Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

Sasuke calmly turned the "Indra" in his hand upside down, with the tip pointing towards the ground.

"Om-"

A soft sound.

Without warning, the blade disintegrated into black flame particles, which rapidly swirled and condensed around Sasuke, transforming into a spherical barrier with a constant flow of black currents on its surface.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Deafening explosions rang out one after another, and flames and smoke instantly engulfed the area.

The terrifying shockwave blew away all the surrounding ruins, and the scorching air even distorted the air dozens of meters away.

Deidara watched from the air as his proud "works of art" bloomed one after another, a smug smile spreading across his face.

"Hmph, no matter how stubborn you are, you'll eventually be reduced to ashes in front of my art, hmm."

But his smile quickly froze.

As the smoke cleared, the black spherical barrier remained intact, having swallowed up all the explosions of the clay birds.

"hateful......"

Deidara muttered a curse under his breath, his face clearly showing his displeasure.

"Stay still? That's for the best! Hmm!"

He sneered inwardly; the aerial bombardment had been a feint from the very beginning.

The real killer move was the large number of "explosive clay mines" that he had secretly buried underground beforehand.

The aerial bombardment was merely a ploy to lure Sasuke into moving, thereby triggering the underground traps.

Although the brat is now using some strange trick to stay put and tough it out, it has actually saved him a lot of effort.

As long as his tortoise-shell-like defense can't hold, and he moves even the slightest step...

Just as Deidara grinned maliciously, preparing to launch another attack, the black sphere enveloping Sasuke quietly vanished.

The black-haired boy, who remained calm, was revealed among them.

Deidara's eyes narrowed instantly.

Are we about to move?!

Sasuke looked up and glanced at Deidara in the sky, a cold smile playing on his lips.

With his other hand, he gripped another knife at his waist and plunged it into the ground.

"Sizzle—!!!"

A concentrated beam of black and white lightning emanated from the blade and spread wildly in all directions along the earth's veins.

In the blink of an eye, the clay bombs on the ground were rendered completely ineffective.

"No, impossible!!!"

Deidara roared, almost unable to believe his eyes, "My landmines were buried several meters underground, how did you find them?!"

He stared intently at the figure on the ground, still in the position of sticking the knife in its place, his eyes filled with confusion and resentment.

"The Sharingan... I've already investigated it! Itachi's eyes are troublesome, but they definitely don't have X-ray vision! Hmm!"

In order to defeat Itachi, he had already studied the information about the Sharingan countless times. Whether it was copying ninjutsu, creating genjutsu, or seeing through the flow of chakra, he had already mastered all of these.

But "X-ray vision" is definitely not one of them!

"It seems you still know nothing about these eyes."

Sasuke slowly pulled out "Takemikazuchi," raised his head, and his eyes had turned into an eerie crimson.

"You're right, the Sharingan doesn't have the ability to see through objects."

He paused, his Sharingan slowly rotating, as if admiring Deidara's shocked face.

"But you can clearly see the color of 'chakra'."

"Color?" Deidara was stunned.

"In your ordinary eyes, the ground is pitch black, but in my eyes..."

Sasuke looked at Deidara's increasingly ugly face, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth, and even deliberately imitated the other's verbal tic.

"Your art, which you are so proud of, is like a firefly in the dark, so bright it's almost laughable, hmm."

That final, imitative syllable was like the last straw that broke the camel's back.

"You bastard..." Deidara's face turned a deep purplish-red.

"You dare to imitate my speech and then call my art laughable?!"

He stared intently at the composed figure on the ground, his body trembling violently.

"Unforgivable!!!"

Deidara pressed his hands down sharply, and a large clay bird separated from the C2 dragon. The huge white clay dragon let out a mournful cry and fell straight down from the sky!

"I'll make you, along with this land, my most magnificent work of art!"

"--drink!!!"

The falling C2 dragon exploded with a deafening roar!

Just before being engulfed by the flames, Sasuke spoke calmly.

"The eighty-first of the Path of Binding: Severing Emptiness."

boom--!!!

A shockwave more terrifying than any previous explosion spread wildly in all directions from Sasuke's center.

The C2 dragons were all detonated, and the resulting chain reaction formed a small mushroom cloud that shot straight into the sky.

The terrifying shockwave spread wildly in all directions like a tsunami, completely leveling the ancient ruins of the Whirlpool Kingdom, along with everything within a kilometer radius.

At the epicenter of the explosion, the temperature was high enough to melt rocks into magma.

After a long while, the smoke and dust slowly dissipated.

In the center of that huge circular crater, nearly 100 meters in diameter, there was a perfectly intact circular piece of land, no more than half a meter in diameter.

But there, Sasuke still stood quietly, not even a speck of dust on the hem of his clothes.

"impossible......"

Deidara's pupils contracted sharply at that moment, "My C2 dragon...it actually..."

"The power is not bad."

A calm voice interrupted his shock.

Sasuke slowly raised his hand, and the light barrier that had broken through the air made a crisp sound before quietly dissipating.

"But it's a pity."

He raised his eyes and calmly gazed at Deidara in the air. "If you can't hit him, it's meaningless."

"You bastard..."

Deidara wanted to say something more, but Sasuke's figure had already disappeared before his eyes.

A cold sensation came from my neck.

"ended."

The cold blade was already pressed against Deidara's neck, and with the slightest movement, it could completely separate his head from his body.

Deidara's body froze for a moment, but a bizarre smile spread across his face.

"Yes, it's over... um."

The next instant, an arm suddenly shot out from the white bird without warning and grabbed his ankle tightly.

Next, we see Deidara's face, covered in dust and blood.

At the same time, the Deidara in front of Sasuke also turned into white clay.

"What?!" Sasuke's eyes widened in astonishment.

"Hahahaha!"

A large amount of clay spread wildly along Deidara's arm, instantly covering Sasuke's lower body completely!

"You think I'd actually fall for your little tricks?! You Uchiha brat!"

Deidara's voice was filled with the pleasure of revenge, "From the very beginning, what was on the Nendoroid was just a clone of me! Hmm!"

"I knew you could fly! So, the moment you thought you had succeeded was the moment you fell into my trap!"

He stared at the figure bound tightly by clay, his eyes flashing with a mad light.

"That move just now was truly remarkable."

As Deidara spoke, he unleashed the last of his chakra without reservation, "But after blocking so many of my artworks, you must be exhausted by now, right? Hmm."

"Die for art!!!"

Deidara grinned maliciously, released his grip, and the clay bomb exploded!

"--drink!!!"

The explosion's flames once again completely engulfed Sasuke's figure, but this time there were no blind spots.

"Huh...huh..."

Deidara exhausted his last bit of chakra and crashed heavily to the ground from mid-air.

At the same time, a cold object fell from the sky and stuck into the scorched earth behind him.

It was a long sword that was entirely black, with a broken Uchiha fan emblem branded on the hilt.

"Cough...cough cough..."

He struggled to his feet, looked at the long sword, and listened to the gradually subsiding roar in his ears. Finally, he let out a burst of uncontrollable maniacal laughter.

"Hahahaha... Did you see that, Itachi?"

He laughed while coughing violently, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, "Explosions are the ultimate form of beauty..."