Chapter 2: The Mystery of Shadows

Ichiraku Ramen Restaurant.

Sakura Haruno casually ordered ramen, and then ordered Naruto's signature noodle with an oversized bowl, pulling Naruto to sit down.

Naruto was a little nervous, it was the first time he had come out to eat with Sakura Haruno, and it was still his favorite Ichiraku ramen.

Sakura-chan ......

"It's called Brother Sakura." Sakura Haruno knocked Naruto's head with chopsticks, reminding him not to forget who he was.

"Uh... Brother Sakura. Naruto covered his head, but there was some joy in his heart, for him, this was a relatively intimate move.

"From now on, we're teammates, do you know what teammates mean?" Sakura Haruno asked Naruto.

"What... What do you mean? Naruto was puzzled, aren't teammates teammates?

"The so-called teammates are brothers who live and die together." Sakura Haruno said with a serious face.

"Brother?" There was a golden light in Naruto's eyes.

"That's right, it's the kind of brother who can hand over his back to the other party in the face of enemy surrounding!" Sakura Haruno nodded earnestly.

She was quite concerned that Naruto had that kind of thought about her, and she felt that she needed to correct Naruto's thoughts.

"Hmmm! We'll be brothers from now on! Naruto loudly announced, and he was delighted.

"Okay, let's eat first, and remember to call Brother Sakura later." Sakura Haruno nodded in satisfaction and handed the chopsticks to Naruto, satisfied with Naruto's behavior.

Seeing Naruto eating noodles, Sakura Haruno smiled and took another pair of chopsticks and ate her own.

"Naruto, there's one more thing." While eating, Sakura Haruno suddenly remembered something and looked up.

"What?"

"Speak quieter in the future, understand?"

"Understood!" The sound is huge.

"You TM ......"

After eating the noodles, Sakura Haruno and Naruto said goodbye and went back to their respective homes.

After eating, the sleepiness came back again, and Sakura Haruno returned home sleepy-eyed, and it was already afternoon.

"Sakura, welcome back." Haruno Meibuki prepares a meal at home, and her father, Haruno Zhao, waits for her to come home for dinner.

Sakura Haruno also recalled this incident from her memory bank when she saw this scene, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I went to dinner with my teammates today." ”

Haruno Bud was stunned for a moment, and said helplessly: "You kid, this kind of thing should have been said earlier." ”

"Forget it, it's quite tiring to watch Sakura." Haruno Zhao smiled and persuaded.

"I'm sorry, ah~" Sakura Haruno didn't finish her words when she interrupted herself with a big yawn.

"Alright, you can go and rest." Haruno Bud said angrily.

"Yes." Sakura Haruno drooped her head and returned to her room, falling headfirst on the bed.

She hadn't slept all night, and she was really sleepy.

When night falls, Sakura Haruno wakes up from bed, rubs her eyes, and goes to the toilet for the first time in her life.

Back in her room, Sakura Haruno was in much better spirits.

"Is the ninja's health so bad? I'm not so tired when I stay up late at home. Sakura Haruno thought as she sat on the bed.

Shaking her head and shaking out the messy thoughts, Sakura Haruno began to study the by-products of her own crossing.

Raising her hand, a thick black unidentified object appeared, and Sakura Haruno could clearly feel the energy contained in it.

Sakura Haruno had noticed before that her chakra seemed to have been swallowed by this mass of things, and she didn't feel the chakra's presence.

After thinking about it, Sakura Haruno dispersed the energy mass in her hand and stretched out her hands to seal.

Doppelganger!

Boom~

A doppelganger identical to Sakura Haruno appeared.

"I can still use ninjutsu, and it doesn't seem to have changed." Sakura Haruno thought as she touched her chin.

Casually dispersing the clone, Sakura Haruno looked at her shadow.

Immediately, she stepped out, on her own shadow, and that foot sank into it like a quagmire!

But Sakura Haruno didn't panic at all, she already knew that it had this effect.

Immediately, her whole body began to descend, until she sank into the shadows and disappeared without a trace.

Sakura Haruno sank with the shadows and came to a dark and deep space.

However, Sakura Haruno did not have a trace of fear in her heart, but instead felt a sense of relief that the fish returned to the water.

Shadow Space, one of the secrets of the Shadow Mystery. This is an alien space that only belongs to the owner of the Shadow Mystery, and there is an infinite amount of energy here, all of which belong to Sakura Haruno.

Sakura Haruno moved her body, and although it was dark in the depths, her gaze was not blocked at all.

Stretching out her hand, a cube area was divided into a space filled with shadow energy, and Sakura Haruno stepped into it, and the feeling of being down-to-earth satisfied with her.

"You can make a secret base here, and if you are hunted down and killed in the future, you will come in and hide from him for ten days and half a month." Sakura Haruno was planning in her heart.

The dark space was no different from daytime to her, and she even felt that she could see more clearly here.

"Hmm...... So why is it so strong? Sakura Haruno was a little dazed, she thought she could find a way to become stronger by coming to the Shadow Space, but it seemed that there was nothing else here except energy.

"No matter how much energy I have, what's the use of me not letting it out." Sakura Haruno muttered to herself in a tangled way.

Her current situation is somewhat similar to Naruto's, allowing the energy in her body to be as vast as the sea, but she can't use it, which is really uncomfortable.

"Wait, if you think about it, there doesn't seem to be much about the mystery of the shadows, except... Doppelganger?! Sakura Haruno's eyes lit up and she thought of a direction.

The doppelganger can make the doppelganger shift the shape of the calamity, and can also deal damage in place of the calamity, and can even play guessing with him.

