NARUTO - EPISODE SEVENTY-FIVE: Assassin Of The Moonlit Night
What is it?
Naruto has saved the day! He doesn't want to fight Gaara. Sakura is taking care of the Sauce...but is he losing control again? Naruto wants to know who the hell that is. Pakkun tells him its Gaara. Oh right, he's a monster that killed his mother in child birth and does weird sand stuff. Sakura is going to retreat with Pakkun but the Sauce has other ideas. More Kakashi telling Sauce to absolutely, positively not use the Chidori a third time. Oh wait, we get a bit more of the talk. If he uses his Curse Seal he'll ruin his development and never, ever beat Itachi. Gaara recognizes Naruto...oh it's that guy I didn't kill that time. He skips over him and goes straight for Sasuke.
Sakura is LEGIT SHOOK!
She takes one for the team, reminding Gaara of his one and only friend, the kid who basically raised him. He sand sticks her to a tree with his fist, but she looks to be alive. Temari thinks she's crazy. Gaara is flipping out with more flashbacks. Sand prevents him from cutting himself. Yashamaru doesn't want him to cut himself...or fake cut himself. Sand is going to protect him no matter what. Oh, this is right after the incident with the girl and the ball. Gaara feels awful that he hurt his only friend...and wants to know what pain feels like. It's difficult...upsetting. It's hard to take. You don't feel normal. You want to avoid it. Gaara wants to know if Yashamaru likes him...and he gets an evasive answer. He doesn't hate him! That helps! He's got a bit of heart pain you see. He's always in pain. Yashamaru cuts his finger to show that blood stops and the pain eventually fades away. But heart wounds are hard to heal. No medicine for it and it doesn't always heal. But there is one cure. From another person. THE POWER OF LOVE BABY! It's already been given to you by your dead momma! Oh, Yashamaru is Gaara's uncle on his mother's side. The sand that protects you is your mother's love. Wow it looks like Gaara had a better childhood than Naruto.
Tastes like iron.
Back in real time, Gaara is flipping out while Team Seven watches. The endurance death race continues. Lots of soul ripping and old man bleeding. Orochimaru screaming. Might Guy and Kakashi clowning fools at the stadium. Guy has beaten twenty. Make that twenty-one. Kakashi is stabbed in the abdomen!!!
It's always wood.
Wait it's wood. Leaf Hurricane takes one more. He's winning 23-22! Gaara needs some medicine in his flashback. Brings some medicine to the kids he hurt.
Doesn't go well.
Oh its a full moon. A drunk stumbles into him...and that doesn't go well either. It's those eyes of pure loathing. His father looks at him with not much better eyes but he's over the killing and just feels unwanted. Laments being a freak. Double flashback. Love will find a way. Someone is throwing a bunch of kunai at him. He can't believe it. His sand stops it. Sand coffin explodes the masked ninja. His finger has a bandage.
You did well. What kind of fucked up last words are those? Back in real time Gaara wants to know why Naruto is still around. Who are these two to you in reference to Sauce and Sakura. They are his friends, aaah aah. Naruto tells Gaara not to lay a finger on them...and Sakura gets a bit sandier. Gaara wants someone to pulverize him and Naruto obliges.
BONUS:
Even more LEGIT SHOOK.