Death Battle: Gaara vs Elsa

Gaara had thought it was just going to be a normal day. He was sitting at his desk, doing all the paperwork that came with being Kazekage, when his brother, Kankuro, burst in, an urgent expression on ihs face.

"Gaara! We've got big trouble!" Kankuro said.

"What is it, Kankuro?" Gaara asked cooly, looking up from his paperwork. Kankuro slammed a sheet of paper down on the Kazekage's desk. Gaara raised a brow, then picked it up and read it over.

To: the Kazekage

We wish to inform you that you are in direct violation of the peace treaty you signed with Arendelle. A man from your village has made an attempt on the princess, Anna's, life. Our soldiers were able to detain him, but Anna has been critically injured as a result. Our queen, Elsa, is on her way to your village. Choose your words wisely when talking to her, else it results in war.

Arendelle's Court of Justice

Gaara's eyes narrowed at the letter. So one of his people had been foolish enough to attack a country they had been at peace with for three years, and attempt to murder their princess? Wordlessly, the redhead rose from his seat.

"Kankuro. I must meet up with Elsa. It is my duty to make sure that this does not lead to war."

"Right." Kankuro nodded. "But be careful, Gaara. I've heard Elsa's really powerful." Gaara smirked.

"So am I, dear brother." And without another word, he stepped out of the office.

In the desert...

Gaara had gotten five miles into the desert when he saw a carriage headed in his direction. He stopped, wondering if it belonged to the queen of Arendelle.

"STOP!"

The carriage drew to a halt, and out stepped a blonde woman wearing a blue dress. If looks could kill, Elsa would have won this battle instantly. Gaara retained his calm demeanour.

"Hello, Elsa. It's been a long time."

"Yes, I haven't seen you since we signed that peace treaty that you VIOLATED."

"I humbly ask for your forgiveness for that man's actions. I assure you, I had no prior knowledge on his attempt on your sister's life. My village is not your enemy, Elsa."

"Why should I believe you?!" Elsa shouted. "My baby sister is in critical condition, Gaara! She could die, and it's all the doing of a member of your village!" As Elsa spoke, snow began to swirl violently around her. Her carriage driver decided to get some distance, and return when it calmed down a bit.

Gaara's eyes widened. He had heard the tales of how the snow queen had nearly sent her kingdom into eternal winter. If her emotions got too out of control, the same would happen to the village of the sand!

"Elsa, please, calm down-"

"Calm down? CALM DOWN?! My sister could die, and you want me to CALM DOWN?!" Elsa sent Gaara her best glare, and shot a blast of ice his way. Gaara stared impassively as the ice dissipated against his natural sand shield.

"...I'm afraid you leave me no choice, Elsa..."

FIGHT!

Elsa was not to be deterred by her first attack failing, so she launched a series of sharp icicles at the sand ninja.

Gaara simply stood in one spot and allowed the icicles to connect, sand erupting around him each time one came too close, causing the icy spikes to shatter into crystal fragments.

As the bits of ice fell to the sand beneath his feet, Gaara created a large hand made from rock-hard sand, and sent it towards the snow queen, intent on grabbing her and holding her down.

With a quick flick of Elsa's wrist, the hand was frozen solid. After a few moments, the hand statue crumbled, falling to the ground uselessly. Elsa got an idea. Thinking quickly, she made a large fist of her own, made from the ice, and with a wide sweep of her arms, the icy fist launched itself at Gaara.

Gaara stared at the approaching projectile, unimpressed, then, with a few quick movements, the Kazekage near instantly created a large wall of sand in front of him. The fist shattered to bits after hitting the sand, and Elsa had to duck to avoid getting her skin pierced by the shards of ice that flew from the impact. When she stood tall once more, she heard a rumbling sound. Looking up, she saw Gaara's sand wall was about to come down on top of her.

Thinking quickly, the snow queen whipped her body around, thrusted both hands forward, and in a whisk of snow flurries, a large icy staircase was created. Without wasting a moment, the young woman sprinted up the stairs as fast as she could, the wave of sand trailing behind her, hot on her heels as she climbed up the flight of stairs, creating more steps as she went.

Gaara's eyes narrowed dangerously as his opponent avoided his sand wall. He focused on the stairs the snow queen was still on top of. The sand had long since stopped following her, and she was clearly planning to hit him with a ranged attack. Well, two could play at that game.

Elsa launched a series of rock-hard balls of hail down at the young ninja. Gaara didn't waver, and countered by launching a series of compacted balls of sand. The snowy and sandy projectiles collided in midair, shattering apart, causing snow and sand to rain down upon the desert floor.

