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A Sand Tomb For A Taijutsu Master

And now it was time for shitshow bloody match number 2. Well, not really, there was Chōji's match against Shigeri Miyato, but it ended quickly, Chōji won, so oh well. People were a bit distracted, because it was obvious who the last match of the day was gonna be. 

Rock Lee vs Gaara

Gaara already made his way to the arena and told Lee to hurry up, but Lee waited until the screen officially named the match. Once it did Naruto and Sakura gave their encouragements and Lee jumped down the platform to face Gaara. It started with a bit of taijutsu, mostly Lee trying to punch at Gaara's sand wall and doing almost nothing. Gaara also started the counterattack and send waves of sand at Lee that he flawlessly dodged. He dodged and dodged and dodged until he reached the Hokage's platform when he jumped on the statue. Once he was there, Guy-sensei allowed him to take off his weights. And he did so with a bang, once the weights reached the ground they created 2 mini craters and clouds of dust. Everyone was shocked into silence.

Sakura whistled at the small display of power which seemed to shake everyone out of their surprised silence. Sasuke looked weirdly at her.

"What?" she said. "It was impressive." He just shook his head.

After this Lee became a lot faster, every punch and kick he threw almost managing to hit Gaara. The poor Sand shinobi was confused as this flurry of of kicks and punches kept on breaching his defenses. Eventually, Lee got behind Gaara and landed a spectacular punch on him that knocked him down a few meters. However this proved to be slightly futile as Gaara introduced everyone to his ultimate defense Suna no Yoroi. Gaara covered his body in a layer of sand, wearing it like armour. Although it defends him from attacks that bypass his Shield of Sand, maintaining it consumes a great deal of chakra. 

At this Lee decided pull out his own secret card and started to unravel his bandages in order to perform Front Lotus. If Lee wasn't considered fast before, now he definitely was. The genin became a blur as he circled Gaara and gained more speed. Then he kicked Gaara higher and higher in the air up until his sand shield couldn't keep up with the speed. At peak height he wrapped Gaara in bandages, flipped him upside down and corkscrewed the both of them towards the ground. Everyone thought Lee won as they watched the shocked figure of Gaara lay motionless on the cracked ground. That is until it started cracking apart and everyone realized it was all sand. 

Then Gaara emerged from behind looking pissed and started pummeling Lee with sand waves. Guy explained that the lotus was very strenuous on the body and that Lee could not move. Yet it seemed that Lee wanted to prove everyone wrong as he started yet again dodgin Gaara's sand. Gaara gained a maniac and licked his lips as he managed to catch Lee again and toyed with him again as waves over waves of sand hit Lee head on. And just when all hope was lost, Lee's movement officially returned and his body became red as he opened the third gate, The Gate of Life. And then the fourth gate, The Gate of Pain. Once he did that, he became even faster as he kicked Gaara and managed to completely destroy the arena. Everyone was looking around confused as they couldn't see anymore until Shikamaru pointed them above, where Gaara was shown ascending with his sand following close behind as it couldn't keep up with the speed. Lee realised that Gaara was using the sand armor trick again as he flashed in front of the sand shinobi and started kicking him yet again. He used pure speed to jump around and in the air and kick Gaara with unmeasurable power and speed. He was like a tennis ball bouncing around and Lee was the walls that kept throwing him around. It was madness. Kakashi and Sasuke had their Sharingans open and Neji had his Byakugan open as well, they were probably the only ones that could keep up and see what was happening. Then Lee opened gate of The Gate of Closing, caught a piece of Gaara's clothing and used it to maximize the power of the finishing blow. However, just as they were descending, the gourd turned to sand which was then used to cushion Gaara's fall.