Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

Chapter 203 Come to Me

I hope Deidara and Mr. Sasori can leave on their own.

"...I want you to step down."

But Deidara stared at me stubbornly: "Either you kill me, or I must complete this mission."

I realized that he seemed to be angry with me. But if I didn't express my opinions and thoughts so directly, if I still told Deidara as a friend that I didn't like him doing this kind of thing, would he give up?

No, I'm afraid not.

This is his mission. For a ninja, completing the mission is, to some extent, proving the meaning and value of his existence.

It's not something that can be made to give up easily with just a few words.

"Do you want to fight me?" I looked at Deidara and Sasori: "Do you think I'm still the same Genin who used to rely on tricks to scare you away in the Land of Waves?"

I waved my hand, Susanoo came out of my body, and the giant's body stood on the plain.

"Deidara, your Explosion Style is countered by Lightning Style, and you know very well that I am good at Lightning Style. Mr. Scorpion, I know what your true form is, and I also know where your weakness is - you can't beat me."

Scorpion looked at Deidara.

"It has nothing to do with him. Mr. Scorpion, you should know that your true identity has never been revealed to Deidara. Your information was not revealed to me by Deidara - he did not leak any information about Akatsuki."

"Who asked you to explain it to me!? Huh!?"

"...I hope you can calm down and think carefully."

"'Calm down and think carefully'?" Deidara laughed sarcastically, "What a condescending tone, worthy of an Uchiha. That disgusting arrogance is exactly the same as Uchiha Itachi."

"..."

I have indeed been observing Uchiha Itachi recently. Could it be that I have really absorbed some of his behavioral habits and tone without realizing it?

"My Susanoo is very conspicuous," I said, "The ninjas from the Sand Village will arrive soon. Unless you get rid of us before then, your mission will surely fail."

I confronted them: "Do you think you can kill us before then, Mr. Scorpion? With your Hundred Machines that can destroy a country? With your puppet mechanism called Fei Liu Hu? Or with your proud Third Generation Kazekage puppet?"

Scorpion said hoarsely: "...Who are you..."

No matter who it is, if they were caught off guard by the serious leakage of their confidential information, they would probably be afraid and dare not act rashly.

And Deidara——

If he insists on doing it, the explosion may not hurt us, but it can raze the town to the ground. To prevent this, Gaara's sand covers the entire town in the sky. This is in the desert, and the amount of sand he can control is huge.

I covered his sand with Susanoo to protect the town.

"Impossible..." Deidara whispered, "You can't protect everyone forever!"

"So many innocent lives... those who are indifferent are the ones with the biggest problem! Deidara, you were someone I wanted to protect! My dream - the peaceful and stable world I wanted to create, I thought it would make you live a happier life! But now I know that you are not only one of the people who brought chaos, pain, and destruction to this world, but you even enjoy it! If you want to blame me for not understanding you - then I can only say that I thought we could walk side by side. Now, either you follow me or you betray me, there is no third choice."

"What do you mean by following you?" Deidara sneered, "Do you want me to join the 'Insect Nest'? Don't you hate an S-rank wanted criminal like me? Didn't you say that I bring chaos, pain and destruction to this world, but I enjoy it, and that I am the opposite of you? Hmm?"

Negotiations failed.

"Gaara..." I whispered, "Catch them."

Countless sand pillars broke out of the ground and turned into a cage that trapped Deidara's big bird. He immediately controlled the big bird and tried to glide out sideways from the gaps between the sand pillars before the sand cage was completed.

I gathered my chakra at the bottom of my feet, leaped high above the sand cloud, and dropped towards Deidara's bird, my right hand thundering like a thousand birds screaming.

Charge forward!!

I rushed past Deidara, and he turned around in surprise to see me rushing straight towards Scorpion.

Raikiri hit the target right away, the puppet made a cracking sound and shattered in an instant, a black shadow leaped out at an extremely fast speed, I pulled out White Fang, condensed the lightning on the blade with my backhand, pointed the sword at Scorpion's true body, and White Fang Chidori shot towards him!

My target was his [core], but I didn't know when he had stuck the chakra thread to my body - my Susanoo had been retracted into a thin layer of armor, covering only a layer on my body surface to facilitate movement. It no longer had the form of a giant, but was more concentrated and harder.

The hidden weapon of the Red Sand Scorpion could not penetrate my armor, but the chakra thread was stuck to the surface, and he used the force to pull it. Even with Susanoo, he could not prevent the White Fang in my hand from suddenly deviating at an angle.

A streak of lightning hit the ground, brushing against his cheek.

"…I dodged it." I should be faster than before after training with Itachi. "Should I say he is worthy of being the man who killed the Third Kazekage…"

The Red Sand Scorpion landed on the ground and looked up at me. His brows were furrowed on his delicate face.

But I didn't continue chasing him, because Gaara's Sand Storm Funeral had quickly wrapped him up.

I looked at Deidara in front of me.

He didn't move. I was silent for a moment and the Chidori in my hand disappeared.

He was slow to speak, so I asked him directly: "If I die one day, will you be sad?"

