Chapter 66 - Chuunin Exams Third Phase [4]

With his speed, it didn't take long before Naruto caught up to Gaara, whose body was half-monstrous 'Yo, Kuu-san, is that the friend you call stupid raccoon?'

'That stupid raccoon isn't my friend, brat! But no, that isn't him, his Jinchuuriki is just taking his form.' Kurama said with his foxy grin that screamed his d.e.s.i.r.e to fight the so-called stupid raccoon.

''Hey, Gaara! I see you're not having a good day? Your arms even morphed to that, uh... ugly form!'' Naruto said with his trademark smile as Gaara suddenly stopped running through the tree branches and turned around.

Without warning, Gaara's grotesque-like, long arms shot towards Naruto, that didn't even move, suddenly, his body appeared above the arm as he comfortably sat there before he said ''Wow, that was so rude! I thought we had become friends, you have no idea how sad you're making me after attacking me like that!''

Despite saying that with a ''sad'' smile beaming over his face, the grotesque-like arm under him that had been cut said otherwise, seeing that, Gaara suddenly started to laugh crazily ''HAHAHA! You think you can stop me even though you're full of good and happy feelings? Someone born for the podium!''

'...?' Naruto was genuinely confused for a second before he started to laugh ''Oh, sorry for that, it's just that what you said was so fun that I had to laugh! Good feelings, you say? How pitiful, you think that because you have a demon inside you, you're a demon?''

''You're at most a slightly evil dude, you don't know about the world, people that kill just because they're told, people that because they're on the ''right'' side, they think they can do whatever they think it's correct. I have a ''demon'' sealed inside me too, you know? I know how it is, that darkness you feel, this is why you can't run from it, you must embrace it!''

Naruto said as his face suddenly showed a vicious, wicked smile, it was nothing like his ''happy'' smile just a few moments ago, nothing like his playful and amused tone a few moments ago.

Looking towards the blonde teenager, Gaara was shocked but it only added fuel to his anger ''Why do you think you can understand me? You clearly have friends, brother, family! You have love, you would never understand that!''

Drawing his Sword of Whirlwinds out of its sheath, Naruto ignored Gaara's speech before disappearing from place, however, Gaara instantly retreated, trying to avoid any kind of attack.

Alas, that wasn't able to stop Naruto from cutting the remaining part from his grotesque-like arm that was slowly growing back ''AH! Why? WHY? WHY? WHY?'' Gaara kept muttering that before shouts and more shouts came from his mouth.

''Noisy...'' Naruto muttered before punching Gaara's face, the red-haired teenager was sent flying when suddenly, he stopped in midair as an enormous amount of smoke unnaturally appeared, a towering figure coming out of it.

Kurama, inside Naruto's consciousness, grinned ever so slightly before he said 'Kit, it's him! The stupid raccoon is out, I'll be able to beat the hell out of him!'

''HAHAHA! I'm out, I'm finally out of that damn place, my days of freedom has come!'' The towering, grotesque figure said as enormous amounts of happiness could be felt from its voice.

But its voice soon came to a stop as Naruto landed a solid punch on it, his strength being boosted by Kurama's chakra, he was using the Three-Tails Chakra Cloak, the strength hidden behind his force made the towering figure retreat two steps back.

Before the towering figure could react, Naruto summoned Kurama out, the fluffy Fox grinned as the nine tails behind him wandered freely in the air ''It's time for the beating you deserve, damned raccoon!''

''KYUUBI! Arrogant as always, thinking the number of tails is equal to strength, I'll prove you wrong, damned fox!'' The stupid raccoon roared before sending blasts of air towards Kurama, that defending himself by waving his claws, that met the Air Blasts, an explosion reverberated through the entire forest they were in as air was sent everywhere.

Sitting in a Tree Branch while watching the fight excitedly, Naruto felt it was a pity that he didn't bring Ramen before asking Kurama through their connection 'Hey, Kuu-san, how can I remove the connection between Gaara and the stupid raccoon?'

'Kit, stop asking me question while in the middle of a beating session! Anyway, you just need to beat the hell out of the Jinchuuriki but don't do that so early, I didn't finish beating the stupid raccoon yet!' Kurama grinned but Naruto didn't care, he felt it was a pity the fact he wasn't the one beating the stupid raccoon, it's fun to see others being beaten but not as fun as when you're not the one doing so.

He just had to teleport a few times before getting to the position Gaara's body was, the red-haired teenager was there, apparently unconscious, grinning from ear to ear, Naruto punched with strength just enough to wake Gaara up, the stupid raccoon roared while feeling angered ''This is unfair! I just came out of that damn place but I'm already returning, unfair! This is just unfair!''

'Nooo! Kit, you're so evil!' Kurama said sadly before disappearing, returning to his consciousness.

Gaara woke up and noticed that his Chakra wasn't enough to use any chakra-based technique, however, his physical strength - even if pitiful - was still there, without hesitating, he went to punch Naruto, that dodged easily before punching his face, sending Gaara a few meters away, the red-haired teenager fell flat on the ground and didn't move anymore, just stared as Naruto slowly came towards him with his Sword of Whirlwinds.

''No! Don't come near, don't! Don't come near me!'' Gaara said in an almost desperate tone, however, Naruto didn't seem to hear him, rather, he ignored what Gaara said, just then, Kankuro and Temari appeared besides Gaara.

''Don't come near him or we'll be forced to act!'' Kankuro said with a dangerous tone, however, what greeted him was a burst of laughter.

Looking towards the Sand Trio, Naruto said while grinning slightly ''Can you tell me something? You clearly can't protect him but I'll propose something. Both of your lives for his, the two of you die, he lives, how about that?''

His grin looked just demoniac to both Kankuro and Temari, however, even if Gaara always mistreated them, they loved him from the bottom of their hearts, as such, both of them slowly approached Naruto before saying ''We don't mind it, just... you can kill us if you spare Gaara.'' Temari said.

Naruto was genuinely stunned, he didn't expect that, just then, he grinned before disappearing and appearing besides Gaara, seeing that, both Temari and Kankuro rushed over, however, Naruto knocked them off before they could do anything.

''These two, you see them, right? They were about to sacrifice themselves just for the sake of saving you, they loved you since the beginning, you're similar to me but way too different, you had your siblings from the start and experienced love from the start, even if that love diverged through time.'' Naruto said, somehow, Gaara could feel the broken heart behind his words.

The blonde teenager truly had a change of mind, he may be a monster in a way but decided to help the red-haired teenager ''You're different from me because while I embraced the darkness before I experienced love, you can escape from that darkness and live on without it.''

After saying that, under Gaara's shocked and stunned eyes, Naruto flickered away.

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