Boom, boom, boom! The three ninjas responsible for guarding the top of the Kazekage Tower fell to the ground in response. Because small explosives were used, the sound didn't travel too far.
Deidara manipulated the large bird to descend, jumped onto the roof, propped himself up with one hand, and said confidently, "Infiltration successful."
However, what greeted him was Gaara's indifferent voice: "It ends here."
The scene was very similar to when Naruto confidently infiltrated that day, only to look up and see his Old Dad, but Deidara had a better attitude: "This saves me the time of looking for you. Sasori-sama doesn't like waiting, hmm."
Deidara revealed a confident smile, then jumped onto the bird's back and ran. Just kidding, kneading clay to make explosives takes time, okay?
As soon as Deidara took off, a pile of sand had already covered the place where he was originally standing. Gaara waved his hands, manipulating the sand to pursue.
"Black and Red Cloud Robe, is it Akatsuki?" Gaara had also received some news about the Akatsuki from Konoha, knowing that they were coming for Shukaku.
The flying speed and flexibility of the sand couldn't keep up with the Clay Bird manipulated by Deidara, so Gaara chose to win with quantity.
The ground within a three-hundred-meter radius suddenly surged, and a large amount of sand rose into the sky, forming two huge Sand Hands, waving like trying to catch flies to capture the relatively small Deidara.
During this time, Deidara relied on his flexibility to fly up and down, occasionally throwing out his works of art, blasting open the sand blocking the way, or making small birds trying to find opportunities to attack Gaara.
After more than five minutes of fighting between the two, Kankuro arrived with his men, directing his subordinates to set up mechanical devices.
"Anti-Air Weapon Type I, first round of test firing ready, release!"
Hundreds of one-meter-long arrows were launched as the ninjas injected Chakra, and Gaara cooperated by using sand to block Deidara's dodging space.
Deidara quickly flew out of the sand's encirclement, traversing through the gaps in the rain of arrows, successfully dodging the first round of attacks, but immediately afterward, the second round of arrows came flying head-on!
"This kind of trick..."
Boom! Boom! This time, Exploding Tags were attached to the arrowheads!
The shock wave generated by the explosion caused the large bird under Deidara's feet to shake violently. After finally stabilizing his figure, he was still in the mood to comment: "Crude art, hmm."
Deidara rapidly swooped down, traversing through the streets of Sunagakure Village, he didn't want to be treated as a target all the time.
Sure enough, Kankuro stopped shooting. If they continued to fight like that, they would be bombing their own village.
Deidara's pressure was greatly reduced, and he raised his hand and threw out three flying birds like geese, heading straight for Kankuro's anti-air unit: "The Twin-Winged Bird's flying speed is very fast, drink!"
"Retreat!" Kankuro shouted loudly, just as he was unfolding the scroll to release his sealed puppets, the Twin-Winged Bird had already flown close and exploded with a rumble.
"Solved, those annoying guys." Deidara excitedly looked at the exploding fire, this was art.
But his smile didn't last long. When the smoke cleared, only a row of anti-air weapons was seen blown to pieces, but those people were protected by a thick sand wall, unscathed.
"Kazekage-sama!"
"It's Kazekage-sama!"
A group of ninjas who had survived the disaster looked at the expressionless Gaara with admiration.
Kankuro also breathed a sigh of relief. He almost killed his companions because of his command error. Fortunately, Gaara was there.
"Fall back." Gaara also realized at this time that there was very little that ordinary ninjas could do when facing this kind of opponent.
Kankuro also realized this and quickly ordered: "The enemy is a ninja who is good at creating explosions. Immediately notify the Barrier Team, there must be no civilian casualties. Also, contact the outposts around the village, the enemy may have accomplices!"
"Yes!" *n
A group of people dispersed to do their respective tasks.
Kankuro stayed behind, watching Gaara jump onto a cloud of sand with worry, flying into the sky to confront Deidara.
Deidara wouldn't honestly confront Gaara; he reached into the bag at his waist, and both mouths began to chew on clay.
Gaara also needed to make some preparations: "Shukaku, notify Naruto, the person he's been waiting for has arrived."
"Why look for him? This great one could just take care of those guys."
Shukaku didn't want to contact that fox. Last time, he was ridiculed for a long time because of that monk playing the lute. If he asked for help again this time, where would he put his face in the future?
"It's not asking for help. We'll still deal with the enemies ourselves. Naruto and the others are looking for the whereabouts of these people. This time, we'll just be returning a favor."
Over so long, Gaara had come to understand some of Shukaku's personality. If he wasn't given a way out, he would stubbornly hold on until the end.
"If that's the case, it's not impossible." Shukaku didn't like owing favors, especially not to that stinky fox, so he reluctantly began to make contact.
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Naruto was woken up by Little Orange, who took turns slapping his forehead with her nine tails. It was a little after four, almost five o'clock, the time when he was sleeping soundly, so he was in a very bad mood after being woken up.
"What?" Naruto sat up, rubbing his sleepy eyes, and asked unhappily.
Little Orange said, "Go ask the main body, Shukaku is looking for you."
"Oh." Naruto entered the Sealing Space and joined the group chat.
At this hour, Shukaku contacting him made Naruto wake up instantly. He asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen to Gaara?"
Shukaku was surprised that Naruto guessed it right away, but he didn't show it, saying very proudly, "With this great one here, what could happen to him?"
Nine Tails didn't humor him at all, mocking, "Heh, it's not like you weren't the one who had your neck strangled by chains last time."
Shukaku's temper flared up at the slightest provocation, and he shouted in his shrill voice, "Stinky fox, do you want to fight?!"
"Sure, it's been a while since I beat you up." Of course, Nine Tails wasn't afraid of fighting.
"Stop, stop, stop, let's finish the important stuff first." Naruto quickly stopped them; these two would never end if they started arguing.
"Hmph, that Akatsuki that you told him to watch out for has arrived." Shukaku recounted the events, also describing the enemy's appearance.
Golden hair, using explosives, flying around on a strange bird, it seemed that it was Deidara without a doubt, so his partner should still be Sasori. After all, Sunagakure Village was Sasori's old home, so it was normal for him to be a guide.
"I'm going over there right away!" Naruto jumped out of bed, quickly changed his clothes, and put on his ninja tool bag.
"Little Orange, go tell Old Dad and Old Mom, I'll go check out the situation first!"
Naruto found the coordinates of the Kunai he had given to Gaara before and activated the Flying Thunder God Technique.
The next second, Naruto appeared in a dark space, staring wide-eyed at Gaara.
"This is..." Naruto blinked, looking at the spherical walls around him, listening to the explosions outside, and immediately realized that he was inside Gaara's Absolute Defense.
Careless, in the future, this kind of long-distance teleportation should have a clone scout ahead, otherwise, if he happened to fly into the center of an explosion and get boxed, that would be a big joke.
"Naru..." Gaara's eyes suddenly widened.
Naruto turned his head and saw white clay seeping out of the sand diagonally above, turning into Clay Spiders!
Naruto grabbed Gaara's arm: "Dodge!"
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