"I didn't think you were really that kind of person."
A voice came from above.
It was Kurotsuchi, who had rushed over to watch the excitement, following Shiro.
When she arrived, she just happened to hear Temari's desperate plea.
Now, her gaze at Shiro was a bit off.
"Really" that kind of person?
Temari's expression stiffened.
What does that mean?
Why, every time she just breathed a sigh of relief, thinking she was safe, did fate mercilessly tear apart that peace?
"Didn't you tell me before that if you became the Daimyo, you'd demand that the major ninja villages offer up young and beautiful female ninja?"
Kurotsuchi, facing Shiro's merciless stare, floated down beside him, explaining with an innocent look.
"Wasn't that just to provoke you, you idiot?"
Shiro was speechless.
"Oh, you also called me 'leg shadow', let me see..."
Kurotsuchi thought of something and floated behind Temari.
Temari, like a startled bird, saw Kurotsuchi's movement and quickly picked up her Three-Star Fan, blocking behind her, extremely wary: "What do you want to do?!"
"I just want to see if your butt is perky or not? Otherwise, why would he be thinking about it?"
Kurotsuchi stretched her neck, flying around Temari using the Light-Weight Rock Technique. Temari couldn't block in time, and she barely managed to see a small part not covered by the Three-Star Fan.
"There's nothing special about it, though? Could it be that it will develop more later?"
Kurotsuchi was a little confused.
"You guys..."
Temari retreated a few steps, pressing against a tree trunk.
It was terrifying.
Was there any hope left for this ninja world?
The world outside Hidden Sand Village was actually so perverse!
"It seems your sibling affection is just average; you're still lost in thought at a time like this."
Shiro's calm words brought Temari back to her senses.
That's right!
Isn't the most dangerous person right now Gaara, who was just attacked?
Gaara!
"Gaara!"
Temari quickly leaped, changing her position, and looked towards the center of the explosion.
At this moment, half of Shukaku on Gaara's body had turned into quicksand, uncontrollable, constantly sliding off.
With Shukaku's defense, Gaara was not injured.
But the coldness of the kunai, the heat of the explosion, the swelling sensation brought by the shockwave of the explosion, the grainy feeling of the sand carried by the shockwave... all of these left a deep psychological shadow on the young Gaara.
"Still good."
Temari breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Gaara had not perished.
Then she remembered that Shiro seemed to be taking pictures just now and said some inexplicable things.
Looking at it this way, she might have really misunderstood.
But with countless precedents, Temari was now extremely cautious.
Temari carefully approached Shiro, who was writing on a photo, and secretly glanced at the content.
"There must be something to fill a Jinchuriki's heart. Before Gaara's heart was filled with Naruto's friendship, other places were filled by him first."
"..."
What the hell is this written about!
"Everyone move, it's going to explode!"
A voice came from the sky.
Deidara, riding his Clay Giant Bird, threw Explosive Clay bombs downwards like a bomber plane.
Kurotsuchi immediately moved, floating diagonally upwards, avoiding the attack range.
Before Shiro retreated, he also took Temari, who was next to him, with him.
"Is this the Ichibi Jinchuriki? I don't need to capture you now, so let me show you the combined ultimate jutsu of me and Sasori-aniki, un!"
Deidara waved his hand, and a new Clay Giant Dragon appeared beside him.
"Boring."
Sasori, also sitting on the giant bird, manipulated the Third Kazekage's puppet, and black Iron Sand covered it.
The black Iron Sand Clay Giant Dragon swooped down towards Gaara below.
This was the first countermeasure against Lightning Release that Deidara had come up with during this time.
Adding a layer of Iron Sand outside the Explosive Clay. Although Iron Sand is also countered by Lightning Release, this just happened to become an explosion trigger.
The Iron Sand doesn't need to be responsible for attacking; even if its structure is destroyed by Lightning Release, it doesn't matter, as long as it creates approach time for the Explosive Clay.
Then, when it senses the Iron Sand outside the Explosive Clay collapsing, meaning the Lightning Release attack is about to reach the interior, it detonates directly.
The huge impact force of the explosion will turn the Iron Sand, defeated by Lightning Release, into countless tiny particles to attack the enemy.
This attack is purely a physical attack.
These experiments were all carried out with Kakuzu.
It wasn't actually necessary to use this against the Ichibi Jinchuriki, after all, Gaara and Shukaku don't use Lightning Release.
"Let go of me!"
Temari, pulled by Shiro out of the bombing zone, struggled.
"Is this how you treat your savior?"
Shiro threw Temari onto a nearby branch.
"I didn't force you to save me..."
Temari muttered softly.
"What?"
Shiro had actually just said it casually and wasn't paying attention to Temari's reaction; he was watching Deidara's attack over there.
"I said, I didn't force..."
"Hmph!"
Boom—
A huge explosion echoed through the sky.
After the explosion, what remained was a gigantic Shukaku, with Gaara deeply asleep on its head.
Gaara had deeply grasped the essence of the future Sasuke; facing the explosion, he quickly summoned his "summoning beast" to block it.
"Don't make such jokes."
Shiro patted Temari's shoulder, then flew into the air, shouting at the gesticulating Deidara: "That's enough! Go help elsewhere, leave this place to others!"
Explosions can't open people's hearts; Naruto still needs to go and talk to Gaara.
"Tch, fine, then I'll go bomb Konoha Village... uh, I mean, help Konoha bomb those invaders."
Deidara almost let it slip, his eyes darted around, he covered his mouth, and controlled the giant bird to fly back.
Below.
Temari was holding her head on the tree branch, looking utterly distraught.
Shiro's phrase, "Don't make such jokes," made Temari freeze for a moment.
What joke?
Could he be so narcissistic as to think her words were a joke?
However, she quickly realized.
Her previous sentence seemed to have been cut off halfway, the latter half covered by the sound of the explosion.
So what he heard was... Temari collapsed.
What kind of outrageous words did that half-spoken sentence turn into?
"Um, listen to me, you misheard just now..."
Temari looked at Shiro, who had floated down after speaking with Deidara, and quickly began to explain.
"So you were indeed joking, right? I know, I believe you."
Shiro nodded, indicating that he understood.
"I wasn't joking!"
Temari subconsciously retorted.
"..."
"No, no, no, I was joking... I... I, I, I'll kill you!!!"
Unable to explain herself, Temari became furious out of shame, unfolding her Three-Star Fan to launch an attack.
"Don't interrupt your brother and Uzumaki Naruto's moment of love-hate entanglement."
Shiro suddenly appeared in front of Temari, pressing his hand on hers, and the fan she had just unfolded was closed again.
"Besides, I already said I believe you, and you don't need to prove it to me, why are you so anxious?"
"...Who wants to prove anything to you!"
Temari gritted her teeth, how could she prove such a thing?! Huh?
She really wanted to resist, but she felt the disparity in their strength.
Her restrained hand couldn't move.
Huh?
Temari saw Shiro holding her with one hand, while his other hand was holding a pen, quickly writing something on a piece of paper suspended in the air.
Her and Gaara's names seemed to appear on it.
Was he collecting some intelligence?
Temari looked over warily…
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