You are the Copy Ninja, Kakashi Hatake?
Uchiha Nagi: "..."
He wanted to say, this is a coincidence, does Sasori believe it?
Sasori knew Itachi was a rogue Ninja who destroyed the Uchiha Clan, but he wasn't a bounty hunter like Kakuzu, so he didn't know that another Uchiha had escaped, but he had heard of the Copy Ninja, Kakashi Hatake.
There was also a misunderstanding; Sasori didn't know that Kakashi only had one Sharingan.
So, he cross-referenced the information in his mind and found that among the matching individuals, only the Copy Ninja, Kakashi, whose reputation had risen in recent years, fit the description. I swear, I really wasn't trying to pin the blame on you, Kakashi...
"Oh my, you found me. So, what do you plan to do?
Will you surrender to me? I remember the intelligence on the Third Kazekage; the Hidden Sand Village offered a very high price, and if I can capture you, the culprit, they'll probably offer even more money..."
"Hmph, let's see if you can even leave here alive first..." Sasori sneered. Once the matter of killing the Third Kazekage was exposed, it was clear he would be hunted by the people of Hidden Sand Village throughout the Ninja World.
However, he wasn't afraid. His boss, the leader of the Land of Rain, was Pain, who possessed the Rinnegan. To this day, no Akatsuki Organization member had ever made Pain use his full power, and no one was confident they could defeat those eyes.
The last challenger, Orochimaru, he had seen with his own eyes, was instantly defeated by Pain. If it weren't for Orochimaru's snake shedding ability to heal injuries...
So what if the news got out? The Hidden Sand Village didn't have anyone strong enough. Anyone who went to the Land of Rain would die. The Land of Rain was low-key, but it gathered S-rank rogue Ninja from all over the Ninja World. Any one of them could be considered a Kage-level Ninja.
If they were to act all at once, they could completely destroy any Village among the Five Great Nations... But the next events were not so pleasant. When the iron sand from the Third Puppet was fired towards Uchiha Nagi, he would block it with his Ninjutsu.
After blocking it, the iron sand would be controlled by his Magnet Release, then transformed again and fired back.
It was as if Sasori's Third Puppet was fighting Uchiha Nagi for control of the iron sand using Magnet Release, but he couldn't afford not to fight, because Magnet Release's control over iron sand, when converted into Ninjutsu attacks, was quite powerful.
Unlike what Uchiha Nagi imagined, Magnet Release wasn't like Magneto, who could freely manipulate metal as seen in some movies of his previous life.
Essentially, Magnet Release uses Ninjutsu and Chakra to directly control a large quantity of iron sand into shape and then fire it. If Ninjutsu isn't used to control the iron sand, its power is very small, making it difficult to instantly fix it into various iron spears, iron walls, iron blocks, etc.
Because otherwise, it would just be a pile of iron sand, which would scatter with a single hit from an enemy. One Water Release would wash the iron sand away like ordinary sand.
In Uchiha Nagi's view, it was a lack of precise control over electromagnetism, meaning he hadn't reached Magneto's level.
The four fundamental forces of nature are indeed not that easy to control, even for Pain. Look at his control over gravity; it's completely at the most rudimentary level of application.
The Third Kazekage was the same. Through years of research and development on Shukaku, he initially gained control over electromagnetism, then combined it with Ninjutsu and Chakra to create his unique Ninjutsu, but it was only at the most rudimentary level of use.
If he could develop it, even a tiny bit of true mastery over electromagnetism would not be inferior to Ōnoki's Dust Release.
Reversing the Earth's electromagnetism, not to mention destroying a continental plate, at least destroying a Ninja Village would be incredibly easy.
The four fundamental forces of the universe are not to be underestimated; surpassing Dust Release, or even being above it, is child's play.
Unfortunately, although Uchiha Nagi had now copied the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release, he still couldn't precisely control electromagnetism out of thin air. Currently, he and his opponent were both using crude applications, releasing electromagnetism through Ninjutsu with Chakra, barely controlling the iron sand to gather into iron blocks to smash each other...
Sasori couldn't stand it anymore. Both of them were using Magnet Release to harm each other, yet neither could inflict damage. As soon as one approached the other's magnetic field range, the iron sand would be controlled by the opponent's Magnet Release. It was just a mutual consumption of Chakra.
"Hmph, try this move! Let's see if you can still copy this ~" Sasori used another move, similar to Orochimaru's Hidden Shadow Snake Hands. On the Third Kazekage's arm, a switch opened, and countless arms extended, densely attacking Uchiha Nagi.
Looking at the Hidden Shadow Multiple Hands, which resembled Orochimaru's, Uchiha Nagi narrowed his eyes and pulled out his nichirin blade...
The difference was that Orochimaru's were actual snake hands that would bleed if severed, while Sasori's were puppet hands, stored using Sealing Technique. Severing them would only result in a pile of fallen parts.
"Water Breathing, Sixth Form: Twisting Whirlpool —"
Uchiha Nagi's swordsmanship was growing stronger by the day, incomparable to when he first started learning it.
