Chapter 198: Dinosaur Bones
They stared at Kimimaro, Gaara was in shock, he couldn't believe it. He was still alive.
"How are you still alive?" asked Gaara.
"The Cursed Seal." Said Kimimaro, "I believe you know about the Cursed Seal."
Both Robin and Gaara looked at Kimimaro.
He tried to swipe them with his tail. But Gaara blocked it with his sand. When the sand cleared Gaara was breathing heavily.
"Are you alight?" asked Robin.
"I'm exhausted." Said Gaara, "I don't know if I could on."
Robin knew that she had to get into the fight, even if her attacks had no effected on them. It would at best slow him down.
"Fine." Said Gaara figuring out what she was thinking, "But have to think about it."
"Finger Drill Bullet." Shouted Kimimaro.
The created a shield, which blocked it.
That was when Robin created her arms around Kimimaro, which held him back.
"That won't work" said Kimimaro.
He caused many bone spikes to break his skin piercing the hands causing them to disappear.
"Your tricks will not work anymore." Said Kimimaro, "This is the end for you."
Meanwhile on the ship Sasuke smirked in his hiding place.
"Those idiots will never find me." Thought Sasuke.
That was when he saw two shadow clones.
"There he is!" yelled one of them.
"Damn it!" He thought.
He began to run away while the shadow clones chased after him.
He somehow forgot to factor in Naruto's clones.
Back on the Going Merry, Robin was holding her arms in pain.
"There is nothing you can do." Said Kimimaro, "Give up."
"No…" said Robin, "This is something I can do."
That was when arms came out of the deck and grabbed Kimimaro's legs and tossed him into the air.
"What?" he thought.
Before he could regain his sense of balance, arm came from the deck to catch him, and so did more and more. Much like someone crowd surfing they passed them, until he was tossed off the deck.
"Why didn't either of us do that before?" asked Gaara.
Robin shrugged.
However they forgot one thing.
His abilities weren't Devil Fruit based.
"Did you really think that can stop me?" asked Kimimaro, "I was born with my powers!"
Both Robin and Gaara froze.
Neither one of them could think of anything.
Back on the ship Sasuke continued to run from the Naruto clones, when he did something he didn't think of doing earlier. Killing them. He grabbed his sword and killed them.
"Heh…" he laughed in triumph.
That was when he heard a shout of "There he is!" and saw two more clones.
"Of course that would happen." Muttered Sasuke.
He began to run away, looking for a better place to kill them.
Back on the Going Merry, Kimimaro dried himself off while grabbing his spine.
"Dance of the Clematis: Vine." He said.
He whipped the ship like spine at the two, but Gaara sand protected both of them.
"Can you really keep this up?" asked Kimimaro, "Both of you have reached your limits."
"I have an idea." Said Robin.
Gaara nodded, figuring out what it was.
Kimimaro tried to while at them again, but Robin sprouted an arm on his arm, causing him to drop it.
Gaara used his sand to picked it up.
"Using my own weapons again me, that won't work." Said Kimimaro gabbing another spine.
Gaara started using his sand to wield the weapon. The two whip like spines clashed against each other.
"Dance of the Clematis: Flower." He said.
He began go fuse the bones in his arm into a drill.
Gaara sighed… it was going to be difficult… but it might work.
"Robin do you think you can take over the whip?" asked Gaara.
Robin nodded and created hands to grab the whip. She managed to use it to block the other one from Kimimaro.
"What is he planning?" thought Kimimaro.
The two whip like spines continued to clash while Gaara gathered all of the sand he could. He send the sand at the drill on his arm. Kimimaro can only watched at the sand consumed the drill… however after a few minutes the sand went limp and Gaara was breathing heavily.
"You really thought you could have sent your sand to dissolve it?" asked Kimimaro.
Kimimaro glared at Gaara, he knew Gaara didn't have much strength left. He grabbed the whip like spin and tied Gaara with it. He screamed in Gaara as the pointed edges dug into his skin.
"Now die." Said Kimimaro.
However Kimimaro started feeling woozy.
"No! It can't be over yet!" he yelled.
His skin and eye turned to normal and he fell on the deck in pain.
Gaara fell onto the deck, but Robin managed to catch him.
'What happened?" asked Gaara.
"It seemed the Cursed Seal had a time limit." Explained Robin.
Gaara nodded as he tried to regain his balance.
They had won, but not by much.
On the massive ship, Sasuke found a very large room, he turned to the shadow clones and killed both of them.
"I should hide in here… I doubt they will be able to find me." He said.
He closed the doors and sat down on the floor.
That was when the door shattered in splinters of wood and there stood Luffy, Naruto and Zoro.
Sasuke should be thinking the disbelief about how they found him… but another thought entered his mouth.
"I didn't lock the door…" he said with a massive sweat drop.
"Sasuke, do we have to this the easy way or the hard way?" asked Zoro.
"What would be the easy way?" asked Sasuke.
"Come with us." Said Naruto.
"Hard way?" asked Sasuke.
"Beat you up." Said Luffy.
"Of course." Said Sasuke rolling his eyes.
Sasuke drew this swords, "I'm tired of this crew. All the stuff you pull all the time." He said, "I'm going for the hard way."
"Of course you are." Said Zoro drawing his own swords.
Luffy and Naruto also got ready for a fight.
Sasuke smirked, he knew he would be able to beat all three of them with his new Cursed Seal.
He needed Orochimaru's power if he ever wanted to kill his brother and he would do anything to get it, even serve his bonds with Zoro.
And so a fight that would change Sasuke's destiny would begin…
Next Time: Sasuke begins fighting with Naruto, Luffy and most importantly Zoro, will he break his bonds with them or will it not be as easy as he thought? Find out next time!