Itachi Uchiha currently has an internal conflict within him.
They were currently taking a break after seeing Kakashi and his apprentices training battle, allowing Itachi to think about his current state in peace.
At first he was still curious as to why Naruto believed him, he himself had a guess that somehow Naruto knew the truth about him so Naruto believed him.
But the question is, how? Who told Naruto, did he tell himself? Or maybe Konoha's top brass.
For now he didn't really want to think about it, he just had to prepare himself for when the truth about him was exposed to the people in this room.
Now he went to the second problem, which was that he only gave half the truth to Jiraiya's question earlier.
De facto, it was Pain who led the Akatsuki and their goal for world peace.
But the real truth is that the leader of Akatsuki is actually led by Madara Uchiha from behind the shadows, and his ultimate goal is Mugen Tsukuyomi.
He didn't say this now because it would create chaos in the room, plus he had no evidence to substantiate his words.
So he hoped all of that could be explained by this screen.
He took a deep breath before looking back at the screen.
"Well, you've become strong huh. I'm amazed that you can actually get a bell," said Kakashi who was reading his book as usual. The day after completing the training, the three of them were currently sightseeing in the village.
"Hehe, maybe I've surpassed you, Kakashi-sensei," said Naruto with a grin.
"What are you saying? So arrogant," said Sakura.
"Haha, after all I'm still young, and recently I developed a brilliant jutsu..." said Kakashi trying to brag.
But was interrupted by Naruto's rumbling stomach.
"Ah yeah, we've never been home or gone to Ramen Ichiraku," said Naruto who was holding his stomach.
"Yeah, I'm a little hungry after yesterday's practice."
"…" Kakashi was silent because he was ignored, "They used to always react to every little thing, they were cute back then," he complained.
"We're not kids anymore you know sensei," said Sakura.
"Yeah yeah," Kakashi said with a sigh, "It's quite a shame when your thoughts can be heard by others."
"Don't worry Kakashi, youth always accompanies us all," said Guy with a thumbs up.
"That has nothing to do with it," replied Kakashi.
"Good, this will be Kakashi-sensei's treat."
"Alright sensei!"
"Sorry, I have to create and submit a new team formation, so I have to go," said Kakashi before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"Hah! Hey that's cheating sensei!" protested Sakura.
"We never made a pact like that you know," Kakashi replied.
With a frown, Sakura relented.
"Ahhh, he's running away!" Naruto shouted.
"Saying something like that, he only thought about continuing to read the book. Maybe," said Sakura.
Then Naruto realized something, "Hehe, so the two of us can go on a date."
"Fine, but you are the treat," replied Sakura directly.
Naruto quickly checked his frog wallet frantically.
"Heh," Sakura snorted in amusement as well as pity seeing Naruto's expression, maybe she should behave better towards her teammates in the future.
Meanwhile Sakura's attention was drawn to something.
It was Shikamaru and Temari.
"Shikamaru, Temari-san! Guess who this is!?" shouted Sakura.
They both raised their eyebrows.
It was Shikamaru who realized first, "Hey, aren't you Naruto?"
"Shikamaru!?"
"This guy…. That runt?" thought Temari.
"Did you just come back?" Shikamaru asked as they gathered.
"No, I just came back yesterday."
"Hehe, have you abandoned your stupidity? And you've changed, haven't you?"
"No, he hasn't changed a bit," Sakura quickly denied, making Naruto's shoulders slump.
"Oh, really."
"Sakura-chaaaaan," Naruto complained, but he quickly recovered and approached Shikamaru.
"!?"
"So, are you dating too," whispered Naruto with a smirk.
"Impossible," said Temari and Shikamaru at the same time.
Ino smirked and nudged Shikamaru, "Well Aren't you the perfect couple?"
"Noisy Ino," replied Shikamaru with a frown.
"By the way why are you in Konoha, Temari?" asked a curious Kankurou.
"Did you forget? Soon the Chuunin exam will be held, I'm there as a representative."
"Oh, that's right. I just remembered."
"That's not it," said Shikamaru.
"You're kidding, why should I go on a date with him," added Temari, "Chuunin exams will be held soon, I'm here as a representative for the meeting between Suna and Konoha."
"And it's troublesome, but I'm already a tester. So I was told to accompany the representative from Suna," complained Shikamaru.
"Chuunin exam, it brings back memories," said Naruto.
"Yeah. And Naruto, what are you planning to do?"
