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Alright a quick note here, this chapter got away from me. It was originally supposed to be about Bando and this was supposed to be the next chapter but I started typing it and then this came out.

So, enjoy this totally unexpected chapter and longer than average chapter.

Sunagakure…

Gaara looked up from the report his sister had sent him as something landed outside his window.

A wave of his hand later and sand had opened the window and a hawk flew in.

"It's just ink?" Gaara asked out loud as he stood up." Who can even do this?"

'Run boy, it's an explosive!' Shukaku suddenly roared in his mind and Gaara saw the many symbols painted onto the bird's underbelly.

Gaara's sand shot forward to envelope the bird but it exploded too quickly.

The red haired Kazekage found himself flying through the door as his sand hastily threw him out of his office as it burst into an inferno.

'Fires sealed into the bird as well?' Gaara asked himself as he landed on the wall and hastily formed a hand signs.

"Doton: Mud Dragon!" Gaara called out and he spewed out a massive dragon made of mud that quickly smothered the flames in his office.

Gaara spotted more hawks flying throughout the village and his eyes narrowed.

'I recognize his attack style, Deidara used the same.' Gaara thought as he rose one hand up and the sand obeyed him as it shot into the air as a sea of spikes.' No one will attack my village again.'

The ceiling above him crumbled as the sandstone that made it broke apart into sand.

Gaara rose out of it and saw Suna-nin quickly lining the rooftops with shuriken launchers on their shoulders.

"Bring those birds down!" Baki's voice ordered and a rain of shuriken shot towards the massive flocks of ink birds attacking the village.

'They have a limited amount of Chakra so they're coming from somewhere close by so this will handle it.' Gaara thought even as he shot a torrent of sand into the air that swiftly rained down and coated the village and desert around it.' Now where are they?'

He raised himself up into the air and immediately saw several large birds, nearly as big as him, drop from higher in the sky and dived straight towards him.

With a wave of his hands the birds were skewered by blades of sand launched at them before Gaara pulled one hand into a fist and the falling ink was crushed by the compacting sand.

He tossed the sphere of sand away and shielded his eyes from the resulting explosion.

Sensing the birds attacking him from behind a wall of sand blocked them as it quickly wrapped around the ink and stopped it from hitting the village.

'The ink is explosive, it's not just the birds.' Gaara thoughtas the sand wrapped around the ink was tossed aside from the explosion, the Kazekage noticing the intensity of the explosion turned some of the sand to glass.' Whoever they are, they're trying to stop me from using my sand.'

Gaara quickly formed several hand signs and red Chakra leaked from his body before sinking into the sand around him. The sand immediately gained blue vein like markings across it as Gaara found who was causing the attack, floating high above the desert some distance form the village on a massive ink bird.

The sand beneath them shot up as a pillar that quickly morphed into a massive clawed hand that the bird avoided before ink centipedes launched down from the bird and wrapped themselves around the sand before detonating.

Gaara swiftly moved his arms and the desert around Suna responded to his commands.

It formed itself into a massive crushing wave of sand that rose high into the air and towered over the village before Gaara pushed his arms forward and it surged forward.

The bird simply rose higher and smaller ones dived off of it to detonate against the arms of sand aiming to grab it as it flew over the wave of sand.

Gaara saw this before moving one arm to the side and his hand balled into a fist.

The sand tightly compacted itself into several spheres before firing off as a rain of bullets on the bird.

Ink was poured off of it and it formed into a thick black shield and Gaara saw his sand slowly breaking it down but not quick enough as more birds raced towards the village, a massive swarm of them and Gaara spotted explosive tags trailing behind them.

He was about to call down to Baki only to see shuriken take down the birds long before they reached the walls.

'It looks like the village is covered, for now at least.' Gaara thought before he saw the ink on the ground take shape, bringing the sand up with it.

"What?" Gaara asked as he saw humanoid creatures made of sand and ink rush to the village walls and begin tearing them down, their arms shaping into clubs, blades, claws, anything at all to attack and break down the walls of Sunagakure.

Baki seemed to have seen this as well as dozens of Shinobi lined the sides of the walls and began throwing down explosive kunai to blow the creatures to bits.

More ink flowed across the sand and formed into a massive figure, made of sand bound by the ink, it forming itself into dozens of seals that held the massive creature together.

