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The wind jutsu roared, slig through the air with a deafening sound that made eardrums ache, and the ground trembled violently beh their feet, sending shivers down their spines!
No one had expected the battle to escate to this level right from the start.
Even so, the iron sand, stretg as far as the eye could see, seemed limitless, and no matter how the wind howled, its force seemed to dwindle against the impcable iron.
Staring at the Third Kazekage puppet's formidable jutsu, ordinary Suna Shinobi were powerless to ge the course of the battle. The shuriken and kunai they threw couldn't everate the thin yer of iron sand defense.
Uhe onsught of the Third Kazekage puppet, the rocky cliffs surrounding the Suna prison were shattered oer another.
Flying debris, mixed with dust and a howling wind, was eled towards the prison. It echoed through the underground, creating a cacophony of "thumps," "whooshes," and "ks."
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Locked in his cell, with his hands csped together, Bunpuku's neighbor, Yasuke, suddenly opened his eyes and called fuard, his face pale with terror:
"What's going on?!"
"It's Sasori! Sasori is attag! He seems to want to take our Jinchuriki!"
"You bastard! How is Baki proteg Sunagakure! Hurry up and release me and Bunpuku's chakra restraints!"
The guard looked hesitant. The Fifth Kazekage had repeatedly ordered them to keep a close eye on the prisoners.
"Do you want us all to die here?!"
"Unlock them!"
The guard trembled as he unlocked the cell and removed the chakra suppressors from the two.
"Roar—!!"
With a roar filled with savage fury, the Oailed Shukaku made its grarance.
The tide of the battle… seemed to have turned.
Swarms of scorpions, startled by the otion, scattered across the desert.
Hiding behind boulders, the Suna Shinobi watched the battle between Shukaku and the Kazekage puppets with excitement, their bodies trembling with anticipation.
"The Tailed Beast is our vilge's greatest on! That damn Akasuna no Sasori, he didn't see this ing!"
Even though they couldn't intervene itle, just witnessing these two, the stro forces in Suna's history and present, g, filled the Suna Shinobi's hearts with an indescribable pride.
It was worth dying just to withis battle of the stro!
A few panting Jonihe same. As the "tall ones," they knew of Akasuna no Sasori's terrifying puppetry. These chakra-armor-wearing puppets were truly troublesome. If they lingered any lohey might be in real danger.
Fortunately, there was Shukaku.
They had always treated Bunpuku with respeow, it seemed that Shukaku's power had saved them, a kind of karmic justice.
But before their joy could fully bloom…
Akasuna no Sasori, uhe shocked and bewildered gazes of the Suna Shinobi, summoned a sed Kazekage puppet.
"Let's see how this goes!"
"Fourth Kazekage: Rasa Puppet!"
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After entering Rōran, Gojo Kaigetsu could clearly sehe hostility of the locals.
Perhaps it was directed at Suna, perhaps at Konoha as well.
The current ruler of Rōran was a queen.
The Queen of Rōran stood at the forefront of her people, her expression wary. "Suna Shinobi… Rōran does not wele you. Please leave!"
"Rōran has beloo the Land of Wind sint times. Now, the Daimyo has decided to recim this territory. As for you, the people of Rōran… you will be relocated to Konoha, as per the agreemeween the Daimyo and the Land of Fire."
Baki, his face impassive, produced the tract he had just signed with Gojo Kaigetsu, uniterally announg the future of the people of Rōran.
"You…"
The unarmed Queen of Rōran was filled with anger, but Baki's sentence made her wilt.
"Queen of Rōran, you don't want your people to all die here, do you?"
"Don't make this difficult, okay~? We in Konoha aren't some evil Shinobi vilge, are we~?" Gojo Kaigetsu stepped forward to smooth things over, addressing the Queen of Rōran with a serious expression.
"Please rest assured, Yhness."
"Konoha's reputation in the Shinobi world… is known to all. At the very least, the living ditions we provide to the people of Rōran will be no worse than they are now."
Konoha o expand…
Calling it a vilge was respeg the system of one try, one vilge, established by the First Hokage.
Otherwise, based on its popution and size, Konoha could easily be sidered a city.
The scale of the new Konoha vilge was enormous, and onpleted it might appear somewhat desote. They needed a rge influx of good, ho people to popute it.
This was the main reason why Gojo Kaigetsu had his eye on Rōran.
The Shinobi World hadn't experiehe wonders of the informatiohese people were still retively simple. They wouldn't refuse an opportunity to seal their own eic lifeline for peace, willingly suffering while Suna treated them like criminals.
Now, with Konoha extending an olive branch, it was hard to imagihey would refuse this kindness and choose not to ie into the new vilge.
Konoha's culture was the most inclusive~
"No matter how poor or backward Rōran is, it is still the nd where we, the people of Rōran, have lived feions!" The Queen of Rōran, after saying these words to establish her positioantly stood aside.
"We are here to capture the Suna Missing-nin Hiruzen, Do you know where he is hiding?"
"We don't know. We haven't noticed any outsiders entering these past few days."
"Enough talk!" Gojo Kaigetsu's expression hardened. "Now, Hiruzen is probably lurking around the Ryūmyaku seal. The Uzumaki sealing formu is reag… He's trying to break the Ryūmyaku seal!"
"What?!"
Baki was furious. He and Konoha had signed an agreement that only guarahe seal would be broken, nothing more.
If The chakra… if the Ryūmyaku was stolen, Suna would get nothing! And they couldn't use this to demand pensation from Konoha!
"Stop him immediately!"
"He's just oep ahead of us!"
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Just as Baki was about to give chase, ara occurred.
Paper began to rain down from the sky like drops of rain, but this was a sealed pace. Where was the paper ing from?!
Shisui and Might Guy, ag as guards, reacted instantly, springing into a to protect Gojo Kaigetsu.
Boom!
The ground shook, and a figure in a bck cloak with red clouds dramatically ehe se.
More paper began to gather, f into a human shape. Konan, wearing a mask, with a pair of paper wings on her back, hovered in the air, looking down at everyone.
"It's you!" Baki's pupils shrank as he reized the familiar uniform. Of course, he couldn't reveal his secret dealings with Akatsuki in front of Gojo Kaigetsu. He could only say with apprehension, "Why are you here?! Are you… Akasuna no Sasori's aplice?"
Konan's voice was altered by the mask. "oals are twofold: kill Gojo Kaigetsu and take trol of the Ryūmyaku."
"We have no iion of being enemies with Suna. Leave now."
"Heh—" Baki ughed out of pure rage. "Saying you have no iion of being enemies with Suna in the Land of Wind? There's o talk further. Kill them!"
Killing Gojo Kaigetsu was naturally a good thing, and Baki was all for it—
But the Ryūmyaku? Uhey walked over his subordinates' corpses—it was impossible!
That was the future development dire of Sunagakure!
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