A/N: Okay, first of all a GREAT! result on the polls, but EXTREEMLY varied. It's really hard to corner one favorite pair... So far GaaXSaku, NaruXHina, TemaXShika and KonXPein are the favourites. Okay, i'm dying to finish this story! Let's get back to it while i'm fixing my wounds from the phsyco chook. ( I got assulted by a turkey and a chook on some animal farm today...don't ask how...).
Daimen rested his head on the ground. He'd heard footfalls earlier but after a few minutes they had stopped.
"Daimen, what are you doing? Where's unkie Sasuke, it's almost dark...", little Suki whinned. Daimen put a pale, thin finger over his lips in a silent signal and she quietly crept closer. The footfalls were back again, only closer...the distinct thuds of sandals tremored through the ground. Daimen prepared himself to launch as the footfalls came closer still. The full moon highlighted the creeping shapes as they crept closer to the camp. Daimen paused and looked over to Suki. Trembling all over she prepared to take to the lush canopy.
Stop trembling. I can hear your heartbeat all the way over here!
I can't help it Daimen. Wait what's that smell? Daimen turned his head into the light breeze... the soft scent of macadamia drifted slowly on the slow edding breeze. He flared his nostrills, still keeping one eye on the figures a few meters away. They'd kept moving thankfully...but one tall, dark shape had stopped. His shimmering blonde hair drifting around his face in the breeze. Daimen shifted, the cold breeze drifting under his baggy tee-shirt.
Daimen, what's wrong? Are they gone?
They're starting to move away...but that blonde one's stopped.
Do ya think he spotted us?
He couldn't have. I extingushed the fire and it's basically pitch black...
I know, but didn't you notice he never showed us his left eye?
I just thought he was a girl. With the long hair, I never actually looked at his face...
Maybe we'd better signal Uncle Sasuke...
NO! Just stay quiet. The only one we have to worry about is that Tobi. The rest are just flunkie-wanna-be's...no problem.
Okay. Suki slowly crept behind the thorn bush and curled up defencively while Daimen watched on. The blonde man looked over to Daimen suddenly, Daimen froze like a startled rabbit as the blonde man's eye raked his hiding spot... Daimen held his breath as the blonde slowly turned his eye towards the front and started to walk towards the others, who had all stopped to wait for their troubled colleague... He let out a small sigh of relief as the blonde reached s small log, half way across the glade. Big mistake...the blonde whipped his head around, pulling his hands out of his pockets, exposing four clay bird-bombs, telescopic eye gleaming in the moonlight...
"SUKI RUN!!!!!! CALL SASUKE!!!!!!!", Daimen shouted at her before he charged at the blonde man.
"Deidara don't kill them!!! Sasori help Deidara!!", Tobi cried as Deidara threw the stun bombs. Daimen used his demon ablities well, fending off bombs with his tail as Deidara kept pulling them out of his pocket.
"Katsu! Katsu!Katsu! Katsu!Katsu! Katsu!", Deidara shouted as Sasori readied himself. Pulling out a long thick scroll Sasori slashed his wrist, crimson droplets dripping onto the outstreached scroll.
"Here you little bastard! This is for shreading my good leg!", Sasori yelled as a giant puppet lept from the scroll in a puff of smoke...
"What is that?", Daimen asked as he ploughed into a clay-bomb. Bits of dust and clay blanketed the forest as the bomb exploded, flinging the semi-concious Daimen into the branched of a nearby oak. Suki screamed as the stitched up Kakuzu grabben her ankle. Deidara lost his concentration for a second to cheer his companion... Daimen looked up as he heard Suki's scream of terror, the manservant thing had her by the ankle, shaking her around then dropping her to the floor.
A sudden clicking had Daimen staring back at the two members attacking him. The giant puppet was now flying across the glade after him, readying it's hidden weapons...
"Meet Kazura, my NEW puppet!! Ohh and look at that, your the first person he gets to practise on...", Sasori roared as Kazura ploughed into the tree Daimen was leaning aganst a few seconds ago. Daimen wiped at the tiny river of sweat dribbling down his forehead and watched Suki fend off the half-dead mummy. She roared viciously as she tore into his foul-smelling arm and ripped it clean off. Daimen let out a small giggle before a thousand or so, miniature needles penetrated the foliage. He managed to dodge quite a few but one or two got past his hardened tail, only to rebound off his tough, scally armour. The Daimen-Demon looked around in the tree with it's massive orbs and focused on a tiny heat source just below him... Hahahhahaha!!! I win! Die Asshole!!!! He thought to himself as he lept onto the giggling Deidara...
He screamed and tried to cover himself as four sets of extreemly sharp claws ripped through his already shreaded cloak.
