Isaribi/Tayuya Vs Sasori/Deidara

It was time for another showdown. This time, it was the artist duo of the Akatsuki versus Isaribi and Tayuya of Mugetsu. The battle had occurred just slightly after the other one had started but went along quite differently.

Isaribi's Kaima Transformation had been improved by Mugetsu's procedures and resonated with the Perfect Sage Curse Mark created by Shiki incredibly well. As a result, the girl was a force to be reckoned with in her own environment.

Not only that, a special summoning beast that had been created by the same lab that experimented on her was also improved and contracted to Isaribi as well.

As for Tayuya, although her stats had improved immensely when compared to the time she was still part of the Sound Four, her fighting style didn't change all that much, still focusing on genjutsu but with a lot more sound based ninjutsu and genjutsu mixed in that she had learned since.

Tired of hearing the two intruders speak as if they were weak trash that didn't pose any sort of threat, Isaribi decided to right their skewed perception.

Unlike Zabuza and Haku, whose Curse Marks make it very clear it is a Mugetsu specialty rather than a unique ability, Isaribi used hers in conjunction with her Kaima Transformation as the two worked best when used together so she had no hesitation.

Going full Kaima Form, a more draconic version of her form in the original series, she unloaded on the Akatsuki duo.

'Water Style: Colossal Abyssal Tsunami'

A giant wave of water rose to cover the sky but that was not just it. The wave was dark blue, almost black as an immense volume of water from the depths of the ocean was comprised within it.

Getting hit by it would be like getting hit by a giant solid wall of chakra metal and its size made escape difficult to say the least.

Deidara jumped on a clay bird immediately and Sasori inside his Hiruko puppet followed without a word as the two flew into the air, barely dodging the crest of the wave but Isaribi was far from done as she sank in the water to continue her vicious assault.

'Water Style: Thousand Abyssal Tendrils'

The giant wave split into tentacles of dark blue compressed water reaching for the flying clay bird at blinding speed.

Deidara controlled the bird to dodge but he was slowly getting cornered by the never ending tendrils and Isaribi was safe within the depths, out of the reach of his explosives.

He thought about using depth charges but doubted the girl would not take care of them as soon as they touched the water but it wasn't like he had other options.

Mini fish shaped clay explosives were tossed from above into the water by the handful, turning bigger on contact and swimming towards Isaribi before being swiftly destroyed by tendrils underwater.

"Thing aren't looking good my man." Deidara said to his partner, swer starting to cover his forehead.

"You're stating the obvious fool!" Sasori responded but had nothing to add either.

Suddenly thought, the situations changed, the other opponent, the red haired girl had disappeared and a melody could be heard in the air.

Immediately, both felt their chakra being disturbed as they momentarily lost focus.

'Genjutsu!' They both realized and steeled their minds but it was too little too late.

Their momentary lapse enabled the tendrils to reach them and strike them down. Deidara managed to jump away but the slower Hiruko was crushed with Sasori within having to jump out.

Realizing they were in deep shit, they both decided to bring out their trump cards and, even if they failed their mission, at least escape.

Deidara tossed out another bird to fly around in and dropped his C3: Karura towards the ocean underneath, hoping the shockwaves reached Isaribi underwater and damaged her.

Sasori, didn't bother bringing out another pupper as his tossed away his robes and revealed his puppet form, using the blades on his back as propellers to fly around and dodge Isaribi's tendrils.

Sasori then shut down his puppet body's sense of hearing, saving himself from Tayuya's interference but Deidara had no such methods.

Meanwhile, with a devastating explosion, a massive shockwave spread out from the detonated C3: Karura.

Much like Deidara hoped, the showave travelled well in water and even the compressed water barriers failed to stop it completely as several of Isaribi's internal organs ruptured as she spat out blood, the tendrils massively dropping in speed and becoming unstable.

Unfortunately for Deidara, just has he was about to celebrate, Isaribi's Self Healing kicked in and repaired all of the damage, leading to the tendrils being back with a vengeance and, now knowing her opponent had ways to hurt her behind her defenses, isaribi wanted to finish it without creating further opportunities for him to use them.

'Water Style: Thousand Abyssal Cannon'

Each trial then shot out a high pressure stream of water and both the bird and deidara were slashed to pieces. The end result however, was just an enormous explosion as it seemed the Deidara that was cut was simply a clay clone.

Then countless puppets in red robes swarmed the skies and flew at Mugetsu's facilities on the island, intent on causing destruction.

Being that her primary mission was guarding the facilities, Isaribi moved her attention to the puppets and started to rapidly destroy them unrelentingly.

Meanwhile, Tayuya use a sound wave based sensory jutsu to try and figure out the positions of their enemies. The outer barrier was still intact so it was impossible that they had escaped and they should just be hiding.

While water's easy transmission of shock and sound waves worked for Deidara before, now it worked against him as Tayuya quickly determined he and Sasori were not hiding in the water which could only mean they were underground.

The facility had scanning equipment and Tayuya ordered a scan of the island to be ade in order to find the hidden intruders. A few minutes later, their locations were revealed but the pair in question had no way of knowing this.

All of Sasori's puppets had been crushed to smithereens, not a single working part left, only dust as flazes of material floating in the ocean and covering the ground as Isaribi had thoroughly crushed each and every puppet with no exception.

The artistic duo were no talking in a little underground chamber.

"I don't see a way to get out of this but I won't go quietly!" Deidara declared.

"I'll show these philistines my ultimate art!" He announced.

"Don't even think about it!" Sasori held a blade to Deidara's neck.

"I don't know exactly what your "ultimate art" is but I image I won't be around to tell about it so shut up and let me think." He said.

Deidara held his hands up and gave up trying to blow himself up but, before Sasori could think of something, Tayuya was already making moves to captured them while Isaribi maintained a constant vigil to make sure they couldn't escape before Tayuya was done on her end.

Shiki had made available various Paper Tags for core members only, their creation process being automated and all members carried a multitude of tags for various purposes in their personal storages and were trained to make the most of them.

Still, many members didn't make that much use of them since it didn't fit with their fighting style but, wanting recognition in her new environment as one of the few that had moved up from slave rather than just entering as a core member, Tayuya was very studious in regards to such matters.

Using eight sets of eight sealing and barrier paper tags, she created a formation that turned the artistic duo's hideout intp their prison and sealed the both into a stone box to be shipped.

Isaribi praised her for her great achievement and they both prepared them for transport to a prison facility prepared to handle powerful shinobi. With this, Mugetsu had three captured Akatsuki members. Sasori, Deidara and the previously captured Hidan.

The two girls then triumphantly went to the Desert Fortress HQ to make their reports since Shiki would be personally receiving them as they would influence his next actions.

Meanwhile, Zabuza and Haku were also returning and met them on they. The differences between the moods of the two pairs couldn't be more different.

One was filled with pride and joy at a job perfectly done while the other was gloomy and worried about their performance.

Isaribi and Tayuya wanted to try and hear them out but Haku and Zabuza didn't have an approachable aura right now, something quite rare for the latter who was always happy to hear what her fellow core members had to say.

Whatever the case, it was the moment to make their respective reports and share their results with their leader and both pairs were seated in Shiki's office that was rarely used . . .

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