The silent night wore on as Gaara and Shukaku continued their conversation.
Yet the attacker's shadow quietly appeared...
A monster of quicksand, a mud man difficult to detect.
He slowly emerged from the roof of a building.
Then he opened his huge, hideous face and lunged at Gaara from behind!
Boom...!
The surging quicksand spread.
Sand and mud collided in a fierce clash, marking the beginning of the battle between the invader and the Jinchuriki of Shukaku!
By the time Rasa arrived with his men...
all they saw was sand and dust filling the sky, along with Gaara's figure waving the sand around.
With his Absolute Defense, Gaara clearly had far greater endurance than Kakashi and the others.
"Lord Kazekage!"
"Gaara... he's gone berserk again~~?!"
Deep-rooted memories made the shinobi of Sunagakure assume this at once.
Gaara had lost control again.
Otherwise.
On this night of the full moon.
Why would Gaara appear alone on the roof of a building?
And the full moon was when Shukaku was most active.
They had reason to believe that the cold-blooded killer boy had become a threat once again.
Sand and mud continued to bombard each other.
Standing in midair atop a ball of sand, Gaara remained as steady as a mountain.
"No... Gaara hasn't gone berserk!"
Temari, standing beside Rasa, the Kazekage's daughter and Gaara's sister, shouted.
Because that frightening and hateful feeling had not appeared.
"Gaara is fighting an enemy!"
Kankuro narrowed his eyes. Relying on his superior intelligence as a Puppet Master, he immediately saw what was wrong.
In fact...
The three Gaara siblings all had exceptionally high intelligence.
Far beyond that of ordinary people.
It was just that before Gaara's Chuunibyou was corrected, he fought without using his brain.
Intelligence.
It was also one of the factors that allowed