Chapter 131: CH 131
Deidara was then bound by ink snakes that emerged from around him. As he struggled to escape, a sword was driven through his chest, freezing his face in an expression of pain and horror. Naruto smirked as he buried the sword through him up to the guard before the blade stuck fast as he tried pulling it out.
Deidara quickly lost his color and turned to the color of clay. Naruto panicked and channeled wind chakra to his blade to pull it out and get distance as the clay figure of Deidara exploded.
As Naruto landed from his evasive action, Sai came to his side, "That was a nasty little surprise. It looks like he has a clone technique of his own as well." Naruto looked around, "Where is he now? He isn't flying above us, so where could he be?"
Sai didn't speak, instead drawing on his scroll as snakes came off and burrowed underground. After a moment of waiting, Deidara came out of the ground a good distance away from the two boys, launching his clay explosives at the snakes. Naruto rushed in, trying to stay close with the long-range expert, but despite the speed that he came at his opponent with, Deidara saw him coming and dashed away, reaching into his pouch for more clay.
As Naruto cursed at the speed that Deidara had, simply running backwards he noticed that both of his hands spit out clay sculptures. Naruto shook his head as if he had been seeing things, 'I must have been underground too long.'
Naruto closed the distance enough that he was finally able to engage Deidara up close. Deidara avoided a thrust of the blonde teen's sword and maneuvered out of the way of a spinning slash. When Naruto spun for his attack however, Deidara was fast enough to plant one of his explosives on Naruto's back. The little clay spider crawled on Naruto's back while Deidara jumped away from him and made his hand-seal, "Katsu."
The explosion rocked Naruto and sent him to the ground. Naruto grit his teeth in pain as he could feel the damage he had just taken rip at his nerve endings, "I'm so tired of you." His eyes flashed red as he started leaking Kyuubi's chakra, "You've turned this entire trip into a massive headache!" One tail of chakra formed behind him.
Deidara had a small grin on his face, "Fighting two of you, with one of you being the Kyuubi jinchuuriki... not exactly my design of an ideal battle, un."
Naruto growled at him and rushed at him, gripping his sword double-handed, "Don't you run from me!"