"What do you mean?"
"What are you saying, this is a Chuunin exam. The only one in our class who hasn't become a Chuunin is you."
"Oh this will be interesting," said Kiba, unable to contain his grin.
Naruto was silent. His brain was trying to understand Shikamaru's words.
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…
"EHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA," Kiba burst out laughing, "Look at that face, I won't be able to forget it."
The others also laughed at Naruto, even after a few years his antics still hadn't changed.
"Well, that's what you get when you leave the village for too long," said Shikamaru amusedly.
"Then, then, you're also a chuunin Sakura-chan?"
"Yep!" Sakura said with a smirk while holding up her two fingers.
"Plus Neji who is above us, Kankurou from Suna, and Temari here has become a Jounin," added Shikamaru.
"HAAAAAH!" then suddenly Naruto realized something, "H-Hey, then Gaara. What about Gaara?"
"Oh he must be very surprised," said Kankurou with a smirk.
"Definitely," Temari added.
Gaara just smiled, thinking that after so many years Naruto still remembered him.
In Suna Village, Gaara was looking at his village on top of the Kazekage building, behind him was someone kneeling.
"Kazekage-sama, the meeting will be held soon," said that person.
Gaara turned to the person and replied, "Okay."
Inside the meeting room, several important people in Suna were now sitting around a round table.
"In recent years, the strength of our village has stabilized and has maintained good relations with our enemies. Plus, we have good results from the curriculum of the training program that we brought from our new ally, Konoha," said one of them, "Then there will be Chuunin exams, I can't wait to see the results."
"To be honest, it's inconvenient when our village meeting is shown to other villages," said Kankurou with a frown.
It was natural for him to feel uncomfortable, as a person with a firm and strict personality, he always put the interests of his village first, and now the secrets of his village were being exposed to other villages which made him uncomfortable.
"I guess it's fine, they are people Naruto trusts. So we can also trust them," said Gaara.
Kankurou didn't answer and just stared at Gaara, seeing how much Gaara had changed in these years made him a little moved. In the past Gaara would never trust anyone because of everyone's behavior towards him, but that all changed when he met Uzumaki Naruto.
Kankurou finally sighed and relented, "Okay, if that's what you think Gaara."
Temari just watched the conversation of the two brothers in silence. She herself was of the same opinion as Gaara, although she probably wouldn't trust everyone in Konoha at least she had people she could trust.
Her gaze fell on Shikamaru, this lazy pineapple-haired slacker was the one she trusted. After their fight in the past made their relationship close enough to be called friends. Perhaps if she had never lost to that man, she would never have realized her shortcomings.
Realizing that she had been staring at Shikamaru for too long, Temari shook her head.
"What happened to me?"
Not wanting to think too much about it, she looked back at the screen.
"Alright, it's close to the Chuunin exams and there are already bad rumors," said someone named Yuura, attracting everyone's attention.
"What is it?" asked Baki.
"This information comes from Jiraiya the legendary 3 Sannin," continued Yuura, "Have you ever heard of an organization called Akatsuki?"
Everyone stared intently when Akatsuki's name was mentioned.
"So you gave information to other villages too?" Tsunade asked.
"Of course. This is the Akatsuki we're talking about, their threat is not just for one village," Jiraiya replied.
"Well, after knowing Akatsuki's goal, I guess it's the thing to do," Kakashi added.
Itachi grimaced a little, "They will be very surprised when they find out the real purpose."
Gaara listened in silence while Yuura spoke.
In Konoha, Jiraiya and Kakashi were sitting in a tavern discussing something.
"The country of sand has been warned and is in preparation," said Jiraiya, "The Anbu have spread to the key points of the outskirts. Even so, I wonder if they can forcibly stop someone like me from entering the country."
"Why is Akatsuki making such a flashy move? What are their goals?" asked Kakashi.
"I don't know much. I will go around and investigate further."
"Well, we know now," Kiba snorted.
At Suna, the ongoing meeting had ended, "Alright, this is the end of the meeting," after that everyone left the meeting room.
"Good job, Yuura. Make them tighten the guard of the village," said someone beside Yuura.
"I am grateful to be able to advise my superior after working for the past 4 years," Yuura replied, "After all, this information is from Jiraiya-sama, I have to make a decision to move quickly."
But suddenly he felt something strange about him, a seal that lay in his mind was released.
