The Brutal Gaara

Chapter 648: The Brutal Gaara

Watching the corpses they had dug out of the sand, Kakashi immediately realized something was wrong. "Pick up the pace. The Akatsuki may already be here."

Everyone realized how serious the situation was. Even if the people who had come were not from Akatsuki, they were definitely enemies of Sunagakure.

At this crucial moment, with the Five Great Shinobi Villages allied together to form the Ninja Alliance, they could not possibly stand by and watch Sunagakure run into trouble. That was also the reason they had appeared here.

Thus, Kakashi's group immediately quickened their pace. No one complained about the weather or the environment anymore. They only hoped they were still in time.

Within Sunagakure, a giant bird circled overhead, scouting the area.

But suddenly, a sand spear struck the giant bird beneath Deidara's feet.

His ambush had failed, and he had been caught off guard instead. Deidara had no choice but to force himself to land on the tallest nearby building below, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing situation.

As he descended, another figure also slowly landed opposite him, carried down by the floating sand.

"How did you find me?"

Although things differed slightly from the plan he had envisioned, Deidara was not afraid in the slightest. He merely looked at the young man before him with some curiosity.

Then Gaara said calmly, yet with a hint of brutality, "There are no birds like that in the desert."

Because he had never undergone Naruto's talk-no-jutsu treatment, and because of Sunagakure's internal and external troubles, the Gaara before them had not, like his original counterpart, healed the deficiencies in his heart and found himself again.

In fact, the people of Sunagakure feared him even more now.

If Shukaku rampaged again, there was no one left in