"Huh, Shukaku? That tanuki who kept picking fights with you but could never beat you?"
Naruto rubbed his chin and spoke to the air.
Although outsiders saw Naruto talking to thin air, Gaara and Shukaku saw something quite different.
"Hey, hehehe, you seem to think very little of me."
A bloody gleam flashed across the character for "love" beside Gaara's eye, then a stream of sand surged out of the gourd on his back and swept toward Naruto.
"Gaara!"
Seeing Gaara suddenly attack, Temari reached out to stop him, but he had already entered a state of savage rage.
"Get out of my way!"
With a casual motion from Gaara, a stream of sand beside him knocked Temari over, sending her to the ground.
Temari looked at her monster-like younger brother and wanted to say something else, but she could not open her mouth.
"Temari!"
Kankuro charged into the stream of sand, pulled Temari up, and took her out of it.
"Hey, your teammates might not be very nice, but how can you treat them like that?!"
Naruto looked at Gaara, who showed no concern for his teammates, and asked with some anger.
"Hehehe, teammates? Since when did people like them qualify as my teammates?"
Gaara raised his hand toward Naruto, and the wave of sand that had swept up before Naruto transformed into a huge hand, trying to seize him.
"You've got to be kidding!"
Golden chakra rapidly gathered around Naruto's right hand, forming a gigantic fox claw, and Naruto slammed it into the wave of sand sweeping toward him.
The seemingly unstoppable wave of sand was slapped apart like a lump of flour, scattering into fine sand that fell to the ground.
"People like them can just be killed. So what?"
Gaara did not stop pouring out his