Sasori was walking the streets of Konoha rain was poring down upon him as he kept on walking. His red hair was soaked and dangling in his face. Sasori did not care that it was raining nor did he care were he was walking. He crossed his arms and looked around not many people were out today. Sasori looked down and kept walking. He was probably the only shinobi here who was born in a different village. That did not bother him much all Sasori wanted or cared about was his dream.

To think that he great great grandfather once attacked this village a long time ago, and know he, Sasori was a Genin for the same village. Sasori shuttered at the thought of his great great grandfather being evil the stories he heard of him made him seem like a hero. Sasori let his thoughts run away from him. Not knowing how he got there he found him self under a tree. "Why do i always end up by a tree" he thought to himself. Sasori sat there and waited.

He was not sure what or who he was waiting for. Some thing just told him to wait. He looked foreword and stared, if some one walked by they would probably think he was odd. Sasori kept on looking and waiting. He looked to his right and then he heard a sound come from his left. Sasori just looked foreword and waited not caring about the sound. What ever it was he would know sooner or later.

"I wonder if today was a bad day to just wonder around Konoha" he thought to himself. Just then he heard the same noise again from the left. Sasori looked left once more and still could not see any thing or figure out what the sound was. Sasori began to run his finger through his socked hair when he heard the sound again. This time they were more clear and sounded like foot steps. He looked left once more and saw what looked like a shape of a human but he was not to sure.

"Identify yourself now" he said as he stood up but not taking his eye's off the person or thing.

The rain fell outside as Eiji sat in his room staring at the window. He couldn't train because of the rain. "This is just stupid. The rain is preventing me from reaching my goal of one day saving this world. Why today did it have to rain though? Any other day would've been fine." Eiji turned his head towards his bedroom door. There was an old wanted poster for Kisame on his door that Eiji personally put up. The purpose is to inspire Eiji to become an expert swordsmen. Today that couldn't happen because of the rain. That and the fact that his father didn't want Eiji to get sick. Eiji didn't want to listen but his father Senji had taken his weapons away so he wouldn't go outside and train.

Eiji continued to stare at the poster on his door. "What would you do Kisame? I bet weather never stopped you from doing what you wanted to do." Eiji quickly sat up on his bed. "Nor will it stop me." Wanting to get out in train Eiji jumped out of bed but landed on his face in a typical comical way. He stopped to rub his face for a moment before going towards the closet to get his jacket. As he stood there looking at his self in the mirror he began to think that this outfit wasn't the best for the rain today. "Damn rain I can't even wear my favorite jacket outside today." Eiji took it off and grabbed one of his old ones. This one was brown and black. It was made for a blacksmith but Senji made it into something for Eiji to wear. Although he never wore it his Senji kept it in the back of Eiji's closet hoping that one day he would wear it. Next Eiji put on his shoes and head towards the door when he was stopped by his father.

Senji had his back towards Eiji but he knew that he was right by the door. "Eiji where are you going? Your mother made lunch and I intend for you to enjoy it with the family." Senji turned around and saw that Eiji was wearing his jacket. Senji now filled with excitment hugged Eiji. "My son you finally came around! I can't believe it! Ok you can go train but don not go too far from the house. I can only lie to your mother about your wereabouts for so long." Senji went to the master bedroom and grabbed Eiji's weapons. He rushed to Eiji and handed him his weapons. "Now go show off that jacket. It might actually get you a girlfriend." Eiji turned away from his father because he was blushing. "Dad I don't need a girlfriend. At least not until I am, strong enough to save the world. Then I will find my queen." Eiji headed out the front door and slammed it behind him. Senji sighed a little. "If only he knew that having a woman at your side makes you strong enough to do anything."

Eiji started walking forward as he strapped on his swords. He was so happy to get some training done that he didn't care that it was raining or that he was wearing his father's jacket which he hated. He instantly started looking for a place to train. "One benifit to it being a sad, depressing raining day is that no one is out which means the whole village could be my training area." Eiji stopped and held his head down. "No because then the Anbu would be upset. Stupid rules. One day i'll become stronger than all of them, Then i'll save the world." While in his self monoluge he didn't even notice that he was making loud nosies with each footstep. Then he heard some say identify yourself. Eiji pulled out his swords Liar and Deciever. He had a straight face and spoke with no emotion. "I am Eiji Hitomi. I was just lookign for a place to train. If I distrubed your training session my apologies. If you don't believe that then I guess were going to have to settle this one way."

