You dared attack someone in Konoha whom anyone hoping to become Hokage had to have ties to. Weren't you pretty much asking for death?
Unfortunately, by the time the Konoha group arrived, the actual culprits who had hurt Jiraiya had left. Only Deidara and Kakuzu were currently holding the fort in Amegakure!
As two formidable S-Rank missing-nin, even if they couldn't beat the people coming for them, they should at least have been able to escape!
But things were anything but normal now!
Might Guy could already have beaten the two of them until they cried uncle. Now he was an upgraded version of that same powerhouse.
And the strength of Kakashi and the other two was nothing their original selves at this point in time could have matched!
Kakashi, Guy, Shikamaru, and Sasuke arrived outside Amegakure.
With the pride of belonging to the greatest ninja village, and confidence in their own strength, they didn't bother with a sneak attack. Instead, they openly called out at the village's main gate, demanding that Amegakure's people come out!
Pain and Konan were away! Didn't that make Kakuzu and Deidara the ones in charge of Amegakure now?
Deidara flew out on a giant clay bird, looking down from the sky at Kakashi and the others from Konoha!
"Stay alert! That's Deidara up there! His ability is clay bombs. We don't have any specific intel!" Shikamaru briefed the others the moment Deidara appeared.
"Got it!" ×3
Deidara looked down at the four of them, a trace of disdain flashing through his eyes. He thrust both hands into his ninja tool pouch, and the mouths on his palms each took a bite of clay.
"Explosive clay, C3!"
Without exchanging a single word, Deidara dropped the two clay bombs he had just prepared straight out of