Here's the promised Gaara chapter, I have nothing else to say. Well actually, thanks for almost 2k views on a helping tentacle.
Gaara's mind was having trouble processing what was in front of him, the large round form of Lukiari, the leader of the jellyfish summoning clan was rising from the water. He had never seen an entity so massive before. It appeared to have a large see through outer layer and strange orange things in it. It also had hundreds of tentacles coming out several waving around in the air.
"Hello new summoner! What is your name?" asked Lukiari.
After Gaara was able to start speaking again he finally responded, "Uh, Gaara, my name is Gaara."
"Ah, I hope we can help you!" yelled Lukiari. Lukiari then started muttering something to themself, something along the lines of what was I supposed to say again. "AH! I remember now! I have to tell you of our abilities, yes yes, that's right!"
"We jellyfish are very fragile, however we are able to regenerate from the closest source of water! We also lack physical strength, but our tentacles are incredibly strong and sharp, so we stab things with them. It is so fun, just going pew! pew! and then the enemies get holes in them!"
Gaara took a moment to look at Zukuta, "Is that how they always act?" asked Gaara. Zukuta just floated up and down for a nod. Gaara sighed at his misfortune before shaking his head.
"We also can shoot big jets of water! They're like jets but of water!" yelled Lukiari. Gaara was beginning to regret ever agreeing to training with his summons, Lukiari while massive and impressive, was incredibly childish and impossible to take seriously.
"You know what, Lukiari you can go back to sleeping, I'll take over," decided Zukuta. "No buts," Zukuta said when Lukiari started a sentence. Lukiari hesitantly sank back into the water seeming a bit downcast. "Now, you can't exactly learn those abilities, however, we can teach you how to make what we call transmission holes. It works through the use of circles, if you can get a circle with a hole in the middle, you can use it to move things around. You can send some our tentacles through it to attack your enemy, you can shoot random things out like that water jet. You can also go through it so you can use it to transport yourself small distances. If you become skilled enough, you can create several of these holes. You can even link different holes together; you saw an effect similar in your test when the jellyfish would shoot jets of water to different holes that would direct them to more to create a web of jets."
"I can already see several different uses for that, when can I begin learning how to use the ability?" asked Gaara.
"You can start if you can pass another test," replied Zukuta. "All you have to do is utilize some transmission holes given to you, to beat one of our bigger members. I'm going to assume you want to start immediately so duck." When Zukuta finished their sentence, a tentacle came flying at Gaara; Gaara just barely managed to duck underneath and fly up with his sand. "Those glowing neon circles you see are your transmission holes, only you have been given access to them so only you can use them.
Zukuta quickly vanished after finishing taking; probably though one of those holes, thought Gaara. Gaara analyzed his opponent and found it to be a large boxy jellyfish, it was about 10 meters in height, and 7 meters wide. Gaara had to dodge more tentacles as he began formulating a plan. Gaara willed his sand to go through some of the holes making it somehow appear out of them as the sand began forming multiple pillars that tried to crush the jellyfish.
The jellyfish lifted its tentacles and sent them through the sand pillars destroying them. It then turned and shot a jet of water at Gaara. Gaara's eyes widened as the jet of water was about to hit him before he tried willing himself through one of the holes. Gaara became incredibly dizzy as he saw the world warp and things start coming closer together before he came out of one of the holes. He had to muster all of his willpower to prevent himself from puking. So that's how it works, it changes the distance between the point of whatever is being transported and the hole that it will exit from. Transportation from one hole to another probably will be less dizzy... I hope. Gaara quickly flew up as a swarm of tentacles flew straight at him.
The sand was soon willed through all of the holes in an attempt to confuse the massive jellyfish before it was sent as a giant sand lance. The jellyfish flew up before it sent multiple tentacles to chase Gaara. began flying away from the tentacles as he transported himself through one of the holes behind the jellyfish. Gaara leapt out of the hole with the sand wrapped around his arm creating a large sand fist. Gaara swung the fist and hit the jellyfish knocking it into a wall.
It slowly got up again before bellowing in anger. Its tentacles started to flail around in an attempt to swat Gaara down. Gaara flew above it and sent his sand to crush the giant jellyfish. It quickly split the sand before turning and shooting a jet of water at Gaara. Gaara flew underneath it before flying at the Jellyfish. Gaara formed a large lance and tried to stab the jellyfish but was slapped out of the way. The jellyfish pointed its tentacles at Gaara as each one started shooting thin jets of water. It swung one at Gaara that he ducked underneath. The jet cut straight through a stone behind him.
The jellyfish began waving all the jets at random attempting to cut him in half, but Gaara flew off before creating a large wall of sand. The jellyfish pointed the jets at the wall shooting holes through it in an attempt at finding Gaara. Gaara used the wall as a diversion as he started burrowing underneath the jellyfish until he was behind it.
