DISCLAIMER!: I DON'T OWN NARUTO! Thought you'd know by now...
(A/N): What up ya'll!? Time for another chapter of Oracle goodness!
TO THE STORY!
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Chapter 103: Art Of 100 Puppets!
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The red head snarled at the blond. "Hardly!" he growled out as he removed his cloak. Revealing something that made Naruto's eyes widen as a small gasp escaped from his lips.
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"This, is why I am eternal..." Sasori said in a low tone. "I spent years studying my art, to find a way to make the perfect puppet. But little did I know that the perfect puppet..." he started before he raised his arms, showing himself to Naruto. A metal cable extended from his stomach. Six scythe blades extended from his back. His arms, chest, neck, and legs were segmented, making him look like a manikin. And on his chest, where his heart should have been, was a cylinder that had the kanji for "scorpion" on it.
"Would be myself!" he yelled as the metal cable slid below his feet, raising him up into the air. "You are the first one." he said to Naruto. "The first one to make me use 'myself' since I joined the Akatsuki. You should feel honored to witness such a work of Art." he said in a monotone voice as the life seemed to fade his eyes.
Naruto nearly gagged. "I think I feel more sick than honored. You 'art' is just disgusting." he declared and readied himself. Sasori growled and reached his arms out towards Naruto. His hands began to spin at a fast rate before a powerful jet of water burst out from his palms.
Naruto's eyes widened before a smirk grew on his face. He waited for the last second to Hiraishin away from the water. The jets of water cut through the stone ground like a knife through paper, tearing up the ground and cutting away where Naruto once stood.
Sasori's eyebrows rose when he saw Naruto a little further away to his left, testing out his leg. "Looks like I'm all healed up Sasori." he said as he bent and stretched out his leg. "Time to actually start then!" he exclaimed as his chakra cloak returned to him.
Sasori cursed as he pulled a scroll from his back. The red head opened the scroll and quickly began to form hand signs. "No holding back then! Lets finish this! Akahigi: Hyakki no Soen!" he roared as smoke erupted from the scroll. Naruto stared with a critical eye as the smoke cleared. Once the smoke was gone, Sasori was surrounded by dozens of Puppets. And if the name of his jutsu was a hint to anything, Naruto could guess there were a hundred.
"So Uzumaki? Do you think you can stand up to my art!?" the red head called as a hatch on his chest to the right of his core opened. Once it opened hundreds of chakra threads shot out from the cavity and attached themselves to the hundred puppets. "Now! Face my art!" he cackled as the puppets moved in unison, forming a mob of puppets charging after the blond.
Naruto sighed and shook his head. "Nothings going to be easy...is it." he said as he made several chakra arms that began to create Rasengans behind him. "Is it ever?" Kurama question with a smirk. Naruto shook his head again before crouching on th ground. "I guess not..."
The mob of puppets were getting closer to the blond, just as he finished forming ten Rasengans. "Rasenragan!" he called and used his chakra arms to send the ten chakra orbs through several puppets. But it didn't stop them though. The mob continued, leaving the destroyed puppets to build themselves back together. Naruto threw a Hiraishin kunai above the horde before flashing to it, just as they reached him. "How about we take out the puppeteer!" he called, forming a half tiger seal. "Fuuton: Kazekiri no jutsu!" he called and swiped his hand through the air, sending a razor sharp wave of wind towards the red headed puppet master.
Sosori used the metal cable to propel himself back and avoided the attack. He then made his right hand spin as he shot flame from his palm.
Naruto summoned one of his swords and absorbed the flames with it. He then threw the sword into the air and made three quick hand signs. Tiger-Monkey-Horse. "Rebound!" he called as the sword stopped in mid air and pointed towards Sasori. Flames erupted from the blade and shot straight towards the puppeteer.
Sasori scoffed and used two of his hundred puppets as shields. "You'll have to do better than that Uzumaki!" he called in a bored tone before his eyes snapped wide. "You mean like this?" Naruto said from behind the puppeteer, planting a Kurama enhanced fist in his back.
Sasori's body shattered into pieces as his puppet army fell lifelessly to the ground. Naruto sighed in disappointment. "One shot and done huh...whatever..." he huffed as he began to walk away, dispelling his cloak. He made a few steps before his instincts kicked in, making him Hiraishin away. "It isn't over yet Kit..." Kurama warned in a foreboding tone. Naruto frowned and looked back to the scattered pieces of Sasori.
He looked to Sasori's head and his eyes widened. The puppet master's head smiled at the blond before speaking. "Like I told you, my Art is eternal Uzumaki. You cannot kill me!" he called before his body began to come back together, clicking back into place.
Sasori reconnected to his army and began to laugh at the blond. "MY ART WILL NEVER DIE UZUMAKI!" he roared as he sent his army after Naruto yet again, but this time they weren't alone. Several Zetsu Clones joined the mix, some living, some being controlled by Sasori.
The main force of the puppets split into two groups swooping around to Naruto's sides as twelve puppets and a few dozen Zetsu charged from the front.
Naruto cracked his neck and rolled his shoulders, letting Kurama's chakra reenter his system. "Alright then, round five, I guess...Kagebunshin no Jutsu!" he called, making two clones of himself to take on the pincer attack while he handled the enemies in front of him.
He and his clones started running through hand signs before taking a deep breath.
"Katon: Karyu Endan!"
"Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu!"
"Fuuton: Renkudan!"
He and his clones called out, shooting a fire and water dragon towards the pincer attack while ripping the forward attack to pieces with a massive air bullet. Naruto then threw his Hirashin kunai into the air before running through more hand signs. As soon as the kunai began to fall he finished his hand signs. "Kunai Kagebunshin no Jutsu!" he called, turning his one falling kunai into a figurative rain of steel.
Sasori used his scythe blades to block and avoid the kunai, but was unprepared for Naruto to flash in front of him and drive a Rasengan into his stomach, destroying his metal cable and busting him into pieces again.
As Sasori flew through the air he reformed himself and landed while shooting water towards the Uzumaki. Naruto held up a Hiraishin Kunai and a Sealing matrix spread through the air, absorbing the jutsu and redirecting it to another kunai. Sasori growled and used his chakra threads to take control of several pieces of debris to use as weapons, but as soon as they got close they turned out to be Naruto clone, ones that began to glow. "Kagebunshin Daibakuha!" Naruto called as the seven clones Sasori had exploded, sending him into pieces yet again.
But like he had before, he brought himself back together.
Naruto growled before sensing something. He honed his senses on Sasori and noticed that all of his chakra was focused onto the strange cylinder in his chest. Kurama scoffed in Naruto's head. "Looks like you finally figure it out. That's his weak spot, take that out and he'll die." he huffed in annoyance.
Naruto just nodded in response before forming a Rasengan in his hand. "It's time to die Sasori!" he called as he dashed forward.
The red head growled before charging Naruto. "I cannot die! My art is eternal!" he roared as he cocked his fist back to punch the Uzumaki. But as soon as he swung Naruto flashed away...to the seal he had planted on the puppet masters back.
Sasori tried to turn his head to see the blonde behind him, but was planted into the ground as his core shattered from Naruto's Rasengan. Sasori's dying scream was drowned out by a massive explosion coming from where Gai and Kakashi were fighting Deidara...
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(A/N): To be continued...
And that is the end of Sasori. Next battle, Konan vs Jiraiya! So, stay tuned for the next chapter!
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