OOC: Means saying it to himself
Means speaking outloud

Sasori looked at the Genin who stood before him. He noticed his two swords as they were drawn. Sasori just crossed his arms "So he wants to do a little training" he thought to himself. He still was looking at the kid who stood before him. Sasori was trying to see what this guy would do so he said "Well if you want to do some training how about we have a little spar right here and right now?"

Sasori could think of nothing else to say he stood there looking just beyond were the guy stood before him. Waiting he was already thinking of plans for just in case this got serious. "I have to say if we are to spar it would be a real one I am going to warn you I will be fighting you as if you were a enemy shinobi, and will be fighting as if i was going to kill you." Sasori said this to try to enrage the guy he was hoping that it would so he would attack with rage, and lose some of his focus.

Eiji kept his stance not even budging an inch. "You want to fight me as if i'm an enemy shinobi? Well I can say that you are the first person that i've sparred with. Usually it's trees and old run down houses." Eiji twirled his swords in his hand a couple of times. As he examined the mysterious stranger's stance Eiji notice that he didn't seem ready to fight. That threw Eiji off a little but he knew to be ready for anything. "This guys doesn't seem at all like a shinobi but then again he could be a taijutsu user who relies on counters. Hmm." Eiji had to figure out what this guy could do but he didn't want to give away too many techniques trying to figure it out. Then an idea flashed into his head.

Slowly Eiji took his right leg and placed it behind him. He was now standing sideways. "So this is a serious sparring match right? Just because we want to see wehere each other stands in terms of abilities and skill. Does that sound alright to you?" Eiji didn't show the slightest bit of emotion in his face. He threw his short sword Liar in the air and caught it. This was to keep the sharp end facing away from his opponent. Although Eiji wanted to know this mysterious stranger's abilities he didn't want to kill him. "So I see you have no weapons on you. That makes you either a skilled Ninjutsu user or a skilled Taijutsu user. Then again Taijutsu users don't usually carry a lot on them so i'm going to say that you are a Ninjutsu user. This is going to be fun." Eiji pointed his long sword Deciever at the stranger then he lunged at him as he threw his sword towards him.

Sasori tilted his head a little to the left. He was trying to figure out a plan in his head. "The rain will make it some what harder for me to use my sand jutsu but not all that marder, they will be a little slower. Giveing this guy an edge he thought to himself. He then heard the guy say "You want to fight me as if i'm an enemy shinobi? Well I can say that you are the first person that i've sparred with. Usually it's trees and old run down houses." He replied "Yes that is correct I see it as only way to truly bring the best out of both my self and you".

Sasori still stood there arm's crossed and waited. Sasori was about to say something when he heard "So this is a serious sparring match right? Just because we want to see where each other stands in terms of abilities and skill. Does that sound alright to you?" Sasori took a few seconds before he said "Yes that is fine by me". At this Sasori uncrossed his arms and placed them in front of him stretched out and crossed, his left arm was below his right both palms were facing forward, knuckles bent. Sasori chose this stance so that it would be best to attack with his new jutsu Sand Grip.

Sasori was just about to let his sand flow out from his gourd when at the last second he saw the sword come right at him. Sasori just moved to the left but the sword still cut him on his right arm. Sasori quickly made sand come out of his gourd and once more got back into his stance. Pushing out with both hands Sasori made two hands made out of sand come right at Eiji.

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As Eiji was about to charge the stranger he notices that he took a different stance. Although his sword did scrap his arm it didn't stop the strange man from performing his jutsu. "What the hell? He uses SAND?!!" Before Eiji could even stop to try and counter his attack it was already in motion. Eiji stopped a few feet away from the stranger and when he did he notice two giant hands made out of sand comming for him. "Oh man this can't be good." Eiji looked upon the giant hands but kept his emotions to his self. Then he looked at the stranger.

"Hey what your name stranger or should I refer to you as Sand Man?" Eiji slowly pulled out his short sword Liar. He looked around for a way around the sand but it didn't seem like there was one. Before he knew it one hand had came down but Eiji dodged it barely. The second hand caught Eiji by the leg as he tried to dodge. "Oh great. I see no way out of this. I gotta think of something and something fast." As he picked his brain for ideas Eiji noticed that it was still raining. "The rain could actually weaken the power of his jutsu but the question is will it be enough to save me from any real danger? I hope so." Eiji tried his best to free his leg but it was of no use.

