Gaara's Story: Fall of a Kazekage The Debt That All Men Pay
The battle was intense, and it was just getting hotter. Sasori was vicious for how young he looked. Deidara wasn't as effective in close combat than when he was in the air. Unfortunately the same thing was happening in this battle that happened all those years ago against Sasuke and Lee in the Chunin exams. Sasori's so quick that my sand can't defend against all his attacks. Fortunately I still have one advantage over him. Sasori pulled a scroll out of a compartment in his wooden body. He unraveled it and flicked the end at me. Out of the scroll flew sever kunai at high speed, my sand defended me. He kept doing this, only it felt like a distraction. I sent my sand flowing towards him, it formed a giant hadn't and threw him off the bird. I looked over the edge and found he landed safely on another bird with his partner... if they're on that bird than this bird... I quickly jumped off the bird, a moment before it blew up. I crash landed on the next battle field.
"You're really putting up a fight, Shukaku." Sasori taunted "Wouldn't it be easier to just give in?"
I growled, "My name is Gaara, and I'm going to kill you!" I tackled him and started beating his face in, not something I normally do.
He laughed, "I'm made of wood, do you think that hurts, you idiot?"
"No, but I know what will." On top of Sasori was a sand clone. My clone disintegrated back into sand. "Sand Coffin!"
Sasori was raised into the air, covered in a prison of sand. "You think you can kill me?"
I stood in front of him. "Sand Burial!" I crushed him in sand and when it was finished Sasori was a pile of parts. I felt a hard hit against the back of my head, most likely caused by Deidara. He ran over to the pile of cogs and gears and took the only organic part of Sasori, his heart container. Deidara glared over at me and jumped off the bird. He made his hand-sign. "Katsu!"
Boom.
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Boom.
"Gaara!" Kankuro shouted. We saw the explosion up close. Our team had finally reached the battle only to have it blow up in our faces. Kankuro was jaw-dropped. He ran as fast as he could. As the dust cleared we saw Gaara on his knees, Deidara holding Sasori's heart. Deidara pulled a small red scroll out of his coat pocket and opened it on the ground. He made his hand-signs and summoned a whole other body for Sasori. He slid the heart canister into the hole of the puppet and Sasori got up, good as new.
"What happened?" Sasori asked rubbing his head.
"We won this time. We're not only bringing Leader the parcel, but also the one-tailed Shukaku." He chuckled.
"Don't you lay one finger on my brother." Kankuro shouted releaseing Crow and Black Ant.
"Deidara, take the package and the Jinchuriki to the base."
Deidara reached down to grab Gaara but he shattered.
"Damn that little brat." Deidara cursed.
Sasori summoned the Third Kazekage puppet. "Forget the kid, just get that package out of here, that's more important right now."
"I need time to get it ready." He argued.
"Just go!" The red head shouted angrily.
Deidara ran for it. Kakashi and I followed. I tried throwing kunai but Deidara dodged them all without looking back; he was actually very agile. Eventually Deidara threw a bird above him and it exploded into a small speeder. He jumped up, and luclily, we were able to catch a ride. Deidara put the small box in his coat pocket and faced us. "Ah, you must the nine-tailed Jinchuriki Itachi-san told me about. He's said you put him through a lot of trouble, and your little friend Sasuke as well. I must thank you, that damn Itachi deserves it. And you, the infamous Copy Ninja, Kakashi Hatake. Let's see if you can copy me. Come, Kyuubi, fight me!" Deidara taunted as he threw some birds at us.
"My name's Naruto, don't any of you morons get that? I'm not that damn fox!" I charged with a kunai. He grabbed my arm and spun me around. I would've fallen off the bird if one of Kakashi's shadow clones hadn't caught me. "Be more careful Naruto, from seeing his movements I can tell that he's not one for close combat. But if you charge he'll throw you off. He has the advantage." I created three shadow clones of my own and charged at him again. Deidara grabbed the me on the left and smashed him into all the other Naruto clones. Deidara threw several huge birds at Kakashi, they blew up and he flew backwards. "I can't copy his moves. Now were at two disadvantages." Kakashi made his hand-signs. "Water Style, Giant Vortex Jutsu." A giant vortex of water shot at Deidara. He tried to dodged but he was one minute too late. He fell on his back and almost fell off the bird.
"Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu." A hundred other me's appeared on the bird and charged Deidara. He stood up and looked at all the clones charging. He smirked, not good. He stomped his foot and the bird began turning upside down. A lot of my clones forgot they had to use chakra and they fell off; only ten remained. We were all wasting chakra too keep from falling off; Deidara knew that. We would eventually fall off, but he had a few spare birds already made. We had to beat him before that happened. Kakashi charged his lightening blade. He ran towards Deidara arm extended. We had this in the bag.
-G-
Hopefully Naruto's fight is going better than ours. Anything Kankuro throws at Sasori, he'd counter. I was hiding in the sand waiting for Sasori to step into the open area. I'd more of a liability attacking directly because of my defenses failing, so I'm assisting Kankuro the best way I could. Also, this was Kankuro's fight, puppet master verses puppet master. If he could just lure Sasori over to the plain I could finish him. Sakura charged at him. Sasori had his Third Kazekage puppet out. He sent him flying towards her. Sakura punched it in the face and he cut her on the arm with it's sword. Sakura jumped back and healed her wound. Sasori was just playing with them all.
"See, Sakura-chan, the thing about puppets is that they don't feel pain. You can hit them all you want, you can burn them, smash them, crush them... but you can't kill them!" Sasori puppet had two large blades connected on its arms. He sent it spinning towards her like a tornado. Kankuro sent Black Ant to defend her.
"Don't call me Sakura-chan." She threatened. "I'm gonna rip that puppet limb from limb." Sasori's puppet charged toward her. Sakura dodged it's attacks and grabbed it's arms. She put her foot on it's chest and started ripping his arms off. She pulled of the puppet's arms and swung them at the Kazekage. Kankuro charged towards Sasori with all three of his puppets. "I'm taking you down, Sasori. Both of you, stay back!" Sasori threw his broke puppet aside and pulled of his cloak, revealing his full body. Sasori released his spinning arm-blades and his over-sized, poison-tip stomach cable. The cable shot out at Kankuro who blocked it with Crow. However, this broke Crow's chest cavity and disabled many of his weapons. Kankuro used Crow to shoot dozens of needles towards the Akatsuki member. Sasori did a back-flip and completely evaded the shot. "I built these puppets, I know all their flaws." He taunted. Kankuro sneered, "Well I made a few adjustments. Go, Salamander, Heavy Drop." Kankuro flicked his arm into the air and his largest puppet jumped into the air. Sasori was going to drop, but I used my sand to hold him in place. "Damn it!" Kankuro's puppet landed hard on top of the red head, that isn't me. Kankuro recently adjusted the joints so I was more agile, and add weights to the bottom to make it heavier.
Kankuro pulled the strings back and forth, "Salamander, Heavy Stomp." His puppet began jumping up and down repeatedly ontop of Sasori's poor broken body. Talk about over kill, not that I'm complaining. Everyone was silent, waiting to see if Sasori could be killed. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. You know what they say about 'the debt that all men pay?' That's death, though it comes quicker to some than others, it'll without a doubt. Sasori shot up into the air and shot needles down at Kankuro. My brother wasn't quick enough and got stabbed in the stomach. He needed to go on the defensive now or risk losing the fight.
He threw all his puppets in front of him, only Sasori knew all of the puppets weaknesses. First was Crow, Sasori chopped off all its limbs with his whirling blades. Next he smashed right into Black Ant's stomach with his stomach cable. Then, he brought out his giant pointed needles from his hands. He stabbed the focal points of Salamander's shield. Kankuro lost, only this wasn't training; Sasori would show no mercy. All of Kankuro's puppets were broken and wouldn't function until he fixed them, which would never happen. Sasori dashed towards him and stabbed him right through the chest with his left needle, then his right, and repeatedly did this until he was sure Kankuro would perish. Next, Sasori shot his poison cable through Kankuro's stomach; he began coughing up blood.
