“Boom!” The explosion sent the Great Elder of the Hyūga clan flying.
Although he wasn’t injured, his expression was utterly unsightly.
Normally, the explosive force of those kunai would have been nowhere near enough to send the Great Elder flying.
However, he hadn’t been using his full strength in the first place, and he had activated Revolving Heaven in haste.
On top of that, no one had expected Sakura’s kunai to explode.
As a result, the Great Elder had suffered a nasty surprise.
“Grandpa Third, Uncle Hiashi, let’s go!
We need to hurry and see if Uncle Hizashi can still be saved!” Sakura paid no attention to the Great Elder’s face, which was as dark as the bottom of a cooking pot.
She simply stepped onto the Demon Sword and floated into the air.
She was still too young, and her little arms and legs made walking too slow.
Flying there would be much faster.
The Third Hokage and Hiashi also ignored the Great Elder, who looked as though he were about to explode with rage.
Hiashi waved off the other clan members who had been drawn over by the explosion, then eagerly led Sakura toward the area where the branch family lived.
At the Hyūga clan’s compound, young Neji Hyūga stood in a daze, completely at a loss.
He couldn’t understand why his father had merely gone to a meeting, only to return dead.
Looking at Hizashi’s corpse, a wave of grief filled Neji’s young heart.
“Neji, where is your father’s body?” Hiashi leaped over the wall and landed in the courtyard.
Seeing the bewildered Neji, his heart ached.
“Lord Hiashi, Father’s body is inside…” Although he was still young, Neji already understood some of the distinction between the main family and branch family.
Thus, when facing Hiashi, his uncle, he behaved with great respect.
Hiashi paid no attention to Neji’s attitude.
At this moment, all he could think about was bringing Hizashi back to life.
As the saying went, only after losing something did one truly understand its value.
After experiencing Hizashi’s death, the feelings Hiashi had long suppressed for his younger brother had completely awakened.
Sakura and the Third Hokage also flew over the wall.
The Third Hokage’s pink cloud immediately left Neji staring in bewilderment.
The way he looked at the Third Hokage changed almost instantly.
“Ahem.
Sakura, perhaps we’d better hurry and save him.” The Third Hokage coughed lightly and ignored Neji’s gaze.
Yes, pink was admittedly a little… flamboyant.
But flying instead of walking really was quite enjoyable.
He could simply ignore the color for now.
“Mm…” Sakura followed Hiashi into the house.
Only then did she let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, they hadn’t arrived too late.
Hizashi’s soul had not yet completely returned to the Pure Land.
There was still a chance to save him.
“Uncle Hiashi, close the door.
We don’t want the commotion later to attract anyone’s attention.” Sakura gave the instruction before walking over to Hizashi’s body.
She had to admit that Hizashi and Hiashi really did look almost identical.
No wonder the Hyūga elders had come up with the idea of having Hizashi die in Hiashi’s place.
Young Neji stood beside his mother, curiously watching Sakura.
He didn’t understand why these people had come to see his father’s body.
“Sakura, how is he?
Can he still be saved?” the Third Hokage asked.
“Fortunately, his soul hasn’t completely been taken by the Pure Land yet.
I can still save him!” Sakura took a deep breath.
The Time Stone activated.
First, she restored Hizashi’s body to its intact condition.
Only then did she prepare to retrieve his soul.
“Soul?
Sakura, can’t you simply reverse time?
Hizashi only died a short while ago.
Couldn’t you just turn his body’s time back?” The Third Hokage was puzzled.
There was no one else here who needed to be kept in the dark.
Hiashi was a staunch supporter of the Hokage’s faction, while Hizashi’s wife and child could also be trusted.
So the Third Hokage didn’t conceal anything.
More importantly, he wanted to use this opportunity to demonstrate Sakura’s importance.
As long as Hiashi wasn’t foolish, he would understand what Sakura represented and make sure his daughter built a good relationship with her.
With the Hyūga clan’s connection as a bridge, Sakura’s relationship with the Hokage’s faction would naturally grow closer.
“It won’t work.” Sakura shook her head and explained.
“The reason a person is alive isn’t simply because of their body.
The soul is just as important.
Without a soul, the body is nothing more than an empty shell.” “If Uncle Hizashi’s soul had already been drawn completely into the Pure Land, then even if I reversed the flow of time within his body, he still wouldn’t come back to life.” As she spoke, an orange glow began to spread through Sakura’s eyes.
At first, there was only a faint trace.
But gradually, her entire irises and pupils turned orange, completely replacing their former emerald-green color.
The Third Hokage, Hiashi, and the others instinctively took a step backward.
The aura emanating from Sakura made them feel as though their very souls were trembling.
“Soul… Power… Space…” Above Hizashi’s body, a mass of mist invisible to ordinary people was slowly dissipating.
Just as it was about to disappear completely, the power of the Soul Stone enveloped it.
An invisible force then reinforced the fragment of Hizashi’s soul that was on the verge of disappearing, forcibly resisting the pull of the Pure Land.
Using the connection between the remaining fragment of Hizashi’s soul and the portion that had already been drawn into the Pure Land, Sakura activated the Space Stone.
A hazy gray spatial passage opened above Hizashi’s body.
Pale-blue energy confined the spatial passage to a fixed area.
The gray passage churned like mist.
Tiny points of light began flying out from within.
They were the fragments of Hizashi’s soul that had already been drawn away.
Sakura waved her little hand.
The spatial passage instantly closed.
Only the dazzling motes of light remained, hovering above Hizashi’s body.
“Condense!” The orange light in Sakura’s eyes grew even more intense, resembling a radiant, multicolored gemstone.
The scattered points of light slowly began to converge.
Eventually, they completely merged into a single, intact sphere of light.
Under Sakura’s control, the sphere rapidly entered Hizashi’s body.
“Time to wake up…” Sakura raised her hand.
Snap!
She snapped her fingers, causing Hizashi’s soul to completely merge with his body.
“Cough, cough, cough…” Under the astonished gazes of Hiashi and the others, Hizashi’s chest suddenly began to rise and fall.
After a while, he coughed several times.
Then his eyes slowly opened.
“Hizashi!
You’re all right!” Hiashi excitedly grabbed his younger brother and began crying.
Hizashi, meanwhile, stared at him in complete bewilderment.
“This is… quite the display of brotherly love…” Perhaps Sakura’s imagination had simply been corrupted by too much fanfiction.
Instead of marveling at how deep the brothers’ bond was, the first thing that came to mind was a recollection of all those danmei novels she had read in her previous life, particularly the stories involving these two brothers.
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