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This is Chapter 2 of Naruto: Master of the Zanpakuto, please read and give me suggestions for the next chapter and what I can do to make the story better.
Five minute before Naruto arrives:
"Sand Coffin!"
"Dammit!"
A blonde haired figure in a black cloak marked with red clouds on a large white bird modeled after a hawk ducked under a tendril of sand before opening their closed hands and white moths poured out of them and what were actual mouths on their hands.
"Give up already kid, you're sand isn't going to stand up to my art!" the blonde shouted just before he had to dodge a hail of black arrows as they formed a hand sign.
"Katsu!"
Explosions lit up the sky suddenly as sand rapidly pierced through them and towards the figure and quickly formed a rapidly shrinking sphere around the figure and their bird.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me." the blonde snapped as they dived off the doomed bird.
"Katsu!"
The sand exploded outward before rapidly forming into a dense sphere and the blonde's eyes widened.
'Damn, he played me!'
"Sunaton: Grand Bullet Barrage!" a voice called out as the sphere seemed to rapidly break down.
"The bastard doesn't stand a chance, I've infused the Ichibi's Chakra into that sand. All I need is one hit and he's bound in seals, he won't be able to mold Chakra or move."
The red haired teen was safely enclosed in a sphere of sand floating in the air as the aerial battle intensified as the blonde haired figure he was fighting formed several hand signs before taking in a deep breath.
"Doton: Stone Armor!" the blonde called out and moments before the pebble sized projectiles of sand impacted him.
"Dammit." The red haired cursed as the blonde created a giant white hawk in a cloud of smoke.
A swarm of clay dragonflies shot towards Gaara who swiftly sent tendrils of sands to tear through them only for the mad bomber to maneuver around the sand easily on the clay hawk.
"You're not getting me this fast kid, this is one of my fastest birds." the blonde shouted as they reached into a pouch on their side and the mouths on their hands ate some of the clay inside it.
Chewing it for a moment to infuse Chakra into it Deidara drew his hands out and quickly formed something from the Chakra infused clay as Gaara's sand continued to chase after him with no rest for the S-Rank Shinobi.
"Try these kid!" Deidara shouted as he threw his hands out and moments later normal sized hawks burst into existence in clouds of smoke as they soared towards Gaara.
"Fool." Gaara commented as he rose up several streams of sand from the desert and rapidly encircled himself with it as he condensed the sphere of sand already around him.
Deidara saw his opportunity and didn't let up as he let loose several handfuls of clay moths at Gaara's sand defenses.
'What is he planning, he knows he can't get past my defenses no matter what he throws at me. I'm pretty sure that's all the clay he has too, he keeps going into those pouches before each attack so he can't form it on his own.' the Jinchuriki of the Ichibi thought even as he infused more of the sand with his Chakra, making it faster.
'I'm going to have to use 'that' one soon enough if this plan doesn't work.' Deidara thought as he plunged his hands into his clay pouches and cursed at the small amount of clay left, a little less than half in each of them.' And after this I'll have just enough clay to maybe make it and finish him off while he's distracted if our info's right.'
"Let's see how you do against these!" Deidara shouted as he held something in his hands and threw them into the air.
In four massive clouds of smoke four dragons appeared around Deidara and Gaara cursed once he recognized them from Intel Naruto sent him months ago.
'Those are his C2 Dragons, versatile and dangerous even when I'm ready for them. Naruto himself admitted Taka didn't gather much information before being forced to retreat.'
The mouth of each dragon bulged and Gaara cursed as he swiftly thought up a plan.
'Let's go with a bomb run first.' Deidara thought as he floated between the dragons.
Each dragon shot forward as their mouths opened and small clay bugs rained out of them.
Sand shot up from the desert around them with black vein like markings covering it.
'I need your Chakra Shukaku.' Gaara mentally spoke.
'Don't bother kid, I've been dying to take this psycho down.' The voice of Shukaku resounded in Gaara's head as he felt a surge of Chakra speed through his body and it was followed by several more.
Deidara formed several hand signs and the clay bombs broke apart into a swarm of four winged clay birds that darted forward in mass towards Gaara.
'I've got this kid, take him down already!' Shukaku roared within Gaara's mind.' I pride myself on an Absolute Defense, they won't touch you!'
