"Clap! Clap! Clap!"
Kairen came out with Deidara, clapping his hands. He smiled faintly and said,
"We meet again, everyone from Konoha."
Naruto stared at Kairen with wide eyes: "It's you—the guy who attacked the village!"
Kakashi stepped forward and blocked Naruto behind him.
"What does your Akatsuki want to do? Planning to capture Naruto?"
Kairen was from Akatsuki, but now Akatsuki had split.
Most of them had gone to Obito. Kairen only picked up one foolish kid—Deidara.
Oh, and there was also a rich woman—Konan.
Deidara looked at middle school physics and kept rubbing his head.
"So hard! What uniform linear motion, accelerated linear motion—Kairen, I've never learned this kind of ninjutsu. You're not fooling me, are you?"
Kairen patted Deidara on the shoulder: "Look, you can't even get past the first stage. How are you going to learn nuclear bomb ninjutsu?"
"Ridiculous, how could this little difficulty stump me?"
Deidara's competitive spirit was stirred up, and he continued gnawing on the book.
Kairen and Deidara's attitude of not putting everyone in their eyes was obvious.
Kiba Inuzuka rushed out with his dog and cursed at Kairen:
"You bastard, where did you take Hinata? Give her back, now."
Kairen glanced at him, then glanced at Akamaru.
Akamaru looked as if he had been targeted by some prehistoric beast, quickly tucked in his legs, and obediently hid behind Kiba Inuzuka.
Kairen said coldly to Kiba Inuzuka: "Be careful. I'm someone who's eaten dog meat."
Kiba Inuzuka's eyes went wide, and he took two steps back in fear.
"Y-you… you actually eat dogs?!"
While Naruto's group was wasting words with Kairen, Sasuke quietly led his companions away.
Naruto and the others wanted to chase, but Kairen blocked the way and spread his hands.
"In half a month I'll attack your Konoha. For now, let me see how much fun you can bring me!"
Naruto stopped, clenched his fists, and glared at Kairen: "You bastard!"
Before he could move, a pink figure rushed up.
"Die!"
Sakura threw a monster-strength punch at full power, the fist even carrying a rasping gust of wind.
A punch that could almost knock down a small hill came at Kairen. Kairen reached out one hand and forcibly blocked her punch.
Sakura's face was full of disbelief—her strongest punch had been stopped just like that.
Kairen flung her back and clapped his hands, saying: "You give me a monster-strength punch, I'll return one to you!"
Kairen took a deep breath. Every tendon and bone in his body sang; blood surged through his body.
He slammed a punch into the ground.
"Rumble…"
An ear-splitting sound spread all around. The ground was directly smashed into pieces by Kairen, scattering like thin paper.
Deidara yelped and hurriedly made flying clay and flew up.
Naruto and the others also used their own techniques to avoid the ground collapse.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
Naruto formed hundreds of shadow clones, built human ladders, and rescued the companions who had fallen into the pit.
Sai summoned an ink hawk to catch everyone.
After a bout of heaven-shaking earth-moving, a forest with a diameter of five kilometers was turned into ruins by Kairen's single punch, pitted and cratered.
Naruto and the others stood on the ink hawk, staring in shock at the ruined forest below.
Sakura was so frightened that water even flowed out: "Th-this…"
Not even Tsunade of the Sannin was this exaggerated, and Sakura also discovered that Kairen's way of exerting force was the same as monster strength.
She immediately guessed: "He copied my monster strength."
Naruto didn't frown at all and clasped his hands together.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
His massive chakra surged, and in an instant more than a thousand shadow clones split off, attacking Kairen below like meteors.
Deidara waved his hands in the sky and shouted loudly: "Kairen, want me to help?"
Kairen waved his hand, then smiled faintly.
Once upon a time, he had also relied on human-wave tactics to start conquering the world. After taking a high position, he gradually forgot those gilded years.
Kairen also clasped his hands together: "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
"Poof poof poof poof poof poof…"
White smoke filled the entire world.
Countless Kairens in military uniforms stood in formation and marched out—it was a mechanical legion, firing guns and cannons.
Altogether roughly over ten thousand, they formed a huge square formation and poured firepower into the sky.
In just a moment, all of Naruto's shadow clones were shot into sieves, and Sai also awkwardly controlled the ink hawk, darting around to flee.
Yamato stared at Kairen in shock: "His chakra… has already surpassed the tailed beasts!"
Kakashi pulled down his forehead protector, revealing his Mangekyō, and cursed under his breath:
"Akatsuki is really outrageous—what kind of monsters are in there!"
"Kamui!"
A spatial vortex appeared behind Kairen, possessing tremendous pulling force.
Normally, Kairen should dodge, but dodging would look a bit lacking in style.
So Kairen's Tenseigan met Kakashi's gaze, and in an instant forced the other side to turn off the Sharingan.
Kakashi took a deep breath and said somewhat weakly: "No, his eyes are too strong. They can suppress my Sharingan."
Sai warned: "Be careful, the enemy's second wave of attack is coming."
The mechanical legion set up anti-aircraft guns and rattled away at the sky.
Deidara watched with relish and praised loudly: "Art! Art! Kairen really is an artist too."
Naruto felt that being in the air made him a target, so he jumped down.
He split into hundreds of shadow clones to provide cover, and he himself charged to Kairen's side.
Kairen folded his arms and watched calmly.
Naruto still had some strength. Although his head wasn't great, his combat talent was very strong.
He wiped out the shadow clones around Kairen and clenched his fist to punch Kairen in the face.
"Bastard!"
Kairen took a stance, preparing to play a bit of taijutsu with Naruto.
Naruto threw a punch. Kairen swung his palm, knocked away the punch with one hand, then kicked Naruto seven meters away.
Naruto hurriedly stood up and looked at Kairen, who was holding a boxing stance.
Naruto split off shadow clones, formed a Rasengan, and rushed up.
Kairen withdrew his stance and cursed: "Young people don't follow martial ethics. We're sparring in taijutsu and you insist on using ninjutsu. Since that's the case, don't blame me!"
"Complete Body Susanoo!"
A fire-red phantom appeared out of thin air and easily blocked Naruto's Rasengan.
Naruto looked up and swallowed stiffly.
Susanoo towered over a hundred meters, wearing a black tengu mask, coldly overlooking the earth.
At this moment, Naruto and the others were frozen in place.
Deidara was full of excitement, his face flushed with exhilaration.
"Art! Art! What a perfect artwork. If only it could explode, it would be even more perfect."
Kairen stepped toward Naruto.