"I'd heard that the Kazekage is young but he is still a kid...haha. All 4 of us being here is overkill" Kakuzu said
"Since it has got to this I think it's best if we start the attack." Sasori said as he was getting ready to fight Gaara now but Deidara stopped him and said "The Kazekage is my prey. As we decided, I will fight with the Kazekage."
Deidara then put his hand in his Akatsuki coat and pulled out some balls of white clay. Gaara saw all this but he didn't understand what Deidara was planning to do. The mouths on Deidara's hands then swallowed the balls of clay and started chewing them.
"Are you saying that after walking this far, I don't get to have any fun?" Hidan asked disappointedly.
Kakuzu looked at the shinobis coming outside the village who were led by Kankuro and Baki. The elders were also with the group of shinobis.
"I don't care if you guys fight or not. I just want it to be finished before dawn so that we can start the extraction process." Sasori said.
By this time, the mouths on Deidara's palms started spewing out the chewed-up clay. They were doing it so fast that very quickly a lot of clay started forming under Deidara's feet.
"What is this jutsu?" Gaara muttered as he had never seen someone do it. Tsunade hadn't shared the information of the individual strengths and jutsus information with Gaara. Although Itachi had given her information about most of them, she couldn't trust others with it. She didn't know what all spies are in her and the hidden sand and if this information could reach the ears of the Akatsuki.
The clay that was under Deidara's feet now started to take shape and within seconds, it formed into a complete white OWL. The owl was big enough for a single person to stand on it and it made no sound.
"This is the first time I am seeing this blondie fight." Hidan said as he looked at the Owl.
The Owl then flapped his wings and Deidara jumped on his back. The Owl suddenly started flying and flew high enough to meet the same altitude as Gaara.
Since Gaara had no idea about his opponent's powers, Gaara stretched his hand out toward Deidara and 2 streams of sand shot themselves toward the bird. Even though the attack was fast when compared to a normal shinobi, the bird easily swerved left and right to avoid it from hitting.
"Did you think it would be that simple Lord Kazekage? Are you perhaps underestimating me and my art?" deidara asked as he saw the simple attack initiated by Gaara. He thought that by using such a simple attack against his big owl, he and his art was getting underestimated which infuriated Diedara a little.
The mouths in his palms started churning the clay more hasitily and within the next few seconds, Deidara had a dozen or so small balls of that clay in his hand. The clays looked like small spiders with small dot like eyes and flat legs. The owl flew toward Gaara and even increased its altitude a little. Gaara looked around trying to figure out what Deidara was planning.
From time to time he would send streams of sand to attack the bird but the owl was quick enough to dodge them all. After circling Gaara twice, deidara spread his hands and threw all those clay spiders toward Gaara.
Since Gaara didn't know what those clay spiders were about to do, he created a shield of sand around him from where the attack was coming. As the spiders landed on the sand sheild, they started crawling around trying to go through it but Gaara distanced them further. Seeing that they had no way to reach Gaara due to the distance, the spiders immediately exploded. The explosion was something no one expected from the spiders. Just as Gaara's instinct kicked in, the sand under his feet became a little thin and created a dome around him.
The wind pressure that was created due to the explosion, was enough to make Gaara fly back a little. The sand shinobis on the ground were also affected by it. Though none of them got hurt, they understood how dangerous that clay was so they diverted their direction a little far from under Gaara. None of them wanted to die as collateral damage to the fight happening in the air.
The elders also ordered the shinobis to take a defensive stance and maintain distance from Gaara. They didn't want the shinobis to be a burden to their Kazekage.
The shinobis looked up to see whether Gaara was alright or not and luckily the dome quickly dissipated back into the sand under Gaara and he was standing untouched.
"See he is alright...there is no need to worry." The shinobis assured each other. Seeing Gaara still stand arrogantly like before Deidara said "Don't be happy because you came out of this unscathed. I was testing the waters...haha...now you will see my art." Deidara then spread his arms toward Gaara and the constant spewing of clay from the mouths, created a structure in the air. It didn't take a long time for the spewed clay to take the shape of a centipede.
The centipede then jumped toward Gaara. Gaara immediately backed off a little and sent multiple sharp waves of sand toward the centipede to stop it from reaching him.
The sharp and sturdy sand attack did cut the centipede in multiple places but it only slowed down the centipede. The parts from where the centipede was severed, also started connecting back to each other and regaining their shape.
Gaara understood that it is going to be tricky to get rid of Deidara's clay so he unfolded his hands and raised his arm a little which made the sand on the ground rise up in the air and hold the clay from different angles. Since the clay was now held at different angles, it couldn't just escape and it's momentum toward Gaara was halted.
