As soon as Uchiha Jin finished speaking, the clay bird beneath Deidara suddenly began to tremble violently.
"What's going on? Why won't my clay obey me?" Deidara cried in alarm.
He found that he could no longer control the Chakra in his clay. The explosive clay that had always obeyed him seemed to have lost its life, and began falling from the sky.
"Deidara!" Scorpion sensed something was wrong and immediately leaped off the bird.
But Deidara wasn't so lucky. The clay bird lost its power and began to disintegrate, sending him plummeting from a height of a hundred meters.
"Damn it!" Deidara frantically tried to gather Chakra in midair, hoping to make more clay to cushion his fall. But the Chakra inside him seemed to be locked away by something, and he couldn't draw on any of it.
Just as he was about to be smashed into a pulp, a steel tail suddenly reached out and caught him.
It was Scorpion. The puppeteer had saved his partner at the critical moment.
"Scorpion, what happened? My Chakra..." Deidara's face had gone deathly pale.
"That man is dangerous." Scorpion's voice was even raspier than usual. "He can control Chakra."
On the ground, Uchiha Jin looked at the two Akatsuki members, a trace of interest flickering in his eyes.
"Akatsuki? How interesting. I thought you'd been wiped out long ago."
"Bastard! How dare you look down on us!" Deidara tried to fight back in a rage, but he still couldn't draw on the Chakra inside him.
Scorpion, however, was much calmer. He knew that fighting under these circumstances would mean certain death.
"We're not here to fight you," Scorpion said. "Our target is the One-Tail Jinchuriki. Since you're here too, why don't we work together?"
"Work together?" Jin laughed. "Do you think