The fight went exactly as the original story with Gaara getting the short end of the stick for the first time from someone almost of his age. It was miraculous for the Sand ninjas because they never expected someone to even come close to Gaara forget about making him bleed. And this was all done by someone of their age.
And that too with freaking taijutsu. Though there were no distinctions between ways of fighting, taijutsu was never considered a good thing to know. They were taught a lesson for the first time. But at the end Lee wasn't in a good shape and fainted because of his use of chakra and constant pain and bruises that he received.
Gaara seeing this as an opening willed his sand to creep onto Lee and teach this guy a lesson. How dare he hurt someone like himself. But before the sand could touch his feet, Aoto appeared and with a simple move of his hand, the sand scattered into the air.
"Gaara wins.." Aoto declared.
This made Gaara furious as he thought he was being robbed of achieving victory by killing or incapacitating the other person but there was nothing of that sort. Gaara was beyond furious now. He had been robbed of acting willfully multiple times. Robbed of his freedom.
"You.. You have been a wall in front of me for multiple times. Do you think you can escape from me?" Gaara bellowed. This made everyone in the arena and the ones watching it stunned. They had never expected such words from a genin to a referee. Especially when he won and nobody even protested against the results.
"Why? You want to win in more amusing ways?" Aoto who had not taken his eyes off Gaara said. Lee, at the moment was being taken away in a stretcher, as he had lost consciousness. Gaara finding no other way to vent his anger attacked Aoto. This made everyone around gasp in shock.
Even the sand shinobis were uncomfortable with this but neither they had the courage to come forward and stop Gaara. Ony one person could stop him and that was the current Kazekage and he wasn't present here. They had hoped that Gaara wouldn't go crazy but now it seemed it might not be possible whatsoever.
The sand attacked Aoto only for the sand to pass through the body of Aoto. It was projection of Aoto that dissipated after the attack and he appeared on the side with the same smile that he had before.
"Attacking the referee without any valid reason will make you unfit for the finals. I still hold the right to make you unqualify, you know."
"You bastard!" Gaara wasn't happy at all about this and attacked with more sand but only to see Aoto evade any attacks. Actually Aoto had already changed his location and went far away from the arena and was just using projections that Loki had taught him to use. Gaara was running in circles around it. Even Shukaku wasn't able to influence Gaara as for him the current Aoto was also real and not a genjutsu.
The more Gaara released his anger the more unstable he became and slowly half of his face turned into a monster.
"What is this?"
"What is wrong with this guy?"
Gaara looked horrifying with the monster that seemed to be made of sand. Half of his body and face had turned into a monster while the other half had was still human. Drool fell from his mouth as he gave a devilish smile at the fake Aoto. His rationality was gone by that point and all of the shinobis had a vague idea of what was going on. And before anyone could move, a man suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
The arrival of the man was followed by a huge wave of gold dust. It was like a huge water wave but instead of water it was just gold dust. The gold dust covered the whole body of Gaara and though he tried to defend himself with his own sand attacks, but it seemed minuscule in front of the golden sand attack.
Gaara was swept away and was temporary sealed. There was a complete silence by the sudden change of events.
"It is said that the current Kazekage can control the golden sands. Seems like the rumors are true." Kakashi said as he closed his manga book and now actively looked at the person that had just appeared, just like the others.
"He seems quite intimidating." Guy said. Aoto who was standing at the audience stand and ready to move didn't expect this man to show up. Rasa being alive was not in his cards at all. He didn't have any particular love for this person, someone who could use anyone for his own goal. Even his own son and brother-in-law.
After the sealing, the gold dust vanished into thin air and all that was left was a destroyed arena bits of sand lying around from the assault of Gaara, with a triangle shaped tomb in the middle. And Rasa standing near the tomb. He bowed his head down and said.
"I am sorry for the problems caused by my mischievous son. As compensation I would like the referee to withdraw the participation of my son Gaara and wouldn't be there for the finals. I hope the referee can accept my humble demands." Rasa said.
"Demand accepted." Aoto declared. Having Rasa here had already changed the plot so he didn't care how much plot would deviate at this point. All this time he had been trying to keep the plot like the way it was supposed to be.
This way he would have his cards hidden for the 4th great ninja war. But having Rasa here already meant the plot had long been out of window and he as just holding on to his stubborn behavior. What was supposed to come, would come no matter what.
Rasa bowed again and he took away Gaara after the tomb seal was taken out and an unconscious Gaara appeared to the public. He was out cold.
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