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Kale's POV

"We'll start here and fan our 5km in each direction." Sensei said "If we don't find anything here we'll mark a new center point and repeat."

"If we go 5km we won't be able to use the headsets to communicate." Sakura said "And if we get caught out alone…"

"If they move as two we ought to move as two." I suggested.

"We'll need more than two." Sensei slammed his hand down "Summon!"

Kakashi-Sensei's team of dogs poofed up and looked around.

"We might not have the voices but we have the noses to help." Pakkun said "We sense danger a mile away."

"For team make up you'll each have two of my dogs with you." Sensei explained.

"Two?" Fu asked.

"You all get along nicely." Sensei smiled "Naruto and Fu will be staying with me, Hinata and Yamato."

"You guys get the big fella." Pakkun nodded his head at the largest dog.

"Since Kiba has Akamaru he won't need a dog." Sensei said "I'll be keeping Pakkun with me. If you run into an enemy flee and come back here, our first priority is to follow Sasuke's scent."

"Let's move!"

I headed off with two of Sensei's dogs. We headed out towards the fields before one of them perked up.

"You hear that?" It asked.

"You mean those explosions?" I asked "Sure do."

The dog and I headed in the direction of the explosions and when I got there I found Sasuke…and he was fighting Deidara. I quickly sent Sensei's dog off the fetch the others.

This could be my chance to take them both out of the picture…Sorry Sasuke but this is the end!

I watched Sasuke use snaked like a hook shot to get to a tree, he looked like a demon but was missing a wing. Once he landed on the branch I made my move.

"HYA!" I pulled out the Death Scythe and took a swing only to have it end up embedded in the tree, Sasuke having ducked.

"You should have stayed still." I balanced on the handle "It would have been quicker that way."

"Stay out of my way…I'm busy but I can kill you after this guy if you want." Sasuke glared.

"No thanks." I shook my head "I don't like to wait."

"You have Hidan's Scythe" a masked man in an Akatsuki Jacket said "How'd you…first those two and Now Deidara…it's just terrible."

"Shut up Tobi!" a voice snapped.

The smoke cleared and Deidara appeared riding on a clay bird.

"Oh you're alive." Tobi cheered.

"He doesn't give up…" Sasuke mumbled.

"Well he had one arm crushed and one blown off but he's fighting…that's resilience." I said jumping down and pulling my scythe out of the tree "I've got a bone to pick with Akatsuki so I'll be taking care of these two while I'm here…but don't think I won't take my openings with you."

"I was going to say the same." Sasuke commented.

"I'll turn the both of you into brilliant art explosions!" Deidara yelled reaching into my bag "I won't lose,, not to the likes of you!"

He grabbed a hunk of clay and started eating it.

Another fake suicide bomb?

"Tobi get lost!" Deidara snapped.

The masked guy booked it and Deidara started puking his guts out the clay swirled and melted until it took a shape, it stacked higher and higher until we were faced with a giant Deidara.

"That thing is a giant walking bomb!" I yelled backing up.

"Don't bother running!" Deidara yelled "You can't escape my C4 Garuda!"

The giant clay sculptor popped like a balloon, but that was it.

No way…Deidara's are is all about leaving a mark in a moment…a fleeting flash in the pan, that couldn't be his masterpiece.

"I WIN!" Deidara made a hand sign "ART IS AN EXPLOSION!"

"Null Felid!"

I set up a small zone in which all Jutsu but my own are rendered useless and void.

I can only hold the field for a few moments; it will need to be enough time.

I noticed Sasuke was gone, but all around all sorts of creatures were engulfed in flames and turned to ash.

Everything is blowing up from the inside out.

I heard a groan and saw Sasuke had stabbed Deidara with his hand, I slowly lowered the field.

"You really think it's that easy?" I said making a super jump up to the sky and swinging the scythe right though the bird "I found you!"

"Perfect!" Deidara yelled grabbing onto Sasuke "Now witness the true nature of my C4!"

Deidara spit out a balloon of clay that surrounded Sasuke and trapped him.

"It's over Uchiha!" Deidara jumped back towards where I had landed.

"Ether Chain!"

I put the scythe away and took out the new Dragon staff, yellow chains appeared and pulled Deidara down to me.

"I've already won!" Deidara laughed as I bound him for a final attack "My Art Wins!'

I charged my finger with Chakra from my staves

You're done!" I pointed at him "Seven Layer Seal: Hyper Finger of Death!"

