Deidara's Death
…Normal POV…
Sasuke had his sharingan ready as he faced Deidara and Tobi.
"Sharingan huh? This guy is definitely Itachi's little brother," Deidara said, "And he was able to kill Orochimaru."
Sasuke ran at him withdrawing his Katana.
"He's fast," Deidara thought jumping out of the way leaving Tobi in Sasuke's path.
Sasuke went for a swipe through Tobi causing him to collapse.
"First of all, I like to ask you a few things about Itachi if you don't mind shutting your mouth," Sasuke said.
Tobi got back up unharmed from the attack.
"This guy," Sasuke thought.
"What are you doing Tobi? Don't waste this opportunity!" Deidara shouted.
"His body flickler technique is way too fast for us it's no use," Tobi responded.
Deidara move his hands to his bags and use the mouth on his hands to eat the clay.
"First I'll try keeping up with his movements by increasing my chakra level to C-1," Deidara thought.
Sasuke watch as Deidara took out 2 handful of ball like version of claw spiders.
"Tobi get back!" Deidara shouted throwing the clay spiders and made the hand signs.
The claw spiders came to life and grew as they came down on Sasuke.
Sasuke move his hand as chakra covered it with electricity.
Sasuke swipe his hand sending lightning like sinbols.
The sinbols hit the claw spiders and pin them to the ground or tree and almost hit Tobi.
"Hold on don't detonate them!" Tobi shouted.
Sasuke jumped behind Deidara.
"Senpai, above you!" Tobi shouted.
A clay spider jump down to them as Deidara made the hand sign.
The clay spider detonated and exploded on them.
"I'll never forget you Deidara," Tobi responded.
"Just shut up!" Deidara said landing next to Tobi.
"Ah so you survived," Tobi responded.
"The C-1 chakra saved me," Deidara thought.
Sasuke had also escaped the explosion and landed on the ground.
Deidara started forming clay figures in his hand.
"At this point, C2 is best," Deidara thought.
He summoned a huge dragon made out clay.
"There it is, Deidara's favorite art technique, the C2 dragon," Tobi said.
"So this is his power, creating explosive with the palm of his hand," Sasuke thought.
"You know what to do Tobi!" Deidara shouted.
"You can count on me," Tobi responded.
"Alright here we go," Deidara said making the handsign.
The tail of the clay-dragon started folding in to itself and into the tail piece by piece.
The dragon opened its mouth and soccer ball like clay bombs came out and landed by Tobi's feet.
"Go get them Tobi!" Deidara ordered.
"Yes sir!" Tobi responded.
Sasuke came at Deidara and Tobi head on.
"He's coming! Show him the power of your pop-art," Tobi shouted.
"Pop is dead! My style is superflat!" Deidara responded.
More of the tail pulled in and the dragon opened its mouth.
A smaller clay dragon form and flew out at Sasuke.
Sasuke tried to dodge it as Deidara detonated the clay dragon.
The clay dragon exploded on Sasuke.
Sasuke dodge the attack and jumped back.
Sasuke noticed the clay dragon flew off with Deidara but didn't see Tobi.
"I'll get him first," Sasuke thought looking at Deidara as he withdrew his Katana.
Sasuke use his chakra to form an extended blade at Deidara and power it up with the chidori.
However the blade barely reach the clay dragon.
"That was Kakashi's technique! I'll give you credit because you used shape manipulation to stretch and throw it! That's pretty creative," Deidara responded thinking, "He was only able to extend it about 5 meters. He's a long range fighter and he probably already figured out my range."
Sasuke look at the clay dragon's tail noticing it was pulling in on itself again.
"I don't care how strong your defense are, this time you're going flying hmm!" Deidara responded as the clay dragon summoned another smaller version and fires it.
The small clay dragon went at Sasuke head on and exploded in a huge blast.
Sasuke moved back but step on something.
"Got you now," Deidara thought making the hand sign.
The ground exploded in a huge blast.
"Did I get him?" Deidara wandered.
Sasuke appeared in the smoke in his stage 2 of his curse mark as it shielded him.
"Orochimaru's curse seal, eh…he's even got wings. He must've dodge it by flying upwards," Deidara thought.
Tobi broke out from under ground.
"Senpai, I'm done laying your clay mines! Everything is set!" Tobi shouted.
"Nice work Tobi. Get outta there!" Deidara shouted.
"Yes sir!" Tobi responded.
Bombs from above and bellow," Sasuke thought.
