Naruto didn't have long to ponder this as Sasori threw his tail out at Naruto again, missing repeatedly in his attempts to finish the boy off. The foot of the young jinchuuriki caught itself in the rubble that they were fighting on. Naruto saw the metal tail fly at him and clasped his fists side by side before thrusting them out, "Fuuton: Fuujin Seiken (Wind Release: Divine Fist of the Wind God)!" The wind projectile barely held the blade off as Naruto frantically tried to lift his foot out and evade before he ended up being a human shish-kabob.
The wind based attack eventually died off and the tail shot at Naruto as quick as ever, however he found it in him to evade by the skin of his teeth, although the leg of his pants did get cut when he got his foot free. Naruto now had the back of his shirt blown open by the explosive attack from Deidara and his pants leg shredded from the unstable surface of rubble that he and Sasori were fighting on.
Naruto inspected himself. The wounds on his back had long since healed and the cuts and scratches he got pulling himself free were mere trifles. Sasori's tail swung menacingly around him, "You must have an extra life to go with each tail of your biju."
Naruto flipped him off and started running circles around Sasori, making him appear as a blur while a red trail left behind was the sign of his wake. Sasori sighed in annoyance as he tried to use his tail to swap (see: stab) the annoying fly. All he hit was nothing, as simply penetrating the red haze that settled in Naruto's path while he continued running around him, "You're really beginning to work my nerves boy." Naruto's response was a reasonably sized chunk of debris flying from his shroud that he was running around Sasori at a high speed. Sasori's tail moved swiftly to intercept it. Soon thereafter even more debris flew at him at an even higher pace, the speed steadily increased, forcing Sasori to give his iron tail a good workout to block them. This pattern continued until Sasori tired of blocking chunks of building and stuck his tail directly into the circle, getting a series of rapid popping sounds for his trouble. The shroud disappeared, confusing Sasori as to Naruto's whereabouts.
"Doton: Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Earth Release: Inner Decapitation Jutsu)!" Naruto emerged from the ground directly behind Sasori and slashed his body up repeatedly before landing a distance away and sheathing his sword, "And that's how you do that."
"That was a good move kid." Sasori's Akatsuki cloak was cut to ribbons, finally dropping off of his frame, "That might have worked if I was normal." On his back was what appeared to be a demon mask with the iron tail extending from the mouth of it.
Naruto palmed his forehead at the sight of this, "What are you? You barely look human!"
Sasori laughed, "That's because this is a puppet boy. My puppet armor, Hiruko."
Naruto's teeth made a loud clicking noise as he found himself undeterred by this news, "Well then I guess I'll just have to smash your puppet armor to get to the soft, squishy puppeteer underneath won't I?"
Sasori laughed again, "You can try boy!" Sasori raised the right arm of his puppet which looked like a torpedo and fired it at Naruto who easily dodged, however this was only the beginning. The torpedo rotated and launched tons of wooded cylinders from within. Naruto didn't like the looks of them whatsoever and tried to get more space when the cylinders broke open, launching a large amount of needles in all directions.
The boy crossed his arms in an 'x' pattern frantically, "Fuuton: Senpuu Kakasui (Wind Release: Whirlwind Pyramid)!" Naruto's defensive wall kicked up, violently pushing the deadly needles away and shrouding the area in dust and debris. As the battlefield cleared, Naruto was nowhere in sight.
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Naruto had taken cover in a crater outside of the area that he and Sasori had been fighting. To get to Sasori he had to crack the puppet armor, but that damn tail. He couldn't cut it, and he had been trying to use his wind chakra through the blade the entire time, it was like it wasn't chakra conductive which made no sense; it was in a vault, in a ninja village. How could it not be chakra conductive?
A squeak alerted Naruto to some off-color looking mice down by his feet. Naruto looked at them curiously as they stopped in front of him, "What the-?"
The small mice turned into words that brought a smile to Naruto's face, "Sai-kouhai, you beautiful bastard… And Hamako too… I definitely think she's earning her chan today."
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(With Sai and Hamako)
Hamako gave Sai a worried look, "Are you sure that Naruto-sama will get your message about the sword?"
"Yes." Sai stated, still looking for somewhere to put Hamako, "Senpai will get the message, rest assured." Maybe back on the towers again? That would make her a target if Deidara ended up finding her, plus, she couldn't get herself down if she had to. Well, she probably could after seeing how she had basically sleepwalked through three of the previously impassible seals that kept him and Naruto from doing what they wanted, "Do you think it will let him use it?"
Hamako smiled at nodded, "Yes, I'm certain. If it wouldn't allow him to use it then he would never have been able to pick it up. Hopefully he's good at finding things out on his own, because I don't know enough about the Sen'nenki no Ken to really give him an idea on what to do."
"Naruto-senpai is very surprising." Sai stated before narrowing his eyes in the distance, "Here we go. Please hold on tightly and stay down Hamako-san, it seems I won't be able to let you off after all."
Deidara was watching with a smirk on his face as the scope over left eye was trained on Sai, "I thought I would have to go and interfere with Sasori no Danna's battle to get one of you. It's a good thing you decide to come to me, un. We're not all settled up yet are we?"
Sai didn't answer as Hamako looked between him and Deidara, "Sai, who is that?" Sai pulled up his drawing scroll, "That man is the main reason we found you Hamako-san. Allow me to go over there and thank him for you." Sai attempted to strike first by drawing out bats from his scroll, "Choujuu Giga (Super Beasts Imitation Picture)!"
Deidara laughed as his hands coughed up sculptures for his use, "You have more fight in you this time I have to say, but you're still coming at me with that same lame excuse for art!" His birds left his hands and clashed with Sai's bats in mid-air as a few went around the clash, heading towards Sai and Hamako directly, "How many times do you need to hear it? True art is an explosion!" He made his half-tiger seal
Sai maneuvered the bird, amid Hamako's uncomfortable screams, through the mid-air explosions, "I won't be nearly as easy to subdue as I was the first time, I assure you of that." Sai cut through a bird that got close and continued towards Deidara, now actually having the chakra to attempt fancy evasive maneuvers and to boost his ink beast's speed in mid-flight.
"You weren't that fast the first time, un." Deidara stated before shrugging to himself and making more exploding birds for a long range attack. He let them fly with a devious grin on his face.
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