Chapter 10: Rock Lee's defeat
The matches continue. Shino and Zaku battle it out. It ends up in Shino's victory. Kankuro's match ends up in his victory. Sakura and Ino are next. Never thought these two would fight in the preliminaries. Now that I'm looking more closely at Sakura, I notice that her hair is much shorter. What happened to Naruto's team in the forest…? Sakura and Ino's match ends up in a draw. Naruto, Temari, Shikamaru, Neji, Shino win their respective matches. Now it's Gaara's match. He's against Rock Lee. I wonder how it will go. Let's just hope Gaara doesn't get too carried away.
As the match goes on, Lee uses Taijutsu techniques to increase his speed and power. It goes to the point that Gaara's Ultimate Defense can't keep up with it. Let's see how Gaara will be able to get out of this one.
In the end, Gaara crushes Lee's left arm and leg. It ends up in Gaara's victory. These matches sure are brutal. Lee's being taken away by the medical nin just like how Hinata was. I hope Lee's going to be alright. I'd hate to see such a positive person down because of one match. Gaara is a pretty ruthless guy. He was really only aiming to kill Rock Lee. The match didn't really matter to him as long as he could kill.
The matches continue and ten genin are confirmed to be advancing to the final round: Naruto, Sasuke, Shino, Temari, Neji, Dosu, Shikamaru, Kankuro, Gaara, and me.
The order of the matches gets decided. The first match will be Naruto vs. Neji. The second will be Gaara vs. Sasuke. The third will be Kankuro vs. Shino. The fourth will be Temari vs. Shikamaru. The last will be Dosu vs. me.
Dosu is a sound ninja. Snakes react to sound. I'll have to find another way to defeat him. I have a month to figure it out.
Anko-sensei has been pretty busy lately. I bet it's because of Orochimaru being in the village. I'll have to practice on my own. I'll go read some scrolls about sound techniques. I bet I can find their weakness.
According to most of the information I gathered, sound is weak against wind. Problem is I don't know what my element is yet. I'll go get one of those chakra papers. Apparently I can find out what element I am from that. It would be perfect if I was a wind user.
I go purchase a chakra paper. According to what the seller said, I need to infuse a little chakra in the paper and the result will be according to how the paper reacts. Let's try it then. I infuse a little chakra and… the paper crumbles in my hand. That means… I'm an earth user? Out of all things. I should've figured it out since I have an affinity with snakes… Oh well. I guess I'll be able to block sound attacks with earth.
Hm… An earth dome seems like it would a good defense. Now after that I could create an earth shadow clone in there and then I could use the technique Kakashi-sensei used that Naruto told me about. I think it was called the Double Suicide Decapitation technique. That way, his arm will be sealed underground and I'll be able to strike a fatal blow to his head. Seems like a perfect plan, let's go practice these new techniques then.
On my way to the training grounds, I spot Gaara going towards the hospital. I doubt he's there to visit a sick friend… He has a scary expression on his face. Something is unsettling. I should follow him and see what he's up to.
He's going in Lee's room? Don't tell me he plans on finishing what he didn't have the chance to do in the preliminaries. I should stop him.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Gaara stops his sand that was already creeping up Lee's body and turns his head towards me.
Gaara: "Finishing unfinished business."
"He lost. What are you going to gain from killing him?"
Naruto: "Stop right there!"
Shikamaru's Shadow Possession jutsu immobilizes Gaara.
Gaara: "I will kill everyone to protect myself."
The Shinju starts stirring up again.
Gaara: "When I was born, I killed the woman who gave birth to me, because of a monster than was implanted in me."
So he is also a Jinchuriki.
Naruto looks surprised and terrified.
Gaara: "Since I was unstable, my own father sent people to get rid of me. They all died. That's why I will kill everyone who stands in my way."
His sand starts moving towards us when Guy-sensei enters and interrupts everything.
Gaara decides to leave it at that and heads for the door.
Gaara: "This isn't over. I'll kill you all."
I had a feeling something was up with Gaara, but I never thought it was to that extent. There are probably more things that happened to him than he let us know.
Later that month, I decide to go take a stroll on Konoha's roofs. Am I hoping to find Gaara there? Maybe. He intrigues me. The more I learn about him, the more I want to know. Speak of the devil, there he is. Wait is that Dosu? What is he trying to do? I get closer to be able to listen to the conversation.
Dosu: "If I kill you here, I'll be one step closer to battle against Sasuke."
Is he kidding? He's no match for Gaara. Why does he want to go against Sasuke though?
Oh great, Gaara's going to kill him. I have to do something. Dosu's my opponent in the final round. I won't let him die before trying my new techniques on him.
"Summoning jutsu."
I summon a giant snake that attracts the two guys' attention.
"Dosu's my opponent. I won't let him die until I defeat him in the final round."
With that, I make my snake trap Dosu in its mouth and carry him far away from Gaara where I drop Dosu off and undo the summoning. Because of all the commotion the snake did, a lot of ninjas woke up. Perfect, now Dosu won't be able to get close to Gaara tonight.