ɴᴀʀᴜᴛᴏ ᴜᴢᴜᴍᴀᴋɪ ɴᴀᴍɪᴋᴀᴢᴇ ꜱʜɪᴘᴘᴜᴅᴇɴ (on Hold)

Chapter 36

Deidara and Sasori continued their trek across the hot desert of Suna; Deidara looked over at Sasori and wondered how the man could not be bothered by this stifling heat. Looking out over the desert, Deidara decided to make conversation, "so those people Orochimaru tricked are up ahead, yeah?" Deidara asked. When Sasori didn't answer, Deidara looked out across the dunes, "it seems that for some reason, he leaked our information and turned into a traitor, yeah."

"We don't have a choice, it seems," Sasori said after a long moment of silence, "I don't know what he's like after using that jutsu either," Sasori spoke, referring to the body possession jutsu the snake Sennin had made. The puppet user looked at Deidara, who had grabbed a bag from his pouch, "will you be all right with just that bag? Our opponent is a Jinchurikki, after all?"

"I wouldn't worry about me," Deidara said as he unzipped a pouch on his waist and stuck his hand in. "My jutsu are all artistic, so I came up with my favorite, number 18. Because our opponent is the one tails, yeah," Deidara brought his hand out of the pouch to show that the bottom of his hand had a mouth on it.

As they continued walking, they eventually came upon the gates of Suna; along the walls were several dozen guards who were staring at the two figures coming their way in surprise. Before any of the shinobi could react, Yuura, who had come up just moments ago, killed them by activating several traps. Walking to the front of the gate, Yuura got down on one knee and bowed to the two of them as they walked up.

Sasori and Deidara walked up to the bowed-down figure, "Well done," Sasori said in his gruff voice, "do you remember me?"

"Yes, sir! Of course Sasori-Sama!" Yuura said, still in a kneeling position.

"Good, since your memories have returned, you are my faithful servant," Sasori stated, pleased to see that his slave seal had done its work correctly.

"All right." Deidara said, "If you'd forgotten, I might have had to use my jutsu... yeah." Deidara looked at the mouth on his left hand as it finished chewing the clay he had it eat, "all right then, here we go." the mouth coughed up some clay, and Deidara began to mold it into a bird, "Sasori, your husband should watch to yeah," Deiadra said in a teasing voice. He threw the bird into the hair and held his hands in a hand sign; there was a puff of smoke, and when it cleared, the little bird that Deidara had molded was now twice as large as Deidara himself. Jumping on the bird, Deidara threw off his hat and grinned as he looked back at Sasori, "What do you think of my artistic modeling, yeah?" Deidara asked Sasori as he flew into the air, not giving the man a chance to speak.

The Ichibi Jinchurikki had a date with his art.

Sunagakure no Sato

Gaara sat in his office after having just finished the last bit of paperwork; a part of him wondered why other Kage's like Tsunade always complained about having too much paperwork to do. Of course, because Gaara could not sleep, he was able to get all of his paperwork finished faster. Still, he mused that it would be easier for them to do the work rather than complain and throw it off. As he continued his musings, Gaara looked out of the window behind his desk and frowned when he spotted a giant white bird flying outside.

Deidara grinned as he looked down at the village where the one tails were supposed to be; moving the hair out of his eye, he revealed that he was wearing a viewing lens and camera. He pressed a button on the side and began to count the number of ninjas on the roofs, and once he got a good lock on all three sky guards, he made three tiny clay spiders. "This village's artistic design isn't too shabby," he said with a large grin, "it will be worth ruining, yeah." Deidara threw the spiders and made a hand seal; there was a small puff of smoke, and the three spiders landed near the three guards. The spiders jumped onto the guards, and Deidara made another hand sign as he channeled some chakra into his creations, "Art is a bang!" the three clay spiders exploded on guards, they were small explosions, but each one was enough to kill the guards they were attached to.

Deidara made his clay bird dive down as he jumped off and landed on the roof of the Kazekage tower, "infiltration successful." Deidara smirked only for his eyes to widen as he looked up; standing in front of him was Gaara garbed in his maroon robe and one strap over the shoulder flak jacket. Before Deidara could speak, a wave of sand came at him from the left. Deidara jumped into the air just as the sand crashed into where he had been standing; landing on his bird, he looked at Gaara, who began to wave his arms as if guiding an orchestra.

The sand began to move towards Deidara as Gaara jumped on it; the mad bomber looked at Gaara and smirked. "Ho, if it isn't the Ichibi Jinchurikki, yeah, how did you know I was attacking?" he asked.

"In this desert," Gaara said in his monotone voice, "no bird like that exists."

"Heh, seems like all my sneaking was in failure, yeah," Deidara said with a grin, "but, at least now, I don't need to look for you, yeah."

Gaara said nothing as he raised his hands; Deidara began to prepare some clay bomb birds for his attack. Just a little outside the gates of Suna, a large wave of sand shot into the air; there were hundreds of tons of sand from the desert that Gaara could control, and all of it headed for Deidara. The sand turned into huge claws that soon grabbed Deidara in an attempt to crush him; Deidara's bird weaved in between the attacks as he rummaged through his bag. Pulling out his hands, he made several more clay birds, these of a sleeker design than some of his other work, as he threw them at Gaara. A hand seal later, and there was a burst of smoke. The birds grew a bit and came to life as they flew around the sand and headed straight towards the young Kazekage; seeing them coming, Gaara manipulated the sand around him into a shield to protect himself from the explosion.

A small eye appeared just outside of the dome of sand that Gaara was in and locked onto Deidara, looking at the sand with a smirk, "it's like the eggshell protects the inner contents." Deidara didn't get the chance to say anything else as sand began to encircle him, compressing itself in the hopes of crushing him. Just as the sand fully compressed into a sphere, Deidara shot out; however, the sand latched onto his arm as he fell.

"Sabakyu Kyu!" Gaara said as he made his hand into a fist; Deidara's eyes widened in pain as he felt his arm crushed. As Deidara fell, he made an owl with his uncrushed hand, making a hand sign that the owl grew, and Deidara landed on it as he got away from the sand, though it was not enough to save the rest of his arm.

The blond bomber grimaced as he looked at the stump where his arm had been, "You're good, yeah," Deidara said as his remaining arm went into his pouch and began to gather clay. The bomber realized he only had a little clay left; he looked over at Gaara and tried to analyze his opponent and find a weakness. Looking at the sand Gaara was on, he realized that it was most likely specially made sand that he carried in his gourd; realizing that that was where he got his ultimate defense sand Deidara devised a plan. Molding his clay, he made one of his most potent explosives; Deidara smirked as he readied his strategy.

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The attack started on Suna, and they were going to kidnap Gaara.

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See in the next chapter.