"A sand user in Konoha? Where have I heard that before?" Eiji looked at the stranger then at his sword. "Deciever! I think I might have an idea but hell I hope it works. Remember what would Kisame do? Well if he wasn't evil." With his arms free Eiji twirled his short sword Liar around. Twirling it was a way to switch between the sharp side and the dull jagged side. Eiji had no intentions of tring to kill the stranger he wanted to see exactly how much sand he had first hand. Instead of attacking Eiji would have to wait to put his plan in action.

"My name is Sasori Sabure of the Sabure clan" Sasori replied as he noticed one of his sand arms grabbed a hold of Eiji's leg. "The rain will make it hard for me to use sand burial on his leg, if i did do it it would only fracture or maybe brake the leg" he thought to himself. Sasori decided to see what would happen. "SAND BURIAL" he screamed in a twisted way. He pushed out with his left palm squeezing with his sand.

Sasori knew it would not be to the best of what the jutsu could actually do. But Sasori was not trying to brake the leg just make sure that Eiji was not able to use it. Sasori moved his right arm causing sand to flow around him. He still kept up the pressure in his sand hoping that his plan would work. Rain continued to pour down this had no affect on Sasori. He looked at Eiji and flashed a twisted smile as he put one more strong push with his sand burial jutsu.

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"Sasori Sabure of the Sabure clan huh? Sounds like you are proud of what you are." Eiji felt the force of sand around his leg getting tighter and tighter. "Dammit Eiji think. If I don;t come up wit ha plan soon I'll be without a leg." As he looked around for a way out he saw a couple of things. One he saw that the rain made a small puddle just below where he was and not too far from his long sword Deciever. Two he noticed the water was weakening the sand. It wasn't enough to stop the jutsu completely but it was enough to cause some pain. The words Sand Burial came out of Sasori's mouth. "Sand wha-?" Before he could finish he felt an intense pain in his leg.

Eiji screamed "AAAAGGHH!!" At the top of his lungs. Quickly he turned his short sword Liar around so that the sharp end was facing away from him. First he held it out to the side of him letting the rain drench it. Then he held it high above his head just before he stuck it in the sand hand that was holding his leg. "I...have...to.......b-be...quick about this!" Eiji quickly cut around his leg but he noticed that the sand was filling the area where he was cutting fast. "This isn't good." Eiji saw Sasori put his arm out as if he was commanding the sand to squeeze tighter and tighter. Eiji stuck his sword in the sand again this time he made a small circle around his leg and he fell to the ground landing on his leg. "OK that wasn't smart." Eiji slowly got up hopping on his injuried leg. "You got a nice jutsu there. I bet it works better when it's not raining. I can say this Sasori. I hope i'm on your team one day. Until then I've decided to make you my rival." Eiji stood ready to fight even though his leg was hurt. Eiji used his Lighting dash to get to his sword Deciever. He held his short sword Liar out aiming to cut Sasori in his leg.

Sasori saw that Eiji's leg was injured "Good at least he is some what broken" he thought. He heard the words that Eiji had said "So I am his rival fine by me" he thought. Just then he noticed that Eili came at him again, instead of moving out of the way Sasori made sand get in the way of Eiji blocking his path. Sasori then took a step back he was not yet ready to do his next jutsu.

Sasori placed his right hand by his chest with his index and middle finger pointing up. He was charging his chakra. Sand started to gather in front of Sasori. Focused on his chakra he was allowing it to build up along with his sand. When it was ready he was going to attack Eiji with one of his new jutsu. The sand was half way to the needed height his jutsu was almost ready. His only hope was that his sand would block Eiji long enough so Sasori could perform his jutsu.

Eiji suddenly stopped when he saw that sand was blocking his path. "What the hell?" He jumped back a couple of steps to gather his thoughts. "Why is he simply blocking my path? Why isn't he attacking? Unless.......he's stalling for time. Ok if that's how he wants it then fine by me." Eiji jumped back some more and started to use his C.H.A.R.G.E or (Chanelling His Already Rapidly Growing Energy) technique. This would take all of his concentration to complete. Eiji calmed his self and took a deep breath in then released it. He repeated this two more times. Then he statred to chanel his chakra so that he could prepare for his next move his next move.

