"Do you think there's anything about you worth summoning you from the Pure Land just to mess with you?"
Naruto Uzumaki shot back.
Pakura paused at his words.
He had a point.
Could it be
that the man before her
really could make her Kazekage, just as he'd said?
No!
That was impossible!
"No matter what you say, I won't believe you."
"Besides... I don't even want to be Kazekage."
Pakura's voice fell.
Back then,
during the Third Shinobi World War, her Kekkei Genkai had earned her quite a name across the Shinobi World.
She had also commanded great respect among the Ninja of Sunagakure.
With the Third Kazekage missing at the time, many in the village had wanted her to become Kazekage.
She herself
had worked hard toward that goal.
But
just because her Kekkei Genkai was Scorch Release rather than Magnet Release, everything she had done had been ruthlessly dismissed.
In the end,
Rasa, who possessed Magnet Release, became the Fourth Kazekage.
If that had been the end of it, Pakura would have had nothing more to say.
But...
Once Rasa took power, he remained wary of her as a formidable rival for the Kazekage title.
Later,
to mend relations with Kirigakure and give it a reason to befriend Sunagakure, he lured her into a trap there under the pretext of a mission. She died beneath a storm of Kunai.
She had been a hero of the village, yet that was how she had ended up...
What reason did she have to feel any attachment to a village like that?
At the thought, Pakura looked at Naruto Uzumaki. "If you want to use me to take revenge on Sunagakure, I can help."
"No. The Sunagakure you knew is gone."
Naruto Uzumaki shook his head. "Sunagakure is under my