(Coming back at ya guys.)
When morning came at the Namikaze mansion, Naruto, his harem, and the heroes were up and about getting ready for the upcoming battle. Once everyone was prepared Naruto was about ready to head for the meeting room to discuss strategy with them until he heard a knock at his door. He rushed to it to find Itachi holding onto the doorway for support while he also no longer wore the Akatsuki cloak, "Itachi?"
"Naruto…"
"Whoa, Itachi did you have a bad day?" Naruto helped him inside.
"Har-Har." Itachi groaned as Naruto helped him along.
"Don't worry we gotcha." Naruto helped him into the meeting room.
"Naruto what's going on?" Spiderman noticed Itachi.
"Itachi made it back, but he's in rough shape." Naruto explained.
"Let us have a look." Tsunade went to the Uchiha.
"Lady Tsunade, my eyes are just about faded, not even your expert healing abilities can help me now." Itachi groaned.
"Don't be so sure about that Itachi." Tsunade morphed into Demolisher and started using her healing jutsu on him.
The heroes watched seeing what Tsunade was doing as Gambit whistled, "She's got the magic touch from the look of it."
"Such amazing healing ability." Beast added.
When the process was over, Itachi's wounds were healed and his sight that was just about hazy was crystal clear like the day he was born, "My eyes but how?" Itachi gasped.
Demolisher morphed back to Tsunade, "Our symbiote has enhanced all our abilities even our healing jutsu, now we truly are the ultimate medical shinobi."
"Well arigato, and I'm glad you could do this because the Akatsuki and Dormammu are waiting for you to come to them Naruto." Itachi explained.
"Then we will, all right heroes today will be by far one of the most dangerous and risky wars you will probably face, are you sure you're really willing to go through with it?" Naruto asked them.
"We said it before and we'll say it again Naruto, we're with you." Spiderman assured him on behalf of the heroes while Naruto's brides agreed as well.
"All right then, Itachi you're up front with us," Naruto transformed into Catastrophe and announced, "Let's go!" they all took off leaving the mansion and left Konoha heading west for Amegakure.
Meanwhile in said nation at the hideout of Akatsuki, Dormammu, Madara, and Pain stood waiting until Mordo arrived, "Master, I bring word from our agents."
"What is it Mordo?" Dormammu asked.
"It's the symbiotes they are heading in our direction."
"So he's taking the bait." Madara noted.
"But there's more, he is not alone, there are several other symbiotes accompanying him, as well as Spiderman, Dr. Strange, Iron Man, War Machine, and several other heroes."
"What?" Dormammu growled as his flames intensified.
"Please master, keep calm." Mordo pleaded as Pain spoke.
"It seems he's taken precautions about coming alone, very clever."
"No matter, we should at least eliminate half of them, Zetsu!" Madara called as Zetsu sprung up from the ground but appeared to be only the black side.
"Yes?"
"Which team is closest to our targets?" the masked man asked.
Black Zetsu concentrated as his white half relayed some info to him, "Sasori, and Deidara sir."
"Perfect, send them to test our opponents and possibly bring Naruto to us." Madara said.
"As you wish." Black Zetsu vanished.
"When I get my hands on that symbiote I will obliterate it." Dormammu promised.
"Of course master." Mordo bowed his head as a white snake was secretly watching them before slithering off.
Meanwhile in a forest area, Deidara and Sasori had just been given their order from the Black Zetsu, "I see, very well. Deidara let's go." Sasori ordered as the oddly shaped man crawled away.
"Right behind ya Sasori my man!" Deidara followed him, "I can't wait to meet these so called enemies Dormammu's claimed to be heading our way. Wait till they see the beauty of my art."
"You baka," Sasori grumbled, "Real art is the kind that last forever."
"Shows how little you know Sasori after all art is a bang!" Deidara smirked and Sasori sighed in annoyance.
Meanwhile with the heroes, who were still crossing through the Land of Fire, 'I can't believe this is actually happening, here I am off on another war fight for others I just met yesterday. But then again this is how my life's been so I figure go with it.' Spiderman thought until his, and the symbiotes spider senses went off.
"Incoming!" Naruto and Spiderman called as everyone took cover as suddenly explosions were dropping all around them.
"Who's bombing us?" Jubilee called.
Itachi frowned, "Deidara." He looked up as a giant clay bird landed and dismounting from it were the two Akatsuki members.
"Hey there Itachi, hmm." Deidara greeted.
"Deidara-nii." Magma said morphing her head down as did the other symbiotic ninja.
"Who's that with him?" Shizune asked.
"Sasori of the Red Sands." Itachi answered.
Temari gasped, "Did you say Sasori of the Red Sands?"
"That he did." Sasori answered.
"But that's impossible, Sasori's…" the wind kunoichi stammered.
"Dead? You were misled, like true art work I won't die." the Akatsuki member answered.
"Man pay no attention to him, real art is a bang!" Deidara cut in.
"The young generation know nothing." Sasori mumbled.
"Hey what'd you say?" Deidara argued back. As the two bickered like an old married couple Wolverine saw an opening to sneak around them.
