All you need to do is take the knife and...

Kanso Remiki was a bounty hunter.

All you need... just one quick slice.

He had killed ten thousand barbarians,

Just one quick slice

One hundred and eighty-six genin,

And then it's done.

Three hundred chûnin,

He won't even feel a scratch.

Thirty-three jônin,

Three, two,

And a kage's assistant

One...

But he had never killed a child.

Zero.

"I know you're there."

Damn.

The child swung his legs round on the wall so that he faced his would-be killer. The would-be killer was sweating bullets.

One quick slice...

"You're a bounty hunter. You've come to kill me." And the child said it with such bored conviction that Kanso had to gulp.

"I can still kill you, you know-"

"They all said that."

"You don't scare me-"

"And that."

He's not scared. But he's a child... he should be terrified!

And that was most probably the last thought he ever had.

As the sand mangled his attacker's corpse, the child didn't even smile.

Gaara didn't like smiling.

It made his face ache.