Sasori kept his tone even, "And? You're not telling me everything Deidara, don't treat me as if I were a fool."
Deidara held his hands up in a placating fashion, "I never said that Sasori no Danna, un. But when I beat them and moved in to finish the jinchuuriki he took his partner and jumped off of the building I had him trapped on. And then he landed in the water and got sucked into the whirlpool. Whoops… un."
Sasori stared at Deidara for a long minute before sighing, "Your stupid excuse for 'art' jumped the gun did it not Deidara?"
Deidara got a tick mark on his head, "Hey! My art is better than your boring rust and wear attracting excuses! Besides, how was I supposed to know he was audacious enough to jump off of a building into a whirlpool? People don't do that, un!"
Sasori scoffed and walked away, "Apparently this person did."
Deidara simply watched Sasori walk away, "Sasori no Danna, shouldn't you be angrier about this? The jinchuuriki is dead. Leader-sama is going to tear us limb from limb for this."
Sasori never broke his stride, "He's dead is he? Did you see his body?" Deidara shook his head even though Sasori couldn't see it, "Then he's not dead. Tell me he's dead when we find his body… and then I'll show you how angry I can be."
Deidara followed behind Sasori slowly, "Sure thing, un." 'How is he not dead?'
Sasori spoke once more in his straightforward, gruff voice, "It's just as I remember it." Deidara gave him an odd look, but chalked it up to Sasori just being weird like that.
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(Undisclosed Amount Of Time Later – Underground Cavern in Uzushiogakure)
THUD THUD
THUD
Naruto cracked an eye as the loud pounding noises filled the cavern, "Ugh… what the hell is up now? Don't tell me they're attacking the river bottom now." Naruto got up and walked over to Sai while the loud thuds still rang out. Naruto kicked Sai in the hip sharply, "Sai-kouhai wake up. You've been lazy enough for my tastes."
Sai slowly opened his eyes, "Naruto-senpai where are we? What happened?"
Naruto looked around in order to figure out what was making that hellacious racket, "Long story short, you blacked out on me when the tide was about to turn in our fight with that Akatsuki bomber and I had to jump into the whirlpool in an effort to escape being blown up on top of one of the towers. I sure didn't see this one coming." Naruto gritted his teeth in annoyance, "What the hell is that noise?"
Sai rubbed his head and sat up, "What are you talking about senpai? What noise?"
Naruto gave him a dry look, "You really can't hear that?"
THUD
THUD
THUD
Naruto gestured around his grandly as the sound rang out, "That noise. What is it?" Naruto shook his head and put that in the back of his mind for the time being, "My Kage Bunshin found out that there's a waterway path leading out but it's under the water. Can you hold your breath for a while so we can get out of here?" Sai nodded and pulled himself to his feet, "I should be fine. How long have we been down here by the way?"
Naruto rubbed his head, "I'm not sure. I can't tell how long I've been asleep since we got down here. How's your chakra exhaustion?"
Sai generated some chakra before dropping it with a breath, "I should be okay with a soldier pill. It will get me out of here at the very least." Sai reached into his pack and fished out a pill before popping it, "That should hold me until we're safe enough to rest for real."
THUD
THUD
THUD
Naruto started gnashing his teeth as reasonably sized chunks of rocks started falling from the ceiling into the water nearby, "This is perfect… the place is caving in. Come on Sai, we need to get out of here before we get stuck in here. We lucked out up there but our window of escape is closing."
THUD
A boulder twice the size of the teenage ninja dropped into the water, "-Literally." Naruto dove into the water, followed closely behind by Sai. Once inside of the water it actually became more treacherous for the two, as swimming made it harder for them to dodge wayward debris falling in with them. Naruto brought Sai to an underwater tunnel that took them further under Uzushiogakure, where exactly, he wasn't sure, but it was better than sitting in a cave waiting for no one to save them.
Eventually the wound up in another underground aquifer, but upon their heads breaching the water they were forced to jump out to dodge a giant stone foot crashing into them. Naruto and Sai stood on the surface of the water to see the same statue from previously, pulling its leg out of the water and turning its gaze on them.
Naruto palmed his forehead, "How did that thing even get down here?"
Sai pulled out his drawing scroll, "Worry about that later senpai, we need to fight."
Naruto nodded and reached for his sealing paper only to pull out a soggy, messy wad of wet paper. Naruto sweatdropped at the sight of his most versatile ninja tool falling to the ground in pieces, "That is so not good." He looked over at Sai, "How do you still have ink and that scroll? You were underwater too!"
Sai spared Naruto a glance, "My scroll keeps my ink and brush inside as well and when it's shut it is air-tight, nothing gets in."
Naruto sighed, "Damn that's useful. I need to invest in something like that apparently." He was cut off by being forced to dodge another attack from the statue. Landing ashore, the two boys ran past the sentinel, dodging swings of its massive hands that ended up pounding into the wall hard, causing rocks to drop dangerously from the ceiling and narrowly miss them both, "That's the thing causing the damned cave in?"
Sai looked back as they both began running down a corridor, "It must be the protector of Uzushiogakure's inner sanctum, not just that one tower. You must have accidentally stumbled upon a secret area of the village when you fled from our attacker Naruto-senpai."
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