Gaara of the Sand:
Gaara is the son of the Fourth Kazekage and the brother of Temari and Kankuro, his older siblings. As a child, the One-Tailed Shukaku was sealed within Gaara during birth on the order of his father. This was done with a possession jutsu by one of Sunagakure's elders, a woman named Chiyo. Because a sacrifice was needed, Gaara's mother, Karura, was used. Before she died, Karura cursed Sunagakure, hoping Gaara would avenge her death.
The reason Gaara's own father inflicted such a fate on him was due to the country's feudal lord slowly weakening the village, minimizing their ability to defend themselves. The feudal lord even began offering jobs to other hidden villages rather than his own. Seeing what was happening to his village, the Fourth Kazekage realized that their ninja would have to be of much higher quality than ordinary ninja to compete, and Gaara was to be their ultimate weapon.
His entire village hated and feared him for the awful power of the spirit sealed within his body; his own father, before later realizing that Gaara could be an effective tool, wanted him dead. As a result, Gaara became emotionally withdrawn, all but silent, and consumed with a bitter loathing for everyone but himself. He learned to find pleasure and eventually a reason to live in annihilating the numerous assassins sent to kill him – and by extension, anyone who threatened his existence. His insomnia, forced upon him by the fact that the demon inside him would eat away at his personality if he were to fall asleep, made Gaara further unstable.
Gaara's childhood was somewhat similar to Naruto's, albeit more unfortunate due to his lack of anyone to call a friend. Both were lonely and desired to be liked, loved, and acknowledged as an individual, free of others' prejudices — they are themselves, not the demons they were forced to "contain" — and both were driven into a desperate state. While Naruto consequently developed the misconception that pranks and mischief would bring him the attention (more precisely: recognition) he sought, Gaara came to the conclusion that he could preserve and confirm his own existence by killing any and all who challenged it, securing an extreme form of existentialism as his key personality trait. In the absence of others' acknowledgment, he could compensate by valuing only himself to the exclusion of everyone else. Furthermore, while Naruto eventually had Iruka and Team 7 to acknowledge him, Gaara never had anyone to bond with and did not understand the concept of fighting for anything other than himself until his confrontation with Naruto.
Beforehand, both boys tried to gain positive attention by being cheerful (in Naruto's case, overly so), kind, and caring, and both had little success. On one occasion, Gaara used his powers to retrieve a ball for a group of children playing nearby, but the children ran from him. Not wanting to be alone, Gaara pleaded for the children to stay behind, which his sand acted on by grabbing them. In his anger at their cries for help, Gaara almost kills a few of them, only to be stopped by Yashamaru. Later, Gaara brought medicated ointment to the house of the girl whose wounds were the worst, but she slammed the door in his face, calling him a monster.
Six-year-old Gaara with his uncle, Yashamaru.Gaara was trained by his father, but raised mainly by his caring Uncle Yashamaru. Being host to Shukaku gave Gaara almost instinctive control over sand. In addition, the sand itself guarded him, making Gaara a near-impossible person to touch. For six years, everyone in the village feared Gaara, with the exception of Yashamaru. For a time, it seemed as if Yashamaru was the only person who cared for Gaara (not unlike the relationship between Naruto and Iruka, though their relationship was more successful). Gaara's attempts to fit in often led to disaster, leading his father to begin ordering assassination attempts. Gaara had become, in the Kazekage's eyes, a failed experiment and too much of a threat to the other villagers to be allowed to live. Eventually, after quite a few failed attempts, the Kazekage ordered Yashamaru to kill him. Gaara mortally wounded the assassin before he knew it was Yashamaru. Saddened by the unfortunate incident, Gaara tried to apologize and ran next to Yashamaru. Yashamaru then revealed to Gaara that he never loved him. In fact, despite trying to love him, Yashamaru always resented Gaara for taking the life of his beloved sister, who was Gaara's mother. Yashamaru also revealed the source of Gaara's name (Ware wo ai suru shura, "a self-loving carnage"). Before Yashamaru died, he opened his vest to reveal explosive notes, and gave his final words: "Please die." Gaara survived yet again, protected by the sand.
