Naruto Shippuden X Male Reader

Chapter 10

(3rd POV)

Sasori: "If you're going to defy me, then I guess I have no choice." His cloak rips revealing the rest of his puppets body. "Will you join that kid as additions to my collection, Grandma Chiyo?"

Sakura: "Wh-What's that?"

Chiyo: "That's not Sasori's real body."

Sakura: "I can kind of tell that's not his real body."

Chiyo: "Yes... That's...a puppet."

Sakura: "But where's his real body? Puppet Masters are supposed to be pulling the strings from behind, right?"

Chiyo: "His real body's inside that." Sakura gasps.

Sakura: "Inside that?!"

Chiyo: "Puppet  Masters have trouble with close-range combat. After all, when controlling a puppet, they're prone to openings. That puppet there has basically surmounted that problem. The puppet acts as a shield as well as a weapon. It's Sasori's specialty, Hiruko."

Sasori: "Do you know how I make my collection? First, I pull out the organs. Then after I've washed the body nice and clean, I extract the blood. Once I've prepared the body so it won't decay, I fill it with hidden weapons and then it becomes a complete addition to my puppet collection. Just as the old woman said, this form you see... Hiruko, is part of my collection. And with the little girl and Granny Chiyo added... I'll have exactly three hundred in my collection. It's my art!"

Naruto: "Gaara..." Back outside the three leaf nin stared at the airborn Deidara.

Deidara: "Is it okay for you to be taking me on? Kakashi-sensei of the Sharingan. I hate to say this, but my man Sasori is stronger than I am. Probably... Our ideas of art are quite different, though."

Chiyo: "Art, huh?" Back inside literally nothing new has happened.

Sakura: "Lady Chiyo?"

Chiyo: "Back when he was in the Hidden Sand, he was called a master craftsman, and he built many excellent puppets. But he devoted most of his energy into turning people into puppets and collecting them. He calls that "art." And that puppet Hiruko... used to be a shinobi from another village. He was turned into that form you see there by Sasori. He turned into a "human puppet" while still maintaining his original human form."

Sakura: "A human puppet."

Sasori: "That's what'll happen to you very soon. You'll become one of my works of art." He raises the puppets tail in the air.

Chiyo: "Hiruko is a puppet with a great attack and defense. Be that as it may, first we need to extract Sasori out of Hiruko."

Sakura: "Then, how do we do that?"

Chiyo: "The most frightening thing about a puppet is their hidden weapon. If we can't figure out what they are, we won't be able to tell where and how he'll attack."

Sakura: "But Lady Chiyo, you know a lot about the mechanisms of that puppet. We've got the edge."

Chiyo: "Yes... That's why I thought I could take him on by myself at first."

Sakura: "At first?"

Chiyo: "But...it doesn't look like it'll work."

Sakura: "What do you mean?"

Chiyo: "It has a different form than the Hiruko puppet I used to know." Sakura gasps. "First of all, he didn't have a shell like that on his back. He probably has a better ability to guard now. And it's the first time I've seen that left arm. In which case, his most important hidden weapon mechanism might have also been improved."