Inoyue was not exaggerating; he was currently a Shadow Clone, so his statement, 'The current Rasa cannot kill me,' was indeed correct.
The Shadow Clone is a good thing; it won't disappear until it suffers a fatal injury, and the clones are physical entities, bleeding and everything just like the original body. It can be said that in the world of Ninja, there is no method that can distinguish between the original body and a Shadow Clone.
The pleasantries had been exchanged, and Kakashi and Obito were stunned by Inoyue. After they came to their senses, they grabbed Rin Nohara and ran, executing Inoyue's orders perfectly. Of course, the extra Genin also followed along.
"Yamashita, they are yours!" Rasa casually instructed a Sand Ninja beside him.
"Understood!" The Sand Ninja named Yamashita replied, immediately splitting into four clones, preparing to pursue Kakashi and the other three separately.
"Sorry, but I can't let you pursue them!" Inoyue chuckled, his expression relaxed. At the same time, the dark gold in his eyes filled his entire eye sockets, the red gates within his black pupils opened, and a chilling aura instantly leaked from his eyes, causing the surrounding atmosphere to suddenly become strangely eerie.
"Strange eyes, just as Karura described." Rasa murmured, but he neither dodged nor moved, as if he was still waiting for something. Meanwhile, the Sand Ninja named Yamashita suddenly felt a panic in his heart. Already dismissive and careless, he now realized that he couldn't move, and neither could his clones.
However, what surprised him even more came next. The kunai in his hand slowly rose and moved towards his neck. His clones acted the fastest, quickly committing suicide and disappearing, turning into piles of sand.
The Sand Ninja named Yamashita panicked and immediately shouted, "Rasa, save me! I can't control myself!"
As he spoke, his hand had already turned the kunai, slowly cutting towards his carotid artery.
Rasa was also moving, similar to the Sand Ninja beside him, raising the kunai in his hand and turning it towards himself, but this process was much slower than Yamashita's.
...
Yamashita's expression was panicked, filled with terror. But Rasa was very calm, as if the person committing suicide was not him at all.
Both of them had been locked by Inoyue's Mind's Eye; now it was just a process of suicide. If there was no external interference with Inoyue, both of them would definitely die, Inoyue was confident of this.
But why was Rasa so calm? Did he have another trick up his sleeve?
"Save... me, save me, Rasa!" The Genin named Yamashita made his final struggle. However, Rasa's expression was also solemn at this moment; his kunai was now less than ten centimeters from his neck. How could he save the Sand Ninja named Yamashita?
With a 'pffft' sound, the carotid artery was pierced, and blood spurted out. The Sand Ninja named Yamashita screamed and then collapsed. But Rasa persisted, the kunai was about to touch his skin.
The kunai was only a grain of rice away from Rasa's carotid artery, but that small distance could not be crossed no matter what.
"What a formidable ocular Ninjutsu. I wonder what it controls in me? It makes my body uncontrollably try to take my own life. Besides this ominous feeling, there are no other abnormalities." Rasa's right hand trembled, and the already close kunai slowly moved away a little.
This was not a good sign. Inoyue bit her lower lip, and her eyes widened again. A powerful mental force, transforming into an overwhelming control, surged from her eyes towards Rasa.
At this moment, Rasa's breathing hitched. The ominous feeling in the atmosphere suddenly doubled, like someone being struck by lightning the moment they stepped out the door; that feeling was quite peculiar.
Rasa was that person who stepped out, and he knew that stepping out would inevitably lead to a lightning strike. The dangerous and ominous feeling made his entire Chakra instantly burst forth. Just as the kunai was about to descend, his body, under the burst of Chakra, became able to move.
The kunai instantly stabbed down. To avoid the kunai stabbing himself, Rasa lowered his head and spun in place, a trace of blood blooming in the air.
Succeeded? Inoyue's heart suddenly relaxed, but the next second, she tensed up again. This was because there was too little blood in the air, and she had a feeling of losing her target.
...
After Rasa spun in place, leaving a trace of blood, he retreated. Inoyue's eyes immediately followed, trying to lock on again.
However, things did not go as planned. Rasa formed hand signs, and a sand wall immediately rose from the ground, blocking Inoyue's line of sight.
With his vision obstructed and the lock interrupted, by the time the sand wall fell, Rasa was already fifty meters away. He had returned to his initial state, with his hands clasped, looking calmly at Inoyue.
