Here's the new chapter. Team Kakashi vs the Sand Siblings.
Gaara was far too strong for them. She knew that going in. But just quitting before trying didn't appeal to anyone on her team. The only way for them to win was to take Gaara out right at the beginning before he had a chance to catch any of them. So they needed to time their attacks such that Gaara was forced to defend from the very beginning without any opportunity to retaliate. However, that brought about the second problem, which was that Gaara's defense was near unbreakable. There wasn't anything they could do about that. She knew a way to sneak an attack in, but she needed her teammates to break open at least a small part of his defenses. Whether that was possible or not, was something to be found out by trying.
Right off the bat, she threw a kunai with a smoke bomb attached at Gaara. It was predictably blocked by Gaara with a wall of sand with barely any effort. The smoke bomb released and bought Kiba time to transform into a double headed wolf with Akamaru and launched the Fang wolf Fang jutsu, charging at the high speed. The initial smoke bomb she threw had some scents mixed in, which was what Kiba was using to guide himself. He smashed into Gaara's defense which were up, but even that didn't break through. Choji by this point had prepared and used his Human Boulder jutsu, timed to hit almost immediately after Kiba's attack. Kiba and Akamaru immediately repeated their attack.
All this time she'd been right up close, watching her teammates attacks impact against Gaara's defense. Since each attack was a wide area attack, she figured there was chance that at least a small section of Gaara's defense against it would get destroyed. As she'd hoped, she noticed a small section of his defenses was open. It wasn't much, but it was enough for her. She quickly threw a kunai with an explosive tag attached. She then cast the shuriken Shadow clone jutsu. It technically couldn't replicate Explosive tags as seals and their intricate working couldn't be replicated by the shadow clone jutsu, but the Sun's team didn't know that. Her 3 teammates had gotten in position and surrounded the sand sphere that Gaara used to defend, in order to launch attacks if they tried to run away in a panic. That didn't seem to happen, and after the explosive tags went off, she waited, the adrenaline pumping her blood harder than ever. But when the smoke cleared, she saw that they were perfectly fine.
Well it looks like Gaara really is unbeatable. In hindsight, she probably should have resigned right away at this point. But her stupid pride caused her to hesitate. In that brief period of time, she heard her teammates yell out. Startled, she realized that her teammates had been caught by sand hands that popped out of the ground. She noticed the floating eye of sand and realized that Gaara had never lost track of their movements. She was about to yell out that her team was resigning, but just before she could a bunch of sand covered her mouth. Sand was starting to cover her body along with the body of her entire team. She then started to hear Kiba's muffled screams. No no no. This couldn't be happening!
But just then, the sand surrounding her and her teammates burst open, and her sensei and his clones were standing next to each of her teammates, a Raikiri chirping loudly in each of their palms. "This match is over", he growled out at Gaara.
Gaara calmly brought his sand back to his gourd and walked away, his teammates following along timidly.
Kiba was still groaning in pain. Oh no. She hoped and begged Kami that his injuries weren't too severe.
Onoki said "Quite a ruthless little kid you've got there Rasa. I can appreciate that, but he seems a little too bloodthirsty."
Rasa simply sighed, but he didn't deign to comment.
He hoped that the injuries on Kiba Inuzuka weren't too severe. He didn't want to lose a asset to the village and a good citizen of Konohagakure. He didn't want Kakashi to have to suffer the pain of damage to more of his loved ones.
A/N
Hope you enjoyed that. That's all for this chapter. Also, couldn't find a moment to mention this, but Gaara is able to block the kunai with explosive tags fully by converting his sand gourd to sand as extra defense. His siblings had also brought out their own weapons to block out the attack, but all 3 of them would have taken some damage from the attack if Gaara wasn't capable of something like that. Kiba was the first to be caught and injured because he and Akamaru were totally drained out from their jutsu, which if you remember they could only use it twice in canon the first time they display it, which is basically around this point in time in this story. Also Kiba protected Akamaru from the sand for a bit. So he got caught first and so got injured the most. Kakashi will probably get some minor punishment for having interfered in the exams, but nothing too serious considering the circumstances.