It was nearly three times the height of village walls and a single massive foot gave the creatures made of ink and sand their access to the village.

Gaara saw this and one hand rose up before he brought it down in a fist.

The sand of the desert once again obeyed him and formed into a replica of Shukaku and tackled the massive ink and sand creature to the ground before it opened its mouth.

"Bijudama!" Gaara called out as red and blue orbs of Chakra formed into a black sphere hovering in front of the replica's mouth.

The massive explosion that followed the black sphere fired at the ink and sand goliath consumed both it and the Shukaku duplicate as Gaara lowered his arms and turned to watch the Suna-nin fight off the ink and sand creatures.

'Seals are covering those things boy, don't try to break them with your sand.' Shukaku spoke from in the seal.' It'll end badly for you.'

"I know that, any suggestions on sto…" Gaara was interrupted as a roar threw away the cloud of smoke created from the Tailed Beast Ball and he turned in shock to see the ink and sand goliath rise to its feet once again, tossing off the sand covering it.

Gaara reacted quickly and the sand at its feet quickly stopped it before he made several hand signs.

"Sand Waterfall Imperial Funeral!" Gaara called out as he clenched both fists with both pointed towards the goliath.

Wave after wave of sand crashed into the figure moments later, each wave compacting tightly around it as Gaara slowly lifted it into the air with some effort.

"Die!" Gaara ordered as he clapped his fists together and the sand imploded on itself, compacting itself rapidly.

The goliath showed itself to have immense strength as the sand stopped mere moments from crushing it and doing what the technique was named for, liquefying it in a waterfall explosion.

Gaara cursed as he felt the strain to hold the technique before the creature let out a deafening roar, throwing away the sand and nearly tossing Gaara out of the air.

"Bring that thing down!" Baki ordered through his earpiece as he leapt back." It's going to get into the village at this rate!"

Shuriken fired from launchers slammed into the behemoth and explosive tags tied to the ends of them exploded, blowing chunks out of the goliath with each detonation.

"Hit it with heavier fire!" Baki ordered as massive kunai launchers were moved up to rooftops and fired, the goliath turned into a pincushion from the sheer amount of the weapons.

Explosions erupted across it only for seals on the creature to glow and it roared as ink flowed from the seals, collecting more sand and binding it to the creature much stronger now.

"Hit it again!" Baki ordered and another hail of kunai and shuriken answered his order.

They were an even greater amount than before only for a roar from the creature to toss the weapons aside.

A massive wave of sand consumed the goliath at this point as another knocked the weapons out of the air and out the village.

Gaara's eyes narrowed as he sent a surge of Chakra to his sand and moments later he clapped his hands together.

"Desert Layered Imperial Funeral!" Gaara called out and the sand covering the ink and sand behemoth compacted tightly and formed into a pyramid that was quickly covered in seals.

'Thank you for your assistance Shukaku.'

'That thing was getting on my nerves, are you done yet with it?' the Ichibi answered.

'I'm afraid not, do you think a Bijudama would defeat it?' Gaara asked the Biju he hosted and Shukaku nodded.

'It'll take a lot of my Chaka to eradicate that thing and it'll have to have counter seals infused in it to break it down for good.' Shukaku answered before turning serious and drawing Gaara into the seal, looking at him with a rare serious expression.

"I hope you know what can happen if things go south boy, are you ready to accept it?" Shukaku asked and Gaara simply nodded.

With a roar Shukaku sent a final surge of Chakra to Gaara as he sent him out of the seal.

In the real world Gaara nearly fell to the ground as raw agony flooded through his body before with a roar a crimson cloak of Chakra covered him and soon spread to the sand, giving it crimson markings.

Gaara held his hands out in front of him and in moments a massive Tailed Beast Ball formed in front of him as sand swirled around him and took the form of a miniature Shukaku behind him.

The goliath roared as it forced its way out of what should have been its tomb.

"He's going to destroy it." the figure on the ink bird stated before the bird took off from the wall of the village, the dead guards in pieces around them." But he was only a diversion."

"BIJUDAMA!" Gaara roared and the sphere launched off with a roar before it slammed into the figure just as it shattered its prison with a final roar.

