Naruto: I became a super shadow in the Anbu.

Chapter 372 I Don't Like Waiting
In the vast desert, it is difficult to find a specific person.

The leaf monkey released the ninja hawks from the Anbu, which flew out to search for spies from Konoha Village.

When the Ninja Eagle flies over the desert and encounters areas with a large number of Sand Ninja, such as the border fortresses of the Land of Wind or large towns, it will circle in a special trajectory on the horizon.

A highly vigilant spy will discover the Ninja Hawk.

A spy left the town at night, raised his hand in the desert, and let the ninja hawk land on his arm.

Upon seeing the small scroll on the ninja hawk's leg, the spy knew that the village wanted information about the Sand Ninja Sasori.

The spy returned to town and began contacting his superiors and subordinates.

Nightlight and the Leaf Monkey team waited patiently until the spy sent back intelligence.

Unless absolutely necessary, Yoru will not infiltrate Sunagakure to attack Sasori.

At this time, Sunagakure had several skilled fighters, unlike in the original story when Gaara was the Kazekage, when they were weak and could not be messed with.

After waiting for four or five days, I finally received the news.

Ninja Hawk brought back valuable intelligence from a spy: the young Jonin Sasori is currently searching for hard meteorite iron in the southwestern part of the Land of Wind to use as material for puppets.

Fortunately, Sasori was traveling outside Sunagakure.

The development of a puppeteer requires a lot of resources, and excellent puppeteers must find puppet materials themselves.

The sky is filled with wind and sand.

The langur squad dispersed ahead, posing as travelers, searching for scorpions in the nearby oasis town.

Because his parents died in battle, Sasori was traumatized and graduated from the ninja academy at a young age of 10. He was a lone Sand Ninja, a characteristic that is quite obvious.

Indeed, quite a few people have seen Sasori. Leaf Monkey quickly found out that Sasori had found the materials he needed and was returning to Sunagakure.

Ye Guang and his group quickened their pace.

In the desert, a young boy walks alone.

A life-sized puppet was wrapped in bandages on his back, followed by a puppet salamander.

The salamander crawls on all fours like a crocodile, carrying a piece of meteorite on its back, slowly walking through the desert.

That piece of meteorite iron was very heavy; it would be a good material for making puppets.

Scorpion walked along with listless eyes, pondering how to deal with the meteorite.

The wind around us suddenly changed direction.

A figure suddenly landed a dozen meters away from the scorpion.

Sasori saw an ANBU ninja wearing a fox mask.

His heart tightened, and his gaze quickly shifted from daydreaming to seriousness and tension.

A fox? The most famous fox ANBU in the ninja world is the Bronze Fox of Konoha Village.

Could it be the Hidden Leaf Village's Anbu?
Nightlight glanced at the salamander behind Sasori, one of Kankuro's puppets, while the Sasori in front of him was the creator of the salamander.

"Scorpion, according to Konoha's intelligence, you stole Lord Mitokado Homura's weapon treasury," Nightlight said. "Hand over the weapon treasury."

Scorpion recalled the scene when he obtained the Mitomon Flame Weapon Treasury.

Tobi, one of Madara Uchiha's subordinates, fought a fierce battle with Homura Mitokado, altering the terrain of the river.

A large lake was blasted out in the middle of the river.

Sasori was self-aware; he knew he couldn't beat Mitokado Homura or Tobi. But what right did this ANBU ninja have to act so arrogantly?
Scorpion shrugged his shoulders, and the bandaged puppet behind him fell to the ground.

"Copper Fox! I've seen the battle reports of the Second Shinobi World War! Konoha's White Fang killed my father, and you, you killed my mother!"

The bandages on Scorpion's back came undone, and the joints of the two puppets made a cracking sound as they rushed towards Konoha's Bronze Fox from two directions.

Ye Guang had almost forgotten that he and Xie had a blood feud over the murder of his mother.

Ye Guang let the two puppets rush close, raised his hand and used it as a knife to slash at the puppets.

