Chapter 10: Chapter – 10 Snatching a Puppet
At this moment, there was only one thought left in Kuroto's mind, 'it was really over this time'.
With the experience level of a strong ninja at the level of someone like Sasori, once the unexpected effect is lost, it will be extremely difficult to succeed in a sneak attack the second time. And fighting against Sasori, even if it is only a trivial scratch, Kuroto will lose his fighting ability due to poisoning, and there is no freakin way he wouldn't be getting injured if he fought against Sasori.
Therefore, the failure of this sneak attack meant that the victory or defeat has already been decided for Kuroto.
In the very instant, the Sandaime Kazekage's puppet was attracted by the Rein Wheel Pull and was held by Kuroto through the neck with one hand, so it lost the control of the magnetic Dun due to being disconnected with the Chakra strings, the iron spears in the air collapsed and turned into black iron sand that scattered all over.
Looking at the Sandaime Kazekage's puppet held by Kuroto, from a distance, Sasori's face was extremely red from embarrassment. At this moment, he was both surprised and suspicious, and even a little frustrated.
Although Kuroto's heart was a little frustrated due to messing up the one opportunity he had of successfully repelling Sasori, but Kuroto still maintained his calm façade on the outside, and the slightest anger was not visible on his face.
In this way, for a while, the two people who were both a little cautious of the other side confronted each other silently.
This kind of confrontation made Kuroto, who was lacking confidence in his chances of survival, made even more nervous, and at this moment, he was surprised to find that the Chakra in his body was constantly rushing to the Sandaime Kazekage's puppet he was holding.
The abnormal change protruded, Kuroto still did not dare to show any signs on his face, staring coldly at the opposite Sasori.
Feeling the chakra in his body pouring more and more into the Sandaime KazeKage's puppet, Kuroto's courage became more and more empty, he was thinking that he had finally awakened the Tenseigan with such difficulty, and if he lost his life in the first battle his heart can't accept this result.
When about two-thirds of the Chakra in the body poured into KazeKage's Puppet, the puppets held by Kuroto suddenly twitched disorderly.
With the twitching of the puppets, the iron sand that had previously been scattered out of control also floated.
Sasori was startled when he saw this and shouted: "Damn, you actually know how to use puppetry? Who are you? Why were you here to meet with the assassination team of the Sand Village?"
"Sand Village's assassination team!?"
Listening to the Sasori's question, Kuroto's heart stunned.
The identities of the corpses that fell beside the Sasori before were indeed Sand Villages' assassination squad! This undoubtedly means that Sand Village has also participated in Konoha's cleansing operations, and it also means that all the senior leaders of Konoha have acquiesced to this cleaning.
But that's not something he can deal with right now!
Suppressing the resentment for the decision-making body of Konoha in his heart, Kuroto brought his attention back to the current fight.
After the initial ignorance, he now understood why the KazeKage's puppet was suddenly activated by him.
According to the vague memory of previous lives, the Tenseiagn, like the Rinnegan, has a similar great ability, which is to control puppets.
The method for the Rinnegan to control the puppets is using the black stick. Pain's six paths are all puppets under the control of Nagato's Rinnegan, while the method of the Tenseiagn to control a puppet is to inject the Tenseigan chakra. Once a sufficient amount of the Tenseigan chakra is injected, It can even activate souls within the puppets, allowing them to acquire a certain degree of intelligence and autonomy.
In Kuroto's impression, Otsutsuki Toneri relied on this kind of puppet, and the main body did not show up in the Ninja World initially, so he easily defeated the Hyuga Patriarch: Hiashi Hyuga who was close to the Kage level, and sneaked out of the village taking away Hyuga Hanabi.
After comprehending this point, Kuroto had a thought. Without the control of the Chakra line, under Kuroto thoughts, the puppet of KazeKage slowly floated, posing an attacking posture to the opposite Sasori, as if guarding Kuroto from the front.
At this moment, Kuroto said indifferently, "I am not interested in getting rid of Sand's missing-nin. We don't need to fight anymore."
Sasori's face was now sullen and fuming with rage hearing Kuroto's words: "Taking away my beloved collection, do you think I will let you go?"
Even Sasori also faintly felt threatened, in the face of these never seen before mysterious methods, that Kuroto used to control the KazeKage puppet. At this moment, he had listed Kuroto as a powerful enemy who could threaten his life.
Kuroto smiled: "This puppet retains most of its combat power. I have to say that you are indeed a genius in making puppets."
This smile is not Kuroto's pretentious gesture, but he really felt happy at this moment, because he has Sandaime KazeKage's puppet under his control, therefore he has the flying ability in his hands, so it is up to him whether to stay and fight or just run away.
And the reason why he didn't leave the battlefield immediately and continued to have a word with Sasori was simply to buy time to think of a method to hide his identity to avoid future trouble from Sasori's pursuit of revenge.
