Witty Naruto Life

Chapter 95: Facing Sakura's Inner Demons! (4000 words)
Naruto helped Sakura up awkwardly and explained:

"I'm sorry uncle, I just caught her because I saw she was about to fall."

Sakura also stood up, smoothed her hair, her cheeks slightly hot, and said to her frightened old father: "Well, I just sprained my ankle."

After saying that, she looked at Naruto. After the two of them confirmed with their eyes that they were going to do some serious business, they said, "Let's go, Naruto."

"Hey, what are you doing?!" Haruno Zhao was anxious, and he suddenly had a strong ominous premonition.

He felt that the daughter he had raised with great effort was not going to be eaten by a pig, but was going to be taken away and sold directly.

How could a girl insist on going out with a boy when she's sick?
Looking closely, Sakura now looks haggard, pale and gray; there are faint dark circles around her eyes, and she looks like she has insomnia; her eyes are dull and lack vitality.

It's like I have depression.

Naruto noticed his father's worry. He thought for a moment and said to Haruno Zhao seriously, "Sorry, uncle, can I just delay Sakura for five minutes?"

His eyes were clear, serious and sincere, and he emanated a faint warmth, which made Haruno Zhao quietly feel a sense of conviction.

"Uh... five minutes, right? Are you sure?"

"Yes."

Sakura, who was standing by, didn't know what Naruto wanted her to do, but she nodded to Haruno Zhao.

"Just five minutes."

At this time, Haruno Meibuki's voice came from the inner room: "If the little girl wants to go, let her go."

There was a hint of blame towards Haruno Akechi in the lady's tone, which was not surprising. The mother and daughter chatted about Naruto from time to time before the Konoha collapse plan, so she had a good impression of Naruto. In addition, she had seen the child before and he seemed quite polite.

"...Okay, go quickly and come back soon."

As a result, Haruno Zhao gave up completely and had to let the two of them leave slowly.

After closing the door and walking a few steps along the path in the yard, Sakura suddenly leaned weakly on Naruto, with a hint of fatigue in her expression.

"I can't walk right now, how about we talk around here?"

She asked Naruto for his opinion with her beautiful eyes, but the latter slowly shook his head and actually picked her up in a princess hug.

Sakura looked at Naruto in surprise and blinked, not sure what he was going to do for a moment.

"Hold your arms around my neck," Naruto whispered to Sakura.

"...You, you called me out specifically just to tease me?"

Although it was a bit inappropriate, she couldn't help but recall the scene when she watched anime before, where Minato Namikaze rescued Uzumaki Kuna and picked her up in a princess hug, letting her stay on the top of a tree, facing the pouring moonlight.

For some unknown reason, she put her arms around Naruto's neck.

Naruto didn't explain, he just said, "Hold on tight."

"Whoosh!"

The two of them suddenly disappeared from the spot.

……

Konoha, martial arts training ground.

Naruto teleported himself and Sakura to the wooden stake. He gently put Sakura down and let her lean against the stake. He squatted beside her and whispered, "Did you bring the fragments?"

After hearing this, Sakura was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood Naruto's intention.

"I did bring it, but..."

"I know it's dangerous, but it's okay. If you can't hold on, I'll teleport back immediately."

Naruto wants to enter Sakura's memory space, eliminate a group of inner demons, and let Sakura return to normal.

But given Sakura's current condition, the situation would probably be extremely difficult.

"Can you use the water clone?" Naruto asked Sakura, and she nodded. He first sat cross-legged on the ground to recover a little, then began to form hand seals with his hands, causing the moisture in the air to gradually condense into a bubble, which transformed into Sakura's clone.

Then she took out the fragment wrapped in cloth and asked her clone to inject chakra into it.

The Kamui space was slowly opened, Naruto performed the transformation technique, glanced at the tired Sakura, and nodded slowly to her.

He grabbed Sakura's water clone and began to teleport with the clone, disappearing into the vortex in the distorted light and shadow.

……

Memory space.

The scorching, dry air gradually became distorted as the temperature gradually climbed, making it difficult to breathe; the pale sunlight began to reveal a hint of darkness, as if a solar flare appeared directly on earth; countless creaking sounds continued to echo between the teaching buildings, echoing with the air and forming a resounding sound.

The shrill sound of nails scratching metal could be heard in the distance, and the entire concrete wall began to wriggle - tens of thousands of gray-brown bodies were convulsing, rotten rat tails were tangled into a fishy-smelling river, unknown mucus dripping from their mouthparts burned the ground, and every pair of bloodshot eyes reflected a strange fluorescence.