With a copper-colored hand chop, the puppet was cleaved in two, its internal parts scattering all over the ground.

Springs, gears, and wires—these ingenious components are utterly useless for luminescence.

The other puppet thought it had a chance, and a poisoned longsword was already stabbing at Ye Guang's lower back.

However, Ye Guang raised his other hand and grabbed the poisoned longsword with his bare hand.

He used a little force and crushed the long sword.

With a single punch, he shattered the second puppet and threw away the shards of the ninja sword in his palm.

Looking at Sasori, Ye Guang thought to himself that this kid would grow into a Kage-level ninja in the future, so it would be a pity to kill him now.

Let's increase his chakra level after he grows up.

Ye Guang said, "I don't like waiting... If you don't hand over Lord Yan's five ninja swords, it seems I'll have no choice but to take them by force."

Scorpion looked at the fragments of the two puppets, feeling uneasy and powerless.

The meticulously crafted puppet couldn't even scratch the skin of the Leaf Village's Bronze Fox.

Ye Guang said, "Scorpion, I've heard you have a reputation as a genius."

Even the most ingenious person cannot sculpt mud into a work of art.

Puppetry is utterly worthless garbage.

During the Second Shinobi World War, your father and mother both died on the battlefield because they practiced such trashy puppetry.

And you, remember this: you're trash too.

Night Light transforms into Uchiha Madara, unleashing a barrage of taunts and trash talk in hopes of putting pressure on Sasori and helping him grow stronger quickly.

If Sasori doesn't grow to Kage level, how can Yako possibly gauge his chakra level?

Hearing Konoha's Bronze Fox's humiliating mockery, Sasori took out a scroll, stared intently at the Bronze Fox, and said:
"I will never allow you to insult my parents, to insult the puppetry techniques they cherished and developed! You and Konoha's White Fang will both die by my hand!"

After the white smoke dissipated, four brand-new puppets appeared.

A tall and imposing puppet wields a thousand-handed broadsword.

One puppet was entirely black, wielding an assassin's black blade. Another puppet was covered in tubular objects that shot out thousands of steel needles, and carried a giant wind demon shuriken on its back.

There is also a puppet holding a chakra metal ninja sword.

Ye Guang thought to himself, "That's good, they've all come, no need to bother looking for them." He said:
"Trash is trash, it won't make any difference just because your parents died in battle."

What ninjas fear most is going down the wrong path, becoming more and more desperate as they go down that wrong path.

Since you don't believe me, I'll demonstrate it to you. Your puppetry skills are just as trash as you are.

Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees!

In the distance, the members of the Leaf Monkey Squad were somewhat puzzled. Why would they need to use Wood Release to deal with a Jonin, even if that Jonin was a genius boy and a disciple of the Third Kazekage?
Scorpion looked around in alarm and found that the surroundings had suddenly changed from a desert to a maple forest.

The thick tree trunks blocked the view, and the scorpion could even smell the unique fragrance of the leaves.

Sasori suddenly remembered that when the Third Hokage was teaching him, he said that Wood Release was not only powerful, but also cunning, and that the poison of Wood Release ninjas was no less potent than that of Sand Ninjas.

The scorpion didn't even dare to smell it, feeling that the odors were filled with danger.

He waved his hands, and four puppets flew through the woods, rushing towards the bronze fox.

The puppet carrying a giant wind demon shuriken fired a barrage of poison needles at the bronze fox.

However, a large tree grew in front of the bronze fox, easily blocking all the poison needles.

"These soft steel needles... are you an acupuncturist from Sunagakure?"

Hearing the copper fox's mockery, Scorpion became even angrier and his surgical movements became even faster.

Suddenly, many wooden vines hung down in the maple forest.

There were so many wooden vines, like countless spider webs. These vines bound four puppets in succession.

The puppet tried to break free of the wooden vines using ninja tools and mechanisms, but found that the vines were exceptionally tough and could not be cut.

