One hundred and one ways to pursue Sakura

——“154”——

The inside of the giant gray cocoon was pitch black, like a dream of eternal night.

Haruno Sakura followed the group of people into it, and found that the speed of the group of ninjas was getting slower and slower. She stopped to check their situation, but was told:

As soon as they entered the cocoon, they seemed to sink into the water with a heavy object on their backs, and their bodies were too heavy to be manipulated.

Haruno Sakura waved her hand in the darkness tentatively in surprise, her movements were as dexterous as ever, without any sense of resistance.

Seeing that Haruno Sakura was acting as usual, the group of strange ninjas said to her: "Go to the depths first, don't worry about us, time is running out."

Haruno Sakura didn't know how much time they were talking about.So I can only do my best to rush to a deeper place in the cocoon.

In that deep darkness, she will also meet some people like the team of ninjas she met before.

And she didn't stop to team up with those people anymore, she just rushed deeper.

She didn't know where the source of what these people were looking for was.But as long as you continue to go deeper, you will always see special existences.

She thought that this spiritual world, which was born out of the real world but different from the real world, had no acquaintances she knew, until she met Ino Yamanaka.

When seeing her, Yamanaka Ino's expression was very shocked, his blue pupils were shaking violently: "Sakura!"

Haruno Sakura stopped, and answered with some uncertainty: "Ino?"

Compared with her good friend Ino Yamanaka, this Ino Yamanaka looks much more mature and beautiful, like her future appearance.

"No, that's impossible."

Yamanaka Ino looked downcast and dazed, she lowered her gaze, and then pulled out Kunai: "Sakura has passed away, these are all hallucinations trying to confuse me!"

……

In the dark and silent night, the eyes disguised as the moon disappeared in the sky, and the whole land was covered by black water. The water surface was as calm as a mirror, and people were sinking and floating in the water.

The cherry-colored long-haired boy half-kneeled on the surface of the water, holding one hand tightly to the other.And the owner of the hand was hidden under the water without a trace.

When countless ninjutsu struck, the black water surface could not reflect any light or shadow.Shidie still maintained the posture of half-kneeling on the water and holding Haruno Sakura's hand, and he didn't even turn his head to look at the attacks that came at him.

The fire ninjutsu attacked his head, the original sakura-colored hair was dyed with the color of flames and then smudged like a dye, and the color of his hair became mottled...

The mottled long hair began to grow freely without the restraint of the headband, immersed in the water, dyed the deepest black, and the ninjutsu and weapons that struck were all eliminated in the black.

The water surface that was originally as calm as a mirror began to surge, and the tide rolled in again, dragging those unwilling figures into it again.

He Shidie still maintained that posture, as stiff as a stone statue.Behind him, the messy and mottled hair is immersed in the water, absorbing enough color and shaking comfortably like the tentacles of an octopus.

……

"Sakura has passed away, these are hallucinations trying to confuse me!"

Facing Yamanaka Ino's sudden attack, Haruno Sakura subconsciously raised her hand to defend.Since the opponent is Ino Yamanaka, she doesn't really want to hurt her.

So he tried to use his hair as a medium to build a small illusion in an attempt to stop her attack.

Haruno Sakura didn't have any hope about whether this little illusion could really make Yamanaka Ino fall for it.

After all, the secret arts of the Yamanaka family are spiritual secret arts.So the people in their family have high mental resistance.

However, this little illusion she threw at random had an unexpected effect, and this future version of Ino Yamanaka was tricked.

Yamanaka Ino stopped attacking, and then cried to her.The weeping Yamanaka Ino looked very strange.

Ever since she knew Yamanaka Ino, she had never seen Ino cry.In Haruno Sakura's memory, Yamanaka Ino has always been an optimistic and sunny girl.As she herself described, like a blooming cosmos, bright and flamboyant.

"Ino, what happened?"

Haruno Sakura tentatively asked, feeling a little helpless with both hands.

"Since there's nothing wrong, why don't you come back soon? What will you do if you lose your Sarana and Sasuke?"

