Kakuzu coldly said, "Don't be too careless. With your lousy Taijutsu, you can't beat Hyuga Clan ninja!"
Hidan brandished his Triple-Bladed Scythe and pointed it at Kakuzu provocatively, saying, "Want to give it a try? To be honest... I'd actually prefer to use you for the ceremony."
Kakuzu gave Hidan a cold look. If he didn't like Hidan quite a bit, he would have killed him long ago.
Deidara stretched his hands and kneaded the clay in the bag for a while, then took out a clay bird and threw it into the air.
'BOOM!'
In a puff of smoke, the clay bird transformed into a large clay bird.
Deidara leaped into the air, landing on the back of the clay bird.
"I'll go give them a gift first, I hope they'll like my art... Hmm!"
Hiruko slowly raised her head, Sasori of the Red Sands coldly said, "Hey! Deidara... don't blow my man up, he has other uses... besides, can your kind of explosion be considered art?"
"Art is something that can be passed down for a long time and in perfect order; only lasting beauty is art."
Deidara retorted, "Is eternal beauty the only kind of art?"
"Although we are both creators, Brother Scorpion, I respect you very much... but art should be dazzling and fleeting beauty!"
Sasori of the Red Sands said grimly, "What did you say?"
"Deidara, it seems you still don't understand what true art is!"
Kakuzu said coldly, "Enough! Only money is true art!"
Sasori of the Red Sands, Deidara: "..."
Deidara was too lazy to argue with a vulgar person like Kakuzu whose mind was only filled with money. The clay bird suddenly flew high, and from the ground, it could only be seen as a tiny, almost invisible dot.
Flying leisurely through the jungle, Deidara saw a dozen figures moving quickly through the trees below via the camera in his left eye.
"At this height, I wonder if the Byakugan can even see it... Hmm!"
As he spoke, Deidara reached into the clay bag with both hands and began to knead it.
A moment later, Deidara held a large pile of clay bombs that looked like grasshoppers in his hands and casually threw them down from the air.
A group of sixteen people from Sunagakure were moving quickly through the woods.
Baki remained vigilant throughout.
Although the chances of the Sand Village group being ambushed after separating from the Konoha ninjas are extremely small.
Baki originally thought so too.
But would the ninjas of Konoha be so kind?
Baki had to interpret Kakashi's intentions with the utmost malice.
Kakashi couldn't have overlooked the fact that there was a young girl from the Hyuga Main Family in Konoha's team.
Moreover... Hinata can also use the Nine-Tails' power.
Given such immense value, Baki simply didn't believe Kakashi would put Hinata in danger.
"Teacher Baki?"
Temari closer to Baki, asking in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Baki shook his head slightly and said in a deep voice, "It's nothing, just those people from Konoha..."
Temari asked in a low voice, "Did you feel it too?"
"Kindness!"
Baki nodded slightly, his expression grave, and said, "Kakashi's decision to split into different teams might be because he sensed something..."
What is that?
Baki stared blankly at the small white insects hopping rapidly in the woods ahead.
He wasn't a sensory ninja, and these tiny insects moved silently and extremely fast, so Baki couldn't tell what they were at all.
But do tiny insects that move so fast that even an Elite Jonin can't see them really exist?
"Enemy attack!"
Baki roared, "Temari!"
Without hesitation, Temari took out her Three-Star Fan and swung it forcefully forward.
"Wind Style: Great Sickle Weasel!"
The raging wind instantly swept everything in front of them, cutting trees into pieces and blowing everything in the forest far away. If someone had good eyesight, they could even spot a large number of tiny white insects among the trees.
The Great Sickle Weasel is Wind Release Ninjutsu that combines offense and defense, with an extremely large attack range and a long duration.
More importantly, the Great Sickle Weasel can create a vacuum effect, rendering all Ninjutsu such as Fire Release, sound, and bombs ineffective.
Deidara stood on the clay bird, watching as his attack was countered. He thought to himself that even if he couldn't blow anyone up, he would still show the people of Konoha and Sand Village his art.
Thinking of this, Deidara Hand Seals with one hand and shouted loudly.
"Drink!"
Through the camera in his left eye, Deidara could clearly see tiny Kakkō appearing in the Wind Style below, but they were quickly swallowed up by silence.
"..."
The most frustrating thing in Deidara's life was not that no one appreciated his art, but that his art... had fallen silent!
"How dare you look down on me! Let me show you this!"
Deidara was somewhat exasperated. He quickly conjured a doll-shaped bomb with both hands and threw it into the woods below.
'BOOM!'
The toy bomb instantly grew to enormous size and accelerated its descent into the forest below.
The shadow blocked out the sunlight, and a Sand Ninja looked up at the sky, exclaiming, "What... what is that?"
Following the gaze of the Sand Ninja, Baki felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end and roared, "Retreat!"
After saying that, Baki ignored everyone else, Temari and Kankuro, and fled quickly into the distance.
Although he didn't know what kind of Ninjutsu it was, Baki still noticed the tiny Kakkō that had appeared during the Wind Style.
Such a large doll, who knows how wide its attack range is.
Deidara stood atop the giant clay bird, muttering to himself, "You people dare to underestimate my art... Hmph! Feel my art in this explosive sublimation!"
"Art is... an explosion!"
"Drink!"
'Boom!'
The forest within a radius of nearly a kilometer was instantly engulfed by the explosion, with Kakkō everywhere. Even trees outside the blast radius were ravaged by the shockwave.
Deidara had long forgotten about his so-called mission. Looking at the explosion below and feeling its immense power, he said with a fanatical expression, "This is my art... Only in that moment of sublimation can I feel art! Yes!"
Not far away, Kakuzu, Hidan, Sasori of the Red Sands stared blankly at the Kakkō shooting into the sky ahead.
Hey! Could it be that everyone from Konoha and Sand Village has been wiped out?
So what about our mission?
Moreover, Deidara's arrogance will alert the Five Great Shinobi Villages!
Further away from the explosion's epicenter.
Hinata, Kakashi, Wind God, Thunder God are having a barbecue in a clearing in the forest.
The massive explosion in the distance was almost immediately visible. Hinata and Kakashi jumped to their feet. Kakashi frowned, his voice grave. "This is..."
What exactly is the enemy's objective?
Kakashi was a little confused.
Normally, ninjas should gather information about their opponents before launching an attack.
Even if someone wanted to seize the war reparations, seeing that there were no Konoha Ninja in the Sand Village's ranks, they should have guessed that the other party had already split up and was operating in teams.
But why are there still attacks?
Is it because the enemy lacks definitive intelligence? Or is their objective not war reparations?