Naruto: I Roamed the Ninja World as a Woman

By the faint moonlight overhead, Ayane Amamiya was able to make out the person's appearance.

He wore a gray robe that trailed on the ground, had a pair of buffalo horns on his head, and his skin was black and hard like iron. His face was covered with mottled mechanical patterns.

To sum it up simply, he doesn't look human in any way...

"They're Sand Village's mechanical puppets!"

The woodpecker quickly recognized where the other came from.

He immediately threw the kunai in his hand in that direction, cursing inwardly, "Damn it! Is he from Sunagakure, or even a puppet army guy?! Why is he here?!"

hum~

buzz~

At this point, naturally no one could answer the questions in his mind.

The puppet opened its mouth, not to speak, but its entire head flew off its neck and caught the kunai thrown by the woodpecker in mid-air.

Then, the puppet separated its hands and shot countless tiny poison needles from its palms toward the two of them!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~!

"Back off!"

While dodging, the woodpecker didn't forget to warn the 'rookie' behind it.

He glanced at it out of the corner of his eye.

The new colleague reacted extremely quickly.

As the puppet began its movement, the girl swiftly leaped backward with a somersault, her hands moving rapidly in the air, forming hand seals.

The entire movement was incredibly fluid, performed in one smooth motion!

She was still in the air, her feet not yet touching the ground, but the ninjutsu technique was already complete.

He was hanging upside down, head down, feet up, with his mouth puffed out...

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

call!

A gust of wind swept by, blowing the poison needles in the air to the ground!

Well done!

The woodpecker silently cheered.

But this is clearly not the time to encourage newcomers.

He instinctively seized the opportunity and rushed toward the puppet's back.

To deal with a puppeteer, you can't just foolishly waste your energy on the puppet in front of the stage. Instead, you need to carefully observe the chakra lines connecting the ninja and the puppet, and then find the location of the puppeteer's main body!

To catch the thief, first catch the king!

Just then, at the very moment the puppet's head flew up, the woodpecker spotted that extremely faint chakra line!

But I can't say too much right now.

He could only hope that Ayane Amamiya would understand his intentions and help him control the puppet.

"Where do you want to go?"

The puppet's hands opened again, this time not launching hidden weapons, but instead popping out two ninja swords from its palms, the blades gleaming with a cold light.

The woodpecker remained silent.

He wasn't a turret-type ninja skilled in ninjutsu, so he instinctively chose to retreat when faced with the poison needles.

But right now, this kind of close-quarters combat has brought him into his comfort zone.

Clang clang!

Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of metal clashing, the man and the puppet exchanged dozens of blows in succession, and sparks flew from the blade of the kunai!

"I told you, you can't go anywhere."

The puppet's body, hidden by the gray robe, twisted.

A tail made of fine steel suddenly lashed out from inside the robe!

The tip of the blade-shaped tail gleamed with an eerie light, clearly indicating that it had been poisoned!

"Die!"

Seizing a rare opportunity, the puppet's steel tail lashed out.

But this seemingly sure-fire strike missed its mark.

boom!

White smoke rose.

A piece of wood fell from nowhere.

Woodpecker used a substitution technique to dodge out of the battle, and then his figure sprang into the darkness.

"Hey, you in the ANBU, it seems your comrade has chosen to run away and abandon you."

The puppet stood still, not giving chase, but instead emitted its stiff, monotonous voice once more.

The scene was truly terrifying.

After all, at this moment, his head was still separate from his body, floating in the air like a balloon, connected only by a thin steel cable.

But such divisive rhetoric is really too low-level.

Ayane Amamiya had watched many clips from the Naruto anime in her past life, and she especially remembered the episode where Granny Chiyo and Sakura teamed up to fight Sasori of the Red Sand.

After all, this is one of Sakura Haruno's few shining moments in the entire anime...

She quickly understood the woodpecker's intention.

"Ha, I think you're the one who should be running away, aren't you?"

She didn't mind exchanging a few words with him, and said calmly, "I know that eighty percent of a puppeteer's skills lie in the puppets themselves."

"Well, I was underestimated."

Although the puppet's tone remained unchanged, Ayane Amamiya could still sense the other party's attitude turning cold.

