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A/N: I apologize to Sai Kunai Blade for using his title.

Kazekage Gaara sat calmly in a desert oasis when he suddenly heard a rumbling noise. Turning, he saw a large stone doorway-like object. The doors opened and a rather young girl emerged. Her black hair was tied in a bun, she was dressed in a yellow-and-green tunic, and her eyes seemed rather milky, almost like that Hyuuga girl that Gaara's fellow Kage, Naruto, was engaged to.

Many thoughts passed through Gaara's mind, like wondering where the girl had come from and why she was hear. But she was an intruder, and he would deal with her as such.

"This is sacred ground," he said calmly, causing the girl's head to turn in his direction. "Leave now."

"Oh yeah?" the girl asked in a somewhat sassy voice that reminded Gaara of Naruto. "Who's gonna make me?" She assumed a fighting stance.

Sighing in resignation, Gaara prepared himself, the cork from his gourd flying out and bits of sand slithering out after it. "I supposed it falls to me to evict you from this premises."

The girl smirked. "You can try."

"I supposed I should introduce myself," Gaara said as more sound continued to flow around him. "I am Gaara, leader of the Village Hidden in the Sand."

"Toph Bei Fong," the girl, Toph, responded. "Best Earthbender around."

"We shall see."

FIGHT!

Gaara launched sand at Toph, subtly sending other grains underground to make more sound and using his chakra to make armor for himself. Toph, with a wave of her hand, send the sand flying straight back at Gaara, whose eyes widened in surprise. She then stomped the ground, and a large chunk of rock arose. Punching forward with her right fist, Toph sent the rock flying toward Gaara, but his sand intercepted and smashed it.

"Not bad," she said casually. "But not good enough."

"I have not even begun to fight," Gaara said calmly. What the girl said next threw him for a loop.

"Oh, and I know you're making more sand by sending it underground," she declared. "I can sense that kind of stuff with my feet."

"I see," Gaara said, slightly taken aback. His reaction was not lost on the girl, who snickered.

"I may be blind, but I'm not stupid."

"You're blind?"

"No duh!"

Toph launched a metallic wire towards Gaara, but his sand tentacles caught it and began to pull her toward him. Acting quickly, the blind bandit broke the wire and send more solid earth towards her foe, only for it to be intercepted again. Not to be outdone in the slightest, she threw even bigger chunks, which were also stopped without too much difficulty.

"If that's all you can do, man, you're not gonna win this fight!" she shouted.

Gaara's eyes narrowed. He needed to buy time. Sucking in his breath, Gaara allowed himself to be engulfed in his mother's absolute defense.

Toph was not impressed. She could tell that he was trying to stall her while his grains made more sand underground. With a raise of both her hands, a massive stone pillar emerged from the ground. It fell on the sphere, but much to Toph's surprise, the pillar broke without putting a dent in the thing. Slightly surprised, Toph recovered quickly and threw more earth at the orb, to no avail. Annoyed, she marched over to it, grabbed a chunk of sand, hardened it into a spear, and thrust it into the barrier.

Gaara cried in pain as he shot out of the orb from the other side. His sand armor had protected him, but it still hurt a bit. Smirking, Toph threw the spear, but Gaara countered with a sand spear of his own. With a smile, Toph reached out, and her foe's spear dissolved and started to wrap around him. Thinking quickly, Gaara dispersed it.

Just a bit more time, he thought. I'll take to the air.

Encasing himself in another sand orb, Gaara created another line of sand which pushed the orb into the air. Toph was not impressed. With a flick of her arms, she dispelled the tentacle, causing the orb to fall back to Earth. Suddenly, two large sand tentacles wrapped around her arms.

"Since you need to use your arms," Gaara said, "I will simply destroy them."

"Not likely," the girl snarled, and she quickly pushed them away with sandbending. It was time to end this fight. Raising her hands again, Toph smirked as two giant pillars appeared with Gaara in between them. Clapping her hands together, Toph felt pretty proud of herself when they smashed into the man. But then that smirk disappeared when more sand tentacles pushed them away. Damn, this guy was tough.

"I think it's time to end this," Gaara said, placing his hands against the ground. "Sand Tsunami!"

A massive tidal wave of sand formed and rushed at Toph, who could only gawk in shock. She had known Gaara was making more sand underground, but this much? Toph quickly surrounded herself in her metal armor as the sand tidal wave engulfed her. Clenching his fist, Gaara cried "Giant Sand Burial!"

