Calculating the time, it should be right after the Five Kage Summit ended, when the Mizukage and the others encountered the Xuanyuan Crowd, Deidara and Kisame Hoshigaki arrived at Kirigakure.
The Land of Water is essentially an archipelago nation, with one large island in the center and countless smaller islands surrounding it.
Kirigakure is located on the large island. Perhaps because the island is surrounded by the sea, the mist in Kirigakure never dissipates, adding a touch of mystery to the village.
Before Yagura departed to attend the Five Kage Summit, he had meticulously arranged the village's defenses. Around the village, at the borders of the main island, and even in the sky and underwater, there were rotating shifts for observation.
The Akatsuki organization has various ways of infiltrating, so precautions must be taken.
It's just a pity that with Kisame, the turncoat, around, most of the arrangements were in vain.
Kisame couldn't be more familiar with Kirigakure. He could guess where to place the sentries and hidden posts with great accuracy. In addition, he could use his summoning beast, the shark, to help scout underwater.
This is also the reason why the major ninja villages hunt down rogue ninja. The impact of rogue ninja on the village's defenses is simply too great.
And Deidara still chose an aerial attack.
The arm that was crushed in Sunagakure Village, had been reattached somehow. This time, he learned from the lesson of invading Sunagakure Village—being recognized in advance by Gaara because he was riding a bird not found in the desert. This time, he created a bird common in the Land of Water.
In addition, the perennial mist provided convenience for Deidara's aerial attack. He flew all the way to the sky above Kirigakure without being discovered.
After all, Ao was the only one in the village with the ability to see through things, and he couldn't keep his Byakugan open all the time to be vigilant. Even Neji, the original version, couldn't handle overuse of the Byakugan, let alone him, who had a transplanted one.
According to the information provided by Kisame, Deidara chose a few important locations and bombed them indiscriminately, successfully causing a commotion.
The Kirigakure ninja reacted quickly and soon brought out specially researched anti-air ninja tools. With Ao's Byakugan assisting in the command, they fiercely counterattacked Deidara.
Moreover, they kept changing positions under Ao's reminder. Deidara's vision was limited, and he couldn't accurately pinpoint and detonate targets when facing this hit-and-run tactic.
So the irritable Deidara directly kneaded a C3·Eighteen Arhats and threw it down.
A teardrop-shaped, strange Clay doll with wings fell from the sky, quickly expanding to the size of a house.
"Not good!" Ao could see the amount of Chakra contained within through his Byakugan. Compared to the previous Clay bombs, this big guy could probably destroy at least half of Kirigakure!
At this time, Kirigakure had no information about Deidara's weaknesses. What Ao could think of was to prevent it from falling, or reduce its explosive power.
So Ao quickly ordered the Water Release ninja and Earth Release ninja to frantically build walls around the landing point for defense, and let the relatively few Wind Release and Lightning Release ninja seize the opportunity to attack.
As for whether it would detonate in advance, he couldn't care less. The loss caused by accidental detonation was definitely smaller than the loss caused by the enemy finding a good opportunity to detonate it on their own initiative.
What if the explosive power could be reduced after being cut through by Wind Release and Lightning Release? There was no time to think too much at this time, so he could only try first.
Under everyone's vigilant gaze, the C3·Eighteen Arhats, ravaged by Wind Release Ninjutsu and Lightning Release Ninjutsu, fell in pieces between layers of Earth Release Barrier and Water Formation Wall, and then there was no movement.
"Katsu!" Deidara tried to detonate it, but failed. "Tch, are there Lightning Release ninja?"
Ao's Byakugan clearly saw Deidara making the same detonation gesture in the air as before, the flow of Chakra was also consistent with when he detonated other bombs before, plus the frustrated look on his face:
"It seems that it really can't be detonated. Is it because it was destroyed before the explosion or for other reasons?"
Ao carefully recalled Deidara's techniques: "The hand seals that guy made seem to be all Earth Release Ninjutsu hand seals, so the inability to detonate is very likely because Lightning Release restrains Earth Release, but to be cautious, it still needs to be verified."
Ao vaguely guessed Deidara's weakness, and Deidara also noticed Ao's existence because the Wind Release had blown away a lot of the mist: "That guy looks like a commander, huh."
Deidara circled over Kirigakure, deftly dodging the ninja tools that flew up from time to time, and took this time to make a dozen ugly and cute Clay figures, which, if you had to say, had some of the charm of Baymax from Big Hero 6.
Scattering the C2-level Baymax down, Deidara also deliberately designed a structure that made their descent speed relatively slow, in order to give the Mist Ninja enough reaction time.
Ao swept his eyes and judged that the power of those large white figures, even if not as good as the previous puppet, would not be too far off. He immediately ordered the Lightning Release ninjas beside him, "Quickly stop them! Attack with Lightning Release Ninjutsu!"
"Yes!" The Lightning Release ninjas scattered.
Ao estimated the falling speed of the large white figures and the running speed of the ninjas, and figured they should make it in time, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
But he immediately felt something was wrong. Why did that guy seem to be deliberately letting them stop the explosions?
"You took the bait, hmm." Deidara in the air revealed a confident smile, "Let you try the new art I created to commemorate Brother Sasori—C4·Jade Maiden!"
A Clay puppet quickly fell, and before landing, it had already turned into a Red Hair teenager wearing a Black and Red Cloud Robe—Akatsuki's King·Sasori of the Red Sand!
The ninjas who were originally manipulating ninja tools beside Ao instantly shifted their attention to 'Sasori', and raised their weapons to aim at him.
"Is this the enemy's true face?"
"He actually dared to give up his aerial advantage and break in alone!"
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Ao immediately shouted, "Retreat! That's not the real person, it's a bomb like before, retreat! Defend!"
"What?!" Despite their surprise, they quickly reacted one by one, retreating while releasing a circle of Water Formation Wall, surrounding 'Sasori'.
At the same time, 'Sasori' opened his mouth, his head rotated strangely, and he spat out hundreds of Clay senbon.
The senbon were blocked by the Water Formation Wall, but it didn't affect their explosion. After a burst of splashing water, the Water Formation Wall disappeared.
"This time it's not the main body exploding, but a weapon-launching type?" Ao couldn't figure out what the point was.
"The point is to commemorate Brother Sasori, hmm. After Brother Sasori left, no one in the organization understood art anymore, hmm." Deidara was a little sad, as if Sasori was still by his side, and said, "Brother Sasori, true art should be fleeting, ha!"
The 'Sasori' below erupted with dazzling light, and everything within fifty meters was enveloped.
"Crap!" Ao and the others didn't have time to make any other movements, so they could only raise their arms to block their faces.
The light dissipated, and the position of 'Sasori' was empty, and everyone was safe and sound.
"A dud?" The same question arose in everyone's mind.
But Ao could see the misty Chakra in the air in his vision: "What is this?"
No one explained to him, because everyone covered by these strange Chakras, including him, all scattered like shredded paper in the wind.
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