Dokuyuku stands a mere few feet away from the enraged Kazekage, whose body is nearly covered in sand and demonic aura continues to grow. "So you ready to battle a truly skilled shinobi, sand brat?" asks the purple woman.
In a low booming voice Gaara responds, "The question is, lady, are you ready to battle someone like me?" The Kazekage then raises both of his arms at the purple ninja. In a flash, giant pillars of sand come flying out towards the enemy.
As the sand comes ever so closer to Dokuyuku, she just gives a little smirk and disappears from the line of fire. The sand just continues to go straight until it hits the trees in the distance. "What…where did she go," wonders Gaara.
Gaara then senses a presence and looks down to find the poisonous purple ninja crouched infront of the red-headed ninja with her arms extended at his chest. Dokuyuku looks up and smiles, "Too slow. Ninja art – Purple Sonic Blast!"
The force of the sonic wave released from Dokuyuku's hands is so great that Gaara goes flying backwards, driven through ten trees until he comes to a stop on the ground. "Well I am impressed," the purple woman says, "usually I sent them through thirty."
In the pile of rubble, Gaara slowly emerges. "Alright, you have officially ticked me off," he says as a small trail of blood drips down the corner of his lip. "Time to finish this off now before you really make me pissed."
Meanwhile, Sakura is seeing everything happening in front of her as she continues to neutralize the paralysis in her body. "Come on, Sakura," the strawberry blond says to herself. "I can finally move my upper body."
"Gaara is almost on the verge of completely snapping. Naruto, where are you at? What in the world are you waiting for, a written invitation?! Please hold on Gaara-kun, we are coming…" Sakura closes her eyes to focus on her task.
Gaara is now standing back up and makes a run at Dokuyuku, throwing a barrage of punches and kicks, trying to land a blow that will enable him to use the sand coffin. Unfortunately, not one single attempt has succeeded.
As the purple female is dodging each kick and punch, Gaara's demeanor is growing more and more hostile. "You damn vile woman, why won't you go down?!" screams Gaara, his voice filled with more rage than before.
"Now what would be the fun in me falling when you are the one who is about to go down?" Dokuyuku comments. After that phrase the purple ninja lands a roundhouse heel kick to the top of Gaara's head that sends him crashing to the ground.
Dokuyuku then jumps to the top of the nearest tree as Gaara brings himself up to his knees. The purple ninja stares down at the battered Gaara and smiles, "It has been fun, but it is now time for you to say goodbye…forever."
The female ninja releases a large amount of violet pedals from her sleeves that begin to fall to the ground. She then gives a few hand-signs and utters the words "Ninja art – weapon replication jutsu strike."
All the pedals instantly poof into kunai with exploding tags attached to them. The weapons fly at Gaara with such speed that some cut the redhead's arms and legs as they fall to ground. Once they all land, they begin to spark….
The tags then explode in unison, engulfing Gaara in flame and sand. Sakura's eyes, once closed to focus on her medical jutsu, are now wide open in shock after hearing the blast. She looks over at the cloud and gives a scream, "NO!! GAARA-KUN!!"
Tears being form in the bottom of the strawberry blonde's eyes. "No, this can't be… we were to late… Gaara-kun… you, you can't be gone… I found that one thing that was missing…I cannot lose it again… not now…."
The tears begin to stream down her face, unable to hold back the sadness. "Gaara-kun, you can't leave me… I love you. Do you hear me!! I LOVE YOU GAARA-KUN!" Sakura's fist are pounding the ground, creating little craters.
Suddenly she hears a yell coming from the area of the blast. "Sakura…SAKURA-CHAN!" She looks over to see a giant ball of sand spinning in constant circle. "Gaara-kun!" she says to herself. "Thank goodness, he is alive."
The feel of relief does not last long as she senses something is terribly wrong. As she looks at the ball of sand, she begins to feel Gaara's spirit slowly diminishing. "This is not good. I need to free my legs quickly."
During the time of Sakura's revelation, Dokuyuku was looking down at the sphere of spinning sand as well. "Hmph, well I wonder what it will take to get rid of this little monster." Suddenly she feels a chill down her spin and a voice behind her.
"Well, the good thing is that you will never find out what it will take-ttebayo." The purple ninja turns her head just in time to see Naruto standing behind her with a shuriken rasengan in his hand thrusting towards her back.
"You have troubled my friends enough!! It is now time for you to say goodbye permanently!!" the blonde ninja screams as the rasengan tears into the purple ninja, sending her crashing to the ground where she gave her last breath.
Naruto drops down from the tree and walks over to the ball of sand, placing his hand on the top of his head. "Sorry it took me so long, but I knew she couldn't beat you Gaara and I had to wait for the right opportunity." There is no response from Gaara.
Naruto begins to look at the sphere. "Hey Gaara, you in there? You can come on out man, the battle is over. We are all safe." Naruto draws his face closer to the sphere to see if he can find his friend hidden beneath the sand.
Naruto's eyes grow wide at the vision he sees emerging from the sand. It isn't the usual face of his stoic pal, but rather a demonic face that give a bone shattering squeal. "Oh man," Naruto replies. "This cannot be good at all…"
Just as he finishes that sentence and hand shoots out from the ball, grabs the blonde ninja and sends him crashing into a nearby tree. Sakura's hears the sound, but continues to focus on being able to make her legs move again.
Naruto slowly gets up and shakes the cobwebs and looks over at the sphere. The sand stops spinning and explodes. As the dust begins to settle, Naruto sees a large creature emerging from the area. "Oh no, don't tell me… Gaara…"
The dust fully settles and standing before Naruto is Gaara, but unfortunately it is the fully awoken sand demon and not the friend and Kazekage he knew. The fully transformed Gaara takes a few steps towards Naruto and lets out a blood-curdling scream.
The force of the scream sends Naruto skidding back a few feet. Naruto stone blue eyes so a bit of fear in them now. "Damn it! I was too late…he has gone full demon. He doesn't know who I am…What can I do know…"
Stay tuned for the final chapter of the GaaSaku fanfic.