Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

"Grandpa Hokage is too strict," he grumbled. "Saying we shouldn't treat being a ninja as child's play, and that if you're not a formal ninja, you can't execute real ninja missions, just E or F rank missions from the ninja academy. It's ridiculous."

"And then, he even said he's going to limit our use of Ninjutsu!"

"That's just restricting my power!"

As Naruto left the Hokage's building, he kept complaining. Seeing Sakura's indifferent expression, he couldn't help but ask, "Sakura, aren't you angry?"

"Angry, why should I be angry?"

Sakura retorted, "We're still kids, we should enjoy a child's life. Plus, doing E or F rank missions can make people in the village take us more seriously."

"Besides, didn't your reputation gradually improve because you often helped the orphans with supplies?"

"Stop complaining. 'Without taking the first step, you can't cover a thousand miles; without gathering small streams, there can be no seas or rivers.' Our powers might not but a tad inferior to a jounin, and might even not be far from the Hokage's, but we lack experience, and our thoughts are somewhat naïve."

Naruto pouted, "What do you mean? I'm super smart."

"Don't gloat. The more knowledge a person has, the more superior they might feel, but knowledge does not equate to wisdom. Being able to apply what's learned from books flexibly to all aspects of life, that is wisdom," Sakura said disparagingly, glancing at Naruto with his 1.6 meter stature still acting like a child, "No matter how you look at it, you're still just a kiddo."

"Nonsense!" Naruto's face flushed, "It's just my nature!"

"Uh-huh, you're right," Sakura covered her mouth, no longer arguing with Naruto, lest their conversation deviate to who knows what topic—Naruto really is quite like a little kid.

When they returned to the training ground, the sparring between Uchiha Sasuke and Akimichi Choji had ended, with Sasuke's bruised and swollen face indicating his defeat.

"Damn, I lost again!" Sasuke cursed silently, not understanding why he, a member of the Uchiha clan, lost so miserably.

Sharingan!

Sasuke thought of a reason.

It must be because he hadn't awakened the Sharingan yet. Once he did, he was sure to become number one at the ninja academy!

"Sasuke lost again, huh," Naruto glanced at Sasuke's bruised face, feeling a bit like laughing yet also a twinge of sympathy, his feelings a bit conflicted.

"You seem really concerned about Sasuke?" Sakura's voice suddenly rang out, startling Naruto.

"I'm not!"

"I don't!"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Naruto quickly went into a triple denial, trying to distance himself from any relationship with Sasuke, but seeing the clarity in Sakura's eyes, he felt a bit downhearted, "Okay, yeah, maybe a little. I don't know why, but I feel like I want to protect him, like... like he's my little brother."

"Maybe it's because you always wanted to surpass him, and now that you've grown physically faster than he has, you've developed a feeling similar to that of an older brother wanting to protect his younger brother," Sakura suggested.

"Probably," Naruto nodded, thinking it was possible.

But—

"Master, what exactly is the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke?" Sakura instinctively sensed two distinct chakras within both Naruto and Sasuke's Chakra seeds, as if they possessed their own wills, yet somehow they also influenced both of their personalities in the background.

Of course, a person's personality is related to their life experiences, but the presence of these two types of chakra seemed to guide how they responded to those experiences—towards a certain absolute will.

It's not to say that this was bad.

Sakura could see that the quality of these two chakras were extremely high, second only to hers. If Naruto and Sasuke could fully inherit them and replace the wills within with their own, then their future achievements would surpass the vast majority of ninjas.

Otherwise, once they fully grew, they might only be able to tap into these chakras, never truly controlling them. First publishеd оn М|V|L!ЕМРYR.

"A brotherly bond," was Sun Wukong's response.

Sun Wukong would not provide direct answers to Sakura's various life questions, as they were tied to her own personal growth, the formation of her will, and the forging of her dreams.

True strength is built from the ordinary aspects of life, creating a strong spirit.

But the affairs of the Otsutsuki clan weren't quite so important to him, so he would not be stingy with information if Sakura inquired.

"Brothers?" Sakura immediately realized that the chakras within Naruto and Sasuke came from individuals who were brothers in a past life.

But no matter how she looked at it, their relationship seemed more complex than just brotherhood.

"Their ideals were different, so even though they were brothers, their chakras persisted after death, continuously causing entanglements and cycling through reincarnation," Sun Wukong's voice had a bit of heft, and Sakura could feel the depth of the two men's grievances.

"Does that mean they'll ultimately become enemies?" Sakura asked, a bit worried.

