NARUTO:The sealed shinobi.

Sai narrowed his eyes in annoyance as he saw even more birds coming their way, "Sumigasumi no Jutsu (Ink Mist Jutsu)." Sai shrouded his bird and a decent area around it in ink as it sped towards Deidara. The clay sculptures went inside the shroud and exploded, trying to take Sai out without sight. The bird emerged from the mist still in flight and still generally coming at Deidara.

Deidara smirked to himself as he watched Sai come closer, "Now why would I send so many of my beautiful figures into there with little to no hope of hitting you? Because they weren't supposed to hit you fool, they were just supposed to locate you, un!" Deidara made his hand-seal again, "Katsu!"

Little clay insects appeared all over the bodies of Sai, Hamako, and the clay bird, glowing and exploding on them before they could react, "I have to keep the jinchuuriki alive. There's no such restrictions about fighting you, un." Deidara smirked before he realized that he wasn't seeing flaming corpses falling from the sky. Instead he saw melting ink bodies drop, no bodies whatsoever. Danger senses went off for Deidara as he jumped over Sai's low slash. He had hung off of the legs of the bird and taken his shot at the explosives artist. Deidara hung off of the other side as well and kicked at Sai, who swung himself up on the top of Deidara's bird to take a more advantageous position. He kept himself in a position to defend from whatever side Deidara would end up coming up from.

"What are you looking at, un?"

Sai turned his head and saw Deidara sitting on another clay bird. This surprised Sai, as he had never even felt Deidara's weight leave the bird. He looked on the underside of the bird to see that it was holding a clay clone of Deidara in its talons. Sai looked up and saw Deidara's hand's moving towards his hand-seal, "Katsu."

Before he could finish the word, Sai jumped off of the bird. He freefell to the ground as the fiery explosion of the clay bird sounded out over him. The sound of a bird's cry let Sai know he was saved as he found himself scooped out of the air gently by his bird. The pale Root ninja sighed to himself and patted the inky construct on its head.

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Hamako shook herself off as she stood up from where Sai's bird had dropped her for his gambit of an attack on Deidara. She watched Sai's bird save him from a screaming, flaming death and clutched her Komainu necklace tightly, "Sai-san and Naruto-sama are fighting so hard... And I can't help, again. I can never help, all I'm good for is making seals." Her eyes widened before a small smile came to her face, "And what's wrong with that? Seals are the backbone of this village! And I'm the best!"

She reached into her pocket and frowned, "Sai-san didn't have much ink to spare me, but it's better than nothing! I just have to make do with what I have here, it has to be enough." She looked up at Sai, still in mid-air combat with Deidara, "I won't be useless here Sai-san."

ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ ɴovᴇl(ꜰ)ir(e).nᴇt

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(Naruto vs. Sasori)