After all, Kuroto doesn't want someone like Sasori to be after him all the time, Kuroto knows that if he displayed a little carelessness going against Sasori he will definitely lose his life, so he doesn't want Sasori to be coming after him.
"You can control the puppet without using the chakra thread, how did you do it?" After a pause, Sasori suddenly tilted his head and smiled evilly: "Forget it, when I catch you, everything will be clear!"
After that, Sasori took out a red scroll.
With Sasori's soft words, the scroll was suddenly thrown, and a group of figures flew out of the scroll, floating around him.
These figures are all puppets wearing red cloaks. There are as many as ten puppets. They have different shapes, some carried knives, some with swords, and some with huge shurikens.
Sasori smiled and said: "Red Secret Skill, Performance of Ten Puppets!"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Kuroto said secretly: "It seems that Sasori at this time has not yet mastered 'Performance of a Hundred Puppets', but even the 'Performance of Ten Puppets' is not something I can deal with!"
Wouch… wouch… wouch…
Amidst the shaking of the puppets, the ten red robe puppets pounced on Kuroto.
Kuroto's brow furrowed, and he raised his hand again to make a Rein Wheel Push.
After losing two-thirds of the Chakra, he actually had no combat effectiveness, so he used the Rein Wheel Push to bounce off the ten red robe puppets that had fallen on him, and immediately jumped on KazeKage's puppet.
In an instant, the iron sand in the sky turned into a pair of iron wings, and KazeKage's puppet flew away with Kuroto towards the corpse of Mitsui at the far end.
Sasori who was repelled away with the puppets, secretly cursed: "Damn it, this is another unknown technique!"
Sasori feels a headache thinking about the strange and unknown techniques that can be performed at will without the need for the seal, but through this confrontation, he also keenly perceives that the effective range of the strange Push and Pull technique is only about 15 meters, so he immediately changed the engaging strategy, and a puppet was manipulated to launch a long-range throwing attack on Kuroto.
However, KazeKage's puppet who was under Kuroto's control hardy needed Kuroto's command to use Magnet Dun and blocked all the incoming Kunai and Shuriken attacks.
Sasori who was chasing after Kuroto saw this had his face sinking, and he felt as if he was slapped in the face by his masterpiece.
Soon, under the control of the Sasori, all the throwing weapons of the ten red-robed puppets were replaced with a thousand bones that had been hardened with poison.
Since Magnetic Dun can't control non-metals, so KazeKage Puppet changed part of the iron sand into a hemispherical shaped shield that protected Kuroto from behind.
Tink… ding…
For some time, the sound of Kunai and Shuriken, hitting the iron sand ball wall continued coming as Kuroto was making his escape…
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Chapter 11: Chapter – 11 Acting a Chase
Kuroto didn't entangle with Sasori and directly flew over Mitsui's corpse, while also throwing a few Kunai's wrapped in an explosive tag at his corpse without any hesitation.
Boom-boom… boom...
BOOM…!!!
With a violent explosion, Mitsui's body suddenly fell apart.
The reason why Kuroto destroyed Mitsui's body was to prevent Sasori from finding his identity based on Mitsui's identity.
After all, he doesn't know how long he will stay at the border post. If Sasori rings at the door, he won't even have a place to escape. You must know that the village is trying to clean him at this moment. If he abandons the post and escapes, the village would just find a convenient excuse of punishing him for a crime of fleeing, and he will be executed fairly, which is not something he will allow.
So, he ruined Mitsui's body, therefore Sasori would not be able to figure out Kuroto's identity that easily.
Because no matter how strong Sasori is, eventually, he is only a missing-nin at this point in time, and without the support of Sand Village backing him up, he will inevitably lack a source to give him the required intelligence for him to figure out Kuroto's identity.
And this time Konoha and Sand Village did secret cooperation. It involves the cleaning of their own people, so there must be very few insiders, and they must be the highest level authorities of both the villages, so whether Sasori wants to get information from Konoha or Sand, it is very difficult for him to find out the specific list of personnel involved under this purging operation.
Kuroto thought all these messy thoughts while escaping in the sky, while Sasori chased him on the ground, and the distance between the two sides naturally kept on increasing.
Glancing at the furious Sasori that fell far behind him, Kuroto smiled freely.
Sasori at the moment hasn't joined Akatsuki. Although he has an impressive record of killing a Kage rank individual, he still belongs to the category of the traditional sand hidden puppet master. He has few methods in his hands, and that is being too dependent on puppets or poisons, besides he also lacks the means to deal with all kinds of weird techniques.
Therefore, after Kuroto luckily took away Sandaime KazeKage's puppet, Sasori's effective combat power was immediately reduced.
This weakening does not only refer to combat effectiveness. More importantly, it is mobility. Without the KazeKage's puppet, Sasori lost the initiative on the battlefield.
