Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ World Collision ❯ How does he control so many puppets!?! ( Chapter 28 )

Okay, here's another chapter. It's not as exciting as I'd like it to be, but by the next chapter things will pick up again… I was actually hoping that it would make it into this chapter but I'd be drawing it out to much with the way I have it written right now so… I guess that will have to wait until tomorrow!

 

~Liliedove

 

 

“Impressive, grandma. They say that that the strength of a puppeteer is measured by the amounts of puppets they use.” Sasori said as he looked at the ten puppets the old woman before him summoned.

 

Jessica watched with all of her focus on them now. She could tell by just looking, that this was not going to end too soon, or well. What was going to happen next? Would the old woman and the girl actually beat Sasori-san? Thinking back once again on how Deidara-sama stated that Sasori-san was stronger than even him, she found the thought of him loosing to the women unrealistic. Yet again, she couldn't really know who was stronger, since she hadn't seen any one of these people fight before now.

 

“So many… Amazing,” the girl said as she stared at her fighting partner's weapons.

 

“Chiyo's great technique, `finger by finger'… I've heard rumors of it… It's a mechanism that is said to have taken down an entire castle… `Secret white technique: group of ten of the chikamatsu'.” Sasori declared in a voice that was surprisingly a bit more uplifting than his usual tone. “The very first user of kugutsu no jutsu, enzaemon's ten masterpieces. That's a considerable amount of puppets.” He said as a scroll that was attached to his back slid out of the container it was in which could hold up to four, now two left. “But…” he said as he opened a hatch that was built into his chest. What looked to be hundreds of long strings, flew out from the hole, and from those strings, were all puppets. “With these,” he declared, “I took down a country.”

 

A shocked, almost scared look then appeared on Jessica's face. Was Sasori-san really that powerful? Only about twenty feet below her were some of his puppets, which were only a few out of many. All of them had robes on, covering their once-human bodies. How was he able to do this; to control so many puppets at once? Even controlling two of these puppets seemed unbelievable in her eyes, and yet Sasori had to at least have one hundred of them! With them covering almost the whole perimeter of the cave area, it was difficult for her to see anything at all!

 

“How'll I explain this…” he said in a rather exasperated tone. “How long it took me to take down a little girl and an old hag… that I even had to take out my last trick… `Secret red technique: hundred manipulation'…. I will show you this power.”

 

For a few minutes, there was nothing to be heard from the distance Jessica was at. Squirming in her place and rubbing the areas of her skin that had grass marks, she breathed a few deep breathes to help calm herself down. Closing her eyes, she was afraid of what she'd see when she'd open them again. Would someone be dead? Who would win? Surely Sasori-san wouldn't lose when each of the old woman's puppets were out numbered by at least ten. Yet, she didn't want the two women to die. They seemed to be good people, and she reminded herself that they were the people who wanted to save the boy's life; the people she was with took it. Whose side was the right one, and which was not? The more and more she thought things over the past few days, the more the haunting feeling came over her that told her that her side was in the wrong. Of course, it wasn't exactly `her side', but rather her `master's side'. Even so, she knew nothing good would come out of it for her.

 

The sound of loud clattering and of things smashing together then pulled Jessica from her thoughts. As her eyes flew open, she saw that Sasori's puppets were now on the move. Surprisingly enough, the two women were doing well to keep up their side of the battle, even with Sasori's great strength against them. This though, only lasted for so long before the old woman was hit by one of the puppets' swords. Turning back, the young woman then shouted back at her. “Chiyo-sama,” she said with full concern in her voice.

 

“Sakura, go for Sasori… I'll handle the rest.” She replied. “Use that!” As the pink haired girl then ran towards Sasori, dodging his attacks along the way, one of the old woman's puppets threw something at her that Jessica could not identify. Increasing her speed as she approached the man who stood tall, she jumped up into the air and threw the thing at him. The thing then turned into what looked like some sort of a beast's head, with large fangs that then nailed Sasori against a bolder sized piece of rubble. Sasori's broken frame was then motionless.

 

“You can't move… It's over Sasori… That sealing jutsu completely surpasses all chakra… you can't even use a chakra thread…” His grandmother said before falling to her knees.

 

“Chiyo-sama, hurry, take the anti-dote!” The girl cried as she quickly ran towards the old woman. Suddenly, from behind the woman, a puppet rose and lunged it's sword towards her, piecing the blade through the girl who stood now behind her partner. Jessica then became uneasy again. “Hurry… take the anti-dote… Chiyo-sama,” she heard the girl struggle to say as she leaned back on the rock in front of her.

 

“Oho… Worrying about others even with an injury like this? What a girl.” Sasori then teased as the girl then let out another sickening sound of pain. Jessica then cringed as she heard more and more of the girl's pain, which she could tell she was trying to hide. She couldn't believe that she was on Sasori-san's side this whole time in the back of her mind. What sort of a good person would do so much as this? “It seems the poison is having its affect…” she heard him state. “This blade is also, of course, a poisoned blade.” Suddenly, the sound of metal stabbing into something was heard once again as the old woman began to speak.

 

“In the end you were careless, Sasori… Now you cannot move… I am certain. It doesn't matter whether you have a puppet body… A part of your real body still needs to control chakra. That's your weak point… And from that skinned body of yours, just the left part of your chest was left in tact… A puppet body after all, is just a regular puppet… Your real body is that chest part that uses chakra…”

 

Jessica couldn't take it any longer; she needed to see what was happening besides just hearing it all! Turning quickly to look, she absorbed the sight before her. On the ground, the pink haired girl now lay in agony while the old woman was apparently healing the fresh wounds her grandson had made in her. Before them a ways, were two puppets on either side of another puppet that looked like the body he was in that was trapped against a rock. Through this new body though, were two swords. It was now evident to Jessica what the woman had meant when she said that some of him was still human. In the left side of his chest where he was pierced, a large quantity of blood now poured down his body. As it flowed out consistently, Jessica then gagged before everything in her sight became black until a while later… When she would wake find things a lot different than before...