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Chapter 101: Art Is Eternal!
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"C0!" he cried as he released his ultimate art, enveloping over a quarter of the battlefield in a massive explosion that reached up to the heavens themselves...
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Twenty minutes earlier. With Naruto and Hiruzen...
"Yoko Koga!" Naruto roared as he sent another slash of chakra towards to the batter Sasori.
The Hiruko puppet the Akatsuki puppeteer was using hand taken quite a few close hits from Naruto's blade. It's blade tail was severed and it was also missing a leg. But, it was still very much operational, and fit to ward off most of the Sandaime Hokage's attacks.
Sasori jumped away from another ray of chakra and snarled. "Kugutsu no Jutsu: Gishu Senbon!" he growled out as his right arm rose up and launched into the air.
Naruto and Hiruzen watched its flight. It went right over them, but then stopped in mid air. The arm began to spin and the odd rod like protrusions shot out and opened up. Sending a shower of Senbon on the two Konoha shinobi's location. Naruto cursed and quickly flashed out of the attacks range. Hiruzen however, was stuck having to fend off the rain of Senbon Needles. The elderly man used Enma's Adamatine Staff form and began to spin it at impossible speeds.
As soon as the needles came close they were knocked away but the staff. Once the rain ended Hiruzen stopped his defense and sneered at Sasori, standing in the middle of a sea of needles. "Is that the best you can do? You can't even strike an old man!" Hiruzen mocked as he readied himself to charge the puppeteer.
Sasori just chuckled at the old man. "Hardly..." he growled as he opened his segmented mouth. Hiruzen narrowed his eyes at the puppeteer until they snapped wide. He looked to his feet and noticed the senbon around him begin to shake. "Kugutsu no Jutsu: Senbon no Umi!" he roared as the senbon floated up into the air and began to spin around the elderly man in a sort of tornado like fashion before the began to converge on him. "DIE!" Sasori roared as the mass of senbon crushed down on Hiruzen. He began to chuckle, anticipating the agonized screams from being stabbed by thousands of Senbon at once. But when no screams came he narrowed his eyes and started to scan the area.
"Damn Jiji. I barely got you out of there in time..." Naruto said as he pulled a senbon out of his arm. Hiruzen chuckled before pulling a senbon out of his leg. "Thank Kami for the Hiraishin..." he breathed as he tried to stand. But, once he got to his feet he was forced to lean on Enma for support. "Jiji!" Naruto said with worry and rushed to his side. Enma turned back into his monkey form and looked Hiruzen over. "Those Senbon were poisoned..." he said with concern. The Monkey quickly picked up the wheezing old man and looked to Naruto. "Can you finish this kid? You got hit by those senbon too..." he asked the Jinchuuriki.
After a mental clarifacation from Kurama he shook his head. "Nah, I'll be fine. Perks to being a Jinchuuriki I guess. Get Jiji to Sakura. I can finish this." he growled as he started back towards Sasori's location. Enma nodded and wish Naruto luck before fleeing from the battlefield. The blond looked to Sasori's location and cursed.
A horde of Zetsu joined the puppeteer and it seemed as though several of them were already dead, just puppets being used by the sick fuck.
Naruto growled before a grin appeared on his face. "You wanna play around a bit Kurama?" he asked his now eager Bijuu. Kurama let out a feral chuckle and nodded vigorously. "I'm ready when you are Kit!" he shouted in blood lust filled anticipation. "Then lets go!" he roared as Kurama's chakra enveloped his form, covering him in a golden cloak that flowed through his sages cloak and flickered like a fire off of his hair and ends of his clothes. His blue eyes became golden with a slit pupil and the whisker marks on his cheeks became thick black lines.
Sasori could feel the power burst from the blond as he honed in on his location. The puppeteer unconsciously took a step back as he felt the sheer ferocity of the aura coming off of the blond.
Naruto crouched into a runners stance before staring right at the Puppeteer. "Kitsune no Jikkou!" he shouted before turning into a pure line of light, heading towards the Akatsuki member at an immeasurable speed.
One instant he had been one hundred meters from the Puppeteer, and in the next he was twenty meters behind him.