"Squeaky-"

"Chichi! Chichi! Chichi!"

A closer look reveals that their yellow, decayed teeth are hung with the finger bones of their own kind.

Naruto made Sakura's clone retreat to the corner, and protected her from the front, staring silently at the horrific scene in front of him.

He looked at the crazy mutated rats and smiled at Sakura behind him:
"Do you remember the time in Wave Country?" Naruto said slowly, "Didn't I ask you to stay at Daz's house back then? But that guy Cardo actually sent people to search the mountain and found all your traces."

"I happened to be away at the time, and you faced a huge army all by yourself, yet you actually managed to block their attacks and hold on until I came to your aid."

Sakura's clone listened quietly to Naruto's recounting of the past, and a hint of luster appeared on her pale cheeks.

"You also inspired that brat in Ina and got him to cheer up. Oh, by the way, what was that sentence? I remember you even told me about it."

He turned to Sakura with a smile, seemingly unfazed by the wave of rats that were about to rush towards him.

The two seemed to be just watching a bloody R-rated movie.

Sakura was stunned for a moment, lost in memories. It seemed that that dangerous but exciting time gave her some strength. She smiled and said softly:

"Although there are thousands of people, I will go."

"Chichi! Chichi! Chichi!"

"Squeak, squeak, squeak—squeak, squeak—"

Accompanied by blood and never-ending squeaking screams, the surging 'wave' suddenly hit Naruto!
He turned around, took out his kunai, turned his back to Sakura, and repeated softly:
"Although there are thousands of people, I will go."

A man, holding a kunai, rushed towards the huge group of rats!
Even if there are tens of thousands of enemies, your resolute spirit will never waver!
"Bang!!" Naruto threw the kunai with the detonating tag attached, and instantly blew out a huge hole in the middle of the rat tide, with blood and flesh splattering everywhere. He created two shadow clones, condensed a Rasengan in each of his hands, and suddenly jumped into the temporarily formed pit!

"Blow it up!"

Naruto stretched his hands out parallel to each other, allowing the rats to surround and attack him. He desperately maintained the Rasengan in his hands, grinding all the rats that approached him into pieces like a meat grinder!

The biggest risk here is that Naruto cannot use the power of the Nine-Tails in the memory space, which means that the long-range kite combat method using the Nine-Tails' chakra is not feasible. He can only use Flying Thunder God and his own movement to keep moving around, so that the rats cannot get close to him.

He kept swimming among the rat tide, spinning his body, letting two Rasengans knock away all the rats that were attacking him, and pus and blood splattered everywhere.

Naruto did not take it lightly. When the energy of the Rasengan was about to dissipate, he lit an explosive talisman and threw it forward, while he quickly retreated.

"boom!!"

Some of the rats with swollen bellies had methane inside, and this detonating talisman successfully ignited it. In an instant, flames splashed everywhere, and began to radiate around like a spark that set the prairie on fire. Naruto stepped on the rats' corpses, took out a kunai, and let the blade light shatter the gray shadow in front of him.

With a casual stab, the blade pierced through the eye socket of a rat, and it howled in pain and was immediately covered in flames.

The process was very simple and crude. Naruto first tried to create a fire that could spread, and then he retreated while poking the eyes of the rats along the way, making them temporarily unable to move, and then the fire spread to them, completing the killing.

This highly effective rat-killing trick quickly caused heavy casualties to the rats piled up together, but their number was far greater than the number Naruto killed, so when Naruto realized that he was a little exhausted, he decisively used Flying Thunder God to teleport to Sakura's clone.

"Fortunately, you carried the Flying Thunder God Kunai I gave you with you." He wiped his sweaty face and smiled at Sakura beside him.

If you look closely, you can see that Sakura's complexion has improved a little.

This shows that the haze in the main character's heart is gradually weakening with the elimination of Rat Rat, and it also shows that Naruto's physical psychotherapy is very effective.

"If you can't hold on any longer, just leave." Sakura's clone shouted to him. Now she was able to shout, although she would become weak again immediately after shouting.

"Huh... not enough." Naruto shook his head, straightened up, and smiled: "I said that I want the resilient Sakura to return."

Sakura stared at him blankly, and suddenly asked, "Why...why are you so nice to me?"

"Huh?" Naruto was stunned. He didn't react for a moment. His warm and gentle personality was temporarily offline, and his straight and steely personality took over his brain in an instant:
"Aren't we good teammates?"

Good Teammate

This is an extremely wrong example of how to flirt with girls.

