Warm-up

A dark red, viscous liquid clung to the chilling, crystalline skeleton of ice.

It wriggled, filling out its body outside the icy skeleton.

Gradually, it formed a gigantic body, hundreds of meters tall!

"Senjutsu: Giant God Warrior!"

"Hmph... Finally finished."

The pink-haired girl let out a soft sigh of relief.

While Danzo was using his Summoning Technique, Sakura Haruno finally unleashed her own Ninjutsu—

A frost giant with a skeleton of high-strength ice and flesh and blood of strange fluids!

"What... what kind of Ninjutsu is this?"

Karin held her breath and said blankly.

The sheer size of the giants brought an unparalleled sense of oppression; even looking up, one couldn't see the entirety of these hundreds-of-meters-tall figures from this distance, only their massive bodies looming over the battlefield, casting long shadows on the ground...

Compared to the ice giant, the ferocious summoning beasts summoned by Danzo seemed like docile cats lying at the giant's feet!

"..." Sasuke was also paying close attention to the battle, fell silent.

He stood beside the red-haired girl, staring intently at Sakura Haruno, who was using Ninjutsu on the field.

So strong...

Although I'm reluctant to admit it, she is indeed very strong, far exceeding my own strength.

Is this person really Sakura Haruno?

Sasuke suddenly began to doubt his own memories. How could the frail, timid, and tearful girl he remembered be the same person as the graceful and elegant Sakura Haruno standing before him?

Of everyone present, only Danzo unimpressed, letting out a dismissive snort, "A mere trick, nothing but an empty show to scare people!"

In the entire Shinobi World, apart from the Susanoo of the Mangekyō Sharingan: Wood Human Technique of the First Hokage, what other giant humanoid Ninjutsu can be considered truly remarkable?

"Whether it's just an empty shell or not, try it and you'll know!"

Sakura Haruno stood on the giant's shoulders, looking down at Danzo below the arena, and said coldly.

As he spoke, the red giant suddenly raised his hand.

Boom!

A gigantic hand slammed violently into the ground!

The earth shook violently. The giant hand slammed down on the ground, as if the earth had collapsed and a huge, shallow crater had appeared in the ground!

Danzo's eyes narrowed. His reaction and speed were no slower than the young man's. He exerted force in his waist and twisted sharply, leaping out from between the giant's fingers in the blink of an eye, barely dodging Sakura Haruno's attack.

Danzo's Danzo beast wasn't so agile: it clumsily rolled around on the ground a few times, trying to dodge the large hand that descended from above, but was instead firmly grasped and pinned to the ground!

The giant beast that Danzo summoned was quite powerful and could be considered one of Danzo's trump cards. However, it was easily chased by the giant and was locked in the grip of the giant, unable to move as if it were locked in an iron clamp. It immediately let out a shrill, high-pitched cry that echoed through the sky!

"Awooooo--!"

The giant beast was pinned to the ground by the giant controlled by the girl. It paddled its limbs frantically, struggling to break free from Sakura Haruno's grip, but could only futilely create several deep mud puddles beneath it before falling silent again!

"Die..."

The pink-haired girl, standing high on the giant's shoulders, parted her crimson lips slightly and extended her right hand.

Then, the girl's open palm suddenly clenched into a fist.

BOOM!

The giant suddenly clenched his right hand!

Danzo's face twitched suddenly.

Black blood spurted from the giant's palm, splattering onto the girl's flawless face, leaving bloodstains.

Sakura Haruno gently wiped away the Kekkei Genkai that was flowing down her cheek, and glanced indifferently at Danzo, who was hiding to the side with a grim expression.

"Don't rush... it'll be your turn soon!"

Shimura Danzō silent.

His expression was so gloomy it seemed like water could drip from it.

His chest was still heaving; the intense battle had taken a toll on the old man's body!

The exhausted body, aching muscles, and wildly beating heart were all protesting Danzo's rough treatment of them!

However, Sakura Haruno will not give him a chance to catch his breath.

The girl deftly Hand Seals, manipulating the ice giant to launch a relentless attack!

Swish! Swish!

Danzo his physical exhaustion, Danzo forced himself to rise higher and dodge the ice giant's two punches; the latter's fists slammed into the ground, sending pebbles and dust flying everywhere, leaving several long, bloody scratches on the old man's face.

Whew! Whew!

Danzo's breathing was as heavy as a broken bellows.

