Gaaras perfect defense and Narutos struggle

As soon as the proctor called the start of the match, Naruto began to charge Gaara, not wanting to waste time in getting the first punch in. 'Hang on Temari-chan, I'll save you, I promise!', Naruto thought as he glanced at the blond Kunoichi held against the wall of the stadium before looking back at Gaara again. "Let's go, you bastard!", Naruto yelled as he pressed the attack.

Up in the stands no one could believe the fight before them. "How can Gaara do that to his own sister?", Kiba yelled as Lee shouted out "It is a most unyouthful way of fighting! What honor is there in such actions?!". Shikamaru however was looking at it more from an objective point of view. 'Well now, this is troublesome. Naruto is **** into this fight and I doubt Gaara's going to let him give up if it gets too bad for Naruto.", Shikamaru thought as he watched Naruto trying to cut through the sand with his kunai only for it to prove ineffective.

Gaaras sand grabbed Naruto and tossed him backwards as it seemed intent on crushing him against the arena floor. Naruto however quickly jumped back on his hands soon as he landed, just barely avoiding the attack Gaara unleashed as the sand smashed into the arena floor. "Damn it!", Naruto cursed as he avoided some sand shurikens as he thought out his strategy.

'Sasuke showed that normal jutsu won't work on him and I can't match Lee's speed to get a good hit in. And it's way too early to show my trump card.', Naruto thought before nodding to himself as he made a familiar cross hand sign.

"Time to show you why numbers matter!", Naruto yelled before calling out his jutsu, and then the entire field was filled with smoke. No one moved an inch in their seats, wondering what Naruto had done. Then the smoke cleared and it revealed quite the sight.

Naruto clones filled the arena, the field, the trees, even along the walls of the stadium as they all gave confident looks to Gaara and in a single voice, they yelled "Let's see you handle this!", and then they charged the redheaded Suna ninja.

Gaara was taken aback by how many clones were created. It seemed like an endless sea of Narutos were upon him as his sand reacted, blocking the attacks of the Naruto doppelgangers as they punched, kicked even headbutted the sand.

"Heh, can't say I have seen a Jounin make that many shadow clones before, let alone a Chunnin or Gennin.", the judge said with a smirk. "Yeah his chakra's unreal! To be able to do something like this...", the other agreed with his own grin.

Gaaras sand was protecting him well, it intercepted all of the clones attacks but even Gaara could tell they were inching closer, for as soon as one clone had attacked, another took its place, pushing the sand back to the one who wielded it. Gaaras inner demon was coming out more as Gaara was being pushed further and further by the blond shinobi.

'I know, I'll give him to you soon. You'll get a lot of very special blood today, I want to enjoy it, just a bit longer!', Gaara whispered to himself. He felt the demon rising inside him, thirsting for bloodshed and mayhem. Gaara made hand sign of his own and instantly the Naruto clones were thrown over the field, a few popping out of existance as they hit the ground hard, and then one of the strangest thing Naruto had even seen before happened.

Gaara was surrounded by a ball of sand, a perfect orb protecting Gaara on all sides as the whole crowd watched on. 'How does he breathe inside that thing?', Naruto though, wondering what kind of jutsu it was. He could tell just from looking at it that it was a defensive jutsu, but Naruto found it odd that after all he had said, Gaara was suddenly trying to protect himself.

"There has to be more to this jutsu then what it looks like!", Naruto said to himself as he looked up and saw the second freakiest thing he had this entire match. An eyeball made of sand appeared over the ball and was looking right at him, watching him. "Oh yeah, definitely more to this then what it looks like!", Naruto muttered as he thought it over.

"I can't believe Gaaras resorted to that jutsu... this is bad!", Kankuro muttered as he looked down at the stadium floor. He knew things were getting there for Gaaras inner demon to come out if he was using this jutsu already. "Damn it Temari, why didn't you listen to me?", Kankuro asked himself as he looked at his sister, still passed out and trapped to the wall.

"Oh man, this is looking bad.", Kiba muttered, voicing everyones thoughts. "It was hard enough to fight him when he was just using the sand to intercept what came at him. But now he's holed up in that thing and who knows what he can do with that freaky eye thing?", Choji added as the crowd watched tensely. Even Sarutobi was wondering how Naruto was going to handel this one.

"Can't just charge it.", Naruto said as he looked at two clones. "Let's see what this thing can do!", he yelled and the two clones nodded as they ran right at Gaaras defense. Just as they were about to hit it though, spikes suddenly shot ot of the orb, impailing the two clones before the puffed out of existance. "Okay... that's new.", Naruto muttered with a grin.

"Well now, that was interesting. Sending clones of himself to test the jutsu before he attacks himself.", the judge said with a bit of amusement as the other wrote down his own thoughts. "Shows that he knows when to plan ahead. If he had charged right in, we would be down one ninja by now.".

Naruto stood in thought. He needed to do something quick, every second that passed was putting Temari in danger and giving time for Gaara to do something even stranger and deadlier.

Naruto thought of a few ideas trying to think of a way to get past this sand and to Gaara and it seemed there was only one option left. Naruto nodded as he grinned, knowing a way to break through Gaaras perfect defense.