Outside Konoha.
Training Ground 6.
"Kill you..."
Gaara clutched the wound that had pierced through his left shoulder.
A low growl, inhuman in nature, rumbled from his throat.
His eyes, once ringed with dark circles from insomnia, had completely changed.
The whites of his eyes had turned pitch-black.
His pupils shrank to pinpoints, gleaming with a mad, bloodthirsty dark gold light.
"Kill you!"
"I'll definitely kill you!"
A violent torrent of sand surged from Gaara's gourd.
The sand churned and swelled wildly like boiling water.
An incomparably evil, cold, tyrannical Chakra shot straight into the sky.
In the stands.
Kazekage Rasa abruptly rose to his feet.
His hands gripped the railing before him so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
This was absolutely terrible!
Gaara's seal had always been extremely unstable.
Now that he had suffered a heavy blow, that monster had gone berserk!
Baki was drenched in cold sweat as well.
His hand had even gone to his Ninja Tool Pouch, ready to step in and suppress it at any moment.
If that monster were fully unleashed here.
Then Sunagakure would not merely lose face today—it would face utter ruin!
On the arena.
The gale howled.
Yellow sand had completely engulfed Gaara, forming a massive sphere of sand.
Then.
The sand sphere began to rapidly expand.
A gigantic arm of sand and earth, covered in blue markings, tore out from within the sphere.
Then came another arm.
A massive body.
A thick tail covered in spikes.
In only a few seconds.
A gigantic Raccoon Dog the size of a mountain appeared at the center of the arena.
The earth shook violently.
The yellow sand filling the sky blocked out the sunlight.
Terrifying Chakra pressure spread outward like a tsunami.
"Kehehehe!"
"I'm finally out!"
The shrill, grating laughter made everyone's