Tee hee, I got to put off school for 2 hours a day so I could write and rewatch some episodes. Also I do read Under The mask by Another Face In The Crowd, but i did not rip her latest chapter off. I swear on my manga collection that any simularities are a coincidence.

PS: This chapter was going over 7500 words, I clipped it and am working on the second part right now!

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His head was ringing like a siren, pounding like a hammer into a barrel of unfinished Mochi. his vision was black and muffled in his ears was the sound of crackling, like splitting wood on a fire.

For the first time in the past...However long this whole adventure with Deidara gone on for, he didn't have to sit and think about what had happened before he ended up in the black void he was by now used to.

He did have one thought though,'Kami-sama I wish Zetsu had faster reflexes,' his eyes blinked open, and through the blurred image he saw a yellow ink splotch, only it wasn't an ink splotch, a few blinks later Madara saw it was none other than Deidara -not that he had thought anything different- sitting across from him on the side of a roaring, crackling fire which he was poking with a long blackened stick.

It looked normal enough, except it was all wrong.

Why were they in the forest? It wasn't like Dei would need to take a break, unless he hadn't got his clay, in which case how did he get him all the way out here to begin with.

It was a stupid to consider Deidara had put out the effort to carry him by himself -he didn't treat Madara any better than he had when Tobi still existed, the rare 'I'll help you but I still hate you so, so much' moments were still that, RARE-, no he would make Zetsu do it.

speaking of the plant man where was he? the Uchiha seriously doubted that the he would have left, not after how he reacted when Madara passed out for no fucking reason.

Even if Kuroi didn't want to stay the white side had control over their entire body most of the time -when the white half didn't lose in the dreaded ultimate game of rock paper scissors-, he would have stayed unless he went to get food. For himself of course, Deidara would kill Zetsu if he found a human ear in his soup again, It was too unsanitary for him.

Why was Deidara's hair back in a pony tail? Well, that is how he likes his hair, he could have picked up a tie at the store, there was no real mystery there it was just strange seeing him with it again after so long.

Why did he have a cloak? Madara knew for an absolute fact that he only left his own at the valley, Deidara lost his in the fight against Shiro...The weird undead nightmare fairytale creature thing. Zetsu could have had a spare on him, Kami knows he was always ripping them while he was tunneling, but it wouldn't have fit the blond, not like this one did.

And why was he so indifferent towards his bad arm?~! That was what made Madara the most suspicious, it wasn't the obvious backwardness of the situation, it was how Deidara was holding his arm. He had it resting on his leg, forearm directly on his knee, wound down.

Deidara wasn't a wuss -as everyone knows- but he made it more than obvious that his arm hurt.

And Herbs only relieve so much pain.

What in the name of rikudo, Kami-sama and Jashin is going on?~!

"'Bout damn time you woke up, yeah,"Deidara said, tossing the stick into the fire before standing and walking over to the down elder, he dozily watched Dei pull his cloak off a branch above his head and toss it onto his lap, "Put it on! We don't have all day, hmm. Leader is expecting us in five minutes,"

Madara mimicked absent mindedly,"Leader,"

"Yes Madara, Leader, remember him? yeah," he asked in a mocking tone.

The Uchiha looked up to him, pulling himself out of his 'I think I'm going insane' moment, more than annoyed at the bombers sarcastic/hostile attitude, "What's your problem,"

Deidara snorted,"You, hmm, now hurry up,"

MEETING!

(Couldn't find a way to transition from that XD)

As the others gathered, Madara -already perched on the thumb of the demonic statues left hand across from Deidara, who was on the right index finger-, after a curious look around to the subtle changes nagato had made to the unconventional meeting spot, took note that there was another addition to the eyes of the sealing statue and on the ground was a red hair man.

The Yonbi jinchuuriki.

It was funny, Zetsu hadn't mentioned that they had captured the four tails or that they had sealed the three tails -which Deidara and he had captured before their mission to Kusa-. Not like he was given much time to, but still.

