361: THOSE EYES!!!!!

HOLY FREAKIN' MOLEY MAN!!!! SASUKE HAS PUSHED THE ART OF NIJUTSU TO IT'S LIMITS!!! NO WAY ONE MAN COULD BE SOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!
But I digress...

Last time we left Sasuke he was suspended several hundred feet in the air on a clay bird with his hand trapped in a Deidara clone while the real Deidara grabbed onto his foot screaming "EAT MY C4 BITCH!!!" (ok ok, the Bitch is my addition but it's obviously implied). Neways as one gazes upon the first page of chapter 361 we see that Sasuke is suspended several hundred feet in the air on a clay bird with his hand trapped in a Deidara clone while the real Deidara is grabbing onto his foot screaming "EAT MY C4 BITCH!!!" AND he's now INSIDE a c4 explosive.

Well with that I supposed his goose was pretty much cooked; but this is Sasuke we're talking about. So, I see Sasuke doing his Sharingan thing blink up at the inside of the bomb a few times, use some X-Ray vision and check out his blood stream, zoom in on the microscopic clay bombs and then he has a revalation-I too had a revalation after seeing this but it was more along the lines of "What the hell is the Byakugan good for anyway?! IT'S A SHARINGAN WORLD!!!-after that the manga cuts to Deidara.

Now, Deidara while free falling decides to save himself from a painful landing by moulding a clay bird for his safe recovery, but lo and behold: his injuries from Sasuke's Sharingan Controlled Windmill Blade attack back in chapter 358 have rendered him unable to produce a proper sculpture (and he just got his arms re-attached too; there goes the saftey deposit...).


Then, Sasuke does what he does best and bursts out of his c4 prison and falls towards the injured artist with his Chidori aglow. Naturally Mr. Clay terrorist decided to deal the finishing blow one time. KATSU!!!


Now doesn't that look familiar...
Well, Deidara hit the ground hard and and looked at the bits of Sasuke raining down with satisfaction-he take d chain up-and he declared the superiority of his art.

Then the usual happens.


Now's the part where Sasuke reveals that he was testing the waters the entire time-LEVEL CHAIN UP-in order to make sure that he fully understood the limitations of Deidara's techniques in order to exploit their weakness. Long story short, lightning element (Chidori) beats earth element (Clay Bombs).


I have to say i'm pretty impressed with this fight it turned out much differently from the way i thought it would (meaning that I figured Deidara woulda get one quick genjutsu, a couple a snakes and a good Chidori and call dat George). Now it seems that there's gonna be one final explosion, one final exchange and then it's back to what this manga is SUPPOSED to be about, Naruto. I'm looking foward to Deidara's artistic end...H'MM!!!