A few of Gaara's bullets, however, had managed to get through to Elsa's staircase. Elsa stumbled as the projectiles knocked some sizeable holes in her stairs, and with a yelp, she pitched headfirst off of the stairs, and towards the sand below.

Thinking quickly, the snow queen threw her hands forward to create a large pile of soft, pillowy snow to cushion the fall. When she landed on the pile, she had found herself completely buried under the snowdrift.

Gaara approached the snow pile calmly. He would try to talk her down once more...

Suddenly, every ounce of snow the queen of Arendelle was under barreled straight into the sand ninja, who hadn't been expecting it. he grunted as the snow wave pushed him back across the desert sand. His own sand protected him from harm, but the force of the attack was enough to send him tumbling a few feet.

Gaara stood tall, and looked to see Elsa standing where there was previously a snow pile, her hand pointed forward and her eyes narrowed dangerously.

Elsa's dangerous glare turned into a surprised frown when she felt herself sinking. Looking down, she saw that the sand beneath her feet was slowly dragging her under. Her expression turned to one of fear as she looked at Gaara, who glared impassively. He let her sink to her waist, before stopping the process.

"...From your position, I can easily crush your lower body into dust." He explained calmly. "Now, I'm going to give you one last chance... Calm yourself, and we can talk this over."

Elsa glared at the sand ninja once more, and with a quick flick of her wrist, a large pillar of ice erupted from the sand beneath her feet, sending her skyward. Gaara scowled. She wasn't going without a fight...

Wordlessly, Gaara created his own pillar, this one of sand, and rose up to meet his opponent. The Kazekage and the queen stared each other down. Then, Gaara muttered "Sand Tsunami" under his breath. The sand from his gourd reacted...

In an instant, a massive wave of sand enveloped most of Elsa's pillar, kocking it over and staggering the queen. With a flex of concentration and imagination, another taller pillar came into existence nearby, a stairway leading to it.

Gaara sighed, then created a platform of sand beneath his feet and used it to fly after his opponent.

Elsa sighed in relief, having evaded the tsunami of sand, when her opponent floated up in front of her, his arms crossed. With a glare, she launched a blast of ice at the ninja.

Direct hit! Gaara's eyes widened in surprise as the ice collided with his chest. Without so much as a gasp, the Kazekage fell lifelessly to the earth below. Elsa was surprised...but delighted. She had avenged her sister! Looking down to see Gaara fall  she was surprised when rather than blood, Gaara fell aprt into sand. Was..he even human?

She had absolutely no more time to think when a rain of rock-hard sand cascaded down on top of her. She desperately created a shield of ice to defend herself, but the sand easily smashed right through.

How could this be happening?! Gaara was dead, wasn't he?!

"Fool..It was a sand clone." Gaara said calmly as he floated on his sand platform next to the ice shield. Elsa glared at her opponent...then screamed as the sand toppled her pillar. The large ice structure tipped over, causing her to fall on her seat. Just before she could fall off entirely, she created a large icy slide underneath her so she could get to safer ground.

Once her feet touched down into the sand, Elsa turned to Gaara, now feeling a sense of dread. He was powerful... That much was certain.

But she had an idea.

Thinking of every possible trap she could lay down, she made a few gestures of her arms...

Gaara raised his brow as icy walls suddenly surrounded him. He looked around at his surroundings. It seemed Elsa had created a labyrinth of ice for him to traverse. He looed up to see that she had failed to produce a roof. With a scoff, Gaara simply created a sand platform and floated out of the labyrinth.

He smirked. There was no way Elsa would predict a sand tsunami from where she was. The sand flowed from his gourd, and quickly compacted into the huge wave.

Elsa felt she was forgetting something as she stood in a small throne room she had made in the labyrinth. Her thoughts were interrupted by a low rumbling. She looked up with wide eyes at the huge sand wave.

She had forgotten Gaara could fly!

Elsa panicked. She had to get out of there! She wasn't ready to die! As Elsa's negative emotions of fear, anger and desperation reached their peak, so did her powers. With a point of her hand, a massive wave of ice engulfed the sand tsunami, encasing it in ice. Elsa looked up in surprise, before her eyes narrowed. She had to win. She HAD to!

Gaara cursed as the wind suddenly became bitter cold. Elsa's negative emotions had reached a boiling point, and she was about to freeze his village! He had to stop her!

He had no time to think as a massive blast of snow burst through the wall of the icy labyrinth. Gaara covered his eyes as the snow flowed in his direction, then scowled as his icy opponent stepped out.

Elsa looked around at all the snow that was rapidly covering the desert, and smirked. She had an advantage now! With a quick flex on concentration and movements of her arms, the snow began to take the forms of large monstrous snowmen. The snowy behemoths all turned their gaze to Gaara, and all at once, every one of them let out an ear-shattering roar.

