Chapter 41 - 39

In the unfinished bridge, the corpses of the construction workers lay there as Team 7 and the two Akutsuki duo faced off.

Hikaru made the rest of his team and Tazuma to back off because only he can face them. Kakashi is useless but if he can use his Mangekyou in just the right time, he could take out one of them. That is if it's unnoticeable. Though, from the last time he used his Mangekyou eye ability, it missed. That's why it's unreliable.

"Kid, just give us the old man. I promise you, we do not have to be enemies." Sasori said. He knew that fighting Hikaru will be futile, from his presence alone, he can deduce that even if he uses all of his puppets, it wouldn't be enough. And, when he gets back to their base, they could report this tough enemy to their boss.

Maybe they could also recruit him in the future. He may be arrogant but he's no fool.

"Sorry, but we have our mission, you have yours." Hikaru told them as he narrowed his eyes at them. He readied both of his Black Katanas, which is the fire and lightning katanas. Both of his swords emitted their elemental enchantments as the air distorts around them due to his swords being too powerful.

'Chaos Flame and Divine Lightning. Surely, no creature in this world can defy them.' Hikaru thought. 'The only problem here is Deidara. He has this massive scale suicidal jutsu that can affect everything around him in miles radius. This could be bad especially to everything around him for the town of Wave is just right around the corner and his team is here. He could probably survive that but his teammates can't.

Hikaru went into his sword stance, which looked like a spinning pinwheel.

'I'll have to take out Deidara first!!'

Without any hesitations, he disappeared from his spot and appeared in front of Deidara, but faintly, he could see a smirk on the blonde's mouth. It was too late when he noticed it but the floor beneath him shined brightly before going into an explosion.

"Art is an explosion, katsu!" Deidara yelled maniacally.

Boom!!!

Rock flew everywhere as the huge explosion took place.

Deidara dodged it easily because he knew where it was but Hikaru wasn't so lucky.

He got blasted into the sky. It didn't hurt him but his clothes, which was still Chester's Set, almost got tattered. Which pissed him off a bit but he kept a calm mind. This Set is pretty weak compared to the others but he still put effort in it to upgrade the entire set.

Kakashi and the rest shielded their faces from the dust of the explosion but, nonetheless, they were fine.

Azumi was worried but she had trust in her Hikaru-kun. He wouldn't die that easily.

"Deidara, you fool! You could've warned me!" Sasori yelled as he coughed through the dust left by the explosion.

"Then, it wouldn't have been a surprised, un." Deidara said.

"Tch, anyway, how did you know he was gonna target you first?" Sasori asked as he watched vigilantly where Hikaru could be.

"I planted a few clay bombs around this area while you guys were not looking, though they are very few but they pack quite an explosion. The reason I knew how he was gonna target me was because he kept looking at me with his dangerous little eyes. I just hope that he didn't go unscathed in that explosion. Un." Deidara replied.

'Tch, even though it's hard to accept but Deidara is quite smart to put traps without him noticing. This should give us a bit of area advantage.' Sasori thought.

Suddenly, Hikaru fell from the sky while standing up perfectly. Not a single wound was on him, only his blades can be seen shining dangerously.

"Careful, Deidara." Sasoi said cautiously.

"I know. Un." He replied.

They tensed up when they saw him open his mouth.

"You know, I was gonna use chakra on the both of you. But since you almost blew up my clothes, I'll let you see one of my abilities." As he finished his words, he put away his swords and put them into his storage box.

This time, his hands suddenly went into flames.

"I'll use my pyromancies on you. Be honored for you are one of the few in this world to see my fire techniques."

Suddenly, he raised his hand towards them and they tensed up, only for him to say one simple word.

"Fireball."

A fireball as huge as a two storey house came out as soon as he said that one simple word.

"Impossible... without any hand signs..." Sasori muttered as his eyes constricted because the fireball emitted an extremely hot energy. He can already feel his Akatsuki cloak melt.

Seeing his reaction, Hikaru said, "This flame is no ordinary flame. It's made of Chaos Flame!" With this, he shot the huge fireball towards his enemies.

"Dodge Deidara! If his flames touches us, we will be obliterated!" Sasori shouted as he dodged the huge fireball. Deidara did the same.

But even though it didn't touch them, it grazed them. It was too hot that everything in it's surroundings melted before it crashed down towards the sea beneath the bridge.

