GaaSaku: Saving You

Chapter 2: The 5th Kazekage

As soon as Deidara flutters in the air around the sand village, he began to search for some victims that he could possibly attack while traveling across the sky on the white bird, using his mini eye-scope. From there, he found three guards in different areas and decides to pull out three spider clay objects, then slowly drops them below. The creatures were making their way to sneak attack the guards behind until they climbed near their arms and faces. 

"What the? What the hell is this weird thing?!!" One of the guards exclaimed in shock.

"'Weird thing?' Hm. You've got no taste. No wonder stupid people can't comprehend art," Deidara chuckled with a half-grin, then made a hand sign to detonate. "Art is a bang."

Suddenly, all the three spiders exploded in which resulted in the deaths of the three guards in just a few seconds. Deidara landed on top of the balcony with a smirk and noticed someone was standing in front of him. 

"Ah... Infiltration successful," he noted in delight. 

"That's as far as you go..." said the young Kazekage sternly with his eyes narrowed at him. 

Deidara gave him a malicious smile and looked at the sand coming towards his way at the right corner of his eye. He dodged the attack as Gaara attempts to grasp onto him using one of his jutsus. Once he stepped on the white bird and flew away, the red-haired ninja was following along to stop him from destroying his village. 

"Ho... this jinchuriki is useful, isn't it?" Deidara thought impressively in mind. "However, you knew it was me." 

"In this desert, no bird like that exists," Gaara pointed out as he was riding on the sand. Both of them were currently facing each other ready to fight. "Heh... Seems like my sneaking in was a failure. Thanks to that, I don't need to search for you," Deidara sighed tiredly.

The red-haired Kazekage laid his hands out to levitate the sand up from the bottom of the ground, whereas Deidara opened his palm to reveal a few bomb clays.

"As one would expect, you have the geographical advantage. It's risky, Yeah."

"The sand turned into one of the One-Tailed beast's claws that rapidly was chasing him. He then was rummaging through his pockets to find mini bombs to throw towards Gaara, who quickly shielded himself from the explosions. After the grey smokes have been cleared, Deidara's eyes widened in surprise, seeing the sand sphere hold firmly.

"Heh. It's like the eggshell protecting the inner contents. But to be able to guard against all that is... It's totally impressive. Yeah..." He smirked thoughtfully at that. He realized that he was being trapped fully and making his escape as soon as possible by blowing up a hole with another bomb. 

As he got out of the sphere, he noticed that his arm gripped by the sand. Gaara uses his coffin jutsu to disintegrate it into pieces and blood was splattered out, whilst the Akatsuki continues to fall down and pulled out his right arm to summon a white bird to catch him.

"You're good. Oh my. I've only got a little bit of clay left. Just enough for one more attack. The sand that he used to crush my hand and the sand that he protects with is... Different from the normal desert sand that he brings up in terms of speed and power. So that means that he's always walking around with a set amount of sand on his ground. In other words, only that sand is specially made from a ton of old chakra all gathered up. And so, that's where we get that 'Ultimate defense' of sand. As well as sand to attack in an instant. In that case, that hole in the sand right there is the result of him crushing my hand. All I have left of my explosives is #18 and the homing bird," Deidara noted himself in mind and shows his weapon gleefully in front of him.