No I didn't feel it! I've never really run out of chakra before, not like this!' The gauntlets fell off of Naruto and turned back into his ninjato before he fell to his knees, his hand on the handle of the weapon, 'This is not the time for this… Give me more chakra.'
"*sigh* If you use my chakra as a glorified soldier pill you're going to be the walking dead after this fight is over, you know that right, especially since you're using it as a replacement for your own instead of just as a bolster?"
'Duh.' Naruto mentally rolled his eyes, as if Kyuubi could see it, 'Do I have a choice right now? Just keep the juice coming until I finish off this clown and link back up with Sai-kouhai and Hamako-chan.'
"You're going to be puking blood and pissing fire tonight boy… I'll be sure to laugh at that when it occurs." Kyuubi began to increase the flow of chakra to Naruto to get him to move.
Naruto sheathed the Sen'nenki no Ken on his back, not wanting to touch the blade for the time being after getting drained dry by it not a moment ago, 'Sasori, Sasori, Sasori… you missed your chance to finish me off you tenative bastard.' The Kazekage puppet began flying through the iron forest as Naruto felt his strength return to him. The left arm of the puppet was now a buzzsaw and the right had a blade extending from it.
Naruto began springing through the branches, playing a very dangerous game of cat and mouse with the puppet. With it trying to rip into him with its bladed weapons and Naruto trying to get a chance to destroy it and move along to Sasori himself. Naruto wasn't really worried about getting cut or stabbed, he was really trying to lure it in. He figured that since he could probably survive a stab wound from the puppet, especially now since he knew Sasori's poison couldn't beat him, once he destroyed this one, Sasori would have nothing left to fight him with. After all, Kankuro only had two puppets, so maybe it was a Suna puppeteer thing.
Feeling more and more spry and loose as more of the Kyuubi's chakra circulated through his body, Naruto took advantage of his boost and lashed out at the puppet with his chakra shroud tail. Naruto wrapped around it and pulled it in with a Rasengan forming in his hand. The red of the Kyuubi's chakra bled into the Rasengan, giving it a warped color. He proceeded to slam the jutsu into the body of the puppet, ripping it asunder and scattering its body along the ground.
Naruto walked up to the remains of the puppet and stomped on the head for good measure, crushing it under his foot, "Whoops. Sorry, I'm so clumsy with other people's tools. I guess that's why Kankuro never let me mess with his puppets when I was staying in his family's place."
Naruto saw a flash of red hair in the forest of twisted metal and immediately took off in pursuit. After a decent chase that eventually led them out of the iron jungle, Naruto closed the distance swiftly with his speed boosted and smirked as he bared down on Sasori, "Too slow!" Naruto shot out a claw of chakra that cut right through Sasori's arm as he passed him by.
Standing away with a bloodthirsty grin on his face at finally getting the chance to pick apart the puppet user himself he looked down at his hands to find that there was not a drop of blood on them. Looking back at Sasori he saw that he had torn off a good portion of his cloak and saw Sasori's arm coming back to his body, "Well that was potentially barbaric. Like I said earlier, it's a good thing I'm not exactly normal."
Now that he had a good look he could see that Sasori's arm was segmented, like a… puppet. Naruto sighed and pointed at him, "Okay, I was willing to accept the fact that you turned a kage into a puppet, because after watching it fight it seemed like a damn good idea, despite the fact that it's a human being and the idea seems utterly ludicrous and morbid, but this? How the hell can you even do that? Is that even physically possible?" The body of Sasori was that of a puppet.
He pulled off the rest of his cloak and showed his inhuman body. There were clear segments and compartments on his chest, stomach, and back. Even his eyes didn't look human anymore, open and wide like a puppet, "It's very possible seeing as how I did it. And there's nothing ludicrous about it. Why would I want my human body that has weakness, can feel pain, and would have eventually grown old and weak no matter what I would have done? I can have a body that I can upgrade at will, will never feel sickness, and is all around stronger than my human body could ever be. I have turned myself into the ultimate eternal art."
The right compartment of his chest opened as Sasori pulled a scroll from his back, "Now let me show you exactly what my superior body is capable of." Opening the scroll in a puff of smoke, many figures rose out, hovering above Sasori, "Aka Higi: Hyakki no Souen (Red Secret Technique: Performance of a Hundred Puppets)!" Over one hundred puppets kept Naruto from Sasori as they all wore red cloaks and had their own weapons, "You wanted to know what took down the majority of this village's forces? This was the technique that did most of the work."
Naruto grit his teeth as he felt an influx of Kyuubi's chakra. His lips started to blacken as a second tail of chakra began forming behind him. As he spoke his voice sounded gruffer and more serious, "One against one hundred, I have to say Sasori, I'm disappointed. You do know what jinchuuriki like me are meant to be don't you?" Two bubbling tails of red chakra swished behind him, "Army killers… Always go with quality over quantity!" Naruto launched himself at the force of puppets.
Sasori's puppets came at Naruto to put this fight to rest once and for all, but as the boy drew close he vanished from immediate sight and began ripping through the puppets savagely with his bare hands. Blood flying through the air was a sign that Naruto was being cut by the weaponry wielded by the puppets, but the fact that he refrained from slowing down at the very least signified that these were shallow, and with him not being susceptible to Sasori's poison this wasn't nearly good enough to beat him.
All Sasori could do was maneuver the puppets around Naruto's path of destruction and cut him off from free range of movement. Eventually he was able to do just this, surrounding Naruto with a circle of puppets a dozen thick. Naruto had the top half of one of Sasori's puppets in his hand as he stared around himself, noting that he was surrounded with an amused smirk, and with his feral features this made it somewhat chilling, especially as his body was now clearly visible due to him having his shirt utterly torn asunder by the puppets with only the strap of his sheath being intact, his substantial amount of shallow wounds sizzling shut right in front of Sasori's eyes. "So this was your big plan when you came after me? Mob me with puppets and hope your poison stops me? Let me show you something that just might get the point across to you."
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