Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

"He has discovered me?"

Sakura felt a bit puzzled, considering she was high in the sky.

"The Uchiha clan possess the Sharingan, from the one-tomoe to the Eternal Mangekyō, and with each level up, there is a qualitative leap in perceptual abilities. He has already activated the Mangekyō," Sun Wukong's voice rang in Sakura's mind. "It is normal for him to sense the chakra you emit; it would be a big problem if he couldn't."

Sakura nodded and flew toward the Forest of Death, where there were hardly any ninjas, and surveillance equipment was scarce compared to other areas.

"Transformation Technique."

With a clap of her hands, Sakura changed into the appearance of a ninja with white hair and a masked face.

Her true identity must never be exposed.

She didn't recognize the individual, but in the psychic space where they fought, he was as tricky and slippery as the Third Hokage, never confronting her head-on.

Reaching deep into the Forest of Death, Sakura landed on the ground and waited for Itachi Uchiha to arrive.

"Who are you?" Itachi Uchiha, activating his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, coldly stared at Sakura. "Kakashi can't use flying ninjutsu, and the chakra doesn't seem quite right either."

"Is that so, how about this?" The chakra aura emerging from "Kakashi" changed, giving Itachi the impression of Kakashi himself. But this only confirmed to Itachi that the individual before him was definitely not Kakashi.

Everyone knows that Kakashi doesn't have that much chakra!

The amount of chakra was nearly on par with the Nine-Tails!

Back during the Nine-Tails' disturbance, he wasn't on the scene but had seen from afar that Nine-Tails wreaking havoc outside the village, its immense chakra incited a hint of fear in him.

According to rumors, the ninja of the now-extinct Land of Whirlpools used to possess immense chakra, but they had perished. Even if there were survivors, they wouldn't come to Konoha under such circumstances.

Although chakra is key to ninjas for releasing ninjutsu, it isn't the key to victory in ninja duels. The Uzumaki Clan is a prime example.

However, Itachi felt that anyone capable of infiltrating the village must be a powerful individual who could perfectly utilize ninjutsu.

"You are definitely not Kakashi."

"Alright, I am indeed not, but at least I know the name of this persona now," Haruno Sakura shrugged, seemingly indifferent to her cover being blown.

As long as her true identity remains unknown.

The three-tomoe in Itachi's eyes quietly spun, transforming into a shape resembling shuriken—Itachi's Mangekyō Sharingan.

"The Uchiha clan's Mangekyō… I heard it hasn't appeared for a long time, but I am curious about something."

The clear eyes of "Kakashi" revealed a bit of puzzlement, "As it is well known, humans perceive things through light reflection and direct projection, similar to pinhole imaging. But under your Mangekyō state, it seems you have no pupils, do you?"

"Speaking of which, the appearance of the three-tomoe is like having three irregularly shaped pupils. Is it the same with the Mangekyō?"

Itachi's eyes narrowed slightly. "I'm not interested in these details, but you must be one of Orochimaru's people, right? In all of Konoha, only that renegade would be interested in such things."

"Orochimaru?"

Seeing the other party's puzzled expression, Itachi ruled out the possibility of Orochimaru.

And in the instant Sakura was puzzled, Itachi cast an illusion technique, Tsukuyomi.

This Pupil Skill could drag the opponent into a world of illusion created by Itachi.

Days and nights could pass in the Tsukuyomi world, no matter how much time, it was only a moment in the real world.

In the Tsukuyomi world, time, space, and mass were all controlled by Itachi, and no external common sense applied.

However, Itachi found that his common sense no longer applied.

His Tsukuyomi was reversed in an instant, and the psychic space he had molded was taken over by the other party, leaving him unable to move his will.

The roles had been reversed! BroughttoyoubyMV6LEMPY6R.

"Why is this happening?"

"This is clearly the psychic space I created!"

"Why can the other party reverse the roles?"

"Chakra..."

As Itachi pondered how to escape, "Kakashi" approached him, examining him as he stood paralyzed.

"Your taste really isn't that great. This place is all dark red, not beautiful at all." Saying this, "Kakashi" snapped his fingers, and Itachi found he could speak again.

"Are you a girl?"

"Hmm?" Sakura blinked, then laughed, "As a ninja, you are very qualified."

Itachi was silent for a while, then tentatively asked, "Can you tell me why you are able to control the illusionary world I wove? It should only be under the control of my spirit power."

"Do you know what the essence of chakra is?" Sakura asked.

"The combination of physical energy and spiritual energy," Itachi replied without hesitation.