Not only can it not be cut, but the wooden vines can also absorb chakra, quickly draining the chakra threads that control the puppet.

The tree trunk surged forward and quickly crushed the four puppets.

The scorpion stood on the ground, looking up in despair.

Completely defenseless, why did they collapse so quickly?
The puppet's outer shell, made of yellow hardwood, was crushed into wood chips by Wood Release, and the iron mechanisms inside the puppet made a clicking sound.

The four elite puppets created with the full support of Grandma Chiyo were so easily destroyed?

Is puppetry really trash?
Why don't I just switch to training Wind Release ninjutsu?

Do not!
Sasori shook his head. He had witnessed his great-uncle Ebizo's Wind Release technique before, and even if Wind Release were here, it would be useless.

If the Bronze Fox is this strong, just how strong is the legendary White Fang of Konoha, who is said to be even stronger than the Bronze Fox?

Your parents must have suffered terribly to die at the hands of these two.

Just like when I'm facing the bronze fox now...

The iron wire vines coiled around four weapons and delivered them to Ye Guang.

"Why is one missing? Why are there only four? Where's the nine-section sword? Scorpion, have you been keeping Lord Yan's weapons for yourself?"

Scorpion couldn't answer; he took out a new puppet scroll.

Night Light said, "Foolish Sasori, Lord Mitokado Homura's Five Ninja Swords are not used like that."

Next, I'll demonstrate to you what a real Thousand Hands Ninja Tool is!

Four iron-wire vines coiled around four weapons, like flexible tentacles, providing the weapons with terrifying kinetic energy as they swung.

The Thousand-Handed Broadsword drew an exaggerated arc, accompanied by a terrifying whooshing sound, heading straight for Scorpion.

It is said that the Thousand Hands Broadsword was the First Hokage's favorite weapon, possessing the characteristic of never being damaged.

Scorpion quickly ordered his puppet salamander to throw away the meteorite and hold it in front of him.

In the original story, Sasori had to use his tail to find the salamander's weakness when facing Kankuro's salamander.

Glow-in-the-dark devices don't need to go through that much trouble.

Facing the salamander that had raised its shield, the Thousand-Handed Broadsword slashed down fiercely.

Snapped!
Scorpion hid behind the thickened shield of the salamander, a shield that Chiyo's grandmother called the best in terms of defense, but it was cleanly cleaved in two right in front of him!
This is a specially made iron plate nearly ten centimeters thick, used for puppetry techniques!

The thousand-handed broadsword cleaved through the shield and smashed the salamander's entire head into pieces.

Scorpion looked in horror at the Leaf Bronze Fox standing on the maple tree rainbow bridge in the distance.

Is this the difference?

Is puppetry so easily defeated by powerful opponents?

Just as Scorpion was filled with terror, a black knife suddenly shot out from the ground, heading straight for Scorpion's heart.

Scorpion's adrenaline surged for a moment, and he had the thought of dodging, but the black knife's sneak attack was cunning and extremely fast, making it impossible for his body to react.

Mu Teng, clutching the assassination blade, had somehow hidden himself underground.

clang!
The black blade was deflected by the suddenly appearing iron sand!

Sasori saw the familiar black iron sand; it was the Third Hokage's Magnet Release technique!
The Third Kazekage arrived outside the maple forest.

Magnetic Escape·Sand Iron Boundary Technique!

Iron sand forms a large, spiked barrier in the air, launching a piercing attack.

The dense, sharp iron spikes pierced through all the maple tree trunks and wire vines.

The tree trunks that had grown, and the waving wire vines, could no longer move.

Ye Guang turned his head and realized he had already spotted the person who had come.

The Third Kazekage is said to be the strongest Kazekage in the history of Sunagakure.

This is a bit troublesome. How do we lure this person out of Sunagakure?

I haven't finished my trash talk yet. I kind of miss Madara Uchiha. Next time we meet, I'll have to learn Madara's art of trash talk.

(End of this chapter)