This move wiped the smile of Deidara's face as he saw his attack was easily countered. Seeing him like that, Gaara understood what Deidara was going to do so he immediately closed his fist which made the sand surround the clay centipede and multiple layers of sand pile on top of it. The very next second, the centipede exploded.
The explosion was properly contained and the sand didn't let any kind of impact escape the in the atmosphere. Gaara then left his control over the sand which now fell to the ground. The ball of sand that had covered the centipede now opened like a coconut with the middle being hot and even hard in some places. Gaara understood that the thermal explosion was so high that it almost melted the sand.
Deidara understood that Gaara's control over the sand was way more than he had imagined and right now they were standing in a desert full of it. This was his domain so the only upside he now had was that he was in the air.
Gaara decided that he had enough on the defensive and he wouldn't win this easily if he didn't change his strategy. He looked down and his brother and the other shinobis who were ready to attack. Since none of them knew anything about the rest of the shinobis, it would be a suicide if they just started attacking the Akatsuki blindly.
A little far away from all this, Yami was now watching the fight when he saw a bat come and fly in front of him. The bat then opened his claws and allowed the sword to drop down. With a small flick of his leg, Yami lifted the sword back up in the air and caught it. He then stretched out his arm and the bird sat on it.
"What else have you got for me?" Yami said and the bird spat a scroll from his mouth. Yami immediately kept the sword aside leaning it on a nearby stone where he had taken cover and took the scroll in his hand.
"I don't have the luxury to check my belongings in the scroll right now but I don't think anyone would dare mess with my stuff." Yami muttered as he looked at the sword and tucked it in his kimono pocket.
"You can go back in now." Yami said and the bat turned into silver strings and merged into Yami's arm.
He looked back at the fight going on between Gaara and Deidara again. Gaara's people had given him enough space to fight now. He was utilizing the sand around him to launch constant attacks at Deidara. With a flick of his wrist, pillars of sand were going up and down making Deidara's owl harder and harder to dodge.
Deidara was also getting frustrated since he had to use most of his attention to maintain his balance on the bird and not get him. But the inevitable happened and one of the pillars went straight through the owl's wing making it lose balance and fall sideways from the sky.
(What strategy will Deidara use now? Will the other Akatsuki members intervne? Ans to all your questions are posted in my P@treon)
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Even though it wasn't a real bird, it was flying using simple science so when it didn't have a wing to create lift it was bound to fall. Deidara knew that once his feet touches the ground, Gaara will again go on the offensive and he won't be able to even come near Gaara when that happens.
"I can't lose without showing everyone what I am capable of." Deidara said as he grit his teeth and the next second, everyone saw him go insdie his own clay bird. They didn't understand what he was trying to do but then the size of the bird decreased and four wings appeared from its back just before the bird could drop on the ground.
Gaara understood that Deidara was making a last ditch effort to stay in the air so he flicked his wrist and a sharp pointed spear like sand pillar rose from the ground under Deidara.
The big wing of the owl also merged back into the body of the owl and just as the spear was about to reach the bird, the 4 wings in the back flapped instantly swerving him to the side.
They flapped again making him rise up in the air but this time his speed was way faster than before. Just as it stopped after reaching a particular height, a small hole appeared in front of the clay body and Deidara's head appeared from it.
2 more holes appeared on the side from where Deidara's hands appeared. "I hate to use this since it's so stuffy in here but what can I say...for the hidden sand to enjoy some fireworks, I must make some compromises."
Just as he said that his eyes shifted to the sand shinobis who were standing on both sides of Gaara. Gaara sent multiple streams of sand to restrict Deidara's movements but this makeshift clay suit of his was a smaller target and since it had 4 wings it could make extremely sharp turns. Yami himself was a little astonished to see it. Deidara did look funny in that but it was a clever strategy. Yami realized that in the canon, Deidara was limited to his own innovative thinking but this one wasn't.
Deidara quickly flew toward the left side of Gaara where the shinobis were waiting for a signal to launch an attack on the 3 remaining Akatsuki members. Hundreds of small balls made of clay just popped out from Deidara's makeshift suit and rained on the shinobis standing below. Gaara was about to focus on creating a platform made of sand in the air that would serve as a barrier between the clay balls and his shinobis but then he saw Deidara fly straight toward him speedily.
'What do I do now? I can't let those clay balls fall on my people as most of it wouldn't be able to run away from such a big area and even if some do manage to swat them away with their jutsu then they will end up swatting them on other shinobis.' Gaara thought. He knew that if his sister Temari was here then she would have used a wind jutsu strong enough to blow the majority of the balls away lowering the number of casualties. On the other hand, if Gaara let himself get attacked by Deidara now, he will be severely injured and in that state, he wouldn't be able to save anybody including his own people which were inside the village.
