Being a rogue ninja is worse than being Hokage.

With a light leap, the Kusanagi sword, which he hadn't yet used to finish the Chidori Spear, pierced the spot where Sasuke had just stood.

Lightning Release counters Earth Release!

Sasuke used the Kusanagi Sword to inject Chidori into the earth pillar, and the solid earth pillar immediately crumbled!

The earth pillar could no longer support anyone, it could no longer support Sasuke, and of course it could no longer support Sasori!

The puppet arm that was about to touch Sasuke fell downwards again because the earth pillar that was supporting it disappeared, causing Sasori's puppet arm to move further and further away from Sasuke.

The scorpion's attack was dealt with first.

At the same time, Sasuke fired several kunai at the white bird flying towards him.

"Innocent!"

Deidara urged the white bird to dodge the attacks of the kunai.

But that's exactly Sasuke's real goal!

boom--!!!

The white birds exploded as soon as they approached Sasuke, sending thick smoke billowing into the sky!

About a second later, a strange figure burst out of the thick smoke!

Grayish-black skin, a hideous face, and grotesque, hand-like fleshy wings!

Cursed Seal!

Sasuke used the Cursed Seal at the last moment of the explosion, entering the second stage of the Cursed Seal.

He ignored Deidara and glided toward the ground with his fleshy wings!

"Don't even think about running!"

Deidara shouted, about to urge the giant white bird beneath his feet to give chase!

Suddenly, Deidara sensed a massive amount of chakra appearing behind him.

Body Flicker Technique?!

when!!?

Deidara hurriedly turned his head to look behind him, but he only managed to catch a glimpse of a strand of yellow hair.

Immediately afterwards, his entire field of vision turned into a swirling white.

——Rasengan.

Chapter 46 Attribute Counter

Deidara stared wide-eyed as he witnessed the pure white aura of immense chakra that had appeared after the Rasengan had stolen the original scene before him.

Although surprised that Naruto suddenly appeared high in the sky and was able to attack him from such a tricky position, Deidara was not the kind of novice ninja who would immediately shut down his brain and give up thinking to wait for death when faced with an unexpected situation.

The moment Deidara sensed Naruto's chakra, he was already prepared to fight!

Therefore, when faced with the Rasengan at close range, he was able to make an instantaneous counterattack decision during the battle, leaning his upper body back to buy himself a moment of time.

This brief opening wasn't enough for Deidara to dodge the Rasengan; it only delayed its impact by about half a second.

But for Deidara, that half-second was enough!

As Deidara delayed the Rasengan's attack, the giant white bird beneath his feet suddenly spread its wings to their maximum length.

Then the giant white bird suddenly flipped over and flew high in the sky with its belly facing up and its back facing down!

As the giant white bird flipped over, Deidara released the chakra he had gathered at the soles of his feet to stabilize himself.

Deidara even kicked hard on the bird's back, leaping backward to accelerate away from the white giant bird.

The white giant bird's simple flipping motion rendered the Rasengan, which should have had no chance of evading it in mid-air, completely ineffective...

...And that's how Deidara managed to evade it.

Deidara followed the laws of physics, freeing himself from the white giant bird's back and plummeting straight to the ground.

It was only during the fall from the sky that Deidara finally had a chance to see Naruto's face clearly.

However, Deidara was more concerned about Naruto's current posture than his appearance.

Unlike Deidara, Naruto concentrated his chakra in the soles of his feet, allowing him to defy the constraints of gravity. Even when the giant white bird flew upside down, Naruto remained steadily hanging on its back.

Naruto looked up at Deidara below his head.

The giant white bird that flips in the air will naturally cause the person standing on its back to fall.

The "result" of the fall is not hard to guess.

Naruto never expected the "choice" of falling.

Deidara chose to fall from the sky and sever the Rasengan attack.

From the very beginning, he never intended for himself to get rid of Naruto; rather, he wanted Naruto to get rid of him.

Deidara met Naruto's gaze, a sinister smile creeping across his lips.

Deidara held his right hand in front of him, with his five fingers together, his thumb, little finger, and ring finger bent, while his middle and index fingers stood straight.

He was falling very fast; in the blink of an eye, Deidara had already distanced himself from Naruto, who was upside down on the back of the white giant bird.

