"Iron Sand: Drizzle."
"Do you Sand Village ninja all share the same jutsu template or something? Can't you people come up with anything new?"
"If you want to fight, then fight already. Why the hell are you talking so much?"
Clearly, Hyūga Hiyasu's nonstop chatter had finally gotten on Sasori's nerves.
There were only two things he hated most in this life.
One was waiting for people.
The other was endless nagging.
"So you hate people talking, huh? In that case, I'm definitely going to talk even more."
Hyūga Hiyasu revealed an amused smile.
Nothing made him happier than irritating his enemies.
"I'll make sure you never speak again. Water Release: Corrosive Stream."
The Third Kazekage puppet rose into the air, continuing to manipulate Iron Sand to harass Hyūga Hiyasu.
Meanwhile, the second scroll behind Sasori began to unravel.
At the same time, the hollow opening between his hands suddenly blasted out an incredibly powerful stream of high-pressure water, relentlessly chasing after Hyūga Hiyasu.
Glancing back, Hyūga Hiyasu noticed white smoke constantly rising from every place the water touched and corroded.
"You bastard, your heart's black as hell. You even mix poison into Water Release? How can you call yourself human?"
"Iron Sand Barrier."
Sasori felt exhausted inside.
Fighting someone this talkative was genuinely infuriating.
Walls of Iron Sand rose one after another before Hyūga Hiyasu, blocking his path of escape.
"Rotation Impact."
Hyūga Hiyasu instantly unleashed Rotation, smashing straight through the Iron Sand wall in front of him.
Who said the ultimate defense couldn't also be used for offense?
His eyes spun rapidly as he carefully searched for flaws between Sasori and the Third Kazekage puppet.
Those thin chakra threads—
Found you.
He stomped heavily on the ground, sending countless rocks flying into the air, then used gentle force to launch every single one of them like bullets.
Hundreds of stones in a single breath.
"Barrier Wall!"
Sasori hurriedly raised another Iron Sand wall to defend himself.
Booms and crashes rang out continuously.
"Strong Fist."
A voice suddenly sounded behind Sasori.
One punch instantly blew the puppet before him into pieces.
"So as a puppet, your perception abilities really aren't that great, huh?"
Even Hyūga Hiyasu was surprised by how easily the sneak attack had succeeded.
But thinking about it, it made sense.
A puppet that had abandoned all its senses—how could it detect an attack suddenly coming from behind?
"Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets."
After Sasori's core escaped, it inserted itself into another scorpion-shaped puppet.
At the same time, Sasori of the Red Sand revealed his strongest form.
Third Kazekage puppet plus Performance of a Hundred Puppets.
"Attack."
One red-clothed puppet after another charged toward Hyūga Hiyasu.
"Looks like I'll have to imitate Tsunade for a bit."
Dense chakra wrapped around his fists.
"Gentle Fist: Twin Lion Fists."
Holding two lion-headed chakra fists, Hyūga Hiyasu completely abandoned his usual evasive style.
Now he waited for the perfect opening before delivering a killing blow.
One punch per human puppet.
He smashed them apart to his heart's content.
...
Half an hour later, the number of human puppets had already dropped below half.
But their agility had risen to an entirely different level.
At first, they only knew how to recklessly charge forward.
Now they could even coordinate ninjutsu attacks.
"Fire Release: Blazing Prairie."
"Wind Release: Weasel Sickle."
Wind fueled the flames, and the flames strengthened the wind.
A gigantic sphere formed from the fusion of gentle force and explosive force expanded outward, instantly crushing the combined Wind-Fire ninjutsu ahead of him.
Hyūga Hiyasu then shot forward like lightning, arriving directly before Sasori of the Red Sand.
But suddenly, he stopped moving.
Because he saw the empty black cavity in Sasori's chest—
And the fallen Third Kazekage puppet lying on the ground.
Then—
Crash! Clatter!
The remaining puppets all collapsed onto the floor as well.
Hyūga Hiyasu tilted his head in confusion.
"What the hell? Weren't we evenly matched? Why'd you suddenly abandon everything and run away? Your entire fortune is still here!"
Sasori's decisiveness in fleeing was clearly beyond anything Hyūga Hiyasu had expected.
"Damn it... how am I supposed to explain this when I get back? This is humiliating. Next time we meet, I'm ending it instantly."
In the end, Hyūga Hiyasu could only sorrowfully haul all of Sasori's belongings back to the Hidden Leaf Village.
...
Meanwhile, Sasori of the Red Sand—
His core was now embedded inside a puppet specifically designed for digging underground.
He rapidly fled back to his base.
Several chakra threads extended outward, placing Sasori's core into a green nutrient tank.
He immediately began absorbing energy nonstop.
That was close. Way too close.
He had almost truly died back there.
Sometimes, the thing that forces you to abandon everything and run away isn't the overwhelming enemy ahead of you—
It's the fact that your battery is about to die.
"Hyūga... I'll make you pay for this."
Bang!
An unexpected guest suddenly barged into Sasori's base.
"Sasori of the Red Sand, I am Konan of the Akatsuki. I've come to invite you to join the organization."
Sasori: ??? Is this really how you invite people? Can you just casually break into a man's home like this? More importantly, she saw me in this form—what the hell am I supposed to do now? This is urgent.
...
"What?! You're saying Takigakure was wiped out by a pack of giant ninja dogs?!"
Ōnoki's face was filled with disbelief.
"That's correct, Tsuchikage-sama. After repelling the Hidden Rain Village, we followed your orders and shifted most of our attention toward Takigakure to prevent them from launching an attack like the Hidden Rain Village did."
"But according to frontline reports, hundreds of giant ninja dogs suddenly appeared. Right after that, an enormous purple-black barrier rose from the ground. After that, nobody knew what happened."
"However, once the barrier disappeared, our intelligence personnel went to investigate and discovered Takigakure completely empty. There wasn't even a trace of blood left behind."
Inuzuka Ryoha: "Our predecessors taught us that if you clean the battlefield, you clean it thoroughly. What if you leave behind a single drop of blood and the enemy gets revived? That'd be awkward. Oh, wait—the only two people who can use Edo Tensei are on our side. Never mind then."
"This is bad. An entire village slaughtered without bloodshed... someone must be cultivating forbidden techniques. But who could it be? Ninja dogs... the Inuzuka Clan? But why would people from the Hidden Leaf Village do something like this?"
Ōnoki was utterly confused.
The Hidden Leaf Village's reputation was simply too deeply rooted in the shinobi world.
Even though Inuzuka Ryoha had made no effort to hide anything and the ninja dogs were completely exposed, Ōnoki still couldn't bring himself to be one hundred percent certain.
Of course, all of this was thanks to the First Hokage and the Third Hokage.
The First Hokage had been the strongest man in the shinobi world, yet instead of oppressing the other villages, he personally captured the tailed beasts and distributed them to everyone.
As for the Third Hokage, there was even less to say.
Every time the Four Great Ninja Villages attacked the Hidden Leaf Village and suffered crushing defeat, they were never forced to pay enormous reparations. Sometimes all they had to do was verbally admit defeat.
Looking back across thousands of years of shinobi history, where else could anyone find two people this kind?
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