Chapter 215: Lightning Fast

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"Dialogue"

'Thoughts'

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Chapter 215: Lightning Fast

Sasori's skull became cracked by the pressure, but he reacted quickly by activating a spinning blade that was attached to his back.

This forced Naruto to release his grip and allowed him to get some distance while sending all his puppets at him.

Naruto was also keeping track of the other Akatsuki member, the blonde one called Deidara. He previously used two of his clones to knock him out of his flying construct. The guy had already been severely injured by Kakashi so that was not difficult.

During that short interaction with Sasori, he realized that the redhead boy was also a puppet, but his senses were telling him that the real Sasori was also in there…he could feel a potent chakra signature around the area of the puppet's chest.

' If I destroy that part, he should die.' Naruto thought as he watched him move away.

What Sasori failed to realize, was that Naruto had left his formula kunai embedded on his left shoulder. One of the disadvantages of being made of wood.

The redhead had also been too preoccupied with not having his head crushed, moving away from him, and commanding a hundred puppets to attack him, to realize the most important mistake he made.

A dozen puppets were already in striking distance of him.

Naruto knew he could easily outnumber these puppets with his clones, but there was no need for any of that. He has already found a much simpler solution to this fight.

'It's too bad…' He had noted that all the puppets we very distinctly different from each other. This person had likely spent decades, carefully crafting every single one of these contracts.

Each one with its own secret weapons, and its own strong points. But none of that was going to help Sasori now.

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Naruto activated the. 'Flying Thunder God' jutsu and teleported himself to the mark, allowing the puppets to strike the empty space he left behind.

Sasori's eyes opened widely. He did not see Naruto move at all. One moment he was there, about to be taken down by his creations, and the next…

Space warped right behind him. Sasori could feel that 'something' was there now. He also felt the temperature around him rising up quickly.

" Sorry."

The apologetic voice of Naruto was the last thing he heard, and intense heat was the last thing he felt, as a blue sphere of fiery destruction was driven from his back to the front of his chest, obliterating his core in the process.

The core was his only weak point. The rest of his body, he could repair, but his brain and heart were placed in there.

Sasori did not have time to feel pain, or to think about how he lost so quickly before his time came… and just like that, he was no more.

Sasori of the Sand. The S rank missing ninja from the Wind County who had terrorized the Elemental Nations for decades and killed countless powerful warriors before adding them to his collection of invincible puppets…was now dead.

His one hundred creations were now collapsing like they just had their strings cut down.

From beginning to end, the figure did not last ten seconds.

Naruto took several steps back to distance himself from the rotating sphere of fiery hell that he unleashed to annihilate his opponent.

" Tsk…" He glanced at the kunai in his hand with furrowed eyebrows. He took out the formula kunai from Sasori at the last moment, but the fire got to it first and damaged the inscription engraved on its surface.

Since this was the only kunai he had time to produce before having to go into their missing, this meant that Je could no longer use the teleportation to fight, until he returned to the village and could make more of them.

' At least I had time to make one for Hinata and Ino.' He inscribed the formula on their bodies with a special ink. If they were ever in danger, all they had to do was inject some chakra into the brand, and he would be able to go to them.

' Not that they could be in any danger at the moment. As they are still in Konoha .' But one never knew and they could be called for an emergency mission at any time.

Naruto had to admit that over the short period he had known them, he had grown fond of those two girls and at least, he wanted to make sure they were okay.

He may not be the heroic type who tries to save everyone, but could still have a few individuals who were important to him.

' That reminds me…I should leave a formula with Jiraiya when I see him next.' The old pervert was also someone he had grown fond of.

"Let's see…there is one left." His blue eyes turned to look at the other member of Akatsuki.

Deidara was staring back at Naruto and looking completely horrified.

He saw everything that happened to his partner Sasori, and that was more than needed to see in order to completely lose his will to fight.

His partner, who he had considered an equal in most things, except for their taste in art… was obliterated so fast that he couldn't even showcase his best puppets, the ones he created with the corpses of his parents.

" The Yellow Flash…" Deidara muttered. As someone who grew up in the Stone Village, he was very familiar with that name, and the technique that granted it to him.

However, in Deidara's home village, Minato Namikaze had other names, and none of them were flattering.

The man had killed thousands of ninjas from Stone during the war, using that same jutsu he just saw Naruto use to kill his partner in an instant.

But that was not important right now. The situation had taken a completely unexpected turn in the worst possible way for him...and now he could not think of anything other than escaping from here.

In his desperation, Deidara called upon his most powerful technique, one that he had been receiving for an emergency, and didn't think he was going to need this soon. But now...he could not hesitated

" C4!" He cried.

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