Naruto stabbed one of his swords deep into what would have been Gaara's rib cage while using his right hand, still holding his second sword to pound away at Gaara's transformed face. Gaara raised his massive claw like arm and struck the other Jinchuriki, sending him flying, slamming him into another tree and then sending his sand to pin him there.
Naruto let out a battle cry, using Kyuubi's super hot chakra to turn the sand into glass and then breaking free. Gaara snarled.
Temari, who had managed to pull, the now unconscious Kankuro to a safer part of the forest had her eyes wide in astonishment. Just who the hell was this? No one could go toe to toe with Gaara like this! Ever!
Gaara hissed and launched his two claws forward, the two extended appendages rushing the blond.
Naruto charged wind chakra into his blades and leapt over the two claws rushing Gaara, his speed, so fast the Jinchuuriki could barely keep track. Before the Suna shinobi knew it, his two arms had been cut off from the shoulders and multiple gashes appeared all over his transformed body, his sand had been able to provide adequate protection against the wind chakra.
When his arms regenerated and his cuts healed, Naruto rushed again, this time, not letting up on the attack. His form seemed like a blur of black and red and Gaara could do little more than cross his arms in order to put up a weak defense as he struggled to force his sand into a denser, more resiliant state.
Gaara felt his eyes go wide, this was insane, he was creating cuts and scratches faster than what his sand could repair them. If this kept up then eventually he would chip away the entire sand armor and would start hitting his actual skin.
But what Gaara found most frightening was that he could sense no demonic chakra.. this was all human.
He was brought out of his thoughts as a sharp biting pain burnt straight across his back. He gasped, wondering for a second what the hell hit him. Then realized that the blade had broken through his sand.
He had no choice, he had to take it one step further.
Naruto appeared behind Gaara but before he was able to hit him again, sand exploded outwards, he quickly replaced himself with a log and appeared above the forest canopy, watching as a massive wall of sand rose above the earth taking the form of a gargantuan tankui, with Gaara appearing on its head, his upper torso exposed.
Naruto gave a disdainful 'Hn' before he cut his arm, letting the blood flow down to the summoning tattoo. "Kuchiyose no jutsu!" He said slamming his hand down.
Then in a plume of smoke he rose above the ground, standing high atop the purple scales of the one and only Manda. Boss summon to the snakes.
The massive creature looked up at him. "So, you are the new summoner that defeated Orochimaru." The beast stated before looking out to his opponent, narrowing his eyes. "The Shukaku?" It hissed. "At least you do not summon me for meager affairs like that fool tends to do. You shall grant me fifty sacrifices for this fight." It demanded.
Naruto responded. "You shall only receive your sacrifices if you do your job well. I will not waste chakra and effort if you are not worth it."
Manda's eyes snapped up to him, glaring. Whaaaaaatttttt? You dare? I should revoke your contract now!"
Naruto glanced down at the snake, his eyes flashing a permanent red as demonic chakra began to pulse around him, staring right back into Manda's eyes without even a hint of fear.
The snake summon stared into his eyes long and hard before grinning. "I like you fool. You have guts to stand up to me like that. Very well, no sacrifices are required from you."
Naruto 'Hn'ed again his eyes vanishing beneath the shadows of the hood again as the red chakra dissipated.
Manda then turned his eyes to the approaching sand demon. "Very well. Let us begin."
The snake suddenly darted forward, he was unbelievably fast for his massive size.
Gaara, now in his final form was still getting used to it, so his reaction time was sluggish This is why he hated this form, it took too long to get used to it.
The sand Tankui raised its paw and tried to bring it down on Manda's head. The massive snake summon twisted around his blow and wrapped up his arm. Its massive fangs glinted in the sunlight for half a second before it dug them deep into 'Shukaku's' front right shoulder.
The sand corroded and hissed as purple and black poison oozed between the grains, bubbling like acid. The arm hardened and cracked as Gaara tried to move it. Gaara let a spike of sand shoot from Shukaku's shoulder in an effort to impale the beasts head. Manda twisted around that blow as well and retreated as spikes appeared throughout Shukaku's entire front leg.
The Shukaku turned to Manda and took in a deep breath before releasing a massive air-like bullet towards the purple Anaconda.
The snake hissed. And the wind attack hit dead on, but when the smoke cleared all Gaara could see was the snake summons shed skin.
He felt his eyes widen when a resounding Boom came from behind him. He snapped his head around and saw Manda explode from the ground. Its massive maw open wide heading straight for him. Its fangs glistening with green deadly poison, Naruto, stood atop his head, unmoving, unfazed.
He held up his arms and form a sphere of sand to block himself as best he could.
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