Naruto: If I ask you to kill Sasuke, you will become a succubus?

She collected her thoughts and focused her gaze on Deidara again.

The boy looked at her with a provocative and mocking expression: "It's not easy, you still know I'm here?"

"……Well."

"Anyway, there are always others who are more important than me. You always have to look at others instead of me!"

Deidara's surging anger stunned the girl for a moment.

She frowned. "Why are you so angry? Although at the beginning, you did remind me that you were an S-rank rebel, and I didn't know enough about it and didn't pay enough attention to it... Later I couldn't accept it and distanced myself from you, but when two people first meet, how can they fully understand each other? Of course, only after getting along for a long time can you discover the incompatibility..."

"If we are not compatible, why did you come to me again?" Deidara interrupted her coldly, "Since Uchiha Itachi is in the same group with you, his title of S-rank traitor ninja is probably not real. So joining Akatsuki is also a mission? Undercover, lurking, gathering intelligence, that's all. You are a good person, he is a good person, Uchiha Sasuke is also a good person, ha! Only I am the damn bad guy!"

Zhaolu listened quietly and asked, "Then can you please not be a bad guy?"

"what?"

She lowered her eyes, looking a little sad: "Can you please stop being a bad guy?"

Deidara is the disciple of the Tsuchikage. He is extremely talented and powerful. He should have been the backbone of the new generation of the Iwagakure Village. His bomb could have exploded to protect the people. He could have become the patron saint of a village and a hero like Gaara.

But...if he wanted to be a hero, he wouldn't be on this path.

The most fundamental reason why he became an S-rank rebel ninja was that he didn't care about other people's lives at all.

He just wants to satisfy himself.

Therefore, it was useless for Chaolu to think that he could take a better path. It would only be useful if he changed his mind and made a choice himself.

If he had no regrets and felt that there was nothing wrong with the path of an S-rank rebel ninja, Chaolu would not try to persuade him anymore.

However, he could not be her companion on the journey.

Fortunately, Deidara didn't immediately say "No" or "I will be a bad guy". He panted for a while and said viciously: "Why do you say that?"

Chaolu looked at him in confusion.

"Why do you want me to stop being a bad guy? I am so happy and free when I am a bad guy..."

"Have you ever thought about what your ending would be?"

"You think I'm afraid of death?" Deidara said, "I don't want to live to be old and weak with wrinkles all over my face! I want to do whatever I want and fight vigorously. Even if I die, I will die vigorously! The most grand explosion is the best funeral I have planned!"

"But I don't want you to die."

Compared to the boy's fierce and tough tone, the girl's voice was very soft, and her tone could almost be described as light and airy.

But these seven words suddenly blocked Deidara's throat. He opened his mouth but couldn't utter a word.

"Why aren't you afraid of death?" Chaolu asked, "Why do you like explosions so much?"

"…Why should I? I just like it!"

"I'm just worried about you."

"What are you worried about me for?"

"I want to live, because I think if I live, I can encounter many good things. So I am worried that you are not afraid of death, but you think that if you live, you will not encounter good things that will make you happy. If that is the case, I can't help but feel sorry for you."

"What's pitiful? That's called art!"

"Is meeting me a good thing for you?"

"How dare you say that?! Can being dumped off a cliff be considered a good thing!?"

Chaolu asked the question again: "If it were to happen again, would you still be willing to meet me?"

"..."

Chaolu understood something from Deidara's silence and nodded: "I understand."

But the young man was uneasy and asked, "What do you understand?"

He knew what answer she wanted - she wanted him to say that he was willing to meet her, that he was willing to "turn from evil to good" and "turn from darkness to light", that he knew he was wrong, that he regretted it, that he would repent, that he shouldn't have become an S-rank rebel...

But why?

Why should he suffer this injustice!

Before he met her, he lived a reckless, free and unrestrained life. But when he fell in love with someone for the first time, the other person suddenly changed her attitude one day and trampled his feelings on the ground.

If it was someone else, Deidara would be unworthy of his title of S-rank rebel ninja if he didn't retaliate fiercely and blow the other person to pieces. But he didn't do anything to her. She suddenly came to him as if nothing had happened, without a single apology, and didn't feel that she was wrong at all. Instead, she wanted him to cheer her up and admit her mistakes?

But what made Deidara even angrier was that he wanted to admit his mistake, wanted her to be happy, wanted her to forgive him, accept him again, and smile at him again.

He wanted to go back to that time with her...

But speaking such sincere words would make him feel cowardly, and... and! She didn't coax him at all!

You have to give enough bait to fish, how can she be sincere?!

So he would rather remain angry than fulfill her wish and submit to her.

But when he heard that she might have misunderstood what he meant and that the connection they had established with great difficulty might be broken again, Deidara felt a little panicked again.

"Nothing. The result is actually the same. I want you to help me."

Deidara felt like he had missed something...what had he missed?

He stared at Zhaolu's face closely, "Why should I help you?"

"You joined Akatsuki before because you were defeated by Itachi-sensei. In a nutshell, you are Itachi-sensei's trophy, so you should follow him."

"?! What trophy? Stop talking nonsense! Wait, Itachi-sensei? What is that title? When did he become your teacher!? Huh?!"

"Not counting the relationship with Itachi-sensei, the leader of the organization you are in now is Pain, but he is also in my hands now. Your organizational relationship will be transferred with him, so you should help me."

"what?"

"If you don't believe me, I will let you meet with Pein after Sasuke finishes talking with Itachi-sensei."

Deidara stared at her and realized what he had missed - the tone of Asaka's voice when she spoke to him before did make him angry, but there was still nostalgia in her words, but now, after he refused to repent, her tone was just that of a simple negotiation.

Deidara immediately laughed angrily - you're going to give me a bad face if I don't agree with you? Your tone before didn't sound intimate at all, but now you tell me that your tone before was considered coaxing? !

"What do you want me to help you with?"

"Did Payne tell you about his plan before?"

"That's about right," Deidara said, "Capturing the tailed beasts, ruling the world, or something like that."

That is to say, Deidara only knew the most basic plan revealed by Akatsuki.

He probably knew nothing about Infinite Tsukuyomi, Uchiha Madara, and the like.

"Well... then what you are going to do is not that different - collect the tailed beasts, and then if the ninja world finds out, you will become the enemy of the entire ninja world."

Deidara paused: "...The Hidden Mist Village wants to hire us, Akatsuki, to start a war?"

Chaolu smiled and said, "Just take it as it is."

There is no need to know so much about someone who is not your companion.