Yamanaka Ino was still crying, but Haruno Sakura couldn't understand what she said.

Although she did have a good impression of Zuo Liangna, and they did become friends.

But in the future, have their feelings become so deep that they cannot do without each other?And what's the matter with Zuo Liangna's younger brother Sasuke?

"Brown forehead, you are really worrying!"

Yamanaka Ino had already wiped away her tears, and looked at her with another complicated and sad emotion: "Go and meet Sasuke and Sarana, before the world is destroyed."

"At least spend your last moments with your family."

She showed a pale smile: "Okay, I also want to make my last effort for this world. Those two idiots, Sai and Jingzhen, don't know where they got lost."

She waved her hand at Haruno Sakura, and then disappeared into the endless darkness.

Haruno Sakura chased in her direction for several steps but failed to find her again.So she could only keep going, and going forward, she met more acquaintances.

But they seemed to be in a depression, no one noticed her like Ino, and most of them passed her by.

A man wearing a black cloak whose hair covered half of his face seemed to call her name as he passed by her, and stretched out his hand as if trying to grab her.

But Haruno Sakura only wanted to rush to the most central place of origin, and didn't pay attention to the figures of these acquaintances any more.

Compared with those who entered here and were greatly affected, her speed is too fast.

——“155”——

Finally, Haruno Sakura arrived at her destination.

In the deepest part of the darkness, there is a face and a pair of hands floating in the air. The background color is cherry-colored, but it looks particularly messy and mottled. Hair hangs down to cover most of his face, and those hairs protrude from his head. It came out and then completely merged with the pitch blackness. From a distance, it seemed that the face was suspended in the air by the hair.

The closer to the anomalous source in the center, the slower Haruno Sakura's pace becomes.

Because of the scene in front of her, she seemed to have seen it before.

When the team of strange ninjas with the information scrolls disappeared into the temporary operating room, she had seen this hallucinatory scene for a moment.

In that momentary hallucination, she saw clearly the appearance of the face hanging in the air.

That was the person she was most familiar with since she was a child, who was Shidie.

Haruno Sakura was a little afraid to approach the source of the anomaly, and even more afraid that the face she saw clearly after approaching was really the face that emerged in her heart.

Although her heartbeat became slower and slower every time, her pace never stopped, and her eyes were fixed on the drooping face in the air as if she wanted to compete with herself, not daring to blink.

Finally, the distance is close enough.

It was so close that Haruno Sakura could clearly see the hair falling from his face when the drooping face was slowly raised.

Haruno Sakura's entire pupils were trembling, and her whole body was also very stiff.

Because she saw that face clearly.

That was indeed Shidie's face.

The young man's originally beautiful and moving face became strange and frightening. His eye sockets were pitch black, without pupils, and black butterfly shadows kept flying out of his eye sockets.

He "looked" at her position with those eye sockets without pupils, Haruno Sakura could feel his gaze, not from his eye sockets.Instead, it comes from the gazes from all directions in the darkness of the entire space.

The pale lips on that face opened and closed mechanically.

【It's Sakura. 】

The moment he called out his name, Haruno Sakura resumed her actions as if the sealing spell had been lifted.She pulled out her kunai, and walked towards the strange face hanging in the air with heavy steps.

Seeing the scene in front of her eyes turned into a double image, Haruno Sakura realized that her eye sockets had been wet for a long time.

"Butterfly, is that you?"

She stood directly below him, and when she raised her head, his lowered hands just touched her face.

【it's me. 】

"Did you cause all this? Why did you become like this?"

Haruno Sakura's mood was very unstable, and her voice was trembling.

The hands with only forearms left in the air lightly brushed the corners of her eyes, as if they wanted to wipe away her tears.

Haruno Sakura turned her face sideways, as if expressing her dissatisfaction.Then she picked up Kunai and ran across Shidie's hair, as if thinking that this would cut off the connection of his entire space.