"There is some important information I need to share with you, it has been almost a month and a half since we've had contact with a certain someone," he felt Pain's eyes zoom over to him.

Not that he cared, he was too busy pondering what the rinnegan holder had just said -Nagato couldn't do shit to him in hologram form anyway so 'nit- . It had already been that long? There was no way, unless he had been unconscious one too many times and lost all track of what day it was.

Yeah, he could buy that.

It made more sense than Nagato forgetting how to use a calendar.

Despite his inner-whatever it would be called, Madara still tuned his ear to what Pain was saying,"Firstly I would like everyone to know that the Kyuubi has summoned an eight man cell to go after Sasuke Uchiha, who is currently traveling the country side with a group of three men, you may be familiar with one of them Kisame, his name is Suigetsu,"

The mere mention of the name Sasuke's got the masked ninja's full attention. -He was important to the plan after all-

If what Madara had predicted would happen has indeed happened then he would need to set in motion the new alternate plan he had come up with.

It was nothing drastically different from his original plan, just something that would ensure Deidara's well being, no matter how much the blond man set out to ensure the opposite.

Obviously the genjutsu thing wouldn't work. For several reasons.

But, constantly sticking close by Deidara would. The best part about that is can send Zetsu in his place if ever he needed to stay behind or go on another mission. Both the Uchiha and the plant man were invulnerable to the bombers-err Bombs.

No matter how much Deidara got annoyed he couldn't kill either of them. He would stay safe, Madara would be 'happy' or something close enough to it, and his plan could move along like normal otherwise.

It was brilliant! No really this time it was.

Madara saw Kisame nod his head to their fearless leader's question,"Maa, the younger of the Hozuki brothers, strange to hear he's ended up on Sasuke's team, he was such a cute kid,"

Deidara clenched his fists,"That little bastard Naruto and his rinka-dink team of friends are after Itachi and his punk brother, yeah. Itachi is mine to kill, if he's a threat I'll just have to take him out too,"

'No you won't,' Both Madara and Itachi thought quickly. Though it was for two completely different reasons.

"Hold your ranting until I am finished Deidara,"

Deidara grumbled under his breath.

"Wait a second Leader," Every one looked to Kisame, "Sasuke was working with Orochimaru, so what is he doing traveling the country?,"

"That is the main reason I brought you all here," Nagato said not wasting a second,"The snake sannin Orochimaru has been killed and his killer was none other than Sasuke Uchiha,"

"Damn it all, I was supposed to kill Orochimaru! yeah," Deidara cursed.

"Deidara, one more outburst like that and I will not hold back a punishment,"

Madara glared, flashing his sharingan threateningly but Nagato didn't falter in the slightest.

It was like he didn't give a crap anymore.

"Aw man, I wanted to see how he would die!," The shark ninja whined, "I missed teh chance to see Hidan's and Kakuzu's," even in shadowed holograms you could still tell he was pouting.

"Kisame, you can mock Orochimaru as much as you want seeing as he was defective. But Hidan and Kakuzu were still part of the organization at the time of their deaths, show some respect,"

The sound of Kisame sighing softly spoke his apology to Pain for him.

"Good, now that everyone is aware of the upcoming threat, we can get on with the sealing process,"

Madara grimaced, oh come on fate! He just woke up couldn't he have one stick of dango? he was freaking starving! he didn't want to stand there for three days.

Ah well, it's not like there was much he could do about it, catching the Bijuu was the one part of his plan he couldn't change.

Time skip to the first night of sealing

The first day had gone alright and it was now nearing midnight. That's what Madara figured anyway, seeing there was no moon to go by he was stuck using the water leaking through the cracks in the rocks -from the 'pool' Kisame had created on the...Well what would be the roof of this hideout with his water justu- that ran down and dripped from the stalagmites on the top of the cave into the puddle below to count the seconds.

Every drip was a second and so far he had counted thirty-six thousand.

That was ten hours out of seventy-two.

Only sixty-two hours, twenty minutes, thirty-nine seconds left to go.

*Drip*

Thirty-eight.