Suddenly the atmosphere in the room became tense.
"What was that?" Ino asked breaking the silence.
"It's a seal located inside his head, it means he was controlled all along," said Kakashi.
"WHAT!?" Kankurou shouted who got up from his sofa.
It was a shocking thing, to think that someone had managed to infiltrate and control one of the village's most important people.
"But who and when did that person do it?" Temari asked who had just recovered from her shock.
Kakashi shook his head, indicating that he didn't know the culprit.
Temari frowned.
"We'll find out soon enough," said Gaara calmly.
Kankuro and Temari looked at each other before nodding and turning their attention to the screen.
"Is there any problem?"
"No, nothing. Just a lack of sleep," said Yuura while holding his head.
"Take care of your body."
Yuura didn't answer, he still held his head trembling.
"So….. I see…." he thought as sweat trickled down his face.
The Suna trio watched tensely, wondering what was on Yuura's mind right now.
Meanwhile in the middle of the vast desert, two robed figures were walking leisurely. Both wore straw hats with tassels hanging down to cover their faces. Both of them were confirmed to be members of Akatsuki because they had a red cloud motif on their black robes. While one was walking normally, the other was walking quite uniquely because the person was walking by dragging his strange body.
Everyone was tensed seeing that appearance and they recognized the clothes clearly. How not, one of them from the room was wearing the same clothes.
"Akatsuki," said Jiraiya.
"But wait…. If they're in the desert, that means…" Sakura said.
Everyone didn't need to hear Sakura's last words because they had already guessed the outcome.
A few kilometers in front of them there is a high cliff that serves as the gate of Suna Village.
"So they finally moved towards Suna huh," growled Kankurou.
"Their goal is to capture the Jinchuuriki, that means..." Temari looked at her red-haired brother, "They're aiming to capture Gaara."
Everyone stared at the still calm Gaara, his composure was commendable when he was the one being targeted.
"Temari, Kankurou, pay close attention and use this opportunity to our advantage in the future," said Gaara who finally spoke.
The two nodded, this was their chance to learn the enemy's strength.
"Itachi, do you know who these two are?" Kakashi asked.
The question caught everyone's attention, because of the surprise from the appearance of the two Akatsuki members they forgot a very important question.
"Yeah," Itachi who had everyone's attention answered calmly.
"Then can you tell us," Kakashi said.
"The thin one is Deidara, he is a runaway ninja from Iwagakure. He's the owner of a Kekkei Genkai in the form of a bomb element, he has clay in each of his pockets as explosives," said Itachi.
"A Kekkei Genkai user, huh. From my research data on S-class criminals, he is a former member of the Iwa explosion corps and is a student of the Third Tsuchikage," Jiraiya said.
Itachi nodded.
"Shizune, did you take notes?" Tsunade asked.
"Yes," replied her assistant.
"Then who's the other one?" Urged by Kankurou, he was a little impatient because his village was about to face an attack from Akatsuki.
"The other one is probably someone famous in Suna," said Itachi. Surprising the Suna trio.
"What!? Who?" asked Temari who was surprised.
"Sasori the Red Sand."
Silence fell on Suna's side, they were silent hearing the name called Itachi.
"S-Sasori, you mean Sasori the legendary Kugutsu user?" Kankuoru asked stuttering.
"Yes."
Kankurou limply sat on his sofa, unable to accept the fact that his puppet maker was a member of Akatsuki.
"Are you okay?" Temari asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I just need to calm down for a bit," he replied, Temari nodded and left her brother alone.
"Is his body always like that?" said Shino who had been silent from earlier.
"No, it's the doll. His real body is inside the doll," Itachi shook his head, "Sasori rarely shows his real body to everyone."
"So he controls the puppet from within his own puppet body, the level of control must be very high," said Neji.
"After all this is valuable information, the more information we receive the more chances we have of defeating them. So all of you pay close attention, because then we will be the ones to fight them ourselves," Tsunade said to the teenagers and veterans.
"Understood," they answered in unison.
"So, the person being manipulated by Orochimaru is in front, hm," who was walking normally said, "It seems that for some reason, he leaked our information and became a traitor, hm."
"So he's also involved," Tsunade whispered.
"Not surprising, after all he was also a member of Akatsuki," Jiraiya replied.
"Orochimaru ..." hearing that name made Sakura a little angry, because because of that person Sasuke ran away.
