Deidara, Who Can't Stop Causing Trouble

"Hehe, come catch me! Come catch me~"

In Takigakure, beneath the enormous Sacred Tree, a little girl with short blue-green hair, orange eyes, and dark skin hopped about and waved her arms, happily taunting her distant playmate, Shibuki.

Shibuki chased after Kaede, sweat streaming down his face from exhaustion.

"Y-You, don't run..."

Around the vast Sacred Tree, only the laughter of two children could be heard, yet four Anbu lurked in the shadows, protecting them.

One was the Seven-Tails' Jinchuriki, while the other was the son of Takigakure's leader. Both had highly sensitive identities, and no mistake could be tolerated.

Just then, a tremendous rumbling suddenly came from afar. The earth shook and the heavens trembled!

"Did something happen?"

Kaede widened her eyes and looked into the distance, where she saw great clouds of mist rising.

"Is it an enemy invasion?" Shibuki nervously grabbed Kaede's little hand and, without another word, ran toward the village.

"Let go of me! I want to go take a look!" Kaede shouted.

As the Seven-Tails' Jinchuriki, Kaede, like the other Jinchuriki, was often subjected to discrimination. This had given her a reckless, devil-may-care personality. Whenever she saw something fun, she would charge right in without caring whether it was a trap.

Shibuki tightly gripped her hand and glared at her. "No! My dad told me to keep an eye on you. You can't run around."

"Let go of me! If you don't let go, I'll hit you!"

The moment Kaede finished speaking, she kicked Shibuki to the ground, then skipped and hopped as she ran outside.

At the same time, Shizuki, the leader of Takigakure, had also been alerted. He thought that the Missing-nin Kakuzu had come to extort them again, so he immediately led the elite Anbu out, bringing along the little Hero's