Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 213 Defection

"Toad*Gunpowder!"

As soon as Gamabunta appeared, he saw a giant wave of golden sand coming towards him.

Without saying a word, he immediately spat out three enormous super water balls from his mouth, which then bombarded the gold sand.

The giant wave was immediately blasted open by the water cannon, exploding outwards in both directions, eventually slowing down and gradually coming to a stop.

At the same time, countless Sand Village ninjas leaped out from behind the gently sloping golden sand dunes, landing around the Konoha convoy and surrounding the still-shaken Konoha ninjas.

Then the gold dust behind them surged again, gradually transforming into a pillar of sand that shot into the sky, pushing a young man with reddish-brown hair high into the air, where he stood opposite Minato Namikaze, who was standing on Gamabunta's head.

The newcomer was none other than Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage of Sunagakure.

Looking at Rasa, who stood before him with his arms crossed, Minato Namikaze spoke with a solemn expression.

"Lord Kazekage, these supplies were originally destined for Sunagakure. What brings you here?"

Minato Namikaze understood that although it seemed as if Gamabunta's "Gunpowder Ball" had stopped the sandstorm attack, it was actually more of a deliberate act by the other side, who did not launch a full-scale attack. Otherwise, most of the people present would have been swallowed up by the surging sand waves.

The other party's actions were certainly not out of fear of harming Konoha ninjas; their purpose must have been to obtain these supplies.

Minato Namikaze just didn't understand why they would go to all this trouble when these things were originally meant to be given to Sunagakure.

However, Rasa did not answer Minato Namikaze's question. Instead, he focused his gaze on Minato's injured arm and blood-stained chest, and slowly spoke without expression.

"Leave the supplies and Yekura behind, and you people of Konoha can get out."

Luo Sha's voice wasn't loud, but it still carried throughout the entire battlefield.

All the Konoha ninja present looked grief-stricken and indignant, gripping their weapons tightly and glaring at Rasa.

Minato Namikaze, standing on Gamabunta's head, also pulled out a kunai, held it in his hand, and stared intently at Rasa.

"Is Lord Kazekage planning to tear up the peace treaty?!"

Seeing the angry expressions of the Konoha ninjas before him, Rasa remained unperturbed and calmly asked in return.

"How can a treaty that hasn't been formally signed be considered to have been torn up?"

This statement caused an uproar.

Minato Namikaze was equally furious, his kunai pointing directly at Rasa.

"A mere shadow of a village! How could this be?"

However, before he could finish speaking, a male ninja dressed as a Konoha ninja ran out from the crowd below and leaped onto Gamabunta's head.

He looked at Luo Sha and spoke in a mocking tone.

"Luo Sha, you are as shameless as ever."

Before the man could even open his mouth, it was not Rasa opposite him who spoke first, but Gamabunta at his feet.

"Hey! You stinking woman! Who gave you permission to stand on Toad Boss's head?!"

Minato Namikaze immediately knelt down to soothe her; this was not the time for him to throw a tantrum.

Rasa ignored the interaction between Minato Namikaze and Gamabunta, his gaze fixed on the person who had just spoken, his expression cold.

"For the sake of Sunagakure, all that useless shame is something that can be discarded. Yekura."

As Rasa finished speaking, the male Konoha ninja exploded with a "bang," releasing a puff of white smoke and returning to his original form.

Despite the fact that the Hidden Mist Village's Sky Division had failed to detect the Scorching Release: Leaf Village, Tachibana Kenkawa had actually used his Transformation Technique to brazenly blend into the Hidden Leaf Village's transport convoy.

Even the people of Konoha didn't bother to look after him; they treated him like an ordinary ninja.

No wonder Jianchuan Ju and the others couldn't find anyone.

After dispelling the transformation jutsu, Yekura coldly stared at Rasa opposite her, without a trace of kindness in her expression.

If she weren't still wearing her Sunagakure headband, others might have thought she was a female Konoha ninja fighting alongside Minato Namikaze.

"So, ninjas are something that can be discarded at will?"

Listening to Yecang's resentful question, it was clear that although she did not show any injuries on the surface, her six months in Konoha were not simply a matter of being under house arrest.

Looking at Ye Cang's cold expression, Luo Sha remained silent for a long time before finally nodding slowly.

"Yes."

Upon hearing Luo Sha's answer, Ye Cang, whose face had been pale before, suddenly broke into a smile she had never seen before.

However, no matter who sees this smile, the first thing that comes to mind is coldness, a bone-chilling coldness.

Looking at Yekura's chilling smile, Rasa remained expressionless and asked calmly.

"So, Yekura, have you switched sides to Konoha?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Cang finally withdrew the smile from his face and looked at Luo Sha again.

Immediately afterwards, Yekura silently took out a kunai from his waist and pressed it against his headband.

Upon seeing this, Luo Sha's expression finally changed slightly, and his voice became a few decibels louder.

"Think it through."

Yekura on the other side simply snorted, and her kunai cleanly and crisply swept across her headband without the slightest pause.

As Yekura moved, a clear scratch severed the Sand Village insignia on her headband.

This scratch seems to also demonstrate Yekura's determination.

"From this day forward, there will be no more Pakura of Sunagakure!"

Having done all this, Yekura jumped directly from Gamabunta's head to the ground without the slightest hesitation.

However, she did not enter the Konoha ninja's ranks, but instead rushed towards the outer perimeter without stopping.

Several Sand Village ninjas surrounding the Konoha convoy tried to stop Pakura, but Pakura showed no mercy and summoned several blazing red fireballs to strike them.

All the Sand Village ninja who tried to stop him were roasted into dried meat.

Now no one dared to stop Yekura's advance. All the Sunagakure members turned their attention to the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, who was still confronting Minato Namikaze, awaiting his orders.

However, Rasa seemed oblivious, watching Yekura's departing figure without uttering a word.

"He became a rogue ninja, yet he didn't defect to Konoha?"

Thus, without orders from their superiors, the Sunagakure ninjas, knowing Pakura's prowess, consciously made way for her.

The newly recruited rogue ninja of Sunagakure, Pakura, the Scorching Release user, actually left the battlefield in front of so many Sunagakure ninjas.

Only then did Rasa look at Minato Namikaze again.

"Since Konoha has failed to return the captured Pakura to Sunagakure, all previous verbal agreements are null and void."

At this moment, Minato Namikaze no longer cared what Rasa had said, and held several kunai tightly between his fingers.

Looking at the expressions of the Konoha ninjas, Rasa seemed to feel somewhat disheartened as well, so he simply stopped talking.

He waved at the Sand Village ninjas below, and the gold dust beneath his feet surged and churned once more.

In the end, only one word remained.

"kill!"

Go to bed early tonight and recharge for a full day of work tomorrow.

I'll be updating like crazy starting the day after tomorrow when the National Day holiday begins. Um, never mind, I'll just say I'll start updating extra chapters during the National Day holiday!

My current plan is to update three times a day during the seven-day National Day holiday, and then save up any extra chapters I write. If I have enough chapters saved up in the last two days, I will release a few more chapters at once.

Well, I'm just bragging about it for now, but the actual results will depend on my writing performance, haha~

(End of this chapter)