After Might Guy and Tenzo thoughtfully "took care" of Kakashi, they were about to leave.
Just as Tenzo pulled the door open, they bumped into two people standing in the hallway.
"Eh? Aren't you two Lady Tsunade's disciples? Are you here to treat Kakashi-senpai?" Tenzo asked, overjoyed to see Sakura and Ino.
He quickly ushered them inside.
"Oh my..."
After stepping into the room, Sakura and Ino froze dead in their tracks.
They saw Kakashi lying limp on the bed.
A thick, viscous white fluid was overflowing from under his mask and dripping down his chin.
His expression was twisted in sheer, unadulterated agony, with fresh tears streaming from the corners of his closed eyes...
"Oh, sorry. Almost forgot about this."
Tenzo suddenly remembered something.
He casually reached under the blanket and pulled Kakashi's pants back up.
He had completely forgotten to pull them back up after checking if Kakashi had shit himself earlier.
"..."
"..."
Sakura and Ino exchanged a slow, horrified glance.
They could see the exact same deeply degenerate thought flashing in each other's eyes.
'Kakashi-sensei... has way too many complicated 'bonds' with his male friends.'
"Kakashi has been unconscious all day," Guy explained loudly, picking up a tissue to gently wipe the white fluid overflowing from Kakashi's mask.
"To prevent malnutrition, we gave him some milk... and similar things."
"Don't worry... leave him to us." Sakura's voice trembled slightly as she and Ino stepped back.
True to being good sisters, their internal monologues remained in perfect, horrified sync.
'If you're worried about malnutrition, WHY NOT JUST USE AN IV DRIP?! Why force 'milk' through his mouth?! And if it's just milk, why specify 'and similar things'?! AND WHY WERE HIS PANTS DOWN?!'
'The adult ninja world was just too sinful!'
Sakura and Ino helplessly facepalmed, trying to scrub the cursed imagery from their pure teenage minds.
"Huh? Was there a fight outside earlier? What happened to your hands?" Guy suddenly noticed the dark red blood splattered across the girls' knuckles and forearms, looking startled.
Had he missed another glorious battle to protect Konoha?!
"No, no," Ino quickly waved her hands. "We were entrusted by Lady Tsunade to guard the Hokage Building with Shizune-senpai. Earlier, one of Danzo's subordinates came causing trouble, so we..."
"So you fought a bloody, desperate battle and defeated the enemy?! Not bad! The younger generation of the Leaf is overflowing with Youth too!" Guy gave them a dazzling, toothy thumbs-up.
Danzo's subordinate at the Hokage Building? That must be the kid who ran away earlier when they ambushed Danzo.
After giving some brief medical instructions, Tenzo and Guy left the room.
Sakura and Ino breathed massive sighs of relief.
They did indeed fight Danzo's subordinate, but it absolutely wasn't some "bloody, desperate battle" to protect the Hokage Building.
Regardless of the girls' current strength, Shizune was a highly skilled Jonin.
Since they were on defense, setting traps was only natural.
After all, Tsunade had ordered that no unauthorized personnel were allowed to enter the Hokage Building today—anyone who approached was a hostile.
Thus, the moment Sai strolled into the Hokage Building, he was marked as an enemy.
And he truly acted like one.
As a member of Root, Sai was not only a skilled assassin but also highly knowledgeable about poisons.
Unfortunately for him, he was walking into a building guarded by the disciples of Tsunade, the literal God of Medical Ninjutsu.
Sai was hit with a localized airborne paralyzing toxin without even realizing it.
Upon seeing the three women blocking the Hokage's office, Sai took out his brush and spoke with complete, socially-inept honesty.
"Three ugly women... could you please step aside? I'm here under Lord Danzo's orders..."
Three.
Ugly.
Women!
He was already an enemy, and he dared to provoke them like this?!
Tsunade, as well as the disciples she took in, all shared one common trait: extreme, poorly-hidden violent tendencies.
Hearing this, all restraint evaporated.
Shizune stepped forward first, using a precise Chakra Scalpel dash to cleanly slice Sai's brush in half.
Sakura and Ino had only recently begun training under Tsunade and hadn't fully mastered the super strength yet.
However, their physical strength and combat coordination were already highly lethal.
When they were sent to the hot springs to give Makoto a massage weeks ago, Makoto had given them a small piece of combat advice.
This advice not only improved their raw output but also deepened their sisterly bond, requiring extreme synchronization.
Control was the foundation of Medical Ninjutsu, while coordination required the gradual blending of emotions over time.