Second day

45 hours, 50 minutes,16 seconds left

There was a bug.

There was bug on Madara's face.

Not just any bug either, it was a giant beetle. Ironically the size and shape of a certain crevice . One that will be mentioned in a moment.

Before anyone gets smart, no it wasn't on his hologram. It was on his real body which was sitting out in the sun somewhere near a shaded rock Deidara refused to share.

Now Madara Uchiha was not afraid of bugs, he didn't find them icky, he didn't find them scary, they were just there.

But this particular bug happened to be crawling across his mask, ever slowly, with each movement of one of its six legs it was making its way to the nice 'hole' that granted Madara the ever wonderful gift of sight.

To put it simply the damn thing was about an inch or so away from crawling into his eye hole.

These three days couldn't go by fast enough.

Third day

0 hours, 5 minutes, 20 seconds left.

There was only one word, or noise, that could describe the third day of the sealing process.

AHHHHHH!

Yes, a scream.

And that was no joke, Madara really did feel like screaming at the top of his lungs and pulling his hair out. He always hated the process of sealing the Bijuu, standing there for three fucking days, hands in the exact same position.

No food breaks.

No water breaks (Which was why it only lasted for three days)

No BATHROOM breaks (and newbie Deidara had wondered why the miser Kakuzu had never pitched a fit about how long most of them stayed in the shower for, it was because most of them stunk to the high heavens after sealing's, something he soon came to understand first hand)

And finally the worst thing anyone could possibly think of. not only did they have to stand there for three days starving, thirsty, tired and bored but they had to look at the exact same faces, rocks, rocks and did he mention rocks? for three days strait.

Yes Madara had never really complained since it meant he got to 'look at' Dei for a long time and not get the piss bombed out of him, but seeing as any sane man would easily snap and kill the most beautiful woman on earth if he had to stare at her and think about random shit for three days strait with no breaks, even that bit of pleasure Madara got out of the experience didn't hold his boredom stricken minds attention for very long.

"Alright," Pain -finally!- spoke.

The red cloud that was the demon once sealed within him rolled out of the Yonbi Jinchuuriki's mouth and drifted into the demon statues unbridled one, making yet another eye appear out of the blindfold that once covered all nine.

Yes! It was OVER! Madara really didn't care if it was uncharacteristic of him to be excited about something that didn't involve mass genjutsu, world domination or Deidara, It felt good to be able to move again.

"Man my back hurts," Kisame groaned, rolling his arms back to crack his shoulders.

Pain watched him jerk his head to the side to rid himself of a cramp -which only acted to make it worse- before speaking again,"That wraps things up here, remember to watch yourselves, especially you Itachi," he said rubbing his own neck, feeling the pain Kisame must have felt.

"Hn," Itachi grunted, before jumping from his perch and heading for the exit without a single word. His blue skinned partner quickly followed his lead.

Then one by one the remaining four released their holograms, their consciences returning to their stiff bodies.

First action the black haired ninja made -in contrast to his partners- was pulling up his mask to make the beetle inside fall out.

The second was to scratch his nose now that he had the chance.

Third was to stretch as Deidara stood.

Fourth was to mimic said blond man, his joints protesting by making loud tearing sounds (1) as he raised up.

Deidara pulled back the sleeve of his cloak, looking at it with a sly grin, "Looks like it's all healed up, yeah,"

Madara stared at the two toned skin on his partners arm with interest, searching for one thing he knew should be there, only to see a scar pink risen scar in place of it.

Damn, just how long had he been out?

The terrorist pulled his sleeve back down and made the motion to pull back the length of his cloak to reach inside. His hand disappeared into one of the double pouched packs on his hips, the mouth on his hand drooling, and came out closed, the tendons on his hand flexing as the mouth chewed.

In one throw two little clay creations flew threw the air and with signal from Deidara's hand sign they grew to a monstrous size.

Big birdies.

Madara leaped onto his bird in a single bound and plopped down, feet pulled in, "Which one are we going after first?," he asked.