Gaara created a large sand humanoid figure that he entered and kicked the jellyfish into the sand wall. The sand started to cover the jellyfish in an attempt to crush it, but the jellyfish blew up in a wave of water. The jellyfish was even more angry now and it flew at Gaara with its tentacles ready to pierce him. Gaara manipulated the giant to grab the tentacles and threw it into a wall. The jellyfish started shooting rays of water again that the giant started to avoid.
Gaara moved the giant until it was up right in the jellyfish's face. The 2 started to grapple as the giant started grabbing onto its tentacles and body while the jellyfish wrapped its tentacles around the body while jabbing at parts. The giant pulled back its fist and punched the jellyfish before pulling it back in for another one. The jellyfish turned its body and shot a large jet of water that shoved the giant back.
The jellyfish took the moment to cut off the giants arm and head with its tentacles. The jellyfish flew at the giant and wrapped all of its tentacles around it before squeezing it until it burst. The sand that exploded out of the giant collected around a tentacle and threw it into a rock.
The jellyfish burst out of the rocks and was incredibly angry. It flew at Gaara waving its tentacles madly. Gaara flew away luring the massive jellyfish away until it was in-between all the transmission holes. Gaara created a sand golem and sent it at the Jellyfish. The golem grabbed onto its tentacles before Gaara sent it through a hole. The Jellyfish was violently thrown around and turned. That's it! I just have to have multiple golems grab it and then send them through holes at random.
Gaara quickly made more golems and sent them at the Jellyfish that was still reorienting itself. The golems started to grab at its tentacles before Gaara sent them through the holes. The large Jellyfish started to spin around and be thrown around before it was ripped apart from the golems.
"Well done Gaara," said Zukuta as they reappeared. "You can start learning how to create transmission holes now, just form a perfect circle first." Gaara gave a quick nod before manipulating his sand into a large circle. "Now just make a hole in the center of it." Gaara quickly obliged as the circle became more like a ring. "Now, this technique works by closing the distance between the 2 locations. This would normally be impossible without complex fuinjutsu, however, by adding symbols on the ring, you can use your chakra to make the distance shorter to transport one thing to a different location. This technique will only work with circles, don't ask why."
"Are you saying don't ask why because you don't know?" asked Gaara.
"No... maybe... yes..." replied Zukuta. "That's beside the point! Now form these symbols." Zukuta started to draw symbols onto the ground with their tentacles, creating a ring like shape. Gaara quickly followed their lead and added the symbols onto his sand ring. "Now, just use your chakra to turn the ring into a beacon; assuming you did this correctly, the ring will be able to use chakra to momentarily lower the distance between 1 point and it. By the way, your rings decide if it works, the rings I gave you were made to be easier to use for beginners and use even more complicated symbols to make them work. The rings I'm showing you are the standard issue."
Gaara quickly finished the process and decided to give it a go. He tried to pull a rock through it, but the rock only moved a few inches. He tried again but to no avail. "If you want to do this quicker, I recommend practicing with multiple rings, it'll help latter on and will speed things up," advised Zukuta. Gaara began forming more and more rings, each one more refined than the last. When he tried to pull rocks through them, each one did better and better with one making the rock go through the ring.
"Good job, you can now work on connecting the rings, all you have to do is add an extra symbol onto the rings, it looks like a whirlpool," said Zukuta. Gaara nodded his head as he observed Zukuta forming the symbol. "Now, just add this symbol on any rings you want to connect, in order to actually connect them, you need to add another symbol onto them, it can be anything, the ones just have to share a symbol. They can be connected multiple times; however, the same symbol can't go on more than 2 rings."
Gaara quickly made the whirlpool symbol before doing 1 line for an extra symbol to connect the 2 rings. Gaara tried to make a pillar of sand and send it into one of the rings. The sand got transported to the other ring and the pillar came out. A small smile graced his face as he succeeded. "Now, using multiple rings at once is difficult and sending things through multiple rings at once bends reality sort of and splits whatever it is into multiple pieces that will be drawn to each other to reconstruct the main body. If used on a living thing, the entity will somehow survive being split apart with no damage done."
Gaara decided to make a few more rings and tried sending his body through all at once. He never felt pain like it before, his body was split apart, started spinning while being sent through warped space, before all being drawn to one place and rebuilding him. It felt like some took a hot knife and ripped him apart before spinning him in 100 different directions at once before someone glued him back together. Gaara started to shake on his feet as he fell over and was knocked unconscious.
Next chapter will be either Weaver just fighting skeletons or them meeting up for a mission. I haven't decided yet tbh.