"Destiny can be changed, Naruto and Sasuke are not ultimately Asura and Indra; at most, they just have different views when facing life's choices, but it is not absolute," Sun Wukong said indifferently. "They possess souls of their own."

"Can you help them modify the wills within those two strands of Chakra?" Sakura asked.

"My existence must not yet be revealed."

The unspoken implication—

No.

"However, you don't need to worry about anything. In the future, once you've grown to a certain stage, you will naturally be able to modify their Chakra wills according to your thoughts," Sun Wukong comforted her.

"Looks like I need to put in more effort."

Sakura immediately felt energized, encouraging herself.

With the practical training classes over, the ninja school was dismissed, and Haruno Sakura, Naruto, and others said their farewells before returning to their own mushroom houses. She created a clone to help her mother sell mushrooms, while her main body headed to the underground laboratory to start cultivating new strains of fungi.

Summoning a hint of red shadow in her hand, Sakura sliced off a small piece and placed it in a miniature petri dish along with Lingzhi spores, then she placed it inside a transparent glass cabinet.

Within it, there were already thousands of such Sakura-shaped petri dishes, some already sprouting strange mycelium, spiraling in pattern, with clusters of small pink mushrooms tightly pressed against the round dishes, looking very cute.

Sakura took out the petri dish with the pink mushrooms, covered her hands with red shadow, plucked the small pink mushrooms one by one, then the white red shadow absorbed them, recording their information.

These pink mushrooms could emit spores that absorbed Chakra.

When the spores, invisible to the naked eye, landed inside the human body and were stimulated by Chakra, they could grow rapidly, absorb Chakra, and transfer it to Sakura.

Once recorded by the red shadow, it could decompose such spores on its own to absorb the enemy's Chakra, and the mushrooms that grew afterward would explode.

Therefore, this kind of spore was called by Sakura as explosive spores, and the mushrooms that grew from them were thus bomb mushrooms.

Although they had a cute pink appearance, they represented destruction.

"It's a pity these mushrooms can only absorb Chakra and cannot be used for consumption." Sakura felt that the cultivation of this kind of mushroom was somewhat a failure, for what she hoped to cultivate were varieties that could decompose the absorbed enemy's Chakra into the most basic spirit and physical energy for people to absorb and recover.

Humans could refine physical and spirit energy into Chakra, and when not in use, Chakra would revert back into these two forms, returning to the body.

However, using Chakra to execute Ninjutsu meant it could not be decomposed again, which was very troublesome.

Because the destructive power of Ninjutsu on the terrain was a bit too much.

Sakura felt that if she could thoroughly research the specific principles of the condensation and decomposition of Chakra within the human body, she could apply it to combat—

Just like Naruto's Multiple Rasengan earlier, which had tremendous power. If Naruto hadn't pushed it high into the sky, Konoha Village might have been destroyed.

And if the Chakra within it could be decomposed, then no matter how great the initial energy, it would not be able to harm Konoha in any way.

Originally, Sakura wanted to create a technique to absorb Chakra first, but she found that her body could not absorb the Chakra from others' Ninjutsu releases.

Mainly because she lacked the corresponding organs for absorption.

Her own Chakra was easy to control, like waving an arm, quite convenient, but not that of others. If absorbed, it would conflict with her own Chakra.

Sakura understood that this was because her Chakra belonged only to herself while the ultimate control over other people's Chakra lay with another individual.

Once the two came into contact, conflict would naturally occur.

Although a small amount of another's Chakra entering Sakura's body would be devoured and absorbed by her Chakra, if the amount was large, it would be very troublesome.

Not to mention, without the right organs to absorb Chakra, how to instantly absorb a large amount of external Chakra was also a huge problem.

Therefore, Sakura placed the stage of absorbing Chakra onto the red shadow while the means to absorb the enemy's Chakra was to use fungal spores, which normal ninja could not see.

Fungi, organisms that have both animal and plant characteristics, are really quite peculiar—they do not evolve as slowly as other organisms.

As long as they were injected with Chakra and given various different environments to thrive in with massive selection, they could evolve quickly into the fungi types Sakura desired.

Of course, the specific functions of the cultivated fungi would still need to be experimentally tested by Sakura.

If they truly met the effects desired by Sakura, then they could be displayed openly in Konoha Village, but if they had side effects, they would have to remain forever within the information recorded by the red shadow.

Perhaps, in the future when confronting other ninja villages, they could be used on the enemies during the battle.

The explosive spores were just such an example.