"My C-2 can box you in with land mines and lock on for air to ground attack. That's a beautiful combination we just set up," Deidara said, "Now that we've got you surrounded, one wrong step will blast you into the stratosphere."
"So he was just making sure he could hit me with his bombs," Sasuke thought, "And now he's flying just outside my attack range."
"Think you can pull off another escape, hmm?" Deidara asked.
More of the tail pull in as a bigger clay dragon form in the main one's mouth.
The dragon came at Sasuke and exploded in a huge blast.
Sasuke's katana few through the air and hit the ground with the blade digging into the ground.
Sasuke appeared with one of his wings gone as he use it as a shield.
"Now you can't go anywhere with one wing!" Deidara shouted as the clay dragon formed another big bomb.
Sasuke went to attack and threw some shurikans.
The clay dragon dodge the shurikans as it fired the clay dragon.
Sasuke side jump and landed on his Katana jumped off it and send a chidori attack.
"So he stuck his sword there on purpose," Deidara thought.
The chakra blade penetrated the dragon's wing.
"It reached," Deidara thought.
Sasuke use his hand to move the blade and cut through the clay dragon's wing off it.
"He dra me close to his Katana so his chakra blade reach," Deidara thought.
Sasuke jumped again and threw a huge shurikan.
The shurikan hit Deidara and pin him to the clay dragon.
"Not good, we're falling toward the land mines," Deidara thought.
The clay dragon hit the ground causing a huge explosion.
Sasuke summoned snakes to wrap around the tree and pull him out of the blast.
Sasuke returned to normal from his curse mark.
"I told you, you'll die in an explosion stupid Senpai!" Tobi shouted.
"Shut your mouth!" Deidara shouted flying out of the smoke on a clay bird injured and his cloak gone.
"Whoa! You're still alive," Tobi responded.
"He just keeps on coming," Sasuke responded.
Deidara look at Sasuke's Sharingan.
"Those eyes again," Deidara thought.
…Flashback…
Deidara was a little kid when Itachi Kisame and Sasori gave him a visit to offer him to join the Akatsuki.
"Akatsuki?" Deidara responded, "What is that? Buzz off, I'm trying to take in the art here," Deidara shouted.
"Why do I have to get stuck with this kid?" Sasori asked, "He's got spunk, but he's definitely gonna die on us."
"Leader's orders…his abilities will be useful to us…" Itachi explained.
"You know about me? Who are you people?" Deidara asked.
"You've been cooperating with insurgents in the surrounding countries, acting as a terrorist and causing damaging explosions," Kisame said, "What purpose are you trying to achieve, now that you've left your village?"
"Purpose? Don't have one. People hire me to blow things up and I fulfill their requests with my sculptures," Deidara responded.
"Scuptures?" Sasori asked.
Deidara created a clay spider.
"Behold! This is the result of combining highly detailed linework and two-dimensional deformation. This is true art, but that's just the beginning!" Deidara explained, "Though they started out as models, my art lives! My art breathes, hmm! My art explodes! And in that short moment it fulfills the vision of greatness that inspires me to shape it! That explosive instant is the only point where I consider it to be true art! Because art is an explosion!"
"Man, he's annoying," Sasori said.
"Are you finish?" Kisame asked/
"Alright that's enough," Itachi said closing his eyes, "I'll fight him."
"Huh?" Deidara responded.
Itachi opened his eyes revealing his Sharingan.
"What's with his eyes?" Deidara thought and asked, "You wanna fight?"
"If I win you must join the Akatsuki," Itachi said.
"Don't you ever underestimated my art! My Ninjutsu is the very essence of my creativity hmm!" Deidara shouted moving his hand in his bag.
Deidara pulled out a clay centipede.
He first threw the clay spider.
The clay spider landed on Itachi as Deidara made the hand sign.
The clay spider exploded on Itachi.
Itachi came out of the smoke unaffected.
Just then the Clay centipede that had double in size and came to life started moving up and wrap around Itachi's body.
"That all you got?" Deidara said thinking making the handsign, "You're finish."
"You'd better take a look at yourself first," Itachi said.
Deidara look and found himself wrapped by a clay centipede.
"That was close…another second and you'd have gone from an artist to a suicide bomber," Kisame said.
"I told you that he'd died on us," Sasori told Kisame and Itachi.
"Genjutsu," Deidara said, "When did you…?"
"Right at the start. The moment you looked into Itachi's Sharingan you were trapped in his illusion."
Deidara look at a statue and found in the ring it had another ring with 3 tomecs like the Sharingan.