Deidara -who also had jumped on his bird- said nothing, keeping his concentration on controlling the birds to rise.

"I'm going to assume we're going after Sasuke first and just shut up,"

Wherever they ended up Madara's only wish was that it wasn't a forest.

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Konan looked over the edge of the stone island she was standing on as she tossed a bundle of mismatched wild flowers onto her reflection, she then clapped her hands and said a small prayer.

KoKo-chaaaaaan~ :D

Far away from the wandering Itachi and Kisame, who after the sealing were readying for the events readying to take place in the not so distant future, another Uchiha and his marry band of fellow teenagers with unique abilities all their own, were in the process of splitting up and heading in different directions.

The ever ecstatic Suigetsu was showing off a sharp pointy smile at the thought of leaving behind the pink haired Karin to go settle his own business, said girl was pouting, trying desperately to shield her hair with her cloak while at the same time trying to keep her glasses clean as flocks of birds flew over them, Jugo was strait faced though on the inside he was just as excited as Suigetsu was and Sasuke was being Sasuke.

Stoic hardened face, bored eyes and only mild annoyance at the epic play going on behind him, Sasuke.

"Oh shut up already would you?~!," Karin screeched at Suigetsu.

The white haired boy brought his hands out from their place behind his head and placed them on his hips, "And why should I?," he asked, giving the girl a mocking look.

"Because it is annoying Sasuke!,"

"The only thing that is annoying him is you, loud mouth,"

"Water freak!,"

"Masochist,"

"Idiot!,"

"Whore,"

"Ass wipe,"

"Cun-,"

"-Ice cream," Jugo's strange choice of words for his interruption shut the bickering teens up quickly, both of them looking confused and a little scared.

After a moment Suigetsu shrugged and stalked off heading south toward the town close by to track down Kakuzu's bookies. Jugo did the same and headed south-east sticking close to the town but staying in the forest, while Karin still stood in her place watching them leave.

"Finally they're gone," she sighed, taking off her glasses, she put the temple tip in her mouth and spun around. A pink world appearing behind her, "What do you want to do, sasuke?," she blinked, her mouth pulling into a frown, eyes glued to the spot where Sasuke had been standing a minute before,"Sasuke?,"

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"I found him, hmm," Deidara said, clicking the zoom on his camera to pull back from the target he spotted in the forest below them.

"That was quicker than I thought it would be," Madara grumbled, none too happy with the cluster of trees below them. The universe just loves to hit those raw nerves doesn't it,"Now which one is it? The Kyuubi or Sasuke?,"

The blond didn't answer his question, or make any sign at all that he had even heard his partner speak,"Such luck, let's go Tobi," he swerved the birds off the strait course they were flying.

"But which one?,"

line

Sasuke walked into the vast open green field, the shouts from Karin still ringing in his ears though the hot pink haired girl had stopped long ago. Her voice haunted even his day wanders it appears.

Had she not been so useful he might have left her in the forest long ago.

He suddenly slowed his saunter to a stop, boredly swiveling his body around back to the tree line and cocking his head, "Don't play me for a fool, I can sense you,"

Madara wasn't surprised Sasuke has sensed him, that had been the intention of him sneaking up behind him, little son of a whore didn't have to act all high and mighty about it.

Sasuke blinked absently.

"Well, well would you look at how big you've grown," The elder Uchiha walked out from behind the tree he had 'hidden' behind,"Last time I saw you, you barely came up to my knee," as he walked into the sun light Sasuke narrowed his eyes, spotting the infamous red clouds he recognized without a second thought.

"That outfit, you're part of the Akatsuki aren't you," he sneered.

"Poor little Sasuke, picking and choosing what you hear I see," The mysterious ninja put his hands on his hips,"I get it, I get it recollections of the past don't interest you, but what would I wonder? Man, if only Itachi were here, he would probably know,"

Sasuke's eyes flashed,"You know of Itachi Uchiha?,"

Madara cooed,"Aw that's sweet, even after all this time you still hold onto him like a brother," his ears twitched at the sound of Sasuke's blade being drawn from its sheath, "I mean, you still call him 'Uchiha' after all, one would think if you truly hated him you wouldn't bless him with the name of the clan he slaughtered,"

"You know nothing,"

"Correction, I know everything," the masked ninja raised a finger in a 'didn't you know' gesture. Making the youngest Uchiha glare daggers at him, secretly wishing death upon him.