"..."

"I have a friend who is very important to me. His existence has always supported me. Whenever I think that he might die, disappear, or no longer exist one day, I feel very painful and can't help crying."

"……who?"

"That's not the point. The point is, if you die one day, Deidara, I will also be very painful. What about you, Deidara? If you mourn for my life, then those lives that you took without caring... there will also be people mourning for them. Can't you put yourself in their shoes and imagine that kind of pain? As long as you have experienced that kind of pain firsthand... how can you be so unmoved and casually inflict that kind of pain on others?"

"People without any artistic talent are as insignificant as dust in this world. Their suffering is just as meaningless as dust." Deidara said slowly: "And some people, like clay, can make my art, they can become my subordinates. And some people are as gorgeous as my art. Hmm..."

"..."

"I've almost finished the fireworks you wanted to see...!"

I looked at him and knew that he still didn't think he had done anything wrong.

Maybe I should kill him.

However, even though I can empathize with the pain of others, not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and cannot watch others kill innocent people indiscriminately, I still cannot take action against Deidara.

I know he is not a good person. I know he is indifferent to human life and is naive and cruel. I know he may have done things like what he did today many times before. I know many innocent people may have died at his hands.

But I don’t know those people.

People are close or distant, and I know that among them there must be many good people, gentle people, and people who are passionate about the world, but that is not specific enough for me.

And Deidara is more real to me.

The way he smiles, the way he is happy, the way he is angry, the way he is upset, the way he is earnestly teaching me how to escape through the earth...

I can clearly feel that he is genuinely good to me.

I whispered, "Deidara, come to my side. With your talents, you can do something more valuable."

"...No." Deidara rejected me, "Why do you act like I did something wrong and you're giving me a chance to atone for it? I didn't do anything wrong! Hmm!"

On the ground, Gaara's sand storm funeral had exploded.

But Scorpion was unharmed. He released the puppet of the Third Kazekage and used magnetic jutsu before Gaara's sand jutsu could wrap him up. He then erected another layer of iron inside the sand jutsu.

Gaara's Sand Storm Funeral failed to break through the Third Kazekage's Magnetic Release.

If I can't kill Deidara, maybe I can kill Sasori.

The Scorpion-san I respected was the Scorpion-san who fought at the hands of Kankuro-sama, and the living Scorpion was a dangerous sociopath.

It would be better to send Scorpion to Lord Kankuro in advance.

I turned around, jumped off the big bird, and rushed towards the scorpion.

"Brother Scorpion!" But Deidara no longer wanted to fight. He controlled the big bird to glide down. Scorpion's chakra lines stuck to the bird's belly. The clay bird flapped its wings and the two flew away together.

Most of Gaara's chakra was used to maintain the sand covering the town, and he had just used several waves of large-scale ninjutsu, so his chakra was no longer enough to give chase.

I fell to the ground and watched them go away. I couldn't fly, so it was hard to catch up with Deidara. Or maybe... I didn't want to catch up with him.

I sighed, feeling somewhat lost, confused and distressed, "Take the root, come out."

Qu Gen crawled out from the ground, shook off the sand on his head, and walked to my side obediently.

His method of attack is to hide his tracks and enter the battlefield from underground. After Gaara and I shoot down the enemy from the air, he can use Gaara's sand as cover to mix the nano poisonous insects in and launch a secret attack.

I smashed the scorpion's shell and forced it to the ground, ready to let the poisonous root-eating insects take effect.

But if the root-taking insect had already landed on the scorpion's "core", he would not have been able to use chakra to stick to Deidara's big bird and escape.

I asked with a glimmer of hope: "Did you succeed?"

Qu Gen shook his head, a little frustrated: "He blocked it."

It should be the Magnetic Release of the Third Kazekage, which not only blocked Gaara's sandstorm funeral, but also blocked the nano-poisonous insects of the root.

Although it's a bit of a pity, it doesn't matter. After all, if he succeeds, Scorpion will be taken away by Deidara, and his body will not be retrieved.

I touched Qugen's hair. Although I felt a little depressed, I still remembered to praise him: "It's not Qugen's problem. Qugen has done a good job."

He gave me a happy smile, "Mom."

Gaara slowly took back his sand, and the town on the plain was exposed under the sky again.

"Shall we leave now?" I said, "Deidara and the others won't turn back. The ninjas from the Sand Village should be able to see the huge Susanoo just now. If they rush over to set up defenses, there should be no problem."

It would be nice if Neji was here at a time like this.

In the past, as long as he opened his white eyes, we would be able to anticipate the enemy's moves early and know whether there were people approaching and whether the other party was a friend or foe.

After getting used to Neji's super long-range vision and super wide field of view, when he was not around, although I didn't feel like I was going blind, I felt the inconvenience of becoming extremely nearsighted.

At this moment, we heard someone shouting in disbelief: "Gaara...?! Is it Gaara?!"

We turned in the direction of the sound and saw the figure of a girl carrying a huge fan on her back.

Gaara said calmly, "…It's Temari."