Konoha: Starting the Game as Yoriichi

Sasori was dead. His head and body were in two separate places, lying powerlessly on the ground. The wind and sand blew past, and wave after wave of dust soon buried his corpse.

In the sky, Deidara adjusted his posture, barely managing to stabilize his body which had almost been knocked over by the blast wave. If he had been knocked down by his own bomb, he would truly be the first of his kind. If word got back to the Akatsuki, he would definitely be laughed to death by his other comrades.

Deidara quickly looked down, wanting to see if Sasori had witnessed his pathetic scene. The next second, his face was filled with astonishment. The white mist was gone. On the desert, which was constantly being stirred up by the wind and sand, were only the countless shattered parts of the Performance of a Hundred Puppets.

The Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets was shattered?

This...

Deidara temporarily suppressed the unstoppable shock in his heart. His gaze moved, continuing to search for Sasori's figure. Soon, he saw it. A familiar, thin, red-haired head was stuck in the yellow sand. And a body that was about to be buried by the sand.

Seeing this, Deidara's pupils suddenly contracted. Finally, he murmured, "That guy Sasori... he just left me... and died?"

Deidara was dumbfounded, his gaze turning to the other figure in disbelief.

Kusuo stood with his sword in hand. The fierce wind blew his clothes, his red haori fluttering and rustling. He was like the most ethereal swordsman in this ninja world, dancing with his blade.

So... this guy just now... had killed his teammate with a single slash?

After a brief moment of being dazed, Deidara immediately reacted. A trace of sadness flashed across his face. Although their relationship was not good and they often bickered, the death of Sasori of the Red Sand still had a certain impact on his heart. It was not a comfortable feeling.

He shouted towards Sasori's corpse, "Hey! You bastard! I was planning to let you witness my ultimate art! I didn't expect that this time, you would go ahead of me."

Then, he turned to face Kusuo. "There's no other way. It seems you're the only lucky one."

"C4! Garuda!"

Deidara took out a super-large lump of exploding clay from his mouth, his stomach expanding to three or four times its normal size. Then, he spat out a puppet the size of a Tailed Beast. The puppet looked exactly like Deidara, though its movements were slightly sluggish. But due to the difference in size, every step the giant Garuda puppet took was comparable to the distance Kusuo covered with each flash of his Thunderclap.

DONG!

DONG!

DONG!

The heavy footsteps made the earth tremble. Each step was like it was stomping on one's heart, making it pound with unease.

Kusuo was solemn. It seemed that Deidara was the most difficult one to deal with. He could casually swing his sword and cut down the small bombs. But once it involved the secret-art-level C-series bombs, each one was extremely troublesome. This giant bomb, comparable in size to a Tailed Beast, what kind of fluctuation would it cause once it exploded? He feared that the desert beneath his feet would be incinerated. One had to be wary.

"Haha! This is my art! Appreciate it!" Deidara laughed wildly. Looking at his masterpiece, his eyes were filled with madness. The C4 Garuda bomb was filled with small, white, exploding-clay spiders. The moment it was detonated, it would produce a complete chain reaction. In the end, a large number of white exploding spiders would climb all over the enemy's body and explode along with the Garuda.

This move was originally prepared to deal with Itachi's Sharingan. Now, to use it on the person who had defeated Itachi Uchiha... it was definitely not a loss.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Deidara felt as if he were about to witness the greatest art in this world.

The giant puppet was gradually approaching Kusuo. Each step it took not only shook the heavens and the earth, but also greatly shortened the distance between it and him.

"This is really quite pressuring," he said, but a corner of Kusuo's mouth lifted slightly. He was not that nervous. In fact, the answer to dealing with Deidara had long been explained in the original story.

And that was... Lightning Style.

During the Fourth Great Ninja War, Deidara was brought back by the Impure World Reincarnation. It was because Omoi's Lightning Style's paralyzing effect had neutralized the effect of his exploding clay, thus preventing his explosion. It was the same in his battle with Sasuke. Sasuke, after using his Chidori Sharp Spear, had Deidara running with his head in his hands. He only found a countermeasure after figuring out the seventy-meter limit of Sasuke's Chidori Sharp Spear.

"However," Kusuo thought, "my sword aura has no maximum range."

A confident smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

ZING!

The sound of a sword hummed. The pure white blade once again turned into a glittering golden light.

Hoo~

Wisps of scorching white vapor escaped from between his teeth. Kusuo crouched down slightly, his entire body rippling with intimidating sparks of lightning, which danced crazily. In his eyes, golden pupils like molten lava flashed.

"Thunder Breathing, Fifth Form! Heat Lightning!"

SWISH!

Black lightning raged. A golden light flashed past. The sword aura was like a rainbow, golden and black hot lightning intertwined, surging. Like a distant rice-spirit, it forked into three intertwined lines of lightning and shot out.

BOOM!

A black hole a meter in diameter suddenly appeared on the body of the giant clay doll bomb, Garuda. Golden lightning and black hot lightning flashed in the black hole, and in a crackle, it spread over Garuda's entire body.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

A series of muffled, low explosions sounded. Like a misfired cannonball, the exploding spiders spread throughout Garuda's body all deflated.

