This chick was a bit reckless!

Within the Land of Water, deep in the misty sea, lies an island, with a dense Woods overgrown with weeds rising above its cliffs.

A dark figure suddenly darted out of the woods, blasting a patch of waist-high weeds in half.

"That's... the Kubikiribōchō?... Hmm." Deidara, who was flying low in the sky and preparing to descend, noticed something that had suddenly appeared below him.

A chilling killing intent emanated from the forest without any attempt to conceal it.

Immediately after the flying Kubikiribōchō, Zabuza's figure rushed out, followed by swaying Tree Shadow, suggesting there were still quite a few people in the forest.

"Brother Sasori, shall we fight?... Hmm." Deidara, occupying a high vantage point, had a clear view of the situation below.

The Kubikiribōchō of the previous Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist of the Jūzō Biwa, was Zabuza Kubikiribōchō his death, and he became a member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.

Zabuza is a ruthless and ambitious man. After his failed assassination attempt on the Hokage, he is now a rogue Rogue Ninja wanted by Kirigakure.

Zabuza's appearance here indicates that the people chasing him from the forest must be the Assassination Squad from Kirigakure.

Deidara's meaning was simple: while the people of Kirigakure were currently focused on Zabuza, they could avoid a fight and quickly retreat.

Either...

The second option is that Deidara is also a warmonger.

"We can't leave." Sasori's voice came softly. Compared to Deidara, Sasori was clearly more cunning and shrewd.

Although the Kirigakure's Anbu had not yet rushed out of the forest, the opposing Sensor Ninja had already locked onto the two individuals' auras.

It was no longer possible to escape the battle silently, and at this moment, Deidara's white giant bird was less than ten steps away above the cliff.

Such a distance would take an ordinary person some time, but for a ninja, especially a powerful one, it would only take the blink of an eye.

Deidara understood Sasori's meaning: it was better to confront the enemy head-on than to leave his back exposed.

Even if a retreat is necessary, a strong military force is needed to deter the enemy.

Whoosh whoosh!!

After a brief exchange, more than a dozen dark figures swarmed out of the forest, quickly filling the not-so-spacious cliff edge.

The lush weeds were half a person tall, and the Kirigakure's Anbu Ninja were arranged in a fan shape, blocking Zabuza, who was carrying a large sword, at the edge of the cliff.

Zabuza glanced coldly at the river behind him, where the rushing river crashed against the rocks, with countless hidden reefs and rapids concealed within the currents.

The deep blue sea obscured their colors.

If I jump, I might die...

"Pursuers ahead, no way back?" Zabuza his grip on the Kubikiribōchō, never expecting that at this moment, the only thing by his side was this sword.

A slight sigh was masked by the cold killing intent in his eyes Zabuza stared intently at the figure emerging from the Tree Shadow.

A very beautiful and alluring woman.

She had bright green eyes, long brown wavy hair that reached her waist, and bangs that covered her right eye, adding to her mystique.

"Zabuza, you can't escape!" Mei Terumī stared at Zabuza sternly and shouted sharply.

At the same time, she glanced warily at the two people in the air. The glaring horizontal line on her Forehead Protector told her that these two were Rogue Ninja.

The Rogue Ninja of Iwagakure...

"Who are you two? Why are you in the Land of Land of Water?"

Mei Terumī voice, then secretly made a hand gesture, signaling the Anbu around her to be ready to kill the two people above at any moment.

She wasn't sure if these two guys were there to pick up Zabuza, but she absolutely couldn't let a sure thing slip away.

Sasori and Deidara exchanged a glance, somewhat surprised by this woman's status in Kirigakure.

Those ninjas were no ordinary people; they were the Kirigakure's Pursuit Unit, holding a high position and directly under the Mizukage's command.

"We're just passing by." Sasori frowned slightly. He wasn't afraid of fighting, but he disliked trouble. The other party's intentions were clear: they were Zabuza, the rogue Rogue Ninja from Kirigakure.

In that case, it would be best for both sides to pretend that neither of them saw the other.

Deidara's hands were already in the clay pouch hanging at his waist. Hearing Sasori's words, he couldn't help but secretly despise him.

Mei Terumī is a shrewd woman; she's not so easily fooled.

Two Rogue Ninja appeared within the Land of Water. Just passing by? How dare you say that!

"One squad, continue the mission. The rest of you, follow me!" Mei Terumī's eyes turned cold as she shouted, her hands rapidly Hand Seals.

Water Release: Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!

A large amount of chakra was injected into the seawater, which condensed into the shape of a water dragon. It roared and surged into the air, crashing directly into the giant Clay Giant Bird flapping its wings in the air.

Sasori and Deidara seemed to have known Mei Terumī's thoughts all along. The moment the water dragon took shape, Sasori leaped off the giant bird's back.

