Gaara, Part One

Deidara swiftly piloted the giant bird, flying towards the Kazekage's Office's Kazekage's Office. Landing on the roof, Deidara smugly exclaimed, "Infiltration successful! Huh?" Deidara noticed a figure standing before him—his target, One-Tail Jinchuriki Gaara.

Surrounded by countless grains of sand, Gaara looked at Deidara and said expressionlessly, "This ends here." A stream of sand suddenly rushed towards Deidara.

Deidara leaped into the air, and a giant white clay bird flew beneath Deidara, carrying him into the sky. Under Gaara's control, the Sand Stream surged rapidly toward the giant bird.

Deidara smirked and rode his giant bird into the sky. Gaara controlled the sand stream and charged towards the giant bird, but Deidara controlled the giant bird to swoop down and avoid the sand stream, which then rushed down quickly.

Deidara controlled the giant bird, constantly dodging through the streets, but he could never escape the sand flow, and the sand flow could not catch up with Deidara either.

Gaara waved his hands, controlling the sand streams, splitting them into three streams. One stream continued to pursue Deidara, while the other two streams circled around from another street to Deidara's front.

Attacked from both sides, Deidara was surrounded. Gaara's eyes flashed with killing intent, and three streams of sand accelerated towards Deidara. Just as the sand streams were about to hit Deidara, Deidara let out a cold laugh, controlling his giant bird to suddenly accelerate and soar into the sky once more.

Gaara waved his hands, controlling three streams of sand to rush towards Deidara, but the air was clearly better for dodging. Deidara, riding his giant bird, skillfully avoided the sand streams.

Under Gaara's control, the sand stream split again, with Six Paths streams rushing towards Deidara from different directions.

Seeing this, Deidara muttered, "As expected of One-Tail Jinchuriki, quite capable, hmm." He then controlled the giant bird to continue ascending into the sky.

Gaara hadn't expected Deidara to be so troublesome. Unable to attack Deidara, the Six Paths Streams of Sand spun back to Gaara, merging into a single stream that rushed towards Deidara. Simultaneously, Gaara leaped onto the sand stream, riding it into the sky, arriving before Deidara. The two faced off in the air. Deidara, surprised that Gaara could control the sand streams and fly, thought to himself, "What a convenient Jinchūriki."

Deidara said to Gaara, "You're really capable, no wonder you're Jinchūriki. But how did you find me?"

Gaara said, "There are no such birds in this desert." However, Gaara had just been sitting in his office, admiring the thriving village, when he suddenly spotted the strange bird, realized something might be wrong, and went to the rooftop to intercept Deidara.

Deidara said, "I see. It seems I miscalculated, hmm."

Just as the two were locked in a standoff in mid-air, the other Sand Ninja also noticed Deidara's presence and rushed onto the rooftop, where they quickly discovered the fallen guard.

In an instant, news of an intruder spread throughout the village, and the entire village went on high alert.

At the village entrance, Sasori of the Red Sand and Yura were waiting for Deidara's return, but found the village under martial law. Sasori of the Red Sand muttered, "Deidara, don't keep me waiting too long. I don't like waiting."

Then Sasori of the Red Sand said to Yura, "Yura, you should go back now."

Yura respectfully replied, "Yes, Lord Sasori." With a flash, he disappeared from the spot.

In the air, Deidara and Gaara faced off. Suddenly, Deidara noticed the ninjas below gathering, realizing he had been discovered. He nonchalantly remarked, "Looks like the secret infiltration failed. But that's fine; it'll save me time searching for you and dealing with you quickly."

Gaara noticed the situation below and, not wanting to cause any further trouble, raised his hands, causing countless streams of sand to surge into the sky and converge behind Gaara.

Deidara thought to himself, "As expected of the One-Tail Jinchuriki, he's really troublesome."

Gaara waved his hands, controlling the sand to converge into a giant Shukaku hand, which reached out to grab Deidara.

Deidara looked at the mouth on his palm. Deidara had been creating Explosive Clay since earlier. Feeling it was almost ready, he controlled the giant bird to circle, avoiding the massive arm, and then threw several small birds at it. Bang bang bang, the small birds flew to the side of the arm and exploded, blasting countless streams of sand. However, the sand around Gaara flowed rapidly, repairing the arm, which continued to grab at Deidara.

Deidara nimbly dodged the arm, then threw several small birds at it. Bang! Bang! Bang! The arm was blasted open with large holes, but the sand flowed quickly and the wounds immediately healed.

Gaara looked at Deidara and thought to himself, "Is he using these strange explosives to test me?" These explosives couldn't harm him at all, Gaara immediately understood Deidara's purpose.

Deidara rode his giant bird in another circle, hurling several small birds at his arm. Explosions erupted, scattering countless grains of sand. But they couldn't harm Gaara. Gaara controlled his arm, continuing to reach for Deidara. Deidara wanted to probe Gaara, while Gaara waited for Deidara to reveal a weakness.

Deidara conjured two two-winged birds with his hands and murmured, "Alright, this time it's fast. I wonder if you can catch it, hmm."

Seeing Deidara release another strange explosive device, Gaara controlled his arm to reach forward. However, the speed of the two-winged birds was incomparable to that of the previous small birds. They quickly dodged his arm and continued to rush towards Gaara. In the blink of an eye, they reached Gaara. Gaara controlled the surrounding sand grains, forming two streams of sand, and grabbed at the attacking two-winged birds.

Deidara smirked and shouted, "Art is an Explosion, drink!" His wings suddenly exploded, sending Kakkō soaring into the sky and engulfing Gaara in front of him.

At the moment of the explosion, Gaara was enveloped in a sandstorm, forming a giant sand sphere that blocked the impact of the blast and was shrouded in smoke and dust.

Deidara was quite satisfied with the explosion. Looking at the sand sphere after the smoke cleared, he said smugly, "That defense was pretty good; it actually blocked my explosion. Hmm."

After enveloping himself in sand, Gaara quickly formed hand Hand Seals and activated his Third Eye. One eye secretly observed Deidara, who was clearly unaware of Deidara.

Countless streams of sand silently converged behind Deidara, forming a "Sand Binding Prison" that quickly surrounded Deidara.

Deidara leaped off the giant bird, escaping the sandstorm's encirclement. He shouted, "Hah!" and detonated the giant bird. With a deafening roar, Kakkō erupted from the sand sphere, countless sand particles scattered, and shockwaves swept outwards. Deidara was caught in the blast and plummeted downwards.