71 On the Way Back Home! (1/2)

Sasori controlled his 100 puppet jutsu to fly down and attack Esumi with their very diverse set of tools and skills. With a look of pure joy and excitement, Esumi went wild. She charged at the flying puppets and cut the first puppet in half who tried to claw her with a claw gauntlet. Immediately after getting rid of the first puppet out of a hundred, 3 puppets armed with poisoned weapons struck towards her back. Esumi smirked as she sliced through their weapons with her sword and eventually through the three puppets. From above her 5 puppets hovered together. They held their hands in strange hand seals and created a bright pink light. Esumi watched all around her with her Byakugan and noticed in two other directions 5 other group of puppets doing something similar. As she sliced, slashed, and pierced through the unstopping wave of puppets. She started to get overwhelmed slightly.

'Seriously? Every single weapon in coated in that fucking poison! How the fuck did this guy get his hand on so much poison? He could drown a god damn city with all this bullshit.' Esumi thought slightly irritated.

Sasori watched as his puppets got closer and closer to ending the life of the annoyingly talented young shinobi. 'Finally. This has taken too much time, and I've nearly exhausted my entire collection. Soon she will fall.'

Unfortunately for Sasori, Esumi still had plenty more fight in her. Esumi noticed the three groups of puppets who were charging some big jutsu as she continued to slaughter more and more red cloaked puppets. The pink light in the shape of a crystal, the light blue light that was as chilly as snow, and a yellow light that was blazing hot fired towards her. The three jutsus zoomed towards the suddenly alone Esumi.

”You dirty handsome bastard… You're really trying to excite me aren't you?” Esumi said with a suggestive smile.

”Release.”

Esumi released her gravity seal and disappeared from her previous location as the combination jutsu crashed where she was last seen. In a beautiful display of ice, crystals, and scorching hot balls of fire erupted upwards. Affecting the nearby sand at the attack site. Freezing it, crystalizing it, and causing it to turn into glass. Sasori extended his view to all of his flying puppets and tried to find Esumi. Esumi however was in a state of ecstasy and freedom. She sliced and slashed all the remaining puppets, except the puppet with the sharingan in just a few seconds.

'I don't get it. How could she be so strong…? It makes no sense.. A little girl like her shouldn't be able to possess such strength.' Sasori thought to himself.

Suddenly Esumi appeared in front of Sasori and with a few quick slashes, tore his puppet body apart and grabbed his core.

”Oh you had another scroll left huh? I guess I can give this to Khael. All these beautiful weapons left behind. Since you gave me such a fun time, I guess I can spare your life. Your doll skills would be appreciated in the village.” Esumi said as she attached a Crown of Servitude to Sasori's core and shoved it into a random puppet.

”Sasori of the Red Sand, you are now owned by Yada Esumi and Nine Sho. You will follow our orders without hesitation. Every order we give you, you will accomplish to the greatest of your abilities. You will never have thoughts of betrayal or thoughts of going against anyone allied with the Battle Empire. You will never attempt to ally yourself secretly with anyone without first telling me, Amai Jabie, or Aomatsuna Hakuseki. And you will never attempt to betray me or anyone allied with the Battle Empire. My first order for you is to follow me.”

Esumi grabbed the perfectly unharmed sharingan puppet. She disappeared and swept up the battlefield to collect all the unbroken weapons from Sasori's destroyed puppets. With a greedy grin on her face, she reattached her gravity seal and started to walk away with Sasori lifelessly walking behind her.

'I truly have become a puppet now.. No free will of my own. Controlled by the will of this little girl. But isn't this what I've always wanted? To become a true piece of beautiful art? Will Yada Esumi be able to transform me into the type of piece that I've always dreamed of..? Everlasting and remaining far into the future?' Sasori thought to himself as he walked behind Esumi and an even smaller girl who appeared from under the sand suddenly draped in a black cloak. She had the look of a disinterest. As if she was a higher than all and had no interest in anyone below her. He was thinking about killing her until suddenly he didn't feel like it at all. He felt like this person was someone he absolutely couldn't go against or even think about going against. 'It must be that strange device she put in my core..'

”Say hello to your puppet sensei Khael-chan. He's going to be teaching you all he knows about puppetry and after that he will become a soldier for our empire. Jabie will pick what he's going to do after that though.” Esumi said as she stuck her fingers inside the puppet's eye socket and removed them.

