Chapter 144 - Infiltration 06.

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Third Person POV

Land of Sand, Year 38.

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In a desert location, Minato appeared with the young Sasori amidst the sandy vastness. As the boy quickly looked around, trying to understand where they were and how they had gotten there so instantly—after all, they had been far, with their own village not appearing on any horizon—for a moment he was confused. After a brief silence, he turned to Minato with his curiosity getting the better of him.

"How did you do that?" He immediately asked, trying to grasp what was happening.

Minato looked at him at that moment. "It doesn't matter right now. You're going to help me with your grandmother, Chiyo. After all, I need her to provide me with the antidote, and she'll be more inclined to do so if I have you as a hostage, so nothing personal," Minato replied calmly.

Sasori hesitated for a moment, but Minato continued, "Let's get out of here before all of Suna's forces come after us."

"Wait..." Sasori tried to argue, still confused. However, Minato didn't care about the boy's concerns as he continued to look for where his Raijin was at that moment.

'I'll definitely run out of chakra if I teleport myself and Sasori this distance...' Minato thought as he turned to look at one side of the desert, where his seal was.

He had placed his kunai along with the items of the shinobi he spied on yesterday, using the band on the shoulder that Sasori had mentioned. At this moment, he felt behind him, Sasori reaching into his bag. He quickly unrolled a scroll as Minato turned to him leisurely; the boy began to perform jutsus on the seals within the scroll and used the summoning jutsu.

Minato curiously looked at the three puppets that appeared in front of him. "I won't let you capture me so easily!" Sasori spoke in a serious tone.

Minato observed him for a while and responded, "Yes, I didn't think you'd cooperate with me anyway, but I need the antidote, even if you did help me," he said calmly.

Even though he was against the boy who initially helped him, Minato knew he needed to save Tsuna's life. He had no intention of killing Sasori but knew he could use him.

"You seem to be a skilled ninja, but I won't give up so easily!" Sasori responded with determination and quickly advanced towards Minato, trying to attack him. He was also interested in testing Minato from the moment he saw him. Minato was aware of his feelings towards him and knew the boy thought to see how he would fare to try something.

Sasori was involved in a forbidden study of tampering with corpses; nobody knew of his research, but they would certainly be shocked if they knew. After all, Sasori wanted to turn corpses into puppets in which he could use all the powers he wielded while alive; he wanted to see how Minato would fare and perhaps try to use this method to create a puppet of his dead body as soon as he killed him later, what he didn't know was Minato's strange jutsu that took him away in an instant. He had not been on the battlefield to hear the rumors of the young ninja from Konoha with multiple S-rank jutsus, while he spent most of his time researching and assembling puppets. But Minato knew that the Kazekage and Rasa would know who he was the moment he disappeared.

As soon as the puppets approached, Minato stood still. Sasori thought he would use that strange teleport as Minato had done before, but it was not exactly that. The boy made his puppets attack, and one of them immediately pierced Minato. The blade passed through Minato's body, emerging from the other side, and other puppets also attacked him, piercing his body in other parts.

"What?!" Sasori was surprised to see the puppet practically killing that ninja without him reacting initially. However, he was even more surprised by what happened next. Minato was there, looking calmly, as if he didn't have several blades embedded in his chest, shoulder, and abdomen, some dripping with poison.

"Is he okay? How is this possible?" Sasori exclaimed, stunned, sure that it was not an illusion or clone to see if it was really real.

Minato continued to look at him calmly. "Physical attacks don't work against me, no matter what you try," Minato spoke in a serious tone. He had always wanted to say those words to an enemy and was satisfied to see the incredulous expression on the boy's face in front of him.

"But what kind of power is this?" Sasori still asked, trying to understand what was happening, while Minato suddenly released a glow from his chest and other parts. The blades began to break, being disintegrated by the light within Minato's body, falling to the other side, onto the desert sand.

With a simple movement, Minato shone and vanished from in front of the puppets with a flash, reappearing in front of Sasori, grabbing him by the neck before he could react or say anything as he spat saliva from the pressure on that part of his body by Minato.

"You might have helped me... Sasori, but I'm going to have to be hard on you, as I know your intentions..." He spoke calmly, not knowing what Sasori wanted but certainly something bad with him.

Before Sasori could react, Minato removed the bandage from his hand, revealing his red veins from the poison, and touched the boy's neck before he could do anything while opening his eyes trying to bring his puppets back with the chakra threads holding them.

The poison quickly began to spread rapidly through Sasori's neck, leaving him stunned. Minato knew very well that Chiyo might try to destroy all the antidotes as soon as she knew of his presence there, perhaps even destroying the whole laboratory, since something similar happened at the outpost a while ago with Konoha capturing an alchemist making the poisons.

"This..." Sasori tried to speak, feeling the pain as the poison began to enter his body.

"Don't worry, you won't die, unless your grandmother doesn't care about you... which I find hard to believe..." Minato said simply, as the boy fell to the ground, completely paralyzed and his body becoming unconscious with the puppets simply collapsing in the middle of the sand after Sasori lost control.