However, she cut off a section of his hair, and a new section of hair will be formed in the darkness to connect with him.

In the end, Haruno Sakura gave up this useless move, stood directly below him and looked up at his face: "What can I do to save you? What can I do to save everyone?"

She felt that Shidie's "eyes" fell on her body, and after a few seconds, she "heard" his voice again:

[Then, expel me. 】

Haruno Sakura was stunned, then condensed Chakra on her fist, and slowly raised her fist.

However, Chakra condensed halfway and then dispersed unsteadily. She almost collapsed and put down her hand, looking up at the familiar face that had become strange and frightening: "Do I have to do this?"

That Shidie stared at her quietly, was silent for a long time, and asked her a question without answering the question:

[Sakura, do you feel happy? 】

……

Under the dark night without the moon, the boy half kneeled on the surface of the dark water, holding the hand of his loved one who submerged in the water with one hand.

At that time, the butterfly stared at the place where Haruno Sakura sank to the bottom of the water. The water surface was pitch black, but he stared at that place as if he could see her spirit, and then asked: "Sakura, do you feel happy?"

……

"Why do you keep asking me this question?"

After saying this sentence, Haruno Sakura's tear-stained face froze for a moment, she didn't seem to know why she said the word "always".

[Because if Sakura is happy, I will be happy. 】

【I hope Sakura can be happy. 】

……

That Shidie stared at the calm and unwavering pitch-black water, holding Haruno Sakura's hand still with one hand motionless: "Because if Sakura is happy, I will be happy."

"I hope Sakura is happy."

His voice echoed in the silent world, appearing extraordinarily lonely.

……

Haruno Sakura looked up at the face hanging in the air, tears slowly rolled down from the corners of her eyes: "If I say I am happy, does Die really feel happy?"

"Die, do you really feel happy?"

Under Haruno Sakura's questioning, she felt the vibration of the entire space, and the gazes from all directions in the darkness seemed to become more focused and disturbing.

Countless black butterflies came towards her, she couldn't help stretching out her hand to resist, but when the black butterflies flew by her side, it felt like a gentle wind blowing by.

[I... am not happy. 】

When she saw him, black butterflies no longer flew out of his dark eye sockets, and black liquid kept falling from his eye sockets, like desperate and bitter tears.

【Sakura, I'm not happy. 】

The face and the hands fell from the air.

Haruno Sakura greeted him with a hug.

Those hands hugged her waist, that face pressed her forehead against hers, and black "tears" kept sliding down.

Then, she felt bitterness and despair on her lips.

"I hope I can save everyone..." She stretched out her arms to embrace Bi Shidie, who was in a strange shape, and tried to smile at him: "Also, I also hope that Die can be happy."

"True happiness cannot be achieved by absorbing the happiness of others. What I hope is that Die can truly feel the happiness that belongs to Die alone."

At that time, the black "tears" seemed to have dried up, and he slowly closed his dark eye sockets in front of her.

The sight of her in the entire space disappeared without a trace as he closed his eyes.

Then, she saw cracks that seemed to reveal light in this endless darkness, one after another, and finally the darkness shattered and peeled off like an eggshell, and the skylight cast from the top, revealing the color of happiness.

……

The dark night receded, and the rising sun appeared in the eastern sky.

With black tears on his face, Bi Shidie held Haruno Sakura's hand and pulled Haruno Sakura out of the dark water.

She woke up in the morning light and saw his tear-stained face: "I also hope Die can be happy."

The black water enveloping the earth receded silently, people woke up one after another, and even started chatting about bizarre dreams: "I seem to have had a nightmare."

"Me too, I dreamed that I joined some kind of team to save the world, just like now... and then... I can't remember the rest, hehe."

"I dreamed about my son, hahaha I'm obviously not married yet... I can't remember the rest."

"It seems that everyone can't remember clearly, anyway, just remember that we won this ninja battle! Uchiha Madara is not as scary as in the legend!"

The author has something to say: there is only one last chapter left and the post-war confession is over.

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!