here, it's unrealistic to go find him now."

"She just said that this enemy will pollute us, but what exactly does 'pollute' mean?"

Sasuke was thinking hard with a frown on his face. At this moment, the fragment wrapped in cloth in Sakura's pocket slipped out and was caught by Sasuke.

He then remembered that today was the day he was to retrieve the fragments, and Sakura had come specifically to deliver them.

"Spiritual space...Inner demon..."

Sasuke pondered in his heart. For some reason, his intuition told him that this matter might be related to Sakura's inner demon.

After all, the word "pollution" and "inner demon" have similar meanings, and Sakura and Naruto have developed this new technique targeting the mental realm, so it makes sense that the enemy also has similar means.

Sasuke opened the fragments, and when the fragments came into contact with a wisp of black steam, a huge suction force instantly erupted! The Shenwei space opened up.

"It really works."

Sasuke immediately made the decision to enter Sakura's spiritual space to find out what was going on, but before he could be fully prepared, he was sucked in by the debris.

Most of his ninja tools were left behind, and more importantly, Sasuke did not strictly follow his previous practice to explore - he should have summoned a clone to go, while his main body stayed in the real space.

All this happened too quickly.

……

Inside Sakura's memory space.

Pale sunlight shone through the fenced-off floors onto Sasuke's face. He blinked, trying to check his surroundings.

He was in a corridor, surrounded by traces of fighting. Dried blood and scattered limbs could be seen. There was a faint stench in the air, which made Sasuke cover his nose.

"Squeak-"

From time to time, the screams of rats could be heard downstairs, accompanied by a teeth-grinding scratching sound, as if the monitor was scratching the blackboard with his fingernails.

He was extremely alert, lowering his footsteps, moving cautiously in the corridor, and then walked into a room.

There were tables, chairs, papers and pens scattered around the room. Sasuke checked and found that there were no zombies around, so he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, he was a little confused: Why is Sakura's mental space like this?

The adventures during this period and Naruto and Sakura's explanations made him realize that the appearance of the mental space is often related to the host's psychological shadow. His own psychological shadow is genocide, so the appearance of the mental space is the Uchiha clan's land.

"Is this a school?" Sasuke noticed the blackboard and chalk, but the scene was different from the ninja school he remembered.

Considering that the flow of time in the mental space is much slower than in reality, after much thought, he decided to explore this area first to see if he could find some information.

When exploring his own spiritual space before, Sasuke also found some clues related to him personally in the clan land. For example, after running into the Nanga Shrine, he found that the inscription on the monument was clearly engraved with the words Uchiha Itachi had said to him.

However, this classroom was almost entirely filled with broken desks and chairs. Sasuke searched for a long time but only found a small exercise book with lines of "up, down, big, small" written in crooked Chinese.

But Sasuke couldn't understand Chinese, he just felt that this word had some similarities with the Japanese he was familiar with.

"Strange...why do these words look so strange?"

"Chichi! Chichi!"

Suddenly, a sharp scream interrupted his thoughts, and he quickly evacuated and walked to another classroom. At the same time, he could feel the monster's roar outside becoming more frequent.

Do you want to clear your inner demons first?
This question popped up, but the doubt just now was not answered, causing Sasuke's curiosity to grow stronger and stronger.

Let’s wait and see, there’s no need to rush. What if there’s important information to deal with the inner demons?
He entered another classroom and began to search.

No notebook.

"Ok?"

He noticed a blackboard at the back of the classroom. On the blackboard was a simple drawing drawn with colored chalk, with a big heart in the middle and some small words nearby. Above the blackboard were written the four Chinese characters "有爱无堤" (Love Without Barriers) in white chalk.

"It's strange. Could it be that her memory has been distorted?"

Sasuke left the classroom and started walking up the corridor.

"Squeak-"

Suddenly, he saw a shiny rat with its back to him, scratching its back. Sasuke held his breath and quietly formed seals with his hands. Soon, the sound of lightning emanated from his left hand.

