Sasuke pulled his left hand out of the sand ball and found it empty. Gaara had disappeared.
Not only was Gaara's whereabouts unknown, but behind the large sand ball, a big frog suddenly appeared. It must have been summoned by someone.
At this time, Sasuke didn't know that Naruto Uzumaki had learned the Summoning Jutsu.
In fact, this big frog was summoned by Naruto. The moment Sasuke used Lightning Release Chidori to attack the large sand ball, Naruto finally stepped in.
Naruto summoned a big frog that could spit oil and made it spit a mouthful of oil at the large sand ball.
Oil could restrain sand. The oil spat out by the big frog made the sand lose its friction. After the sand mixed with the oil, it turned into a pile of mushy mud, and Naruto easily broke through Gaara's Absolute Defense.
Sasuke quickly looked around and soon found Gaara. He saw Gaara standing with Naruto.
"What's going on?" Sasuke couldn't figure it out. Naruto actually stepped in to save Gaara.
Not only Sasuke couldn't figure it out, but Gaara was also in a daze. With big dark circles under his eyes, Gaara recalled what had happened a moment ago.
At that time, Gaara used sand to wrap himself up, forming a large sand ball.
And Sasuke used Lightning Release Chidori. His left hand, with countless thunderbolts, was like a sharp blade and directly pierced through the large sand ball.
If there had been no accident, Sasuke's Lightning Release Chidori would definitely have stabbed Gaara directly.
But Naruto took action. He first summoned a big frog and made it spit oil to break Gaara's large sand ball.
The oil from the big frog directly turned Gaara's sand into mushy mud, causing a hole to appear at the back of the large sand ball.
Naruto quickly rushed into the large sand ball and saved Gaara, preventing him from being hurt by Sasuke's Chidori.
Gaara asked in a daze, "I remember you're Naruto Uzumaki. Why did you save me?"
"Because I'm going to defeat you. You can only be my loser." A big smile appeared on Naruto's face, but in his heart, he was thinking: That's not the real deal...
The reason I saved you is that you're just a pawn of mine.
When Sasuke heard this, he got angry immediately. He thought Naruto was going too far. Is Naruto trying to steal all the opponents from me? Not leaving me even one?
At this time, on the stands, Kakashi was greatly shocked. He found that Sasuke's state was very unstable.
Sasuke had the Cursed Seal of Heaven and the Cursed Seal of Earth planted by Orochimaru. Although Kakashi applied the Evil Sealing Method to temporarily seal the cursed seals, suppressing the desires in his heart with this seal depends on Sasuke's will.
The cursed seals would be connected to his Chakra. If Sasuke was war - like, he would surely be affected by the cursed seals.
If Sasuke wanted to suppress the cursed seals with the Evil Sealing Method, he had to let go of the hatred in his heart and the desire to fight.
Unfortunately, Sasuke couldn't do these two things.
Stimulated by Naruto, Sasuke's desire to fight was aroused. Sasuke longed to become stronger, to gain power, and to take revenge!
Driven by his strong desires, Kakashi's Evil Sealing Method gradually lost its effect, and the patterns of the cursed seals began to spread all over Sasuke's body.
On the stands, the Fourth Kazekage's eyes sparkled with expectation as he stared directly at Sasuke.
Orochimaru, disguised as the Fourth Kazekage, mused to himself, 'Come on, Sasuke! Unleash your potential and let me see if you're fit to be my vessel.'
After gaining the power of the Cursed Seal, Sasuke's speed reached a new level. Even Naruto couldn't react in time.
"Hey, Sasuke, we're teammates," Naruto said awkwardly.
Sasuke showed no gratitude and punched Naruto right away.
Due to Sasuke's incredible speed, Naruto had no chance to dodge and was driven back by Sasuke's punch.
After forcing Naruto back, Sasuke quickly confronted Gaara. Sasuke shouted at the top of his voice, "Ah————"
Gaara couldn't just sit there and do nothing. He quickly controlled the sand to attack Sasuke, but unfortunately, Sasuke was too fast and the sand couldn't keep up with him at all.
Sasuke punched and kicked continuously. In the blink of an eye, he landed thirty punches and sixty kicks on Gaara, leaving Gaara completely defenseless.
"Ugh..." Gaara was enraged. He wanted to awaken the One-Tailed Shukaku. As long as he could awaken the One-Tailed Shukaku, he could defeat all the Genin from Konoha.
Gaara was making Hand Seals while recalling the sand for defense. It would take quite a bit of preparation time to awaken the One-Tailed Shukaku.
With the boost of the Cursed Seal, Sasuke felt that he had endless strength in his body and his Chakra seemed inexhaustible.
"Lightning Release Chidori!" In the Cursed Seal state, the Chidori that Sasuke used seemed to have a strange color.
Kakashi on the stands became even more worried about Sasuke when he saw this scene. Under normal circumstances, Sasuke could only use the Chidori twice a day before exhausting his Chakra.
However, once the Cursed Seal was activated, the situation was different. With the blessing of the Cursed Seal, the number of times Sasuke could use the Chidori also broke through the limit.
Sasuke planned to use this single strike of the Chidori to end the battle directly.
Sasuke dashed forward, raising his left hand high. The lightning in his hand was blindingly bright.
Naruto rushed over and threw a Kunai at Sasuke, forcing Sasuke to change his attack route.
"Naruto, you can't stop me. The victory of this battle belongs to me," Sasuke looked like a madman and rushed straight up to Gaara. He stabbed Gaara directly with his left hand full of thunder.
Gaara's form transformed as well. The sand started to cover Gaara's right face, taking on the shape of half a raccoon's face.
Sasuke didn't anticipate Gaara's form change. Seeing Gaara transform into half - raccoon face, he sensed something was amiss.
"Success!" Naruto was overjoyed. Thanks to his interference, Gaara had successfully entered the Tailed Beast transformation state.
Naruto's real intention in saving Gaara and interfering with Sasuke was to enable Gaara to smoothly enter the Tailed Beast transformation state.
"Ah—" Regardless of the consequences, Sasuke stabbed his left hand full of thunder at Gaara with all his might.
"Ah—" Gaara gathered more sand and used his Tailed Beast-transformed body to block Sasuke's powerful move.
After the powerful explosion, sand and dust engulfed the entire field, astonishing everyone on the stands.
The people watching the game said one after another: "What on earth is that?"
"Gaara seems to have turned into a monster..."
"I saw it too. Gaara really turned into a monster."
At this moment, The Third Hokage also became aware of it. He immediately recognized that the monster attached to Gaara was the One - Tailed Beast.
The Third Hokage thought in shock, "What on earth are the Sand Ninjas doing? Why did they let the One - Tailed Jinchuriki participate in the Chunin Exams..."
The Third Hokage looked at the Fourth Kazekage sitting beside him. At the same time, the Fourth Kazekage also glanced at the Third Hokage. The two stared at each other but said nothing, as if they each had their own schemes (each having their own hidden motives).
In the arena, Naruto sat directly on the ground and said with a smile, "Next, I'll just chill and watch the fun."
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