Combined with the description of the Shadow Mystery, there is no doubt that his doppelganger was created with Shadow Energy.

After thinking about it, Sakura Haruno pulled through a cloud of shadow energy and kneaded it into her own shape.

Syllable!

With a snap of his fingers, the energy clone opened its scarlet eyes.

It's done!

"I didn't expect it to be easy." Sakura Haruno nodded with satisfaction, and tried to give some simple instructions to the clone, and the clone completed it meticulously.

Suddenly, Sakura Haruno had a brain hole, and he thought of another genre that used shadows, or forces.

"The Shadow Corps, it seems that there can be alas." Haruno's eyes sparkled, and inspiration struck like a spring.

Shadow Corps, an anime she used to watch when she was a child: the villains in Jackie Chan's adventures, they are ninja soldiers in the shadow journey, they are not afraid of pain, have no feelings, and can sneak into the shadows, emerging from anywhere there is a shadow.

Although it looks quite weak in the anime, Sakura Haruno estimates that even if it is weak, the tactics of using crowds can always have some effect.

In addition, she also thought that since the Shadow Corps could sneak in the shadows and be elusive, could she herself?

Sakura Haruno seemed to be possessed by the soul of the god of brain holes at this moment, and all kinds of ideas came out one after another, she hurriedly withdrew from the shadow space, took out a pen and paper and wrote them down one by one.

This was written the next morning......

Haruno Bud Bud saw Haruno Sakura walking out of the room again with dark circles under her eyes and a black chicken head, her eyebrows raised, and she was angry.

"Sakura, didn't I tell you, don't stay up late, look at you, why is it today?" Haruno Bud asked, crossing his waist.

"Today's survival exercise, I made a little preparation, I didn't ask ~ questions." Sakura Haruno yawned and walked into the bathroom.

"You kid......"

The sound of Haruno Bud blowing in Haruno Sakura's ears kept chattering, and in the end, Haruno Sakura couldn't hear it, just nodded numbly.

After eating breakfast alone, I went back to my room and got my forgotten forehead guard.

"I'm out of the house."

"Have a nice trip."

Putting the forehead guard on her head, Sakura Haruno yawned step by step towards the meeting place, while wondering what her situation was.

"Something is wrong, very wrong." Sakura Haruno thought with sleepy eyes, "Let's not talk about the physique of this body ninja, even in my previous life, I wouldn't stay up all night and become like this." ”

Thinking of this, Sakura Haruno looked up at the early morning sun and frowned slightly: "Could it be because of the mystery of the shadows?" Diurnal and nocturnal? ”

Thinking of the spirit of last night, Sakura Haruno felt that this conjecture was most likely true.

With a sigh in her heart, Sakura Haruno put this matter in her mind.

Along the eaves of the shadowed roof, Sakura Haruno finally found the meeting place, and Sasuke and Naruto had already arrived.

Sasuke glanced at her with a cold face, and he could see that he was in a bad mood.

"Brother Sakura, you're late again today." Naruto leaned under the tree and greeted, "However, that teacher is later than you, and he hasn't come yet." ”

"Hmm." Sakura Haruno casually agreed, walked to the tree and sat down, leaning against the trunk of the tree to prepare for a while.

I don't know how long it took, when Naruto was almost asleep, Kakashi finally came.

"Yo, I'm lost on the road of life today." Kakashi greeted with a smile.

"Liar!" Naruto yelled at Kakashi.

Sakura Haruno was awakened by Naruto's deafening voice, and after a while, she stood up expressionlessly and punched Naruto: "I'll tell you to speak quietly!" ”

Naruto crouched down with his head clutched, falling into self-autism.

Sakura Haruno rubbed her temples, her heart still not calming down.

She felt that she would definitely not be able to doze off while Naruto was present in the future, otherwise she would have a heart attack, which was a disease that even Son Goku could kill.

"Let's do a wilderness survival drill first." Kakashi said with a smile, completely ignoring Naruto and Sasuke's faces.

"Let's talk about the rules first, I have two bells here, from now on, you can come and grab this bell, the person who grabbed the bell stays, and those who don't grab it go back to school, you can use any means." Kakashi said with a smile on his face as he held two bells in one hand and affectionate heaven in the other.

Swish!

As soon as he finished speaking, a kunai flew towards Kakashi's door, followed by a figure.

Kakashi's expression narrowed, and he dodged kunai sideways, grabbing the rushing figure with one hand.

Syllable!

The figure threw something at Kakashi's side again, and the white powder exploded instantly, and in the white smoke, a hand reached for the bell in Kakashi's right hand.

Kakashi tossed the bell in his hand, grabbed the outstretched hand with his free right hand, and threw the figure out with one turn.

Naruto and Sasuke were taken aback by this scene, and when they looked at it again, Sakura Haruno had already retreated, with a little white powder on her body, and she was casually playing kunai on her hands.

"It's a pity, it's just a little bit." Kakashi squinted and smiled, the two bells still in his hands.

"Brother Sakura, you ...... Is there a contradiction with this teacher? Naruto asked quietly.

"No, I just wanted to try to grab the bell." Sakura Haruno shook her head and said, "When the teacher just said 'start now', she could already grab the bell. ”

Naruto was shocked, and Sasuke on the side was also shocked, and then he also came to his senses that they had missed the best opportunity.

"Then, why use kunai, in case ......," Naruto said hesitantly.

"What the teacher says, you can use any means." Sakura Haruno said with a smile.

"That's right, Sakura did it no problem, I did say that it could be done by any means." Kakashi said with a smile as he pulled out another alarm clock and put it on a stake to the side.

"It's until eleven o'clock at noon, let the horses come."

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