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Naru cracked her knuckles to look menacing but all Gaara did was roll his eyes unimpressed.
"I'll beat you Gaara! You'll see!"
"Hn"
"Don't act like Sasuke!"
"Don't be ridiculous blondie"
"What does ridiculous mean?"
Genma and Gaara looked at each other before looking at Naru who was cutely tilting her head to the side, confused.
"He called you absurd Uzumaki" Genma explained.
"Erm, what does absurd mean?"
Gaara resisted the urge to facepalm himself, "Stupid. I called you stupid you dumb blonde."
"Ohhhhhh wait...HEY!"
The Suna genin shook his head in disbelief.
I am resisting to fight her why again?
"Come on Gaara! You can't insult me like that! We're friends aren't we?"
That made her opponent scowl, "Stop fucking saying that! We're different! We're from two different villages! You're like the fucking sun and I'm the motherfucking moon! We cannot be friends!"
"Sure we can!"
Gaara stared at the wide smile on her face.
I swear there is something really wrong with her…
"Hinata-chan and Sasuke are like the moons to my sun! Hinata is a genius, strategic and cunning while I'm average, instinctive and an adrenaline-junkie. Sasuke is a prick, ruthless and private while I'm nice, merciful and an open book! Heck, the three of us were friends for years! I love them! They are more important to me than anything else!"
Hinata and Sasuke felt touched, hearing all this and smiled softly at Naru.
We love you too…
The sweet moment however was completely ruined when Gaara snorted.
"Tch, that surprised me, I didn't know you knew half of those words you used."
Naru blinked as the redhead went on, "Words like ruthless and merciful. You understand those but you don't know what ridiculous and absurd means? You're an idiot."
"Am not! Besides we're sort of the same!"
"I'm what?" Gaara asked.
"We're alike and you know it Gaara!"
The Kazekage's youngest glared at the blue-eyed teen before him but Naru continued to meet his eyes boldly, unafraid.
Kankuro whistled, impressed from his spot, "Damn she's not afraid of the death glare."
"She's fearless" says Temari, shaking her head.
She'll be dead soon though…
Genma coughed, "You guys going to start or what?"
"Hai!" answers Naru cheerfully.
Gaara nodded and braced himself.
He was ordered to fight his opponent a little and kill the person afterwards in the heat of the moment so he had to make the battle look good.
I will
"HAJIME!"
Naru was the first to move; somersaulting backwards three times, furthering the distance between her and Gaara but the redhead was not intimidated, he raised his hand and his sand lashed out towards the blonde kunoichi who just smirked. Gaara blinked, confused and then he saw it, she was gone!
Where?
"Here"
Gaara willed his sand and it blocked Naru's attempt at a kick at his head but before his sand could capture her, she disappeared again!
Damn! Where is she?
Kakashi frowned, how was Naru able to get this fast?
"Gai"
The green spandex man turned, hearing his name.
"Did you train her?"
"No actually, I focused on taking care of Lee this past month."
Kakashi's frown deepened, "So how did Naru Uzumaki obtain a speed faster than that of Rock Lee, your taijutsu specialist in a span of a month?"
Might Gai had no idea what to respond to that, after all he didn't have the answers.
Naru loved her new speed. Thanks to Kyuubi, her taijustu improved dramatically thanks to her demon resident's hellish trainings.
Your welcome
Naru smirked at Kyuubi's smug reply and tried once more to hit Gaara.
Gaara scowled, very unhappy with the turn of events. Gaara's sand defence can only be up for so long. Without the Ichibi, Gaara had to focus most of his concentration on protecting himself.
Damn that blonde!
What was worse was that Naru started using clones thus making it harder for the Suna-nin to keep his defenses up to block all their attacks. He could not afford to be hit by her, if he did then his siblings would suspect something was wrong.
Little did he know, they were already suspicious...
"Kankuro..."
"Yeah Temari?"
"Since when does Gaara need to move to use his Sand Defence?"
"I was thinking the same thing…"
Something was up…
Meanwhile, Gaara shushined away with his sand, further away surprising Naru.
What is he doing?
She turned around just in time see Gaara encase himself in a circular sand dome of some sort. Naru blinked wondering what the hell he was doing but she knew she couldn't waste anymore time so she charged forward. Gaara's sand eye was formed by then and he could see Naru charging forward with her fist clenched tightly and bursting with chakra.
She's going to break her hand. She can't do any damage. This is impenetrable.
Oh how half-right he was...
Naru attacked the dome with a hard chakra punch but the dome did not break down like she expected. Instead, all the wall of the dome did was crack underneath her knuckles and Naru fell to her knees, holding onto her hand as she withered in pain.
Gaara was surprised she managed to cause some damage but still-
The redhead froze in his spot when a hilt of a knife peeked through the dome wall at him, almost touching his forehead. The knife withdrew and a familiar hand came through it, grabbing at his blood red locks. In result, Gaara lost his concentration and his sand dome fell apart as the hand pulled him out and closer towards the captor's body.
"Hey there"
Gaara stared at Naru in disbelief, "How did you-?"
"Chakra conducting knife. Cool right?"
The Suna nin opened his mouth to say something until his instincts told him to be wary. On reflex, he moved his hand stopping Naru's own as she tried to punch him in the gut. Then, he had an idea. It was going to be humiliating but the thought of hurting her made him feel sick. Hence why he's been on the defense from the start.
Naru tried to wrench her hand free but to no avail as Gaara gripped her hand tightly in his. She turned to meet his eyes, her cerulean blue against his aquamarine green ones.
What is he planning to do?
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