As Shota looked at Sasori and his stinger pointed at his neck, he spoke carefully while trying to keep his voice light. "Umm, it is nice to meet you too Sasori nii san. I guess you have not changed in how you express your love. And good job repairing your Hiruko puppet after our fight. Must have been expensive."
Sasori's voice stayed cold as he asked his question again. "Shut up and tell me how did you managed to remove the bounty on me. And why I am no longer a criminal of Suna?"
Shota took a small breath and began his explanation in a cheerful tone. "Well I just told the Suna council how you killed the Kazekage and made him a puppet with a kekkei genkai and they were like wow we want him back in the village. He is so talented and genius."
He then quickly explain how the council had quickly voted to remove every bounty and every criminal mark from Sasori's name after Daimyō's order.
They wrote official letters that declared him a valued asset of Suna once more. Some of the older members had even suggested giving him a large research budget and a private workshop so he could create more human puppets without any limits.
Sasori listened without moving the stinger. His next words came out colder than before. "You told them about my Third Kazekage puppet? I should just kill you for revealing my Kazekage puppet. Now they know about my trump card."
Sasori clearly disliked that one of his strongest secrets was no longer hidden.
Shota raised both hands slowly in a peaceful gesture and kept smiling. "Hey, you should be thanking me. Now you would be getting all the funds and support to make human puppets. Very nice material. Look you already have an Explosion Release puppet. Just think about the beautiful art you can make into." He pointed toward the body of the last Explosion Release user that still lay on the ground.
Shota then asked another question that had been on his mind. "And besides your real trump card is the puppet of Sakumo Hatake, the legendary White Fang. How the fuck did you even manage to get his dead body?! Like how?"
The stinger lowered a little. Sasori's voice stayed firm as he answered. "While you are right about the benefits, I still do not trust Suna enough to not stab me in the back. So do not you dare reveal my trump card or that puppet would be coming for your head."
Shota muttered under his breath while the danger lessened. "Jeez jeez calm down. You are such a tsundere. First saving me and then threatening to kill me."
After a short silence Shota asked the next practical question. "So how did you even find me?"
Sasori answered while the stinger still rested lightly against Shota's neck. "I have been tracking you down for the past week. What the fuck are you doing? First going to now destroyed Konoha and now to Taki and being attacked by a group of Iwa shinobi."
The words showed both curiosity and mild annoyance. Sasori had followed the trail across two villages and arrived just in time to stop the ambush.
Shota shrugged as well as he could with a weapon near his throat and began a long funny explanation. "You know how it is... missions and missions."
Sasori's puppet eyes locked on the clone and the child it was carrying. "Now what is that...?" Sasori mumbled. His attention shifted completely to the small form held by the shadow clone. The curiosity in his voice was clear.
"That is not material for your research." Shota shouted back. He spoke firmly and stepped a little closer to the clone to show that the baby was under his protection.
Before Sasori could say something more, a huge flaming rock of lava was heading their way at a rapid speed.
Shota felt chakra strings grab him and launch him to a tree fifty metres apart. He came crashing down against the hard bark. "Ugh, you could have been gentle." Shota murmured as he slid down to the ground.
The landing was rough but the quick pull by Sasori's strings had saved him from the lava attack.
Sasori focused on the culprit Roshi of the Lava Release who had a layer of tailed beast chakra covering him.
"Sasori of the Red Sand." he mumbled and looked at the dead Iwa shinobi. The four tails jinchuriki studied the field of fallen Iwa fighters and the army of puppets.
He sighed heavily. "Taking on three S rank shinobi was not in the mission." And before Shota's eyes could lock on him, he was already gone.
Pakura only had one flaming orb a little distance away from her rather than the multiple ones she usually held. She probably did not want to suck the water from her students and leave them as dry humans.
She looked a little tired but mostly fine. The single orb of scorching heat floated beside her as she walked closer with her three genin safely behind her.
Her eyes looked at Sasori then at Shota. Shota spoke quickly to introduce them. "He is a friend. Pakura sama meet Sasori nii san. Sasori san, meet the great, the beautiful, the goddess Pakura sama."
Sasori looked at Shota's blush and said, "We are acquainted." His voice stayed flat and calm.
"Yes, he tried to kill me when we were part of the same genin team more than once." Pakura added a little angrily.
Shota coughed at that. "Umm can we all be friends please?" He asked the question with a nervous smile while looking between the two powerful shinobi.
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