Chapter 9: Destroying the Core

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Sasori was dumbstruck as he saw the puppet crumble into ash.

'Was the third Kazekage that weak or what?' He couldn't help but question what the fuck was going on.

And if he wasn't wrong, then Sakura was just a Chunin no? Why the hell had she turned this strong all of a sudden? He now had to change strategy again about how to attack.

"It seems like I played long too much,"

Sasori then transformed his body and showed that his entire body was a puppet. It seemed like he had to turn serious now. As he was taking too long.

Sasori's puppet body consisted of a pair of spinning claws attached to his lower back, a holder for four scrolls on his back, a stinger in the empty and open stomach cavity, a compartment in his right chest, and a 'core of living flesh' in the left which had the kanji for "scorpion".

"You have to die now!"

He raised his hands and then two metal cylinders appeared from his palms and started to shoot fire at Sakura.

"Tch"

Sakura punched the ground and raised a piece of earth to take cover from the fire, not that it would hurt her if she used haki or the other techniques she knew, but there was no need to waste her chakra for that. As the fire range was too big and there was no need to show everything she knows here.

Sakura kicked the ground in a huge burst of speed and appeared right next to him, but he changed at the last minute from fire to water and shot a jet of water that could cut even rock and iron at her.

She had to dodge again and again as the water-like spear followed her until she finally managed to get out of the way.

She kept doing this for a while, to give him the illusion that she had to dodge.

Once that was established, she finally closed in on him and when he used his jet water to attack her this time, she used one hand with haki to change its direction taking him by surprise since he didn't expect her to be able to tank that, before she punched him square in the chest with her other hand filled with haki.

He burst forth into pieces, and Sakura thought it was over, so she went next to Lady Chiyo and started to heal her.

"You… are you really Sakura?" Chiyo couldn't help but ask.

Sakura coughed a bit into her hand as she used the other with green healing chakra.

She rubbed the back of her head with one hand.

"Well, who else would I be, lady, I mean granny Chiyo? Haha," She hoped nothing bad would result out of this, but even she was aware that she had changed both in personality, power, and even appearance.

Chiyo looked at her with scrutiny and finally sighed. She even ignored how she called her closely unlike before when she called her lady Chiyo.

"It seems you were holding back before!"

She said that with finality.

It seemed to her that Sakura was holding back her strength, perhaps to let Sasori let his guard down, or perhaps just to be a perfect ninja, to always keep secrets no matter what.

She didn't fault her for that.

"Well, something like that," Sakura sheepishly smiled.

"That's impressive of you Sakura," Chiyo praised her even.

She thought that she was an impressive ninja, just like Tsunade.

Sakura gained a bit of a blush on her cheeks due to the praise, and then she stopped healing Chiyo.

Partly because she was done, but also because she sensed something.

She raised her hands for combat.

"He was not dead yet?" Sakura whispered.

Lady Chiyo also raised her guard.

Then Sasori starting with his core, started to assemble again.

As soon as he finished, he threw a scroll into the sky and opened the right side of his chest.

Puppets came out of the scroll, and strings came out of his right chest that connected with them.

It stopped at one hundred.

"It seems even when I was overestimating you, I was still underestimating in reality!"

"But it's over for you now,"

Lady Chiyo saw how dire the situation was and she also started to open a scroll.

She was about to release it when Sakura raised her hand.

"There is no need, I can take care of him on my own, lady Chiyo you just need to rest now as you have overtaxed yourself"

Sakura was still confident about this.

After all, she was trained for two years by Hayato sensei.

"You'll die a painful death!"

Sasori struggled to keep his outward calmness while he was angered on the inside, so he wasn't even taking into account Chiyo and sent all the puppets after Sakura.

They dived right into Sakura's position and started to attack her, meanwhile, Sakura used her mastery of taijutsu to counterattack.

Then could attack hand to hand, did Jutsus, and even sent thrown weapons, but yet, nothing worked against her, as each time she touched them they would explode not to be repaired.

A hundred became eighty soon, and that too soon became fifty, and before Sasori even felt something wrong, he was left with none.

He couldn't even control the puppets since they died at the first lunging attack they made.

Sakura looked at him not even panting from this.

"This much is nothing like going against my master in a spar while still holding back!"

Lady Chiyo who heard this, wondered if Tsunade was that strong…

Meanwhile, Sasori had his eyes wide open in rage as he gritted his teeth.

And then as Sakura jumped to finish him off, it seemed that one puppet was left that they didn't notice, and Sasori had changed his body with it, so once Sakura attacked and destroyed what she thought was Sasori, he decided to at least take down Chiyo.

But who was Sakura?

If she let Chiyo die, then she wouldn't be the student of both Tsunade and Hayato.

She kicked the ground with so much force, she sent shockwaves of wind as she instantly appeared near the sword Sasori was about to thrust into the back of Chiyo and then she grabbed it with her haki-clad hand and broke it apart.

"You are one dirty worm" Sakura was angry now.

This guy had ignored her once he knew he couldn't beat her straight and instead decided to attack Chiyo.

She would beat the shit out of him and show him his place.

Sasori's anger increased even more at her words, and the stinger attached to his stomach cavity lunged at her as the claws spun around and also attacked her.

'You can't dodge something this close'

His thoughts were like this. But would it come to fruition?

Sakura lunged at him grabbing the stinger with haki in her hands, thus his poison was useless.

Then she punched the claws one by one with her other hand and then used one hand to pull him by the stinger toward her, and when he was near her, she punched as hard as she could and destroyed him again.

This time though, using observation haki, she managed to find his core full of chakra, and then she used internal destruction to destroy the core completely.

"Disgusting!" The core had flesh wiggling about so she was happy when it turned into dust.

And with that, Sasori was done for this time.

She made sure to check again with observation, as the last time she was careless, but this time it seemed that it was done for real.

She went and supported granny Chiyo.

"Granny Chiyo, let's go help the others now,"

The old lady could do nothing but nod while she was numb to how strong such a young Konoha ninja was.

'How are they training the youths these days?'

One part of her idly wondered while the other was sadly recalling the times when Sasori was young, as they went to rejoin the others.

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