On a dark and windy night...
The temperature suddenly dropped.
That was simply how the desert environment was.
Sitting atop a building, Gaara gazed out over the village beneath the night sky.
His heart was filled with dejection.
No one knew how much time had passed...
When the sound of an attack came from behind him.
A Kunai stabbed into the automatically rising sand barrier.
Gaara turned around.
He saw a masked assassin.
And this was already... the sixth time.
"Why... why is it always me?!"
The anger in Gaara's heart began to burn.
He defeated the intruder with ease.
But when he lifted the assassin's veil... he suddenly realized.
The assassin was actually his own uncle! Yashamaru!
Yashamaru told Gaara that the familial affection and love he had spoken of in the past had all been fake.
Yashamaru said that he had always hated Gaara.
He hated Gaara for causing his sister Karura... Gaara's mother... to lose her life.
At the same time, Yashamaru also told Gaara.
All six assassination attempts had been ordered by the Fourth Kazekage... Gaara's father, Rasa.
"Die with me... Gaara..."
Using his last ounce of strength, Yashamaru undid his buttons, revealing the countless Explosive Tags wrapped around his body.
BOOM!!
The explosion engulfed the rooftop.
Gaara... was completely unharmed beneath the protection of the sand.
The beliefs he had accumulated since childhood collapsed.
From this moment on.
A Shura who loved only himself was born.
RUMBLE!!
The enormous figure of a tanuki shot into the sky.
Standing in the distance and observing the assassination with the Sand Eye, Rasa knew...
Gaara... had lost control.
"As expected... Gaara is a failure..."
Rasa's despair.
It did not come only from the failure of the Tailed Beast Weapon.
It also came from a father's sorrow over