"But does the chakra really belong to you?" In Itachi's eyes, the figure before him, Kakashi, extracted a strand of his chakra, then constantly enlarged it, split it, and eventually, a white chakra seed appeared in front of him, within which was a figure all in white with horns on its head, possessing a pair of Byakugan and a Mangekyō Sharingan on its forehead with a purple mark resembling the Tsukuyomi filled with nine tomoe.

"What is this?!"

The moment he saw this woman, Itachi felt a surge of terror.

"Is there a problem with the chakra?"

"All the chakra on this planet has an extremely subtle connection to this woman. When ninjas extract chakra, they are essentially extracting it for her," Sakura kindly explained to Uchiha Itachi. "However, this person may have already perished, which is why ninjas are able to utilize chakra."

"But chakra, refined from their own physical and spiritual energies by ninjas, also requires hand seals to control because it is incredibly unruly; the reason being that the first authority over chakra still resides in this woman's hands."

"While your control over chakra is like having the second or third level of authority, limited only to its usage."

"You should know about computers, right? Some files are stored on them and ordinary personnel can only access certain parts, but the more authority one has, the more content one can access from the files."

Uchiha Itachi fell silent; he didn't fully believe this, but Sakura's explanation was easy to understand, and he initially felt chakra was indeed difficult to control when he first refined it.

Likewise, as he adapted, got used to it, and became skilled, he thought nothing of it.

But now that he thought about it, why couldn't he control it proficiently when it was energy refined from his own body, especially since his own spiritual power was evidently part of the chakra?

Chakra should be like his own limbs, easily manipulated by him, and because it contains spiritual power, it should be even easier to use without requiring the nervous system to transmit information like the limbs do.

Yet chakra was not like that.

The explanation from Kakashi before him indeed enlightened him somewhat.

"So, is your chakra different?" Uchiha Itachi asked the crucial question.

"Of course, I have already replaced the will inside the chakra seed with my own will," Sakura revealed, adding with a sigh, "Do you know what this means?"

"What?"

"Chakra is a combination of material and will; whoever dominates the will within becomes the master of the chakra, and even if they die in the future, as long as there are people using the chakra I passed on, I will someday be resurrected. In a sense, this counts as immortality."

Itachi thought of many things, such as whether most of the living beings' chakra now carrying this woman's intentional imprint means she could resurrect as soon as certain conditions are met?

Unknowingly, Itachi had gradually begun to believe the person before him.

"So, what exactly is your purpose?" Uchiha Itachi asked. "Did you come to recruit me because you knew I had just awakened my Sharingan, to explore the truth of chakra?"

His Mangekyō Sharingan had just awakened recently due to someone's death, and he hadn't disclosed it to anyone, including his father.

How did this person know?

Could such an organization even exist in the ninja world?

That's terrifying!

Perhaps he could join, to fully explore the depth of this organization and then report back to Konoha.

"No, I've only just learned that you had awakened your Mangekyō recently," Sakura spoke in a tongue-twisting manner, seeing Itachi's stern face, she lost interest and guessed what this meticulous young man was thinking, she then said, "Yes, I am here to recruit you."

"As I thought!" Uchiha Itachi nodded. "I agree, but I don't know the name of your organization or where it's based?"

"Hey, hey, hey, aren't you being too straightforward?" Sakura weakly retorted. Does this guy not realize he's being "captured"? But since she really didn't have an organization, she casually said, "The organization I belong to is called Red, and it's based in Konoha, I bet you would've never guessed that!"

"Konoha!"

Given his prior notions, Sakura, who managed to turn the tables in his Tsukuyomi, creating the image of a master, would seemingly not stoop to lie.

But if what she said was true, wouldn't that mean Konoha has been infiltrated by this Red organization?

Even by someone close to the Hokage, there might be a member of this Red organization!

So—

After joining the Red organization, he could not reveal his identity to the Third Hokage. He must rely on himself alone to identify all the members of the Red organization within Konoha, then, with his own strength, turn the tide!

At this moment, nearly thirteen-year-old Uchiha Itachi felt immense pressure, as well as a sense of mission to contribute to Konoha!

[Konoha! I shall be the one to save you!]

Even if the truth about chakra told to him by this person was factual, it didn't require someone who couldn't fully reveal himself to resolve it.

"So, what's the purpose of our organization?"

"To save the world!"

Haruno Sakura blurted out, internally chuckling: Why does this guy ask so many questions? She was just trying to see if she could avoid a fight through words alone.

After all, if things got too loud, it might draw other ninjas from Konoha to her, and she would then have a hard time escaping.