The ground was the first thing to give. Chunks of earth were launched into the air, sending Zetsu Clone's flying as their bodies were ripped apart. Then was the shock wave and the sound barrier being broken. And finally Sasori's Hiruko puppet was launched into the sky, shattering from the impact.
Naruto's cloak disappeared as he began to breath hard. "Damn, need...to get...the speed down..." he said between breaths. He had NOT meant to go that fast, and frankly, it hurt to move that fast. "Alright dumbass. You just tore you ACL in your right leg from that little stunt. I'm going to start working on fixing that. Don't die while I do." Kurama grumbled in anger as he focused his chakra to Naruto's injured leg.
Naruto laughed awkwardly. "Hehe...thanks Kurama..." he said as he test his weight on his leg. He hissed in pain, but for him, it was tolerable. If he needed to he would move as much as possible with one leg and Hiraishin for he moment. He started to think about what to do next now that he had defeated Sasori. Should he go help Seinaru? Or should he go assist Kakashi and Gai. Or even Jiraiya? He had most of the Zetsu army focused on him so he could need some help.
He was cut off from his thoughts when a senbon came dangerously close to sticking his neck. He rolled out of the way, wincing in pain as he looked around to try and see where it came from.
Standing on top of the destroyed Hiruko was a red haired teen wearing a black cloak with red clouds. He had his hands raised and Chakra strings connected to random debris and senbon littered around the battlefield. The teen chuckled with a smirk at Naruto.
"You know," he said in a emotionless tone. "I never thought someone could get past my Hiruko...But now that I have found someone with the strength to do so, I get to show off my favorite puppets and techniques." he said to Naruto as he sent more senbon and rubble flying towards the blond. Naruto threw a Hiraishin Kunai into the air to dodge. Once he flashed to it h formed a Rasengan in his hand and threw the blade towards Sasori. The red head chuckled and attached a chakra string to the kunai. "None of that..." he said before sending it in a different direction as Naruto flashed to it.
The blond flashed right into a large boulder and gave a hiss of pain and let his Rasengan dispel. Naruto crouched on the ground as he watched the Puppeteer begin to laugh. "You're mine Kyuubi Jinchuuriki! I will show you that y Eternal Art can defeat anything. Even the legendary Hiraishin!" he laughed and pulled out a storage scroll. He unrolled the scroll ad revealed a storage seal with the kanji for 3 on it.
"Now, let me show you my Art!" he yelled before transferring chakra into the seal. A plume of smoke covered him for a moment before it cleared. And floating behind him was a tall puppet with black hair and a gray fur lined coat. Sasori began to cackle with excitement. "This, Uzumaki, is my favorite puppet! I personally killed this man and turned his corpse into my strongest puppet. This, is the Sandaime Kazekage!" he cackled and began to move the Sandaime into attack position.
Naruto paled at the thought of someone turning a persons corpse into a puppet. Who would do something so...so...disgustingly evil? Fury grew over Naruto as he prepared his Kunai.
Sasori's index finger twitched and a blade on the Sandaime's right arm sprung out from a hidden compartment. "Don't worry Kyuubi. I'm not going to kill you. I'm just going to make sure you can't run from us anymore. And once we have extracted the demon, I'll grace you with immortality. You will live on forever as one of my puppets. You will become my Art!" he said with a sinister tone.
Naruto growled and stood as best he could. "Any day now Kurama!" he mentally shouted a the fox. "I'm about halfway done. Another minute and I should be done." he replied in a angry tone. "We don't have a minute..." Naruto grumbled as he crossed his fingers into his favorite hand sign. "Kagebunshin no Jutsu..." he mumbled and summoned up a single clone. "You know what to do." he said to the clone. It nodded before sitting on the ground and opening two scrolls. It made a half tiger seal before a small barrier formed around it.
Naruto turned his attention back to Sasori. "I won't be able to move well like this..." he grumbled before summoning two of his black katana's. "Well, are you going to fight or talk all day?" he growled out at Sasori, causing the red head to laugh maniacally.
"Farewell Uzumaki! When I next see you standing, you will be one with my Art!" he shouted as the Sandaime Kazekage lurched forward and flew strait towards the blond. He readied his blades and stood his ground, ready to intercept the puppet.
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(A/N): To be continued...
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