If this was other circumstances she probably would've whistled, Such a shame to waste a face like that on someone so evil. Strangely enough, the purple haired girl agreed with her inner demon. She wondered though, why did he look so young? he left the village twenty years ago. Amari glanced over to Sakura, who was still glaring at the Akatsuki member. Now who's gonna make the first move...? Amari asked herself subconsciously, it was only a matter of time before the deadly battle begins.
Amari saw a flash of pink shoot my her, after a startling second she discovered that it was the pink haired kunoichi lunging herself straight towards the enemy. "Sakura you idiot no!" She yelled at her foolishness. Damnit does she even know the term 'strategy'? She thought to herself, she sighed and started sprinting towards the pinkette hoping to at least try and prevent any damage.
Sasori chuckled at the two ninja making their way towards him, "Too easy..." He said to himself. Were they trying to mock him? How can they be so stupid attacking them head on on like that? He glared before pulling out a scroll and summoning one of his puppets. Once the cloud of smoke disappeared a well crafted wooden puppet stood in its place. It was almost the same as the one he used for armor. Its mouth opened and shot out a small metal pill shaped object, Sakura's eyes widened as she watched it split open. A large amount of poison needles began shooting out. "No!" Amari shouted, she realized that Sakura was too close and she had to act fast.
She grunted as she created a huge sand barrier to surround the pink haired ninja, the poisonous needles stuck into Amari's sand. She jerked to the side to dodge some needles herself, she gasped in pain as three needles made their way into her side before she manged to create a barrier for herself. Good thing she got the barrier up before more needles got to pierce into her skin. "Damnit Sakura." She gritted through her clenched teeth. If the pinkette hadn't decided to openly attack Sasori she wouldn't be holding her side in pain, trying to shake off the effects of the poison.
Sasori observed the situation, he noticed that the pink haired girl's foolishness cost the other ninja to take some damage. He smirked and looked directly at Sakura who's sand barrier fell to the ground, as did Amari's. "Well it seems that your mishap cost your little friend here to have an injury." Sakura turned her head to see Amari panting and holding her hand over her bleeding side. She mentally slapped herself for that one, She took a hit to save me first, how could I be so selfish and stupid? She turned back to Sasori who still had that smirk on his face. She glared.
"Seems you two weren't ready for that one, lets see how you handle this." He manipulated his puppet to shoot out two more of the same container he had before, Amari acted quickly and immediately pulled up both barriers to surround the both of them with protection. He's just going to keep shooting at us with those needles...I have to find a way to get Sakura close enough so she can destroy the puppet. The purple haired girl tried to develop a strategy in her head, she needed to defeat this puppet guy so she can tend to Gaara. She gritted her teeth in anger as she remembered what this guy did to him.
As soon as the needles stopped attacking them, Amari pulled down the barriers and manipulated her sand to wrap around Sakura's waist. She immediately used the sand to pull the pink haired girl back to her side. "Thank you for getting me out of that. I'm sorry for my carelessness." Sakura apologized, the purple haired girl didn't look at her, she kept her eyes on the enemy. "Don't do that again, you almost got yourself killed." Sakura nodded once as a reply. "Now pay attention." Amari continued, still not looking at her. She lowered her voice so Sasori wouldn't hear. "I'm gonna try and distract him with long distance attacks, as soon as he's distracted even if it's just for a second, I want you to sprint towards him. If he attacks I'll use my sand to stop it." She explained, it was the only strategy she had come up with. She hoped it would be successful.
Amari created some hand signs, "Lightening hound!" She yelled forced her attack on him, the hound shaped lightening attack caused Sasori to drop his guard for a quick second and Sakura bolted. The purple haired kunoichi tried to focus on both Sasori and Sakura at the same time, as well as trying to maintain her attack. Sakura kept running at the puppet master head on in full speed.
Sasori swiftly moved to the side effortlessly to dodge the attack, "Does this girl really think that will work on me?" He asked himself as he looked at Amari who was standing there, looking at him. He then noticed her dart her eyes at Sakura, who was still running towards him. "I see, this attack was just a diversion." He mumbled, once Sakura got in close range he then manipulated his puppet to swing its tail, he was going to pierce her with it.
Sakura noticed the sharp scorpion like tail coming straight at her, she didn't hesitate and put her faith in Amari. As she neared the tail's sharp end she suddenly stopped, she looked down and noticed sand was wrapped around her waist again, stopping her from going any further. The tail's sharp end was centimeters from her face. "Sakura now!" The pinkette wasted no time in quickly grabbing the puppet's tail. She used her monster strength to pull the puppet towards her and she took in a breath before giving it one powerful punch to the face. Wood splattered everywhere like before, in that second Amari pulled back Sakura by a couple of yards using her sand.
"So I suppose this means playtime is over?" Amari asked, making her tone sound like a disappointed one. Sasori tilted his head to the side, "Correct. I need to eliminate your little friend here and capture you. How convenient that you were next on our list." He replied, his calm tone made Amari want to cut his tongue out. Sasori pulled out another scroll and summoned another puppet.
