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Chapter 51:

Jiraiya also showed a trace of astonishment, as he was surprised of the strength displayed by Akira

However, Jiraiya reacted quickly and confronted the other Suna Jonin: "Art of the raging lion's mane!" This is Jiraiya's unique jutsu.

Jiraiya has a few unique ninjutsus that rely on his own hair to use. The art of the raging lion mane is one of them. Jiraiya's pure white hair swiftly stretched and moved, spreading out like a lion's mane and entangle the jonin with his hair. The entangled jonin then was crush by the pressure exerted by his hair.

(This technique uses chakra to temporarily enhance the head's metabolism and manipulate the hair that grows longer as a result of it. There is also chakra flowing through the lengthened hair, making its hardness comparable to that of steel wire. By thickly bundling the hair, its strength is further increased, also increasing its destructive power. Its name may come from the fact that, as seen just before striking Pain, it takes the shape of what resembles a lion's mouth)

Jiraiya's art of the raging lion mane is very strong. In the original story, he used this ninjutsu to defeat the summon beast of Pain's animal path and now he easily kill a jonin with this jutsu.

"As expected of a sannin." Akira thought inwardly.

After solving the two Suna jonin guards, Akira breathed a sigh of relief and sent the signal.

A flare shot into the sky and all the Konoha ninjas started attacking almost at the same time. The Konoha ninjas had placed on their mask and used shadow clones. So that hundreds of ninjas instantly became looking like a army of thousands of ninja, which looks quite oppressive and overwhelming. This is also Akira's idea to confuse Suna and decrease their morale.

Akira smiled to himself. At first glance, the number of ninjas will make Suna scared.

"Jiraiya, let's go create some chaos!" Akira laughed.

"No problem! Move faster, otherwise Suna will react soon!" Jiraiya also nodded.

Akira said nothing and together with Jiraiya, the two went inside Suna village. The terrain of Suna Village is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is only a long and narrow passage, making it difficult for large troops to enter. It is precisely because of this that Akira chose to attack Suna with Jiraiya aid.

The internal architectural style of Suna Village is also unique. There are mounds and sand piles everywhere. Even the houses are mostly built with chakra enhanced mud. It is a unique structure of Suna Village in the desert terrain.

"We are in." Jiraiya and Akira had solved a few special jonin defending Suna Village before entering Suna Village. As Akira expected, Suna Village's defenses are now very lax. Firstly, most of the elite ninjas are on the battlefield of the country of rain and secondly, it is at the night and the defense of the village is not as tight as in the morning.

Akira curled his lips, no wonder in the original story, two member of Akatsuki, Sasori and Deidara easily broke into Suna Village and captured Gaara. Although Sasori was familiar with the layout of Suna Village and had a sleeping agent to bypass the defence, but Suna Village weak defense is also the main reason.

Wait, sasori…

Akira suddenly thought of Sasori and he have a new idea.

At the present moment, Chiyo is only fifty years old and Sasori should be born not long ago, at most three years old. Chiyo is the leader of the puppet brigade who besieged Tsunade this time. If Sasori is captured as a hostage, he can threaten Chiyo…

(The Puppet Brigade (Kugutsu Butai) was an organisation in Sunagakure active during at least the Second Shinobi World War, presumably composed of Suna's elite puppeteers.)

Akira's eyes lit up, it is a good idea just thinking about it!

As mentioned in the original story, Sasori's parents are also puppeteer, which means that Sasori's parents should also be sent to the battlefield with Chiyo to besieged Tsunade, so there should be no one in Sasori's family! Thus it will be easy to catch Sasori!

Akira felt that his plan was good.

"Jiraiya, let's create a big chaos, the bigger the chaos, the better which I have a plan for!" Akira smiled lightly.

Jiraiya also eyes brightened when he heard this. He was going to let it all out and have a big fight. He was even more motivated when he heard Akira's words and said, "No problem!"