"SASORI!!!!!!!! OVER HEA-", Deidara managed to scream out before Daimen ripped into his throat... Uggghhhh, that was gross!!! It doesn't taste like rabbit at all!!!!!! He thought as he looked up into the sky, focusing on the cloud covered, full moon... Sasori launched Kazura at Daimen again. A roar from above caught Sasori's attention before he could connect, alowing Daimen to rip into the immobile puppet. A huge white snake slithered down the nearest tree, it's yellow and black, slits glowing in the darkness.
"What the fuck is that?", Hidan shouted as the snake began to race along the floor towards Sasori.
"That would be a very pissed off Sasuke!!!", Sasori shouted as he uncoiled the poison hose on his back...
"Hey, Sasori! That's going to take too long, grab this! Don't put your fingers near the hilt, it'll probably stab you!!!", Hidan roared as he tossed his scythe, chain automatically wrapping around Sasori's tiny, child-like arms. Sasori laughed as the blade changed colour from red...to black.
"Hey Hidan! I think it likes me!", Sasori shouted sarcastically as the mighty snake's tail plouged into the blades. The snake hissed in confusion and pain, then launched it'self at him again...this time, fangs first...
Sasori yelled with pain as one of the poison tipped fangs scraped against his wooden arm. He laughed at the snake, as it fell back into the trees.
"I feel like snake-kerbab, how bout you guys?", Sasori said sacrastically as he marched towards the bushes, where the snake had disapeared. A massive flash of blue light haulted the child-like criminal, lighting up two new...golden, slitted eyes...
"Sasori!! What in Dear Jashin's name is that?!?!?!?!", Hidan yelled across the glade. Sasori backed away a little... The new snake hissed, a long evil hiss and slid it's massive head out of the foliage... Sasori's eyes widened as he saw the colour of the eyes and tail...unforgettable...destructive...HUGE!
"MANDA!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!", Sasori yelled as the snake removed it's whole body from the trees and bushes...
"STOP YOU FOOL!!!!" , Manda hissed as he snaked out of the bushes and onto the soft, grassy glade...its eye's twinkling golden, yellow as the moonlight struck them...
"How in bloody hell did you come back?", Tobi asked as he moved silently from the opposite side of the glen... The huge snake laughed with glee as it swung it's massive, pebbled head around to it the Uchiha...
"Mmmmmm, Madara...you have gotten strong haven't you? You even have the same eyes as the insolent pup I got put with...", Manda hissed gleefully. Tobi shook his head.
"Manda, who is your master now then?". The large snake hissed in anger and held its head up high...
"I HAVE NO MASTER!!!!!!!!", It roared at the little Uchiha. Tobi backed away, Manda slithered forwards, cracking stones and sticks as he slid over the grass mounds... Suki suddenly gasped as she got sight of the massive snake... Daimen glared at her and put his fingers to his lips, in a silent gesture. The snake turned around again, focusing its golden slits on the two young demons...
"Manda! Leave the kids! These are your enemies!", Sasuke said quiet as a breeze, from the tree overhead... Manda hissed and swiveled his gigantic, purple-black head towards Sasuke...
"If my master hadn't been absorbed by you...I wouldn't be here you know... Plus those little ones look like a better snack, these guys are too stringy and boney...", Manda-sai hissed, flicking his forked tongue out at the kids. Suki screamed again, only to have Daimen silence her with his sharp clawed hand... Sasuke jumped from the tree and landed gently on the massive snake's head. It hissed at first the suddenly relaxed a little...
"I want a hundred man feast when we're through here...", Manda hissed. Sasuke nodded.
"It'll have to be nine for now...you can have all the Akatsuki. They're the ones who banished your other master...", Sasuke said, staring evilly at Deidara and Hidan, cowering behind a climp of trees...
A/N: OMFG!!! IT'S MANDA!!!!!!!!!! AND WHITE-SNAKE-SASUKE!!!!!! How did Manda come back? I thought he was dead!
Hahahahahahahhahahahha!!! LOL!!!! Deidara and Hidan hiding behind a bush!!! UMMM GUYS THAT AIN'T GONNA WORK!!! BIG SNAKEY!!!
Ohh well, i was watching one of the Naruto episodes the other day and Manda was summoned by Roachie...I though to myself...NOW THAT'S ONE COOL SNAKE!!!!! And of course, I HAD to include him somewhere in here...so he was brought back to life by Sasuke. ( Sasuke absorbed Roachie and got his bring-dead-things-back-to-life powers...kinda weird. Why would you want Roachie?). Mmmmmm, I think Manda is my NEW favourite Naruto animal...