Gaara

"I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning."

- Gaara to Naruto Uzumaki

Gaara is the fifth Kazekage of Sunagakure and the former jinchuriki of Shukaku. Originally cruel and self-interested due to his upbringing and training as jinchuriki Gaara learned how to make connections and emphatize with others after comming into conflict with Naruto Uzumaki, a fellow jinchuriki from Konohagakure. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Gaara's charisma proved to be vital in uniting the former rivaling hidden villages and their Kage.

The youngest of Kazekage Rasa's children, Gaara proved to be the only one fit to host Shukaku and become the Sunagakure's newest superweapon. Because the ritual to seal the tailed-beast inside of him happened while he was still in the womb, he was born prematurely and his mother died due to complications of childbirth but not before swearing to always protect her new-born child. Gaara proved to be a kind child and affectionate child, a trait his father viewed as detrimental to his growth. To put an end to this Rasa ordered Gaara's uncle Yashamaru to assassinate the young Gaara but purposely fail and tell him that he never loved him. The plan worked and Gaara became soley focused on his own growth.

During the Chunin Exam, Gaara encountered Naruto and came into conflict with him. But due to the compassion, he showed him, Gaara began to view his fellow jinchuriki as a friend and turned kinder over the years, eventually succeeding his father as the next Kazekage. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Gaara gained the position of Regimental Commander of the Allied Shinobi Forces and was personally responsible of sealing the resurrected Kage and aided his fellow Kage in fighting Madara Uchiha. After the war, Gaara continued to lead Sunagakure.

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Battle vs. Sub-Zero and Scorpion alongside Sasuke Uchiha (by Codgod13)
Sub-zero and Scorion have just approached each other and are about to duel, when Scorpion feels something speeding toward him, and teleports away, just as a huge amount of sand pellets pulverize the ground where h just was. As Scorpion teleports to the other side of the field, he and Sub-zero see Sasuke and Gaara standing on a ledge. Scorpion yells in anger, unleashes a stream of hellfire at the two shinobi. Sasuke leaps away, and Gaara uses sand to move himself. Scorpion teleports directly behind Gaara and strikes at him with his Ninjato, but sand automatically block his strike. Scorpion starts trying to barrage through Gaara's shield, the two slowly move away from Sasuke and Sub-zero.

Sub Zero creates an ice nugget, and rops it over Sasuke, but he dodges, and uses Phoenix fire jutsu to send a storm of fire balls at Sub-Zero, who creates an Ice Clone in front of him. Whenever, a fireball hits it, t turns to ice and sticks to the clone. Sasuke says, "hmm, ice clones? Never heard of them. Some hidden jutsu? Maybe I'll torture it out of you once I beat you." and rushes Sub-zero. The ice ninja summon the Kori blade and the two begin to duel. Eventually, Sub-zero gets the upper hand and disarms Sasuke, the latter teleporting back about a hundred feet, and begins chargin up a chidori. As Sub zero stabs at Sasuke, he ducks the weapon, and sends his chidori into Sub-zero's stomach, ripping clean through it. Sub-zero collapses to his knees, and Sasuke retrieves his sword by teleporting back and forth. He smiles, says, "Looks like I'm strong enough without Ice clones," and beheads Sub-zero.

Meanwhile...

Scorpion is sill trying to break through Gaara's defenses but can't, and is too fast for Gaara to get a clean shot. Finally, Scorpion is stationary enough for Gaara to trap him with some sand, Scorion is rooted to the floor by the sand. Gaara smiles and summons the Shukaku spear. Scorpion replies, "Well if that's how you want to play, then block this!" He releases an amount of hellfire big enough to barbecue two football fields. Gaara needs to recall every ounce of sand to protect him from the might attack, and us forced to use lots of precious chakra. Scorpion sees and opening and fires his rope dart, but the sand has recovered enough to block the strike, and Scorpion has left himself open as sand wraps around his ankles, curling up his body. Gaara use every bit of sand to focus on crushing scorpion, and he yells "SAND BURIAL!!" with enough force to shatter carbon steel. Just then, he feels a cold pain in his neck, and his last realization was that Scorpion had teleported from within the sand, and before he had time to recover, stabbed him in the neck. Scorpion smiles in victory, and goes to find Sasuke.

As he is walking, he arrives just in time to hear sasuke say he doesn't need ice clones, and he feels anger that Sasuke was to kill Sub-zero, and not him. He yells, alerting Sasuke. Both warriors unleash their fire, Sasuke's magically created fire standing no chance against hellfire, he teleports behind Scorpion, but Scorpion had already teleported to where he though Sasuke was. Realizing teleporting is pointless, Scorpion blasts his rope dart and Sasuke dodges, grabbing the rope, and pulling Scorpion toward his katana. Scorpion dodges and slashes Sasuke's hand with a ninjato, then teleports away. Sasuke smiles to himself, and yells, "You just signed your own death warrant! SUMMONING JUTSU! GIANT SNAKE!" A snake as long as the willis tower is tall appears under Sasuke, and as Scorpion appears, he is shocked by the beast, giving it time to strike. Scorpion snarls and leaps to the side, launching his rope dart at Sasuke who is temporarily blinded by the rise in dirt, is impaled. Scrpion twists his hand and launches Sasuke into the sky. With a savage crack, he lands, and Scorpion stabs him again just to make sure.

Winner: Sub-Zero and Scorpion

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