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Chapter 54:

Upon arriving in the country of rain, the ninjas, led by Jiraiya and Akira, began to approach Chiyo's puppet bridgate. Along the way, scouts are deployed and collect intel on the situation.

"What's the current situation?" Akira asked Jiraiya.

Jiraiya frowned, he had just received a piece of information from Tsunade, which the scout had risk his life and delivered this information to Jiraiya.

Jiraiya said: "Suna puppeteers are very troublesome. Among the five major countries today, only Suna has puppeteers. They are good at remotely manipulating puppet to battle and a powerful puppeteer can manipulate several puppets to fight. Which give them the advantage in long-range combat."

Akira nodded to express understanding, puppeteers are really difficult to deal with.

"What's even more troublesome is that almost every puppeteer is a master at using poison. Especially Suna's Chiyo, is one of the ninjas who is best at using poison in the five major countries. So Tsunade is currently in a very disadvantage position. Fortunately, Tsunade's medical expertise is more powerful, which allow them at present, barely maintain the situation…" Jiraiya said.

Akira thought for a while. It seems that there is indeed such a background told in the original story. In the original story, it was said that Tsunade had countered Chiyo's poison with her medical skills, which made Chiyo's proud poison to fail. It seems that this is the preliminary rivalry between Tsunade and Chiyo.

One is an expert in poison and the other is a master of medical ninjutsu. Chiyo and Tsunade seem to be born to be at odds against each other.

"However, there is only one excellent medical ninja like Tsunade and the opponent is a entire puppet bridgate, so overall Tsunade is still at a disadvantage." Jiraiya whispered: "Tsunade has been under siege for several days, there supply of food and water are getting low and it will be really dangerous if it continues like this."

"Right" Akira agreed.

Puppeteers are not easy to deal with, especially since there are so many puppeteers in Suna, they have to prepare properly to defend against their poison.

Akira hold Sasori tightly. Sasori is still in a state of being hypnotized. Sleeping away peacefully and unaware of the danger coming.

"With this little guy, we don't have to worry too much." Akira said lightly, having Sasori as hostage will help in deterring Chiyo, so that even if Chiyo is more powerful, she can only retreat.

"Good." Jiraiya look at Sasori and he was secretly relieved, admiring Akira's wit. At this critical moment, the use of hostage is very useful

The rain continue to fall and drip on his body, but Akira remain unperturbed and maintain his vigilance. They have gradually approached the Suna troops and both sides may encounter at any time.

Jiraiya had also sent scouts to tell Tsunade about the current situation, who are risking their life to send out the information. If it goes well, Tsunade will also know that Akira and others are here to help.

"Boy, there are a large number of chakras gathered in front, it should be Suna ninjas ." suddenly sage of the six path reminded Akira about the danger ahead.

Akira nodded and at the same time Konoha's sensor ninja also reported about the information, which was consistent with what the sage of the six path said. Konoha's sensor ninja is a ninja from the Hyuga clan and can enemies chakra from afar.

"Akira, later in the battlefield, we will act together." Jiraiya said to Akira.

Akira squinted and nodded slightly. Although Akira's strength is not as good as Jiraiya, his strength is already close to that of elite jonin and he is not weak on the battlefield. It won't be a problem for him to deal with ordinary jonins.

After Jiraiya and Akira finished speaking, they heard a commotion in front of them and the sound of fighting.

"It seems that Tsunade and the others are trying to break through, let's go and see!" Jiraiya also heard the movement and immediately raised his brows, a little excited. Without saying anything else, Akira passed the sleeping Sasori to Minato first and immediately followed Jiraiya.

The two led dozens of ninjas and quickly approached the edge of the battlefield.

Akira has already activated his sharingan and look into the situation. Sure enough, there are many puppeteers in front, all with the forehead protector of Suna. These puppeteers are manipulating the puppets and fighting against Konoha's ninja. There were noisy voices from the battlefield, kunai and ninjutsu rushed in disorder and the extremely fierce battle.

However, the current situation is obviously clear that Suna have the advantage. Konoha ninjas' breakthrough is difficult to achieve as the puppeteers manipulates many puppets to fight. It is difficult for the konoha ninjas to resist against the onslaught of so many puppets controlled in the battle.

At the same time, Akira also saw a familiar figure.

It was a woman of about twenty years old, wearing a Konoha forehead protector, blonde hair, bright eyes and white teeth, blooming like a rose on the battlefield, her radiance and heroism could not be concealed.

It is Tsunade!

After a long time, Akira finally see Tsunade again.

Tsunade led Konoha's ninjas to break through against Suna encirclement. She was at the fore front, using her chakra enhanced strength to smash a large number of puppets to smithereens. However, there were too many puppets and puppeteers, even a kage level ninja like Tsunade could not break through easily.

Akira eyes narrowed and saw the puppeteers headed by the a figure. The figure is a female puppeteers, about 40 years old, with chakra strings on her finger and she skillfully manipulated the puppet to attack.

Chiyo seemed to have rich experience on the battlefield and methodically commanded the puppeteers on her side to reduce the encirclement circle as they gradually surrounded Konoha's ninjas. The situation became more and more unfavorable for Konoha and Tsunade also gradually became anxious. She sighed secretly in her heart that the reinforcements were too late. This time she is afraid that many konoha ninja live will be loss and she may even be in great danger…

At this moment, there was a loud noise from the rear.

"Tsunade sensei, we are here to support!" Akira's voice came out and at the same time he shot at the puppeteers on the battlefield, with a slight movement of his fingers, chakra gushed out as he use: "Fire style, dragon flame caterwaul jutsu!"

(This is an advanced version of its parent technique(fierce dragon flame jutsu), where the user expels several dragon-headed fireballs from their mouth to cover the frontal, left and right side of the opponent. As the dragon-heads move in an erratic manner, it makes the technique much more difficult to avoid.)

Dragon flame caterwaul is another B rank rank fire ninjutsu. The fire ninjutsu was used by Uchiha Madara in the original story and it displayed astonishing amount of power.

Bang!

Flames gushing out and it swept and tumble, turning into fierce roaring fire dragons as it shrouded the battlefield, the fire dragon roared loudly showing the power of this B rank fire ninjutsu. Wherever the fire dragon went, it was all scorched black, exuding a pungent smell and burned everything.

The howling fire dragon made everyone in the field look and focused on Akira.

At the same time, there were Kunai thrown with paper bomb attached.

Along with the release of this ninjutsu, the paper bomb exploded, blowing up several puppets directly. At the same time, Akira also took advantage of the situation to attack and kill one of the other puppeteers with dragon flame caterwaul jutsu.

The explosion of the paper bomb shook the ground slightly and Tsunade also saw Akira. Seeing this amazing scene, her eyes suddenly shined with hope.

Many ninjas in Suna also saw this scene, they were all slightly shocked and one thought came to mind, who the hell is this kid?