"Earth style, dark swamp jutsu/swamp of the underworld jutsu!" Chakra gushed out of Jiraiya as he hand sealed and released the ninjutsu. In an instant, a huge swamp appeared on the ground of Suna Village, the houses and land of Suna Village were sinking. The houses in Suna Village gradually fell into the swamp as it slowly sinks in.

(The user creates a swamp by changing the ground beneath a target into mud, which the target sinks into. The mud is infused with chakra to make it sticky, ensnaring the target and preventing escape. The size and depth of the swamp are determined by the user's skill and the amount of chakra used; ideally it will be made large enough for targets to become completely submerged. It is most effective when used against multiple and/or particularly large targets.)

Jiraiya's dark swamp jutsu is very strong, causing a large area of houses to collapse and sink into the swamp. They can immediately hear commotions, with Suna panicking.

"Alert, alert! Enemy attack!"

"Not good, quick go and report to third kazekage, there are strong enemies in the village!"

"Quick, go!..." With such a big movement, the ninjas in Suna Village were in chaos and knew that someone had invaded the village.

At the same time, the entire Suna Village vibrated slightly, an explosion-like sound was heard bombarding continously. This is because the Konoha ninjas outside also started to attack, Akira had asked the Konoha ninjas to attack the walls of Suna village with fire ninjutsu and paper bomb. The fire ninjutsu and paper bomb exploded and caused a huge quake. The valley walls around the Suna village were constantly being bombarded and collapse not long after.

In this case, Suna Village became even more chaotic.

Akira squinted his eyes and nodded, very satisfied with the effect of the Konoha ninja attack this time.

"Jiraiya, the third kazekage is going to appear soon, let everyone step up the on the offense and attack. Those jonins and stronger ninja will be handed over to you to handle! Please hold them off!" Akira said.

Jiraiya also brought along other konoha strong elites with him and they all are this current era powerful characters who together with Jiraiya will take care of the Suna elite forces.

"No problem, but what are you going to do?" Jiraiya looked at Akira strangely, Akira seemed to want to do something else.

Akira smiled faintly: "I plan to take a hostage."

"What? Hostage?" Jiraiya was surprised and astonished.

Akira said faintly: "I heard that the puppet master, Chiyo loves her grandson dearly and her grandson is in the village. If we can take him as a hostage, we will have another bargaining chip in our hands."

jiraiya's eyes lit up, he didn't expect Akira to have this great idea planned! Jiraiya did not reject the use of sasori capture as a hostage. After all, in such a cruel battlefield, the most important thing is to reduce casualties. What's more, catching Chiyo grandson can be use to threaten Chiyo, which is tantamount to having a trump card in his hand! (I assume the current Jiraiya loves the village greatly and want to protect Konoha ninja. He had not went through years of war and bloodshed yet, which is a experience that shape him into wanting peace)

"Do you need my help?" Jiraiya asked.

Akira shook his head: "No, it's easy to be expose in this covert operation if there are too many people. I'll be back soon, meanwhile Jiraiya, you just need to stall the incoming Kazekage and their elite forces."

"No problem." Jiraiya also readily agreed.

Akira chuckled secretly. With Jiraiya handling the most pressure at the open, he of course will have a much more relaxed time kidnapping the hostage.

Once Akira bid farewell with Jiraiya, he flickered and disappeared further into Suna living quarters.

Akira reached the living quarters of Suna village, he soon saw a special jonin. This special jonin ran in a hurry and looked flustered, as if he was going to report the situation to his superior.

Akira immediately shook his arm and threw out his shurikens. The densely packed shurikens was tied with chakra thread and ambushed the running special jonin. The special jonin couldn't react in time and was quickly restrained by Akira. Just when he wanted to shout for help, instead he was face with a pair of blood-red eyes.

The three-tomoe in Akira's eyes spin and a hypnotic genjutsu was activated, causing this special jonin eyes to gradually lose consciousness and his expression becoming become dull and emotionless.

"Where does the puppet master Chiyo live?" Seeing that his genjutsu succeeded in hypnotizing the special jonin, Akira was overjoyed and asked the question immediately.