Chapter 137: CH 137
For the time being all he could do was take a rest and hide. He was next to worthless the way he was, and trying to move now would probably make things worse than they already were. Sai ran through his supplies and checked his stuff. He still had his tanto that he had placed onto his back once more, he had his scroll, he had enough ink to hopefully carry him through the rest of the fight, he had his still had a holster full of kunai and a pouch of shuriken, no explosive notes, much like Naruto, all of his were ruined when they went into the whirlpool, he also had gauze. That was what he needed right now, something to cover his wounds to keep them from getting infected while he was running around the battlefield.
Wrapping his torso, his now exposed arms, and his wounded leg, he let himself settle for a moment. He pulled up his scroll and drew up some ink mice to search for Deidara in the meantime so he could at least perhaps get the drop on him once he felt well enough to move before a subtle clicking noise alerted him to his left. Turning his head, he saw a clay insect sculpture with its eyes glowing red. Sai immediately propelled himself out of his area of hiding before he found himself caught in another explosion. As he looked around he saw a dozen of the insect sculptures crawling his way. Suicide sentries sent out by Deidara, but where was the man himself? That was what Sai needed to know right now.
In the meantime he drew out his shuriken and tried hitting the explosives before they could get any closer. As they connected with them, the blasts signified that he had finished them off, but now it was abundantly clear where he was and he could be picked off at any time by Deidara.
This was made abundantly clear when Sai looked up and saw clay birds circling overhead. As they came careening down at him to finish him in a suicide divebomb he heard explosions come from behind him before a massive shadow covered him with its stone frame, covering him from damage as the blasts rocked his apparently mobile cover.
"That was close Sai-san."
Sai turned to see Hamako right next to him with a small smile on her face at being able to reach him to assist, "Hamako-san, what are you doing? Senpai gave me orders to make sure you were out of harm's way."
Hamako frowned as even more explosions sounded out around them, "Well that's not fair to you two is it? Doing all of the fighting alone like that. And even more so to me, what am I supposed to do if you two are killed here? I don't know anything or anyone in this time, how am I supposed to get along? If that's the way things are going to go I might as well fight too and risk myself as well."
Sai winced somewhat as he was beginning to feel his injuries, the adrenaline from the hiding and searching finally wearing off, "You aren't a shinobi Hamako-san. You couldn't help either myself or Naruto-senpai in combat."
Hamako gave him a deadpan look, "Really? Because what do you think is shielding you right now? Your iron will to live?"