"If you're begging to die, don't blame me!"
With Gaara's furious shout, the gourd on his back unleashed a massive arm made of sand.
"It's over! That Kazama kid is done for!"
"Serves him right! Who else would be dumb enough to pick a fight with Gaara?"
Worried Gaara's attack might catch them in the crossfire, Temari and Kankuro quickly retreated to a nearby tree.
Crack!
But before Temari and Kankuro could even get their footing, something bizarre happened. Gaara's sand turned on him, smacking him to the ground.
The sudden twist shocked Temari and Kankuro so much they tumbled right off the tree.
"What the hell is going on?!"
Gaara, sprawled on the ground after being hit by his own sand, looked terrified.
As the Jinchuriki of Shukaku, the One-Tail, he'd been controlling sand as a weapon since the day he was born. It was second nature to him. But now, his sand was completely out of control.
"What's wrong, Gaara?" Kazama taunted. "Weren't you gonna attack me? Why'd you just slap yourself?"
"You're dead!"
Gaara's face burned with humiliation at Kazama's mockery, and he roared in fury.
"Suna Bakuro!"
"Suna Bakuro is one of Gaara's trump cards," Kankuro muttered to himself. "No way it'll fail this time."
But to everyone's shock, while Gaara's Suna Bakuro activated perfectly, it didn't trap Kazama—it wrapped Gaara up tight instead, binding him like a mummy.
"No way! Am I dreaming?!"
Temari and Kankuro rubbed their eyes, unable to believe what they were seeing.
"Gaara's Sunaton has never messed up before. Why's it going haywire now?"
"Hey, Gaara!" Kazama called out, smirking. "You gonna fight or what? If not, I'm outta here!"
Hearing Kazama's taunts again, and seeing Naruto, Sakura, and the others doubled over laughing at his failed jutsu, Gaara started to suspect something. His sand going rogue like this—it had to be Kazama's doing.
"Are you the one messing with me?!" Gaara demanded.
"You're finally catching on!"
Kazama spread his arms, and waves of sand surged beneath his feet, lifting him into the air.
Seeing his own signature move being used by Kazama, Gaara's shock turned to outright fear. He realized he'd completely lost his connection to the sand. His chakra could no longer control it.
Gaara's Sunaton attacks had always drawn on a fraction of Shukaku's power. But in front of Kazama, who somehow wielded the full might of the One-Tail, Gaara's sand techniques were useless.
In other words, standing before Kazama, Gaara was no different from an ordinary genin—maybe even weaker.
"You can use Sunaton too?!" Gaara's voice trembled, a fear he'd never felt before creeping in.
"Not bad, right?" Kazama grinned. "Everything you can do, I can do. And the stuff you can't do? I can do that too!"
"Suna Soso!"
"Is this it?"
When Kazama unleashed Suna Soso, Gaara, as its original user, knew exactly how devastating it could be.
He braced himself, thinking this was the end.
But then, the sand wrapped around his body suddenly loosened and fell away.
Kazama had just been messing with him. After all, Gaara would one day become a loyal ally to Konoha—Kazama wasn't about to kill him.
Then, the gourd full of sand on Gaara's back flew on its own into Kazama's hands.
In just a few moves, Kazama had completely humiliated Kankuro, Temari, and Gaara.
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