Amari's eyes widened, "Impossible! You didn't!" She shouted, the sight of the puppet disgusted her. "Oh but I did." He said as the puppet stood behind him. "What?" Sakura asked over her shoulder to Amari, "What is it?" Amari clenched her fist, "That's the third Kazekage. He went missing ten years ago without a trace, I can't believe you betrayed us like that Sasori! First you have orochimaru kill Gaara's dad, capture Gaara and now this? You're disgusting! I'll take great pleasure in ending your life, sick bastard." She shouted to him. After ten long years after the third Kazekage's disappearance, he finally resurfaces. And to think such a great shinobi was created into a tool used for battle, this disgusted Amari greatly.
"Now now." Sasori began, "I wasn't involved in the murder of the fifth Kazekage's father. That was done by one of my agents. I admit that I have done some work with Orochimaru in the past, but I was not involved in the murder." Amari was astounded by what he just said, "Doesn't matter! It was still your agent, might as well done it with your own hands!" Sakura spoke up now, "Wait orochimaru? You have connections with him? That means you have the answers to the questions I have." Sasori didn't care for the pinkette's request, "No more chit chat. I need to end this quickly, I'm not scared of two inexperienced children." He said before he began to control his puppet.
"Damnit." Amari said under her breath, she observed as the puppet retracted a set of sharp knives. She noticed the purple colored poison that coated them as well, she quickly pulled Sakura back to her side to avoid injury to her. She manipulated her sand to try and attack the puppet, as cool as those knives looked they weren't good news to her and Sakura.
She formed the sand into a giant hand to try and grab the puppet, Sasori moved it the side to avoid contact with the sand. Amari's eyes widened as she saw the knives heading straight towards Sakura, without even fully processing it in her mind, Amari created a sand barrier in front of Sakura and hardened it. The knives made sweet contact with it and the blades cracked and broke off.
Amari let out a breath in both relief and exhaustion, hardening that sand to that level took some chakra out of her. Sasori smirked and pulled his puppet back by a few yards, "Not bad for someone as young as you." He said with a smirk. Sakura panted and her mind raced with a million thoughts, she had no idea how her and Amari were going to beat someone as skilled and strong as this puppet master.
"I've been meaning to ask..." Sasori began, still keeping a smirk on his face. "How's the poison affecting you?" He asked, Amari glared. "I noticed that a few of my poisonous needles were imbedded into you." He continued. "I'm holding up just fine if you must know." She replied, the poison did weaken her and she would need to be treated but she knew her limits. She would last and fight strongly. "It was a small dosage." She continued, "I will be fine."
"If you say so." Sasori said, he knew it wouldn't be long before the girl completely wears herself out. "Lets see how the two of you manage this." He said before manipulating the puppet more, it opened its mouth and a black like substance escaped it. "Incredible isn't it? This is why I create human puppets, to use the jutsu of that the body once used." He said with almost a smile on his face. Amari growled, "I think its disgusting." She couldn't stand the thought of someone being used like that, treated like a tool, being controlled. The dead should be respected.
"What is that?!" Sakura yelled, worried. She never seen anything of the sort before. Amari cocked her head to the side. "Iron sand if I'm correct." She said, "That is why the third Kazekage was so powerful. Its because of this jutsu." She continued. "But me and Sakura are not puppets, that won't affect us."
"You're smart I'll give you that, and I'm well aware this won't have the same effect on you." he replied, he then formed the iron sand into several giant spikes and hardened them. He then lunged them all straight at the the two kunoichi. Amari used both hands this time to control her sand, she created a giant barrier and hardened it to shield both her and Sakura from the black spikes. She hardened the barrier and kept it in place and waited for impact.
The spikes hit and made large cracks and craters in Amari's barrier, after the impact Amari let the sand wall down and panted. "Not bad." Sasori said, Amari stood up straight and regained focus. Sasori had made the sand form into giant shapes and he was just itching to attack both girls with them. "Sakura." Amari called, she turned towards the purple haired ninja. "This is where your monster strength will come in handy, I need you to fight the crap out of those blocks." Amari instructed. Sakura smirked and nodded once, "Understood."
"Now!" Amari shouted as she saw a rectangular prism made of iron sand come straight for them, Sakura used her chakra to jump up and she gave it one big punch. The block of sand went flying back and Sasori went with it, crashing into the cave's walls. "Nice one." Amari complimented. Sasori stammered to his feet, "How dare you!" He yelled.
He threw another one and Sakura swiftly punched it away, another one came and she dodged it just in time. Sakura watched the pattern in his finger and arm movements and already memorized them, her training with Tsunade was paying off. Each attack she dodged swiftly or punched it powerfully, she had the upper hand in this part of the fight. "Impressive skill and strength for someone so young." He said, he never expected for someone as young as Sakura to be this skilled. "But this is taking too long." he continued.
He connected the triangular and rectangular prisms of sand and formed something else, spikes began to be created and its range spread like wildfire. "Sakura you have to move! Get out of there!" Amari screamed, she knew Sakura wouldn't be able to dodge this one on her own and she couldn't use her sand to block it since it was so strong. Amari bolted towards the pinkette, "Sakura!" She screamed and she forcefully pushed the pinkette out of harm's way. Sakura landed on the ground feet away with a thud, she gasped at the sight before her.