As he tried to sneak past Cyclops called, "Logan look out!"
Wolverine saw a metal bladed tail extend from Sasori attempting to strike Logan, until Spiderman, Naruto, Tenten, Ino, Shion, and Shizuka use their webbing to hold it in place for Logan to dodge, "That was close." Wolverine said.
"Too close." Iron Man added.
"We'll split up and take them, Naruto you and I will handle Deidara, you all come with us," Itachi motioned to all eight members of the X-Men, Captain America, Tenten, Shion, Hotaru, Kurotsuchi, and Ino. He then motioned to Tsunade, Shizune, Shizuka, Iron man, Spiderman, Black Cat, Temari, War Machine, Anko, Dr. Strange, Mei, Yugito, Samui, and the Fantastic four, "The rest of you handle Sasori."
So Naruto, Itachi, and the group they selected started directing Deidara's attention away leaving the rest to take care of Sasori, "Well looks like it's just us." Sasori said to his opponents.
"Is that guy really human?" Spiderman asked.
"Hold it, I feel another presence within." Dr. Strange said.
"Within?" Thing asked.
"You mean something's inside him?" Johnny asked.
"Not something, someone." Dr. Strange corrected.
"Then let's crack him open." Tsunade crashed her knuckles.
"Against Tsunade of the Sannin, this will prove to be very entertaining," Sasori said as his tail moved around.
Tsunade turned to them, "We got an idea, girls follow our lead. Iron Man War Machine give us some cover."
"Right!" the two metal heroes agreed as they started firing repulsor beams at Sasori who kept dodging as Tsunade, Shizune, Samui, Temari, and Shizuka swing around him and using their enhanced strength nailed the fake Sasori in the back crushing it to pieces as a single figure jumped out of it avoiding a lethal blow.
"Whoa, what was that thing?" Spiderman saw the remains of what was Sasori.
"It looks like a puppet." Reed said.
"Indeed," a voice came from the figure that jumped out of the puppet, "That was Hiruko, one of my greatest puppets." He lifted his head up revealing to be a red haired youth.
"Who's that?" Johnny asked.
"It's him, it's Sasori," Temari said, "But he was said to have reported to have vanished years ago, how could he look this young?"
"A secret you'll have to know for yourself, but how about I give you a demonstration of my powers." He took a scroll unraveling it to have the kanji for three on it.
"Three? What does that mean?" Mei asked.
Suddenly poofing from the scroll was another puppet that looked human like and was wearing a dark cloak and had dark hair. "That guy sure knows how to make his dolls look freaky." Thing said.
Temari stood in shock from that puppet, "No that can't be."
"Temari what is it?" Black Cat asked.
"That puppet it looks just like my village's Sandaime Kazekage." She answered.
"The Sandaime Kazekage?" Shizune asked.
"He was said to have mysteriously disappeared years ago, why does Sasori have a puppet that looks like him?" Mei asked.
Temari realized something, "He couldn't have."
"Couldn't have what?" Spiderman asked.
"In Suna one of the types of combat ninja were puppet masters, started by Sasori himself. According to history it's said there was a technique that allowed a ninja to create his own puppets from human bodies."
"Human bodies?" Susan asked in confusion.
"The Suna kunoichi speaks the truth. You see here was a victim of that very Jutsu. I captured the Sandaime Kazekage and turned him into a living puppet." Sasori explained while holding the puppet on his back.
"Whoa and I thought methods like that were in horror movies only." Spiderman joked.
"What's the big deal I mean it's just a puppet right?" War Machine asked.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that old friend." Iron Man said.
"He's correct not only is this puppet made from the body of the Sandaime Kazekage but it retains all the abilities he's ever had."
"Abilities?" Dr. Strange asked.
"Yes, allow me to demonstrate." Sasori began as the Sandaime Kazekage puppet started taking in particles of sand that Sasori kept hidden on his person.
"This is bad, everyone the Sandaime Kazekage was widely known for his ability to manipulate iron sand, and that technique is very lethal." Temari warned them.
Suddenly appearing in the puppet's arms, were two giant shaped pieces composed of gathered iron sand. Sasori sends the puppet to attack them but both blocks of iron sand were blocked by the strengths of Tsunade, Thing, War Machine, and Shizuka, "Persistent aren't ya?" Thing asked gripping the one iron sand block.
"Too persistent!" War Machine added as the group shoved the puppet and Sasori away.
"I guess you require another display of why the Sandaime Kazekage was widely known with his jutsu." Sasori said as he made the puppet cause the two blocks to collide and soon it started raining a lattice of spikes.
"We got to run from them!" Anko called.
"No use they'll be raining all over us." Temari replied.
"Everyone together!" Susan called as she got everyone close to her and she projected her invisible shield repelling the spikes.
"You can't keep that up forever." Johnny reminded her.
"And she won't have to." Dr. Strange added calling forth the power of the mystic arts aiding Susan's shield. Sasori frowned as their combined powers were suppressing the iron sand shower.
