A sound of growls surrounding him alerted him to his current predicant. Deidara found himself surrounded by lions constructed of ink as Sai limped towards him with his tanto drawn, "You shouldn't have been paying so much attention to Naruto-senpai's battle while you were in the midst of you own, or did you forget about ?"
Deidara chuckled at the sight of Sai and his lions slowly moving towards his downed form, "I guess I should rethink my views on you shouldn't I, un?" He revealed one of his clay figures sitting on his shoulder, putting Sai on guard, "You have art that can both be here for long periods of ti, or be gone in a flash. However I think that wishy-washy way of thinking is cheating and makes sick! At least Sasori no Danna had the decency to choose one side of the fence while you balance in between." With that he picked up the figurine and placed it into his mouth, chewing and swallowing it, much to Sai's surprise.
Deidara smirked as his body began to rapidly expand, "I'll turn your little pencil drawings into art for you, because true art is an explosion!" Sai turned to run, but with his leg he had no way to escape no matter how big the blast was.
"Sai-san!" Hamako shouted as she ran up to the bulging Deidara, "Fuuinjutsu: Jikan Bunkatsu (Sealing Technique: Ti Splitter)!" Hamako slapped the seal on Deidara's head and ran back towards Sai, "Fuuin!" She then leaned down and placed Sai over her shoulder as she began to run away with him leaning on her, "Co on, we have to go now!"
Sai blinked at her as she moved as fast as she possibly could to get them away from the bulging Deidara, however sothing seed off. He was bulging far more slowly than he had been a mont ago. He looked at her as she determinedly assisted him, "What did you do?"
Hamako looked back, "That seal I just used slows things to one-fifth of their maximum speed. I don't know how potent it will be though, since I'm not used to using anyone else's ink for my seals."
Sai looked back to see Deidara slowly approaching critical mass, "So what are you saying?"
Hamako gave him a nervous smile, "Due to a disconnection between and the seal it might break."
"By 'break' you an..." Sai fished nervously.
Hamako looked back, "Utterly backfire and fail in about five seconds... and that's being very generous to my seal making."
Sai said nothing and simply pulled the rest of the ink he lent Hamako from her as he started drawing on his scroll, "Choujuu Giga (Super Beasts Imitation Picture)!" Sai quickly summoned up an ink bird that swept him and Hamako up and flew off.
The seal on Deidara's head slipped off as he returned to regular speed, "Art is an explosion!" Before detonating himself and taking out a good chunk of riverside land.
Hamako looked down at the explosion left by Deidara, "Well that's certainly an interesting way to go out, don't you think Sai-san?"
Sai didn't look with her, "He's not dead."
The expression on Hamako's face showed skepticism towards believing that Deidara was still alive, "He blew himself up. Now if there's any way that you yourself have personally seen anyone live through that I think it would be common knowledge even to soone like ." Sai shook his head, "This isn't the first ti that he made a false figure of his explode. He probably switched himself out with it before we were able to reach him once he realized his partner was dead. Even if he could have defeated us, he wouldn't be able to beat Naruto-senpai afterwards, making his staying here any longer a null point."
Hamako nodded before her eyes widened, "Naruto-sama! What happened to him, is he alright?"
Sai turned the bird around to head back towards Naruto's last known whereabouts.
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Deidara limped out of the vicinity of the village, using the trees for support, "I guess I'll have to wait until next ti little pale drawing boy." He said to himself as he walked along, "With Sasori no Danna gone it seems that you're the only one I can test my own art against now."
He looked down at the mouths on his hand, "I wonder. Will it be my art of a single mont, or your ink constructs that trumps the other in the end." A smile slowly made its way onto his face, "For so reason I can't wait to find out."
XxX
Sai landed his bird in the midst of the tower that Naruto plowed Sasori into and let Hamako off while he stayed on it with his wounded leg. Hamako ran to the collapsed building and sifted through the rubble, "How did the building even fall?"