"We have no choice, it seems," his partner replied in a deep voice, "I also don't know what he looks like after using that jutsu."
Who walks normally holding a pouch in his hand, can also be seen a ring that has Ao (Blue) inscribed on his index finger.
"Is it okay with just the bag?" asked his partner.
"My jutsu is artistic, so I came up with my favourite, number 18. Hm," he replied as he opened the pouch on his waist, "Because our target is the One-Tailed One. Hm."
"Their target is Gaara," said Kankurou. He couldn't help but get anxious hearing this.
After the pouch opened, he extended his left hand into the pouch. There was nothing strange in his actions, what was strange was something that was impossible for most people to possess, it was a human mouth that was in the palm of his hand. It really looks like a mouth, as it has teeth, tongue, even saliva.
Some people were disgusted by the sight.
"Ewww, what the hell," said Ino who couldn't hold back her disgust.
"He used his hands to work the clay," Itachi said before anyone asked.
Shizune noted down the information.
At the gate of Suna village, many gatekeepers were guarding along the stone wall.
One of the guards saw two people walking towards the gate, "What is that?" he said, "It looks like a red cloud on a black robe. That…..!"
He felt someone behind him, when he looked back he saw Yuura in his shinobi clothes, "Captain Yuura!"
Yuura remained silent and watched the two Akatsuki members tensely, "Don't worry, it will be over soon."
"What will he do?" Temari asked worriedly.
"I wouldn't like the result," said Kankurou who was sitting uncomfortably.
The two Akatsuki members stopped when they were right in front of the village gate that looked like a valley.
Yuura was standing in front of them, right behind him were the corpses of Suna's shinobi.
The teenagers looked on in horror at the sight.
"H-He killed them all," Hinata said shakily.
"DAMN!" Kankurou growled. He gritted his teeth hard.
"Good work. Do you remember me?" said the shorter Akatsuki member.
"Yes of course. Sasori-sama!" said Yuura while kneeling.
"Okay. If you forgot maybe I should use my jutsu, hm."
"Since your memory has returned, you are my loyal servant," said Sasori.
"Alright, let's get started," said Sasori's partner, the mouth in the palm of his hand chewing. The mouth then stuck out his tongue and let out a lump of clay, then he squeezed the clay a few times, and after he opened his palm again there was a small bird made of clay.
Then, the three of them continued walking towards the gate and into the village, when they reached the end of the gate they stopped.
"Master Sasori, you should be frugal and just observe, hm."
He threw the clay bird he had made earlier into the air, and he immediately performed a hand seal. The bird erupted into a plume of smoke, "We will attack from above."
After the smoke cleared, the bird that was once as small as a fist had turned into a giant bird that even exceeded a human in size.
"So that's how it works," Kakashi said.
"Is that bird a bomb too?" Gaara asked Itachi.
"Yeah, everything he created is a bomb."
"I see," said Gaara. He kept the information in his head.
The owner of the bird jumped and landed on the bird's back, he then took off his straw hat, revealing his full face. He was a blond haired youth whose bangs covered his entire left eye, his long hair tied up into a ponytail.
With a smirk he turned to Sasori, "How? Looks artistic, right?"
"I can't wait," replied Sasori shortly.
The youth then looked up with a confident smile, "The One-Tailed, Shukaku. Jinchuuriki. Gaara from the sand, hm. Well, what kind of person is he…"
"He must be quite confident in his strength for advancing alone," said Asuma.
"Have you ever fought him Itachi," asked Kakashi.
"Yeah, I was one of the people who went to recruit him first," replied Itachi.
"How strong is he?" this time it was Kurenai who asked.
"His strongest bomb is capable of razing a village."
Some people winced at that.
After that he flew high into the air, monitoring the village from above before heading towards the center of the village.
"1,2,3…." he said while holding the mechanical lens attached to his left eye, "There are three sky guards, hm."
"Damn, the guards are too few," Temari thought anxiously.
He then reached into his pocket, "Anyway, this village's artistic design isn't too bad. Definitely worth destroying, hm."
"You're the one that deserves to be crushed, you bastard," shouted Kankurou in annoyance.
He took out three clay dolls in the shape of spiders from his pocket, "I think I'll make a sneak attack here."
He threw the clay doll down after which he formed a hand seal, the three clay dolls that had been thrown earlier erupted into a plume of smoke.
Unlike the bird earlier, this time the size change that occurred in the clay wasn't too big, it was just as big as an adult's hand.
