"Dude what's with the acrobatics? You're all over the damn place! But yeah total cluster fuck. Bumped into Kakuzu of all people at a bounty station." I start to hurl all of the kunai on the ground at him in a machine gun inspired fashion. Just because I couldn't keep the Metal Tornado going doesn't mean the kunai are gone forever.
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"Really? How'd that go? He didn't try to claim your bounty did he?" Sasuke must have paid attention during dodge training, he's expertly weaving through the barrage of kunai and blocking those that he can't. His fancy red eyes are darting all over the place, resting for the faintest of moments on each projectile before coming up with the best route to slip between them.
"Nope. He actually helped me get a Bingo Book. Turns out you need a sponsor to get one, I thought they just handed them out to whoever asks." I stomp my foot on the ground to raise up two walls of earth to force Sasuke into a hallway so he has less room to maneuver around the barrage of kunai. "Though some dumbass did try to stick an explosive seal on my chest to claim it. I put it on his back instead and gave Kakuzu the bounty on him as a thank you."
"I'm not even surprised." If Sasuke wasn't hyperfocused on dodging he would be sighing in resignation.
Sasuke jumps into the air and lands in a crouch on the left wall. He rests there for less than a second before jumping again, this time landing on the right wall even higher off the ground. With one final jump he barely dives over the ledge of the left wall to escape the restricted space. The jackass even adds in a flip on his way back down to the floor because he can. He doesn't stop there, the instant his feet hit the ground he takes off running. He's sprinting around me in a perfect circle, never adding distance nor closing the gap.
Just because he's highly mobile doesn't mean the barrage of kunai is stopping. It won't stop till I run out and conveniently I can pick them back up as much as I want to. Chakra strings for the win!
"Yeah. It was unexpected. Though the actual destruction of the Kusa base did go off without a hitch. Did exactly what Orochimaru wanted, scorched earth with a handful of survivors to tell the tale. It'll be interesting to see how the other nations react to that. I wasn't subtle at all."
"What did you do?" Sasuke asks as he's making his third lap around me.
"Rained down flaming boulders from the sky. Shock and awe tactics at its finest." I casually say like it is no big deal. "I'm calling it Fire of Heaven."
"You can do that?" He asks in surprise.
"Yep. Takes a couple minutes to set it up and it also falls into the 'impractical' category. Plus there's no way that it won't be added to my Bingo Book page, I'll never be able to use it anywhere near as effectively again."
"Well whatever works." Sasuke skids to a stop and flexes all of his fingers.
Numerous strands of near invisible wire snap taut around me. Some strong cords wrap around my limbs to pin me in place, holding my right arm fully extended while raised thirty degrees above parallel to the ground. My left arm is tightly bound against my torso, trapping it there. Both of my legs have been tied together forcibly, the only reason I am still standing is because the wires are supporting my weight.
Other finer wires cut into my skin, they're wrapped around me in specific places. Places where on anyone else a major blood vessel would be. Sasuke has even managed to get one around my neck, it's biting into the scar that Kisame gave me. He's letting me know that at any moment he can cut me to pieces.
"Hey! Not cool!" I squirm in the mess of wires and the sharp ones dig deeper while the thicker ones tighten my bonds.
"I believe that's my win!" Sasuke boasts with a laugh. "Shouldn't have let me set that up."
"You're stealing my style!" I glare at him. "I'm the string guy! Me! Not you! You gotta ask about these things before you go and do it!"
My fingers on my right hand twitch as I extend out a wind whip to cut Sasuke's stupid wires.
"No you don't!" Sasuke sends lightning shooting through the wires he's holding. The sudden unnecessarily large voltage courses through my body making me twitch involuntarily and lose control of the wind whip. "Can't be having you worm your way out of this one. You should just admit defeat."
"OW!" I shout out as the spasms finally die down. "Did I piss you off or something? That was one hell of a jolt."
"Not recently. I'm just making sure you stay put until you acknowledge that I'm the victor." Sasuke smugly smiles at me. "Whenever you're ready is good for me. Though I do prefer sooner rather than later."
"You and your damn chakra seeing eyes. If you were anyone else I would have been out of this already." I narrow my eyes at him, he sees too happy. "This is because of the butler thing, isn't it?"
"Why I would never!" Sasuke's smile grows wider and suddenly looks more vindictive than smug. "Getting vengeance because someone forced me into a penguin suit twice? That doesn't sound like me at all. This is just a friendly spar, I would never bring something else into that."
"Yes you would." I bluntly accuse him.
"Oh yeah. Definitely would." He readily agrees.
"So have you had your fun? Do you feel better now?"
ZAP
"OW!"
"Much better, thanks for asking."
"Good." I smirk at him as black threads slowly sprout from the ground behind Sasuke. They extend high and higher until they're behind his neck. Then they dart forward and clamp around it, effectively collaring him with something more threatening that wires. "Cuz playtime is over."
"What?!" His eyes dart around the field looking for any telltale signs of a monster. Except there isn't any. That's because I didn't use a monster for this. "Out of your feet."
"You got it! I had to avoid your fancy eyes somehow so I did something that they simply couldn't see!" I merrily flash him a brilliant smile. "I'd give you a thumbs up too but I'm slightly indisposed at the moment. I hope you're happy, I ruined a perfectly good pair of shoes for this."
"We're at a stalemate. We both have each other dead to rights." There's a glint of excitement in Sasuke's eyes, he's having a load of fun. "I don't know about you but I don't want to settle for a tie."
"Mutual release of the other's bonds on three?" I offer a compromise. I don't want to settle for a tie either. Neither of us have begun to scratch the surface of what we're truly capable of.
"One." Sasuke starts to count. "Unless you're enjoying this. I know you have that weird bondage thing."
"Go fuck yourself. You know that was all an act. Two." I continue as we both slacken the bonds on the other.
"Sure. Keep telling yourself that. Three." He finishes as the Jiongu releases him and snaps back to me and the wires holding me fall slack to the ground.
Neither of us waste time, we both move in sudden bursts of speed to put distance between us and move away from the spot we were just trapped at. Neither of us are above retrapping the other with the exact same tools and method moments after the release.
"You weren't kidding when you said you have new tricks." I praise him. "Also I'm honored to be your source material. Mimicry is the greatest form of flattery."
"I used wires before you learned chakra strings." Sasuke points out. "That means you're copying me."
"Okay yeah but when we ask someone outside of the two of us which one is the string/wire guy they're going to always say me. I guarantee it."
"I hate it when you're right." Sasuke grunts out in displeasure.
"I love it so it's okay, we balance out." I test out my limbs as we talk, rolling my shoulders, bending my elbows and stretching out my legs. There's no real need for me to do this and Sasuke knows it.
But it's also pissing him off a little bit so I'm going to keep going. Small victories.
"So you stopped a prison break while I was gone?" I ask him as I bend over to touch my toes.
"Yeah. It sounds way cooler than it really was." Sasuke must have thrown a kunai as I'm bent over because there's one stuck in me. It's pinning my right hand to my right foot. I casually straighten up, ripping the kunai out of my foot but leaving it embedded in my hand. "Twenty or so made it outside, Orochimaru had Karin track them down and me take them down. Those who didn't return willingly didn't survive."
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