Then Deidara look at Itachi at his Sharingan.
"How could someone else's power captivate me like that? That was pathetic. I refuse to call that art," Deidara thought.
"You loose," Itachi told Deidara.
…End of Flashback…
"I won't loose, I'm better than him," Deidara said and place his hand in his bag.
Deidara took out a chunk of clay and started eating it.
"Uh-oh, if he's eating his clay that mean…" Tobi responded.
"Tobi get outta here!" Deidara shouted, "This is my most powerful attack."
"The C4 Karura," Tobi said running away.
Deidara spit something out of his mouth.
It hit the ground and formed a clay version of Deidara as tall as the trees.
"I was saving my ultimate move to kill Itachi but this will do," Deidara thought.
"Is that a bomb too?" Sasuke thought.
Sasuke tried running away from the clay figure.
"Now you're running away hmm? You really think that you can get away from my C4 Garuda?" Deidara asked making the handsign.
The clay figure started blowing up into a balloon before bursting in an explosion.
The pieces turned to nothing from the attack.
"I win!" Deidara shouted making the hand sign, "True art is an explosion!"
Everything that was in the path turned into small bits of clay as if disappearing.
Sasuke started feeling the same effect as his body started disappearing into clay.
"My master piece!" Deidara shouted.
Tobi watch in a safe distance.
"C4 Karura, a front for countless nano-bombs. First Giant Deidara burst turning into a cloud of microscopic bombs that spread across the area, and creatures that breath in the gas detonate the nano-bombs in their bodies, turning into a dust as they explode from the inside out in the cellular level," Tobi responded, "What a scary technique."
Deidara laugh as he thought he won.
"I'll have to thank Itachi for this," Deidara responded.
Just then he sense he was an illusion of the Sharingan.
Deidara look up and saw Sasuke in the air in stage 2 of his curse mark as snakes had formed on his back into a new wing and the chidori in his hand.
Sasuke came up and struck Deidara directly.
"You slow down too much, you're almost out of chakra," Sasuke said.
"Those eyes," Deidara responded.
"You use invisible bombs but my Sharingan gives color to chakra. I saw the chakra in those tiny bombs as a large cloud of smoke. Once I noticed you were flying just outside the boundry of that cloud, avoiding the bombs was simple," Sasuke explained.
"Then when I saw the C4 kill you…that was…" Deidara responded.
"My Genjutsu," Sasuke said, "I missed your heart so you tell me where Itachi is at?"
"Know why I said I needed to thank Itachi?" Deidara asked.
Just then a hand came out of the clay bird and grabbed Sasuke as Deidara came out.
Sasuke look to see he hit a clay doll.
"A clay clone," Sasuke thought.
"I've seen that Genjutsu before, and this time I saw right through it. You're the same as Itachi but I don't fall for the same trick twice," Deidara explained, "Now eat the C4!"
Deidara form another clay doll that started blowing up and pull Sasuke in it.
Deidara jumped out of range once more.
…
Nano-clays were inside it surrounding Sasuke.
…
Deidara reach in his bag and pull out clay that didn't take form.
"I'm nearly out of chakra, I can't mold properly," Deidara thought.
Suddenly Sasuke broke out using the Chidori.
Sasuke came at Deidara head on.
"Let's end this!" Deidara shouted making the hand sign.
However nothing happened as Deidara fell into the forest and hit the ground.
Deidara look up and thought he saw Sasuke disappeared.
"At last, I won," Deidara shouted with a laugh, "My art is a bang!"
He sense the power of the Sharingan and look behind and saw Sasuke.
Sasuke punched Deidara sending him back.
"How did you escape from my C4 bombs?" Deidara asked.
Deidara then noticed lightning around Sasuke's body.
"So then you discovered it," Deidara responded.
"Yeah a while ago. Don't you know in front of a Sharingan user, you cannot show hand signs? No matter how fast you are…I can read through them," Sasuke explained, "Also all your techniques are using Earth nature. My Chidori is a Lightning element. It's as simple as that."
"So you did discover it. Then your lightning attack before was…" Deidara responded.
"Earth is weak against lightning. Your explosion can be canceled by charging them with electricity," Sasuke explained, "That's the weak point right?"
"I see you use lightning on your own body, that's why my bombs didn't explode," Deidara responded.
"Yeah, and because of that, my body really hurts now. By the way my technique is called Chidori," Sasuke explained.
"When did you discover all of it?" Deidara asked.
