Chapter 263: Only True Love’s Kiss Can Wake Up a Sleeping Beauty
"I barely got out of there with my life," said Tenten shakily. "This is all my fault, I should have known the Akatsuki might pull something like this…"
Tenten was in a state of turmoil.
How could everything have gone so wrong? Even in her own time, there'd been little information about the Akatsuki's earliest captures— which was why she'd been counting on keeping Fū safe, in hopes of preventing the future she remembered from ever coming to pass. Fū was the only Jinchūriki whose capture Tenten knew the exact timing of, after all.
But even with the advantage of foresight, she'd managed to fumble her plan to prevent the revival of the Ten-Tails by depriving it of the Seven-Tails. Or perhaps, it was because of her overreliance on future knowledge that she had failed— she'd been expecting the Immortal Duo, not the Strongest Duo.
"It's pointless, Sakura," said Tenten, sighing as she watched the pink-haired girl perform CPR on Fū's corpse. "Once a Jinchūriki has their Bijū extracted, there's no saving them."
The longer a Bijū remained sealed within its Jinchūriki, the more its chakra would seep through its binding seal, gradually entwining itself with the human's chakra pathway network— until the two were inextricably linked, virtually indistinguishable from one another. Extracting a Bijū from its host inevitably meant tearing away the whole of their chakra along with it, leaving behind no energy to sustain even the body's most vital functions.
Once a Tailed Beast was extracted, not even an emergency transfer of chakra would be enough to save its Jinchūriki— nothing short of a self-sacrificial Reincarnation Ninjutsu would work, as their chakra pathways would inevitably end up severely damaged during the extraction process. No matter how much chakra was given, it would not be able to reach the cells it needed to fuel…
"Come on, live!" said Sakura desperately, slamming down her fists on Fū's flattened chest. "Didn't you want to make one hundred friends? Are you just going to give up like this?"
If Sakura hit her any harder, she would shatter her patient's ribcage.
"Finger Chidori!"
Lightning Chakra danced between her fingers, coalescing at the tip of her index. With her free hand, she tore off Fū's skimpy top. She then pressed her charged finger to Fū's chest— and released a jolt of electricity. Fū's back arched as the current surged through her, then slackened, and once again, her corpse lay still.
"There has to be something I can do," Sakura mumbled to herself feverishly. "Think, Sakura, think…"
Short of giving up her everything or putting Chōmei the Seven-Tails back inside Fū, Sakura couldn't think of a single Medical Ninjutsu that might be able to save Fū's life— and that's when it hit her.
How had Killer Bee survived having the Eight-Tails extracted out of him, again?
Wasting no time, Sakura closed her eyes and settled into the lotus position before Fū's body, slipping into the Breast Meditation state. She turned her gaze inwards, to where dozens of colourful, floating lights shimmered in the darkness of her inner world— and in a flash, she was floating among them, naked as the day she was born.
"What is she doing?" asked Sasuke, turning to Tenten.
"I don't know," Tenten answered truthfully.
Two particularly powerful flames burned brighter than the smaller lights surrounding them. One blazed in azure, trailing two flickering tails— an echo of Matatabi's blue fire. The other glowed green like a ball of St Elmo's fire, its seven writhing appendages pulsing oddly— an imprint of Chōmei's sticky chakra. Swallowing her disgust, Sakura touched the green blob of the green witchfire with the tip of her finger.
'Unlucky…'
Perhaps it was only her imagination, but Sakura could have sworn she'd just heard a voice.
'System,' said Inner Sakura. 'Can you unseal the Seven-Tails' chakra? I haven't mastered Breast Flow yet, so I'm going to have to rely on you.'
[Warning! Removing a Tailed Beast from a Jinchūriki always results in death. However, as the current Host has yet to absorb a significant amount of the Seven-Tails' chakra, and given that only eight days have passed, full extraction should not be fatal.
…Calculating…
The Host will suffer severe backlash. In addition, Tailed Breast Mode will be automatically disabled until the Host reabsorbs Breast Chakra from a female Jinchūriki.]
[Proceed? (Y/N)]
Sakura hadn't even entered Tailed Breast Mode yet, and already she was being asked to sacrifice her trump card— before she'd had so much as a single chance to savour unlimited power. Still, the choice was easy to make. If she saved Fū now, she could always harvest her again later— once she'd filled out a bit more. It was a win-win situation, if you looked at it this way!
Sakura's eyes flew open.
"What is it?" said Tenten, slightly startled.
A thick, slimy lump of chakra was worming up Sakura's airways— freed from its womanly prison, Chōmei's chakra was attempting to escape straight up her throat! In a flash, Sakura leaned forwards and pressed her lips against Fū's, kissing her deeply.
"What the—!?"
For half an instant, Tenten and Sasuke were too shocked to move. Of all things, necrophilia was the last they'd expected from the village's youngest medical genius, and yet… they could clearly that her treatment was working. They could see Fū's tanned cheeks regaining colour— her ashen complexion was fading, replaced by a growing flush of rosy warmth.
The return of the Seven-Tails' chakra was working— the hole in Fū's chakra pathways was plugged up, allowing her body to begin the healing process!
Only True Love's kiss can wake up a Sleeping Beauty!?
"Stop her, Sasuke!" shouted Tenten in horror, as Sakura collapsed on top of Fū. "She's using a self-sacrificial Kinjutsu to heal her!"
Tenten just couldn't understand what could have driven Sakura to do such a thing for a friend she'd met a week ago. Even though this strange version of the Sakura she remembered was her enemy's (?) wife and kept accidentally interfering with her plans, she didn't want her to die!
"I'm fine!" gasped Sakura, struggling weakly as Sasuke attempted to pull her away from her patient. "See, I'm already getting better…"
For a second there, Sakura had seen her life flashing before her eyes. When the Seven-Tails had left her body, it had also taken every last joule of energy from her cells along with it. No stamina meant no chakra, and no chakra meant death. Luckily for her, she had plenty of chakra saved up in her Yin Seal…
"Ngh…!" gasped Sakura. "So tight!"
"Sakura!" shouted Sasuke, his concern evident in his eyes. "What's wrong—"
Sasuke's voice trailed off.
Sakura's dress was taut across her breasts, straining to keep her orbs contained as its red fabric stretched thinner and thinner until it was nearly see-through. Her heavy chest was swelling rapidly, flushed flesh spilling out and over the edges of her zip. Visibly aroused by her predicament, Sakura's thin nipples made sharp dents in the thinning fabric as they grew twice as large.
Tenten and Sasuke could only gape in shock. Sakura's breasts were so large that they were at loss for words. Each larger than her head, they hung down to her belly button in beautiful teardrop shapes…
"Yin Seal's empty," said Sakura, smiling weakly. "Can't keep up my Transformation Jutsu…"
After getting a little carried away with the skinship while demonstrating Breast Polishing to the Sand Kunoichi at the baths last week, Sakura's chest had been restored to its former glory. Her new 32N-cups matched the volume of her old 30O-cups— her largest size so far, which she'd attained after nicking Samui's heavy hangers!
To keep them at a manageable size and to keep anyone from noticing her rapid growth, Sakura had used Tsunade's permanent version of the Transformation Jutsu to reduce herself to the size she'd entered the Land of Wind with, but after using all 120KK of chakra stored in her Yin Seal to restore herself, she'd been left with nothing.
Essentially, when Tsunade's Yin Seal ran out, she'd grow old again… but when Sakura ran out of chakra, she'd grow even bustier!