Naruto: Reborn as Boruto Uzumaki
Chapter 40

Perfect Jinchuriki?

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In the darkness, oil lamps burned brightly one after another. Their light was not strong, but it was enough for the groggy Sarada to make out the enormous thing before her.

The massive silhouette standing before her was the Seven-Tails—Chomei, trapped within a red barred cage!

"Human girl, it seems you are not allied with that Uchiha." Part of Chomei's Chakra spilled from its towering body, intimidating Sarada.

Sarada's mind was dizzy at first, and she could not figure out the situation for a long time. She thought she was having a nightmare, that Chomei, whom she had captured in the dream, had come to take revenge on her.

It seemed that was indeed what was happening now, but restrained by the seal, it could not effectively harm Sarada either.

"You are... Strange, how did I get here?"

Sarada pinched her arm in confusion. The faint sting only made her more bewildered. Facing the sinister giant before her, she could feel an uncontrollable fury and killing intent emanating from it.

"You do not even know what you did? Or are you simply playing dumb?!" Chomei was slightly impatient. More Chakra overflowed from the cage, pressing down on Sarada until she could barely breathe.

Sarada was forced back step by step by the gloomy Chakra. This was her mindscape; logically, she should not have been this helpless.

Very good, Chomei thought to itself.

For some reason, she had argued with that powerful masked man. Their separation made Chomei think it had found an opportunity. It had to take over the owner of this body and send out its location.

It believed Naruto would come to rescue it once he received the message.

"You are... the Seven-Tails?!" Sarada finally realized it after being dumbfounded for so long.

But why? Could Tailed Beasts enter people's dreams too?

"So you finally understand, hateful Uchiha!"

The Seven-Tails shouted sharply. More Chakra tried to break through the cage, but at the crucial moment, it was suppressed by the sealing technique and had no choice but to retreat and withdraw it.

Seeing this, Sarada, whose heart had been in turmoil, calmed down. She guessed this was some kind of seal. Had the White-Robed Man given the Tailed Beast to her?

Once she understood the reason, she was no longer so bewildered when facing the Seven-Tails. The pattern of her Mangekyō appeared clearly as she stared unflinchingly at the huge figure.

"I do not care how you got inside my body, but I cannot tolerate you insulting my clan!" Sarada said coldly.

"Clan? Heh heh, the Uchiha have never been anything good." Chomei refused to back down.

It had already been sealed anyway. Its future was easy to imagine: it would be treated as a "charging bank," its Chakra drained by its host.

"You!!" Sarada glared furiously at the Seven-Tails, but there was nothing she could do to it!

Her dojutsu could only keep her alive; it had no offensive power whatsoever. Facing the Seven-Tails before her, she could not help recalling the scene of it bombarding everything with Tailed Beast Balls.

"..." Sarada sighed, turned around, and stopped paying attention to Chomei as she studied how to leave by herself.

When Chomei saw that she had not subjected it to torture, it froze. Then it recalled how she had blocked the Tailed Beast Ball with her body and could not help wondering whether her ability was related to defense.

"An Uchiha fledgling?" Chomei murmured softly as it watched her leave.

Outside, the sleeping Sarada suddenly opened her eyes, as though she had just awakened from a nightmare.

The surroundings were silent. The chirping of insects played at her ears, while scattered sparks flickered in the pitch-black room.

Sarada sat there blankly for a moment before realizing that she might really have been dreaming. The sky was dark now; it should have been late at night.

Through the thin paper door, she could still see the scattered lights outside. The shopping street was bustling—nighttime was a great time to wander the streets too!

Just as Sarada became a little more alert and planned to go outside for some cool air, a faint sound of something slicing through the air suddenly came from nearby.

Someone had used a thrown weapon! Sarada realized instantly.

She identified the direction by sound and sensed that the attack had been thrown at her. The tomoe in her Sharingan spun rapidly, making the darkness a little clearer as kunai pierced through the paper door and shot inside.

Sarada sprang from the bed in panic, then sidestepped to avoid the fatal attack—the kunai had been aimed at her heart.

After creating some distance, Sarada looked up to inspect her surroundings, quickly locking her gaze onto the other side of the paper door.

Her Mangekyō watched warily. Sarada was full of confusion over the sudden attack. If the White-Robed Man had caught up to her, there would have been no need for a kunai ambush.

With his methods, he would probably start with Wood Release, bind her with vines, then follow up with a Big Ball Rasengan...

After waiting for a moment, the other party did not enter through the paper door. Instead, an unusual sound came from behind her, and a mass of blazing fire suddenly erupted, illuminating the surroundings.

