Naruto - Light Ninja - Capítulo 100 - Konoha 03.

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"Quick! We must find them quickly!" Sora spoke as she ran across the rooftops of Konoha after hearing about the visitors from the east while her brother's name was mentioned in conversation with them. Karin was behind, trying to keep up with Sora.

Teuchi spoke about the ninjas from Kiri who had just left his establishment when Sora and Karin arrived.

Sora was very shocked when she heard they mentioned Naruto, something she could not ignore. She quickly demanded more information, while Teuchi had no problem telling everything he heard from the Kiri genins.

"Can't you find them?" Sora turned her face to the redhead behind her, waiting for confirmation.

But Karin just shook her head... "I can't find them in the village..." she murmured in a tone of failure. There were too many new chakras in Konoha. It was impossible to distinguish any of them without prior knowledge of their signatures. It was like searching for a needle among several needles of different sizes, but without knowing which was the right one since Karin had never seen the chakras of these ninjas.

Sora just clicked her tongue and kept jumping, scanning the streets, searching for anyone unusual with a Kiri headband. Just when she was ready to move to another part of the village, believing there was nothing there, an explosion occurred a few dozen meters away, followed by the startled and frightened cries of people.

"What's happening over there?" she murmured before advancing, and Karin followed closely behind.

People nearby witnessed the sand explosion and were quickly scared, as they were civilian citizens and shouted for any ninja to come closer.

"Hey, Gaara, stop it!" Kankuro shouted, but Gaara didn't care, his eyes fixed on the boy before him, along with the symbol on his armband that he would never forget in his life.

"I need to destroy him to prove my existence." Memories of Naruto mocking his words, as if they were nothing, and the power Naruto displayed, which was so strong that even Gaara could see himself as weak, left a bitter feeling. Naruto laughed as Gaara invoked his mother, and now Gaara felt the urge to kill these ninjas, especially when the brat in front of him didn't look at him with fear, but with determination.

"Sand?!" Sasuke looked surprised at the sight, along with the others. Seeing Gaara's siblings shaken and cautious at a distance, he could tell it wasn't a good sign.

"That guy is going to fight the Kiri ninjas so openly?!" Sakura asked, stunned as the children, including Konohamaru, watched cautiously, never having seen a ninja use sand to fight.

"That guy... he's dangerous..." Ikua spoke cautiously, seeing the sand emerging from the shell of the sand ninja.

"I don't even care," Iryn said arrogantly. "This guy thinks he can spout nonsense about the symbol of justice and look threatening? I'll make him prove that justice is unwavering! Let me handle him alone." He spoke, while his companions watched him—one calmly uncertain of what to do, another cautious, thinking it was a terrible idea.

Gaara didn't like that and acted. "Die!" He raised his hand, and the sand finished leaving his shell, advancing towards Iryn, who didn't appear fazed.

As soon as it approached, Iryn broke the ground where he stood, disappearing in a blur of speed, moving upwards at the last millisecond.

"He's fast!" Everyone watching was astonished by this speed, as they saw Iryn finally stop 12 meters in the air, making hand seals.

"Is he going to launch a jutsu from his mouth?" Sasuke asked, seeing him start to puff up his cheeks, inflating his lungs before releasing the attack, even imagining a Fire Release.

But Iryn spat a smoke cloud, which resembled a fireball, directly at Gaara. His sand acted quickly, enveloping him to protect from the attack. Everyone watched as the gas ball exploded against the sand, with immediate effect, leaving Gaara hidden from everyone's view, while Sasuke opened his Sharingan to observe the fight and was immediately stunned by the gas effect.

"Hey, hey, that's acid!" Sakura shouted, stunned, as the street around Gaara began to melt, the gas corroding all the walls and even the ground itself, leaving everyone in shock.

"We should get away from here!" Kiba backed away along with the others.

"What kind of release is that?" Konohamaru murmured, bewildered by the clear Kekkei Genkai.

Even Kankuro and Temari were looking with cautious gazes, watching Gaara inside that deadly gas, waiting for it to dissipate to see how their brother was. It was a bad situation for Gaara; even with his sand protecting him, with it corroding, he had limited oxygen there.

"Let's see if you can handle this!" Iryn spoke, still in the air, looking at Gaara within the poisonous gas as he threw two kunai.

"Is he really going to do that?" Ikua couldn't believe it, realizing now that the gas was also flammable. The moment the two kunai collided within the gas, generating a spark, everything lit up, and an enormous explosion erupted throughout the gas in the air. It was almost like the Sarutobi Clan's gunpowder technique, where they launched a cloud of powder before igniting it to destroy everything.