"This ominous feeling is like the Shinigami of the underworld approaching. Well! Although I haven't seen the underworld, it doesn't affect my imagination of this feeling." At this moment, Rasa spoke loudly, not caring if Inoyue heard him. His face had indeed regained its composure, and his relaxed, confident expression made it seem as if he had Inoyue completely figured out.
Hmph! Did he share information with Karura? Inoyue thought to herself. Fifty meters was neither too much nor too little, it was just her limit. Karura and her husband really have a good relationship, even a small fry like me is worth mentioning to her husband.
"Speaking of which, since information was shared, was his being locked on just now also intentional?" Inoyue grew suspicious.
...
"Sand Clone!" Rasa formed hand signs, creating three Sand Clones. Before Inoyue could figure it out, his original body and the Sand Clones rushed into the range of fifty meters from Inoyue in a fan shape.
Seeing Rasa charge in again, Inoyue suddenly had a bad feeling. Knowing it was suicide, he still charged in? Was Rasa's brain problematic?
This, certainly not possible, so what exactly was his goal? Inoyue couldn't figure it out, but she always had a bad feeling in her heart.
"Stop bullying people!" Inoyue shouted, her gaze encompassing all four Rasas within her line of sight. One second later, all four were locked on.
The four Rasas successively committed suicide, but they turned into piles of yellow sand, all of them being Sand Clones. At this moment, the original body of Rasa slowly rose from underground fifty meters away: "It seems that when a clone is locked on, the original body also cannot move, but the force acting on the original body is relatively much weaker!"
"Could it be... that your ocular Ninjutsu controls souls?" Rasa hesitated, then his eyes narrowed, stating a guess that surprised even himself.
Souls are ethereal things. If Inoyue's ocular Ninjutsu could control the souls of living people, that would be quite terrifying.
General Ninjutsu like Sand Clones and Water Clones usually contain a small amount of soul within them, which allows them to function as clones. Because souls are interconnected, if a clone is controlled by Inoyue, the original body will also be affected. It seems Rasa was indeed researching the Mind's Eye used by Inoyue.
"Are you researching me?" Inoyue did not answer Rasa's question, but finally understood what Rasa was doing.
"Heh heh! Did you just realize that?" A smile appeared at the corner of Rasa's mouth. He was not bad-looking, and his smile was quite stylish. "But why do I think he's stylish?" Inoyue roared inwardly; her thoughts had drifted again.
What was wrong with this problem? Inoyue roared at herself inwardly. If it weren't for a battle right now, Inoyue would have wanted to open her own head and see what was wrong with her thoughts.
"Stop putting on airs!" Inoyue retorted, her angry, 'haha' expression was rather cute, having no effect whatsoever. Because she was inherently a loli, how would an adult feel about a loli getting angry in front of them? Nonsense, no matter how angry, she was still a cute loli.
"Your ocular Ninjutsu's lock lasts about one second, and it can only lock onto things related to the soul. That's why you can break Karura's sand, but my gold dust, controlled by Chakra, is completely unaffected!"
"The process of suicide after being locked by you is like a lever adding force. That is to say, if your control is one, then to break free from your control, I must instantly reach ten, or twenty, to succeed."
"At your age, you are already one. If you reach adulthood, to what extent will your 'one' reach? Perhaps by then, even I, when locked on, will only be able to await death! Plus that ominous feeling, like the Shinigami approaching, you truly resemble an angel from the underworld." Rasa walked towards Inoyue, speaking his analysis as he went.
Inoyue was shocked, her heart in disarray. The opponent had managed to completely discover the weaknesses of her Mind's Eye simply based on Karura's information and a few attempts. Rasa was truly worthy of being the next Kazekage. Facing such a person now, she was truly seeking death.
...
As Rasa approached, Inoyue tried to lock onto him, but as her gaze moved, Rasa disappeared with a Shunshin. Then he reappeared in another place out of sight. No matter how Inoyue tried to catch him, he was faster than her turning gaze.
"Heh heh! If I capture you alive, this new ocular Ninjutsu will belong to my Sand Ninja Village." Rasa's laughter suddenly came from over thirty meters behind Inoyue.
"Magnet Release: Gold Dust Great Burial." Rasa quickly formed hand signs, unleashing his first Ninjutsu attack before Inoyue could fully turn around.