"Bastard, you, you stole the Star Stone? Hand over the Star Stone—"
Although the Star Kage was injured, he wasn't severely wounded; he was still a Jonin.
"Hm? Are you talking to me? Sorry, a meteorite that fell from the sky belongs to whoever picks it up..."
"Bastard—" Facing this shameless thief, Red Star, the main villain in the Hoshigakure movie, the Star Kage, couldn't sit still. Losing the Village wasn't a big deal, but losing the meteorite would cost him his life.
He prepared to fight for his life, releasing a large amount of Chakra.
"Secret Art: Peacock Method—"
The Chakra around his body spread out like a peacock displaying its feathers, preparing to kill Uchiha Nagi and reclaim the meteorite. Just then, an unexpected change occurred.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Breaking through the air, an attack exceeding the speed of sound directly hit Red Star's back. He quickly turned, placing his Peacock Method, which offered both offense and defense, in front of him, but it had no effect.
"Ah—"
The main villain, Red Star, screamed and was instantly reduced to a puddle of flesh.
Uchiha Nagi looked up to see a block-shaped mass of iron sand, weighing an unknown number of tons, that had not only broken through the Peacock Method with its weight but also crushed Red Star into a pulp.
Looking not far away, two figures slowly emerged from the shadows: one was a puppet, and the other, red-haired, was also a puppet.
It was Sasori and his Third Kazekage puppet—
"How unexpected, there's actually a thief. You stole the Hoshigakure's meteorite, didn't you? Hand it over, and I might consider letting you die without much pain..." Sasori said expressionlessly.
Uchiha Nagi immediately laughed, "If I'm going to die even if I hand it over, then why should I hand it over? Isn't that a contradiction?"
"If you don't hand it over, I'll make you die a more painful death..." Sasori was annoyed, very annoyed.
He had been happily destroying a country—the Hoshigakure barely counted as a small country, he supposed—and destroying a Ninja Village alone would become a boast-worthy story for him. But then a 'sixth' appeared halfway through.
He had been fighting tooth and nail, only for someone to steal his spoils of war from behind. Although he had transformed his body into a puppet and felt no physical sensation, his emotions remained. An intense feeling of annoyance made him stop thinking about how to preserve Red Star's body, and he directly used the Third Kazekage to smash him into a pulp.
As a Kage-level expert capable of killing a Kazekage, Sasori's intuition was very sharp. Upon seeing Uchiha Nagi, he knew this person must be very strong.
"Iron sand..." Uchiha Nagi looked at it, still floating in mid-air.
"This is the Third Kazekage, isn't it? Truly tragic, to die and then be made into a puppet by you. No wonder he was driven insane. His soul was played with by Orochimaru, and his body was played with by you. Anyone else would find it unbearable..." Uchiha Nagi chuckled.
Sasori's face was expressionless, but his heart was greatly shocked. The Edo Tensei Third Kazekage fighting his Third Kazekage puppet—this was something only he, Deidara, and Orochimaru knew.
"Who are you? How do you know about my dealings with Orochimaru?"
"Actually, I have puppets too..."
Uchiha Nagi smiled and threw out a scroll, which contained the puppets he had collected after defeating Mukade in Rouran.
Then he threw them out directly. *Bang!*
After a puff of smoke, about ten puppets appeared on the ground. Uchiha Nagi wasn't a puppet master specialist; with the enhancement of his Mangekyo, controlling ten puppets was already good, so he didn't control hundreds of puppets like Sasori right away.
"I didn't expect you to be a puppet master too, heh heh~"
Sasori became interested. Showing off puppet Ninjutsu in front of a puppet master was like teaching a fish to swim.
The Third Kazekage retreated, standing quietly behind Sasori. But Sasori pulled out a scroll from behind him and threw it, and the Puppet Performance of a Hundred Mechanisms, which he had just used, reappeared before Uchiha Nagi.
"A duel of puppet masters. If you can earn my approval, I'll spare your life..." Sasori said with interest.
In the future, when he and Deidara attacked Hidden Sand Village, Kankuro's puppet Ninjutsu also earned his approval, so he spared his life; otherwise, Kankuro wouldn't have lasted until Sakura came to heal him.
"You've got it wrong~" Uchiha Nagi smiled, "I just wanted to try out the puppet Ninjutsu I recently learned..."
"Hmph, then you'd better pray you survive and leave here. If I'm in a good mood, I'll turn you into a puppet and grant you eternal life..." Sasori sneered, then waved his hand, and the Puppet Performance of a Hundred Mechanisms moved out.
Uchiha Nagi waved his hand, and the puppet Ninjutsu he learned from Mukade also activated. Ten puppets first opened the cannons in their bodies and fired Chakra cannons at Sasori's puppets, instantly taking down a dozen of them.
Immediately, the numerous puppets began to engage in a chaotic battle—
Clearly, while Sasori's puppets were numerous, their quality was lacking. Before he joined Akatsuki, he was a lone wolf and didn't earn money like Kakuzu, so most of his puppets were civilian-made human puppets, of questionable quality.
Mukade's puppets, on the other hand, were mass-produced in factories, consuming the wealth of Rouran Country. One was handmade, the other mass-produced. In terms of quality, if there were a ranking, Mukade's puppets would all be Ninja-level.