Of course, it is extremely difficult to guess what girls are thinking. Such sudden and life-threatening questions without any preparation are common among girls. Generally, only experienced men can react instantly and answer them with ease.

Therefore, Naruto regretted what he said as soon as he said it. He immediately changed his words and explained: "No, no! I didn't say anything just now. Actually, I..."

"Got it, good teammate." Sakura responded lightly.

In fact, Naruto was really anxious, although he didn't realize why he was anxious.

But there was no time to 'mourn' for Naruto, as a huge number of rats continued to rush towards the two of them. He reacted immediately and continued to rush forward. This time, he saw a huge rat shadow vaguely emerging from the tide of rats. He aimed in that direction and killed his way out.

Sakura looked at him, biting her red lips with her pearly teeth, and a slight curl of her lips.

But she quickly put her recent emotions behind her and began to sit cross-legged to recover her strength, deciding that she would go to support Naruto in a moment.

"Squeak!!!"

At this moment, the entire memory space erupted with violent roars, and a mass of festering flesh several meters high stood upright. Three scorpion-tail-shaped bone spurs protruded from the festering eye sockets, and the concrete ground exploded with spider web cracks as it stomped its feet!

Naruto stepped on the body of Little Mouse and rolled sideways to avoid the sweeping chain claws. His trouser legs were lifted up and cut into shreds. He condensed the Rat Rat's Rat's body again and threw the Flying Thunder God Kunai at the Rat King. He took out the scroll, unfolded all the Kunai shuriken inside, and fired thousands of arrows at once!
The ninja tools in this scroll are his last stock.

"Chichi!!"

The Rat King roared, the sound that shook the eardrums and hit the soul directly, and all the ninja tools flying towards it were bounced away. At this moment, Naruto used the second stage of Flying Thunder God, grasped the kunai in one hand, put it back in his pocket, and summoned countless shadow clones at the same time.

He let his shadow clone grab his hand and threw it towards the Rat King with all his might, but the wind was so strong that he was bounced back by the powerful airflow for a moment, so another shadow clone also grabbed his hand and threw it towards the Rat King again!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Every time he got closer to the Rat King, he would release the shadow clone and summon a new shadow clone, then throw it at the Rat King. This cycle repeated over and over again. He quickly got close enough to grab the Rat King's eye socket!
For a moment, the strong smell of burnt food and the smell of maggot corpses made Naruto roll his eyes and almost fainted on the spot, but he forced himself to regain consciousness. With one hand hanging on it, he began to condense the Rasengan with the other hand.

"Puff!" The scorpion tail in the eye socket pierced Naruto's back of the hand, making him roar in pain, but he did not let go. He first condensed a trace amount of chakra under his feet, and then stood at 90 degrees on the Rat King's face. Then he grabbed the scorpion tail with one hand and pulled it towards himself with all his strength!
"Pfft!"

"Squeaky!!!"

The Rat King roared in pain, and its huge body rolled wildly, causing Naruto's chakra to become disordered for a moment, and he was directly thrown away by the Rat King!
Just when he was about to be blown away by the strong wind!
"Oh!"

A pair of small hands pressed against his back in the air. He turned around and saw that Sakura's water clone was actually stepping on the rat tide and flying behind him.

"Damn, what kind of mixed doubles is this..."

Naruto laughed and motioned for Sakura to grab his hand and throw him towards the Rat King just like he had done with the Shadow Clone before. Upon closer inspection, the Rasengan in his right hand had already been condensed.

Sakura understood what he meant, and the effect would be different if she, who had almost reached the peak of super strength, threw it.

She exerted force with her arms and threw Naruto out like a shot put. At the moment when he was about to slip out of her hands, she stared at the Rat King in front of her and roared:

"Such an ugly inner demon... What a joke!!"

"Whoosh!"

Naruto flew towards the Rat King like a cannonball, and stretched out the Rat King's eyes with his right hand.

"boom!!!!"

"boom!!!!"

"boom!!!!"

In an instant, pieces of meat splattered.

……

Haruno Sakura, returns.

……

On the other side, Naruto's home.

Naruto's shadow clone quietly guarded Sasuke, occasionally looking at his expression and thinking of various strategies in his mind.

"It won't be long before Jiraiya asks me to go with him to find Tsunade. Tsunade has hemophobia due to the psychological trauma she suffered before, um..."

"I must go with them to prevent the mastermind from attacking her, but this means we have to fight on two fronts. After all, Sasuke cannot be left behind."

As he was thinking this, Sasuke, who was lying on the sofa, began to twitch his eyelids.

The next moment, he opened his eyes.

(End of this chapter)