Sai yelled back from his place on the bird, "Deidara's blast must have been strong enough to take out what was left of the tower. Naruto-senpai probably did a number on it from the inside to weaken it as well."
Hamako picked through significant pieces of fallen building, "Naruto-sama! Are sothing if you're still alive!"
"Ow..."
you
alright?
Say
Naruto pushed a chunk of roof off of himself as Hamako ran over to check his injuries, "Please tell you killed that bastard Sai-kouhai."
Sai's bird walked over with him on its back, "Sorry to say I couldn't senpai. He escaped after you killed your opponent."
"Sasori." Naruto said, "I killed Akasuna no Sasori. That's who that was."
Hamako stared at Naruto in disbelief. They had told her that he was the one who had destroyed her village, and here he just beat him imdiately. Naruto wriggled his body free and stood up shakily. He walked past Hamako and set a hand on her shoulder before moving along to Sai, "You look beat the hell up kouhai." Sai gave him his smile, "As do you senpai. I would venture to say that you probably got it worse than I did."
Naruto scoffed, "Yeah, but I can walk."
Sai shook his head, "That's because you have the Kyuubi inside of you. Normal people like actually have to deal with their injuries. If chunks of building fell on you and you can just pick the pieces off and walk up to that kind of tells you aren't normal doesn't it?" He took a mont to think, "How did the tower fall on you anyway? By the ti Deidara's suicide clone exploded you should have been long gone."
Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Well you see, I was kind of picking up a few things after I was done, and then the entire place cos down around ." Sai raised an eyebrow, "What were you picking up that got your attention like that?"
Naruto opened his mouth to answer before he was glomped by Hamako, "Naruto-sama! You're alright!"
Naruto buckled under her weight, apparently his body was giving out sooner than he thought it would, "Yeah, Hamako-chan, I'm fine, just let go of please."
Hamako pulled "Hamako-chan master?"
away
from
him,
Naruto grinned at her, "Well yeah. If you're coming with that ans I'm going to have to be your first friend in your new life won't I?" He then gestured to Sai, "And Sai-kouhai here will be your second." Sai simply stared at them both blankly, forcing Naruto to sweatdrop, "He's not got much to say."
Naruto's knees buckled, forcing him to lean on the side of the ink bird, "Alright, Sai, I can't go back to Kiri or Konoha like this, there will be too many questions that I don't feel like answering so just drop sowhere nearby where I can heal okay? I have a safe place in mind."
XxX
(Later That Night)
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"I'll get it father."
A door opened to reveal a beautiful, dark-haired woman in a pink shirt staring in a surprised fashion at her guests, "Naruto-kun? Is that you?"
Naruto gave her his best grin while being supported by Hamako on her shoulder, body wrapped in bandages, "Hi there Tsunami-san! It's good to see you again." He rubbed the back of his neck, "I hope it wouldn't be too much to ask of you for a place to stay for the night would it?"
Tsunami gave him a smile, "Of course not Naruto-kun. You and your guest are welco here always after what you did for this country."
Hamako returned her smile, "We saw the bridge. He almost fell out when we did."
Naruto chuckled, "Yeah... I didn't really see that one coming at all."
Tsunami giggled, "Yes Kakashi-san said the sa thing too when he arrived."
Naruto blinked at her, "Wait, you said when Kakashi arrived? He ca back here before without our team?"
Tsunami shook her head, "No... he's here right now with two other kids. As a matter of fact he was the one that said that you would probably be showing up here in the next day or two." With that a familiar masked visage ca into Naruto's clear view, with his ever present eye-smile in place, "Oh, hey Naruto! Funny running into you here huh?" Kakashi began laughing humorlessly, which led to Naruto laughing uncomfortably, making the two females between them stare confusedly.
"Shithead is back? Where the hell is he?"
Naruto paled at the sound of that voice as Kakashi slid to his side, "Oh, and just so you know, Tayuya's been very upset since you left in Kirigakure. Good luck with that."
"Thanks Kakashi-sensei... Thanks so much."
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