'Thank you Shukaku.' Gaara mentally replied as he formed several hand signs.
"Desert Style: Grand Desert Burial!" Gaara called out as massive amounts of sand shot up around him and rapidly grabbed the dragons in the air.
Deidara only grinned as he formed a single hand sign.
"Got you punk, KATSU!" Deidara shouted as a massive explosion lit up the air and threw away the sand enclosing them and shaved off several layers of Gaara's only sand shield.
Deidara grinned as he shot towards Gaara on his clay bird when an unexpected shout drew his attention.
"Now." A voice suddenly shouted and a hail of kunai tore through the hawk and a Shunsin born from instinct saved the blonde from death.
Deidara swiftly formed another bird on his way down only for Taka to leap from his hiding place and cut his clay bird to pieces with kunai sharpened with Chakra as the masked ninja then leapt forward and bound Deidara in chains as he slapped a Chakra Suppressing tag on the blonde Shinobi's leg.
"Gaara, are you alright!" a voice called up and the Jinchuriki turned to see Taka, Naruto's agent throughout the Elemental Nations seemingly float in the air next to his sphere of sand.
"I'm fine Taka, is Naruto here yet?" Gaara asked in reply and the hawk masked figure nodded.
"I've informed him several minutes ago, he is already dealing with Deidara's partner Kazekage-sama." Taka answered and Gaara let out a sigh of relief.
"Good, I was worried that one would attack instead of the other one. I feared the village wouldn't last long if he was too fight, even against myself and the Ichibi working together." Gaara spoke up as he allowed himself to lower back down to the Kazekage Tower.
A massive cloud of smoke shrouding the walls of the village drew the attention of both suddenly and Gaara's eyes widened at the mass of red floating above it now.
"That is…"
"Red Secret Technique: A Grand Performance!" a shaggy red haired teen shouted, his body wooden from what could be seen of his exposed upper body with a scroll holder held on his back and four propeller like blades at each hip along with a long metal cable with a stinger in his empty and open stomach along with a core in the left side of his chest with the kanji for scorpion on it.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me, a thousand puppets!" one of the many blonde figures around the wall shouted." How are we supposed to defeat all of this when Boss is only giving us Zabimaru and Kazeshini to work with against Sasori when he has this up his sleeve!"
"Who said we were stuck with them?" another asked as their segmented sword transformed back into the basic katana before they gripped it in both hands and most of the figures burst into blue mist and shot into them as they widened their stance." Turn All Creation To Ash, Ryujin Jakka!"
The night sky surrounded the village of Suna suddenly changed to a mixture of red and orange as flames roared to life at the village gates and rose into a towering inferno.
"You'll make a great puppet kid, too bad I have to destroy you out of principal!" the red haired shouted as the blonde allowed the upper portion of the outfit to fall as they cut it to pieces with a kunai.
"You insolent little brat, you don't understand a thing about what's about to happen." the blonde called out as the flames around him shot into the blade before they began chuckling." But what should I really expect from a brat who thinks he's immortal just because he's in a wooden body."
The red haired simply chuckled as the blue strands emitting from his chest grew brighter and the mass of red cloaked figures readied themselves to attack.
"You can talk all you want Uzumaki, my ultimate performance cannot be stopped no matter what type of power you have. I could bring down even the Kyubi itself with this technique so the diluted power you hold from being its container is nothing to me." the red head spoke up as the clacking of wood hitting wound resounded around him and the group of blonde figures.
"Since I'm using Ryujin Jakka you guys will have to think of something a little below it to use." the clone using the Elemental type Zanpakuto told the remaining eight clones behind him.
"Don't worry, I still have Zabimaru."
"Kazeshini is good enough, I'll watch your flank."
"Grow, Hozukimaru!"
"Pray, Santa Teresa."
"Snap, Tobiume!"
"Scatter, Senbonzakura!"
"Grind, Pantera!"
"Kick About, Los Lobos!"
An explosion of Chakra covered all of the clones and moments later blasts of Chakra rained out at the puppets.
Sasori grinned as several stepped forward and massive shields of Chakra burst into life to stop the blasts.
