"You just need to keep wandering around in front of Deidara."
"Deidara really hates people with the Sharingan. As long as someone with the Sharingan keeps showing up in front of him, anger will cloud his mind."
Itachi asked mildly, "How did you know?"
"This was all your doing, okay?" Naruto said accusingly. "To get Deidara to join Akatsuki, you bullied a kid with the Sharingan and made him deeply resent the Sharingan."
"You even know about that?"
"Well... well... well... well..." Naruto scratched his cheek with a finger. "Anyway, don't let Deidara run into Sasuke, or Deidara will definitely beat Sasuke senseless."
Back in the present, Itachi followed Naruto's instructions and kept moving around in front of Deidara. Sure enough, it worked.
Itachi was quite surprised as well. He had indeed used the Sharingan to defeat Deidara before, but even he had not known Deidara's pride was so strong.
In truth, Itachi had never paid much attention to Deidara. Defeating him had merely been a task assigned by Akatsuki at the time.
He had only used the Sharingan's Genjutsu to defeat Deidara in order to complete the mission and bring him into Akatsuki.
After successfully bringing Deidara into Akatsuki, Itachi no longer paid attention to him and had not even kept him in mind.
Only now did Itachi realize how deeply Deidara resented him. It seemed Naruto had been right after all.
Why did Naruto know such information? This was buried deep in Deidara's heart. No ordinary person could uncover it unless Deidara had personally told Naruto. Otherwise, there was no reasonable explanation.
Itachi leaped from wooden stake to wooden stake, while Deidara's fury reached its peak. Before he realized it, he had used up all his Explosive Clay.
Deidara thrust both hands into his pouch and was