The three Spiders each landed near the sky guards and slowly drew closer to them.
"Damn, don't they realize all that," Kiba said worriedly.
"That spiders are able to muffle the sound of their footsteps, so there's no way they'd notice," Shino said.
"!?" Gaara who was looking out the window from his room suddenly felt something.
Temari and Kankurou looked at Gaara worriedly.
The spider continued to spread to the body of the guard, the guard finally felt something crawling on his body and was surprised when he saw a spider, "W-what kind of strange thing is this?"
The spider then jumped and landed on the guard's face causing him to panic and fall.
Everyone is tensed on what will happen.
"Strange thing? You don't have any feelings. No wonder fools can't understand art, hm" said the blonde Akatsuki who was observing from above, "I'll physically teach you…" then he formed hand seals.
"Art is Explosion."
Right after that, the three spiders exploded right at the heads of each of the guards.
"DAMN!" Kankurou shouted who could no longer contain his anger.
Gaara and Temari clenched their fists very tightly. Even though they could stop themselves from screaming, their anger was still there.
"He he he," After his attack was successful, he swooped down towards a building with a grin.
He jumped off his mount and landed on the building, "Infiltration successful."
"We have to increase our guard at night," said Gaara who had calmed himself down.
"Yeah, we can't let this bastard underestimate us," Kankurou retorted.
However.
"Huh?", his eyes widened when he realized that someone was already waiting in front of him.
That person is Gaara.
Everyone was surprised that Gaara headed straight for the enemy who wanted to capture him.
"Gaara, don't try to fight them alone," Temari said worriedly.
"That's what I have to do, otherwise there will be many more victims," Gaara replied.
Temari couldn't retaliate because what Gaara said was true, if he didn't show up the enemy would continue to kill the villagers while looking for Gaara.
The Kazekage of Suna in full clothes looked calmly at the intruders in his village.
"Ho..", the intruder snorted while looking at Gaara with a smirk.
Then he turned his head to the right and saw the sand flying towards him, he quickly jumped back onto his mount and flew high.
Gaara didn't stay still, he stretched out his hand to direct his sand after the Akatsuki member, but unfortunately the intruder managed to dodge.
"It will be difficult to catch him while he is in the air," said Tenten.
"Yeah, and also the enemy is a long-range fighter," added Neji.
"What do you mean Neji?" asked Lee who didn't understand what they were talking about.
"The enemy is a long-range fighter and is in the air, their territory is very wide. For us who are melee fighters it will be very difficult for us to beat him," Neji explained.
"Then how do we beat him?" Sakura asked. Since she was a melee fighter, this information was very important to her.
"We should be on the same territory as the enemy," Kakashi said. Neji nodded.
"Oh, then there's nothing to worry about," said Lee confidently.
Few people were confused by what Lee said, except for the Suna trio.
Seeing that his efforts were unsuccessful, Gaara then jumped on his floating sand and chased the intruder.
"Look," said Lee excitedly.
"Ho, Jinchuuriki are useful, aren't they…" thought the blonde Akatsuki, the mouth in his hand seemed to be chewing something, "Anyway, you found out that it was me, hm."
"In this desert there is no such bird," replied Gaara.
"If you think about it, that's a very clear clue," Temari said.
They were currently stopped in mid-air and kept their distance from each other.
"Heh, looks like my infiltration failed. Thanks to that, I don't need to look for you anymore, hm."
Not wanting to talk further, Gaara then raised his hands.
The intruder who was holding several small clay birds in his hands stared silently at the scene in front of him, it was a tsunami of sand that could cover the entire village.
"Oh my god," Shizune whispered in surprise.
"I almost forgot that Gaara is really strong," said Ino nervously.
"He has a geographical advantage," said Shikamaru.
"They're surrounded by sand, so Gaara can take advantage of it at any time," Chouji said.
"As expected, he has a geographical advantage. This is quite risky, hm."
"Feel that!" Kiba shouted. Akamaru barked following Kiba.
"That's what you will receive for attacking the village alone," Kankurou said with a smirk.
But.
"This is clearly a risk for Gaara," said Kakashi.
Kakashi's words made the teenagers stare at him.
"What do you mean, Kakashi-sensei?" Kiba asked curiously.
Before Kakashi could answer, he was cut off by Shikamaru.
"Even though Gaara has the geographical advantage, have you forgotten where they fought?" said Shikamaru.