"Oooh, scary," Madara smirked beneath his mask, seeing Deidara narrowing in on the youngest Uchiha with the two birds they had come here on with a dive bomb.

A loud cry of Katsu was drowned out by the large explosion two the works of art made.

Deidara jumped out of the rising dust cloud that shielded the giant crater and -hopefully- the corpse of one snot nosed Uchiha brat, landing a few feet away from Madara's side.

"hm, so sad he seemed to have so much potential," Madara said apathetically.

"Yes, and I crushed that potential into the dirt with my art! yeah," Deidara exclaimed grinning madly in victory.

The Uchiha chuckled,"Well done Deidara,"

The blond scoffed, still maintaining his less than famous grin,"I don't need your praise, just seeing his life less body will be good enough for...me," the last word was barely a whisper as Deidara looked on in disbelief.

The dust was being blown away by a breeze, revealing more and more of a giant white snake summoning that surrounded the unscathed still standing Sasuke -not even in the crater might Madara add-, his dark orbs slowly bleeding into red.

"Seems we spoke too soon," Madara rubbed the back of his neck.

Deidara growled, "To think this shit killed Orochimaru, hmm,"

Madara hummed, knowing what Deidara was getting at,"He's young yes but if his reflexes are that good you should be careful," every word was a waste of breath.

"Fuck being careful! yeah. I'm going to kill him!," Deidara laughed.

Sasuke didn't even blink under the blonds sinister gaze, the snake summon poofing away. he opened his mouth and spoke,"Where is Itachi Uchiha?," Deidara's eyes widened, "Tell me and I might consider sparing your life,"

The cockiness.

The assurance.

The pride.

The iwa's expression hardened, "Uchiha blood...That's the only reason he was able to kill Orochimaru, yeah," he closed his eyes briefly to calm himself before putting on a casual demeanor, "He confuses good genes and a blessed lineage for real power and ability,"

Blue met red as the two enemies stared each other down,not even the birds made a sound, they too were waiting to see who would pull the first punch.

Madara dipped his head.

Sasuke's hair swayed, his feet pushing him faster than either Akatsuki expected, he was almost a blur had it not been for the sheen of Kusanagi.

The elder Uchiha quickly moved to avoid the blade after Deidara had jumped from its path and into the trees, barely missing it by a slice of his cloak.

The neat cut made the two now separated pieces fall away from each other, though they were still connected by the rest of the fabric.

Sasuke grunted, not believing that he missed, 'This guy,'

Madara hopped, trying to regain his balance as he landed a good fifty feet away from the younger Uchiha.

Breathing a sigh of relief once he was standing on both feet again, he looked up to Deidara just as the blond ducked his hands back into his clay packs,"And he's off again,"

Deidara pulled his hands out and cupped them together, letting the mouths spit out a dozen of his miniature spiders into them.

Sasuke eyed them warily, noticing the chakra the bomber was pumping into them with his sharingan.

"Stay back! yeah,"

Madara stood there under the rain of detonating clay dumbstruck, his partner, the person that made him feel gooey inside, the prettiest boy he had ever seen in his threw bombs at him.

They wouldn't kill him no, hell if it was C1 it would barely scratch him, it was simply the principle.

You don't throw weapons intended to hurt or kill at your allies during a real fight, that's how vendetta's start.

Hell that's how the Uchiha and Senju clans got their start.

Sort of.

There had been a vendetta involved.

Sasuke flicked his hand at the tiny creations, sending a flurry of chakra incased senbon into them, pinning them to the trees and the ground.

Madara fell back in a very Tobi like manner when several passed by his head, it was a natural reaction when such a personality has been engrained into your everyday life.

