His gaze swept over the silent coalition forces, and Deidara's eyes were frozen in a dead silence from his body lying in a pool of blood.

Suddenly, as if seeing Li's fingers tremble imperceptibly, Deidara's pupils contracted violently for a moment, and jumped from the giant bird floating in the air to Li's side and hugged him into his arms, and wiped the blood on his face with surprise and panic.

"Medical ninja! Are all the medical ninjas dead! ”

Deidara looked at the wound still bleeding out, and shouted at the combined forces.

"I ......"

A timid figure stepped forward, a slender short-haired girl. "I'll have a little first aid ......"

"Get out of here!"

"Yes!"

Roughly interrupted by Deidara, the girl staggered to Deidara's side and leaned down to check Li's injuries.

"This level of blood loss ......" The girl's eyes trembled when she saw a pool of blood under her.

But she didn't say anything, tore open the blackened clothes that were soaked in blood, and began to treat the hideous-looking wound on his chest first.

"Deidara ......"

Perhaps it was the girl's movements that made the unconscious Li feel pain, and Li frowned and opened her eyes with difficulty, and Deidara, who saw the surprise on her face, showed a comforting smile.

"Leave!" When Deidara, who was overjoyed, was about to say something, her right hand, which had been holding her cheek, seemed to be pricked by a needle and wanted to withdraw it, and the expression on her face was also obscured by the long hair that hung down from her head.

"I've seen it all."

In order not to let Deidara see his face distorted by pain, the smile that grinned to the base of his mouth looked a little strange, and with a tone of amazement and pride, he gave Deidara a thumbs up with a trembling hand: "Awesome! ”

The emotions that had been deeply suppressed collapsed under this sentence, tears instantly soaked in her eyes and fell out, Deidara gritted her teeth and choked: "I'm sorry ......"

"Why apologize?"

The expression on his face was as if he was looking at pity for a child who blamed himself for doing something wrong, and his hand reached out to touch Deidara's head but hung down weakly.

"I, I'm so scared of being seen by you, I'm afraid you'll hate me too......"

Deidara sobbed and blamed herself, tears falling down like beads with broken threads. "If I had started in the first place, you wouldn't have been hurt......"

"Remember what I told you, Deidara?"

The self-blame for Deidara is like a child who feels that he has done something terrible because he has knocked over a cup, and when Deidara is deeply immersed in self-blame and does not realize it, his tone is getting weaker and weaker. "Because of loneliness, I deliberately approached you who looked the same as me, but I know the fragility of people, I am afraid that you will leave me and return to a state of being alone, and I am very irresponsible to say to you such selfish words as 'stay with me for a lifetime', I am the one who should apologize."

"Don't you talk anymore......"

The girl who had been squatting on the side to treat Li's wounds wanted to say this, but looking at the crying Deidara and the pale Li, the girl bit her lip and never spoke.

"But fortunately, although the process is very short, thank you for your company and make me feel that my life is very exciting."

Li's voice was faintly inaudible, and he kept a smile on his face and closed his eyes. "I'm a little tired Deidara, and when I open my eyes, you'll be the first thing I see, right?"

"Leave?"

Sensing some ominous aura in Li's tone, Deidara stared at Li's face as if she was really asleep due to tiredness with red eyes, and cast her eyes full of anticipation to the girl who lowered her head and didn't speak.

“…… I'm sorry, but this level of injury is not something I can treat. ”

The girl did not dare to look at those winged eyes, she knew that they must be very desperate now.

There was no expected outburst, and Deidara, who had been silent for a moment, calmly picked up Li's body and turned back to the direction.

"Let's go home and leave, I promise that when you open your eyes, the first thing you will see will be me......"

……

"Clay Shaping Blood?"

Because of his outstanding performance in the mission, Deidara naturally entered the sight of Tsuchikage Onoki. "From today onwards, you are my disciple."

Deidara watched the little old man swagger away after saying his words with a calm face, completely devoid of the joy of becoming a disciple of the Tsuchikage.

"Great, Big Brother Deidara! We can see it more often in the future! ”

A somewhat familiar girl is jumping in front of her, who is she? It seems to be called black soil?

Looking away from the black earthy face, Deidara looked at the colorful fireworks at the head of the village, and the color of the fireworks was extremely dazzling in Deidara's eyes.

"Since human life is so fragile and short, it is the point to shine the brightest light in this limited life."

Late at night.

Ohnogi, who had already fallen asleep, looked at the heavily armed darkness in front of him with an ugly face, and the anger in his eyes seemed to melt him.

"Confidential information stolen?"

"Yes."

Under the pressure of the huge aura, the door of the brain under the dark mask continued to flow into a cold sweat. "What's missing is a secret technique of mixing chakra into clay to detonate it, and other classified information is intact."

Rumble!

As he spoke, an astonishing explosion rang to every corner of the village, and the ground seemed to shake as a result of the explosion.

"Let's go!"

Without any extra words, Onoki took the lead and floated in the air in the direction where the explosion came from, and the well-trained shadows of the entire Tsuchikage Building followed.

Thundered!

The sound of explosions was incessant, providing Onoki with a very obvious trail to follow, because there was no shelter in the air, and Onoki quickly left behind the shadows that followed.

"Deidara?" Under the firelight of the explosion, a familiar figure came into the eyes of Onoki with an ugly face.

Ignoring the Onogi who fell behind him, he waved his hands towards the sky, and countless white birds made of clay flew into the air from the palms of Deidara's hands, and after a short flight, they detonated in the air one after another, and there were bursts of fire.

"That's right, that's art! Hahaha......"

"Tsuchikage-sama......" The dark part quickly followed Onoki's figure, looking at Deidara's back laughing maniacally and opening his mouth to speak.

"Deidara!"

"Huh?"

A stern cheer was heard, and Deidara finally spotted Onoki behind him.

"Stealing confidential information without permission and causing an explosion in the village like a terrorist attack, I will expel you from the village as the third generation of Tsuchikage, and you will not be allowed to set foot in the village without my orders from now on!"

"Oh."

Deidara's nonchalant appearance made the angry Onoki completely explode.

"Get out!"

After leaving the village, except for the occasional assignment from the village, Deidara often ran to the small countries around the border to cause loud explosions, and only occasionally looked at the figures fleeing in the firelight, and Deidara also felt a little empty.

"Doesn't anyone feel the presence of art from such an explosion?"

"So what! That's it! Aha......"

The fire became more and more intense, and suddenly a hand was placed on the shoulder of the crazy Deidara, and a suddenly appeared figure in front of the stunned Deidara.

"Don't do that, Deidara."

After a brief period of dizziness, Deidara could see the face of the visitor, and a line of tears could not help but flow from the corners of her eyes.

"If it's shameful to be lonely, let him be ashamed, it's no big deal."

Slowly taking Deidara into his arms, the visitor said in an apologetic and gentle tone, "It's late, but I'm back." ”

The firelight was gone, the panicked cries of the crowd were gone, and the dim temple reappeared.

"Leave?"

"It's me."

Holding Li with his backhand, Deidara Tao, who buried his head in Li's arms, cried, as if he wanted to shed all the tears in his life before he stopped.

While touching Deidara's head, he smiled bitterly and threw a distressed look at the scorpion watching the play, but was ruthlessly ignored by the scorpion.

"Am I playing too big?"

Looking at Deidara, who was only looking like a normal twelve-year-old child in his arms at this moment, he forgot for a moment that he himself was only thirteen years old now.

"Forget it, it's time to complete the task."