"That's impossible no shield could be strong enough to repel the attack!"
"That's because you've never met guys like us Sasori." Spiderman replied as Susan enhanced her shield with Dr. Strange's help sending a shockwave pushing Sasori back and destroying the puppet of the Sandaime Kazekage.
When it was cleared Susan powered down her force field looking worn out, "You did well darling." Reed hugged her.
"Yeah, but what about Sasori?" Iron Man asked as they saw the Akatsuki member rise to his feet only his cloak had fallen off him.
When he rose up they noticed Sasori's torso seeing it wasn't a human body at all, but instead they saw his body was puppet like just like the ninja puppets, "Whoa, that's weird." Samui gasped.
"We don't believe it.' Yugito added.
"Sasori's really a?" Shizune asked.
Sasori answered, "That's right. For you see my perception of art is that it remains eternal. And so for me to achieve true eternal life and beauty I used the very same jutsu I've used on the Sandaime Kazekage and my other puppets to make myself into a puppet as well. Now I have escaped the limits of aging and rotting. I am forever young!"
Black Cat frowned, "You may look young in that doll form Sasori, but you're nowhere near young."
"It's just an excuse for you to avoid having to grow older." Johnny added.
"The Akatsuki really do hire the demented type." Mei added.
"Would someone demented make his own body into a living weapon?" Sasori asked extending his palms that emitted jets of fire.
"Look out!" Reed called.
Mei shielded everyone emitting a giant blast of water from her mouth putting out the fire blasts. "Puppet or not we're not going to be beaten by you!" Mei warned him.
"Is that so? Well you may have me outmatched in terms of quantity but let's even the odds." Sasori unraveled a giant scroll and out popped hundreds of human puppets armed with weapons.
"This guy should take his puppet acts on the road." Spiderman joked.
"No time for jokes Spider, this guy means business." Black Cat said as they got ready.
"Go my puppets!" Sasori manipulated his puppets sending them at the ground.
"Keep Susan safe Reed. It's clobbering time!" Thing called as he and Johnny went up against some puppets with Johnny using his fire ability to burn the puppets, and Thing smashing them to pieces.
Iron Man and War Machine were blasting at the puppets, while trying to avoid them slicing sensitive part of their armors. Yugito was emitting bits of Nibi's spectral fire against some puppets while firing webbing binding some more together. Spiderman and Black Cat were using their reflexes to avoid blows while Spiderman was webbing some up and swung them around knocking them into other puppets. As the groups were dealing with the puppets Tsunade, Shizune, Shizuka, Temari, Mei, Samui, and Dr. Strange were making their way to Sasori who was ready for them, "Feel the strength of a Nadeshiko kunoichi!" Shizuka called as she started going at it with Sasori.
"Very impressive for a Nadeshiko kunoichi, though I bet all that strength comes from the symbiote you wear." Sasori smirked.
"You'd wish!" Shizuka slugged Sasori in the face causing his head to spin around and around until he caught his head stopping it as his eyes still spun around before stopping.
Sasori then sent a blade dipped in poison at her until Shizune took the blow, "Baka you're going to die at the hands of my poison."
"Am I Sasori? Because there's a reason why my symbiotic name is Poison." She smirked as her symbiote absorbed the poison.
"What?" Sasori gasped as Shizune slugged him sending him rolling on the ground.
As the girls kept trying to fight Sasori Dr. Strange was concentrating his magical aura around Sasori to determine where to strike until it stopped on the kanji for scorpion mark on the puppet's chest. 'That must be it,' he thought before ordering, "Girls attack that chest piece!"
The girls spotted what Dr. Strange meant. Temari used her wind cutting technique, while Mei used her lava release, and Samui released lightning from her body. Sasori seeing no way to retreat only had one option to escape. Out popping from the chest was a small cylindrical casket container that left the puppet before it was blown to pieces, "Don't let that thing escape!" Dr. Strange ordered as Susan formed a force field surrounding the casket keeping it from moving.
"What is that thing?" Thing asked in shock.
"And why was it inside Sasori's chest?" War Machine asked.
"This may be hard to believe friends but in that container lies Sasori's heart." Dr. Strange answered.
"His heart?" Spiderman asked.
"Well he did need some form of his old body to control that puppet." Black Cat admitted.
"We destroyed all his puppets here; he won't have any other body to go to." Iron Man looked at all the demolished puppets.
"Then let's get rid of this thing for good." Johnny said as Dr. Strange levitated the container up as Iron Man and War Machine blasted it destroying the casket and Sasori for good.
"He claimed he wanted to live forever just like his art, but couldn't make all of himself eternal." Tsunade remembered his heart was all he had left.
"And that's one Akatsuki member down," Spiderman added as they heard explosions, "The guys, they need our help."
"We better hurry." Reed said as they hurried for the sight of where all the explosions were coming from.
As they left they hadn't noticed Zetsu with both halves were watching from a tree trunk, "Alas poor Sasori, Madara and Pain will wanna hear about this." He sunk back into the tree.
(And there goes Sasori.)