As the old saying goes, 'Don't chase a desperate foe,' meaning one should not pursue a poor enemy.
Deidara was only two years older than Ino and the others. He was young, had done few high-level missions, and after leaving Iwagakure, he spent his days playing with clay. He had no savings whatsoever; he was the type of person who didn't manage money, and money didn't manage him.
Sasori, on the other hand, had been famous for many years, but his puppets were incredibly expensive! Hundreds of human puppets required money for their clothes, daily maintenance, Chakra threads, and the weapons and poisons on their bodies. Because they were puppets made from modified human bodies, they retained the Chakra from their human lives and naturally some growth characteristics. Just hiring people to cut, wash, and bathe the hair of these human puppets every month was a huge expense. In other words, Sasori-sama was also a poor man; he had to wait for shampoo to go on sale before riding his tricycle to buy it.
Ino couldn't be bothered with those two poor devils. Even though she still had Chakra in her body, she didn't move, sitting firmly on Konan. This sister was rich, and she couldn't be allowed to escape.
Although it wouldn't be easy for this money to fall into her hands, there were always more solutions than problems. If she brought Konan back to Konoha, who would interrogate her? It would still be the Yamanaka Clan! There was no one in Konoha Village who understood Yin Release better than Ino now, so she would have to handle the interrogation.
Ino didn't move, and Deidara had the ability to fly, so the Konoha Ninja could do nothing but watch the two of them fly away.
"Daitō-san?!" Naruto cried out in alarm when he saw Daitō get poisoned while saving him.
Sasori's poison was very potent. Gekkō Hayate and the samurai Daitō were most deeply poisoned; their faces were purple, and their limbs twitched uncontrollably. Namikaze Raidō struggled to keep himself from falling. Shino Aburame initially didn't take it seriously; his Aburame Clan wasn't afraid of poison, was it? He tried to use his parasitic insects to devour the toxins in his body, but the poison on the needles was so virulent that even his parasitic insects couldn't withstand it. A large number of insects in his body died, and he fell directly like a robot that had lost power. Sasuke was the one who helped him up.
Before Kakashi arrived, Choji initially bore the second-greatest pressure after Ino. He was covered in wounds from Deidara's Clay Bombs and had to endure by consuming both Spinach Pills and Curry Pills. Now, his entire body ached terribly, and he lay on the ground, unable to stand up.
Shikamaru, Yūgao Uzuki, Sasuke, and Naruto also had various injuries.
This level of battle was still too dangerous for them.
The other eleven Ninja at least knew about the decoy mission, but Naruto was completely clueless from beginning to end. After fighting for a long time, he still didn't know who he was fighting; he just saw everyone else fighting desperately and followed suit.
Kakashi only knew simple hemostasis Ninjutsu and couldn't do anything about their injuries. Fortunately, there was a Medical Ninja on site. Ino handed the captive over to Kakashi and the others for custody, then quickly checked their injuries.
She first summoned a clone of Katsuyu to help Choji with his injuries, while she herself detoxified Gekkō Hayate and the others.
This had to take priority.
The poison was highly corrosive. In just a short time, Gekkō Hayate and the samurai Daitō, who were most deeply poisoned, had already lost consciousness.
Ino studied the poison Sasori used. This toxin spread rapidly after entering the human body, causing internal organ bleeding and then death, clearly a hemolytic toxin. Her specialty was flower poisons, which were all neurotoxins that paralyzed nerves and organs. The two were not at all similar, and she couldn't discern anything from it. Fighting poison with poison would only make them die painlessly.
Now, a Ninja's method was needed to solve the problem.
She created two Shadow Clones and simultaneously used the B-rank Medical Ninjutsu, the Delicate Illness Extraction Technique, on Namikaze Raidō, Gekkō Hayate, and the samurai Daitō.
She had modified this technique, and it now combined the essence of internal energy poison expulsion from wuxia novels and the surgical removal of lesions from Western medicine.
First, she used her own profound Chakra to force the toxins to one location, then cut open the affected area and implanted her carefully cultivated flower seeds. These flowers would rapidly grow inside the human body, absorbing all the toxins at their roots, after which the entire growth would be surgically removed.
The patient wouldn't lose any body parts, at most, they would be severely weakened for a while, as the flower seeds absorbed their own life force. However, this was much better than losing a kidney or half a stomach.
Giant Rafflesia flowers successively grew on the chests of the three, and then Ino struck with her blade!
First, Raidō was pulled back from the brink of death.
Afterward, the heart rates of Gekkō Hayate and the samurai Daitō also returned to normal.
Shino lay on the ground, waving his hand at her, signaling her to come save him quickly.
Ino exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, there's another poisoned person here!? Why didn't you say anything! When did you get here, I didn't even see you?!"
Decoy and ambush missions were work requests given to Ninja by the Village. The Konoha Ninja's public mission was still to help That Country control This Country. Was it overkill to deploy twelve Ninja, big and small, to deal with two tiny, insignificant countries? No one cared about that!
Now, it could be said that the mission was successfully completed. Thanks to their efforts, This Country was no longer visible on the map.
Deidara used C3 once and C1 dozens of times. Ino used Steam Impurities Explosion twice and Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave three times. Konan used God's Paper Person once. Asuma also used Multiple Exploding Tags when Namikaze Raidō was poisoned. It wasn't that he didn't want to use it earlier, but he had too few Exploding Tags specially made with his Chakra, so they had to be saved for critical moments.
Kakashi's Water Release, Asuma's Fire Release, Naruto's Rasengan, and Sasuke's Chidori were all used extensively.
This Country looked as if it had been bombed by cruise missiles.
Although C3 and Steam Impurities Explosion detonated in mid-air, the energy that hit the ground was still immense. Now, a small, somewhat ornamental, circular crater had been blasted out at the south gate of what was once This Country's marketplace.
The earth's crust arched up, and the Ninja bombarded it wildly. The surrounding land sank by more than ten meters. Coupled with the already low terrain, the floods caused by the Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave completely transformed This Country into a freshwater lake with a mountain in the center and water all around.
This lake was quite large; one couldn't see its end with a single glance.
It seemed as if all these lake waters were created by Ino, and in reality... they were indeed created by her.
Under siege by three formidable generals of the Akatsuki Organization, she used whatever techniques she had. The brute force of the Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave was effective against the precise control of the Puppet Mastery. In moments of crisis, how could she care about the lives of civilians?
Speaking of which, Water Release posed the least threat. The destructive power of Wind, Fire, Earth, and Lightning Release all surpassed Water Release. If Uchiha Madara had used a Majestic Destroyer Flame here, there would be no need to save anyone, nor would there be anyone left to save.
The Konoha Ninja helped rescue people, and Ino diverted the water, allowing them to rebuild their homes. The Ninja's work was considered complete.
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