After shattering Sasori's shell, Naruto flew back into the air, looking down at Sasori.
Sasori took out a scroll with the number three written on it.
Seeing this, Naruto knew that Sasori was getting serious; this scroll contained Sasori's strongest puppet, the Third Kazekage, besides his own body.
After a puff of white smoke, the puppet-like Third Kazekage appeared in mid-air, and Sasori's ten fingers shot out thin blue Chakra threads, controlling the Third Kazekage to move.
"Kid... you still haven't told me your name?"
Sasori didn't attack immediately but looked at Mecha Naruto, asking his name.
"My name is Genos."
As he spoke, cracks all over Mecha Naruto's body glowed red, and then he charged directly towards Sasori's main body.
Naruto had no intention of fighting the puppet; he only wanted to end this quickly.
The fastest way to defeat Sasori was to deal with his main body, and his core consciousness was located in his chest.
Sasori also saw Naruto's intention; he controlled the Third Kazekage to block Naruto while retreating.
The Third Kazekage spewed out a large amount of Iron Sand from his mouth, which, like the Third Kazekage, also floated in mid-air.
A portion of the Iron Sand formed an iron wall in front of Mecha Naruto.
Although the Third Kazekage had been dead for many years, under Sasori's exquisite human puppet modification technique, he could still exert eighty to ninety percent of his original strength.
The only drawback was probably that he lacked his own consciousness and wasn't as agile as he was when alive.
However, the Third Kazekage's Magnet Release itself was a large-area Ninjutsu attack, so agility wasn't always that important.
Seeing that he was about to crash into the wall of Iron Sand, Naruto didn't care at all; after all, one was Iron Sand, and the other was alloy—there was no need to consider which was harder.
With a "boom," Mecha Naruto directly shattered the Iron Sand wall and continued to charge straight towards Sasori's main body.
Sasori saw this scene and still calmly controlled the Third Kazekage, while his feet continuously retreated, attempting to create distance from Mecha Naruto.
But... Mecha Naruto's speed was not something Sasori could match.
Just as Mecha Naruto was about to grab Sasori, Sasori still hadn't disconnected the Chakra threads controlling the Third Kazekage.
"Hey, that might be a bit unwise!"
Just as he was about to defeat Sasori, Naruto made what he considered the stupidest mistake: a victory declaration.
In the time it took Naruto to utter that sentence, he suddenly heard strange noises from inside Mecha Naruto's body.
Immediately, iron needles pierced out from various parts of Mecha Naruto's body.
Although these iron needles were finer than cattle hair, they still caused considerable damage to Mecha Naruto.
After all, the damage came from within, not from outside.
Because of this, Mecha Naruto's body directly fell forward in front of Sasori.
Seeing his body about to fall, Naruto, without a word, flung out one of Mecha Naruto's arms, intending to deliver a counter-punch to Sasori.
Sasori saw this and calmly dodged the arm Naruto threw, then said, "I have to admit, your body is indeed very hard, but there's something you might not know: 'A strong fortress is often breached from within.'"
"Once I knew your body was made entirely of metal, I knew how to deal with you!"
"You were very confident, so confident that you didn't fear the Iron Sand wall, and you were defeated by that very confidence."
"Although the Iron Sand wall was shattered by you, many tiny grains of Iron Sand had already entered your body without you noticing!"
It could only be said that this was truly a Ninja battle; when victory was certain, one absolutely had to explain to the opponent how one won.
After finishing his explanation, Sasori shot out several Chakra threads, wrapped them around Mecha Naruto, and then pulled him in front of him.
"This must be the energy core of your body, right?" As he spoke, Sasori's hand pressed onto the reactor in Mecha Naruto's chest.
"Hehehehe..." Just then, Mecha Naruto suddenly started laughing.
"Hmm? What are you laughing at?" Sasori asked, somewhat puzzled.
"I'm laughing because you talk too much!"
Just as Sasori was wondering what Naruto's words meant, he suddenly felt one of the Chakra threads he had released snap.
And what snapped his thread was the arm that Naruto had thrown earlier.
Sasori knew that any weapon or limb thrown by a puppet should not be underestimated, so while dodging the arm's attack, he had controlled it with a Chakra thread.
But now that Chakra thread was broken.
At the same time, a whooshing sound came from behind Sasori.
Sasori instinctively dodged the sneak attack by turning sideways, and at this point, he also saw who was attacking him.
It wasn't the arm he imagined, but a mini version of Mecha Naruto.
As the mini Mecha Naruto attacked Sasori, the cracks on Mecha Naruto's body also began to emit heat.
Accompanying the heat were drops of molten iron flowing out from those cracks.
Naruto didn't speak but directly pounced on Sasori.
This sudden turn of events caught Sasori off guard.
However... he wasn't completely flustered; Sasori raised both hands, and two iron pipes immediately spewed high-pressure flames.
Using the momentum of the flames, Sasori quickly created distance from Mecha Naruto.
Just as Sasori was about to regroup, his body suddenly stopped moving.
Immediately, a small Mecha Naruto emerged from Sasori's Akatsuki Organization robe.
In the mini Mecha Naruto's hand was a cylindrical object resembling a stick, with the character 'Sasori' written on its front.
"Well done..."
Mecha Naruto took Sasori's main body and then praised him.
Naruto weighed Sasori's main body in his hand, thinking to himself,
"Just this one thing is Sasori's main body; it's indeed very impressive."
As he spoke, Naruto suddenly thought of Shimura Shinpachi from Gintama; his main body seemed to be his glasses...
Seeing Sasori in this state, still somehow alive, was incredibly unscientific.
But thinking about it, compared to Grey Wolf, Sasori was quite scientific.
Seeing that Sasori was completely dealt with, Naruto was about to enter explanation and show-off mode.
"Sasori, don't you want to know what they are...?" As he spoke, Mecha Naruto summoned three mini Narutos.
The mini Mecha Narutos stood side by side, and then a series of clicking mechanical sounds rang out; these three mini Mecha Narutos combined into one, finally transforming into Mecha Naruto's arm.
"This is the first time you've seen this kind of technology, right? So, you lost fair and square!"
Although Sasori was just a cylinder, he could still hear Naruto's words and see Naruto's actions.
He was indeed very displeased, but a loss was a loss; he wasn't someone who couldn't accept defeat! He just didn't know how Naruto would dispose of him...
Naruto was indeed thinking about how to deal with Sasori.
The best option was, of course, to recruit Sasori.
To recruit Sasori and then have him become his informant within the Akatsuki Organization.
But given Sasori's personality, recruiting him would truly require a lot of effort.
Just as Naruto was about to put away Sasori's main body and discuss with others later how to handle Sasori, his body suddenly froze in place and stopped moving.
Naruto went offline, not even activating the autopilot function before going offline.
At the same time, the Sasori main body he held also fell to the ground.
After Sasori's main body fell to the ground, it began to release blue Chakra.
The Chakra condensed into threads, directly lifting Sasori's main body and flying towards his shell.