An unexpected encounter

Suddenly, the two heard an explosion from afar. Tsunade frowned, then told Tayuya:

"You find somewhere to hide. I'll come to see what happened."

When Tsunade arrived, the fight had settled. A man wearing an animal was lying on the ground, heavily bleeding. Another man stood beside him. He was abnormally high, and a metal tail extended out from his coat.

She recognized that the lying man was a Konoha ANBU ninja, so she decided to save him.

At that time, the victor was laughing and boasting: "You are infected by my poison. You have two, maybe three days before dying in pain... Lucky for you, I'm in a good mood today, so I'll spare you from that suffering."

The iron tail was swung down, but unable to finish its job. A sneak attack from behind broke it, and continued to go toward its owner.

However, the moment her fist hit the body, Tsunade knew something was wrong. The sensation was not flesh and blood, but wood and metal. She destroyed the tall guy, but a figure jumped out of him. It was a teenage child with red hair, who was wearing a long, black cloak with red clouds.

He looked at his shell, which was broken into countless pieces on the ground, and sneered:

"Being able to destroy my puppet, you are no normal kunoichi. Interesting... Then I'll use this to play with you."

He took out a scroll with the letter "Three" on it. The scroll opened, releasing a puppet.

Tsunade recognized this face. That was the Third Kazekage, who went missing for a long time, forcing the Sand Village to choose a Fourth Kazekage. He was once hailed as the strongest Kazekage, but now he was killed and made into a puppet. A puppet master who was capable of such a feat...

"Are you Sasori of the Red Sand?"

"What an honor that my name is known even to this day. To show my respect, I'll give you a painless ****."

From the mouth of the puppet flew out a cloud of iron sand. Sasori waved, and the iron sand consented to numerous weapons, all flying toward Tsunade.

Facing such an attack, Tsunade simply raised her hand. All the weapons suddenly stopped mid-air, then disassembled into iron sand again.

"Magnet Release?!"

Sasori was shocked. As far as he knew, outside the Sand Village, only Toroi of the Cloud Village had this Bloodline Limit.

Is this woman related to Toroi? Does she come from the Cloud Village?

Thinking of this, he began to consider retreating. Against this opponent, the Third Kazekage lost its strongest advantage. Summoning more puppets was useless: Sasori knew very well that a Magnet Release user could use iron sand to fill up the joints of puppets, thus immobilizing them.

Moreover, they were near the border of the Land of Lightning. The reinforcements from the Cloud Village could appear at any time.

"I'll spare your lives today. But next time, I'll add you to my collection."

Both the controller and the puppet disappeared in the smoke. Tsunade turned and examined the lying man. His bleeding was slowed down, but he was poisoned. Without proper tools, even a top medical ninja could not make the antidote.

Tsunade removed the mask of the ninja to help him breathe easier.