That's right.
The technique Makoto taught them was the Super-Strength Medical version of the Raikage's signature move: The Double Lariat.
The moment Shizune cut the brush, Sakura and Ino vanished, reappearing on either side of Sai.
They charged forward simultaneously, their chakra-enhanced arms clotheslining him from both directions.
CRACK!
Under the devastating, synchronized force of the Super Strength Double Lariat, Sai let out a rare scream as his collarbone and painting arm were shattered instantly.
While he was down, the girls went for the overkill.
The three women surrounded the paralyzed Root assassin and began relentlessly jumping him, raining down punches and kicks.
"Stop resisting!"
Stomp.
"Who's ugly?!"
Kick.
But they were Medical Ninja so they still spared his life, intending to hand him over to Morino Ibiki for interrogation.
After finishing the beatdown, they healed his critical injuries, then handed the badly bruised Sai over to the Torture and Interrogation Department.
As Ibiki's men dragged Sai away, the scarred interrogator noticed Sai's swollen lips moving, as if he were trying to whisper something.
Driven by his keen professional sense for gathering intelligence, Ibiki leaned in and began reading Sai's lips.
"Three... ugly... freaks... with... wicked... hearts."
"Uh..."
Only after deciphering the whisper did Ibiki realize something was horribly off.
He's still provoking them?! Does this kid have a death wish?
Sakura, Ino, and Shizune heard it.
They angrily turned back around, cracked their knuckles and began beating Sai up all over again right in the hallway.
What was even more terrifying to the veteran torturers watching was that the three were healing him as they beat him.
They would shatter a rib, instantly mend the bone, and then shatter it again.
It was a cycle of infinite suffering!
It was even more horrifying than whipping someone with a barbed whip soaked in rubbing alcohol.
Morino Ibiki couldn't help but remark to his subordinates that these three girls would be a perfect fit for his department.
Finally, Ibiki had to physically intervene and stop them, fearing that if they continued, Sai would end up as a puddle of hand-beaten beef paste.
Ibiki took Sai back to the underground cells for official interrogation.
Since the "physical torture" phase had already been thoroughly handled by the three medics, Sai confessed his mission immediately.
Ibiki obtained all the intelligence about Danzo's prison break.
At the same time, Ibiki's psychological profiling discovered something bizarre: Sai wasn't intentionally provoking the three women.
Due to Danzo's extreme Root conditioning, he genuinely believed that Sakura, Ino, and Shizune were ugly!
Ibiki was intensely curious—what kind of woman did Sai actually consider beautiful?
It turned out that Sai believed a woman with "no expressions, no strong emotions, a pale complexion, and a cold demeanor" was the absolute epitome of beauty.
'Why did that sound exactly like Uchiha Sasuke on a normal day?'
To test this theory, Ibiki showed Sai a photoshopped image of Danzo Shimura in traditional women's clothing.
Sai stared at the picture and nodded respectfully, regarding the cross-dressing Danzo as a "cold, elegant beauty."
Ibiki was utterly shocked!
Has Danzo's brainwashing of Root members gone this far?!
Even their fundamental sense of human aesthetics has been horribly distorted!
In the end, Ibiki handed over the collected intelligence scroll to Shizune.
Regarding the "ugly women" issue, Ibiki hesitated for a moment, but his honest nature won out.
He decided to inform the three women of his psychological findings.
He hoped they wouldn't take the insult to heart—it was merely the perspective of a broken boy with a warped worldview.
"He wasn't trying to provoke you," Ibiki explained reasonably. "His brain is just broken. He genuinely, sincerely believes you three are physically unattractive."
Ibiki said this hoping they would pity the boy, let the insult go, and move on.
But clearly, while Morino Ibiki perfectly understood human psychology and torture tactics... he absolutely did not understand women.
No wonder he was still single by the time of the Boruto era.
Learning that Sai "sincerely" considered them ugly—and wasn't just using it as cheap trash talk—only made the three women infinitely angrier.
It turn out he's not insulting them at all but it was his honest review!
Since Sai had to pass through their care when being transferred to the Medical Department's secure ward, he ended up getting jumped and beaten up for a third time.
And that is why Sakura and Ino had so much fresh blood on their hands when they arrived at Kakashi's room.
It wasn't that they were inherently violent psychopaths.
It was just as Makoto had taught them: Kindness and gentleness are reserved for allies.
But toward enemies—especially enemies who insult your looks—one must be as cold and ruthless as the harsh winter!