Sasori, who had just entered the town, retreated once again and avoided getting trapped within the Wind Domain. He looked at the Wind Domain extending slowly towards him and muttered, "What a difficult opponent… How do I retrieve my puppets?"
Suddenly, Sasori became stunned. He sensed that his puppets were getting sealed! Within a few seconds, he became unable to sense any of his puppets that were trapped in the Wind Domain.
Sasori cursed, 'Which bastard wants to steal my puppets? What the hell has been happening in this town?'
Sasori was thoroughly confused. Everything was going well until the mysterious chakra appeared. After that, nothing made sense! He still hadn't seen who his opponent was and didn't know what his goal was. The only thing that he knew was that he was completely enraged!
Fujin saw a massive amount of iron floating in the air outside the town. He stored the scroll that his clone had just handed him while wondering, 'Does he want to destroy the town to force me out? Oh well, it doesn't matter. I already have what I want.'
Fujin had already gathered the dead bodies that Hiruzen had asked for and had also accepted Sasori's generous gift. He looked at the four Shadow Clones next to him and nodded. At the very next moment, Wind appeared around them and all 5 of them disappeared from the city.
Sasori immediately noticed the sudden movement and noted, '5 ninjas ran away using Wind Instantaneous Body jutsu. All are extremely good at it. I won't be able to chase them. However, the chakra is present in the town.'
Sasori felt in doubt once again. He analyzed, 'There are several possibilities. The ones who were controlling this chakra got afraid and ran away as they wouldn't be able to stop my attack. They left the chakra here as they can't take it back.
Another possibility is that the one controlling this chakra is still here and only his teammates ran away. Or perhaps the ones who escaped were just clones and the real one is still hiding here and wants to bait me. The opponent is so tricky that I can't even say which case it is… Even if I decide to chase, I can only chase after one and catching him will be difficult. And, if the puppets are still here or with one of the other 4, I'll lose my puppets!'
At the next moment, a rain of small iron balls showered towards the town. They pierced through every house in the path before reaching the mansion and wrecked it as well. The mansion collapsed within seconds. Everything within the Wind Domain was crushed.
Fortunately, the people had escaped into underground bunkers. Hence no one died other than a few who had heart attacks due to the sound of destruction above the ground and the tremors they felt. Sasori wasn't interested in killing common people. His attention was entirely focused on the Wind Domain.
Despite the destruction, the chakra was still present there. However, it no longer extended towards Sasori and just stayed in that location flying along the direction of the wind. The only strange thing was that despite all the winds, it still primarily stayed in the area around the mansion.
Sasori noticed it and analyzed, 'Something feels awfully fishy! It is almost like someone wants me to enter there…'
Sasori immediately controlled some of his other puppets and sent them into the Wind Domain. For the first time since the appearance of the Wind Domain, his chakra threads weren't severed. Yet, Sasori didn't lower his guard and only scouted the place with puppets that he could afford to lose.
Unsurprisingly, he didn't find any of his puppets. Sasori kept looking for around half an hour but his puppets didn't find anything. Since the chakra still existed, he didn't dare to enter inside. He turned around and stared at one of the White Zetsu's clones who was keeping an eye.
The White Zetsu immediately appeared next to Sasori who instructed, "You can absorb chakra, right? Clear out that Wind chakra at the center of the town. I want to study it."
White Zetsu nodded and got to work. A few meters under the place where the mansion stood until some time ago, Fujin's Shadow Clone let out a sigh and muttered, 'The experienced ninjas are too difficult to defeat. If it was Hidan or Deidara, neither would have been this careful. However, Sasori didn't even attempt to get close…'
Fujin's Shadow Clone had his Space Time Sensing Technique activated at all times. He could sense Sasori and Zetsu's movements without alerting either of them.
White Zetsu, who was absorbing some of the chakra from the Wind Domain into his body, was suddenly cut up into pieces as dozens of wind blades suddenly appeared around him.
Sasori looked at the White Zetsu's clone being dissected and thought grimly, 'As I expected! It was a trap to lure me inside!'
However, before he could do anything, Sasori was shocked once again. It was because wind blades kept forming around the Zetsu and kept cutting it up despite it already having been killed! It was as if the attacker wanted to separate every cell from its body!
Unknown to Sasori, that was exactly the case. While Fujin had sensed an existence and speculated that it was Zetsu, he didn't know whether it was the real Zetsu or just a clone. On the off chance that it was the real one, Fujin wanted to take the opportunity to kill Black Zetsu. Of course, he didn't think that normal wind blades would be enough to kill it. However, there was no reason to not try. As it is, there was nothing else he could do with that chakra.
Sasori just watched as all the chakra in that area was used up to brutally slice up Zetsu's clone. Within a few minutes, the entire chakra was consumed, leaving Sasori confused once again. He wondered, 'Why would anyone use up all the chakra to kill a mere clone?'
With the chakra gone, Sasori finally entered the central area of the town. He tried investigating but didn't find anyone. Fujin's clone had already dispersed himself. Sasori couldn't help but wonder, 'Who was controlling the chakra? Did the ones who ran away leave a mechanism for it to activate once when a living being entered it? Or is this some sort of weapon instead of a jutsu?'
Sasori didn't consider the prospect of a clone controlling it as it didn't make much sense for a clone to use up all chakra on just one intruder even after it was dead.
He became a bit perplexed as he muttered, "What of my puppets? I can't locate any of them!"
Sasori's puppets weren't ordinary puppets. They were human puppets and he had worked a lot on each of his puppets. Losing more than a quarter of them in one go was a substantial blow to him even though it wouldn't affect his fighting prowess much.
He thought, 'One of those 5 would have left with it. Finding them will be difficult normally as I don't have any information on them. Fortunately, the only information I have is a very unique one. I just have to find the appearance of this technique in other places and I will find clues to them. Once I find them, they will be good additions to my puppet collection!'
As for the one who had stolen Sasori's prized puppets in broad daylight, he was already a long distance away from the Yamakawa town. Fujin finally stopped moving as he received the memories of his Shadow Clone.
He thought, 'As expected, Sasori didn't chase after me. Well, even if he did, he wouldn't have been able to keep up with me. Now, what do I do about this?'
Fujin was looking at the scroll which held 64 human puppets. In less than an hour, Fujin had gone from having zero puppets to having the second-strongest collection of puppets in the entire ninja world!
