They were ready, "One," Isamu smiled calmly, "Two," Gaara looked at her without any emotion, "Three," Isamu put her right foot forward. "BEGIN!"

Gaara didn't do any move he just stood there with his arms folded across his chest. Isamu just stood also. Soon, there was silence. "Hey, aren't you going to attack me or what?" she asked boredly, she almost yawned. Gaara smirked, "Ladies first." A vein popped on the side of her forehead. "How dare you!! Are you saying that I'm weak?!" she yelled angrily across the distance. He didn't respond.

Temari looked down confidently. "I know Gaara's gonna win this match," she told her younger brother. The masked puppeteer smirked, "No one ever escaped Gaara's sand." "She's just an arrogant weakling, let's just see. Hand-picked by my father huh?" Temari thought. Base on her body structure, she's not even fit. How can she outrun his sand? Even Rock Lee is not fast enough, Kankurou mused. He figured out that she's not a taijutsu user.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Isamu built 12 shadow clones and attacked the redhead. She observed how his sand moves and destroyed her clones with one swift motion. Kankurou chuckled at her technique, "Where did she get that? From that loud mouth blonde?" Baki looked over his student and thought to his self, "Good, she's observing the sand's motion."

"Is that all?" asked the redhead. She just looked at him. He smirked and sent sand to her way, she just dodge it when she stepped side wards. She looked at the spot where the sand striked and looked back at him, "Hmm…" He sent sand to strike her and she swiftly dodge them with her cartwheels and hopping, much to their surprise.

"How could she dodge the fast strikes? Not even Uchiha dodged it without a scratch!" Kankurou gasped. Baki just closed his eyes, "Don't underestimate her." The siblings looked at him, "I'm not even sure of the outcome of this," he said. "Baki-sensei..." Temari whispered as she looked back at the fighting teens.

Gaara commanded bigger amount of sand to destroy her. "Let's see if you can still do your tricks," he thought. Of course, Isamu couldn't use her silly moves. She jumped out of the sand's way. "Guess I angered him," she thought. "I still can't be sure of his sand's capability," she looked at his teal eyes, "I need to get hit." She took a deep breath and ran towards him, surprising him. "She's too open," he thought.

Their eyes widened. "Is she trying to get herself killed?!" gasped the elders from the tower. Her body crashed with his sand; she was buried underneath. Gaara was still emotionless. Chiyo looked at the sight in surprise. They waited for her to resurface. Soon, it was already 20 minutes. "She's dead," Kankurou murmured. "No," Baki said then there was a big explosion. Sand protected Gaara from any debris.

As the smoke cleared, they saw a bloodied Isamu. "She's alive," Temari stated. Isamu smirked at the demon-vessel, "Miss me?" Teal eyes bore into her obsidian ones icily. She spit blood on the sand, "Got it." Her hair rose up and weak smokes of blue rose from her and her wounds healed. "You are really, really strong, brat." She spat the last word at him making him furrow. "I'll kill you," he murmured coldly. She scoffed and smirked. She removed her yukata and the wind blew it away.

Kankurou's cheeks tinted pink. "Whoa, I didn't know she's got some breasts," he thought pervertedly.

"I'll finish this battle now." Gaara sensed her seriousness and grinned evilly. But in a flash, she was gone in his sight. His eyes widened, he remembered this speed from Rock Lee. He readied his sand for any attacks.

"Where did she go?" asked Kankurou. "She was impossibly… fast," Temari whispered in disbelief.

She poofed in front of him and immediately striked a punch at her face but it slowly spurted into sand. "Suna?" he asked, surprised. "Too slow for a Kage," he felt a big painful punch directed behind his head. He didn't have any time to react, he was sent flying far from the battlefield.

Gaara's siblings stared wide-eyed at the scene. The watchers were speechless, even Chiyo was shocked. Isamu withdrew her arm and looked at her fist; there was a blood on it. "… Suna."

"If Gaara didn't have his sand armor, he could've had a cracked skull and is heavily bleeding right now," Chiyo thought.

She looked at her fallen opponent slowly rose up with his head down, his arms limp on his sides. She gritted her teeth, "You're not dead yet?" She ran in an inhuman speed and attacked Gaara with her monstrous strength. She punched him in the face, stomach and hit his back hard with both of her fist. Gaara coughed blood as he lay on the sand, face down.

"My brother…" mouthed Temari fearfully. Just what is she? This girl is a monster, Temari clutched her metal fan hard on her back.

Isamu looked down coldly at him. "Kazekage-sama would've been so happy right now," she murmured. She flipped him over with her foot. She smirked, "Poor boy." And she chuckled darkly, much to Chiyo's surprise, who was in a distant area.

Her chuckle ended when his eyes shot open. Before she knew it, she flew and was slammed on a nearby rock. "Poor you," he murmured. His right arm was transformed into Shukaku's monstrous one. She groaned in pain as she watched him walk towards her. "Damn," she whispered in pain. She hit her head hard enough on the big rock. Blood was gushing from her head.

"Blood… I need blood," he growled. She's still fixing her bleeding head when he grabbed her middle body and threw her hard on the ground. "Damn, broken bones," she thought as she collided with the ground. Before he could do any further damage, she did some hand signs, Snake, Sheep, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger…" Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!"and fire spurted through her lips. Gaara backed away from the girl with a roar.

"You… You're making me angry," he roared. "You too! You're making me mad!" she yelled. She stood up and did another set of hand signs. "Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu," a massive blast of water was sent to his way.

'How could she?" They gasped. There was no source of water in the desert yet she completed the jutsu. The sand on his arm was wet and falling off. As Gaara opened his eyes, she saw her fist collide with his forehead. WHAM.

Gaara opened his eyes and only saw darkness. He was familiar of this place. The last time he's been here is when he did his force sleep technique. He saw the scary yellow eyes of Shukaku in front of him. "Do you want power?" asked the demon. He didn't say anything. "Let me settle all of these," it said in a loud deep voice. "Let me out and kill her," still Gaara didn't say anything. "What? Are you gonna stare at me forever? Will you let that girl who just popped out of nowhere to beat you?" He chuckled, "Gaara, you have been defeated once. Don't tell me, you'll let a girl do it again this time."

"Why is she so strong? Does she have anything to protect too? What's the reason of her existence?" the redhead asked the demon. "Oh please, I'm tired of those questions. I. DON'T. KNOW. So shut up and let me out." "I can't." "HUH??!" "I said NO.I won't let you destroy the village." "Oh, so now you're acting like a hero? Don't make me laugh and piss." "Naruto changed me." "Look brat, even if how hard you try, they will never accept you. You know what? Because you're a MONSTER. Like me!" "I don't care." "Heh. You're stupid. Just like my ex-host." "I have to be the Kazekage." "Sigh. Sorry kid but, you lost." "What??" "Yeah, you're in a hospital and you're surrounded by Jounins to keep me from coming out. Damn Sealing Ritual."

"Then why did you even told me to let you out?! Now that I lost?!" "Nothing, just to give you moral support. He, he, he." "You know what Shukaku? I think you're the most useless demon among the nine of you." "Now don't be like that. It's bad to curse your elders." "You're not even human." "Pfft… Touchie…Hmmp!" "Whatever."