Chapter 15: Preparation

"Rrgghh!" - (Gaara) greeted his teeth.

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"I put a curse seal on you a long time ago so I can sense it even if you masked your chakra… And do you really think I will allow you to get stronger than me without any precautionary measure? You're too naive to think that, my rebellious son." - (Rasa) said as he stood on his seat.

He then looked at the council members then to the daimyo, who are all shaking in their seats.

"All you need to do is to agree with me but instead you decided to oppose me." - (Rasa) said to them and then walked slowly towards the daimyo.

"W-What are you going to do?!" - (Daimyo)

"I have no need for you. But be thankful for I will put your body to good use and turn you into a puppet. It's finally time for my personal team of master puppeteers to be of good use." - (Rasa) said and then gruesomely killed all the council members using sand spikes, making them unrecognizable to anyone.

Seeing this, the daimyo fell to the ground, trying to flee while screaming for help.

"H-help!!" - (Daimyo)

Rasa walked towards him and lifted him up, holding him by the hair.

"Wraaahh!! G-Get away!! Get away!!" - (Daimyo) flailed.

"Hn, look at you now. You act all high and mighty but this is all you've got." - (Rasa) said as he moved his sand to the daimyo's chest… But before it could reach him, he felt an excruciating pain on his chest.

"U-Uh, I-Imposible. *Cough!* *Cough!*" - (Rasa) released the grip on the daimyo unintentionally and fell on one knee.

"H-How could you... still move?! *Cough* Y-You... shouldn't be... able to move... and u-use chakra." - (Rasa) muttered and fell completely on the ground, holding the spot of his stomach that was pierced by a blood colored whip-like structure.

What Rasa didn't know is that Gaara was still completely paralyzed. He's currently on his mindscape but could still feel the pain on his chest caused by the cursed seal.

--Mindscape--

"Sorry kid, it took some time to activate the sand and I wasn't able to save those fools. I didn't even notice that that bastard put a curse seal on you before." - (Shukaku) said apologetically.

5 days ago, Shukaku warned Gaara to be careful in this meeting because no one really knows what will happen. This is the reason why Gaara didn't come to his friend's (Shinsuki) graduation celebration, he and Shukaku were working together to prepare something.

Since even if you split a tailed-beast chakra into different pieces it will always stay connected, Gaara used that property to his advantage. Thanks to Shukaku's warning, he got an idea on what to do.

By channeling his chakra to his sand and using that as a tunnel to transfer Shukaku's chakra to his sand, they were able to infuse Shukaku's chakra to his sand successfully without anyone knowing.

As long as the amount of his chakra is larger than that of Shukaku's, the sand will remain masked from any sensor, this is somewhat different from. the jutsu he used to mask his chakra signature.

This process took them 5 days to complete 3 cubic meters of sand. It took a long time because it was quite hard for Gaara to contain the violent chakra of Shukaku while staying unnoticed. He still hasn't trained his tailed-beast chakra cloak or other forms yet because he didn't really ask for Shukaku's power before and there are also many eyes watching him, making his movements limited.

But by simply doing this, Shukaku can control a limited amount of sand even if he's in the mindscape/other dimension or if Gaara can't use his ability by just sending his intent to his chakra in Gaara's sand.

"Anyway, now that you're here, let's change." - (Shukaku)

Gaara nodded his head with great difficulty and let Shukaku take over his body. They are not planning to do this originally but Gaara is really in a bad shape.

–Real world–

A boiling red-orange chakra suddenly enveloped Gaara's body and his pupils became black shuriken shape, surrounded by 4 black circles and his irises turned yellow.

Using his chakra, Shukaku forced Gaara's body to move. He slowly stood up and noticed that his movements were still being restricted by the curse seal.

Seeing one of the guards standing up, the daimyo was overjoyed and immediately ran to his back. But the next thing Shukaku (Gaara) did surprised him.

Shukaku (Gaara) just plucked his own heart out of his chest and crushed it to remove the curse seal. To avoid killing Gaara, he used his chakra to continue the circulation of blood and oxygen in Gaara's body while he regenerated the heart using sand, a jutsu he mastered to regenerate himself from any attacks.

In his head, he could hear Gaara yelling at him.

'Fūck! Did you just replace my heart with sand?!' - (Gaara)

'Hahaha, don't worry kid. Now you will be healthier and livelier than before. Your heart is now made out of hard minerals instead of paper tissues, be thankful. Hahahaha- !' - (Shukaku)

"H-Hey! F-Finish him already!" - (Daimyo) yelled at Shukaku.

"Shut up, bītch!" - (Shukaku) said irritatedly for interrupting his thoughts.

He then walked towards Rasa. He grabbed him on the face and jumped to the sky, destroying the roof above them. When he was high enough, he threw Rasa in the air and laughed like a maniac.

"BWAHAHAHAHA!" - (Shukaku) laughed as he shot multiple marble-sized tailed-beast bomb out of his mouth towards Rasa, creating holes in his body and many small explosions behind him.

He continued this for minutes, not letting Rasa fall, making loud screams out of him that could break someone's eardrum.

"BWAHAHAHA!! NOW DIE, YOU BASTARD!!" - (Shukaku) yelled on top of his lungs as he swallowed a mini tailed-beast bomb and released it towards Rasa, obliterating him completely without leaving a single remain.

"BWAHAHAHAHA!! YOU DESERVE THAT, YOU SON OF A BĪTCH!! BWAHAHAHA!!" - (Shukaku)

After laughing for minutes, Shukaku descended back to the palace through the roof he destroyed.

He looked at the daimyo who looked back at him like he was crazy.

"Hey, scaredy bītch. Make sure to take care of this kid." - (Shukaku) said and switched back to Gaara, leaving the confused daimyo.

Continuing to force Gaara's body to move and using the tailed-beast chakra without prior training will just make Gaara's condition worse so Shukaku has no choice but return to the mindscape. Unlike the <<8 trigrams sealing jutsu> which takes full advantage of the tailed-beast' power, Gaara's seal is mediocre. Because of this, Shukaku can't heal him directly using his chakra, only through a jutsu like he did earlier could he heal his physical injuries.

After Gaara regained full control of his body, he suddenly fell to the ground unconscious because of the effect of the cursed seal and his heart being replaced.

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