Powerful Kunoichi

Impossible Dream

Sakura stepped in front of Chiyo

Chiyo - Sakura!

Sakura - Lady Chiyo! Can you still move?

Sasori - Oh? You're worrying about other people even with this wound?

Chiyo - *Sasori How? Don't tell me So that's it*.

Sasori - If you're a Medical Ninja, you should understand the situation you're in.

Sakura - How dare you!

Sasori - You're a courageous girl. But how long can you hold on? *She's stopping the bleeding and healing herself with a sword stuck in her. She's skilled.* Lady Chiyo, I'm okay. So hurry up and take the antidote.

Chiyo - Sakura.

Sasori - It looks like the poison is starting to take effect. Of course, this sword is also poisoned, you see.

Sakura - *My body's getting numb from the poison, so I can't control my Chakra very well.*

Sasori - So that's the antidote.

Sakura - Lady Chiyo.

Sasori - *I can't believe how everyone chooses death for the sake of others. How stupid*

Sakura - I won't let go.

Sasori - *This girl's got incredible strength.*

Sakura - Lady Chiyo!

Sasori - *It's futile to have a strength contest with her, huh?* Then Die! Wh-What?

Chiyo - You lowered your guard at the end, Sasori.

Sasori - What?

Chiyo - Now you can't move. Am I right? Although you may have the body of a puppet, you use Chakra, so you need a part that's living. That's your weakness. And just that part from your left chest is missing from that shell. It was probably right before the Jutsu was completed. You switched to a different puppet. The body of a puppet is basically just a doll. Your real body is that chest part that produces Chakra.

Sakura fell to her knees

Chiyo - Sakura! *This is not good. In any event, I've got to pull out this sword while closing the wound*. Hang in there. Just a little more.

Sasori - It's futile. I pierced a vital point. She'll soon be dead even without poison. She's lost too much blood. Since you're also a Medical Ninja, I aimed for a spot you can't easily heal. I've already finished first-aid treatment with Medical Ninjutsu. What I'm doing right now isn't Medical Ninjutsu.

Sasori - What?

Chiyo - I'm giving her my own life energy.

Sasori - Don't tell me

Chiyo - It's a Reanimation Ninjutsu!

Sasori - A Reanimation Ninjutsu.

Chiyo - It's a Jutsu I spent years creating originally for you one that only I can use. With this Jutsu life can even be breathed into puppets. In exchange for the life of the caster. But in hindsight, it's a dream that won't be realized

Sasori - How stupid. When did you grow senile, Grandma?

Chiyo - Sakura, are you okay?

Sakura - Yes. What about you, Lady Chiyo?

Sasori - That's strange. I thought the caster of that Reanimation Ninjutsu or whatever was supposed to die in exchange for breathing life into someone dead. Sakura's wound was severe, but she wasn't dead So I got off without serious injury.

Sasori - That's unfortunate. I'd stop that. This body doesn't even feel pain. The more you hit me, the greater the pain in your fist. Women sure like to do stuff that's pointless. I won't feel anything even if my blood-related grandmother should die. My heart is just like this body. Up until now I've killed hundreds, thousands of people. She'd be the same as one of them. Things are simpler that way.

Sakura - Just what do you think a person's life is to you?! What do you think a relative is to you?!

Sasori - Come on Is that what a Shinobi should be saying?

Sakura - Why can you only think like that?

Chiyo - Sakura That's enough. It was the evil customs and teachings of Hidden Sand Village. That made him what he is.

Sakura - Lady Chiyo.

Sasori - Do you want to have a body like this? If you did, you'd probably somewhat understand what I'm talking about. This body won't decay and it's not bound to a span of life. A puppet can be recreated over and over again. I can create as many people as I want with puppets. If you want, that is It's not just about increasing the amount. A collection is all about quality.

Sakura - What the hell are you?!

Sasori - I'd venture to say I'm a human who couldn't completely become a puppet. I'm a puppet, but an incomplete puppet possessing a living core. I'm not a person nor am I a puppet. I'll soon stop moving. Before that, I think I'll do something pointless It's your reward for defeating me. You wanted to know about Orochimaru, right? At midday in ten days, go to the Tenchi Bridge located in the Village Hidden in the Grass! I've got a spy working as one of Orochimaru's subordinates I was supposed to rendezvous with him there

Sakura - It's over, Lady Chiyo. Excellent work.

Chiyo - No. I was the one who should've been defeated. Sasori read my final attack. But for some reason, he didn't dodge it.

Sakura - A slight opening was revealed. Could it be that he?

Naruto - Kakashi Sensei, aren't you ready yet?

Kakashi - It's about ready now.

Naruto - That's the thing you were talking about before?

Kakashi - That's right. It's my new Sharingan. Let's go, Naruto!

Naruto - Right!