A massive booming sound filled the air, and all seemed still. Sighing, Gaara turned to leave when he heard another explosion. It was Toph, covered in metal armor.

"It can't be," he whispered, but Toph heard him.

"Oh, it can, jerk!" she shouted as she landed.

Gaara was actually starting to get nervous. It was obvious this girl was his equal in sandbending, and she didn't look exhausted at all. So what to do?

Then he thought of it. My gold dust.

Clapping his hands, Gaara sent a cloud of his father's dust towards the girl, who had just ditched the armor. The girl raised her hands again, but to her surprise, nothing happened, and the dust cut into her. Wincing a bit in pain, she leapt back a bit.

Gaara's eyes widened. She couldn't manipulate his gold dust? Then, maybe…

Clapping his hands, Gaara created an orb of sand while also mixing some gold dust into it. He then threw it at Toph, who held her hands up and knocked it back, yet with a slight amount of strain.

That's when it hit him. The dust was the key!

"I have found a way to win," he declared, "but before I use it, I ask you one last time to leave this place."

"Heck no!" Toph responded. She wasn't sure why it had been a bit more difficult to maneuver that orb and what he had hit her with earlier, but she was sure it wouldn't matter in the long run. "I'm the best there is! I never back down!"

"You remind me a lot of a friend of mine," Gaara said as more gold dust surrounded him. "I think you would have liked to meet him, but sadly, you never will. Goodbye, Toph Beifong."

He then created another orb of sand, this time mixing it with as much gold dust as he could. He then launched it at Toph, who raised her hands…

And nothing happened. The gold/sand orb smacked into her arm.

Now's my chance! Gaara thought. With a wave of his hand, the orb elongated like clay and wrapped around the bewildered girl's arm.

"Hey, what is this-?" Then Toph cried out in pain as the mixture of elements exploded somewhat like Gaara's sand coffin. As it slithered downward, Gaara saw a bloodied stump where Toph's arm used to be. The girl fell to the ground, howling in pain as she clutched the stump with her good arm. Gaara almost pitied her, but he didn't have time for that. The girl might create her armor again. Moving his hands quickly, he made the orb wrap around the girl's head. No longer able to hear her muffled screams, Gaara clenched his fists…

And Toph's head exploded in a shower of blood, sand, and gold. The sanguine-covered elements slithered back to Gaara. Who recreated his gourd and walked away. The girl would be fed upon by buzzards, most likely. It was a real shame he had been forced to kill her, but it was his duty to protect his village from all threats. And he would do that, to his dying breath.

K.O.

A/N:

Okay, I'm sure I'll be getting accusations of being a fanboy by anyone who deigns to read this, so let me make something clear: I don't like the "Naruto" series. I think it had potential, but it was ruined by all sorts of problems and stupid retcons and inconsistencies. With that said, I was astonished at the inaccuracy of the DB for this fight, especially one glaring error: Wiz was completely wrong about metalbending. When he explained it in the post-fight talk, I burst out into laughter. I couldn't believe how stupid he was. Metalbending involves manipulating the impurities in a metal, not the metals themselves. It's even been explicitly stated in both Avatar and Legend of Korra that metalbenders can't bend gold, platinum, iron, or copper. Therefore, as I have shown, it would actually be harder for Toph to counterbend Gaara's sand if he mixed it with his gold dust, not easier. Gaara, being an observant combatant and tactician, would figure this out and, as shown, exploit the living hell out of it. That one glaring error is the only reason Toph won in the video, and it's disgusting how poorly these guys do their research.

For all you fans who think I'm just raging, I did this because I saw a legitimate error in their analyses of the characters. I don't hate Toph at all, and personally, I think she would have found a way to bend pure metals by the end of Legend of Korra because she is that smart and inventive, but there is no proof of that, and all other metalbenders in the show had the same limitations, so sadly she couldn't counter Gaara's mixture. Now, some might argue that Toph could have mixed her metal in with the earth and sand she threw at Gaara, but even if she did, Gaara's sand armor and tentacles are tough enough to weather it. Toph is also not really used to physical pain (I don't recall her suffering any serious injuries in either show), though granted anyone would scream and fall if they lost a limb.

Overall, these are my reasons for thinking the fight should have gone more like this. If you disagree with me, please say so in a review. However, please be elaborate. Flamers will be ignored/deleted/whatever.

Bye!