Their skin melted, well, for Deidara that is. Sasoi felt no pain for he had made himself into a puppet but even he can see how dangerous that fireball was.

"Tch, Deidara! We need to flee! It doesn't matter even if the boss gets mad at us! We will die!" Sasori yelled in urgency.

"Oh ho, who told you guys to run away? There's more where that came from." After saying that, dozens of fireballs the same as earlier appeared on top of him.

Deidara and Sasori was immediately overcome by despair when they saw those fireballs.

"Come you two, I will show you what true despair is like." Their despairs weren't even the same as him when he was fighting countless monsters inside the system. He watched himself get beheaded against ten Black Knights. He felt the crippling pain of being eaten alive by a huge drake. He tried running away as the abyss slowly ate him inside. He felt the despair of being cursed. He was poisoned 'till he died. He once got meatpaste by his enemies. He felt his body being slowly eaten by those dogs in the system. Slowly, he fell into despair time and time again. But he rose up. He fought them even when all of his limbs were either broken or sliced off. Even when there was a huge hole in the middle of his body. He fought on.

This level of despair their feeling is nothing compared to his!!

His eyes went as cold as ice when he saw them like that.

"Your despairs will never be on par with mine. For that, I will show you what despair's truly is."

With one move of his hand, he combined all the huge fireballs on top of him, making a small sun.

The level of heat that small sun's emitting burned everything away in Hikaru's path.

Kakashi, Azumi, and the rest backed away. Their feelings were awe, fear, and a little bit of despair. His power, they cannot go against it.

Sasori took out a scroll behind him before he opened it and said, "Tch! Secret Red Technique: Performance of a hundred Puppets!"

As he finished, a huge amount of puppets wielding a varieties of weapons appeared with a puff of white smoke.

"Deidara, you go and take this information to the boss. I will probably won't survive this but know this, you are really the worst partner ever." Sasori said with a smirk.

"Sasori-danna... tch, fine! Y-you better not die! Damnit all!" Deidara ran away while holding back his tears.

Sasori gently looked at the fleeing back of his partner and thought, 'You may not have been the greatest partner but you were my bestest of friend. I'm really sorry.'

Hikaru coldly looked at them and thought, 'Hmm, I'll let him escape. The entire Akatsuki should know how dangerous I am, no, he doesn't even know the rest of my abilities. I only showed him my swords and my pyromancy. If I wanted to, I could could go to Amegakure. But the problem is the location of their base, or bases. I still don't know where the rest are. And some of their members may be on other missions. Pain is a threat, though. Obito can hardly be considered a threat to me but for the people I care for... he's a massive threat.'

All of them are a threat to every villages.

Then, suddenly, he changed his mind.

'On second thought, Deidara could just go and die. I'll reveal too much information to the Akatsuki, and they may use that against me.'

Without any hesitations, he created another huge fireball, besides the bigger one he's currently holding, before firing it towards Deidara in a blinding speed.

"Nooo!!" Sasori shouted as he used his puppets to block the fireball but they were burned to crisp as soon as they touched the fireball.

Deidara turned around as he jumped on the branches of the forest, only to see a huge fireball going after him.

"So he won't even let me go. I have too much information on him. Un" Deidara said.

But he decided that he won't go down without a fight. He summoned a huge clay dragon to go head on with two storey huge fireball.

"Art is an explosion, kat- guh?!"

The fireball suddenly disappeared without a trace... and there was a dark blade sticking out of his chest.

He looked behind him, only for his eyes to be met by a dark piercing eyes. The red tint in the middle shined coldly.

In one moment, Hikaru said, "You know, I was actually planning on letting you go. How stupid was I?" Before he sliced Deidara in half, permanently killing him.

Sasori arrived in just the right time to see him kill Deidara. The despair of losing a friend, that was what he hated the most. After all, him losing his parents when he was young was too painful. Now, right in front of his very eyes, his only friend died in the hands of a stranger.

This is why I cast my real heart aside, it was filled with nothing but a hollow space. Now that I finally replaced it, my emotions dared to come back? Reality is such an irony. My friend, I will die today. But maybe, in the after life, may we meet again...

Sasori yelled one last time as he charged head on against Hikaru.

With one last shine of his strength, he battled against Hikaru.

Not with rage but for his release. He has finally gained back his emotions, only for him to lose it.

Nothing was fair, that much he knew.

But, maybe someday, he can meet her again.