"Ok let's see. He has that sand that will protect him as he gather chakra for his attacks. He can also attack with it. No way am I faster than his sand but if I could just get close enough I could use Liar and Deciever to do some damage to him. Even his legs would be nice." Eiji continued to gather chakra as he thought of a plan of attack. "Running is going to be hard considering he has almost broken my leg. Dammit there has to be something that I can do." Eiji was just about finished. He just needed a few more seconds. "Alright almost there. Just think. I got it! I have one move that might help me right now. It's the only option I have right now so I have no choice but to go for it." Eiji was finally finished with his C.H.A.R.G.E technique. He stood ready with Liar in his right hand and Deciever in his left. "Alright Sasori. Let's go!" Eiji put both his fist together and started to rush towards Sasori. Before he stepped with his leg that was hirt he yelled Lighting Dash and went around the sand that was blocking his path. He was now behind Sasori aiming to cut his leg, his thigh and his ankle.

A few more secounds and he would have enough sand to use his next jutsu. Just then he noticed Eiji doing some thing odd. Sasori never saw any one stay back and look as if they were gathering some thing. "What on earth is this kid up to" he thought. Just then Sasori noticed two things at once he had enough sand to perform his Jutsu and Eiji was on the attack. Sasori saw him disappear then at the last second he turned just as Eiji came at his leg.

Sasori rolled out of the way his jutsu he no longer could do, but he had more tricks up his sleeve. "That was to close for comfort I barley got out of the way that time" he thought to himself. Sasori crossed his arm and spoke "Eiji your good with your sords but lets see how you do agesnt my next attack." At this Sasori ran towrds the tree he was sitting by earlier. On his way he already begun to concentrating on forming a cloud of sand just above were Eiji was standing.

Afew moments go by and Sasori was standing directly infron of the tree. He spun around and saw the cloud was formed hopfuly this would work "SAND NEEDLES" he screamed as needles of sand begun to fall.

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Eiji watched as Sasori rolled out of the way of his attack. "Damn. I almost had him." Quickly Eiji stood up to face Sasori. After he heard Sasori's compliment Eiji simply stood there watchinh him. "Thanks. I have to say that I do modle myself after the best swordsmen ever to grace the five great nations. Also your not to bad with your sand either." Eiji watched as Sasori ran up a tree and moments later a cloud of sand appeared above his head. "What the hell is this? What is he planning to do with that cloud above my head?" Then he looked down at his leg. "Dammit. I have to get him back for that. I will get him back." Slowly switching his stance to something different Eiji now stood with his left leg out front and his right let not to far from it.

His eyes stayed on the cloud. All of a sudden he heard Sasori say "SAND NEEDLES." Eiji started twirling his swords to try and deflect them but some of them still hit him. One hit him in his upper arm one hit him on his upper leg, a couple of them scraped past his left arm and a few scratched the surface of the skin on his right lower arm. "At least I didn't get hit in the chest or face. Now I have to go on the offensive." After thinking to his self Eiji figured now would be a good time to take a page out of Sasori's book. He used his chakra to run up the same tree Sasori did and with his good leg he pushed with all his might. He jumped high in the sky. While in the sky Eiji began thinking to his self. "Ok I have to do this. He needs his arms to control that sand. No arms no sand no jutsu. Well that's just a theory anyway." Eiji yelled loudly "HERE I GO AGAIN!!"

Eiji started to fall downward. "LIGHTING DASH!" Eiji had both his swords out and he was aiming to hit Sasori in both of his shoulders. He landed right behind Sasori. Eiji wasted no time and swung both of his swords at Sasori's left and right shoulders. All he could do was hoped that this would work.

Sasori spun around just in time to see Eiji slashing at him. At the same time Sasori stepped back and put his right arm up. Sasori had his eyes closed he had no idea what happened. He slowly opened them and saw blood was dripping from his for arm and there was a little mound of sand just below Eiji's arm. [i"Damn my sand was not fast enough, but i only got a little cut nothing to bad at least I can still use my jutsu"[/i] he thought. Sasori let his sand by Eiji's arm fall back he was not going to take the easy shot, he felt it would be better to fight for his chance.

Moveing his arms away from each other Sasori formed five sand balls. "SAND SHURIKEN" he screamed as the five sand balls speed towards Eiji. After shooting the sand shuriken Sasori darted to the left. He then stopped ten meters away from ware he stood before. Sasori was now making his sand revolve around him he was waiting for Eiji if he came at Sasori he would counter with his sand.