The explosion was titanic and would have destroyed Suna if Gaara hadn't used his strengthened sand as a shield, the crimson veins across it glowing with the power of Shukaku.

Gaara allowed the Chakra cloak to fade away and allowed himself a small grin at his victory before he turned his attention to the smaller ink and sane creatures held by Suna-nin at the gates.

"I'll take care of them now." Gaara muttered as his sand lost the crimson veins across it in moments and it instead shot towards the ink and sand creatures, shaping into various blades to skewer them as Gaara used the last remnants of Shukaku's Chakra to form seals across the sand.

The attack collapsed through.

Blue vein like markings spread across Gaara's body and he screamed as pain lanced through him, an all-consuming pain that left him falling out of the sky.

"Kankuro! Kankuro!"

The puppet master heard his little brother screaming for him and swiftly turned to the squad of ten Jonin following him.

"Each of you get a squad together and get a perimeter watch on the walls, now!" Kankuro quickly ordered before leaping off.

Baki noticed him moving as well as the rapidly falling Gaara and quickly put two and two together.

'Even with the modified seal and Shukaku's new attitude the taint of his Chakra is still malicious!' Baki thought in shock before turning to the confused Chunin covering the rooftop he stood on.

"Keep those birds away from the village and keep that ink from striking the ground!" Baki ordered before leaping away and he easily caught up with Kankuro as both saw Gaara slam into the ground in the distance.

Gaara clutched at his head as the blue veins moved across his body, the whispers in his minds overwhelming him and causing him to scream.

'Shukaku, what is going on?' Gaara managed to ask.

'Kill.'

"Stop, stop please."

'Blood.'

"No, not again, please not again!"

"Give me blood."

"KILL!"

"NO!"

"BLOOD, NOW!"

Shukaku watched from the seal as Gaara's mind was consumed by these thoughts and cursed.

"I never expected my Chakra to hold so much negative emotions still, but I warned the boy this plan was risky at best and downright terrible a worse." Shukaku muttered as he paced up and down his cage before settling down near the front of it." Pull through this brat, I don't feel like getting a new host again."

"Gaara!" Kankuro called out as he scanned the deserted streets from the rooftops." Gaara, answer me!"

"Where is he?" Baki asked as he landed next to Kankuro with three Jonin behind him.

"I don't know, help me find him before it's too late!" Kankuro shouted before leaping off.

"You heard him, scatter and search!" Baki ordered the Jonin behind him before leaping off himself.

Baki found the collapsed Gaara first and just as snakes made of ink shot towards him.

He threw several explosive kunai and he prayed his hurried plan worked.

The explosions turned the snakes into ink and also triggered Gaara's Shield of Sand, stopping the exploding ink from killing him.

Baki landed next to Gaara as he unsealed a signal flare from his pouch and fired it into the air, quickly calling the others to him.

Kankuro leaped off of the rooftop above him and crouched down next to Gaara.

"Gaara, Gaara, what's wrong?" Kankuro asked as he reached out to lay a hand on his shoulder only for sand to wrap around it and toss him aside.

"They keep screaming at me!" Gaara nearly screamed as he slammed his head into the ground, shattering the Armor of Sand there." Why won't they leave me alone!"

The three Jonin landed next and were immediately tossed away by blasts of sand.

'He's still retraining himself, that would have normally crushed them.' Baki thought in shock as he observed the shaking form of his Kazekage.' The sheer amount of will he would need to fight off the tainted Chakra is astounding but where is it coming from?'

He reached out to Gaara only for his hand to be slapped away by sand and he wisely leaped back in time to stop a crudely shaped blade form slamming into him, instead hitting the ground and bursting into sand once again.

Baki spotted ink birds dive bombing Gaara and he quickly leapt onto a rooftop as he flashed through hand signs.

"Futon: Blade of Wind!" Baki called out and blades of wind shot forward and shredded the ink birds before a gust of wind from his palms blasted the explosive ink into the air.

Ink mice raced out of the alleys towards Gaara only to be captured in four Salamander puppets emerging from underneath the ground, Kankuro on a rooftop with three large scrolls unrolled around him.

"Black Ant!" Kankuro called out as Chakra Threads launched from his fingers and into seals one of the scrolls.

Four blurs launched form the scrolls before diving off the rooftop and picking up a Salamander each before moving high into the air.

