Deidara sensed it too. Riding atop his clay bird, he turned to look back.
The lens over his left eye zoomed in rapidly, and his view was already filled with lightning.
"Looks like Master Sasori has run into a pretty incredible enemy. I wonder if he can handle it.
Well, whatever. I should think about how to capture the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki first."
Deidara looked at Kakashi and Naruto chasing each other below, a smile curling across his lips.
The mouths in his hands spat out clay, which transformed into countless tiny grasshoppers and fleas before being thrown down at Kakashi and the others.
"I should separate Copy Ninja Kakashi from the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki first.
Witness my art."
Sasori unfurled his final scroll. Countless runic formulas extended from it, absorbing every puppet present.
Both damaged and undamaged puppets.
"Although I do not agree with Deidara's fleeting art, I want even more to preserve your body as my finest collection.
I hope you do not die beneath this move."
A puppet-like smile hung on Sasori's face.
After absorbing all the puppets' chakra, the scroll activated the final stage of the puppet forbidden technique.
The scroll, having absorbed all the puppets' chakra, bore eighteen blank spaces among its runes. At that instant, corresponding names appeared within them.
Black, white, red, blue...
At the very moment Tobitake Tonbo completed his Lightning Release, Sasori's ninjutsu was completed as well.
The chakra in his core was consumed at an extreme rate.
Eighteen gigantic puppets appeared, surrounding Sasori layer upon layer.
"Ha!"
Crackle, crackle!
The lightning sphere in the sky sent down countless yellow bolts, each as thick as a man's confident manhood.
Rumble!
The thunder roared without end.
Tobitake Tonbo watched Sasori's movements from across the field, raising a brow.
"What kind of secret puppet