Gaara remained unphased as the creatures all began moving rapidly towards him. Without so much as a blink, he formed another sand platform, and allowed it to carry him away. The monsters roared in anger and frustration and tried to jump up after him, but he was far too high up for their efforts to be effective in any way. Gaara looked over to see Elsa standing not too far from her creations, and smirked. She had turned all the snow she had covered the sand with into the beasts... And she had gotten far more relaxed with the beasts by her side, considerably weakening the storm... He could kill two birds with one stone.

He maneuvered his sand platform back to the ground in front of the beasts, and wasted no time as he pressed his hands against the sandy ground. The monsters moved to attack him...but they all began to wobble on their feet as the ground beneath them shook. The shockwave rippled through the ground...and the monsters crumbled away.

Elsa was nearby when the shockwave killed her monsters, and the effect was that she ended up staggering and falling flat on her back.

Gaara saw that his opportunity was "now."

Without missing a beat, Gaara maneuvered the sand around Elsa, causing it to constrict tightly around her legs. Elsa was having a full-blown panic attack by now. She couldn't die! Her kingdom...Anna needed her! In her moment of panic, she threw her hand forward, launching a blast of ice at Gaara.

This was the same attack that had so nearly killed off Elsa's beloved sister many years ago... If it made contact with Gaara, it would freeze him from the inside out, and he would remain a statue until a loved one came to find him.

Unfortunately for Elsa, the blast was not to hit the Kazekage. Instead, his sand shield shot up to protect him from a frozen fate, and his gaze hardened as the sand rapidly covered the struggling woman's body.

A blizzard whipped through the desert as Elsa thrashed violently against her earthly prison, to no avail. She shot Gaara one last desperate look.

The last thing she ever saw was Gaara's cold, unforgiving glare. Then, blackness.

Elsa let out a pained yell as she felt the sand compacting around her, slowly crushing her body. She screamed in agony, the sounds garbled by the blood she was coughing up, and then...it was all over.

SQUELCH

With a terrible sound, comparable to someone biting into an apple, Gaara knew he had won. He released the sand from around Elsa to see the remains.

All that was left of the beloved queen of Arendelle was an unrecognizeable pile of red paste, a few assorted body parts barely visible from within.

The blizzard that had been ravaging the desert almost instantly drew to a halt.

KO!

The heat of battle faded, and Gaara's eyes widened. What had he DONE?! Elsa was not an enemy...She was just a distraught woman upset over her sister...and Gaara had killed her in such a brutal grotesque fashion...

Looking down, his eyes squeezed shut, Gaara did what he felt was appropriate. He still had a little bit of jutsu left over... Using it, he moved some sand around Elsa's remains, and compacted it into a coffin. After that, he opened a hole around the coffin, leaving it deep underground. After filling in the hole, he compacted a small tombstone of sand over where the woman's remains were buried. Kneeling down, he scratched a few words into the tombstone.

Here lies Elsa, Queen of Arendelle. She loved her sister until the bitter end. </b>

The Kazekage stood tall and spent a few minutes standing over the snow queen's grave, then turned. He was going to inform Kankuro and Temari of the events that had transpired. Then, he was going to go to the Hidden Leaf Village and enlist Sakura's aid in healing Anna. Even if she would hate him after she found out what he'd done to her sister, he would save her. It was what Elsa would have wanted.

For the first time in forever, Gaara shed a tear for a fallen enemy.

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UniKitty: [Sniff] WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Gamer: Poor Elsa...

Blake: Yes... Unfortunately, raw power and imagination were her only true advantages. Gaara's physically stronger, and much more experienced. He's dealt with trained and highly disciplined warriors with little to no problem since he was five, while Elsa's first time dealing with assassins was as an adult, and even then she was nearly killed by a chandelier as a result.

Gamer: But wait, the frozen heart could have killed Gaara, right?

Blake: Yes, if it hit him...But with his natural sand barriers instinctively jumping in to protect him from harm, that's not likely.

Gamer: Yeah. That sand can keep up with Rock Lee, who can apparently move almost too fast for the human eye to see. Elsa's not fast enough to get through that.

Blake: The winner is Gaara.

UniKitty: Poor Elsa...

Gaara

+Physically stronger
+One hundred octillion times more experience
+Much more efficient means of defense
+Sand can easily break through any defenses Elsa may have
+MUCH more durable

Elsa

+More raw power
+More imaginative potential
-Little combat experience
-A few direct hits from Gaara would be more than enough to do her in
-Had no way of getting through Gaara's defense, or effectively defending against his attacks