According to Yashamaru, Gaara's mother had resented the village for using her and her son as a sacrifice and a weapon, respectively, and cursed Gaara for putting her in so much pain. After realizing that nobody loved him, Gaara used his sand to create the kanji on his forehead (愛, "Love") as a symbol of a "demon loving only himself." This is the only time where his sand shield doesn't prevent injury. For the next six years, Gaara would be the victim of almost constant assassination attempts, all ordered by his father.
As the host of Shukaku, Gaara has the ability to manipulate sand at will. The sand also protects him from harm automatically, regardless of his will. Gaara is never seen using taijutsu in the series, and rarely moves during any of his battles. This, however, does not mean he is incapable of it, though he only physically attacks someone twice throughout the entire series. In the first instance, he smacks Temari away as she tries to convince him to run. Though a minimal exhibition of skill, he does hit her with an inhuman amount of strength. The extreme strength may have been because the Shukaku was rising within him at the time. The second time is at the end of his battle with Naruto when both fighters attempt to punch the other one last time. Gaara is struck first.
Gaara always carries a gourd on his back filled with an abundant amount of sand. The sand is soaked in the blood of those he has killed and is further enhanced with his chakra. The gourd itself is also made from that sand. Although Gaara can control any sand, and can even make sand himself by using his sand to break apart minerals in the ground, his personal sand is much easier to control. With this sand, not only does Gaara always have his own sand supply, but his attacks also increase in both speed and power.
Gaara's jutsu are all sand-based and, although mostly used for simple offense and defense, can be used for a variety of purposes, including floating in the air (Desert Suspension) and spying (Third Eye). While fighting, Gaara often uses a combination of Desert Coffin followed by Desert Funeral to capture and subsequently kill his opponents. Although most of his attacks are small-scale, Gaara can wreak havoc with his Quicksand in the Style of a Waterfall followed by Desert Imperial Funeral. Gaara could potentially kill an entire army single-handedly with this attack, as it is capable of leveling an entire forest.
Gaara's main defense is his Shield of Sand. This shield protects Gaara from all harm, even against his will, but can still be defeated with enough speed and strength (as demonstrated first by Rock Lee and again by Sasuke Uchiha). If his Shield of Sand fails, Gaara still has his Armor of Sand. This is a layer of highly compacted sand that is wrapped around Gaara's body. Although it gives Gaara an almost ultimate defense, it takes a large toll on Gaara's chakra and his stamina. Instead of using this, Gaara can create a (nearly) impenetrable sphere of sand for an alternative absolute defense, providing a stronger defense that uses less chakra, but confines Gaara to the location of the sphere. The sphere grows spikes to impale anyone who approaches.
Gaara transforming into his human-sized Shukaku form.In desperate situations, Gaara can actually take on the form of the Shukaku, making him many times more powerful than he already is. He does this by layering sand on his body to take the shape of Shukaku. His sphere of sand is used in conjunction with this so he won't be interrupted. Shukaku's personality grows more dominant during this transformation, making Gaara even more homicidal than normal. The process seems to take quite a while, even without interruption. Once finished, Gaara assumes a human-sized version of Shukaku's form. Gaara can also create a life-sized version of Shukaku if his human-sized form doesn't work. He remains connected to the Shukaku copy, with his entire lower body sunken into its forehead. Strangely, this version of Shukaku can be created almost instantly, despite being of slightly greater size than Gamabunta. Temari describes it as Gaara's perfect form. Finally, Gaara can unleash the spirit of Shukaku through his Feigning Sleep Technique, allowing the copy to operate at its full potential. Shukaku's body with its spirit dominant is shown to be extremely powerful, and it took the combined effort of Gamabunta and Naruto to get close to Shukaku and wake Gaara, thus suppressing Shukaku's spirit once more.
2006-11-07 14:41:00
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answered by bunnygirlgreen 3
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gaara's awesome
see when he was a lil kid, his village despised him cause he had a demon on him (like naruto). Many ppl tried to kill him but all failed because the sand protects him. it's supposedly his mother who died after gaara was born, protecting him. One day his uncle was ordered to kill gaara but instead, gaara killed HIM. After that the kanji "love" appeared on his forehead. He has siblings, Temari and Kankuro.
later on in the chuunin exam, he horribly beats lee, and later he fights sasuke, and then he fights naruto and naruto beats him. During the battle, naruto realizes more about himself and gaara's pain from being unloved and lonely.
