Naruto Shippuuden Episode 27

[masamuneehs]

Gaara should stay dead. I'm getting real sick of them using some crazy Medical Deus ex Machina no Jutsu to keep any protagonist under the age of 60 alive after what is surely a fatal fight...

I don't care if he's Bijuu Butt Buddies with Naruto, bringing him back would just deflate what little drama this arc has had so far outside of three or so decently animated fight sequences.

Besides, Chiyo already used a bit of her life to save Sakura. Sakura wasn't fully dead, but Chiyo giving her her life energy to prevent her from dying shouldn't leave her with enough energy to bring Gaara fully back. He'd be like a zombie or need to sleep twelve hours a day with not a full energy tank... I can't imagine that Chiyo's wrinkly old body has enough life in it for two young people... If she does bring Gaara back, I'd like to see him just drop dead a year or two later, and people be like, "Yeah, he had half of a 90+ year old woman as his life energy, what did you expect?"

but then again... it does sound perfectly akin to some of the lame stuff they tend to throw into shounen series...

[Assertn]

Gaara should not be able to control sand without shukaku, otherwise other sand ninja would be doing it. Also, it was stated (although subtly), earlier in the Sasori fight that the 3rd Kazekage's iron sand attacks were imitated off of a previous shukaku jinchuurriki, which suggests that sand control has always been a unique ability passed between that line of jinchuurriki.

At the very least, he definitely should not have the automatic self-defense.

[Munsu]

Well it's not like he controled sand, he controled the sand that was mixed with the jinchuuriki... it was pretty much a part of him. That's not to say that they won't have jutsus that use sand, but it's like he'd be able to control sand like we've seen him. We'll probably see him control sand much like someone from the rain village controls water and how the Uchija has their Katon jutsus. Not a given, but there's surely a way.

But as Assertn said, he wont have the automatic self-defense. That sand had a mind of its own because of the demon. The real question is, how strong or weak will he be, and if he'd still be considered Kazekage with the current strength he'd have.

[DarthEnderX]

Gaara should not be able to control sand without shukaku, otherwise other sand ninja would be doing it.

That doesn't quite make sense. I mean, Konoha is the Leaf village and how many ninjas have we seen using leaf-related techniques.


I suspect that Gaara is going to suck for a long time. Then there will be a time skip, and after that skip Gaara will be a badass again. Maybe a badass with different powers. Maybe not. I mean, who's to say Gaara didn't learn something from Shukaku while being bonded with him his whole life. I mean, just because he never had to control sand himself doesn't mean that he didn't learn how. He'd just have to do it with alot less chakra now.

[Assertn]

That doesn't quite make sense. I mean, Konoha is the Leaf village and how many ninjas have we seen using leaf-related techniques.

Hardly any...actually...
Even as far as jutsus that involve trees, wood, plants, etc...only the 1st hokage has ever known such techniques.

Unless you count lee's spinning kick as a leaf-related technique.


People from Gaara's village would run in fear of Gaara's sand, as it stretches out to consume them. I haven't seen a single offensive or defensive sand jutsu that wasn't performed by Gaara.

[DarthEnderX]

Hardly any...actually...
Even as far as jutsus that involve trees, wood, plants, etc...only the 1st hokage has ever known such techniques.

Wait, thats what I was trying to say.

I think I was agreeing while actually sounding like I was dissagreeing.

What I was saying was that, only a couple of people in Konoha have any "leaf" skills. The whole village doesn't practice them just because it's the leaf village. Similarly, they live in the Country of Fire and only like Sasuke and Kakashi ever use Fire attacks.

While on the other hand, you have the Sand village in the Country of Wind. I was dissagreeing with the idea that if someone could do sand attacks without Shukaku that everyone in the village would use sand attacks. But that's not the case. I mean, we've only ever seen 3 Sand ninjas in battle, and the other two are specialists in other things, a puppet master and a wind attack master.

I'm saying there are probably plenty of Sand ninjas that know sand attacks, we just haven't seen them because we've only seen a couple Sand ninjas ever.

[Buffalobiian]

Only ever seen one sand technique that's not Gaara's:

Sasori's Sand clone to evade Kankuro's Black Secret Technique

[DarthEnderX]

I seem to recall Garaa's teacher using some technique to kill the coughing guy...but I can't remember what it was now.

EDIT: Nevermind, that was a wind thing.