Hinata, Stop Pretending

Sasori cast Deidara a cold glance and said, "Idiot. Mortal. Do you know that eternity is the highest realm of beauty and art?"

The two argued more and more fiercely. It looked as though, before dealing with outsiders, they were about to fight each other first.

The atmosphere suddenly became rather strange. Kisame Hoshigaki wore a smile, but his expression was impossible to read.

After arguing for a while, the two finally seemed to stop debating and turned their attention back to everyone present.

Soon, Sasori looked at Kurenai Yuhi and the others and murmured, "They're from Konoha."

Then he turned his gaze toward Hinata's group. This time, he clearly frowned.

He could sense that Hinata and the others were not weak, yet his intelligence contained no information whatsoever about such a group.

Without changing his expression, Sasori turned to Hinata's group and asked, "May I ask who you are?"

Hinata said nothing. Instead, Kurama Mutsu spoke first. "Haha, don't mind us. We're just a bunch of spectators."

"We bought our tickets ages ago. You do your thing, treat us like air, and we'll treat you like a movie. Simple, right?"

Though she said it casually and lightly, anyone who thought it over carefully would probably get angry.

Kurama Mutsu continued, "Oh, right. I don't like you very much, so try not to talk to me."

Hinata understood what she meant. Sasori had almost completely transformed himself into a puppet, and puppets were basically impossible to control with Genjutsu.

Even Kurama Mutsu, who possessed the Kekkei Genkai Five Senses Manipulation, would find it difficult to affect him. Her original Kekkei Genkai abilities would likely be weakened to less than one-twentieth of their normal effect against Sasori.

Such control was practically no different from no control at all to a ninja