Minato just raised an eyebrow as he watched those things collapse. He had to admit these were much more sophisticated than those used on the battlefield. He knew Sasori was a genius, even turning the Third Kazekage into a puppet. But now was not the time to admire that. He simply picked up the boy and teleported using his last reserves of chakra.

Meanwhile, in a distant place, Chiyo, a woman in her 40s who loved her village and her family above all, was busy in her laboratory. The environment was permeated with the smell of chemicals as she continued to produce poisons to supply the war with some assistants.

As she finished the new batch, she couldn't help but sigh. "I hope this war ends soon... I need to rest... I don't even know if I'll retire this way..." she murmured tiredly, while creating more and more poisons to face her enemies. Perhaps it was her fourth or fifth poison being made after studying Hanzo's poison for many years.

As Chiyo continued with her things, a ninja appeared in her laboratory. "Chiyo-sama," he said, kneeling before her.

"Yes, what is it now?" she asked, somewhat irritated by the interruption.

"Urgent news from the Village. An invader has entered and Kazekage-sama is preparing to capture him at this moment," he replied, this ninja was sent by the Mizukage to pass information, not only to Chiyo but to all possible points, after all, if the invader could escape the village, other parts would be aware of him and could stop him in flight.

Konoha wasn't the only one that had ninjas invading the village, Suna, Iwa, Kiri, and Kumo also had these problems during the war, but all had different methods of dealing with their invaders.

Chiyo raised an eyebrow at this. "Another invader in the Village? Well, that can happen..." she murmured, as the ninja handed her the scroll and left the laboratory.

She read the scroll out of curiosity and couldn't help but laugh. "Hahaha! I have to admit this one is creative... He passed himself off as a Suna ninja and got past my son, who put him on a team for Rasa, even entering the village and going to the Kazekage..." She couldn't help but admire the audacity of the last one, while her assistants in the laboratory just watched their boss laughing.

Meanwhile, at another location in that base, the ninjas who had returned from the Village were finally there, as they began to remove everything they had taken from the scrolls and place it in the storage.

"Hm?! What is this? What a strange kunai…" One of them said upon seeing Minato's kunai for the first time.

"Forget it, it's just a weapon," the other dismissed it casually to his companion.

The other agreed and as soon as they finished putting everything in its place, they yawned, wanting to rest now that they had done their work. "Finally! We've traveled all night through the desert, we can finally rest, right?" One of them murmured, exhausted.

"I hope so... I heard they're offering sandwiches in the cafeteria. Shall we grab some before sleeping?" His companion suggested.

Before his companion could respond, Minato appeared among them, kicking both so quickly that they had no time to react or realize what was happening, as the boy landed on the ground with a body on his shoulder and the knocked-out ninjas hitting the floor right after.

He made sure there was no one else there and began to survey his surroundings; it was a base full of rooms and corridors, but what was stranger was that they were underground somewhere in the desert.

"Hardly anyone would notice a base like this…" Minato had to admit that it was clever to use such a place for poison production; his enemy would hardly find a place like this.

Minato then began to think about how to act, his chakra reserves nearly depleted, which, in a way, was good. After all, the place should have sensors, and if they didn't detect a new chakra emerging, they would think it was just another common ninja from Suna. If they were specialists, they might even identify his chakra as different from the others, but that didn't matter now. Minato would use only stamina energy to confront them.

He quickly swept through the entire base at that moment and knew where Chiyo was, seeing a woman who was in the laboratory filled with poison while performing more complex activities than the others.

"Hm?" The woman sneezed at that moment. "Seems like someone is talking about me…" was all she said as she continued making the poison.

Meanwhile, Minato did not limit himself to the laboratory as he swept through everything, even the lower floors with some prisoners. He grew frustrated upon realizing that they were being used in experiments, and most of them were ninjas from Konoha.

He stopped thinking about it and began to act. Some ninjas were passing through the corridor when suddenly, someone appeared in front of them, striking them with a precise attack, knocking them out instantly so quickly with his Soru that they couldn't react. He still kept Sasori unconscious and moved forward, facing other ninjas who appeared in his path, surprised by the intruder. More and more enemies appeared, until they finally began to scream that there was an invader on site, but Minato defeated them one by one.

He didn't kill anyone, as he still had no reason to do so at that moment as he continued to make his way to the laboratory before the whole base came after him. As he advanced, he encountered a group that was already prepared to face the invader. "Attack!" they shouted, launching several puppets contaminated with poison. Minato agilely dodged, moving between the puppets and reaching the ninjas with Soru and Geppo, striking them with punches so strong that they fell to the ground, defeated the next moment.

Minato continued on his path until he found the room full of poisons, where the woman he had monitored was. He entered the room with her quickly entering combat mode already knowing about the invader and all her assistants did the same.

"I don't know who you are, but you certainly got past everyone to get here. You must not be someone ordinary. I just wonder how you found this place," Chiyo said, clearly intrigued. However, her eyes widened upon seeing the person Minato was carrying on his shoulder.

"No...!" she exclaimed, immediately recognizing.

"Chiyo, it doesn't matter who I am. I'm here for the antidote to the poison and now that you've recognized my hostage, we can negotiate," Minato spoke calmly, determined to get what he came for.

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