The Rescue Mission Battle Part 10

"YOU!!" Sasori growled.

(BANG!!)

Hiruko's entire front blew uprising a cloud of dust in the air.

(Cough!)

(Cough!)

Chiyo coughed while doing her best to see through the cloud of dust.

…..

Soon…

The cloud of dust revealed a young man with short, mousy red hair in his teens, with Akatsuki robes….

"You.." Chiyo pointed a finger towards Sasori while observing him with a shocked expression.

Seeing Chiyo's expression, Sasori's anger from earlier was replaced with an innocent mocking expression.

"What's wrong, Granny Chiyo?"

"Are you so filled with emotion that you cannot speak?" Sasori asked while stowing back the Third Kazekage puppet and broken pieces of Hiruko into a scroll.

Chiyo continued to stare at him with her blank expression.

"That's not surprising."

"After all, it's our first reunion in Seventeen Years…" Sasori said with a calm expression.

Sweat dripped from Chiyo's head as she stared at him with an expression of disbelief.

"Sasori, you…" She uttered with difficulty.

"Yes, I am young, despite being Thirty Two this year…" Sasori flattered himself.

"When?" Chiyo asked.

"When, What?" Sasori tried to confirm…

"When did you turn yourself into a puppet?" Chiyo asked.

"Oh, this?"

"Why don't you try to guess it?" Sasori asked.

"…" Chiyo stared at him without an answer.

"Try to guess."

"If you guess it right, then I might let you witness my ultimate technique before I send you to heaven," Sasori said.

("Looks like I am a failure of grandmother…")

("To think that I am still in the dark of when he had transformed himself…") Chiyo thought…

…..

("WAIT A MINUTE!")

Chiyo looked towards Sasori with completely focused eyes…

"Was it during the Th-"

"BINGO!!" Sasori interrupted, following which he took off his Akatsuki robes…

"Your prize!" Sasori said, as he took out a scroll from his scroll holder that was attached to his puppet body in the back, while slowly lowering the poison coated metal pipe that was located in the place of the stomach to the ground.

*Pierces*

The metal pipe pierced into the ground, following which Sasori stood on the metal pipe, slowly rising into the air while pointing the scroll in his hand toward Chiyo!

"The scroll contains my most powerful puppet Jutsu, which I used to take down an entire nation once, All by myself…"

"And Yes!"

"You are correct in your guess granny Chiyo!"

"It was indeed during the Third Ninja World War…" Sasori confirmed Chiyo's doubts.

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"What?" Rasa and Sasuke stared at Sasori from a distance.

"What is that thing?" Sasuke asked.

"It's a puppet!"

"To be precise, that man is living as a puppet" Rasa explained.

"Living as a puppet?" Sasuke asked since he had only heard of metaphors where people were controlled by others to the point that they were called as puppets…

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Chiyo thought back to the time when Sasori's name became famous through the Third Great Ninja War…

Sasori had received a title back then…

< Sasori of the Red Sand! >

"After Komushi died, I used his body to create a puppet out him, seeing that he could be considered half a puppet before he died."

"However, even after converting him into a puppet, I could not see his soul in that puppet."

"More like I could not feel it…"

"Just like how it was with the Father and Mother puppets by your side…"

…..

"Then I thought, maybe if I could change myself into a puppet…"

"If I succeeded, maybe I could understand what it means to be one…."

"Maybe I could see them once again…."

"Ever since then, I worked on turning myself into a puppet."

"I immersed myself in trials and errors in incorporating my living tissues into a puppet body."

"Soon… I achieved a breakthrough in my experiences and finally transferred myself into a puppet body" Sasori paused.

Chiyo stared at Sasori, thinking of all the experiences Sasori had been through to walk down the path he had chosen.

"And when I did that, my whole world had changed…."

"I was not able to feel anymore…"

"No feeling of touch, no emotions…. Nothing!" Sasori explained.

Chiyo felt more terrible at herself for not rescuing Sasori.

"Since I could not feel anything…."

"I went on a killing spree, using my only puppet body to start a massacre. The one that dyed the sands of the desert red…" Sasori explained.

"After killing many people, I could still not feel anything…"

"I could not feel the souls of a puppet and neither the feelings of a human anymore…" Sasori lamented.

"I stared at the battlefield, at the corpses around me…"

"The only meaningful thing I did throughout my life till that point was building puppets…"

"So I thought, why not just continue down that path…" Sasori explained.

"…" Chiyo stared at Sasori without interrupting him while tears dropped down from one of her eyes.

"I used those bodies to create more powerful puppets..."

"After a year or so…"

"The Akatsuki recruited me, saying they were looking for S-Class criminals like me…"

"I took them on their offer, after all, I was a wanted criminal," Sasori concluded.

("So that's how he joined Akatsuki….") Chiyo thought.

"Now that you know what happened after I left the village, you can die peacefully and join my collection," Sasori said following which he unraveled the scroll in his hand.

"It's said that the ability of a puppet master is measured through the number of puppets they can use…" Sasori said while holding a one hand seal through which he executed his chakra…

(POOF!)

The seal on the scroll opened….

(Whoosh!)

(Whoosh!) (Whoosh!)

(Whoosh!) (Whoosh!) (Whoosh!)

(Whoosh!) (Whoosh!) (Whoosh!) (Whoosh!)

Hundreds of puppets appeared in the air.

(Clank!)

Sasori opened a mechanism on his chest…

(Sh!)

Chakra was burning within the mechanism, following which Chakra threads extended towards all the puppets in the air.

Sasori then looked down upon Chiyo while standing on the flexible steel pipe that extended from his abdomen…

"I can control a hundred at once!" He said.

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Rasa and Sasuke stared dumbfounded at the hundred puppets that were floating in the air…

"Shouldn't you go and help?" Sasuke asked Rasa.

"Do you think I like to stand and do nothing?"

"Of course I want to help her…"

"But she forbade me from doing so…"

"Of course I will intervene at the cost of my life if things get more worse!" Rasa explained.

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Chiyo shook her head in disapproval while taking out a scroll from within her sleeve.

"This is a Jutsu I sealed recently…"

"I didn't think I'd ever use it again…."

"But it seems it won't work out that way…"

"Now let's put an end to this!" Chiyo concluded by opening her scroll.

In the scroll appeared ten seals…

(Sh!)

(Sh!) (Sh!)

(Sh!) (Sh!) (Sh!)

All the ten seals floated out.

"It's the least I expected from you granny Chiyo…"

"I'd heard rumors of your technique which you used to bring a castle down all by yourself…"

"Granny Chiyo's secret number of fingers…"

"The Secret White Move."

"Chikamatsu's ten puppets."