Agreeing

"Because I'm wearing a mask, you can't easily trust me? Heh, good vigilance. If you had agreed to me so easily, I'd have been worried about whether you were reliable." Wu smiled faintly. The vaguely smiling features on his mask gave off an incomparably eerie feeling.

"Trying to deceive the great Deidara is impossible! Yeah." Deidara held his head high and spoke proudly.

It's precisely because I know your personality that I'm worried whether you're reliable or not. Wu thought helplessly. By then, the sun had already set and the moon hung high in the sky. Cool, bright moonlight spilled down from the heavens, scattering specks of light throughout the originally dark woods, making them seem hazy, dreamlike, and unreal.

Wu and Deidara stood facing each other on the grass, Deidara staring fixedly at the mask on Wu's face.

"Fine. Since we're companions, I really shouldn't hide my identity from you." Wu spoke calmly, then gently covered the mask on his face with his hand and slowly removed it.

"You... you actually...!" The moment Deidara saw Wu's true face, his expression changed drastically. From Wu's voice, he had judged that Wu was quite young, probably around seventeen or eighteen years old, but reality still exceeded his expectations.

Before him was an incomparably youthful face—a young man's face, only about fourteen or fifteen years old. The black Long Hair over his forehead slid down as the mask came off, faintly covering his Right Eye. His unruly hair was tied back with a white cord. No matter how one looked at him, he was an exceptionally handsome young man, completely different from what Deidara had imagined. He was probably only one or two years older than Deidara.

Seeing Deidara's stunned expression, the young man smiled slightly. "What? Surprised?" Hearing Wu's words, Deidara gradually came back to his senses and looked at him in surprise. "I thought you were much older than me. I didn't expect you to be my age."

"Heh, if I didn't act a little more mature, it would be hard to get by in this world. After all, not many people are willing to entrust missions to a brat." Miao spoke calmly.

"Hmph, compared to me, you're still far inferior. Plenty of people would entrust missions to me even if they knew my age!" Deidara instantly regained his confidence and spoke proudly.

"That's because nearly all the missions you take involve terror attacks. Whether you succeed or fail, the people who hire you won't face any risk. On top of that, your Ninjutsu is unusual, which is why that happens. I've never taken those kinds of missions, and I don't have Ninjutsu with such a wide range." Miao spoke calmly.

"Hmph!" Deidara snorted coldly. He knew Miao was telling the truth. Then he looked at Miao and said, "Your name is pretty interesting too. Wu—the Second Tsuchikage of Iwagakure was also named Wu. That isn't your real name, is it? We've talked for so long, but I still don't know your name."

Miao froze slightly, then smiled. "That's true. Let me introduce myself again. My name is Uchiha Miao."

"Uchiha Miao... Uchiha? You're a Konoha Ninja?!" Deidara was immediately startled. Of course he knew the Uchiha name. Known as Konoha's foremost noble clan, they were well-known throughout the entire Ninja World. In particular, the Uchiha Clan's Kekkei Genkai, the Sharingan, was renowned across the Ninja World and had earned tremendous achievements for Konoha in every Ninja World War.

"A Konoha Ninja? No. I am indeed a member of the Uchiha Clan, but I'm not a Konoha Ninja." Miao smiled. When Deidara mentioned Konoha, a flash of Cold Light passed through Miao's eyes.

"A member of the Uchiha Clan, yet not a Konoha Ninja... could you be a Rogue Ninja?" Deidara asked curiously.

"Heh, you could say that. My Father and Mother really were Konoha Rogue Ninja, and I was born after my father left the village." Miao spoke calmly. As he said this, his originally black eyes instantly began to change. Scarlet Three-Tomoe Sharingan appeared in his eyes, the Three Black Tomoe spinning rapidly before merging with the black dot at their center. A pitch-black, eerie triangular Shuriken appeared within his scarlet pupils, looking incomparably bewitching and dangerous as an evil, cold aura spread out.

"What kind of eyes are those?!" At the sight of Miao's bizarre eyes, Deidara's body shook. The scene before him began to distort, as though his soul were about to be sucked into those strange eyes.

Miao noticed Deidara's abnormality and froze for a moment before closing his Mangekyō Sharingan, returning his eyes to their original black pupils. Only after the Mangekyō Sharingan vanished did Deidara gradually regain his senses. At some point, his body had become drenched in cold sweat.

Taking a deep breath, Deidara gradually calmed down. He looked at Miao in shock and said, "What kind of eyes were those just now? I felt like my soul was about to leave my body. What terrifying eyes. That wasn't an ordinary Sharingan, was it?"

Deidara was, after all, a genius Ninja from Iwagakure and had access to plenty of intelligence. He had occasionally seen the appearance of the Sharingan in documents before, but he had never seen eyes like Miao's.

"I'm Sorry. I remembered some things just now and got a little emotional, so I couldn't control myself for a moment." Miao apologized to Deidara.

"That doesn't matter! Quickly tell me what those eyes are. Such beautiful eyes—I've never seen anything like them before. They're like a precious work of art!" Deidara asked with great interest, his face full of curiosity.

"Those eyes are called the Mangekyō Sharingan. They are an advanced form of the ordinary Sharingan, a Dojutsu more powerful than an ordinary Sharingan." Seeing Deidara's excited expression, Miao could not bear to spoil his mood and answered calmly.

"The Mangekyō Sharingan? It sounds pretty impressive. Yeah, not bad, not bad. Your ability counts as a kind of art too. You barely qualify." Deidara spoke proudly.

"So that means..." Miao looked at Deidara with a faint smile.

"Yeah, I agree. I'll act together with you!" Deidara turned his head away awkwardly as he spoke, having seen Miao's expression.