Chapter 35 : NOT a Morning Person(4)

Looking around, Naruto tried to think of a way to wake his friend up, plan after plan running through his head as he tried to think, then it hit him. The last time he had woken Gaara was when he was at his strongest, but also when he was the most venerable. Turning to the six Titans, a small smirk on his face, Naruto stepped away from the group.

"You're going to want to cover your ears!"

"Shrieking Banshee Technique!"

Pulling in a deep breath, his chest visibly expanding to a degree that was obviously impossible for a normal person, Naruto held it for about three seconds before letting it out. The air was filled with the sound of a blood curdling, high pitched scream that echoed all over the city. The Teen Titans had just enough time to cover their ears before the sound could take full effect and burst their ear drums but unfortunately for Beastboy, whose ears were more developed then those of his friends, it still made them bleed from the noise. Luckily it also had an effect on Gaara, his demonically charged ears amplifying the sound tenfold in his head, insuring he was in too much pain to attack.

When the scream hit its apex it was joined by another sound, the sound of breaking glass. Every window within a miles radios of the blonde shattered into thousands of pieces, falling to the ground like rain, glittering as they fell when caught by the light of the sun. As suddenly as it had started the sound was gone, the whole city seeming to fall into complete and total silence with the exception of the ringing it left behind in peoples ear. Then without warning the shards of glass started to lift into the air and start to flow toward the raccoon like creature in streams, flowing into Gaara and turning into sand on contact.

Turning to look at the Titans, spearing a sorry look to the green teen on the ground holding his ears in pain, Naruto slowly stepped back from the possessed Gaara, the glass still being absorbed into him as he started to grow bigger and bigger.

"This is the part where we run away!"

They watched in confusion as the blonde ran passed them in a blur, grabbing Raven's hand as he passed and dragging her with him. Robin took the time to look back at the creature they were fighting, seeing his growing form with the millions of shards of glass flowing into him, before lifting the still immobilise Beastboy onto his shoulder and following Naruto with a shot to the other three members of his team to follow him.

They were about three streets away when they stopped, the sound of a humungus creature roaring filling the air, and turned to see a giant Raccoon with purple markings over its entire body standing as tall as several skyscrapers.

Turning back to the whiskered blonde, Robin handed Beastboy to the one armed Cyborg before running up and grabbing the front of his shirt.

"What the hell have you done?! Why did you make it BIGGER?!"

Frowning at the boy wonder, Naruto pushed him away with ease before pointing at the top of the now rampaging creatures head. Following the direction he was pointing, the Titans saw a small dot on the creature's forehead. Using his bionic eye to zoom in of the dot, what was left of Cyborg's skin went pale.

"Is that Gaara?"

The others turned to Naruto with shocked faces, hoping to see the blonde deny the question, but to their further shock he just nodded his head. Turning to her boyfriend with her usual stoic expression mixed with a small amount of confusion, Raven grabbed his arm to get his attention away from the giant raccoon.

"What the hell is going on?"

Letting out a sigh, Naruto quickly looked from the possessed Gaara that was in the middle of destroying a building, then back to the purple haired teen several times before running a hand through his hair.

"Gaara's powers are complicated, he can control sand but at the same time it acts automatically. While he's awake he an control it, but when he falls asleep his power takes over his body and goes on a rampage and turns him into a bloodthirsty raccoon made of sand that will destroy anything it sees. I created a special room that he could sleep in that would absorb his power while he slept so he didn't lose control, but unfortunately he got out."

"Then why the hell did you make him bigger? If you knew he could turn glass into sand then why shatter it with that freaky screaming thing and add fuel to the fire!"

Turning to the robotic teen, Naruto once again pointed to the sleeping teen on the giant's forehead before pulling a seal out of his pocket.

"Because you guys showed up and pushed him over the point that this would have worked! If I could have gotten this seal on him before he absorbed so much sand I could have stopped this from getting this bad. That left me with only one option, while in this form Gaara it at his strongest, but at the same time he is the most venerable. If I can get up there all I need to do is wake him up and that creature will disappear."

Frowning, Robin looked at the giant Raccoon before turning his attention back to the blonde before giving him a begrudging nod.

"So how are you going to get up there?"