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"Could it be that he harbors intentions toward Konoha?" Uchiha Itachi's heart tightened slightly. "Hmph, these trivial probes end here. Even if I let you know some things, no one can stop me," Miao said indifferently.
Itachi's expression shifted instantly. "So he had already seen through my intentions from the start. It seems uncovering this person's true nature won't be easy," Itachi thought to himself.
"Hmph! Kid, do you really think you can take us on alone?" Kisame Hoshigaki's face darkened with a trace of killing intent as he spoke.
Miao sharply turned his gaze toward Kisame, his crimson Sharingan eyes coldly locking onto him. A surge of sinister and chilling ocular power erupted without warning.
"Boom!!!" Kisame's body violently shook, and the scene before him vanished. He found himself inexplicably captured by an enormous, grotesque creature with eight arms.
"This... this is genjutsu!!" Kisame's face paled, and for the first time, his usually fearsome shark-like features twisted in terror. Beads of cold sweat poured down his forehead, and his body was completely immobilized, leaving him as helpless as a fish on a chopping board.
The next moment, the hideous monster's eight arms tightened around Kisame's body and brutally tore him apart. "Pfft!!!" Blood sprayed everywhere as Kisame was ripped limb from limb.
"Ahhhhhh!!!" A blood-curdling scream echoed as Kisame collapsed to his knees, drenched in cold sweat, his face deathly pale and filled with unbridled fear.
"Kisame!!!" Itachi's expression changed drastically as he rushed to support Kisame. His gaze turned heavy with tension as he stared at Miao. "Such overwhelming ocular power! To plunge Kisame into a genjutsu so swiftly..."
"One down," Miao said coldly. Deidara, standing nearby, burst into laughter. "Haha, you damn shark-face! You dared mock me earlier, and now look at you—defeated by Miao's genjutsu in an instant!" Deidara hadn't forgotten how Kisame had taunted him after Itachi's genjutsu had defeated him.
"Damn it!!!" Kisame's face remained pale, his bloodshot eyes brimming with rage. The memory of being torn apart by that monstrous creature in the genjutsu left him deeply shaken.
"Itachi! This kid isn't someone we can handle easily!" Kisame warned cautiously, his gaze locked intently on Miao. For the first time in his life as a shinobi, he had been taken down by a single genjutsu. Though it hadn't inflicted serious damage, the lingering effects significantly diminished his combat capabilities.
"Swish! Swish!" Countless senbon needles shot toward Miao and Deidara from another direction, moving at incredible speed. Sasori had made his move. Instantly, Miao and Deidara leaped away from their positions.
The next moment, the barrage of senbon struck the ground where they had just stood, instantly corroding a massive crater. "Poison?!!" Miao's expression shifted.
A silver scorpion tail lashed out like lightning toward Miao, but his Sharingan quickly tracked its movement. A kunai appeared in Miao's hand, and with a metallic clang, sparks flew as he deflected the tail. However, the kunai in his hand began to corrode almost immediately.
Miao swiftly discarded the kunai, his left Sharingan's three tomoe spinning rapidly as he glared at Sasori. To his surprise, Sasori showed no reaction. A chilling voice emerged from beneath the black cloth covering Sasori's mouth. "Kid, genjutsu has no effect on me."
"What?!" Miao's expression shifted again, his crimson Sharingan piercingly focused on Sasori. "How is this possible?!" At that moment, Miao's eyes widened in disbelief. Through his Sharingan, he clearly saw that all of Sasori's chakra was concentrated at a single point within his body, and there was no trace of mental activity in his brain.
Ordinary genjutsu disrupted an opponent's chakra flow to trap them in an illusion, while the Sharingan's genjutsu targeted the mind, disrupting their mental awareness.
"Heh, so you noticed already? The Sharingan truly lives up to its reputation as one of the strongest bloodline limits," Sasori sneered, his icy gaze fixed on Miao and Deidara.
"I see. Puppet techniques, huh? Ingenious," Miao remarked calmly. Just then, the black cloth covering Sasori's mouth suddenly lifted, revealing a mechanical-like mouth that snapped open. Countless poisoned senbon shot out like lightning once again.
"Hmph! Don't underestimate Lord Deidara!" Deidara's expression turned cold as he began forming hand seals. Slamming his hands onto the ground, he shouted, "Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!!!" With a thunderous boom, a massive earthen wall rose in front of them, successfully blocking Sasori's poisoned senbon.
Though Deidara was enamored with his clay art, he was still a genius ninja from Iwagakure and could employ basic earth techniques when necessary.
At that moment, Uchiha Itachi suddenly appeared before Miao, thrusting a kunai directly at his heart. Miao's Sharingan narrowed slightly as he shifted his body to evade Itachi's attack. Without missing a beat, his own kunai swiftly aimed for Itachi's throat.
"Pfft!!!" Unable to retract his attack in time, Itachi's throat was pierced by Miao's kunai. But Miao didn't let his guard down. Sure enough, the next moment, another Itachi emerged behind the injured clone, leaping into the air and hurling a flurry of kunai at Miao's head.
"Shadow Clone?! Such fast hand seals—I couldn't even see his movements!" Miao thought, his expression turning cold. Instantly, he formed a Rasengan in his remaining hand, and a long, sharp blade of light condensed from the wind-natured chakra within it. With blinding speed, the blade shot toward the airborne Itachi.
"What kind of technique is this?!" Itachi's expression shifted sharply. The blade, forged from concentrated wind chakra, was razor-sharp. The kunai Itachi threw were sliced in half, and the blade pierced straight through his body.