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Chapter 224: I Have No Other Talents, Only a Specialty in Killing Iwa-nin!
🕑 Added 2025-08-21 15:20:32 +0000 UTCChapter 224: I Have No Other Talents, Only a Specialty in Killing Iwa-nin!
Only a dead Iwa-nin is a qualified Iwa-nin.
Itachi Uchiha hadn't had much contact with Iwa-nin; he usually just encountered the Iwa-nin corpses that Kitahara had already dealt with. And it was true that he didn't like the people from Iwagakure.
This was not without reason.
When he was four years old, Fugaku Uchiha had chosen to take him to the battlefield to observe the Third Great Ninja War.
After the brutal battle ended, the young child was in the ruins of the battlefield and saved an Iwa-nin. Who would have thought that upon seeing his ninja tool pouch, the Iwa-nin would turn around and try to stab him!
At that time, Itachi was only a four-year-old child!
This incident left too deep an impression and was remembered by Itachi Uchiha to this day, because that was the first time he had killed someone. And he had done a very fine job of it…
So, the reason Itachi Uchiha now disliked Iwagakure so much, besides that crazed Iwa-nin, was also partly the fault of his old father, Fugaku Uchiha.
"Deidara, the disciple of the Tsuchikage Onoki, skilled in using the secret art of Explosion Release. Due to his arrogant personality and love for causing trouble, he was driven out of the village by his teacher to live on the outskirts…"
"So he's just an unloved child, hahaha…"
"It seems so. That guy likes to create terrifying explosions in Iwagakure… He should be more restrained in a foreign ninja village, right?"
The few Hidden Rain ninjas responsible for receiving the Iwagakure envoy squad were conversing amongst themselves. The young Jonin from Konoha and the ANBU Captain from the Mist stood behind them.
According to the great strategist Tobirama's 'politics class' test, Itachi Uchiha was to use this opportunity to manufacture the fact that Iwagakure was attempting to subvert the Hidden Rain, and that Konoha was here to assist the Hidden Rain in resisting Iwa's aggression.
Manufacturing facts…
Is that something a normal person would do?
A shadow streaked across the sky at high speed. Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, a large, strange bird descended!
"Hey, you guys… which one of you is Itachi Uchiha!"
A youth stood atop the white bird. His long, deep golden hair was extremely eye-catching. He wore an Iwagakure headband, his long hair casually draped over his shoulders, the ends tied up behind his back. He looked quite pretty…
Kisame Hoshigaki couldn't help but cough a few times and lean over to whisper in Itachi's ear, "I didn't expect the Tsuchikage Onoki to send out a little girl…"
"Uh…"
Itachi Uchiha glanced at the blonde youth's chest and said softly, "Kisame-senpai, no matter how you look at it, he's a boy…"
Besides the two of them, the timid ninjas of the Hidden Rain naturally didn't dare to tease the Iwa-nin. The leader of the group was the first to speak. "Your Excellency, are you the Iwagakure envoy sent by the Tsuchikage Onoki?"
"Ha… no…" The blonde youth tossed his hair, clenched his fists, and looked at the crowd below with a half-smile. "I'm… here to cause a ruckus in the Hidden Rain Village!"
The Hidden Rain ninja's face turned ashen. "What kind of joke is this!"
"No joke (＾Ｕ＾)ノ~ＹＯ…"
The blonde youth smiled and waved, his eyes scanning the crowd below. He looked at Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki hiding behind the Rain ninjas and said with great interest, "Konoha ninja… Mist ninja… looks like the old man was right…"
"We have only just signed an alliance agreement with Konoha…" The Hidden Rain ninja looked sternly at the blonde youth and said loudly, "Did the Tsuchikage send your excellency here to question us?"
"Pretty much!"
The blonde youth opened his palm, revealing a group of small white spiders. He chuckled, "You could also say… I'm here to take care of you!"
With a flip of his hand, the small white spiders scattered to the ground. In an instant, as if they were alive, they scurried quickly towards the Hidden Rain ninjas and stuck to their bodies!
