Gaara quotes from Naruto

Gaara

You're a disgrace to your village.

Gaara

If you get in my way I'll kill you.

Gaara

Its so warm and wet... Mother, what is it...? BLOOD! IT'S MY BLOOD!

Gaara

Leave me alone, Temari. Go away. You're nothing but a nuisance. Beat it! [Smacks her into a faraway tree] I don't need you.

Gaara

I am Gaara of the Desert, wherever there's rock, wherever there's Earth, I can make more sand.

Gaara

Bitter crimson tears flow from lifeless eyes, and mingle with the endless sands... Bestowing ever greater power upon the demon god.

Gaara

Is that all you've got? Let me feel it a little more... There isn't enough... blood!

Gaara

A battle is a gamble where one pits one's existence against another's and you try to kill each other... and where only the victor gets to savor the worth of his existence.

Gaara

They looked at me the wrong way, so they're going to die.

Kankuro

This is exactly why I didn't want to be stuck in the forest with him.

If you think you can kill us, then try it. [throws umbrellas into the sky] And now, ninja art, senbon rainstorm! [the umbrellas rain needles]

Hinata

A rainstorm of needles!

Up down left right... no matter where you go I can get you. There's no blind spots in this jutsu and it's deadly accurate. Child's play.

Gaara

Is that all you can do?

It can't be. Not one wound. Impossible! All right. [tries again but fails]

Gaara

A senbon rainstorm huh? I have an idea, let's make it rain blood instead.

Gaara

A demon huh? My demon is as real as yours is. From my birth, my upbringing was not what most people would consider a happy one. To ensure that I became the strongest of Shinobi, my father had cast his ninjutsu on me, infusing my unborn self with the sand spirit. I destroyed the life of the woman who had given birth to me. I was born a monster. Its name is Shukaku and it's the living incarnation of an old monk of the Sand Village who'd been sealed up in a jar of tea.

Shikamaru

Yeah some kind of demonic jutsu. But to use it on a baby before it's even born? Man that's creepy.

Naruto

Could it be true? He's got one inside of him too?

Shikamaru

[sarcastically] Gee what a swell guy your dad must've been. He really must have loved you a lot.

Gaara

You speak of love? Don't measure me by your standards. Love. Family. The only emotional ties I have to my family are the ones I'd like to wrap around their necks. They're only ties of hate. Given life by the death of my mother, I was brought into being and nurtured as the salvation of the village. I was the Kazekage child. My father taught me the innermost secrets of the Shinobi. He pampered and protected me and left me to myself. For a time I thought that was love. And that was when everything started.

Shikamaru

When what started?

Naruto

What was it? Are you gonna tell us or not? So go on. What started? What was it?

Gaara

In the 6 years since I became 6 years old, my father tried to destroy me more times than I can count. [they shudder]

Shikamaru

You just finished saying how your father pampered and protected you. So which is it?

Gaara

Those who get to be too strong are apt to become feared. The jutsu that gave me birth had unbalanced something in my mind. Even the fools in my village finally realized I had emotional problems. My father the Kazekage had created me as his ultimate weapon. But I eventually became a threat to the very village I was meant to save. By the time I was 6, I became a figure of terror to the villagers. To them I was a relic of the past that they wished would disappear. So you see, I had failed at the one purpose for which I was given life. What then was left for me in this existence? Why go on living? For a long time I couldn't find an answer to that. But in order to live you need a purpose. To exist for no reason is the same as being dead.

Shikamaru

What is this guy talking about?

Naruto

I know just what he means exactly. He's... he's the same as me.

Gaara

Then in time the answer came to me. To put it simply my reason for living is in the killing of others. For years I lived in fear of those who were sent to murder me, but now I am at peace. I killed many would be assassins. And it was while I was doing it that the truth was made clear to me. I live solely for myself. I love only myself. As it was the death of my mother that first gave me life, now it is the death of others that sustains me. That makes me happy to be alive. And there's no end to it as long as there are still people to kill in this great wide crowded world.

Sasuke

I have no idea what scheme you sand village clowns have got going but I'll stop it, no matter what it is. Besides I'm dying to see what you really are.

Temari

[seeing him beginning to transform] Gaara no! Oh no. It's happening. Any second he's going to let that thing out. No, not now! No Gaara! remember our mission!

Gaara

We're so alike, Uchiha. I don't have friends as you have, but they're not what makes you strong. It's your purpose that does it. In that way we're alike. But mine is the stronger purpose. For only by destroying you and all that you represent can I even prove that I exist. Only by killing you can I know what life is.

Sasuke

What is it?

Kakashi

I sense a trace of bloodlust in the air. Alright come on out. [Gaara emerges] So it's you.

Gaara

Tell me, what is your true purpose? Why is it that you seek power?

Sasuke

Like it's any business of yours. Beat it. You're interrupting my training.

Gaara

I see it. You have the eyes. Eyes that seek power and will do anything to get it... even kill. Eyes full of hate like mine. We're the same.

Gaara

You. You are my... You are my prey! My prey!

Gaara

[looks at his heart] But lately I've felt a lot of pain here.

[Cuts his finger] Wound your body and the blood will flow, following fast on the heels of pain, but as time passes the pain eventually fades away. With the help of medicine it can heal even faster. But even more dangerous is a wound dealt to the heart, because there is nothing that has more trouble healing.

Gaara

A wound to the heart?

Wounds to the heart are a little different from wounds to the flesh. Unlike an injury to the body, there is no medicine for a wounded heart, and sometimes it never heals. But don't worry. There is one thing that can mend a broken heart, but it's a very complicated remedy. It can only be administered to you by another person.

Gaara

So then what am I supposed to do?

There's one thing that can heal the heart, only one. It's love, Gaara.

Gaara

Love?

You've got it.

Gaara

But how am I supposed to get rid of it? What is it I have to do to get rid of this pain?

Don't you know, Gaara? It has already been given to you. Love is a heart's desire to serve someone precious to you, to watch over them, to care for them, like my sister did for you.

Naruto

It's almost unbearable, isn't it? The feeling of being all alone. I know that feeling, I've been there, in that dark and lonely place. But now there are others, other people who mean a lot to me. I care more about them than I do myself, and I won't let anyone hurt them. That's why I won't ever give up. I will stop you, even if I have to kill you.

Gaara

But why? Why would you do this for anyone but yourself?

Naruto

Because they saved me from myself. They rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.

Now die!

You're mine!

You're gonna die kid! Wipe that grin off your face!

Kiba

Well what do you know? Looks like we're on the same side.

Who are you?

Temari

Allies of the Leaf Village...

Kankuro

We're shinobi...

Gaara

Of the sand!

You're nothing without that sand of yours. Why else would you go through the trouble of lugging it around?

Gaara

Sand shower. [rains sand]

What a surprise. [his legs are restrained by sand]

Gaara

But as long as I have it, I can do anything.