Sasori's puppets were all handmade by him. Although numerous, their quality was poor; they didn't even have Chakra cannons and were still the old style, equipped with mechanisms that fired Kunai, shuriken, and poisoned needles.
"Heh heh, your control seems to be lacking. Only ten puppets won't be able to protect you..." Sasori chuckled, because among his puppets, there were also quite a few higher-quality Chunin and Jonin human puppets.
After those engaged Uchiha Nagi, the other puppets could split off to attack him. Uchiha Nagi in the arena controlled his puppets while dodging left and right, evading Sasori's pursuit.
"Who said I only have ten puppets? Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu—" Uchiha Nagi used Multiple Shadow Clones, and ten figures appeared. Then, from a scroll, he summoned another hundred puppets... This time, it was Sasori's turn to be stunned. On the field, there was a massive puppet-on-puppet battle, but the key was that the opponent's puppets were significantly more advanced, equipped with Chakra cannons, already in the age of artillery, while Sasori's own puppets were still in the era of cold weapons like Kunai and shuriken.
Boom!!
Boom boom!!
The tables turned. Sasori's puppets were continuously cleared out and shattered by the puppets controlled by Uchiha Nagi. Although the Puppet Performance of a Hundred Mechanisms was Sasori's weakest ultimate move, collecting and making so many puppets wasn't easy. Sasori made them by hand, unlike Mukade's factory mass production.
Sasori's heart was bleeding... "Hmph, those are just toys. Let me show you my greatest masterpiece."
Sasori finally couldn't stand it anymore. He withdrew all his Puppet Performance of a Hundred Mechanisms and sent out his strongest Kazekage, who was standing behind him.
"Finally going all out, are we? Let me see the strength of the Third Kazekage, rumored to be Hidden Sand Village's strongest Kazekage." Uchiha Nagi looked at the Kazekage.
Magnet Release: Iron Sand Gathering Assault—
As soon as the Third Kazekage made his move, an overwhelming flood of iron sand, all transformed into iron sand spears, attacked. Mukade's puppets were not as sturdy as Sasori's hiruko, nor did they have Chakra shields. So, after this ultimate move from the Third Kazekage, hundreds of puppets were shattered into pieces, their parts scattered everywhere.
Cannon fodder is always cannon fodder. Facing a Kage-level expert, these fodder puppets couldn't hold their own; they could be wiped out in a single move—
"Ah, iron spears are good, but I actually prefer swords. How cool would a 'Myriad Swords Returning to One' be..." Uchiha Nagi muttered to himself, looking at the Third Kazekage.
And the plum blossom pattern in his eyes had already begun to spin... [Seeing through and analyzing the laws of how things operate]
What did it matter if he was dead? What did it matter if he was a puppet? He could analyze and see through the laws of the Ninjutsu itself, as heaven-defying as Obito's Kamui.
Magnet Release: Iron Sand World Method—
The iron sand that had just attacked began to change form, transforming into a huge, pointed iron sand cone.
Uchiha Nagi: "...?! ?"
Why did he use a cuboid against Sakura, but a pointed cone against him? How was he supposed to coolly punch the iron sand away like this?
The seemingly cumbersome iron sand was impossible to dodge, because under the Third Kazekage's control, it moved incredibly fast, as if light as a feather.
Facing such a vast and rapidly moving mass of iron, Uchiha Nagi directly used Senju Hashirama's signature defense.
"Double Rashomon—"
Two Rashomon gates with demon masks rapidly rose from the earth, blocking this ultimate move. The first Rashomon shattered into pieces, the second Rashomon cracked, and the iron cone pierced through it, finally losing momentum and getting stuck on top.
"The Third Kazekage truly lives up to his reputation..." Uchiha Nagi chuckled.
"Sasori, I wonder if you experienced his ultimate move before you killed him..."
Sasori: "Hm?!"
"Magnet Release: Iron Sand Gathering Assault—"
Under Sasori's shocked gaze, all the iron sand that had just hit the Rashomon lost control, transforming into the same ultimate move, Iron Sand Gathering Assault, that the Third Kazekage had used a second ago.
However, Uchiha Nagi used it to transform the iron sand into long swords, not iron spears.
Like a 'Myriad Swords Returning to One,' the iron sand that had just broken through the two Rashomon gates was taken by Uchiha Nagi, all transformed into long swords, and then densely struck at Sasori.
Although Sasori was once again too shocked to speak, [the last time was the Edo Tensei Third Kazekage fighting his Third Puppet]
His reaction speed was still very fast. He immediately controlled the Third Kazekage to release a defensive Ninjutsu. "Magnet Release: Iron Sand Defense—"
A shield wall constructed from iron sand blocked the long swords transformed from iron sand. The iron swords struck the iron wall, *clang—*
Metal clashed, and sparks flew.
But Uchiha Nagi wouldn't be foolish enough to only attack from the front. He immediately launched a 360-degree attack, forcing Sasori to transform the iron sand into a large sphere, then envelop himself and the Third Puppet, forming an absolute defense.
The dust settled, and the ground was covered with broken swords and shattered iron shields, all made of iron sand. As long as Magnet Release was activated, they could be reassembled into other things.
Sasori and the Third Kazekage puppet slowly emerged from the iron sphere. Sasori said in a deep voice:
"White hair, half his face covered, and a Sharingan. You like to copy your opponent's Ninjutsu to defeat them. You're the Copy Ninja, Kakashi Hatake?"
"..."
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