Kankurou widened his eyes after hearing Shikamaru's words.
"Damn, they're fighting in the middle of the village," said Kankurou frantically.
Some people were tensed after hearing that.
"As Shikamaru said, the enemy could use the village against Gaara. And Itachi said earlier that Deidara's attack range was the entire village," Kakashi explained.
Everyone was horrified by what Kakashi said, they felt that something was bad at the end of this fight.
Meanwhile in Konoha, Naruto and Iruka are eating ramen together at Ichiraku's shop.
"Tch, why are we here all of a sudden," said Kankurou in annoyance. He was currently very worried about his brother's fate.
"Chuunin, Genin, don't be so gloomy. I mean you were taught by Jiraiya-sama yourself," said Iruka.
"I think so. But, but, Ero-Sennin is not generous," replied Naruto. "The headgear you gave me, the cloth is worn out. So I changed it along with my old clothes too."
"But, since it's such an awesome training, you've become strong haven't you? You should be happy with that."
"Yeah, maybe I'm stronger than you Iruka-sensei," said Naruto with a smirk.
"What are you saying? I haven't even lost yet…"
"Oh yeah, I heard Gaara has become Kazekage."
"Yeah, he's quite special you know."
Returning to Suna, the battle between Gaara and the Akatsuki members is getting fiercer. Gaara had formed his sand like a giant hand full of claws chasing the intruder, the intruder retaliated by throwing his clay bomb into the sand hand but it was completely useless. Seeing no result, he tried to take out some more clay in his pocket.
"He uses the usual explosion, it's also a shield type," thought Gaara.
Next he made two more sand fists to chase the enemy, meanwhile his enemy made two slightly different birds from before and threw them at Gaara.
"This one will be faster, hm," he thought as he formed hand seals, after which the bird that was thrown earlier erupted into a plume of smoke before turning into a bigger bird.
"So everything he makes has its own use," said Jiraiya.
The bird passed through the gap between the sand fists, seeing the attack Gaara moved the sand around him to attack the bird.
Seeing the bomb had reached the desired distance, the blonde then detonated the bird. As a result a huge explosion occurred around Gaara.
"Gaara!" Kankurou and Temari shouted at the same time.
Gaara slightly widened his eyes.
Seeing his attack succeed, he carefully observed where the smoke was now gathering due to his attack. He was sure the attack was successful, even though it didn't kill but he was sure it was enough to incapacitate the target. But after the smoke dispersed, his eyes widened and he was speechless.
Right in front of him was a ball of sand that was so dense that his attacks didn't even scratch the ball. Not far from the ball, there was an eyeball that floated up, staring at him.
"Thank goodness," Temari said as she slumped into her couch.
"It's like an eggshell that protects the inside," he whispered. "But to be able to guard against it all, that's pretty impressive in total, hm."
"Hmph, you had to do something really extraordinary to break through Gaara's defenses," Kankurou snorted.
While he was thinking, suddenly a giant shadow covered him.
"!"
"Sabakurou!"
An enormous lump of sand quickly surrounded the Akatsuki member, trying to lock him in the sand prison.
Many people felt goosebumps at the sight.
"Gosh, th-that's so scary," said Ino shakily.
"This is bad, hm," thought the blonde frantically, he quickly steered his mount into the gap that was still not closed.
With high speed he managed to escape from the sand prison.
"Shit, a little more," Kankurou shouted in annoyance.
"!"
But he was surprised when the sand extended and caught his left hand.
"Yeaaah," Kankurou clenched his fists.
"He caught him," Lee shouted.
Gaara who was hiding behind his sand quickly clenched his fists, "Sabakukyu!"
Splash!
As a result, Gaara's sand savagely crushed the Akatsuki member's left hand, causing blood to spread across the sand.
The teenagers cheered for Gaara's victory.
"Don't be happy just yet, he just managed to hurt his left hand," said Tsunade firmly.
The crowd slowly fell silent hearing Tsunade's words.
"Y-Yeah that's right, the fight isn't over yet," said Sakura.
"But at least Gaara is one step ahead," Ino said confidently.
Yes, the fight is still not over until one of them dies.
Until then they have not been able to celebrate victory.
Thank you for reading!
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AN:
Sorry, it took so long to make this chapter. Honestly, in my mind there are still many things I want to write for the chapter, but my mind is stuck when I start. So I ended up writing what I could write.
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