Lightning... had completely suppressed the properties of the exploding clay.

Lightning counters Earth.

"Dammit!" The Deidara in the sky had a furious expression. His work of art, which he had held such high hopes for, had actually misfired. At this moment, a monstrous anger burned in his chest. He had even forgotten the death of his comrade, Sasori, and only wanted to completely prove his art.

Forget it!

He steeled his heart. Deidara took out all his remaining exploding clay and continuously fed it to the mouths in his hands. One after another, exploding spiders and exploding centipedes descended from the sky, thrown down by Deidara without a care for his own life.

The sky full of white clay blotted out the sun, hiding the scorching star above.

Feeling the cool shadow above, Kusuo's eyes held a hint of confusion. Doesn't he know this is a futile effort? Has Deidara been kicked in the head by a donkey? Even the Garuda was completely countered by his Thunder Breathing. What was the use of these small bombs?

Could it be? Is Deidara getting desperate?

Thinking this through, Kusuo looked up at the problem child and said with a smile, "We've already reached this point. Are you starting to get anxious?"

Deidara was stunned for a moment. Me? Anxious? How could I possibly be anxious? Immediately, Deidara fell silent, the action of throwing down small spiders and small centipedes becoming even more diligent.

Seeing this, Kusuo was at a loss for words. This guy really was a child with a problem in his head.

"You're the one who's anxious! Art is an explosion! Just watch! Explode!" Deidara shouted from the sky.

RUMBLE!

Immediately, the exploding clay toys in mid-air began to detonate.

RUMBLE—

A terrifying air wave rippled out in one circle after another. It directly overturned the entire sand layer of the ground, revealing the darker colored sand beneath. However, the distance was too great. Only the air wave reached him. So Kusuo lightly swung his sword. The sword aura, flashing like electricity, easily blocked this explosive shockwave.

What on earth is Deidara up to? He hadn't even swung his sword to cut down these exploding clay toys, and he had already detonated them. Could it be that he just wanted to set off some fireworks for him to see?

Suddenly, a palpitation flashed in Kusuo's heart. In his mind, it was as if he had suddenly lost a sense of a presence. That was... the disappearing breath of Deidara.

According to his personality, this problem child would absolutely not run away.

As expected.

Kusuo looked up. Deidara had actually taken advantage of the massive dust cloud kicked up by the blast wave to fly over on his clay bird. His body was already covered in dense black lines.

Those... were the C4 detonation lines.

"That madman!" Kusuo was surprised. He couldn't use a summoning jutsu. It was absolutely impossible for him to summon Manda to help him block like Sasuke did.

So... VMM!

Lightning surged. The black mark on Kusuo's forehead, which hadn't been seen for a long time, began to move. In the blink of an eye, it turned a scorching and noble red.

Mark, open!

Kusuo's aura suddenly rose again. The arcs of lightning flashing on his body became denser and more dazzling.

SIZZLE—

A pillar of lightning as thick as a bowl coiled around him, his pupils completely turning a brilliant pure gold. Crouching down, Kusuo poured almost all his body's strength into his feet.

"Thunder Breathing, First Form!"

"Thun! Der! Clap! And! Flash!"

The last word was spoken. Kusuo's body had already disappeared. In that instant, all that was left on the spot was a field of lightning and sparks.

In mid-air, Deidara, who was grinning ferociously, was about to let his enemy witness the explosion of his ultimate art. His smile suddenly froze. The dense black C4 detonation lines in his body suddenly went silent. No matter how he injected chakra, there was no reaction.

His frozen face suddenly felt a bolt of lightning strike him from above. A figure like a god had appeared above him at some unknown point. Red clothes rustled, wrapped in a pillar of lightning.

Violent. Surging. Like a heavenly god descending to earth.

At that moment, Deidara saw his head growing further and further away from his body, watching as his body, covered in black lines, fell powerlessly to the ground.

A clear voice sounded from above. "Did you see? This is the ultimate art."

"Its name is not 'explosion', but—"

"Focus on one point! Ascend to the pinnacle!"

Pak.

Deidara's head also landed on the desert, his eyes wide with disbelief, dazed and lost. Because that person, like a god, had told him that his explosion was not art. True art was called: Focus on one point! Ascend to the pinnacle!

It was that Thunderclap and Flash that shot into the sky.

"Hah!" After landing on the ground, Kusuo took a deep breath. That one slash just now was the fastest he could manage at his full strength. He had destroyed the C4 lines in Deidara's body just before he got close.

Sheathing his sword, he completed these tasks cleanly and decisively. Kusuo didn't bother with Deidara's corpse in the rear. Instead, he came to the place where Sasori had died earlier. He used his scabbard to flip over the covering sand and dust, then picked up Sasori's corpse. After searching his body for a while, a scroll appeared in his hand.

He opened it and looked. The contents were none other than the details of the cooperation between the Sand Village and the Akatsuki. His heart already knew. Kusuo, who had guessed the result, was not surprised.

His gaze continued to sweep downwards. A square seal came into his sight.

That was... the seal of the Daimyo of the Land of Wind.

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