Everyone had to protect themselves immediately from the explosion that erupted in that area. It didn't expand much beyond where the gas was, but it kept burning for a while with multiple explosions, while everyone screamed in fear around the area, startled by the light and explosive sound.

"Gaara!" Kankuro couldn't believe what he was seeing, while his brother stood in the midst of the acidic and fiery area, wondering if he would be okay.

"This is bad..." Temari spoke, already knowing that ninjas were coming to the area. They couldn't handle both adults and an out-of-control Gaara now... things would get ugly for them.

The explosions continued as Sora and Karin arrived, looking at the Suna ninjas on one side along with the Konoha ninjas, their allies, and the Kiri ninjas on the other, in the middle of it all, a massive explosion, with a Kiri ninja looking satisfied, clearly the one responsible for it.

As soon as the explosion ended, the entire area had turned into a huge crater, while there was still a charred shell with dust smoke dissipating quickly, part of it missing.

"He managed to protect himself, but that wasn't easy to handle..." Temari murmured, watching Gaara begin to emerge.

He started to exit the shell. He was unscathed, but his gaze was filled with rage, as if infuriated, his breathing now heavy, no longer calm since he had to put in some effort to maintain his defense against the constant explosions.

"I'm going to kill him!" Gaara murmured in an even darker tone.

While his opponent looked at him calmly, with no fear, Iryn simply stared back with a challenging expression. "Let's see if you can deal with this." He began making hand seals, and Gaara used even the sand from the ground around him, extracting it to advance against Iryn with a far greater amount than before.

Both were ready to take the fight to a higher level, but suddenly, both ninjas were caught off guard by chains emerging from beneath them, binding them. Gaara looked to the side and saw a red-haired woman with chains extending from her back, driving into the ground and catching them by surprise.

"Are you insane, fighting here?!" Sora exclaimed in fury. At that moment, several ninjas began to appear, landing on the surrounding rooftops, as all the commotion had drawn attention.

"What's going on here?" A Leaf Village jonin immediately asked, seeing that both were fighting, but wanting to understand the reason behind it.

"I just arrived. These two were fighting, in a very unsubtle battle. I just restrained them." Sora informed, and the jonins nodded, trusting her words, since she was the Hokage's daughter.

"Kiri and Suna ninjas, you are not in your own villages to think you can cause fights in the middle of Konoha's streets!" Another jonin spoke, enraged at the situation.

"I knew this would happen..." Temari murmured, affirming her fears. After all, they had a mission there and couldn't fail, but Gaara wasn't helping at all.

"GAARA!" Baki appeared at that moment. As the jonin responsible for the team of Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro, he had to demand an explanation. He came to see the commotion and was quite disturbed to find out that Gaara was already causing trouble even before the Chuunin Exams.

Gaara tried to move but couldn't, the adamantine chains pinning him down. He looked at Sora with a deadly gaze, but she held her stare, fearless. She could understand a bit of his fury against everyone, being a jinchuuriki herself, but it didn't matter now—she had her village to protect.

"I'll release you, but if you try anything... well, you're surrounded by Konoha ninjas. Understood?" she said, expecting the jonins to handle the situation. She had already done her part.

Both Iryn and Gaara were freed in the next moment, the chains returning to the ground before retracting to Sora's back.

"Man, that was certainly surprising..." Iryn murmured, a bit taken aback by being caught like that by the girl, blaming himself more than being angry at the redhead for not paying attention to his surroundings.

Gaara, on the other hand, just shot a deadly glare, but Baki appeared right in front of him. "Gaara, I won't say this twice. Forget about this, let's return to the apartment, save your fights for the Chuunin Exam, understood?" he said, leaving no room for negotiation.

Gaara didn't respond, only growled, but turned his back and started walking out of the crater, passing by the Konoha genins. Even his siblings followed closely behind after Baki nodded for them to take care of their older brother, despite the fear they felt for Gaara.

The Konoha ninjas landed on the street at this point, while Baki sighed, knowing he had to provide explanations to the Konoha jonins and promise that it wouldn't happen again.

"And you, where is your jonin in charge?" Another jonin approached the Kiri ninjas, who were in a complicated situation, not having their sensei there.

"Seems like you managed to calm this mess down..." Karin murmured to Sora, who sighed, as she had finally found the ninjas she was looking for but couldn't ask for information since they were approached by the jonins and would be taken somewhere.

In the end, she approached Kakashi's team, who were there, along with the Third Hokage's grandson and his friends, to ask for information before being able to approach them—she was curious about how it all started.