Naruto: Sakura's Story (Naruto Novels) by Takashi Yano & Shin Towada & Akira Higashiyama & Tomohito Ohsaki

Author:Takashi Yano & Shin Towada & Akira Higashiyama & Tomohito Ohsaki [Yano, Takashi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781421590318
Publisher: VIZ Media
Published: 2016-05-03T07:00:00+00:00

1

When Sakura went into the Hokage’s office with Sai, Kakashi and Ino were waiting there. Ino looked exhausted somehow.

“Ino, you’re here too?”

“Yeah, I had something I wanted to try, so I went to the communications office with Master Kakashi, but…”

“Communications?” Sakura looked doubtful.

“Well, Ino said she wanted to try and see if we could contact Sasuke directly from here with her Mind Transmission Jutsu,” Kakashi replied, from behind his desk. “So we tried it, but…”

“Didn’t work,” Ino said, shrugging her shoulders. “Maybe we could have made it happen if we had a rough idea of where Sasuke is, but searching the whole world randomly definitely didn’t work. I’m kinda beat.” She stuck her tongue out. The Mind Transmission Jutsu used by the Yamanaka clan required a fair bit of concentration, which made it hard to use for extended periods of time.

“Anyway, what are you two doing here?” Kakashi asked.

“I wanted to talk to you,” Sai replied.

“Oh?”

“It’s about the fake Sasuke. It just might be that the Anbu is involved.”

“What?” Kakashi’s eyes grew narrow.

“Sakura told me,” Sai continued. “The fake Sasuke people are seeing doesn’t just look like Sasuke, he even has Sasuke’s chakra, right?”

“According to Gaara.”

“Sakura said chakra can be extracted from hair or skin. The chakra that the counterfeit Sasuke’s cloaked in might have been created like that.”

“Hair or skin,” Kakashi murmured, thoughtfully. “That might indeed be the missing piece.”

“No, it’s just a theory, okay?” Sakura panicked a little at Sai racing ahead of her. “If that’s how they did it, that still doesn’t explain how a copy of Sasuke is strolling around without Sasuke’s knowing it.”

“Well, a hypothesis is a hypothesis,” Kakashi noted. “So how does the Anbu figure into it?”

“My informant said something that’s been bugging me. He said that people from the Konoha Anbu were investigating the Final Valley, and the bridge where Sasuke and Master Danzo fought, right after the Great War.”

“The Anbu were?”

“Yes. He said that the Anbu were taking bits of dirt and stone from the place.”

“What would be the point of taking things like—oh!” Halfway through her sentence, Ino understood.

Sakura had a flash of insight at about the same time. “Right,” she half-said, half-murmured. “They wanted things from Sasuke.”

“Exactly.” Sai nodded slowly.

“It definitely would have been easy to find bits of Sasuke’s hair or skin in that place,” Kakashi said.

And his blood, Sakura added in her heart.

The Final Valley was where Sasuke and Naruto had fought so desperately to decide the last battle. They had each lost an arm in that fight. So there was no doubt that blood and tissue had been left behind there.

And the bridge where Sasuke fought Danzo—just as with the Final Valley, it would have been possible to find Sasuke’s hair or blood there. If it had been collected immediately after the Great Ninja War, there would have been a greater “freshness” to Sasuke’s tissue.

“However,” Kakashi noted. “I’m no specialist, but wouldn’t it take some serious work to separate out Sasuke’s hair or skin or whatever from

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