Of course now that meant he was on the fucking ground, sitting like a like a little kid, a kid surrounded by mini bombs.

Fun.

"Um Deidara," The bomber's hands had already weave 'd the seals, all he had to do was detonate them, hearing Madara's call and seeing him partner on the ground so close to them, Deidara pulled the two fingers holding the last sign down into his fist.

Good, Madara let out a laugh in relief. What? It was the principle! Like he said!

The momentary pause that followed his awkward little laugh gave him enough time to tune his ears to the sound of rustling leaves. It was so quiet it was almost like a mouse running through the forest in autumn, soon after the rustle Sasuke flashed behind Deidara, his weapon drawn.

"Behind you!,"

The blond managed to match Sasuke's speed for a split second, enough time to throw the remaining spider he had left in his hand at the Uchiha, "Katsu!,"

The branch and the two shinobi were overwhelmed by a flash of fire and puff of smoke.

"You stupid cocky dumbass blond," Madara said in mild distaste, it felt weird insulting Deidara like that even if it was for the assurance Dei would head for his voice instead of go after Sasuke.

Plus he still had to get the bomber back for those insults back at the forest house, no better time than the present.

Deidara burst through the smoke and slid to a stop next to his partner,"Who are you calling stupid?~! yeah," he glared, trying to shrug his sliced up cloak back up onto his shoulder.

"So you are okay," a little tattered but okay.

"I used C1," his way of figuring out the enemies tact's, Madara noted, "If it had been anything stronger I would have been in a bind, hmm," the blond turned to Sasuke who had followed him out of the trees.

"You really are quite fast, yeah. But if i can catch him," he jabbed at finger over at the masked ninja who muttered an 'Eh?,', "I'm sure i can catch you,"

The elder raven didn't take any offense to that, only because it was coming from Deidara. Had it been anyone else they would have ended up with a kunai in their skull and their eyes in a jar.

"Before that, how about a quick game, yeah," Deidara went back to his clay, letting his hands gobble up as much as they could, then held them out.

The now soupy white clay oozed out of the mouths and splattered on the ground, a long string kept Deidara and the clay connected so he could still pump chakra into his creations, the clay bubbled and clumped together forming abstract looking creatures .

Oh yes, Madara liked games, especially this one.

(A/N: at this point I lost my muse so forgive me)

"I have no time for child's games," the youngest Uchiha said in his usual monotone, using his sword to slash through the clay soldiers, the blade stretched the creation but didn't cut through.

Sasuke pulled back on his sword, the clay stretched with his tugs refusing to let go. Finally Sasuke did, so he could jump out of the way of the oncoming punches, before ducking to get in close and land a few hits of his own.

His hand sparked with chidori as he slashed through one of the soldiers, splitting it in half. The remaining quickly retaliated, distracting the young Uchiha while Deidara loaded the two severed pieces with chakra to reanimate them as separate beings.

All of them once again going after Sasuke.

"And I'm not done yet!," Deidara laughed.

The fight went on, playing out as it had done before, Sasuke using his chidori to slice his enemies to pieces and eventually regain his sword, Deidara using those pieces to create more soldiers, trying to overwhelm the young raven.

Sasuke's eyes flicked back and forth along the circle of clay works surrounding him, the blonds evil cackles sounding from the sidelines.

"Almost show time," Deidara waited for the perfect moment, "Ha!," half of the soldiers bursting into a grand fireball catching Sasuke within it, seeing this the blond grinned.

"Don't count your chickens yet Dei," Madara crossed his arms over his chest, Deidara snorted not heeding his warning until Sasuke broke through the blast and retreated back into the trees,"As expected," he said with a nod of his head.

"Oi!,"

The other half of the walking works of art headed off after the youngest Uchiha, darting through the branches, using his blade to slice through the tree trunks as he flew by them and for some of those works trailing him it was the end.

Sasuke slowed on a branch, his biggest mistake yet. Taking the halt as its chance one of the creations latched onto his ankle, inviting the rest of them to clump together on his body, forming an explosive cocoon.