Deidara is currently outside the blast radius!

"Experience art!"

Deidara shouted.

Naruto's pupils contracted sharply. He hurriedly released the chakra he used to stabilize his body from the soles of his feet, allowing himself to fall away from the white giant bird.

But it was too late to leave!

As Naruto fell, he once again condensed a Rasengan in his hand. While condensing the Rasengan, Naruto mixed the pure chakra ball of the Rasengan with the chakra nature transformation of wind, turning it into Wind Release: Rasengan Shuriken!

Naruto flung the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken from his hand, sending it hurtling toward the giant white bird!

Naruto prepares to use Wind Release to stop the white giant bird from exploding!

"No matter what you do, my art will never falter!"

Deidara mocked Naruto's pathetic will to survive.

Even though the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken hit the white giant bird, the white giant bird still swelled into a huge sphere just as Deidara had expected!

"drink!"

Deidara's shout was like a detonator.

Deidara detonated the giant white bird!

The explosive force of this explosion was far greater than that of the clay birds previously used against Sasuke.

Naruto, who was at the epicenter of the explosion, could not possibly have escaped unscathed!

As Deidara predicted, the explosion of the white giant bird severely injured Naruto.

Naruto fell from the explosion, his clothes torn, his face covered in dust and dirt, and his whole body was covered in bright red blood.

Having confirmed Naruto's condition, Deidara stretched out his left hand, and the mouth in his left palm opened, from which his nimble tongue spat out the clay that had been curled up on his tongue coating.

The moment the white clay was spat out from Deidara's left palm, it instantly transformed into a clay crane, catching Deidara as he plummeted from the sky.

But Naruto wasn't so lucky.

The explosion knocked Naruto unconscious, and he fell to the ground.

"Hmph, no matter what kind of guy he is, he will only be conquered by my art."

Deidara was incredibly proud of his art, and he rode a white crane as it swooped down from the sky towards the ground.

Naruto fell in the direction Deidara was diving.

"As expected of the Uzumaki clan... their vitality is indeed more tenacious than that of ordinary ninjas."

Looking at Naruto, who had survived an explosion and a fatal fall from a great height, yet still clung to life and was on the verge of death.

Deidara couldn't help but sigh.

Although Konoha had taken special measures to handle Naruto's information, and Naruto had been missing for three years as a rogue ninja.

This makes Naruto the least known of all the Jinchuriki of the Tailed Beasts, but the Akatsuki organization, which collects information about the Tailed Beasts, is naturally very clear about these basic and unchanging details about Naruto.

It was precisely for this reason that Deidara so decisively unleashed a deadly explosive attack on Naruto, who was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and had been ordered by the Akatsuki organization to live.

The outcome of the battle was as precise and meticulous as Deidara's calculation of the explosive yield of his own art.

Deidara severely injured Naruto, but he left Naruto with enough breath to extract the Nine-Tails from his body.

Deidara jumped off the back of the white crane that had folded its wings and was standing on the ground. He treated the white crane, which was made of clay, as a real animal and gently stroked its neck.

But these are just the surface appearances. In reality, Deidara's beak, which was stroking the white crane, was actually devouring the clay from the crane's neck.

Deidara stopped stroking the white crane only after his palms had swallowed enough clay.

Deidara's two mouths on his palms also humanizedly extended their tongues and circled their lips, indicating the satisfaction of being "full".

Then, Deidara opened his mouth wide with both hands, and two huge white centipedes crawled out of his mouth.

Two white centipedes touched the ground, moving their densely packed legs, and quickly approached the fallen Naruto.

The two white clay centipedes, one starting from the head and the other from the ankle, transformed into ropes, binding Naruto tightly.

After doing all this, Deidara approached Naruto to observe him.

The Naruto standing before them was undoubtedly the same Naruto who had initially attacked Deidara and was blown to the ground by the explosion high in the sky.

There were no changes in between.

It seems this guy isn't a shadow clone; he's been the real body from beginning to end.

Deidara drew a conclusion.

"The Nine-Tails has been captured. I wonder how things are going with Brother Sasori... I really want to show those Sharingan my art..."

Deidara felt a slight, heavy sense of regret.

If it weren't for Naruto's attack, he would have caught up with Sasuke, who had escaped from him, long ago.