Gaara eventually becomes a good guy when he helps lee fight kimimaro.
around like 2 and a half yrs. later Gaara is the Kazekage, and he is such a changed person. but members of the akatsuki come and invade the land of wind, and gaara fights back, protecting his people. but he is killed by one of te akatsuki before naruto can arrive to asve him. but the one who put the curse on gaara gives her life up to gaara,and gaara comes back to life, and he becomes good friends with naruto.
well that's what I know as of now. i hope this info helped ^_^
2006-11-07 20:35:47
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answered by OrebS 1
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The symbol on his forehead is kanji for "love". He only had one relative that still loved him. But that turned out that they were trying to kill him as well as many others that feared what he has been gifted with. His demon takes advantage of his lonliness and Sadness. From the looks of it after Naruto defeated him. It weakened the demon down enough for Gaara to achieve a little bit of confidence.
His fight against Rock Lee was a big surprise for me which gave me respect for Rock Lee and a hateness for Gaara until later on when he helps Rock Lee in a fight against one of Orochimaru's prodigys.
2006-11-07 18:25:32
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answered by Crow T Robot 4
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Gaara - Red hair guy uses sand techniques. More like Naruto but the opposite personality. His papa was the Kazekaga killed him and his uncle. Born as the One tail Sabakuka something like that. Has two siblings Temari and Kankuro. Becomes Naruto's friend and becomes Kazekage. Kidnap by Akatsuki and Died but came back to life, and continue his duty as kazekage. There you go i think thats aout it! yup
2006-11-08 03:43:05
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answered by Crazychick 3
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He has a demon called the Shukaku living inside of him, which protects him from all harm. The only time the sand ever allowed him to be hurt was when he got the kanji for 'love' on his forehead, which he got after accidentally killing his very feminine uncle. Assassins have tried to kill him from the age of six. Kankurou and Temari are his siblings. He suffers from insomnia (thus the dark shadows around his eyes) because if he sleeps the Shukaku can take over.
That's a quick list, I hope it helps.
2006-11-07 20:12:52
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answered by Needanswers 2
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he is From the Sand Village,He has a sister and Brother Kankuro and Tamari,He is The Son of a Kazekage,He is the Youngest of the Three,His Mother died giving birth to him,His Uncle Finally Takeing care of him told him he Never loved,He is Has A Beast Within Is body,and other details. try Wikipedia and search Gaara of the desert
2006-11-07 19:25:22
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answered by Anonymous
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hes the ninji that control sand, he have a racoon demon inside him that awaken when he goes to sleep. like i said, he control sand, and the sand, (which have something to do with his mother) protect him dispite his will. the symbol on his head is the symbol for love, and was abused as a child because everyone was afraid of his power. he is the youngest in his family, and was raised to becoming unstopable in order to restore power to their village. they live in the hidden sand village, (the wind country)
2006-11-07 18:16:11
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answered by jdak34 3
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okay... its been awhile, uh, this lady took him in, and she pretended to love him. something happened and that caused gaara to go haywire and he killed someone. the chick who said she loved gaara, said stuff like"i hate you" and etc. and then i think gaara killed her. its really sad, you can probably look it up on line, when i watched it, i think i cried...
idiot_of_the_world
2006-11-07 19:02:02
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answered by idiot_of_the_world 1
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He has a demon inside him. that is why he doesn't sleep. his father put sand on him as a baby to protect. He was shuned as a child, therefore had no friends.
2006-11-07 18:09:31
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answered by Kitty 2
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u can find out all the info about gaara at these sites
http://www.leafninja.com/biographies-G.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaara
http://narutofever.com/naruto-characters/gaara.php
http://www.narutofan.com/index.php/content-character%20biographies,g
http://www.naruto-kun.com/naruto+characters/gaara+of+the+desert.html
2006-11-07 18:53:40
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answered by ♥Sarisa♥ 4
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I heard that he controlls sand, has no friends, is a loner, and is lethal.
2006-11-07 19:40:12
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answered by Anonymous
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