His nichirin blade continuously swung, using Twisting Whirlpool to sever all puppet hands that approached him, leaving puppet parts scattered on the ground.
[Good opportunity —]
Sasori's eyes gleamed. While his opponent was fully focused on swordsmanship and couldn't spare attention to release Magnet Release, he quickly manipulated the Third Puppet and unleashed Magnet Release: Iron Sand Gathering Assault —
A massive iron block, over a dozen meters in size and weighing nearly dozens of tons, crashed down on Uchiha Nagi's head, intending to crush him into a pulp with one blow.
Facing the imposing large iron block, Uchiha Nagi scoffed.
Because he had too many trump cards during this period, which led to them being varied but not refined, he used combat to develop muscle memory, ultimately fusing them into his own techniques, wielding them as naturally as his own arm, which was the true path.
"Super Strength Fist —"
The imposing iron block, no matter how fast it pressed down, flew back just as quickly, almost crushing Sasori to death.
"You, this is??! Tsunade's Super Strength Fist?"
Sasori's eyes were practically dumbfounded. He was convinced; this guy must be Kakashi. He even knew Tsunade's Super Strength Fist, so Tsunade must have taught him.
"Shuriken: Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu —"
Uchiha Nagi didn't reply. Villains were the ones who liked to chatter. Starting the fight directly without small talk was the way of a righteous person.
He formed a hand seal, unleashing an enhanced version of Shuriken: Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, copied from Minato Namikaze. Thousands of Kunai rained down on Sasori.
The surrounding houses and walls were all swept through as if by metal bullets, turning everything in their path into ruins.
Sasori quickly controlled the Third Puppet, releasing a Magnet Release barrier, which tightly encased him in a large iron sphere. However, this was exactly what Uchiha Nagi intended.
"Amaterasu —"
Black flames struck the iron sand, instantly melting all of it into molten iron. Sasori, hiding inside, sensed danger and quickly broke through the barrier, leaping out from behind.
Without the iron sand, the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release was half-Waste (Waste means useless or crippled). Clearly, Sasori hadn't prepared that much iron sand for his Third Puppet.
Sasori, sensing trouble, immediately controlled the Third Kazekage, making him fly into the sky, at least to be in an unassailable position.
However, the next second, whoosh —
A figure appeared behind Sasori; it was Uchiha Nagi. He had also learned from Minato Namikaze, adding a few Flying Thunder God Kunai to his Multiple Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu. One of them was intentionally thrown, manipulated by his Mangekyo, onto Sasori's unavoidable path behind him.
"Water Breathing, Tenth Form: Constant Flux —"
Before the Eleventh Form: Dead Calm of Water Breathing appeared, the Tenth Form was the strongest form of Water Breathing. It rotated the blade like a coiling dragon, striking the Third Kazekage puppet and Sasori himself with a series of blows.
The fast and exquisitely precise swordsmanship was something Sasori, a long-range caster, simply couldn't defend against in close combat. He couldn't even use his various techniques before Uchiha Nagi shattered him into pieces.
"It's over, oh no, not yet..."
Uchiha Nagi looked at a piece of flesh, or rather, the regeneration core, among the pile of broken parts on the ground, with a half-smile. That was Sasori's true body.
A Kunai swiftly shot towards the regeneration core on the ground. This time, Sasori couldn't feign death. The tentacles around the regeneration core quickly sprang up, dodging the Kunai. However, the next second, Sasori was impaled to the ground by a second Kunai.
Immediately, Sasori's regeneration core slowly oozed blood...
"Your biggest mistake was turning yourself into a puppet. The potential of the human body far exceeds your imagination..."
Uchiha Nagi shook his head and walked towards Sasori with regret.
Without cheats, the limits of the human body, when fully unleashed, could be so powerful as to kick out a grand finale... It was a pity he couldn't find an opportunity to know what was hidden in Sasori's last scroll. Sasori's main body puppet's combat power was far inferior to the Third Kazekage's.
Now, the entire Third Puppet, along with Sasori himself, had been cut into pieces, and those three scrolls were naturally also destroyed...
Sasori quietly watched the white-haired young man. He heard that his parents had died at the hands of this man's father, and now he himself was dying at the hands of his son...
Uchiha Nagi raised his nichirin blade. He had no kingly aura or desire to gather subordinates. Since the fight had begun, he would just kill him directly.
As the nichirin blade swung down, an unexpected change occurred. Just as the nichirin blade was about to kill Sasori, a white shadow appeared, quickly rescuing Sasori's main body and submerging into the earth.
Clang —
The nichirin blade missed. Sasori was saved by White Zetsu.
"Damn it, White Zetsu —" Uchiha Nagi gritted his teeth.
Just as he was about to use Super Strength Fist to crack the earth and force out the White Zetsu, who hadn't fled far, his body experienced an anomaly.
Several grinning white heads emerged directly from his body; it was White Zetsu's Spore Jutsu.
With this delay, White Zetsu had already escaped far away.
"Damn it, I hate these tiny things the most. Don't let me catch you next time, or I'll lock you up and slice you up —"