Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 191 The Choice at the Beginning

Huge plumes of smoke and dust slowly rose and settled over the battlefield, the acrid smell of explosions filling the air. After the aftershocks of the explosions completely subsided, Shisui and his group returned to the center of the now-destroyed battlefield.

Deidara jumped down from the clay bird, looked at the huge charred crater in front of him and the scattered, barely discernible fragments of Hiruko, scratched his head uncertainly, and asked.

"Senior... that guy didn't just get blown up like that, did he? Hmm... the person the leader specifically wanted to find shouldn't be this weak... right?"

His tone carried a hint of guilt, as if he had just gotten himself into trouble.

Shisui looked at the commotion Deidara had caused, feeling somewhat helpless, but still reassured him in a calm tone, "Calm down, Deidara. The opponent is Sasori of the Red Sand. He killed the Third Kazekage using some unknown means, so he shouldn't be that weak."

Moreover, in the instant before the explosion, Shisui's Sharingan caught a glimpse of a look on the Sasori puppet's face that wasn't one of despair, but rather a more solemn and... fanatical expression. Shisui's intuition told him that this level of attack was probably insufficient to completely obliterate the being before him.

The judgment of stopping the water flow was confirmed.

When the lingering smoke finally dissipated completely, revealing the scene at the center of the pit, the sight before them made everyone present widen their eyes in shock, and an indescribable sense of eeriness instantly gripped them.

Clearly, Sasori's combat puppet "Hiruko," which he used for concealment, had been completely destroyed in the violent explosion just now, with fragments scattered all over the ground. Sasori's "true form" was once again exposed to everyone.

However, perhaps due to the impact of the explosion, his upper body clothing was completely destroyed, completely exposing his lower "body"...

That... is not a human body at all.

Although it retains the outline and appearance of a human, its skin has an unnatural, coating-like texture.

What's even more chilling is that the joints of his body clearly reveal intricate mechanical structures and pivots! And in the very center of his chest, there is a strange cylindrical indentation.

"This guy...!" Deidara gasped, his face filled with disbelief. "He... he actually transformed himself into a human puppet?!"

Even Deidara, who pursues "instant art" and is used to explosions, felt a chill run down his spine when he saw the scene before him where his body had been subjected to inhuman modifications.

But at the same time, Sasori's previous obsessive declaration that "beauty without decay, eternal beauty is art" echoed in his mind once more. Aside from the physical chill, Deidara couldn't help but feel a slight...admiration?

"Leave the battlefield to me now," Shisui said calmly, taking a step forward and fixing his gaze intently on Sasori's newly summoned Third Kazekage puppet. "I have some things I need to ask this guy myself."

Scorpion's voice was filled with extreme impatience and chilling killing intent. "I'm utterly fed up with you guys... And do you really think you can take me on all by yourself? How arrogant. Besides, I have no intention of answering any of your questions."

Just as Sasori raised his hand once more, preparing to control the Third Kazekage's puppet to launch a new offensive—

Shisui's crimson Sharingan suddenly changed! The original three-tomoe pattern rapidly spun, twisted, and deformed, eventually transforming into a more complex, ominous sword-shaped pattern—the Mangekyou Sharingan!

The moment Sasori saw those eyes, his previously cold demeanor finally crumbled, revealing a look of horror! As a descendant of a high-ranking official in Sunagakure, he had heard of the power those eyes represented!

"[Amaterasu]."

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Without any warning, pitch-black flames suddenly ignited on Sasori's invaluable Third Kazekage puppet!

The flames emanated an ominous aura, and... they could not be extinguished!

That's right, Shisui has had his Mangekyou Sharingan re-transplanted. After a painful struggle and decision, he finally chose to use the eyes of the person who... had disappointed him immensely, yet whom he could never truly hate.

Uchiha Itachi... no, he should be called Uchiha Yuzu now.

Since he couldn't hate the sins she had committed, Shisui felt he was unworthy to use Fugaku and Mikoto's Mangekyou Sharingan. He offered his answer to Menma.

He intends to use Yu's eyes to pave the way to peace. In this way, he will offer a form of atonement for the sins Yu committed.

The reason why this dangerous eye technique was not used at the beginning was because of the characteristics of Amaterasu—the black flames will never go out until the target is burned to ashes.

As for Sasori's various actions, especially the insult of killing a village's Kage and turning him into a puppet to be used at will, even if Shisui was not a Sand Village ninja, he believed that the remains and dignity of a "Kage" should not be defiled and destroyed in this way.

"What?! What kind of flames are these?!" Sasori exclaimed in horror, realizing that no matter what he tried, he couldn't extinguish the insidious black flames! The Third Kazekage's puppet struggled futilely within the flames. He quickly activated a mechanism on a scroll on his back, attempting to extinguish the fire by channeling chakra and spraying precisely controlled streams of water from pipes in his palms—all to no avail! He tried covering it with sand—still to no avail!

Seeing the terrifying black flames about to burn him back along the chakra threads, Sasori decisively severed all the chakra threads connecting the Third Kazekage puppet! He could only watch helplessly as his most prized trump card, his strongest collection, gradually twisted, deformed, and finally turned into ashes in the silently burning black flames!

A wave of heartache swept over Scorpion.

Shisui looked at Scorpion, whose face was so gloomy it seemed like it was about to drip water, and spoke again.

"Give up the fight, you are no match for me."

He asked slowly, his gaze seemingly able to see through the twisted heart beneath the puppet's shell. "Now, I only have one question for you—Sasori of the Red Sand, having come this far, is there any way you can turn back?"

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(Sorry for the one-day hiatus... The author promises that this is the last time the author will be lazy, except when sick.)