Shizune backed away from Garaa, who was releasing a powerful killer intent that nearly left Shizune paralyzed. The redheaded boy stood with his arms crossed, while his sand blew around him. His eyes narrowed on Shizune, drool running down from his mouth. He was so hungry and could no longer wait for Naruto. He had to feed now.

“Listen, Garaa,” Shizune said softly. Taking a tentative step towards the crazed boy, Shizune’s body trembled. She forced herself to look strait at his cold emotionless eyes. “You don’t want to eat me, I can help you. I don’t even really want to eat Naruto, I only want to improve the relations between our villages by offering you Naruto as a gift. You can trust me.”

She tried to make herself seem as calm and trustworthy as possible, never losing her friendly smile as she reached into her sleeve for her poison tipped blade. She had always planned to betray the mad boy, but had been waiting until Naruto was in their clutches. She could no longer put it off, Garaa had to die. She drew closer to him, his sand storm blew across her face. Never braking eye contact she plunged the blade strait into his chest.

“How do you like that! You crazy son of a…” Shizune trailed off. The blade wasn’t coming out and she could feel something spilling onto her hand that wasn’t blood. The expression on Garaa’s face didn’t change, even as she struck. She looked down and saw her hand had sunk into Garaa’s chest with the blade, going nearly strait through his chest. However, instead of connecting with flesh, Shizune was wrist deep in sand. She ripped her hand out, leaving a hole right through Garaa’s chest. Before Shizune’s eyes, Garaa’s face began to melt into sand, forming a pool around her feet. Staring dumbly at the remains of the sand clone, Shizune never saw what was heading for her until it was too late.

Taken completely by surprise, Shizune was lifted off the floor by a tentacle made of sand. It carried her across the room to a growing mound of sand that was coming in through the cracks in the floor. Features began to form in the sand taking on Garaa’s face. He smiled at her, but not in the good way. His smirk was that of a hawk before it swoops down to capture a mouse.

“Surprised aren’t you? Thought I was the same moody boy that you heard fought in the Chunin exam? Thought I only knew simple tricks that I use to brutalize and abuse? Thought I was still human?” He cackled, his voice so cold that it made every hair on Shizune’s body stand up. He was growing bigger. more sand was filling him making him grow with every grain. Right now, he was just a torso with a head sticking out from the top and tentacles coming out from the side. One of his tentacles came up to Shizune’s cheek, rubbing against her horrified face.

“W-w-w-h-h-at h-happened t-t-to you?” Shizune stuttered out. She tried to squirm, but the tentacle holding her was as string as stone. Maybe Tsunade could break the tentacles hold, but not her. Shizune was drawn closer to Garaa’s face. His sand eyes studied her closely.

“My sand digested my own body and I became one with it. I no longer have flesh that can bleed or feel pain, but I still hunger, oh how I hunger. I will eat Naruto, then I’ll eat those fools that hunt for him as well, then I’ll eat the village and finally I’ll eat the world. But first, I eat you.” His mouth widened, growing unfeasibly wide. The inside f his mouth looked normal, except made of sand, but his throat opened up into a whirlpool of sand that would draw Shizune into his body. Garaa started to lower her in.

“Please don’t, I don’t want to be eaten. Eat someone else! Eat Naruto! Eat Lady Tsunade! Just don’t eat me!” Garaa never pauses, he continues lowering her into his mouth constructed of sand. Shizune’s feet kick against his tongue, pushing against the springy sand that makes up the fake muscle. The tentacle lets go and Shizune falls head first towards the makeshift gullet. The sand drags her towards the vortex of sand like a conveyer belt. Face first she’s drawn in, her legs kicking as she’s swallowed deep into the sand. Shizune vanishes into Garaa’s sandy body, a bulge marking her place in the grainy torso of the beast. His blob like form slithers towards the window to look out upon the village.

“I hunger,” he hisses. Soon he will find Naruto, his friend, holder of the nine-tailed fox, and the one person to show him a world without pain, and he would eat him and anything or anyone that got in his way.
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