"Everyone, run away from the balls." Kankuro announced and took out a puppet from his back.
"Wind users ready your wind jutsu and blow the balls away from others." Baki instructed the ones behind him. The other elders and squad leaders gave a similar order but they knew that the casualties are still going to be high.
Just as Diedara and the other Akatsuki members thought that the fight had started to go their way.
A large gale of wind blew out of nowhere. At first, they thought it was just the storm getting intense for a second but the wind blew only in one part. The part where the clay balls were falling and instantly all the balls were thrown in the direction of the three Akatsuki members.
"What the hell?" Diedara muttered as he saw it happen. He then saw Gaara making a move to protect himself so Diedara immediately stopped midair and flew back. The balls were now headed toward the Akatsuki members and the wind had increased their speed as well. The area was too big to run away so the Akatsuki members used their own way of defense.
Sasori's tail rotated above his head to stop any balls from touching his body while Kakuzu unleashed hair from his Akatsuki cloak and raised them up in the air so that the explosion happens mid air. The most excited one was Hidan who took out waved his scythe around trying to blow them up. He had a big smile on his face and he was laughing while explosions happened around him.
'He is behaving like a kid who is popping air bubbles.' Yami thought as he chuckled to himself.
"What just happened?" Baki asked as he looked at Kankuro who was just as confused as the others so he just shrugged his shoulders.
"Maybe Temari has come back from the hidden leaf." Baki said. He knew that Temari was the strongest wind-style user in the hidden sand.
Kankuro shook his head and said "No...she wouldn't be back so early and even if it was her even then she isn't strong enough to blow away all the balls with just precision that none of us were harmed and all of the balls fell on the Akatsuki members.
By this time the clay balls had already detonated on the Akatsuki members. As the dust settled, the sand shinobis expected the Akatsuki members to be injured but none of them had a single of blood spilled.
Though Hidan's Akatsuki cloak had a few tears, Kakuzu hair were burned due to the explosion and he had to abandon some of them which was negligible damage. The most damaged if something was Sasori's metal tail. It was now busted from several places and its movement wasn't as smooth as before. In the end, Sasori just detached the tail from his body.
"This was annoying...I didn't think blondie's attack would be backfired on us." Hidan said as he looked at his torn Akatsuki cloak.
Sasori looked around and said "That is not the main problem here. The wind that just blew was not some natural occurrence. It came from the gate of the hidden sand.
Kakuzu walked a few steps forward toward the sand shinobis and said "The only way to fish out the culprit of that wind jutsu is to attack the ones he saved."
Kankuro sensed that Kakuzu's chakra was getting riled up which meant he was going to attack now...He quickly brought 2 of his puppets in front of him and said "I'll handle this one...you keep and eye on the others. The one with the scythe seems like he will jump in soon enough."
Baki nodded and ordered some of the shinobis to assist Kankuro while the rest to spread out and surround Hidan and Sasori.
"Who are you? I have never heard of anyone use a power as bizzare as you." Kankuro said. He wanted to get the gist of what Kakuzu's power was. He had seen the dark-colored hair flow from his body and explode those clay balls but if Kankuro doesn't understand Kakuzu's power then he cannot counter and win it.
"I am Kakuzu...brats like you won't have heard about me and since this will be your last fight, you won't even need to hear more." Kakuzu said as he lunged toward Kankuro. Kankuro quickly blocked Kakuzu with one of his puppets. The puppets had 6 hands in total with 3 on each side. One hand tried to hold Kakuzu but he was too strong so another hand joined as well. With 4 of the hands busy in pushing Kakuzu back, the palms of the rest 2 hands opened and something flew out of it and hit Kakuzu's chest. The speed of the projectile was too fast for Kakuzu to even know what it was. He looked at his chest and saw that they were 2 oversized needles.
Kakuzu kicked the puppet on his chest creating some distance between the two. He then pulled out the 2 needles that were lodged in his chest. As he pulled them out, he saw that they had some yellow liquid on it.
Kankuro chuckled as he saw Kakuzu halt his attacks and said "Those needles contain a paralyzing agent. In a couple of seconds, you won't be able to even move. I guess the Akatsuki are feared for nothing."
Kakuzu looked at him with his green eyes and said "It's too early for brats like you to stop me. Even the 1st Hokage wasn't able to kill me."
(Will Kankuro be able to deal with Kakuzu? Or will he die trying? Ans to all your questions are posted in my P@treon)
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