We did it, Naruto! We saved the Hidden Leaf Village!

'Manyuu Assassination Genjutsu: Breast Illusion!' Inner Sakura shouted.

"That's my line," Sakura grumbled to herself, but she still made the hand signs required to activate her Jutsu: Tiger! Dog! Rat! Ox! Hand Clap! Boob jiggle!

And this time, Sakura's Genjutsu worked.

As if pulled by a magnet, all eyes were immediately drawn to Sakura's cleavage, which exuded chillingly potent yet imperceptible yin chakra. Try as they might, none could turn their gazes away from the twin mountains on Sakura's chest— in fact, the stronger their willpower, the stronger the attraction they felt…

Even though it became immediately apparent to them that they had fallen under a Genjutsu, the Leaf Jōnin could not muster the willpower to disturb their chakra— all they wanted to do was to keep mindlessly staring into Sakura's deep cleavage to escape the harshness of reality.

Breasts aren't just bags of fat— they're filled with the hopes and dreams of men!

It was for this reason that it was much more difficult to avoid looking at beautiful breasts than it was to fight an Uchiha without looking them in the eye. Avoiding eye contact was really easy— introverts did it all the time! But stopping oneself from glancing at a nice pair of breasts? Now that was a challenge, one fit only for the sharpest of minds and the strongest of wills…

With Sakura's Genjutsu prowess, even the female ANBU and Jōnin couldn't help but fall for the illusion of swaying breasts. Even Uzuki Yūgao wasn't spared; her mind, filled with thoughts of revenge for the death of her boyfriend Gekkō Hayate, became clouded with steamy visions of yuri…

But perhaps most importantly of all, Gaara had fallen for Sakura's Genjutsu.

Faced with visions of bouncing breasts, his mind was cast back to the distant past— to the first and last time he had ever felt the touch of his mother. Gaara had been born prematurely, and his mother Karura had died shortly after giving birth to him, after a short and complicated pregnancy.

He had never known his mother, but just before dying, she had cradled him against her chest…

For the first time in his life, due to Sakura's image overlapping with his mother's in his mind, Gaara knew love— the unconditional love of a mother. In a miraculous turn of events, Sakura had succeeded in her first attempt at Talk-no-Jutsu— without even needing to flap her mouth!

But unfortunately…

"Heehee, the brat's finally fallen asleep!" Shukaku laughed. "I can finally have some fun outside!"

"Oh, shit," Sakura whispered to herself. "Figures that a Genjutsu based on boobs wouldn't work on something that's not human!"

Naruto, who hadn't been affected by Sakura's Genjutsu (because she'd asked him to turn around), looked up at the gigantic chakra monster towering above him. Its appearance hadn't changed, but he immediately noticed the difference in their eyes. Behind Gaara's hatred-filled gaze had been the loneliest eyes that Naruto had ever seen (apart from in a mirror). But now, the monster's eyes were filled with nothing but malevolence…

"What's so funny!" Naruto shouted, waving the Bashōsen at the gigantic Tailed Beast. "I don't know what's happened to you, but I won't let you hurt my friends any more!"

"That fan!" cried Shukaku, staring at the red and white Bashōsen in Naruto's hands. "How did you get that thing!?"

"Wouldn't you like to know, you overgrown tanuki!" Naruto bellowed at the top of his lungs. "Why don't you follow me and find out?"

Naruto's words irked the Tailed Beast; this brat was almost as hateful as the one he was trapped inside of!

"Damn it, Naruto," groaned Sasuke, as he poked his head out from behind his hiding place. "This isn't part of the plan, you idiot!"

After poking the One-Tail in the butt with his Chidori, Sasuke had started leading the Tailed Beast towards the trap that Tenten, Neji and Karin had been in the process of setting up, but since the One-Tail hadn't followed him, he had retraced his steps back to the battlefield.

But he could forget about his job; Sasuke had already used the Chidori twice already, but he had already hit his limit. With his total chakra pool being less than one third of Sakura's, if he tried to force out a third Chidori, then the best-case scenario would be the triggering of the Cursed Seal of Heaven on his neck, and the worst-case scenario would be his death…

 "Bet you can't catch me!" taunted Naruto, pulling down his eyelid and sticking out his tongue.

"Damn you, Nine-Tails!" Shukaku roared. "Did you put him up to this?"

Naturally, Shukaku had noticed Kurama's chakra leaking out of Naruto when Gaara had been in control earlier— and since the One-Tail hated the Nine-Tails with a passion due to its inferiority complex, it didn't take much for it to receive the 'taunted' status effect!

Naruto patting his butt in its direction was the last straw; Shukaku surged forwards and slammed its paw down on Naruto's small body… which, of course, turned out to be a Shadow Clone!

"Too slow, ya know!" shouted Naruto mockingly, reappearing a short distance away from Sasuke on a rooftop.

"Magnet Style: I-Beam Assault!"

Enraged, Shukaku began weaving hand signs; surrounded by buildings, it could feel plenty of iron and steel nearby to use for its Magnet Style…

The apartment buildings began shuddering, and even the ground beneath Sakura's feet began undulating and shaking like tokoroten, as the Tailed Beast used its mastery over magnetism to pull at every piece of metal in its vicinity for a massive attack!

Noticing that the people that she had trapped in her illusion were in danger, Sakura quickly released her Genjutsu. Just in time, too— Shukaku's Magnet Style suddenly took hold of Sakura's sword, uncontrollably pulling her forward by the belt… and into one of the many holes tearing themselves open in the road!

Sakura fell down a few metres and landed on her butt.

"Sakura nee-san?" came a little girl's voice from the darkness.

"Whoa, huge…" came another child's voice.

"It's Naruto nii-chan's girlfriend, kore!" came a little boy's reedy voice.

"Sakura?" said Iruka urgently. "What's going on, out there?"

It appeared as though Sakura had fallen into one of the many tunnels that ran beneath the Hidden Leaf Village and that led to the emergency shelter constructed underneath the Hokage Rock. And judging from the children surrounding Iruka, she had just fallen into the one that led to and from the ninja academy…

"Run back the way you came from!" Sakura shouted, as she clambered to her feet. "It's too dangerous to keep going!"

The tunnel was beginning to warp and twist, its metal walls groaning and shrieking…

Sakura leapt back out of the hole, trying her utmost to keep the Manyuu sword from jumping out of her grasp— just in time to witness a brilliant flash of white light in the distance that rose to the heavens.

"Heavenly Transfer Jutsu!"

Suddenly, the powerful magnet pull that kept trying to rip Sakura's sword out of her hands ceased.

As gravity retook its hold on them, all of the metal items that Shukaku had gathered for its Magnet Style Ninjutsu— girders and beams, shuriken and kunai and swords, pots and pans and various utensils, shovels and spades and pitchforks— suddenly stopped floating in midair and fell back down to the ground with a series of loud clangs.

It was finally over— they had saved the village, and Shukaku was nowhere to be seen!