"How's that~!," Deidara said, an explosion worthy of C2 caliber lighting up the forest.

"Oh boy," Madara grumbled.

"Seems he was all posture and no action, yeah"

Out of the smoke -much like how the littlest Uchiha that appeared with it- popped a substitution log. Deidara could hold back the twitch of his eyes at the sight of it. (A/N: LOGGED! sorry I had to XD)

All of that work and the fucker still got away from the blast.

Why couldn't he just stand still and accept his death like a good shinobi.

Madara chuckled, "So much for your super flat,"

Deidara took an offended stance,"OI! What the hell, who's side are you on?~!," he cursed defensively.

Madara shrugged nonchalantly,"Yours, naturally. But that doesn't mean I can't be impressed by the enemies tactics," he said as his partner once again went for his clay.

Is it really surprising, it isn't like Dei had a sword on him.

Deidara clapped his hands together, interlocking the palms flat against each other,'He's more than I bargained for, looks like I'll have to level it up!,' he thought, his mouths working the C2.

"Huh?," The masked ninja gazed over the shorter artists shoulder, laughing at the figure that appeared in Deidara's hands when he pulled them apart, "Oh-ho, kid you better stand on your toes, this is his favorite piece of art," he said.

The two of them were enveloped in a large poof of smoke, leaving Sasuke to look on un-amused. When the cloud cleared, behind the partners was a large clay dragon, larger than anything Deidara had used yet, though it was longer than it was tall.

With its tail cut into a couple dozen sections, wrapping around tree trunks.

"The C2 dragon, yeah," Sasuke looked to the bomber, who had situated himself on the beasts head,"Do you remember what to do? hmm,"

Madara nodded.

"Good, get to it!," Deidara rejoined his hands in its signature seal, the action made the end section of the dragons tail disappear, sucked up into its body, not a second later its jaw dropped open releasing a few hundred spiders.

"That huge thing is also an explosive," the elder heard the youngest among them mumble to himself. Heh, the brat had no idea just what the dragon could do.

"It's up to you," Deidara told the taller of the pair of Akatsuki.

"Roger," Madara lazily saluted.

Sasuke flicked his sword,"You both are proving to be quite the nuisance," he grumbled charging forward with his blade ready to strike.

That's right little Sasuke, charge right in.

"Witness the power of my super flat! hmm," Another part of the dragons tail vanished, and once again a creature appeared in its mouth. This time smaller -but still quite large- version of the C2 creation that had spit it up.

It soared off of its perch and flew after Sasuke. He turned quickly and ran the opposite direction away from it, with a couple flaps of its wings the smaller dragon had caught up with ease.

Exploding at the cry of its creator it sent the young raven into the air backward a good fifty feet. Sasuke steadied himself, reassuming his usual posture.

His mind pondering the bomb, it was different than those sent at him earlier had been, it seemed to have been guided. He turned his attention back to the giant explosive that was rising into the air, making note that the masked ninja was no where in sight.

Sasuke's hand sparked with the one technique that seemed to work against these clay enemies, extending the small blade that appeared in his hand after the terrorist. It stopped short of hitting the dragon, letting Deidara take his own note, "A five meter reach, how useless is that, yeah," he said, mocking the boy.

"So he figured it out," Madara said, having heard the above commotion -though muffled- through the walls of earth around him.

"That lightning blade is one of the techniques kakashi of the Sharingan knows, is it not. I must give you props for manipulating it like that, not like it will do you any good,"

Sasuke shifted his weight, waiting for Deidara to use his dragon again.

This time the creation was pig like, though it still had a dragon like quality - Eg, wings-. he found them to be interesting in a repetitive kind of way. The only major difference between these and what had been thrown at him before being size and how much damage they could do.

"This one is even more powerful than the others,"

TBC~next chapter!

(Sucky ending is sucky)

(1). Yes tearing sounds, like velcro. I have a bum knee, I speak from experience :p

Thank you for reading, please do whatevery ou want, I don't care as long as you guys enjoy it. See you maybe tomorrow or Saturday!