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Terrifying heat rushed toward her. With Sarada's reaction speed, she had no time to evade. Left with no choice, she activated the power of her Mangekyō.

—Other Shore!

Flames scorched Sarada's body, rapidly setting her clothes and hair ablaze. The enemy finally jumped down from the ceiling, watching it all with a mocking look of triumph in his eyes.

Sarada strode out of the flames. Fire still burned across her body as she endured the pain of the burns, gripped a kunai heated red-hot by the flames, and charged at the enemy.

"As expected of an evil Uchiha. You are just as ruthless toward yourself!"

The other party offered that simple assessment, then formed hand seals at high speed, but Sarada's eyes caught every movement.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

A water dragon rapidly condensed. Its winding body twisted through the air as it crashed toward Sarada.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Sarada quickly formed hand seals and expelled a signature Great Fireball from her mouth. After her Chakra had increased, the power of this attack had undoubtedly multiplied several times over.

The house was quickly set ablaze. The fireball collided with the water dragon, producing warm steam that immediately blurred their vision.

Her Mangekyō glowed with an eerie red light. That would undoubtedly expose her position within the white mist, but Sarada did not care, because the mist could not block her sight.

Kunai clanged against kunai in the fog like the beat of music, sparks scattering with every resounding collision.

Sarada's taijutsu response was exceptionally clumsy. After only a few exchanges, her body was already covered in wounds, with cuts all over her skin.

Blood spread through the white mist, staining it a rusty crimson. Their vision was severely obstructed, and the opponent's assault gradually slowed.

Like a lost traveler who had lost his target, the red glow of the Mangekyō was obscured by blood, but that did not affect Sarada's perception in the slightest. A new round of clashes began.

Sarada gripped the kunai tightly. Her entire arm was covered in bloody wounds, but strangely, those wounds were constantly healing. Completely unconcerned, she thrust forward with the kunai.

Puff—!!

The enemy's shoulder was pierced. Unlike Sarada's ragged resistance, he possessed terrifying combat experience. The instant he sensed danger closing in, he turned aside without hesitation.

The kunai that should have struck his heart only shallowly pierced his shoulder and lodged in his shoulder blade. He cried out in pain and quickly retreated.

Sarada tried to press her advantage, but an abnormal movement suddenly came from beneath her. The tatami floor split apart, and Sarada, unable to react in time, was forced to fall.

What greeted her was the terrifying attack of another enemy.

"Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!"

As the technique activated, the airflow immediately changed. Countless highly condensed air bullets, like air cannons, shot through the air and struck Sarada as she fell.

Bang—!!

Bloody holes burst open across her body. The intense pain finally made Sarada unable to endure any longer, and she moaned in agony.

She was almost sprawled on the ground, with hardly any part of her body left intact. Though much of her clothing had indeed been shredded, the exposed skin offered no alluring sight, only terrifying bleeding holes!

Yet Sarada was still breathing heavily, as though she had swallowed down all her unwillingness and cries of pain. She struggled to get up, and five figures appeared in her agonized gaze.

They stepped forward, spouting all kinds of ugly words, every one of them insulting her clan. "This is the Uchiha orphan, huh? She actually awakened the legendary Mangekyō. Too bad she is still just a brat."

Someone laughed and sighed. "Luckily she is only a brat. Otherwise, with the terrifying talent of that clan, once she grew up, she would probably become another disaster."

"Now that she has fallen into our hands, let's take her eyes and leave this place." They spoke among themselves as they watched Sarada struggle slowly amid the ruins.

There was no pity in their eyes, only deep hatred and a trace of satisfaction, as though they had avenged some grave blood feud.

Their killing gazes were fixed on Sarada. Even though she had not yet grown up, she had awakened the Mangekyō at such a young age. For the already monstrous talent of the Uchiha, that was undoubtedly heaven-defying.

To be safe, they did not approach. If they had not been afraid that further ninjutsu would blast her into pieces, they would certainly have torn her limb from limb!

So they pulled several kunai from the pouches at their thighs. Like ordinary ninja practice, they threw the kunai into Sarada's back, pinning her to the ground.

"Aaaaahhh—!" Sarada screamed in anguish.

When she had faced the Seven-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball before, it had almost been an instant kill. When it struck Sarada, she had barely felt anything. But now, she could clearly feel herself being injured, even feel blood flowing from her ruined body.

This was undoubtedly torture. For someone with an "immortal" ability like hers, it was even more painful.

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