Hokage: I Neji will never go offline

"drink!"

"Thunder Escape·Earth Walk!"

The card immediately turned into an electric current and spread throughout the clay bird's body. Deidara's shouting was of no use at all.

"What happened? What did you do?"

Deidara looked at Neji with a surprised look on his face. Neji shrugged and walked in front of Itachi.

"Nothing, I just saw the weakness of your technique. If I read it correctly, all the seals you made are earth escape seals. In other words, your explosive clay is actually based on earth escape.

And Thunder Escape can restrain Earth Escape, so I gave it a try, and to my surprise, it actually worked. It seems like your bird won't explode after being electrocuted."

"You guy..."

Deidara swallowed secretly, his head turning rapidly, trying to find a way to escape. Neji didn't care what Deidara was thinking now and continued to speak calmly.

"Deidara, right? You have always said that this is your art, but your art seems to have flaws. I wonder if art with flaws is still considered art?"

"Shut up! How can you understand my art! Art is..."

"Is art just an explosion? Of course I understand that. Moreover, my explosion is more perfect than yours. How about it? Do you want to see it?"

Deidara's face changed slightly and he didn't speak, but there was a trace of desire in his eyes. A smile of successful conspiracy appeared on Neji's face, he took out the card representing the Tailed Beast Jade and threw it to the side.

The card twisted in the air and turned into a fist-sized tailed beast jade, exuding a heart-stopping aura.

After the tailed beast flew far enough away to be completely invisible, Neji turned his attention to Deidara again.

"Look, this is called art!"

"Boom!"

The tailed beast jade exploded very far away, and a red bowl-shaped fire shot up from the ground. It was very dazzling even in the daytime. After nearly half a minute, the impact of the explosion came belatedly, turning into a strong wind and rolling up the ground.

The sand is so fascinating that people can't even open their eyes.

Neji, Shiro, and Itachi all subconsciously covered their eyes with their hands to prevent sand from being blown into their eyes. Only Deidara's eyes widened and he stared blankly at the explosion of firelight.

"Explosion... what a perfect explosion, this is art! This is perfect art!"

Deidara stared blankly at the explosion at first, and after a while he seemed to transform into a crazy believer, dancing and almost falling to his knees.

Neji did this just to make Deidara less wary of him, without having to explode at the slightest disagreement. It would also be easier to persuade Deidara to join Akatsuki, but Neji didn't expect Deidara at all.

There was such a big reaction.

The flames of the explosion gradually dissipated, Deidara couldn't recover for a long time, and even Neji was speechless.

"Hey, I say, Deidara, you want to say something, how is my art? Are you interested in joining our Akatsuki now?"

Deidara stared at Neji, then at Itachi, and finally returned his gaze to Neji.

"I admit that your art is very perfect, and you can let me join you, but you can't hinder my pursuit of art! Especially this guy with red eyes!"

Deidara's words were directed at Itachi, who put away his Sharingan and didn't even want to look at Deidara.

"I have no interest in your art, and I have no interest in interfering with you, but since you agree, we will be partners from now on."

"Hmph! Then I'll join."

Neji stretched out his hand in front of Deidara and smiled at Deidara.

"Welcome."

Deidara was still very considerate to Neji. Neji stretched out his hand, and Deidara also stretched out his hand to hold Neji's hand.

"Please give me your advice in the future, I want to perfect my art!"

Neji smiled and nodded. Deidara wanted to take his hand back, but found that Neji was still holding his hand tightly. It took three times to successfully pull his hand out of Neji's hand.

Neji and his group headed towards Iwagakure Village. Neji held a card he got from Deidara in his hand.

Neji thought he could easily get a "**" from Deidara, but he didn't expect that what he got was a shadow clone.

It wasn't that Neji disliked this card. After all, shadow clone was also a very useful ninjutsu. However, Neji didn't expect Deidara to be able to shadow clone, and he also got this card by "lucky luck".

Itachi didn't speak during the whole journey, Deidara was counting his clay, Neji was distracted, and only Shiro was a little idle.

"Master Neji, are we going to Iwagakure Village? What are we going to do there?"

Shiro's voice brought Neji back to his senses and scattered the shadow clone's cards.

"I have some personal matters. I'm going to go there, Itachi. I want to capture a few Jonin from Iwagakure Village alive. Can you help me?"

"Capturing Jonin alive in the village? It's really difficult."

Itachi didn't say he agreed or disagreed, he just sighed to himself, and in Neji's opinion, this was Itachi's answer.

At this moment, Neji suddenly felt that the ring he was wearing on his finger was a little warm. Neji subconsciously looked at Itachi, and Itachi subconsciously looked at Neji. The two nodded to each other in perfect agreement.

"Bai, be on alert!"

Neji didn't explain much. After giving the instructions, he and Itachi sat down on the same spot, closed their eyes and sank into the ring. When Neji's vision returned again, he had already reached the finger of a huge statue.

At this time, besides Neji and Itachi, there were eight people standing on the finger. Only three of them were real entities, and the rest were all illusory bodies.

"Are you all here? Well, let's start the meeting now. First, let's introduce a new member."

Tiandao spoke first, and at the same time turned his gaze to a man with light blue skin carrying a huge sword wrapped in a bandage on his back.

Everyone then turned their attention, and Neji recognized this person at a glance, and it was none other than Inikisaki Kisame.

"Is this Kisame Kisame, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen? He looks pretty good."

Ningci was the first to speak. Tiandao nodded and said, "Yes, it's Kisame Kisaki, the rebellious nin of Kirigakure Village. Now he joins Akatsuki, codenamed Nanto, and he is a team with Juuzou Loquat."

After saying that, Tiandao turned his attention to Itachi again.

"How's it going over there Deidara?"

"Deidara has successfully joined the group."

Itachi's answer was neither salty nor cold, as if recruiting a new member was a trivial matter.

Tiandao nodded and continued to speak.

"Thank you for your hard work. Now that you've finished your work, come back early and I'll give the ring to Deidara as soon as possible."