"Looks like I'll have to kill you, you annoying guy, first, and then go back to protect my main body."

The puppet kept talking.

But at the same time, the iron chains connecting the puppet's head and body were also rattling and turning, trying to reconnect the head to the body.

Seeing this, the girl had no time to think further.

She drew her ninja sword, bent down and accelerated, then rushed towards the puppet's head in mid-air like lightning!

Click click~

The sound of machinery operating resumed.

Poison smoke bomb!

The puppet opened its mouth wide and then spat out bursts of purple mist towards the charging Ayane Amamiya.

Ayane Amamiya's speed faltered.

As everyone knows, there are two masters of poison in the ninja world.

First, there's the leader of his own village, Sanshoyu Hanzo.

The second is Chiyo, a high-ranking member of Sunagakure!

In some ways, this female ninja was even more skilled in using poison than Hanzo.

Because the former's poison can only be used by himself.

Even the biotoxins of the salamander have extremely serious side effects, so Hanzo himself had to wear a gas mask to avoid harming his own people.

Chiyo's poison not only doesn't harm her, but she can also share it with other puppeteers...

So, more than a decade later, when Hanzo the Salamander's bones had all rotted away, Chiyo was still alive and well, fishing in the desert with her younger brother Ebizo when they had nothing to do!

"but....."

"If you think this toxic fumes can bother you, then you're being incredibly arrogant!"

Ayane Amamiya sneered inwardly. She reached into her ninja tool pouch and deftly took out three explosive tags that were tied to kunai.

The thick, dense purple smoke greatly obscured his vision.

But Ayane Amamiya narrowed her eyes slightly.

The green-labeled skill "Precision Ninja Tool Throwing" is active!

At that moment, almost as if guided by a divine inspiration, she pinpointed the location of the puppet's head that was constantly moving within the poisonous smoke, relying on a magical intuition.

"middle!"

The silent shout in his heart and the movement of his hands came out almost simultaneously.

Whoosh!

The three detonating tags, arranged in an inverted "品" shape, flew rapidly into the toxic smoke.

Immediately afterwards...

boom!

A burst of fire exploded amidst the purple poisonous smoke!

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How could this be...?

In the shadows behind the wall.

A red-haired puppeteer shuddered, then incredulously withdrew his chakra threads.

Just a moment before the puppet's vision was severed.

He wanted to speak again, to mock the naive actions of the enemy's operative.

Did he think a few explosive tags would hurt him?

Are you kidding me?

Did you think this was a childish game at a ninja academy?

But the slap in the face came so quickly that it caught him completely off guard...

He never expected this.

At high speed, the opponent was not only able to find their position in the toxic smoke, but the three explosive tags also landed on their weak points, such as their eyes and mouth!

So accurate it's like...

It has tracking or X-ray vision enabled!

"Could it be some kind of special sensory ninjutsu or secret technique? We can't exactly say that guy stole a pair of Byakugan from the Hyuga clan in Konoha..."

A thought flashed through his mind, and he subconsciously thought of the eye roll, which was famous for its wide field of vision.

"Found you~"

A cold voice suddenly came from behind.

The puppeteer's body suddenly stiffened.

The ANBU member wearing a woodpecker mask pressed a kunai against his back and coldly said, "Put down your weapon! Or... die!"

"Don't kill me..."

Almost without hesitation, the puppeteer immediately raised his hands and gave a surrender salute familiar to Ayane Amamiya.

But Woodpecker showed no sign of letting up. He sneered, "Sever the chakra threads in your hands. Don't think I don't know the tricks of you puppeteers."

"......"

The puppeteer paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "You seem to know a lot about puppeteers?"

The woodpecker remained silent.

The kunai thrust forward again, half of its blade embedding itself in the flesh.

"Okay, I really give up this time."

The puppeteer sighed, his previously tense body going limp: "Please take your kunai away. I don't want to die in this godforsaken place where I can't see a ray of sunlight."

"Then you'd better answer my questions honestly from now on..."

As Woodpecker spoke, he stretched out his hand, intending to take the ninja tool pouch hanging from the other person's waist.

suddenly!

A series of dazzling flashes burst forth from the puppeteer's body!

The woodpecker's pupils suddenly dilated.

"not good!"