Sasuke really should be thanking his lucky stars.
First, that Sakura and Ino learned the Lariat, not Tsunade's classic Heavenly Kick of Pain.
Second, that when he passed out, he landed face-down.
And third, that he's still just a young dude who only recently started developing his di-… well, enough said.
If even one of those three things was missing, Sasuke would've suffered a massive disaster.
As it stood, he only got stepped on in the thigh.
"S-Sasuke? What happened to you?"
Sakura freaked out a bit.
She didn't expect Sasuke to be lying there looking all "seriously wounded and passed out."
For a second, all kinds of thoughts raced through her head.
'What on earth happened here?'
'Did Sasuke get into a brawl here with Naruto after Naruto got sent flying by Killer B?'
'And where's Naruto?'
Instead of stressing over all that right away, Sakura crouched down, ready to patch Sasuke up with dical ninjutsu.
'Once he recovers, he can explain everything himself,' she figured.
"Huh?"
The second Sakura fired up her Mystical Palm and put her hand on him, she froze.
There wasn't a single scratch on Sasuke's body…
Well, no, that wasn't totally true. There was one—the exact spot she just stomped on.
Other than that, no wounds at all.
This was just pure chakra drain and exhaustion.
That ant normal dical ninjutsu couldn't really do much.
Sakura yanked a soldier pill from her pouch and shoved it into Sasuke's mouth.
"Wait, Sakura!"
The second Ino saw that, she tried to stop her—but Sakura already fed it to him.
"What? What's wrong?" Sakura asked, super confused.
'Is sothing wrong with that?'
'I always thought Ino and I were pretty much on the sa level in dical ninjutsu and taijutsu. Did Ino get so secret extra lessons and knows sothing I don't?'
"…How long has that soldier pill been in your pouch?" Ino asked, staring at Sasuke as he swallowed it, letting out a heavy sigh.
"Huh? Uh…"
Only then did Sakura realize the problem, her face burning red with embarrassnt!
Ever since Kakashi ntioned that popping soldier pills during puberty could ss with your developnt, Sakura stopped buying or making them.
So where did this one co from?
Obviously— it was one she left rotting in her ninja pouch ages ago.
"Soldier pills have expiration dates too?" Sakura asked quietly.
"What do you think?" Ino scoffed, rolling her eyes hard.
"Sakura, Ino, don't—look over here!"
Hinata pointed in Sasuke's direction, looking full-blown panicked.
"What is it, Hinata? Did sothing happen to Sasuke?"
The two of them looked where Hinata pointed and saw Sasuke twitching non-stop.
"Oh no, Sasuke's going to lose it—quick, get Akamaru over here!"
Ino jumped, scrambling back a few steps.
Sakura did the exact sa thing—except way more shalessly. After backing up, she yanked Ino in front of her like a human at shield.
Ino was ticked off.
'What kind of bestie is she? she got no loyalty!'
Lucky for her, Ino had her own target, so she shoved Hinata to the front too.
So the three of them lined up like baby chicks hiding from a hawk, stacked dium, large, and extra-large, with poor Hinata acting as the frontline shield.
"Hinata, you're from the Hyuga clan, right? You can use Rotation, can't you? It's up to you now!"
Ino buried her head low behind Hinata's back.
"Huh?"
Hinata blinked, looking confused.
For a sec, she couldn't figure out why Sakura and Ino were hiding behind her.
'And with Ino glued to my back, how am I supposed to use Rotation? If I do, won't I just send Ino flying too?'
After a beat, Hinata finally got that Sakura and Ino misunderstood, and she couldn't help but laugh awkwardly.
"You guys got it wrong. It isn't Sasuke-kun twitching. There's so weird thing moving under him, so…"
"What?"
"You should've said that sooner!"
Instantly, Ino and Sakura both chilled out.
They trusted Hinata.
Hinata's sweet personality made it obvious she wouldn't lie, and with her Byakugan active, she could clearly see what they couldn't.
"It's not so disgusting bug, is it?" Ino stepped forward and took a cautious look.
Sure enough, Sasuke hadn't actually woken up or started twitching on his own—his body was just getting jostled by sothing hiding under him.
"Insects aren't disgusting at all."
Shino, standing nearby, looked super wounded.
"Let's play it safe…"
Sakura crept forward on tiptoe, getting ready to roll Sasuke over and see what exactly was under him.
"Woof woof."
Akamaru barked twice at the side, his dog eyes full of disappointnt.
'What happened to al ti?'
Sniff, sniff.
Weirdly enough, even without a main course, Akamaru caught a familiar scent.
Following it, he trotted right over to Sasuke.
Sakura didn't notice Akamaru sneaking up.
She rolled Sasuke aside—and the second she did, the thing pinned under him launched into the air!
"Woof!"
While everyone else stood frozen in shock, only Akamaru reacted.
Like a savage hound, he leaped up, pounced on the flying object, pinned it under his paws, and licked it.
"Woof woof!"
Akamaru's eyes lit up.
'That's definitely the sll of milk.'
His tongue went crazy, lapping away at it.
"Uh… can soone tell us what that thing is?"
"Shino, you've seen a lot of things. Can you?"
Aside from Akamaru, who was happily slurping up the milk, everyone else went dead silent.
That thing looked… kinda… maybe… like a piece of an ass? (Tobirama's ass that got transported a few chapters back)
With a flower shoved in it.
A chunk of an ass by itself would be weird enough.
A chunk of an ass with a flower shoved in it was even weirder!
But the craziest part was—why was it moving?
If it just showed up there, maybe they could brush it off saying soone got blown apart by paper bombs and a stray chunk landed here.
But why would it move?
"Could it be a piece of soone with an immortal body? Like that blood-licking freak from the Akatsuki?"
Sakura thought of a certain guy.
That psycho ninja who once used blood to creep out female ninja across the whole shinobi world.
"No matter what it is, let's contact the sealing team first."
After hashing it out for a sec, they reached a decision.
...
After hanging around for a bit, Sai showed up with a three-man sealing squad.
"You want to seal… an ass?"
Even Sai, whose whole brand was that fake smile, almost lost his cool when he saw the mission target.
"…Fine. Leave it to ."
"You three ugly young ladies, please step aside."
"And you, the one with what looks like nstrual blood on your face—take your wife and squat sowhere else."
"Huh? Who has nstrual blood on their face? …You bastard—wait, wife? What the hell do you an by—hold on, what? Damn it!"
Kiba's face morphed over and over like so face-changing master.
First he was lost over who Sai ant by "nstrual blood on your face," then it hit him that he was the only dude with anything painted on his face!
Then, when Sai dropped the "wife" bomb, he felt a rush of awkward teenage panic, even though he didn't know which of the three girls Sai ant…
And then Kiba realized Sai ant Akamaru.
Right then, he lost his mind.
Kiba was just about to blow up when he noticed sothing downright terrifying.
If Sai dropped an insult like that, shouldn't there be three—or at least two—other people raging out before him?
So why was it so creepy and quiet instead?
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