"I'm one of your opponents kid, you shouldn't forget about someone like me, especially when Los Lobos is loaded." a clone spoke from within the cloud of smoke.
The same clone who spoke stepped forward with two ornamental pistols in their hands and dressed in black skin tight pants with a jacket over a double-breasted vest with gray fur lining the neck of the jacket and gray fur leggings and armbands extending from his knees and elbows respectively with two black ribbon covered bandoleers emerging from his upper back and disappearing into his upper forearms. All in all, with gray fur covered holster, the clone appeared to be a Wild West gunslinger.
"Don't take all of them man, I'm you're back up." another clone spoke as they stepped forward and they were as drastically changed as the other one, maybe more actually." Santa Teresa is praying for death now."
Three sets of arms with all six covered in an insect like carapace with clawed fingers with each hand holding a scythe resembling the arms of a praying mantis with a small golden tassel at the end of each staff. The clone also had a golden marking extending from their forehead to below their right eye with a crescent moon shaped horn on his head, the left side bigger than the right.
"I'm here too you assholes." another spoke as they stepped up, probably the most different." Pantera has been dying to tear up something since Boss last used it."
The clone's teeth had become jagged along with their blonde hair growing down to their knees and becoming straight. Their hands turned into black claws while their feet changed into black clawed paws along with a slender whip like tail emerging from the base of his spine. His entire body was covered in a form fitting white segmented armor with three blades on each forearm and leg with the blades in descending order with the longest closest to the elbow and the shortest closest to his hands with the same going for his knees, the longest at the knee and the shortest at the ankle with a long jagged blade extending from the back of his claves. A white jagged crown like piece adorned his forehead and he grinned as he allowed his claws to extend to nearly five inches of razor sharp steel like claws adorning the tip of his fingers and his toes with Chakra Flow sharpening every blade along their body.
"I guess were on defense." a clone wielding Zabimaru told the one wielding Kazeshini as both leapt back to guard the entrance of the figure.
"I'll help you I guess." a third clone spoke up as they walked over with a spear with a wax wood shaft and a red horse hair tassel at the pommel." Hozukimaru is dying for a fight, even if it's with this loser."
"I'm with you guys." a fourth spoke as they walked up with the katana unchanged unless for two prongs extending from one side of the blade with one at the top and one at the bottom along with one prong at the bottom of the other side, Tobiume.
"Then let's deal with this kid." the clone wielding Ryujin Jakka spoke as flames roared to life around them.
"Let's go!" the clone wielding Pantera shouted as they let out a roar that tossed away several puppets charging them.
He leapt into the midst of them, using devastating animalistic Taijutsu that took full advantage of the blades on their armor.
"Eat this!" the clone using Los Lobos shouted before rapidly firing shot after shot forward that tore apart the puppets in his way as he steadily walked forward.
The clone wielding Santa Teresa only let out crazed shouts as they turned into a whirlwind of death with their six scythe like blades charged with Chakra.
Fireballs rained down on the puppets nearby the exit into the village and each exploded once contact was made.
A small stream of petals nimbly and effortlessly tore through the twelve puppets charging towards them.
Sasori drew another scroll from off his back and threw it on the ground as it unrolled itself and more red robed puppets tore into the air from it and charged towards the clones.
"Burn!"
The flames of Ryujin Jakka roared forward and incinerated the newly released puppets.
"You forgot about me Sasori of the Red Sand." the clone wielding Ryujin Jakka roared as flames formed a circle between him and Sasori.
Sasori actually laughed as a compartment in his arm opened and a scroll slid out of it and he threw it into the air, a Chakra String snaking out of one of his fingers and pulling it open.
"I guess you must really want to die then, there's no way you can even think of defeating me with this puppet." Sasori spoke as he was consumed in a cloud of smoke.
AN: I bet you hate me for this cliff hangar but I want your input in the reviews on who the puppet should be, it can be an OC you make up or a character in Naruto you think I can kill off now and pose a threat to Naruto. And trust me when I tell you this, Naruto's clones are still going to be featured so next chapter is either going to be Sasori vs. Ryujin Jakka clone, Clones vs. Red Secret technique: A Grand Performance, or a bit of both. Leave a review for which one you want me to write about, I'll wait a day or two until I post the next chapter.
Peace!