As a Puppet Ninja, Sasori's accuracy was beyond question.
After sliding through the air for some distance, Hidan collided with Kaede with a bang.
"Ah!"
Kaede cried out in pain. Her entire body lost balance as she tumbled through the air, snapping several thick branches before crashing miserably to the ground.
"That's why struggling is useless."
Hiruko swayed its tail as it slowly approached Kaede from behind.
"Damn it, Sasori, you bastard!!"
After crashing into Kaede, Hidan was lucky enough to get caught on a tree branch. However, his slicked-back hair was now a complete mess, and some of the scale-powder toxin still remained in his body, leaving him numb and unable to move. He looked even more wretched than Kaede.
"Hmph."
Sasori snorted coldly. Then, like a scorpion lashing its tail, the stinger shot toward Kaede and coiled around her at incredible speed.
Bang!
"A Substitution Technique?"
Looking at the log wrapped in his tail stinger, Sasori scanned the surroundings.
Kaede hid in a patch of brush, holding her breath as her heartbeat grew faster and faster.
Who are these two? Why are they trying to capture me?
Even the scale-powder poison can't do anything to that scorpion-like guy. What am I supposed to do?
The gap in strength between them was simply too great. Kaede could not see the slightest hope.
Bang!
Sasori's tail stinger swept wildly through the surrounding area as his hoarse voice rang out again and again. "Stop hiding. You can't escape!"
Seeing the stinger draw closer and closer, Kaede was just about to risk everything when a familiar voice suddenly came from the sky.
"Hey, have you seen a dark-skinned woman?"
Sasori looked up. Above the dense canopy, an ugly, fat white bird was laboriously flapping its wings as it circled overhead. Standing atop