The ice giant swung his fist for the third time. Before the fist even arrived, the sharp wind from the punch already stung Danzo's cheek. Danzo his strength and tried to jump up, but his legs buckled and he stumbled!

Boom!

A pool of blood flowed from beneath the giant's fist.

The next moment, Danzo over and got up, his wounds disappeared, and his panting breathing returned to normal.

Only a single bead of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"You've come back to life again." Sakura Haruno looked down at him and said calmly, "So... how many more times can you come back to life?"

Danzo glanced at his right hand, which had closed one of its Sharingan again, and remained silent.

My heart is ice-cold!

"Danzo is completely helpless... Although he manages to revive unscathed each time, this kind of resurrection obviously cannot continue indefinitely..."

Karin murmured.

"Yes, he's going to lose." Sasuke said coldly, his face grim. "Danzo's only chance of winning is to stall for time and wait for Sakura Haruno to tire herself out... The amount of Chakra consumed to manipulate Ninjutsu of this scale must be terrifying!"

"Wait... That's strange. When Sakura Haruno manipulates this technique, she doesn't seem to need much Chakra to unleash such formidable combat power...!" Karin exclaimed in surprise, straining to sense Sakura Haruno's Chakra. "She only used a fraction of her Chakra!"

"This technique... there's definitely something wrong with it!" The red-haired girl pushed up her glasses and analyzed with certainty!

Sakura Haruno's technique has a very simple secret--

She used non-Newtonian fluids to construct the giant.

The term "non-Newtonian fluid" refers to a liquid that does not conform to Newton's law of viscosity—well, that's all Sakura Haruno remembers about this stuff; as for the formula? She didn't even understand it when she was a student.

So there's no need to make it so mysterious, because... in fact, any suspension is considered a non-Newtonian liquid; some of them possess very practical properties.

For example, dough.

So soft that it can be kneaded at will.

However, if you punch it hard, it will become harder than a rock—this is the characteristic of non-Newtonian fluids: the stronger and faster the pressure and velocity, the higher the viscosity, and the harder the liquid becomes, just like a solid.

In the past, there were even rumors that non-Newtonian fluid bulletproof vests had been developed.

--Sakura Haruno, of course, didn't believe it.

This thing isn't that powerful.

Without a sufficiently large volume, even a carefully prepared non-Newtonian fluid cannot solidify and exhibit strong defensive capabilities.

So until she mastered Sage Mode, Sakura Haruno never considered incorporating this interesting fluid into her Ninjutsu —because only super-large-scale Ninjutsu could bring out its properties of being both soft and hard!

For example, the giant standing at Sakura Haruno's feet, which she calls "Giant God Warrior".

The giant humanoid Ninjutsu either Susanoo to condense Chakra into a physical form for combat, or it brings inanimate, lifeless objects such as water, earth, and wood into human form and forcibly maintains their vitality with Chakra.

The former can only be used by the Uchiha Clan, while the latter can only be used Hashirama will by powerful individuals like Chakra.

Sakura Haruno's Ninjutsu is different.

Thanks to this property of non-Newtonian fluids, the Giant God Warrior can not only use its body flexibly, but also has extremely strong defensive capabilities—the faster and more powerful the enemy's attack, the tougher it becomes.

Both in terms of the difficulty of execution and the burden on Chakra, it is quite economical!

Meanwhile, a new round of fighting had already begun off the field.

Still unable to devise Danzo to break the deadlock, Danzo began a new round of desperate evasion!

"It seems this isn't the fake show Danzo imagined..." Obito, who had been sitting leisurely watching the show, gradually became serious.

The ice giant's enormous size was enough to make even the well-traveled man take notice.

More importantly, despite its enormous size, it possesses agile movements and its Chakra consumption doesn't seem particularly intense...

"However, it's strange that Sakura Haruno could have defeated Danzo using other Ninjutsu, so why did she choose this one?"

It's important to know that even the "less strenuous" Giant God Warrior consumes far more stamina than a regular Water Release technique!

Wind Blade Torrent and Monstrous Strength Technique, among others, could also instantly Danzo, right?

The cold, eerie Mitsudomoe beneath Obito's mask gazed at Sakura Haruno, meeting the girl's bright, piercing eyes for a moment.

In an instant, he seemed to realize something—

"This move... was specifically designed to counter me!"

"Using it to kill Danzo was merely a warm-up..."

[Only one update today. I'll try to update more tomorrow to make up for it.]