"What the hell are these things!"
"They're clay bombs! He's that vandal, Deidara! Last year, it was he who used bombs made of this clay to destroy the defense line of the Land of Bears!"
"Hey! Deidara, are you declaring war on the Hidden Rain Village?"
"You can just think of it that way. I was just thinking of trying to see what it feels like to destroy a ninja village!" The Iwa youth looked at the Hidden Rain ninjas with contempt, held two fingers up to his chest, and said sternly, "Art… is an explosion! Katsu!"
BOOM! BOOM!
The close-range explosions instantly killed several Hidden Rain ninjas!
This move was truly unexpected. Even Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki didn't have time to save those Rain ninjas. Who could have imagined that the Tsuchikage Onoki's disciple was a psychopath!
And that he would actually send this psychopath to the Hidden Rain Village!
The Iwa youth before them wasn't here to act as an envoy, but rather to provoke a war between the Hidden Rain and Iwagakure!
In reality, Onoki was quite wronged…
He had raised Deidara as his own since he was a child, like his own grandson, because this little brat was cute and had a brain.
Among the ninjas of Iwagakure, Deidara's talent could be said to be top-tier. The Tsuchikage was even thinking of passing on his Dust Release and the position of the next Tsuchikage to him!
But as it turned out, Deidara had liked to play with dangerous things since he was a child, making clay bombs every day and blowing up Iwagakure until it was in chaos, and he even proclaimed this to be the art he pursued…
Three years ago, a great incident occurred in the ninja world.
The Hidden Grass Village was turned into a barren wasteland overnight.
Deidara felt a great shock from this, and his behavior in Iwagakure became even worse thereafter. Although he had achieved many merits, he had also drawn a lot of criticism.
To solve the problem with his disciple, the Third Tsuchikage could only choose to have his disciple live outside the village. Because he was getting older and his energy was limited, and he couldn't take the stimulation, Onoki later simply stopped asking about Deidara's excursions.
Recently, a drastic change had occurred in the neighboring Rain Village. Logically, as a closed-off village, nothing that happened in the Rain should have been noticed by Iwagakure.
But there were always a few busybodies in this ninja world who thought they were very clever and gave unsolicited advice. Someone told Onoki a piece of news: the Hidden Rain Village had sided with Konoha.
His neighbor, the Hidden Rain, which was supposed to be strictly neutral, had sided with Konoha. This was something no Tsuchikage could tolerate! Iwagakure had many commissioned missions that had to pass through the Land of Rain!
According to Onoki's unhurried nature, he should have just sent out the ANBU to investigate and pay attention to the situation in the Rain, and calmly wait for Sunagakure to make the first move, for the Fourth Kazekage to take the lead in stirring up trouble…
But for some reason, the Hidden Sand Village in the Land of Wind had been quiet, and had even proactively scaled back its activities at the Rain Village's borders.
At the same time, news also came from the Rain Village that Konoha's new generation, Itachi Uchiha, was active there, which made Onoki's back ache a little…
Coincidentally, Deidara had just caused more trouble…
So he let Deidara go with a ninja squad to the Hidden Rain Village to see the world, and also to humble this kid a bit so he wouldn't always be so arrogant, using his brain to play those deadly pranks. Otherwise, at this rate, when would their Will of Stone ever have a successor!
"Hey, you must be… Itachi Uchiha!"
Deidara paid no mind to Itachi's expression, curiously sizing up the long, black-haired youth. He pursed his lips and said, "You don't look like anything special!"
"I've never been anything special. I'm just skilled at killing Iwa-nin…" A ball of black flame condensed in the palm of the young Konoha Jonin, slowly forming into a small, young dragon.
"Oh, I'm pretty good at that too…"
Hearing Itachi Uchiha's words, Deidara nodded to himself. He also often accidentally injured his own comrades… This scene left the Konoha youth completely bewildered. Why was this guy so nonchalant about his provocation?