"I am the true puppet master, Sasori of the Red Sand!" Sasori cried. His cable flung Kankuro into the air. Sasori raised his hand up and he was impaled on the spike. He lowered his arm and my brother's body slid right off. "Who's next."
"You're finished!" I growled rising from the sand as my jutsu was completed. "Ninja Art, Sand Fissure!" I put hands on the ground. A large rumbling began as the earth began to shake. With the rest of my chakra I opened a giant crevice in the ground; Sasori would never escape this.
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Kakashi ran towards Deidara with his Lighting Blade. This was it, I was sure we'd win. Kakashi-sensei smashed right into Deidara with his jutsu; right through his heart. Only now, Deidara melted into a pile of clay. After a moment of silence, Kakashi was wide-eyed. Suddenly, Kakashi ran towards me. He wrapped his arms around me and together we jumped off the bird. We went flying towards the ground. The whole bird exposed. We landed hard and rolled around on the ground.
"By now, Deidara's got to be out of chakra. Most likely he'll be running on foot. We have to catch him."
I nodded. Just when I thought he wouldn't get away...
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The fissure was closing in on Sasori. Just when I thought he wouldn't get away, he jumped into the air and his spinning arm blades acted like propellers and he hovered over the swift moving trench. Sasori smirked and began flying towards us. My chakra was drained, that was my largest move right now. What could Sakura do again?
Sakura pulled out some special kunai with a little pink bag tied to the ends. She threw them at the descending Sasori. In mid-flight, in a poof of smoke, the kunai released dozens of little black pellets. "Ninja Art, Sakura Blossom Bullets!" Normally those pellets would've went straight through some guy, but of course this was Sasori and there is nothing normal about him. Being that he was made of wood, the bullets had no effect on his body. What they did do was that a few dented his propellers spiraling him out of control. Unable to control his flight pattern, Sasori crash landed right into the fissure. I quickly made a swiping motions with my arm and the crack began to close on top of him. I could feel Sasori trying to claw his way out. He was able to reach the top only to have the crevice close around his left leg. He tried to pull, but he was grounded. "Damn! This is the last body I have with me! That's it, you're both gonna die!" He shouted in anger.
"Wait both? Where's Sai?" Sakura asked looking around. Sasori opens up his chest cavity and releases a hundred chakra strings. He pulls out his last scroll and releases the seal. "Red Secret Technique, Performance of a Hundred Puppets." Sasori released a hundred puppets into the air, all equipped with poison knives and chakra blades. Sasori raised his hand into the air and clenched his fist. Fifty of the puppets went towards Sakura. Sakura dodged one of their swords, punched one right in the face, and took one of their arms and broke it in half. She delivered a spin kick to a few of their heads and snaped one of their necks. Sasori sent the other fifty flying in her direction. It was one-on- one hundred, and Sakura was winning. She grabbed one of his puppets and ripped it's arm off. Using it's own sword Sakura cut through it and swiped at another group of puppets. She must of used her super strength as she threw the blade into the air and impaled multiple on the stick. I used my sand to crush most of them.
"It's a lot different fighting you than your brother. You actually give me a challenge. Oh, by the way? His pulse just died." Sasori threw his head back and laughed maniacally at our folly. "That's what's wrong with having a flesh and blood. You die..." He snapped his wooden fingers. "Just like that!" He smirked. I could feel the anger boiling up inside me. My brother, the only person who actually believed I was innocent, was lieing there dead, with a dozen holes in his torso. I was going to finish him for good. I raised my hand towards him. "Sand Coffin." Sasori became encased in sand and flew into the air. "We already tried this, Gaara-kun. You can't kill me like this!" He shouted. I clenched my other hand into a fist. Several large, six-foot-tall daggers made of sand formed around the floating Sasori. I clasped my hands together. "For Kankuro, Supreme Needle Burial!" The daggers flew into Sasori, impaling him in all directions. From his gasp I could tell I finally impaled his heart. "You claim to have cut all your ties to humanity, well... you missed one."
