Karura, a mother's love

"Mother...?"

"How could this be...?"

Gaara gripped his head tightly with both hands, his Chakra was in disarray, and the small patch of sand beneath his feet instantly vanished.

Just as he was about to fall, a hand appeared out of the sand Sculpture of the woman and held Gaara in its grasp.

When he saw the sand conjure an arm that caught him, Gaara trembled slightly, opened his mouth as if to say something, but remained silent.

"Heh heh, you finally figured it out, Gaara. Do you think I would protect you? Laughing, she looks familiar, doesn't she? That's right, she's Karura, your mother."

"Shut up, Shukaku!"

Gaara was internally devastated.

He could sense his mother Karura, in the sand from a young age, which led him to commit murder.

The more people he killed, the more clearly he could feel his mother's presence.

Little did he know that while he was killing people, the sand, filled with his mother's love, would always worry about him and activate Absolute Defense to protect him at any time.

This is why his feelings are becoming clearer and clearer.

However, he always regarded his mother's love as Shukaku's ability, which made him feel that this idea was a desecration of his mother Karura.

Deidara watched Gaara from afar with amusement.

"Has the Tailed Beast within you begun to guide you in using its power?"

As for One-Tails Shukaku's words, he couldn't hear them; he could only hear Gaara's voice.

"Stop playing around, Deidara. If that guy shows up, it'll be troublesome."

Sasori looked at Deidara and said calmly.

"Okay, okay, I understand."

Deidara waved his hand.

"Gaara, come with us, or not only you, but the village will be destroyed."

Gaara slowly turned his head, glaring angrily at Deidara.

You hurt my mother!

"Ha?"

Deidara looked puzzled.

"You've been blown away by my art?"

"Shukaku!"

"Heh heh, Gaara, are you out of your mind? Who do you think I am?"

Shukaku inside Gaara mocks.

Gaara's face turned ashen, and he said in a deep voice:

"Shukaku, if you don't help me this time, we'll both die. Their target isn't me, it's you."

"I am merely Chakra body; even if I die, I will be reborn after a few years. But you cannot."

Shukaku was completely unconcerned.

Gaara clenched his fists. He was now completely out of Chakra, unless Shukaku lent him his power, but it was clear that Shukaku had no intention of doing so.

The two of them had always been enemies, and he couldn't find any reason why Shukaku would help him.

Upon hearing this, Deidara waited a few seconds and, finding that Gaara showed no change whatsoever, a slight smile appeared on his face.

"It seems like One-Tail doesn't intend to help you."

"Even without the power of Tailed Beast, I am still the Fifth Kazekage."

Gaara stood in the center of Karura's palm, turned around and looked directly at Deidara.

"They had a lot of momentum, but it was useless."

Deidara smiled and took out the Clay Spider from his hand again.

Just then, a red beam of light suddenly flew past the scorpion on the ground.

"What's this...?"

Just as he was wondering, he saw that the red beam of light continued its speed without slowing down, hurtling straight toward Deidara.

It was only then that Scorpion realized that the red beam of light was actually a man wearing a green bodysuit!

"Deidara, watch out!"

Before he could finish speaking, Might Guy had already kicked Deidara.

"Huh? Scorpion..."

Before Deidara could finish speaking, he felt a strong push behind him!

Before he could even turn his head, his entire body was sent flying backward off the giant white Giant Bird.

"Boom--"

It didn't stop until it crashed into the ground, kicking up layers of Kitsuchi and gravel, and finally came to a stop at the foot of a slightly raised hill.

Gaara, standing opposite Deidara, stared blankly at the man in front of him, who was glowing red, with his hair flying backwards, and wearing a green bodysuit.

After a long pause, he finally opened his mouth. "You are...?"

"I am Konoha Ninja, a ninja from Might Guy, here to provide support. May I ask who you are?"

Might Guy frowned slightly, staring at Gaara in front of him. He felt like he had seen Gaara somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place it.

Upon hearing the other party state his name, Gaara immediately realized that the hint he had given in his intelligence report—a plea for help—had worked.

Soon, he realized that he had seen the man in front of him before.

"It's that teacher with the thick eyebrows..."

He muttered to himself.

Back when he faced Rock Lee during the Chunin exam, he was almost kicked to death, but Rock Lee successfully provoked him in the process.

This almost crippled half of Rock Lee's body, but fortunately, Kanami reminded him, and Might Guy intervened in time, preventing Gaara from crippling Rock Lee.

Thinking of this, Gaara felt a sense of gratitude towards Kanami, who was also Redhead.

If it weren't for him, and if I had crippled Rock Lee, the other party definitely wouldn't have come this time.

But in reality, Might Guy had no idea who he was.

Even Kisame Hoshigaki couldn't remember them, let alone the candidates who appeared in the Chunin exam. Although the Tailed Beast went berserk and caused a ruckus in Konoha afterward, it also led to Guy only remembering Shukaku One-Tails Shukaku.

"Your condition looks very bad. Is Lord Kazekage, the Gaara, here?"

Might Guy Kai asked.

Gaara:...

"Yes, I am Gaara..."

"Um..."

"Um?!"

Might Guy was stunned.

"You're Gaara? You're the Fifth Kazekage?"

Gaara nodded stiffly.

After receiving a second confirmation, Might Guy was completely dumbfounded.

He knew that Sunagakure was the Kazekage of Gaara, and that Gaara was the Jinchuriki of the One-Tail Beast, but he didn't remember what he looked like.

Seeing how badly his opponent had been beaten, he was even less inclined to believe that the other person was the Kazekage.

How could someone at the Kage-level be beaten so badly?

You should know that almost every Hokage in Konoha Village is incredibly strong.

The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, in particular, is considered the strongest of Past Hokage and is also known as the Professor of Ninjutsu."

Of course, it's unclear whether Hiruzen Sarutobi of Past Hokage.

What about the rest of your village's fighting force?

"Other..."

Gaara's expression was bitter.

Just as he was about to return to Might Guy's village, where he had virtually no fighting power, his pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw the scorpion in the distance quietly approaching Might Guy Might Guy, its Mechanical Tail poised to strike.

"Careful!"

As he shouted, the Mechanical Tail behind Scorpion stabbed towards Might Guy.

Gaara knew that the opponent's attack wasn't particularly powerful, but when the sand had locked onto the tail earlier, he had seen the Poison Needle at the end.

That Poison Needle must be the real killing move.

"It's too late."

Scorpion sneered, his long tail whipping around as he closed in on Might Guy.

Just as they were about to make contact, Might Guy turned around and grabbed his tail.