For the time being all he could do was take a rest and hide. He was next to worthless the way he was, and trying to move now would probably make things worse than they already were. Sai ran through his supplies and checked his stuff. He still had his tanto that he had placed onto his back once more, he had his scroll, he had enough ink to hopefully carry him through the rest of the fight, he had his still had a holster full of kunai and a pouch of shuriken, no explosive notes, much like Naruto, all of his were ruined when they went into the whirlpool, he also had gauze. That was what he needed right now, something to cover his wounds to keep them from getting infected while he was running around the battlefield.
Wrapping his torso, his now exposed arms, and his wounded leg, he let himself settle for a moment. He pulled up his scroll and drew up some ink mice to search for Deidara in the meantime so he could at least perhaps get the drop on him once he felt well enough to move before a subtle clicking noise alerted him to his left. Turning his head, he saw a clay insect sculpture with its eyes glowing red. Sai immediately propelled himself out of his area of hiding before he found himself caught in another explosion. As he looked around he saw a dozen of the insect sculptures crawling his way. Suicide sentries sent out by Deidara, but where was the man himself? That was what Sai needed to know right now.
In the meantime he drew out his shuriken and tried hitting the explosives before they could get any closer. As they connected with them, the blasts signified that he had finished them off, but now it was abundantly clear where he was and he could be picked off at any time by Deidara.
This was made abundantly clear when Sai looked up and saw clay birds circling overhead. As they came careening down at him to finish him in a suicide divebomb he heard explosions come from behind him before a massive shadow covered him with its stone frame, covering him from damage as the blasts rocked his apparently mobile cover.
"That was close Sai-san."
Sai turned to see Hamako right next to him with a small smile on her face at being able to reach him to assist, "Hamako-san, what are you doing? Senpai gave me orders to make sure you were out of harm's way."
Hamako frowned as even more explosions sounded out around them, "Well that's not fair to you two is it? Doing all of the fighting alone like that. And even more so to me, what am I supposed to do if you two are killed here? I don't know anything or anyone in this time, how am I supposed to get along? If that's the way things are going to go I might as well fight too and risk myself as well."
Sai winced somewhat as he was beginning to feel his injuries, the adrenaline from the hiding and searching finally wearing off, "You aren't a shinobi Hamako-san. You couldn't help either myself or Naruto-senpai in combat."
Hamako gave him a deadpan look, "Really? Because what do you think is shielding you right now? Your iron will to live?"
Sai sweatdropped with an expressionless "Random misplaced and sturdy debris?"
face,
Hamako kept her look as the explosions stopped, "Komainu-kun, let's get Sai-san moving again. He's no good to us if he can't even dodge, we have to be the ones to move for him."
'The statue?' Was what Sai was thinking, 'How is a statue going to move for me? I'd be better off moving on my own feet than relying on that massive thing to get me around safely.' He didn't have time to dispute with her however, as the stone cover that had been his saving grace just moments ago had picked up both him and Hamako and set them on adjacent shoulders before stomping along the battlefield.
Sai looked at Hamako who was smiling at being able to seemingly help, "This is going to hurt me more than help me. I can't use chakra on this statue remember? It absorbs any that come into contact with it."
Hamako grinned and patted the side of Komainu's head, "Oh, that. I turned that off."
Sai raised an eyebrow, "You can do that?"
Hamako scoffed, "How many times do I have to tell you and Naruto-sama? I was the one that animated Komainu-kun, I can control his seal array. I just turned that part off so that you could fight from here. I can't do it myself so you have to fight for me Sai-san."
Sai nodded and watched as Komainu stomped over the battlefield like a minesweeper, triggering Deidara's hidden bombs and disposing of them safely from the two on his shoulders. Two black mice scuttled up Komainu and stopped on Sai's legs before turning to words for him, "Hamako-san, we need to head northwest towards the central towers. Deidara is somewhere in that area."
Hamako nodded, "You heard him Komainu. Take us to the citadel."
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(Naruto vs. Sasori)
"This is total bullshit!" Naruto yelled as he dodged ever expanding branches of metal from running him through. Sasori's last jutsu, Satetsu Kaihou, had forced an ever expanding forest of deadly iron branches that could keep branching off at any time, making it one massive pain for Naruto to dodge, as the increasing numbers of branches also meant more potential for him to be impaled by even more iron branches. Naruto couldn't even anticipate the attacks due to the sporadic habit of the attack to break off and expand randomly, it quickly trapped him deeply inside. His entire reason for keeping in one piece thus far was the fact that he had extreme reflexes and senses from the Kyuubi's chakra in addition to the chakra cloak that the Kyuubi used as an early warning radar for danger, early warning as in a quarter of a second.
Naruto now stood in the middle of a forest of iron spikes that stretched out over a massive amount of space. For some reason all of that evading took it out of him. And the blades on his arms and legs began to feel heavier and heavier, like such weapons should feel as opposed to the light as air feeling that they had when he first activated them.
Naruto began panting, 'Kyuubi what's happening?'
"You are not very attentive towards your reserves are you? You couldn't feel the blades siphoning off your chakra?" The demon in question asked in a disbelieving fashion, "You didn't think that natural feeling of feeling your chakra flow through the gauntlets like another part of you was just a perk did you? It was steadily siphoning off your chakra to power the transformation."
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