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Eiji was proud of the fact that he managed to cut Sasori's arms. This would be a short lived victory as Sasori manged to quickly counter. Before he could even move Sasori's sand was now wrapped around Eiji's arm. "Dammit! He still got me with his sand before I could leave. Now what?" Eiji could only watch as Sasori sent five sand balls directly at Eiji. Then he shouted "SAND SHURIKEN" He tried over and over to pull his arm free from the sand but it was useless. The sand was to tight around Eiji's arm. Eiji would have to think of something fast or else. As he looked down he saw that his short sword was on the ground next to him.

Without thinking he reached for it and held it in front of his face blocking tow out of the five shurikens. The other three scraped his right arm. "Ahhh dammit!" Right after that Sasori darted to the left. He now had his sand goign around him forming a protective shield all over. "Great......how am I......suppose to......get through that?" Eiji watched as the sand left from around his arm and went to Sasori. "So....he's using just about all of it to defend. I gotta say that's the ultimate defense. But I will find a way through it." Eiji picked up his swords and stood in his attacking stance. "You know ever since this fight started I've been the one doing the attacking first. I think it's your turn. COME ON SASORI!!! BRING IT!"

OOC: Sorry it took so long to reply. I been so focused on Pokemon Black it's stupid.

"Very well I will show you some of my attacks". Sasori looked right into Eiji's eyes he did not change his expression, it was still serious. He crossed his arms his sand was still revovling around him. The fingers on his left arm moved a little but Eiji would not noticed with Sasori having his arm's cross. Slowly sand was moving on the ground towards Eiji.

"Tell me this Eiji what made you decide to be a swords man?" Sasori said this to get a conversation going he was trying to distract Eiji. "I find the sword very interesting maybe one day I will use one." Sand begun to form around Eiji's feet. "So Eiji I was wondering are you afraid of heights?" Now there was a perfest circel of sand around Eiji's feet.

Just at that moment Sasori knelt on on kneww and placed his palms on the ground. Sasori screamed "SAND GUST" and the sand around Eiji's feet shot up wards. Sasori stayed in his position hoping his attacked worked. If it had he would move on to his next attack.

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(OOC-That's OK I am in no rush post when ever you get the chance)

Believe it or not Eiji didn't except Sasori to go on the offensive. Eiji just wanted to throw Sasori off his game but that didn't work too well. Although it didn't work Eiji never ley his face show that he was surprised. Then Sasori asked Eiji a question. A question that he didn't really think Sasori would ask. "Not that you would care anyway but as a child my older sister showed that she was excellent at ninjutsu and that became the standard. It was learn ninjutsu or taijutsu. When I was 4 I saw an old wanted poster of Kisame. I saw that he had a sword and he was feared a long with his sword. That inspired me to become a swordsmen even though I disagreed with how he did things."

During his speech he didn't notice the sand forming at his feet. Eiji looked directly at Sasori. "Yeah like you would want to use a sword one day. What reason would you have to use one? A sword is used as an extension of the body. You use sand so that kind of defeats the purpose of using the sword." Eiji started to feel something on his feet. Quickly he looked down only to see that sand was all around his feet. "AW dammit I got sucked into that distraction. How the hell did I let that happen?" Eiji looked up at Sasori with a serious look on his face. "Well we'll find out soon enough if i'm afraid of heights."

The sand at Eiji's feet shot up sending Eiji high into the air. "This is new." Eiji saw Sasori kneel and place his hand on the ground to perform this jutsu. "Ok i'm pretty sure he still has a couple tricks up his sleeve so I need to take out that gourd." As the sand shot upward Eiji put his long sword Deciever in the sand and used it as a catapult to launch himself towards Sasori. "LIGHTING DASH!" Eiji was now going faster as he used his short sword Liar to cut the gourd of sand off Sasori's back.

Sasori knew he questions would throw Eiji off guard. "I know my sand is an extension of me, a sword is just a tool." Sasori thought to himself. He noticed that Eiji went flying in the air, but then he did not fall back down but used the sand as a means to get more speed. Damn it he used my sand agents me." Just then Sasori noticed that Eiji's attack was for his gourd. Sasori's eyes got bigger as his gourd fell to the ground.

