{Training ground 44, Konohagakure}

{2:49 PM, 2nd July 13 Yrs ANB}

{3rd Person POV}

Kankuro and Temari were hidden in the treeline looking at Garra's murderous expression. Temari was getting increasingly worried as she saw him get the same maniacal look in his eyes he would get before every outburst. She wasn't concerned for Gaara as she had seen him fight against a couple of Jonins on missions.

'How is he so fast, I can't keep track of his movements, and now he's using his sword that would increase his reach even more.' Temari thought as Ren dashed towards Gaara for the third time, mid way his form flickered and Temari lost track of where he was. She looked at the area around Gaara as she in the end as Ren's target was pretty clear.

'How would I fight against him, I would have to straight out use all 3 stars on my fan and bombard him with wide-range wind jutsu-' Temari froze as a spray of blood erupted from Gaara's shoulders.

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Ren felt a little resistance but his strength was enough that he could chop through Gaara's arm, Gaara this time physically reacted although he was a lot slower with his dodge. He still managed to move enough that the slash that should have gone through his shoulder into his heart only lopped his left hand off.

Ren's danger senses tingled as he dodged sideways, and flicked out of Gaara's vicinity as a large amount of sand erupted from Gaara's feet and swallowed Gaara.

"AAAAhhhhhhhhhh~" Gaara screamed from behind the wall of sand before he was slowly swallowed by a small bubble made of sand.

"Sand Shield~" Ren could hear Gaara murmur as he truly got engulfed in a sphere of sand. Ren stayed put as he stared at the sphere for any indication, he had his eyes peeled as he waited for anything to happen. He noticed that a small eyeball had appeared above the sphere and it was looking at him.

'Wait what is that, I can't sense any chakra fluctuations from that...' Ren slowly walked forward until he was just 10 meters away from the sand structure.

'That's like an eyeball, can he see me from in there? And what is he planning I can't sense his chakra through this wall of sand it is laced in his chakra and is blocking my perception.' Ren waited for another 30 seconds but as nothing happened he held a Tiger seal and inhaled sharply.

Tiger

'Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu'

Ren exhaled a ball of fire that was 3 times the size of Gaara's sand dome, the jutsu quickly collided with Gaara's sand and exploded as it lost form. Ren jumped back to avoid the heat that was coming from the explosion and then used a small wind jutsu to blow away the dust not letting it hamper his vision.

He looked on as the sand was glowing hot red from the explosion, he wanted to use another fireball jutsu but the sand fell away like a curtain and a new one quickly replaced the above layer.

'Never mind, this won't work, although the sand is superconductive heat-wise, it won't matter if he keeps replacing it.' Ren concluded as he watched the sand defense with a gloomy look, the heavy pressure coming from inside the dome was now not blocked by his own chakra. Ren could feel the malicious chakra of the Ichibi which was now seeping into the sand.

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'Heh, this won't work, Gaara's sand can even handle an A-Rank Fire Jutsu if could replace the sand quickly enough. Even though we are not in the desert, from the moment Gaara stood still when he began attacking he began transforming the rocks in the ground into sand.' Temari thought as she smirked as he regained some hope, though she quickly frowned as she realized that the whole plan would go bust if Gaara released the Ichibi now.

'There is no one to apply external pressure, although Gaara would be able to destroy a lot of Konoha, their Kage would quickly deal with Ichibi and then our whole plan would fall out.' Temari was desperate, but in the end, she was helpless. Even if the mission was given to their whole team there was no one who could really control Gaara.

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'He's preparing something huge since he's gathering all that chakra... I need to either stop him or should I leave since he isn't in a condition to follow me right now.' Ren thought. He thought about it some more and while taking on a Jinchuriki wasn't an ideal play, right now was the perfect time for him to attack.

'At least when it comes to cutting power, wind is above everything else...' Ren dashed again, as he transformed almost a quarter of his chakra into wind nature. Normally he would not use this move ever unless he was in similar circumstances.

'Kenjutsu: Slash of the Wind God.'

A thin layer of pure wind chakra enveloped his sword, this was a move he had created after listening to Asuma-sensei's advice. While coating his whole sword with chakra was a wasteful move in a normal fight, channeling all this chakra for one single slash was the epitome of attack power that he could muster right now.

Gaara's eye of sand was obliterated in the fire jutsu and it took a mere moment for Ren to reach the sand shield. He slashed straight at a position where he assumed Gaara's head would be and his sword easily sliced through the sand.

It was an instant but a few things happened simultaneously.

'What!'

"Ugh~" Ren screamed in his mind as he grunted, a spike of sand tore through his left bicep. He hastily jumped back and released the chakra from his sword as he flickered away.

He grabbed his bicep with his right hand and looked as the Sand shield slowly collapsed. A dust cloud obscured whatever happened as Ren looked at his arm hanging limply by his side.

'Shit! I got tunnel visioned into the attack, that happened so quickly it was like his sand reacted almost instantly.' Ren cursed as he focused and forced his left hand to make a couple of hand signs.

A layer of green chakra once again lit up his hands as he used it to slow down the bleeding, he couldn't take care of the broken muscles on the field so he tried to stop the bleeding for now.

'It would be harder to heal later but right now I need to not lose all of my blood' Ren thought.

'At least he's dead...'

Ren looked at the dust cloud and then stared in the direction where he sensed Gaara's teammates were hiding.

'He was level 43 and had insane reactions, I should collect his body.' Ren concluded as he flickered into the cloud and grabbed onto Gaara's shoulders, he looked at Gaara's head which was handling limply as his neck was almost completely cut off.

Before he could throw away his body into his inventory, a couple of blocks appeared in front of him that made him pause.

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[Bounty Completed!]

[Name: Gaara]

[Rank: Chunin]

[Level: 43]

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[Bounty Target detected {Gaara}]

[Would you like to extract bounty?]

[Yes/No]

[Error@#$@#%$!#]

[Target has no appropriate Jutsu that could be used without his bloodline that can be extracted]

[Bounty Extraction failed!]

[Choose one of the following options as a reward instead.]

[1. Chakra Multipliers of Sabaku no Gaara.]

[2. Mutated Magnet Release {Sand Release}.]

[3. Learn Fuinjutsu Modified Iron Kettle Seal.]

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