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Chapter 31: Can I defeat the one like me?
"I finally found you," Smirked Sasuke seeing the back of Gaara.
"I've wished to fight you for a while," came a reply from Gaara, his voice warped and more demented than before, "To fight someone with my eyes, eyes that show true loneliness."
"Don't think you'll defeat me," returned Sasuke still smirking, "your sand shield is useless against Chidori."
"If I hadn't taken the time to wake him up, I simply could have grabbed your ankle and thrown you away, negating that pitifull attack of yours," said Gaara. Sasuke only cringed, realizing that his words were true, but then he stopped to think.
"What exactly are you waking up?" he asked.
"This," said Gaara spinnig around, the sand had already begun fusing to his face and right arm. His arm was now huge and the rights side of his face looked almost like a racoon made of Sand.
"What the hell are you?" said Sasuke.
"A monster," he replied as he swung the massive arm, striking Sasuke and sending him flying to the side. He quickly regained his composure to watch for another strike.
However several Shuriken flew at Gaara, and he barely managed to dodge and landed on another tree branch, "So Sasuke, need a hand?" came the voice of Naruto.
"Go away Dobe, this is my fight," said Sasuke as he charged at Gaara with Chidori. He only hit the arm but ripped it right off. Sasuke smiled but that smile quickly left as the arm simply reattached itself.
"Told you need help, I have a real monster inside of me," smiled Naruto as red Chakra began to come out of his body.
"So, you to hold one?" smiled Gaara with delight, "So there are others like me. I will kill you, making my existence stronger."
"What are you talking about?" yelled Naruto.
"Looks like I should show this kid the truth, What do you Say Shukaku?"
"Sounds Good Kyuubi, Let us show these two each others memories, though I'm sure we're both doing it for different reasons, right?"
"Yeah, I'm doing this for my container, your doing it so yours will let you come out so you can go on another killing spree, right?"
"Why of course, when I come out there is no way You can stop me. You can't give all your power to your vessel unless you come out yourself."
"Don't underestimate us Racoon, doing this will lead to your defeat, not your victory."
"We'll see Kyuubi."
Suddenly when Naruto and Gaara locked eyes they were both pulled into a strange place of pure darkness. Gaara, in his normal form, and Naruto stood facing each other. A large voice echoed, Naruto recognized it as Kyuubi's, "Me and Shukaku decided it was in our best interests to show you each others lives, Naruto. This battle will rest on your own will power and wether or not you can come to terms with this. Don't forget that. And I'll let you explain your own memories,"
"What the hell are you talking about you stupid fox?" Naruto yelled but there were no responses. Only an image appeared before him and Gaara from Naruto's memory.
Naruto was laying on the ground at the age of six, surrounded by several adults laughing at him, "Ha, next time you try to steal food from my store the beating will be much worse.
"I remember this, I was on my own then, starving so I had been stealing food to keep alive, this is the first time I was caught," Naruto said Sadly, "I never had a family growing up. It was hard to get buy, but then the first break I had ever gotten came along."
Naruto was dragging himself back to the park where he slept, but ran into a Chuunin on his way there, "You alright there kid?" he said offering NAruto a hand. Naruto took his hand and began to talk to the Chuunin as the Chuunin lead him to an apartment building.
"That is where I live now, he didn't know who I was at the time, and payed for a room for me and gave me some food. His name was Iruka, and he was the first guy to ever treat me kindly," Naruto smiled, "Shortly after, even after he learned my name, he treated me the same. I didn't know it myself at the time, but I was a container for the Nine tail fox, the demon that killed countless people of my village including his family, and even so he still watched over me and loved me like family."
"Love," said Gaara with his head held low, "Love for others is why a person is weak. My strength comes from my Solitude. Love for oneself and desire for existence is the true source of power."
Naruto only looked at Gaara in shock, wondering what could trigger this in his mind. As he though this more images came.
"He's only a Demon Child and nothing more, It's best he doesn't become a real Ninja," said a women in a large crowd of people congragilating the new graduates who became Genin. Various congratulation could be heard, all of which made tears stream down Naruto's face. Then, however, a man with long Silver hair walked up to Naruto with a comforting smile.
"This was just before I graduated, I failed the Bushin technique, which was my worst Jutsu by far. However Mizuki, one of the Teachers, approached about a way to graduate. Inevitably it was only a trick so he could increase his own powers."
Iruka was on the ground bleeding with a few Kunai and a Windmill Shuriken embedded in his back, "Don't touch Iruka Sensei again or I'll kill you," Said Naruto stand in front of Iruko with a red energy covering his body, his teeth sharp as a wolfs fangs. On the ground next to him was a scroll of Jutsu, one of which NAruto quickly used.
"KAge Bushin No Jutsu!" yelled Naruto, creating one thousand solid replications of himself, "go ahead and attack me, I'll return the Pain a thousand times over!"