Sasori saw in horror that a little crack was now in his gourd. Sasori stood up and faced Eiji a twisted smile appeared upon his face. Even with his gourd away from him and with a crack in it, there was a flaw in Eiji's plan. Sasori crossed his arms and said "You see the majority of my sand is still flying around me and you I still can control my sand." With that Sasori waved both his hands his sand that was around him and Eiji came at Eiji from all directions.

Sasori was trying to get all the sand to wrap around Eiji.If this worked Sasori planed to use sand coffin fallowed by sand burial. Sasori was focused on moving his sand closer and closer to Eiji. He was trying to close Eiji in his sand. Sasori was not about to loose focus not when he was so close to capturing Eiji.

Eiji looked directly at Sasori with not even a hint of a smile on his face. The gourd fell to the ground and cracked. Then something unexcepted happened. Sasori had a twisted look on his face. Up until this point Eiji thought it was fun. This look on Sasori's face changed things. "He looks serious now. I wonder why. It couldn't be just because I cracked his gourd. Or maybe it could be that. Either way this fight just got that much more intresting." Eiji made sure he had both of his swords now. He didn't know where things would go from here but he had a feeling deep inside of him that just felt like this was only going to get worse.

Eiji listened as Sasori explained the flaw in Eiji's plan. For the first time in his life Eiji smiled. "Sasori I understand that. In fact I planned on that. I knew you didn't control your sand with your gourd. See earlier in the fight I noticed that I was at a huge disadvantage. Not because of your sand, because I couldn't see it. My whole battle stragety up until this point was to simply get that gourd off you. Hell the fact that it cracked is just a bouns. Now that it's out in the open for me to see I can adjust myself accordingly. Normally I may not be faster than your sand but if I can see it I can counter. Now to start the next phase of my battle stragety......WINNING!"

Before Eiji could go on the offensive he noticed that Sasori's sand was getting closer and attacking more aggressive than it was before. Eiji jumped around and dodged the sand but it was getting closer. "Dammit if he gets my leg again it mitght be all over." Eiji saw the look on Sasori's face as he continued to dodged. "Damn he's really determined. Wait! When he asked about swords I was so focused on telling him about my weapons that I didn't notice his sand. Maybe that's it!" Eiji took his short sword Liar and switched it to his left hand and put deciever in his right hand. Then he swung his Liar as if he trying to fight off the sand. Once he let the sand get close enough to him he moved his hand behind his back and threw Liar a few inches behind Sasori's right foot. Doing this caused Sasori's sand to grab Eiji's right arm. "Dammit this better work or i'm going to be in so much trouble."

Sasori was still focused on his sand. He noticed that once more his sand warped around one of Eiji's limbs. Sasori put out his left hand in the usual position to do sand burial he then screamed "SAND BURIAL". Just as Sasori did his jutsu he noticed a shine out of the corner of his left eye. A sword was spinning towards his leg "Damn those swords" he thought. He moved a little to the right but not fast enough, the sword cut Sasori on the lower part of his leg.

Sasori still had his arm stretched out before him he focused more force into his sand burial. Blood was dripping down his leg, but it did not bother him. Sasori waved his right arm making sand come at Eiji while he still had a hold of him with his sand burial. "You know Eiji I will admit I like you, because you have guts and drive. I admire that but lets see what you can do now."

Sasori's head began to have split pain every now and again. He brushed it away concentrating on his sand burial and making his sand come at Eiji from the right. He tilted his head a little and his left eye brow raised as a even more twisted smile appeared across his face.

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(OOC- Sasori's head tends to hurt when he concentrates to much but he has yet to discover why it does)

Just as Sasori performed his jutsu Eiji saw that his sword had cut Sasori's leg. "Game time." When Eiji saw the blood he used all his might to try and pull his arm free. With little time to spare he pulled most of his right arm out of the sand but hiis elbow on up to his shoulder were about to get caught in the jutsu. Without thinking he raised Deciever his long sword high in the air. With all of his might he brought the handle down upon his own shoulder dislocating it. When Sasori did the jutsu it did wouldn't hurt Eiji. His reason for doing this is so that he could focus on the fight and think of a way to counter.

