Out with a Bang
A/N- Beta'd by UberChimerism
"You've deactivated the Sharingan. Not taking me seriously, huh?!"
Opposite Deidara was Sasuke Uchiha, the little brother of Itachi Uchiha who had proven as baneful to the Nenshō's existence as the elder. He had exhausted his precious explosive clay and the little shit still breathed air!
But Deidara still had one final trick up his sleeve. He tore off his shirt, exposing his chest and the extra mouth just over his heart. With the mouth in his left palm, Deidara tore out the stitches sewing the pectoral mouth shut, the strange maw opening with a guttural roar.
Sasuke stared, a disgusted horror in his eyes at what he was seeing. He had seen many things under Orochimaru's tutelage, but this…!
Deidara picked up a large mass of clay from the bag near his left and fed it to the mouth with a crazed grin. Pitch black lines appeared around the mouth and spread across his body, much like a Cursed Seal. "And now, the ultimate art: the Nenshō kinjutsu!"
Sasuke's blood froze. "What are you?!" He struggled to stand up, but soon fell back on his rear.
The black lines and a black orb were all that remained of Deidara. "I'll become a final piece of art, one that'll truly go out with a bang!" Two glowing holes and a wide glowing grin below them appeared on the sphere of black.
Sasuke tried to crawl away, but knew he wouldn't make it.
"Ten kilometers, a beautiful scar!" The lines of black, most of which were once Deidara's chakra network, retreated into the ball.
"Behold, cry out in horror and amazement!" Deidara's grin was absolutely feral now.
Sasuke quickly got to his knees and bit his thumb, forming hand seals and slamming his palm onto the ground. "Summoning: Manda!" A seal appeared and a puff of smoke billowed out. But instead of the giant serpent Sasuke was hoping for, only a small useless snake appeared, due to the Uchiha's almost depleted chakra. "No…!" He looked up at the black ball. "No! I haven't killed Itachi! I can't die here!"
The black orb started to crack and light poured out of the cracks as the grin turned into a leer.
"My art is…a bang!"
Sasuke did the only thing he could do.
He screamed.
"Kakashi-sensei, we can't go over there. It's exactly what Big Brother Neji said." Hinata Hyūga's Kyōmaku Byakugan, lavender with a blue pupil, stared at the scene located nearly twenty kilometers away. "We'd get caught in the blast."
At that instant, the sphere exploded, causing the Hyūga heiress to wince. She kept her eyes on the scene, seeing Sasuke and his chakra disintegrate. She switched her Byakugan back to the lavender of its basic state and spotted the oncoming windstorm. "Brace yourselves!"
The winds slammed into her and the rest of the Eight Man Squad. Naruto and Kiba were nearly bowled over by the powerful and intense winds, but managed to keep their footing.
Within moments, the howling wind stopped, leaving only deafening silence. Hinata didn't have to face Kakashi to see his despairing face. The Byakugan saw through all.
"Is Sasuke…"
Hinata hesitated. "He…he's gone. I saw it. He didn't survive that explosion."
"No…" Kakashi's reply was barely above a whisper.
At that moment, Hinata was glad she didn't have to face him directly. She may not have known Sasuke that well, but she knew how much the Uchiha meant to the masked nin, as well as Naruto and Sakura.
As her Byakugan witnessed Kakashi passing the news on to his erstwhile students, she let her shoulders slump, dreading the hours ahead.
Nenshō is a clan name for the clan Deidara will be from. Since his abilities are too unique to not be from a clan...
I've had this story up before but deleted it due to being afraid it had too much paraphrasing. But though watching it on TV and watching the subtitles on the online version of the episode, I realized it didn't have any.