"That is when I actually Graduated, I defeated Mizuki and Iruka gave me my headband, if it wasn't for Iruka I probably would have became a cold beast only seeking revenge against them all, but thanks to him, I strived to make everyone acknowledge me, which is why I will become my villages greatest Ninja, the Hokage," said Naruto.
"Your desire for others to acknowledge you is what makes you week," Gaara said, "I too carry a demon inside of me. However my dad was still alive, but I never saw him. I was a mere tool that was to be used as a secret weapon, nothing more."
Three kids were playing kick ball in SunaGakaru, and it was kicked onto a roof, "Ah man, we can't get the ball from up there."
"I'll get it," said this little red headed boy. Sand lifted from a the ground around him, grabbed the ball and brought it into his hands, "Here you go," he said handing the ball back to the kids.
"Run away! Its that demon Kid Gaara!" and the three began to ran.
Gaara only grabbed head and began to yell, "Please don't run away from Me! I'm not a Demon!" and in his fit he began to lose control, and the sand Shot forth like a cannon at the kids. Though a man jumped in front of the blast protecting the children, when the sand dropped to the ground Gaara's uncle stood there with blood coming down his arms and face.
"Gaara, you must control your anger," He gasped out.
"U-uncle," Gaara sighed as the sand returned to him.
Gaara and his uncle Yashamaru were in there home. Yahsamaru had finished covering up the wounds he had just receive when Gaara asked, "what's it like to feel pain?"
"You don't know? Its never a pleasant feeling," He replied.
"I'm sorry," Gaara said with his head held low.
"Don't worry Gaara, there are different kinds of injuries. Injuries to the body, like mine, can be healed with ointments and bandages,"
"But I can't receive those kinds of wounds because this sand protects me, so I don't know what its like to feel pain," Gaara replied Saddly.
"The other kind of pain is much worse, its an injury of the heart."
"How does that happen?" asked Gaara.
"There is an unpleasant feeling in your chest, right around here," Yashamaru said putting his finger on Gaara's chest were his heart would be, "There is no way to make that pain go away with normal means, only one thing can cure a pain of the heart."
"I hurt there a lot, especially when the kids run from me and call me a demon, all I ever wanted was a friend," Gaara said beginning to sob, "How do you make that pain go away."
"The only remedy to a pain of he heart is love," Yashamaru replied.
"What is love?" Gaara said still sobbing.
"Love is a hard thing to explain, but I think love is the feeling between people that are there for you, and with people who care about you and are willing to help you through any time. That is love," smiled Yashamaru.
Later that Night Gaara was sitting on a balcony gazing at the moon. He was lost in thought about his uncle and the words he said. However as he was thinking, the sand that surrounded him shot up blocking several kunai and Shuriken. Enraged Gaara screamed as his sand smashed the assassin into a wall. Gaara walked up the limp frame of the Shinobi and pulled off his mask revealing Yashamaru, "Uncle!" cried Gaara.
"It was an order from the Kazekage to eliminate you. Shukaku was going out of control and needed to be stopped before it was to late," the Shinobi said weakly.
"So you were forced to do this and had no choice?" Gaara said with a bit of hope in his eyes.
"No, I was given the choice to do this mission," with Those words Gaara's eyes filled with despair, "I've despised you all along. Your mother died cursing this village. Your sand is the will of my sister, keeping you alive to make the village suffer, she was the only one who suggested that Shukaku would grow unstable, so her will keeps you alive to make them suffer. Even your name is proof of this. Gaara, to love and fight for only onself, to care for no one else, that is the meaning of your name. No one has ever loved you. So please, do everyone a favor and die."
Gaara couldn't take it any more. He grabbed his head screaming as he commanded his sand to silence his uncle for good. He ran off into the desert crying to himself, and then the images faded.
"I found myself wondering, if they didn't want me why did I exist?" Gaara said, "If one has no reason to go on it is the same as death, so what was my reason to live? Was I to go on an empty shell? But as Assassins were sent by my father, the Kazekage, to kill me, I realized something. I was at the hieght of my energy and felt alive when I killed them. SO now my reason to exist is clear. I exist to kill everyone other than myself. As long as there are people to kill to make me enjoy the feeling of living, I will go on. And you, Naruto, a person who grew up just like me, someone who shares in my loneliness, someone with the power of a demon. I will kill you to prove my existence, to feel the joy of living again."
This guy, he's the same as me. If I hadn't met Iruka, would I have turned out like him? He truly knows the meaning of loneliness and turned himself into a heartless killing machine, Can I beat this guy? NAruto thought to himself as they melded back into reality.
Thanks again for the reviews. Especially Metacarius. However, I did say it wouldn't be a HinataxTemari thing, I was just going for they connected with eachother durring the fight, plus Hinata strikes me as someone who would keep people alive if possible rather than kill them, even is she is a Shinobi. But I would like detailed reviews like his more.