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"Hmm, why bother with someone like her then?"

Gaara of the Desert Reincarnation

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"Hmm, why bother with someone like her then?"

Gaara of the Desert Reincarnation

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Kankuro and I clashed as we met in the pool of mud. Our kunai became blurs as we attacked and parried each other over and over again. We both slipped several times, resulting in awkward struggles to regain our balance. Eventually, I got an opening and landed a punch on Kankuro's left shoulder. He stumbled and threw his kunai at me. The kunai grazed the left side of my stomach, leaving a shallow cut. Angry, I threw myself onto Kankuro and we both went down hard. We wrestled for a while, exchanging blows. It became very apparent that I was not as physically strong as Kankuro. Taijutsu was by far my weakest ability and it was clearly showing. I put my hand into the mud and forced any iron sand nearby to form around it. Kankuro charged me, throwing a long-winded haymaker. I grinned and raised my hand to block it. Unlike before though, my hand to my elbow was covered with iron sand. Kankuro didn't see it in time, his fist painful cracking as it met my iron sand sleeve. Kankuro fell to his knees, clutching his broken knuckles. I raised my right hand which was still covered with iron sand. I was about to deliver a devastating blow when Kankuro threw a lightning-quick punch. It hit me straight in the gut, causing me to keel over. He must have been faking clutching his hand so I would drop my guard.

Gaara of the Desert Reincarnation

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"Use the iron sand, or are you that clueless." With that, Shukaku went back to presumably napping. I guess he was right, the iron sand wasn't like my normal sand, its weakness was lightning-style moves, not water. Iron sand was also a direct weakness of puppets because the iron particles would get inside its mechanisms and jam them. I guess I could summon my regular sand from the two scrolls on my belt but they'd just meet the same fate as the sand before them. Did I have any other option? It really didn't seem that way in my current position, so I grabbed the iron sand scroll from my sling. I quickly unraveled it and summoned the iron sand right into the air in front of me. I grabbed control of it and then formed it into a shield. I swung it around to be straight in front of the jet of water. I was a little worried that I may be wrong, that I didn't have a strong enough control over the iron sand to stop the jet. Fortunately, I was right and the jet met its match against the iron sand shield. I could see Kankuro's visible shock from me using iron sand to counter the water jet. I floated back down to the ground with the iron sand protecting me the whole time. I gradually began walking closer and closer to Kankuro in order to get within range to attack. Kankuro turned up the pressure and my iron sand began to falter from it. I simply wasn't skilled enough to keep the iron sand together under that pressure. I had only a little amount of time before I'd be unable to hold the shield together. I put one hand on the ground, the other to hold up the shield. I raced my mind for a Jutsu to use and decided on the first one I thought of. Sand Chains was a Jutsu that made sand form into a tough chain that was optimal for capturing. The chains formed from the sand on the arena floor that wasn't soaking wet. Several of them grabbed the Riptide puppet while I managed to get one locked on Kankuro's right arm. Kankuro now looked infuriated that the match he had been so close to winning was now turned on its head. He attempted to use Riptide to destroy the sand chains but I had firmly trapped the puppet with Sand Chains Entrapment. The puppet's whole body was wrapped in chains, there was almost no possibility of it escaping. Kankuro quickly realized that Riptide was a lost cause and then moved to Oasis. As far as I knew, Oasis was just a puppet built to supply water to Riptide. I hadn't sent any chains to it because I thought it was useless with Riptide out of the equation. That had been a mistake it seemed as I heard clicking and whirring from the puppet as Kankuro did something to it. Suddenly, Oasis's stomach burst open and a huge wave of water poured out. I had no idea how Kankuro had fit so much water inside that puppet but it was ridiculous. Both Kankuro and I were swept away by the wave of water. My sand chains and iron sand both fell to the ground, the sand chains because of the water, and the iron sand due to lack of concentration.

Gaara of the Desert Reincarnation

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"Shukaku, I have come to you with a proposal that could benefit both of us. Don't scream again it's very annoying and I can leave anytime I want. Then you'll be back under the full force of the seal, all alone." That really shut him up quick, I didn't think that it would be so easy. Then again, the threat of him being all alone, locked away inside of here was probably very daunting. Maybe I had been a little too cruel with that threat, Tailed Beasts were just as smart as regular people were. They didn't ask to be jammed inside of someone along with being forced to give up their power. I decided I could be a little nicer, not like I could remove Shukaku without dying anyways.

Gaara of the Desert Reincarnation

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