"When you set up all those land mines. First I countered with my chidori senbons, Some did explode when you detonated them, and some didn't," Sasuke said, "Therefore I came up with an assumption…"
"An assumption?" Deidara asked.
"Right after you avoided my attack, the bomb you used wasn't like the others it was different. At first I thought you didn't want to harm your partner. So I test it again by charging my Katana and threw it purposely on where the land mines was at," Sasuke explained, "Which was easy since my eyes can see color of chakra as I said before."
Deidara tried to stand up but couldn't from his injuries.
"Where is Itachi?" Sasuke asked.
Deidara send clay snakes from his hands' mouth and wrap them around Sasuke's legs.
However Sasuke send lightning through his body into the clay snakes.
Deidara broke his grip from the snakes before he was hit.
Sasuke collapsed panting.
"So you're almost out of Chakra as well," Deidara said, "My bombs can take care of the rest."
Sasuke didn't say anything that angered Deidara.
"You're showing no fear like your brother, that annoys me!" Deidara shouted, "I can't stand those eyes looking down at my art."
"I don't care about all this," Sasuke said, "Where is Itachi?"
Sasuke's eyes return to normal as he couldn't keep his Sharingan active.
"Perfect, you can't use your Sharingan anymore," Deidara said grabbing his shirt.
Deidara ripped off his shirt revealing his body.
On his chest was a cut that was sewed together.
Using the mouth on his hands to break the string and took out a chunk of clay.
Pulling the string he revealed that the cut was actually another mouth.
Deidara gave it his clay as it ate it.
"I'm going to blow myself up, and kill you finally!" Deidara said as lines spread across his body.
Sasuke tried to stand up but couldn't.
"You can't escape this, now be frightened!" Deidara shouted.
Deidara's body turned into a ball and exploded at huge blast that everyone could see including Zetsu.
…
Suigetsu saw it and took out a scroll with the snake on it.
The snake vanished on the scroll.
…
The blast ended revealing a crater with cracks coming off it.
…
An image of Zetsu appeared in the hideout where Kisame and Itachi were waiting along with an image of the leader.
"Deidara has died by using himself as a bomb," Zetsu explained.
"Oh my, my and yet another one bites the dust," Kisame said.
"Is the Nine-tails responsible?" Itachi asked.
"No, it was Sasuke, however he died as well," Zetsu explained.
"Be grateful Itachi, Deidara sacrifice his life to take out one of your burdens," the leader said.
"Tobi also died as well," Zetsu resported.
"What a shame that even that scardy cat couldn't run away in time," Kisame said, "It must have been quite a bang."
"Anyone can fill his spot, only pity is that Deidara died though," the leader said, "I'm leaving, pay respects to Deidara."
The image disappeared leaving Itachi and Kisame.
…
Suigetsu open a scroll and summoned Madara that was in the blast apparently.
"So this is Orochimaru's summon, Manda, how could someone control him when Orochimaru himself couldn't," Sugeitsu said.
Then he notice 3 tomecs on Manda's eyes disappear.
"I see through Genjutsu!" Sugetsu thought.
Sasuke came up by Manda badly injured.
"You used me by using those eyes," Manda said to Sasuke before dying.
"You should treat summoning better than that," Sugeitsu said.
Karin and Juugo came to Sasuke's aid and they went into hiding.
…
Meanwhile a man with red-orange spiky hair wearing the Akatsuki cloak eyes that had rings in them, and a rain village headband with the cut through it, was in the Rain Village.
"Pein, come over here," a woman with dark long hair with a paper flower in it, and wearing the Akatsuki cloak told the man, "He's here."
Pein got up and headed in the building and saw it was a Tobi.
"SO how was Sasuke?" Pein asked.
"Not bat at all, he made extremely good use of his Sharingan, those eyes will be better than Itachi's," Tobi said, "The time is ripe, you can bet he prepared himself as it won't be long now."
"So it's time to get the new Kyuubi?" Pein asked.
""Yes, you do it Pein, as you're their leader, I won't accept failure," Tobi said.
Through the eye whole of his mask Tobi revealed a Sharingan.
"Right," Pein responded.
"We will succeed in our plan," Tobi said.
A/N: I know I won't be able to keep this story mostly Naruto's POV. Especially when I get to the start of the 4th Great War. Also since it's too late to reveal Kyuubi's real name being Kurama, but I will reveal it before Son Goku does.
Also I started another Cannon for Naruto called "Naruto Namikaze".
Next Time: The search continues as we search for Sasuke, but we run into trouble along the way as more battles occurs. What is in store for us and Sasuke? Read to Find Out...