"To show you how little you know," Aoto said, and then Deidara proceeded to see something that he would always remember for the rest of his life. He saw himself flying high, and within seconds, he reached the high stratosphere. From there, he got to see the whole planet.

And then he was thrust into a different dimension altogether. It was fast, way too fast, even for him, as he passed through the dimension. His heartbeat turned up a notch, pupils dilated as adrenaline pumped through his veins. The dimension he was going through was colorful and vivid.

He was already mesmerized. No longer thinking that this was a genjutsu, he was also enjoying the view as Deidara was taken to another dimension. At this point, he was taken through multiple dimensions at a fast pace.

"You think you know what true beauty in this world is. You haven't even seen the world to explain what true beauty is. Open your eyes. We are just a minute speck in this vast multiverse. Now the question is, do you want to reach beyond and get to know what lies among the mysteries or just want to settle on the fact that explosives are equal to beauty," Aoto said as Deidara sailed through multiple dimensions.

Of course, there were not actual multiple dimensions, as the system had said that their world wouldn't open fully as of yet since their world didn't have a sorcerer supreme. But Deidara, nonetheless, was mesmerized. After a few seconds, Deidara found himself the same way as he was before.

Two Aotos holding him down and the main body Aoto pulling his hand away from his forehead. Deidara looked mesmerized, the audience around was full of cheers and motivation, but it was deaf to the ears of Deidara. Deidara looked straight at Aoto and said.

"Teach me."

His words weren't loud enough, but many shinobi surrounding could hear his words. They were taken aback by the words of Deidara, as they thought Aoto was just trying to make him surrender, but the words implied something else. In response, Aoto put his mouth close to the ears of Deidara and said.

"Impress us first."

This made the cheeks of Deidara red for some reason, but he understood the meaning behind Aoto's words. Deidara was now obsessed with what he had seen. This time he was sure that it was not a genjutsu, and even if it was, he wanted to learn whatever he had seen.

Deidara gave the sign of surrendering and got up. This surprised Aoto, as he felt if Deidara really wanted to win, he could have because he wasn't so good in hand-to-hand fights like him, and his explosive techniques were actually of many varieties. He had the small clay bombs, the ones that could get inside the body and kill him.

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There were other techniques which Deidara could have used to defeat Aoto, but he chose to surrender. Aoto smiled in response and thanked him, while Onoki's eyebrows were still creased. Anyone seeing him could feel as if he was very much disappointed by the result, but Onoki was thinking of an entirely different thing.

The second time Deidara was sent on a dimensional journey, Onoki somehow got a glimpse of it, and right now, he was contemplating if whatever he saw was real or not.

Since it was the the third fight and they had lost three consecutive ones, Iwagakure shamefully decided to stop the whole arena fight. They were embarrassed to the extreme and didn't want this small 'tournament' to continue. Aoto was back in his place with the rest and from then on the local people who had been looking at them with condescending eyes didn't look at them anymore and avoided them.

Aoto didn't mind it.

Deidara and others didn't show up at all for the rest of the day. It was the next day that Aoto and Kisuke was called to finish the whole deal and start the process since the daimyo of the Land of Earth was also here.

They at the end decided on sharing the construction of the bridge and make provisions that there would be no conflict. The bridge would never be used as a source of attacking another village which was cosigned by both of the daimyo. Of course from an intelligent perspective those laws were just laws, and laws could always be broken if a strong person came, and at the moment, there wasn't strong enough from both sides to take that leap.

Thus the treaty was signed and Kisuke went on to negotiate various items and good that would be traded. Konoha by itself wanted to trade and the tax deals were chalked out which would be renewed every 5 years.

The whole deal went on for 3 days and finally after the negotiation everything was signed and ready to go. After almost a week in Iwagakure, it was time to leave. Of course nobody showed up to say goodbye as the people around didn't have a good view of Konoha and many felt like Konoha had cheated in the tournament.

They said that only one among them was a shinobi but they proved to be deceptive. After signing off in the gates of Iwagakure, they started walking away in a calm manner.

"Aiya.. Can we expect some kind of ambush?" Kisuke asked while holding the hand fan in front of his face.

"Who cares? We will be out of this place and be in our bed soon." Aoto said.

"I am sad that I couldn't show off." Shikuro said as he was still sulking that he didn't get chance to show off.

"Than maybe when Jiraya-sama shows up, you can ask him." Corazon said.

"I am confident but not so confident." Shikuro defended himself.

"He is good with his brains so you can't just fight Jiraya-sama and expect magic to win." Aoto commented. They passed on casual comments when Corazon said.

"Someone is approaching us in fast speed. Oh wait, we know him." Corazon said. Shikuro's butterflies were already around and Aoto asked Kisuke to make sure there isn't any ambush of small bombs.

Deidara soon emerged from the shadows and landed in front of Aoto. He looked a bit embarrassed and his face was red.

"Why are you here?" Aoto asked.

"I.. Hmmm.. I want to learn whatever you did before to me." Deidara said after some stumbling on his words.