Eiji took his breath in and released it. "Thanks....Sasori. You are pretty damn awesome yourself. I have to say that one day.......you will become a great shinobi. On that day I will be there to knock you off your high horse and show you why I am the saivor of this world." Eiji watched as Sasori's sand continued to form around Eiji. "You wanna see what I'm going to do well I guess we'll see." Eiji short sword Liar was still behind Sasori. Things were going according to plan. "Now all I have to do is to get it and I think I might win this little sparring match. That's easier said then done though." Even though the sand was still holding Eiji's right arm he still tried to make his way over to a tree. He struggled over and over and in the end he barley made it a few inches.

Eiji looked over at Sasori and noticed that the twisted look was on his face again. This time it seemed different from before. Raising his left hand slowly he managed to cuff it over his mouth as he yelled "SASORI!! ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!" As much as Eiji wanted to win this match he wanted to win while Sasori was 110% focused on the fight. At that moment Eiji had a feeling that something wasn't right with Sasori. "Why do I care if he's ok? I should be focused on winning right now. Take any advantage you can get in battle. That's one shinobi rule that I follow. So why do I care?" He kooked over at Sasori again. "SASORI! If you not feeliing well we can finish this later. I got nothing but time on my hands anyways." Eiji looked up at the sand and that's when it hit him. "Oh man. Now that his gourd is gone he has to concentrated harder t ocontrol all of his sand. I bet that's putting a huge strain on him." Eiji wanted to see if anything was srong with Sasori but inside he knew that the fight had to end. His right arm was numb and basically useless at this point. His leg had'nt had time to recover. In all honesty Eiji had maybe two or three more good moves in him.

Sasori was still looking at Eiji his expression did not change. Blood was still running down his leg he payed it no attention. Sasori was fighting the urge to lash out and kill. He looked at Eiji and within his mind he saw his great great grandfather as a teenage boy. "Kill for the glory of our clan." was what he heard inside his haed. Sasori reached up and rubbed his head. "Nnnnnooooo.... GET OUT OF MY HEAD."

Sasori came back into focus he was now on his knees his sand was no longer flowing around. His head was hurting a lot. Then once more Sasori was looking at his great great grandfather. "Kill or be killed that is the way I grew up in our village." Sasori lashed out as he screamed "GO AWAY LEAVE ME ALONE I AM NOT A KILLER." One second his great great grandfather was laughing at him next second Sasori was back in reality laying on the ground.

Sasori's vision was going in and out of focus he heard some one scream his name. Next thing he remembered was seeing a bird fly over were he lay then there was blackness. Sasori saw his grandfather the man that raised him he was sitting looking at Sasori and smiled. Sasori smiled back and reached out to touch him his grandfather diapered in a puff of smoke. Sasori remembered nothing more.

Eiji could do nothing but watch as Sasori grabbed his head yelling no and get out of my head. "What's going on with him?" The sand was stil lwrapped around Eiji's arm. As he stood there Eiji noticed the blood was still running down Sasori's leg. It was clear that he was so focused on the fight that Sasori didn't pay it any attention. "Damn. He's really focused on killing me. The question is if he turns this into a death match am I ready to take a life? Could I take a life?"

As blood ran down Eiji's right arm he saw Sasori fall to his knees and the sand fell down as well. Eiji looked at both of his hands. He was free from the sand. "I'm free? But why? It must be his head. Something's not right with him. I want to help but I don't want to involve myself if I don't need to." Eiji took a deep breath in and sighed. "Dammit if i'm going to be the savior of this world then I need to be able to save anyone no matter the cost." Eiji tried to walk over to Sasori but he fell due to his leg being almost destroyed. "Oh I forgot about that." Eiji grabbed his long sword Deciever and used it as a crutch to hold his self up. Limping and moving slowly Eiji started to walk towards Sasori. Eiji didn't know what would happen if he got close to Sasori but he knew that he had to atleast try to save him.

Things go even weirder as Sasori fell to the ground. "No he can't die!" Eiji yelled as loud as he could. "YOU CAN'T DIE SASORI! YOU OWE ME A MATCH!" Eiji started to walk.....well limp over to Sasori as fast as he could. "SASORI! GET UP MAN!" Eiji didn't know what to think at this point. Usually he has a way to handle any situation but this was something he'd never seen before. "Great my first real sparring match nad my opponent goes all crazy. I guess days like these are going to continue to occur as long as I want to save the world. Guess I better get use to it." As Eiji made his way over to Sasori he saw him raise his hand. It's as if he was trying to reach out to someone. Someone who wasn't there. Eiji saw the chance and took it. Reaching with his left hand Eiji grabbed Sasori's hand and tried to pull him to his feet. "COME.....ON....SASORI!!! You can.....get up....from....this."

