"It's them!" After a period of panic, Temari was no longer as scared. After all, she had seen Shukaku's perfect form. She just recalled the scenes she had seen when she was a child. That was why she was like this.
"Who is this monster?" Naruto was both frightened and confused by the scenes in front of him.
"Although his appearance has changed, it is obvious that he is that Gaara." Pakkun said.
"Seems like I'm not too late. I finally came." Ryoha arrived in front of Gaara. No one around found out how he came here.
"Fortunately, Ryoha is here. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know what to do." In the face of Gaara's malevolent appearance, Sakura would be lying if she told herself that she was not afraid.
"You are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time, Ryoha!" Gaara saw Ryoha's arrival and immediately put Sasuke aside. His left hand and the other half of his face had also begun to transform. His feet aside, Gaara was close to a miniature version of Shukaku.
"Wow, it's really you, Panda-eyes!." Ryoha smacked his lips. To be honest, other than his encounter with the Kyubi when he first came to this world, this was the first time he had seen a tailed beast's partial transformation.
"Sand Shuriken!" Gaara didn't care about what Ryoha said. What he wanted to do now was to kill him. The Sand Shuriken whirled and flew towards Ryoha.
"What a boring trick." Ryoha pulled out his weapon and pierced through all the sand shurikens with a clang.
"Wind Release, Infinite Sand Cloud - Great Breakthrough!" Gaara took a deep breath. A few large mouths with sharp teeth formed around his body, blowing strong wind mixed with sand towards Ryoha.
"Earth Release - Earth Wall!" Ryoha pressed one hand on the ground, summoning a huge earth wall that blocked the sandstorm in front of him. However, Naruto, Sakura, and the others were not so lucky. They were blown away one after another.
"Find some big trees to hide, and stay away from them. Naruto, if you're in a pinch, use the ninjutsu that Jiraya taught you to protect yourself." After Ryoha finished speaking, he immediately rushed to Gaara. Passive defense was not really his thing, and he suddenly hit Gaara with his empowered fist.
"Bang!"
An unprecedented circular ripple immediately appeared around Gaara, sending him flying. However, as he was sent flying, Gaara extended both Shukaku's hands to pull a few trees to stabilize his body and landed forcefully.
Using the rebound force, he rushed towards Ryoha. Finally, his feet were surrounded by sand, forming a real miniature Shukaku.
"Shukaku's Hand!" Gaara roared. His right hand suddenly became bigger, shooting out a large amount of sand that turned into a large net surrounding Ryoha, and then pressed him down from the tree. The gradually increasing hill-like sand pressed Ryoha to the ground.
"Hehe, I don't need to worry about Chakra at all in this state." Gaara closed his right hand, and the sand on Ryoha's body immediately began to roll down. Under the tailed beast transformation state, the power of Gaara's ninjutsu became several times stronger.
"Rumble!"
The strong pressure actually caused cracks to appear on the ground beneath his feet. The gravel flew up, and the ground became uneven. However, Ryoha's figure was gone.
"Sand? If the sand comes in contact with water, it will become very heavy. Of course, I learned this move from the Third in the month I fought him." A huge cannonball-like water bullet suddenly hit Gaara, soaking his sand.
The sand became heavier, slowing down its speed. At the same time, the water bullet exploded, blowing up a lot of the sand around Gaara.
"Here comes the chance, Rasengan!" Ryoha hurriedly used the Body Flicker Jutsu and arrived in front of Gaara at extreme speed. He struck down on the only layer of sand left on his chest.
"Boom!"
Gaara got hit by the Rasengan once again, and his entire body began to spin along with the rotation power of the Rasengan. A moment later, he was sent flying along with the Rasengan.
"Success!" Sakura shouted happily. However, Naruto was a bit demotivated. He was the one who attacked Gaara first. However, after seeing him becoming more and more terrifying, he was also glad that he did not continue his attack. Otherwise, he would definitely be beaten again.
However, he had forgotten his strong points. If he did not get beaten up, his strength would be limited. Only under the circumstances of being beaten would his inner potential burst out.
"Is this kid really graduated with Naruto and Sasuke? Why do I feel like he was already comparable to Kakashi?" Pakkun cursed in his heart.
"Haha, that's great! Your strength is truly too great! Only by taking away everything from you, can I finally prove the value of my existence. Let me continue to exist!" Gaara let out a miserable cry. However, it wasn't long before he started laughing happily. Immediately after, a large amount of sand suddenly sprayed out from his body into the sky. In the blink of an eye, he had turned into a giant Shukaku.
"Damn it, only now did I understand why so many Kage-level ninjas would form a summoning contract with some beast. It was really handy, and it enables me to deal with these large-scale battles. If I had known earlier, I would have gone to look for one too. Damn it, Toad, Giant Snake, and Slug. These guys really aren't good-looking." Ryoha thought indignantly in his heart.
"Hey, Temari, is that really your little brother? No matter how you look at it, he looks like a monster. Can you also become like him?" Ryoha asked, despite knowing the answer.
"You big idiot, what do you think I am? How can I become like that?" Temari, who had initially seen that Gaara was already close to the perfect form and was planning to stay away from Ryoha, immediately exploded when she heard Ryoha's teasing words.
As a 15-year-old girl, she was in her puberty. Apart from some relatively rational and mature ones, most girls of this age cared about their looks the most. She was instantly angered when she heard Ryoha's stupid question.
After she exploded with anger, Temari ignored the difference in their strength and directly rushed in front of Ryoha to argue with him. Temari was not an idiot. She could see that Ryoha had no hostility or killing intent towards her, so she dared to do so after being provoked.
"I'm joking. I'm just joking. Calm down. Don't make me laugh." Ryoha chuckled, but he did not show any sincerity, which made Temari wants to hit him.