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Chapter 2
A huge explosion shook the whole place. He jumped far away from the spot of the large explosion. Sasuke then looked up, annoyed at Deidara.
"Tch. Stupid coward, flying out of reach."
Sasuke allowed his curse mark to take over his body. He needed to end this as soon as possible without using up too much power. To Sasuke, Deidara was just another benchmark for him to test his strength. He needed to prove to Itachi that he wasn't worthless. Most of all, he needed to prove to himself that he wasn't worthless.
Wings sprouted out of Sasuke's back. His face darkened and there was a cross-shaped mark on his face. He leapt up, like a leopard pouncing at its prey, except this leopard could fly. Deidara's eyes widened in surprise, and although he tried not to show it, fear. Sasuke drew his Nagashi sword and sliced through the air at the airborne clay bird.
His aim struck true. The bird's wing got cut off. Sasuke immediately, in a split second's interval, made several hand seals and aimed his fireball jutsu at the exposed moist clay of the falling clay bird. Deidara managed to jump off his mount on time to avoid immediate death. The fireball made contact with the bird, making it explode in a shower of flames. The forced of the explosion sent Deidara crashing into the forest below.
"YOU DAMNED UCHIHA BRAT! DESTROYING MY PRECIOUS BIRDIE! AND BURNING MY PRECIOUS HAIR!" he yelled. "oh my precious long, blonde hair…"
He immediately started making bombs at an insane rate. All at once Sasuke had a thousand clay bombs flying in his direction. He shielded himself with his wings and ran electricity through his body to diffuse the bombs, being the genius that he was. However, the multitude of explosions sent even the Uchiha whirling away.
But by this point, Sasuke had lost most of his patience.
"You tricky bastard, have a taste of your own medicine!" he thought to himself.
Sasuke, using the hand seals he had copied earlier, made several perfect copies of Deidara's bombs, except that they were made with fire, not with dust like Deidara's. He hurled them all at his opponent, and they flew at tremendous speed. Deidara stared open-mouthed ("Those cursed eyes!"), but still managed to dodge in time, escaping intact with just his left shoulder injured.
However, Sasuke apparently had only intended it as a diversion for him to get in close range. From his analysis of his opponent, he found that Deidara was better at long-range combat. Sasuke intended to get closer and defeat him in hand-to-hand combat.
He made a fierce swipe with flame-enhanced fists. He had developed a similar technique to Chidori, where he gathers fire-type chakra in his fists to enhance the power of his attack. However, it had a lower precision. (A.N.: I have no idea how to name this technique without sounding stupid. I'm not Japanese, so that should explain it. So please forgive me if the overall effect sucks T.T) Deidara took the attack square in the chest, landing at least hundred metres away.
He managed to stand up, coughing blood. Fury blazing in his eyes, Deidara used one of his final resorts, a large clone of himself, something he personally called his "second-best work of art". The explosive particles from the clone entered Sasuke's bloodstream and the rest of his body. Sasuke diffused the particles in his body using all his mental concentration, and in doing so failed to notice the shadow that passed over Deidara's face.
The giant dust clone exploded, Deidara protected himself with anti-explosive clay he specially made for this purpose. Sasuke felt as though his skin were being ripped off him. He reactivated his curse seal to take the brunt of the attack, and put up a wall of fire and lightning in front of him to burn away any large explosive particles or diffuse them.
Deidara humoured himself with maniacal laughter and continuous exclamations of "True art will always win!". However, his euphoria was short-lived as Sasuke emerged from the rubble, his body largely intact save for a few deep cuts. His curse seal had speeded up the process of healing.
More importantly, his eyes were now blood-red in colour, three black tomoes spinning like crazy around a central black tomoe. Sasuke was mad. And so was the sharingan. What's worse, his curse seal was still activated. Curse seal plus sharingan, eh? Unique, but undoubtedly powerful combination.
This thought seemed to run through Deidara's head as he began to shake in fear and his knees begin to buckle.
"Damnit, I can't be afraid of this little brat! I'll…I'll show him not to mess with adults!"
However, the next moment he collapsed to the ground in a cold sweat under a genjutsu Sasuke placed on him. Deidara managed to see through the genjutsu in a few seconds, though and recovered pretty quickly.
"Screw you all, Uchiha! You and your eyes! First Itachi, now you! But I'll have to thank that bastard Itachi later, huh? I might've died if only I hadn't gotten used to Itachi's genjutsu."
Deidara got to his feet, but the few seconds' gap that he took to recover from the genjutsu was all Sasuke needed to launch a fireball at Deidara, causing him to become badly beaten up. As Sasuke launched himself to run Deidara through with Chidori, a hand suddenly grabbed his and threw him a short distance away. Sasuke's Chidori plunged into the ground and put out.
He tilted his head upwards to see small fishlike eyes staring back at him and two rows of sharp, gleaming teeth shining in the sunlight. Kisame.
Samehada came crashing down on him, but Sasuke disappeared in a flash. Not for nothing do I have a sharingan, sharkface. Still, this is gonna be a hell of a fight, he thought.
The two clashed with flashes of lightning, blasts of fire and explosions of water everywhere. Deidara watched, and his frustration grew.
"I'M NOT WEAK, DAMNIT! GET YOUR ASS LOST, KISAME! I DON'T NEED YOUR STINKIN' HELP! SO STOP LOOKING DOWN ON ME, YOU…" Words could no longer express his rage.
"WITNESS MY GREATEST WORK OF ART EVER, PUNY IDIOTS! SELF DESTRUCTION!" He pulled at a stitch on his chest and a giant mouth was revealed. Deidara put lots of explosive clay and waited for his art to happen. He then let out a peal of maniacal laughter.
"Deidara, what are you thinking?! Your duties to Akatsuki are far more important than your hatred towards the sharingan!"
"SHUT UP KISAME! I DON'T CARE IF I DIE, I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE THERE, I DON'T CARE IF YOU DIE WITH ME! JUST DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEEEE!"
Suddenly, his whole body exploded and the cloud of smoke rose up high into the skies and was seen from more than fifty kilometres away.
Kisame used all his chakra to create a very thick shield and shielded himself from the impact of the explosion.
Sasuke summoned a giant snake and used it to protect himself while he used Kamui to transport his summoning and himself to a safer place.
(A.N.: No its not Manda. Manda will not die so early, he will have a teeny weeny bit important role later in the story.
Manda:TEENY WEENY?! YOU MEAN TO SAY YOU WILL SUMMON ME IN THE FUTURE FOR SOME INSIGNIFICANT PART?! GUESS WHAT? I'M HUNGRY.
Pride:NONONONONOOOOO AUUUUUGHHHHHHH!)
With a blinding flash of light, he ended up somewhere in a dense forest, suspended in mid-air. Then he came crashing down onto the ground, causing a small crater to form beneath him.
"Where is this place? Gotta go and find the rest of Hebi first…" he passed out due to low levels of chakra. Besides, he was exhausted. Sleep comes first. Anything else will have to wait 'til tomorrow.
Chapter 2 ends here. Not really a cliffhanger, their two paths are finally converging. Read, review if you like, and I have to apologise because I might not always be able to fulfil your requests. Nevertheless, thank you for your appreciation, supporters. It means a lot to me. Really.
To dear readers, yes Sasuke WILL train Hinata :D
Some news for y'all, other than Sasuke and Hinata, the rest of Team Hebi (later Team Taka) will also get stronger, that includes Juugo, Suigetsu and Karin. And maaayyyybeeee a few more members? Hm?
Till we meet again…
Yours truly, Pride.