The eyes returned back into normal eyes with black pupils. She put them away for later when she met up with Jabie. He should figure out something better than her just stuffing one of these eyes down her socket.

”Thank you Esumi.” Khael said with a bored voice while also looking downward towards the sand.

Esumi suddenly hugged Khael and surprised her. All of a sudden a bone shot out from under her cloak and pierced Esumi through the stomach. Esumi however didn't react how Khael thought she would react. Instead of immediately letting her go and staring at her like a monster, like what she was used to, Esumi laughed while continuing to hug her. Khael quickly returned the bone back inside her and felt immensely guilty for stabbing Esumi. Esumi saw that Khael was nearly about to cry from her mistake.

”It's okay little Khael. I know you didn't mean to and look at this.” Esumi said without a change in her voice.

The previous hole inside Esumi was slowly regenerating until soon it was as if the injury never happened. Esumi gave Khael a thumbs up and a smile. Khael wiped the tears that almost dropped from her eyes.

”I'm sorry. I still.. I still don't have control over it yet…” Khael said sadly.

”It's fine. Take your time, and next time make sure to use that on your enemies.” Esumi giggled

”Yada Esumi.” Sasori suddenly said.

Esumi and Khael turned to look at Sasori.

”I wouldn't normally do this. But as respect for you as a fighter, I will tell you something. Go to Tenchi Bridge in the Hidden Grass Village ten days from now at noon. One of Orochimaru's henchmen is a spy of mine. I was suppose to meet up with him there.” Sasori explained.

”What makes you think I care about Orochimaru Sasori-chan?” Esumi said with hidden interest.

”I don't think that. I am simply telling you this incase you wish to act on it.” Sasori replied.

”Hmm.. I see. Well don't worry I'll be finding out more info from you Sasori-chan.”

A little bit farther away Esumi saw a large round figure with a figure slung over his shoulder and a young boy walking on his side drawing on some scroll. Esumi waved excitedly while the plump figure facepalmed. Eventually Esumi, Khael, and Sasori met up with the three people.

”So my device could work on his ”core”. That's great news.” Jabie stated as he stared Sasori all over before returning his eyes back to Esumi.

”Hehe. I have no idea it would work either. I just shoved it on the core, and it worked. If it didn't I would've had to kill him since torture wouldn't work on someone who doesn't feel pain. He also doesn't look like the squealing type.” Esumi said.

”I suppose we are quite lucky. We captured two members of the Akatsuki and allied them with us. Increasing our village's power even more. I'll create a clone that will take these two back to our village. Once I analyze all their capabilities and possible future capabilities, I will decide best where they are needed for the village.” Jabie stated as he created a water clone.

The water clone created a ridable tidal wave that floated in the air and had the unconscious Deidara and the somewhat curious and angry Sasori hop on before taking off in the sky towards their village. The gang then saw Broly and Fu appear in the sky above them.

”Come on.” Broly said.

Jabie, Esumi, Khael, and Sho all jumped onto Broly's earth cloud jutsu and flew towards Konoha. But elsewhere 7 mysterious figures were discussing about our little gang after 2 days of their victory against Sasori and Deidara.

*AT A MYSTERIOUS HIDEOUT*

”Deidara and Sasori are missing. After they were sent to capture the first Jinchūriki, they were intercepted by someone else and either died or were captured. I doubt either of them would betray us.” A voice said.

”After inspecting numerous areas around the Hidden Sand Village, I found two areas of interest. One area was littered in explosions and frozen sand. The other one was covered in Sasori's puppets cut into pieces. They were both engaged in combat with two unknown combatants or a group of similar ninja. But after searching for a clue, I managed to see a group of shinobi that has gotten in our way before in the past.” Another voice said.

”Is it ”them”?” The first voice asked.

”Yes. Them.”

”Those little brats? I wonder how have they been since the last time we've seen them..” A sadistic type of voice said.

”Probably become even more monstrous.” A handsome attractive voice said.

”Regardless. They are interfering with my plans. If any hint of them or anyone associated with their group affects our plans we will take them out. For now. Continue capturing the Jinchūriki. The one-tailed and nine-tailed are on hold for now.”

”I knew we should've invited those little monsters Itachi.” The sadistic voice said before the group of 7 ninja faded out.

*IN KONOHA PRIOR TO BROLY'S GROUP ARRIVAL*