Deidara was blasted with a bolt of pure hot Chakra, but still one of my strongest Jutsu Deidara sat up, ignoring the burned hole in his shoulder.

"RAH!" Sasuke appeared out of thin air and clocked Deidara.

"Dammit you knew!" Deidara yelled.

"Where is Itachi?" Sasuke demanded.

"Take this!" Deidara threw clay snakes to bind Sasuke but he fried them with a Chidori spark.

"We're both at the limit." Deidara smiled "But I'll win, even if I was frozen that won't stop my art…show some fear brat, you're…GONNA DIE!"

"…" Sasuke just blinked at him.

"Hmm…" I surrounded myself with a dome made by all seven of my staves "Have fun killing each other, saves me the trouble."

"It really pisses me off!" Deidara snapped "You're just like Itachi dammit stop acting so high and fricken mighty and show a little fear for once in your damn life! Those eyes…it's always those damn eyes!"

He's snapping.

"I can't stand it, looking down on my art…I can't stand them!"

"Where is Itachi?" Sasuke asked.

"Hmm…No Sharingan." Deidara smiled "You've underestimated me brat."

Deidara ripped off his shirt to reveal stitching over his heart like Kakuzu.

"GAH!" he groaned ripping it open to reveal another maw on his chest.

"Ha…ha…HAHAHA!" Deidara cackled feeding the mouth clay "This is it, my true masterpiece…my Magnum Opus! I'll blow myself up!"

This idiot…

"I'll become a true piece of art! An explosion that scars the earth for all of eternity!" Deidara yelled "You hear me Onoki! Can you see?! I finally found True Art!"

Deidara stood up "Nothing can protect you, we'll all die together!"

Deidara's body began turning black "Admire…revel in it…Despair…LOOK AT ME MASTER ARE YOU PROUD?!"

"MY ART IS…" his body cracked along the chest"AN EXPLOSION!"

Deidara's eye cracked at a massive explosion went off.

There's no way it'll hold!

I forced more Chakra into my shield, it was cracking and splintering from the pressure. I pumped more in until I was at my limit and just as the shield gave way…the blast ceased.

I…made it.

I looked around, as far as the eye could see there was nothing but brunt earth and flattened land, in the center of the crater was Deidara's body, I burnt husk with smoke pluming out his mouth.

Holy crap…anyone else would have been turned to a stain on the ground by that.

I looked around and tried to sense Sasuke's life force but I came up with nothing. I walked up to Deidara, he looked dead. I reached out an place my fingers on his neck.

"What the hell?!" I gasped "He's still got a pulse?!"

How the hell is he alive?

"Well…I captured one." I shrugged "But he's useless if he kicks the bucket before we can pump him for info.

"KALE!" it didn't take long for the others to show up "What the hell happened?"

"Deidara happened." I sighed looking around "He blew himself up, he's alive but fading fast. If we wanna get anything from him we gotta stabilize him."

"I'll try." Sakura said "But I don' like healing Akatsuki."

"You were supposed to get backup if you ran across any Akatsuki." Sensei scolded.

"I wasn't alone." I hissed "Sasuke was here…"

"He was here!" Sakura gasped "Where is he now?"

"I lost him in the explosion." I told her "I don't know where he is."

"I smell other scents mixed with Sasuke's." one of the dogs said "He must be traveling with others."

"He probably has his own team." Sensei explained.

"What are we waiting for we need to follow them." Naruto said.

"We can't." Pakkun said "The trail just stops here."

"How?" Fu wondered.

"Either he used time space Ninjutsu." Yamato explained "Or he was wiped out in the blast."

"It was the latter." Kiba said "I found him."

"Then lead the way."

"There's a problem." Kiba said "Sasuke's scent, it's all over the place."

"They probably figured out what we were doing and came up with a plan to distract us." Sensei said.

"But how'd they know?" Sakura asked.

"If they have a chakra sensor Ninja they could have felt us miles away." I explained.

"If we split up the radios won't work, not to mention I'm the only one who can track him." Kiba said "Which way am I going?"

"Well just check all of them!" Naruto said creating clones.

Naruto sent his clones all over, scouring every direction to check for Sasuke. Naruto ran off and left the rest of us there.

"If you've all got this I'm headed back to the village." I said "I'm not of much use without my Chakra and I burnt all of that blocking Deidara's Masterpiece. I'll drop Deidara off with the interrogators."

"Alright, Fu head back with him." Sensei said.

"Right!"

AN

Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.

So originally I had Deidara die like he was supposed to, they I decided it be more fun to experiment with keeping him around.

Till Next Time!