This is one of the reasons why the Yondaime Hokage-sama can surpass Sannin and other Kage level Ninja at such a young age.
Those fighting against Yonadaime-sama can't catch up to him in terms of speed, and those who can't fight him in terms of strength can't escape him. Where? When? and How? All three initiative lies in the hands of Yondaime-sama's hands. This is the biggest helplessness all the enemies of Yondaime-sama must have faced. And as the strength of Yondaime-sama kept increasing day-by-day, slowly he became almost unbeatable, and finally, the alias 'Golden Flash' became an existence highly feared by the enemies.
The current strength of Sasori hasn't reached the peak state, once he joins the Akatsuki Organization, learns about the Rinnegan, and understands the concept of power above Kage-level, his strength will be further improved.
With this thought in mind, Kuroto gradually got rid of Sasori's chase, broke away from the desert, and went in the direction of the woods at the border of the Country of Tea.
After repeatedly confirming that he wasn't being chased by Sasori any longer, Kuroto deliberately circled around and finally stopped on a big tree miles away from the border outpost.
He knows that if he simply went back, he would be the one blamed for the death of Nara Mitsui.
However, he can't report his encounter with the Sasori of the Red Sand, because once he does so, then under the vigorous investigation of the village it would get increasingly difficult for him to keep Sandaime Kazekage's puppet in his hands.
And once an S-level missing-nin is involved in this matter, the village will definitely send elite ninjas for carrying out an investigation, in which case the probability of his Tenseigan being exposed will increase greatly.
Therefore he must enact a scene to make Mitsui's death seem reasonable and believable.
After thinking about it for a while, Kuroto started taking action.
He wrapped Sandaime Kazekage's puppet in a bandage from head to toe, now only his dull eyes were exposed, and finally, he put a grey cloak over.
Because the puppet is originally made from a human corpse so its body shape was almost the same as before only on the chakra line were there now for controlling in manually.
After Kuroto took care of the puppet's disguise, it now looked like a living ninja covering its body all over.
After a closed inspection and re-checking to find no flaws, Kuroto handed it few kunai and let it cut him to make the act seem more real.
When all this was done, Juroto rushed towards the direction of the outpost.
At the outpost,
Hearing a sound that was calling for help, Mitarashi Anko who was recovering from her injuries was stunned and immediately jumped out of her room and came outside.
At the same time, the other two squad leaders in the outpost also jumped out and looked in the direction of Kuroto's call for help with full alert.
In a moment, the three shinobi's were able to spot Kuroto covered in blood stumbling towards the outpost, and behind him was a strange ninja chasing after Kuroto.
The three Shinobi didn't hesitate at all and immediately rushed towards the strange ninja with the intent to kill.
Even if the Sandaime Kazekage puppet only used taijutsu, it was much better than Anko and the other two chunin squad leaders, so Kuroto made sure not to overplay so that him being able to escape won't seem suspicious.
On the side a short confrontation took place, Anko and the two squad leaders together exchanged some blows with the puppet and after a small stalemate, pretended to attack, dodged a few attacks, and then immediately retreated.
The other three were kind of confused why would the enemy choose to retreat when he had the advantage over them in terms of strength, but they still decided not to think too deeply about it and didn't bother to pursue it.
Seeing the strange ninja no longer around they turned towards Kuroto who was catching his breath and injuries, the most senior of them immediately asked him, "What happened?"
Kuroto just shook his head: "I don't know, Captain Mitsui and I were attacked as soon as we sneaked into the lands of Wing Country. In the surprise attack we encountered Captain Mitsui died on the spot, I was able to somehow escape but the enemy decided to give chase, I hid on several locations and somehow arrived here."
When Anko heard Kuroto's story her expression was gloomy again, however the expression of the two squad leaders was of being surprised.
After Kuroto came to his room, Anko followed him, and now she was helping him wrap bandages over his wounds, when she said hoarsely, "Everyone of them dead!"
The 'them' here refers to all the shinobi that were part of Orochimaru's subordinates who came with Kuroto and Anko to this border outpost.
Today only Kuroto didn't go for a mission, there were two other teams too on 'special mission' but only two squad leaders returned alive and the subordinates in the team encountered accidental death.
Kuroto remained silent as Anko informed him while helping him treat his wounds, and just nodded silently.
Only a stupid won't notice if there's no problem if, In such a remote border outpost with twelve shinobi assigned for duty, eight people died in less than two weeks, more so under similar situation, especially during the non-war period.
Obviously, this is all being done under the orders of higher authorities.
After a while, Kuroto spoke in a light whisper, "Be careful of them, most likely they are Root Shinobi, don't give them any opportunity."
Anko has also noticed that something is definitely wrong with them and nodded.
Finally, she asked, "What happened to you today?"
Kuroto glanced at worried Anko and replied quietly, "Don't worry too much about me, we really encountered an accident today."
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