Sasori was fading in and out of conscience. His eyes slowly opened every thing he saw was blurry. He felt like he was being lifted into the air and floating there. A figure was before him it looked like some one was in front of him. Sasori tried to speak but all that came out was "What....are.....who....." He stumbled a little and his vision was getting a little more clear. Sasori looked and a blurry figure who he figured must be Eiji was standing there helping him get to his feet.

"Ow my head feels like it is on fire." He tried to stand on his own as the scenes from the last few moments played in his head. Barely standing Sasori looked at Eiji and smiled. "Thanks for the fight and the help sorry I freaked out on you it tends to run in my blood. That is to say the blood of a ex killer." Sasori let out a small laugh at his little side joke.

Sasori stood there as he slowly made his sand go back into his gourd. He limped towards it as he spoke "Guess we both need to go to the hospital before we get into any trouble." He stumbled a little but managed to stay on both his feet. Sasori bent down and picked up his gourd "Don't worry you will get a rematch once we both are at 110 percent." He smiled at his rival and motioned for him to walk with him towards the hospital.

With everything he had left Eiji lifted Sasori up. Eiji heard Sasori mumble something but he couldn't make out what he said. "Hey if you can mumble I guess that means your doing better huh?" Eiji smiled a little bit and laughed. This was to ease the tension. He didn't know how well it would work since he never laughs or smile. Even though he pulled Sasori up Eiji's leg was still in a lot of pain. He tried his best to play it off and hide it long enough for him to help Sasori up. Once Sasori was up Eiji fell to ground. "Dammit I pulled to hard." He landed on his dis-located shoulder. Eiji let out a loud scream but he quickly regained his self. Making his way back to his feet he popped his shoulder back in place.

Then Eiji heard Sasori speak. "Well look who's back amoung the sane. I didn't think you had a seriously violent side to you. Guess I was wrong." After that Sasori thanked Eiji and explained that the blood of a ex-killer is in him. "Ex-Killer? So your a descendant of an Ex-killer? Wow that goes to show I shouldn't just challenge anyone to a fight. Just becaise the blood flows through you doesn't mean it is you. You have the right to choose who you wanna be and all that old cliched stuff." Eiji gtabbed his short sword and put it back into it's sheeth. He kept his long sword out so that he could balance his self on it.

Sasori stated that they should go to the hospitial before they get in trouble. "That's a good idea. Hey here's what i've been wondering. We're in the middle of the village fighting well....sparring and yet no one interferred with us. Hell no one jumped in even when you went all psycho. Makes you wonder about security around here." Eiji watched as Sasori gathered up his sand and put it back into his gourd. "A rematch sounds nice. But we have to get stronger first. You pushed me to my limit and then some. I wanna have some new tricks when we fight again." Eiji held up his thumb. "Since we gotta walk why don't you tell me how you ended up here in Konoha?"

Sasori was wondering to why no one interfered with there spar. "Maybe they wanted to see our skills, or maybe they thought there was no need to interfere with our match." Sasori was walking listening to Eiji's question. Sasori sighed then said "Its a long story but I will tell you if your that interested. Like every one from my clan I was born in Suna. The Sabure clan lives in our own district of Suna. When I was ready to graduate from the ninja academy my elders thought it best to send me here. Sasori took a break from his story his head ached really bad.

"As you may or may not know my clan was formed from the kazekage known as Gaara. His three children had children, and they had children and they had children. I was one of the last children born, and I believe there are no more Sabure alive to this day. Sasori paused once more he stopped walking for a brief moment and rubbed his head. he continued walking he was thinking to himself. He was not sure if he wanted to continue his story.

Sasori looked at Eiji he decided to say one more thing about his story for now. "As I said before my elders wanted me to come here and train they thought it would help with my training. I do not know why they did it but if it was up to me I would have stayed in Suna. Before I departed the elders gave me a scroll of our clan's jutsu. They told me to keep it safe and never show it to any one."

Sasori was looking for the hospital he saw a glimps of it and it still was a great distance away. "So whats your story?" Sasori asked he figured Eiji would do the same and not spill all his story not now any way. Regardless Sasori wanted to know why he idolized a man who was a criminal and wanted to know more about Eiji's swords.