Deidara, meanwhile, controlled the giant bird to soar higher into the sky, but he misjudged the speed of the Water Dragon Bullet.

Or rather, Mei Terumī's Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique is faster than the ordinary Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!

Boom!!

The enormous water dragon slammed into the Clay Giant Bird, the powerful impact instantly piercing through its body.

A huge hole was found, and half of the Clay Giant Bird's wing was missing.

Having lost a wing, the Clay Giant Bird could no longer maintain its balance.

Deidara, standing behind the giant bird, swayed as if he was about to fall headfirst. Chakra gathered in his feet, firmly attaching his body to the back of the giant bird.

The giant bird lost its balance, tilted, and plummeted downwards.

Deidara pulled his hand into the clay pouch at his waist, opened his mouth wide, tore off a piece of clay, and began to chew it rapidly.

Bang!

As Deidara flicked his hand, the clay in his palm and mouth burst out, exploding in the air and creating a cloud of white mist.

A giant white bird appeared in the sky, and Deidara leaped from the destroyed bird to a new one.

The giant bird flapped its wings, creating a strong wind that swirled the weeds and obscured everyone's view.

Deidara controlled the Clay Giant Bird and quickly soared into the sky, creating distance in just a few breaths.

The Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique has a limited attack range. Although it still has the ability to attack after shooting down one of Deidara's Clay Giant Bird, it is impossible to destroy a second one.

Scorpion hid within the Hiruko, its enormous, Poison Scorpion tail waving in the air to prevent nearby Kirigakure Ninja Anbu from approaching.

Based on Mei Terumī's attack, Sasori secretly analyzed, "Her Hand Seals are very fast, and her Water Release technique is very powerful; she's at least Jonin's proficient in Water Release."

Ding ding!

After the steel scorpion's tail, coated with deadly poison, deflected two incoming Shuriken, it suddenly turned in mid-air, followed by a mechanical grinding sound.

A deadly Poison Scorpion tail lashed through the air, aimed at an Anbu Kirigakure Ninja member charging from the side.

"Watch out! That's highly poisonous!" Mei Terumī shouted a warning as she vaguely sensed a blackish-green glow flashing across the scorpion's tail.

However, just as her voice rang out, Hiruko's tail flicked, deflecting the long sword in the hand of the Kirigakure Ninja Anbu with a powerful short-range force, and then whizzed past his neck.

The wound wasn't deep; to be precise, it was just a minor scrape.

However, the Kirigakure Ninja Anbu felt a chill creep up from the wound on their necks, followed by stiffness and numbness, as if their necks no longer belonged to them.

The Poison Techniques spread rapidly through the wound, blocking the nerve endings that control the body.

The Kirigakure Ninja Anbu's body stiffened and became uncontrollable, then with a thud, he collapsed headfirst into the waist-high weeds.

Upon seeing this, everyone's expressions changed.

"Second squad, rescue the wounded; third squad, provide cover!" Mei Terumī reacted quickly, immediately shouting the order to everyone.

Glug...

Mei Terumī took a deep breath, and her entire charming face swelled up.

Lava Release: Lava Monster Technique!

Silently reciting a phrase in her heart, Mei Terumī opened her alluring red lips, and a gushing mass of viscous, highly corrosive, soluble, and solidified magma erupted forth.

Combining the Chakra Nature Transformation Lava Release enough to melt even the hardest steel.

Hiruko's body—no, even Hiruko specially made steel tail—could not withstand the corrosive heat of the magma.

Dodging is the only option.

Scorpion controlled Hiruko and Body Flicker Technique to the side in a flash. Although the Body Flicker Technique allows for high-speed movement, it causes the body to stiffen afterward.

A moment's pause is extremely dangerous in a duel between masters.

The Mist Kirigakure Ninja Anbu responsible for hunting Zabuza were clearly no novices; the four Kirigakure Ninja from the third squad seemed to have seen through Hiruko's movements.

Swish swish swish!!

The three predicted where Sasori Body Flicker Technique, and each threw a burning Kunai, each with an activated Explosive Tag attached to Kunai tail.

Sizzle...

The rapid, piercing sound of burning grew closer and closer, making it impossible to dodge. Scorpion could only control Hiruko's tail to wrap around his body layer by layer.

Rumble!!

A deafening explosion rang out, and a large section of the cliff face collapsed.

Above the breach, Hiruko appeared to have been blasted into fragments, falling along with a large amount of rubble into the rushing current below.

"Brother Sasori won't be taken down so easily, will he?... Hmm." Deidara, high in the air, observed the commotion below through his goggles. He hadn't been able to make a move earlier because Sasori was in the crowd.

Now...

Hmph, art really is explosive!

Si-Shen-Yin.

The three hand seals were completed in an instant, and chakra was injected into the Explosive Clay. Deidara spread his arms and made a throwing motion.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!