Shushu suddenly turned his head, revealing his ferocious mouth, but it was too late. Sasuke rushed forward and inserted the Chidori directly into Shushu's heart.

"puff!"

"Ugh, so disgusting..."

Sasuke pulled his hand out of the festering rat's body. He felt that if this disgusting feeling lasted for a few more seconds, he would definitely vomit his breakfast.

"So Sakura is afraid of mice. Maybe she was bitten by a mouse when she was a child."

Sasuke nodded, finally an element appeared that he could understand.

Although I misunderstood.

He entered another large room. There was a plaque on the door with "Multimedia Classroom" engraved in Chinese. Sasuke glanced at it, frowned, and strode in.

This place is different from the previous classroom. The interior area is much more spacious, but the sunlight coming in does not make it brighter. Instead, it reveals a strange atmosphere.

Neatly arranged tables and chairs, an oversized electronic screen hanging high in the air, a smart touch blackboard, high-definition projectors and surround sound systems are scattered around. But if you take a closer look, you will find that these instruments seem to have been left there for many years and appear extremely old.

Suddenly, Sasuke noticed that there was a wall on one side of the multimedia classroom. On this wall were photos of some people with red backgrounds. Upon closer inspection, he could vaguely see golden Chinese characters above the photos.

For example, [Teaching Star], [Class Teacher Star], [Subject Star]...

Sasuke couldn't quite understand the words, but he could tell that the person in the photo was receiving an award.

Most of these photos were damaged, and Sasuke couldn't see their faces clearly. Only one photo with the words "Teacher's Star" written on it was clear to him.

It was a picture of a black-haired woman, and in the picture she was smiling at Sasuke.

Somehow, an idea suddenly popped into Sasuke's mind: This is the type that Naruto would like.

They had chatted about this before when they were playing the Heart Demon Itachi copy. Naruto said that his favorite type was long black straight hair, and Sasuke even specifically asked what long black straight hair was.

It's long black hair, not curly.

Sasuke was furious. "Isn't that my mom's hairstyle?" He felt like Naruto was hinting at him. Then Naruto said he wanted to take back the rights to the shard, and Sasuke calmed down again.

He still remembers this incident to this day.

The woman in front of him happened to be a standard long straight black woman.

Sasuke shifted his gaze and turned around again, feeling that there was no more extra information here.

However, he already had a preliminary idea about Sakura's psychological shadow and the thoughts of Sakura's inner demons.

Frankly speaking, he felt that the idea was a bit bizarre and absurd, but the facts before him reminded him that it seemed to be true.

"So that's how it would be..." Sasuke let out a long breath.

Obviously, Sakura is not from this country. She comes from another country, which uses a completely different language from Konoha and has developed completely different technology from Konoha.

The evidence was multimedia he had never seen before.

Sasuke further suspected that there were no ninjas in this country at all, because no ninja-related elements appeared in the spiritual space.

So what about Sakura's psychological trauma? This is easy to reason about. A little girl and her parents, for some reason, came to a completely unfamiliar country and became a ninja.

The environment and people have completely changed, and living habits have also changed completely.

It’s so despairing just thinking about it.

But why did they leave the country? Sasuke thought that if it were him, he would never leave Uchiha without a desperate reason.

A large number of rats appeared in Sakura's spiritual space.

So the reason is obvious, because Sakura's country encountered a once-in-a-millennium rat tide! They couldn't solve the rat plague, so they fled their hometown with their families and came to Konoha.

Learn the language and culture of the Fire Nation from scratch, survive in the cracks, and work hard to live.

Brother Zhuzi felt that he had completely grasped the truth.

The logic is perfect and consistent with reality. This also explains why Sakura always opens a small window to chat privately with Naruto, which means that Naruto has known the truth for a long time.

Now that we know the truth, the next thing to do is simple.

Sasuke wants to help Sakura get out of her psychological trauma.

She and Naruto had helped him so much before, and he had never forgotten this kindness.

Now it's time to repay her.

(End of this chapter)