Pakura: Those Who Trespass on Sunagakure's Territory Will Earn a Round of Applause from Me

Scorpion was speechless. Were there no normal people among those the organization sent down? Were they all lunatics who didn't even care about their mission?

It's no wonder Deidara was furious when Deidara saw the child; he was determined to give that kid a good beating no matter what.

Just as the two were about to start fighting, Sasori quickly intervened and stopped Deidara's attack.

"Stop, Deidara!"

At this moment, Deidara suddenly realized that they were on a mission today, so how did they suddenly end up fighting with someone?

Even after Deidara stopped, Pakura still looked at the two mysterious people in front of her with a wary expression.

"You're Pakura, right?" Sasori asked first, seemingly to avoid mistaking someone else for him.

"You know me?" Pakura looked at the hunchbacked man in front of him with some curiosity, his intuition telling him that this person was also quite troublesome.

She wasn't afraid of a one-on-one fight, but if the two of them attacked together, Pakura would find it somewhat difficult to withstand.

After all, she didn't have the energy to deal with two people at the same time.

Sasori initially thought this guy was Impure World Reincarnation created by Orochimaru, but he didn't seem like it. Besides, if he were, Pakura would probably have destroyed Sunagakure immediately instead of talking nonsense here.

"I am Sasori." Seemingly in order to uncover the secrets surrounding Pakura, Sasori proactively revealed his identity.

"Scorpion?" Pakura looked at the mysterious man in front of her with some suspicion. Wait a minute, isn't Scorpion the famously aloof and handsome man of Sunagakure? What on earth is this hunchbacked monster?

Scorpion hesitated for a moment, then emerged from his own Hiruko (don't worry about the exact posture).

Sure enough, the scorpion's true form transformed into a handsome young man with red hair.

Only then did Pakura put aside his suspicions, after all, the Scorpion in front of him was the Scorpion he knew.

"Sasori, what are you doing here?" Pakura regretted his words as soon as he opened his mouth. After all, he was a transmigrator, and his previous mission had shown that Sasori had betrayed the village and wanted to capture a Jinchūriki from Sunagakure.

"Scorpion, how dare you betray the village! I will not let you get away with this!" Suddenly, balls of scorching fire began to gather around Pakura.

The intense burning sensation from the Scorch Release technique instantly made Itachi, whose strength was not particularly high to begin with, feel a sudden discomfort.

"Are you sure you want to do this? Your son will be in danger then." Scorpion turned his gaze to Uchiha Itachi behind Pakura.

"Son? Where did I get a son?" Pakura was full of doubt.

What, is that not right? At this moment, Scorpion also realized that she might have misunderstood, but it's not a big deal. Anyway, she couldn't just watch the people around her get hurt.

At this moment, Pakura seemed to understand what the other party meant. This was nothing short of a provocation to Pakura, and Pakura immediately unleashed a Scorch Release Fireball at Sasori.

Scorpion quickly retreated with his puppet, simultaneously creating distance.

"I already said, why did you have to tell Big Brother Sasori so much?" Deidara then pulled out his Explosive Clay again.

"Drink!!"

"Boom!!"

"Boom!!"

Powerful explosions rang out one after another. If Itachi hadn't been quick-witted enough to hide behind a rock earlier, the explosions would have blown him away.

Scorpion took a step back and pulled out a scroll from his body, then summoned a large number of puppets.

Moreover, the target is Uchiha Itachi behind Pakura. Although Little Itachi has been on the battlefield, he is not capable of intervening in this level of combat and would only become a burden.

Although dying inside wouldn't mean actual death, Itachi didn't want to fail prematurely like this; he still had this secret method.

Just as Itachi was considering whether to use it ahead of time, several Scorch Release fireballs suddenly appeared next to Pakura, knocking down all the puppets.

In their brief exchange just now, she realized that this man named Deidara was not so easy to defeat.

At this time, Deidara had only just joined the Akatsuki, but his strength had already reached the level of Elite Jonin. However, he mostly relied on wide-range attack Ninjutsu such as Explosive Clay.

At this point, the two sides were once again deadlocked, but a battle of this scale in this location would likely soon attract the attention of Sunagakure, at which point they would become the ones on the defensive.

No, this operation is going to be difficult.

"Deidara, retreat first!" Sasori shouted to Deidara beside him.

The two of them alone are not enough to handle this situation; they must go back and call for reinforcements. If Sasori finds out that Orochimaru, whom he so desperately wants to see, is also in Sunagakure, he will probably directly request the leader to take action personally.

(Infiltrate, infiltrate, but you're discovered before you even reach Sunagakure. What's the point of infiltrating? A single arrow pierces the clouds, and a thousand armies come to meet you.)

"But I'm curious, why are you here after being abandoned by the village?" Scorpion stared intently at Pakura.

"What does 'abandoned' mean?" Pakura pressed, wondering why Sasori spoke like a riddle.

She didn't know? At this moment, Scorpion suddenly realized a fatal problem: Pakura in front of him didn't know that he had been betrayed by the village.

It's feasible! This thought echoed in Scorpion's mind.

He wanted to give Sunagakure a small shock by sending some missing-nin. At this point, Sasori would do anything that would harm Konoha, and he would seize any opportunity to sow discord among Sunagakure.

"It seems Pakura is unaware that the heroes of Sunagakure are being used as bargaining chips?" Sasori smirked.

Pakura was also shocked by what Scorpion said. What was going on? What deal? What bargaining chips? I don't understand at all.

Sasori recounted all of Pakura's deeds, revealing that she had made many contributions to the village during her lifetime, but was tricked into going to Kirigakure by the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, under the pretense of carrying out a secret mission. Caught off guard, she was ambushed and killed by Kirigakure Shinobi disguised as allies, becoming a victim of great power politics.

Little did they know that all of this was merely a compromise reached by the Sunagakure's higher-ups. How laughable!

It's absolutely ridiculous. They were willing to risk their lives for the village, even risking their lives, but in the end, they were traded away like toys.

By this time, Scorpion had said quite a lot, much of which was unrelated to their current mission.

"Impossible!" At this moment, Pakura still thought that Scorpion was lying to him, mainly because what he said was too unbelievable.

Even Deidara, standing to the side, was stunned. "Big Brother Sasori, is this something I can listen to?"

As expected, the naive young Deidara had not experienced these things; he became missing-nin simply because his father was too strict with him.

Unlike Big Brother Sasori, who suffered a blow that turned his love for the village into hatred; everything that happened during that time was enough to write a book called Les Misérables.

Itachi, standing to the side, seemed unsurprised. "That's it? That's it?"

If we were to choose the most tragic protagonist of the year, you probably wouldn't even make the top three. Go ask around in Konoha, and you'll see whose life isn't more tragic than yours.

I hereby declare Konoha the champion of this year's "Most Miserable Person" competition.

Take Kakashi as an example; his father was sold off, but he's still doing just fine.

To be honest, this generation of young people from Sunagakure have really poor mental fortitude.