A dense swarm of tiny spiders, as delicate as snowflakes, fell down. The spiders were extremely small, but they had a pair of long, slender hind legs, which enhanced their jumping ability and made them even more agile.

"What is this?" A small spider landed on the shoulder of a Kirigakure Ninja Anbu. He watched in surprise as the Pure White spider crawled into his collar.

Instinct told the Kirigakure Ninja Anbu that they couldn't let this thing get inside their clothes.

The Kirigakure Ninja Anbu instinctively reached out to swat the little spider away, but just then, a loud shout suddenly rang out from the sky.

"Art is an Explosion, drink!"

Boom!

A muffled explosion suddenly rang out, and a large chunk of the Kirigakure Ninja Anbu's shoulder was blown off. Although the C1: Clay Spider's explosive power was small.

However, the impact of such a close-range explosion is something that the human body cannot withstand.

Before anyone could react, a swarm of C1: Clay Spider rained down on the crowd like a snowstorm...

When they saw the tiny white spider reflected in their pupils, so close to their eyes, they suddenly realized what was happening and quickly took out their fastest defensive measures.

They either used a stand-in, Body Flicker Technique, or rolled away on the spot...

Without exception, all four members of the Kirigakure Ninja Anbu from the third squad were injured within the area covered by C1 clay spiders.

One of them was the most unlucky; his shoulder blade was blown off, leaving his entire arm with only a layer of skin and flesh connecting it to one side of his body.

"C1 was dodged? Then let's use C2... Hmm." Deidara frowned slightly, pinching his chin with one hand, showing his dissatisfaction.

Deidara reached his hands into the clay pouch at his waist when suddenly a dark shadow darted through the air, almost grazing his cheek.

It moved extremely fast, passing by in the blink of an eye.

Deidara noticed that it was a sharp Kunai that severed a strand of golden hair near his ear.

"Deidara, they are my prey!" At the same time, a deep, murderous voice came from below.

A handsome young man with red hair stood on the edge of the cliff.

This person is Scorpion's true form. Because Scorpion has turned himself into Human Puppet, his appearance remains that of a young man.

Hiruko was taken into the Scroll held in Scorpion's right hand, and at the same time, with a flick of his wide sleeve, another Scroll fell into his left hand.

With his five fingers clasped together, Scorpion raised the Scroll inscribed with fiery ink.

Bang!

A cloud of white mist exploded in front of Scorpion, revealing a withered Old Man appeared to be completely powerless.

This left everyone present stunned, including Zabuza and a small squad of Kirigakure Ninja Anbu another Battlefield a hundred paces away.

The Land of Water is extremely xenophobic and has been plagued by civil war in recent years, so it knows little about what is happening in the Ninja World.

But they recognized the Human Puppet that Scorpion was controlling; its familiar face had lost its color and become cold and ruthless.

The kind smile had faded, replaced by a somber and deathly aura.

This person is...

The Third Hokage?!

Lifeless, turned into Human Puppet?

"You wouldn't happen to be Sasori, the Rogue Ninja Puppet Master Sasori of the Red Sands Sunagakure, would you?" Mei Terumī had never seen Sasori before; in fact, most people had never seen Sasori's true form.

However, this does not mean that Sasori of the Red Sands's Daimyō has not spread to the Land of Water.

Sasori moved his ten fingers in rapid succession, manipulating the Third Hokage Human Puppet. The mechanical parts installed inside the puppet made a strange creaking sound as they moved.

Fire Release: Fire Dragon Bullet!

Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet!

The Third Hokage held his two withered hands upright in front of his chest, his fingers flying as he quickly Hand Seals, activating a fire and earth combination technique he had created: Fire-Flow Earth-Flame Bullet Jutsu Formula!

The Earth Dragon Bullet was engulfed in flames, or it seemed as if the Earth Dragon Bullet itself was burning.

"It's not simply about bringing fireballs and earthballs together; it's about amplifying the nature transformation of both fire and earth attribute chakra."

The flames seemed to originate from the earth ball itself; even if Water Release to extinguish the raging fire, they would still be severely injured by the incoming Earth Dragon Bullet.

Since that's the case...

"Then let it all melt away!" Mei Terumī eyes turned cold, and she playfully licked her sexy red lips with her tongue, a small gesture that revealed her charming and alluring nature.

Boil Release: Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique!

A highly corrosive acid fumes were exhaled from that alluring little mouth, instantly creating a strange hissing sound in the air.

But it was the sound of the weeds, the first to come into contact with the acidic fumes, melting away.

"Oh no! Everyone, get out of here!" A squad leader from the Kirigakure Ninja Anbu shouted a warning as he leaped away into the woods behind him.

Swish swish swish!!

After several rises and falls, the three elite squads of Kirigakure Ninja Anbu transformed into streaks of black shadow, vanishing into the depths of the Woods in the blink of an eye...