Kankuro was straining himself now as he controlled eight puppets.

'Come on, get higher.' Kankuro told himself before he allowed the Salamanders to dump their captives before the Black Ants each dropped a bomb that blew apart the ink creations before two of the Black Ants arms shot off and formed into three crude fans and blew the ink away.

Baki quickly moved down to Gaara again and dodged the blades of sand that crumbled on impact.

"Kazekage, fight it!" Baki called out as he was thrown back by a wave of sand." You swore to yourself to protect Sunagakure,

Baki didn't know of his words reached the red headed Kazekage but he prayed they did, the blue veins across the sand were turning black and taking a very familiar shape.

"Baki, I'll handle this!" Kankuro shouted down to the Jonin Commander as he called his many puppets back to him." Go get the village ready for the worse, just incase!"

Baki only nodded as he leapt off.

Both knew of the worst case scenario. Shukaku once again emerging and there was no telling what he would do once free again, it could be either good or bad but in the Shinobi World you were always ready for the worse.

"Come on Gaara, you can beat this!" Kankuro shouted down to him as he ducked under a clawed sand arm while also using Black Ant to launch explosives into a swarm of ink mice.

'Please Gaara, get through this quick. I can't keep up all of this by myself.' Kankuro silently pleaded as he leapt onto the back of one of the Black Ant puppets and used it to hover in the air as he quickly resealed the Salamanders he had summoned before replacing them with Crows.

"Get down here boy, you're stressing yourself even more this way." A voice suddenly spoke and Kankuro felt himself pulled to the ground as the puppet he was on was destroyed from inside.

"Chiyo-sama?" Kankuro asked as he slowly stood up and came face to face with the elderly grey haired puppet master.

"Of course, I couldn't allow my most promising student in the last decade kill himself out here." Chiyo announced as she pulled the three giant scrolls Kankuro had to her and Chakra threads shot from each finger." I'll play a little bit of offense while you focus on keeping Gaara from hurting anyone. We'll have each other's backs."

"Hai Chiyo-sama." Kankuro answered with a grin as the two were consumed in a burst of smoke.

Gaara's mindscape…

The Kazekage groaned as he slowly dragged himself to a crouch before someone's foot landed on his back and pushed him down.

"Look at you, pathetic. I can't believe I became something like you." A voice unmistakable to Gaara spoke.

"I'm not you anymore." Gaara growled out as sand slowly moved around him." I am nothing like you anymore!"

The sand shot forward as a colossal wave that covered the figure before black veins spread across it and with a bestial roar from within it launched outward and turned into a mass of clawed hands that shot towards Gaara.

The Kazekage leapt back to avoid it and his hands balled into fists as blades of sand formed from the desert beneath his feet and shot towards the figure.

The red head under attack from the blades merely chuckled and with a wave of his hand the blades turned on their wielder.

Gaara leapt into the air to avoid them and a platform of sand formed beneath his feet.

"Are you really at your best, where's the Killing Intent?" the figure asked him as he was raised up by a vortex of sand at his feet." Where is that bloodlust!"

With his hands shooting forward bullets of sand shot towards Gaara who clenched his hands into a fist, stopping the attack cold before it began swirling around the figure before with his other fist clenched it imploded and shaped itself into a sphere.

Gaara let out a sigh as he lowered to the ground.

"Finally, he's gone." Gaara muttered before he had to dodge a clawed hand of sand from ripping through him from behind.

"You really think that could kill me!" the figure roared as a giant versio of themselves rose out of the desert in front of Gaara." Do you really think you can kill your own hatred!"

Gaara glared at his twelve year old self as sand swirled around him, slowly lifting him into the air again.

"I will stop you, I will not allow you to endanger my village or my frinds ever again!" Gaara roared as the sand behind him obeyed his will and he felt another presence enter his sand." I am the Fifth Kazekage and I will kill you!"

The giant form of Shukaku formed behind him and roared in agreement as from within his cage the tanuki grinned.

"Go get him kid, it's about time you dealt with this."

AN: Well Gaara is facing his inner demons and the mysterious attacker strikes again. I wonder who he is?

If you watched Naruto Shippuden you'll know in a heart beat but for those who don't all things come to those who wait.

Anyway, read and review on what you liked, what you hated, and what you want to see next.

Peace.