Thus, when he was only 6 years old, there was an incident with Gaara and few children.

Indeed, Shukaku insanity made Gaara insomniac ?, and, moreover, he utterly suffered from the hateful and fearful look that the inhabitants of Suna had on him. His only ties of affection being limited to his maternal uncle, Yashamaru.īut over the years, Gaara, the ultimate weapon so much wanted by the Fourth Kazekage, became psychologically unstable. Gaara is raised to control Shukaku’s powers by his father but is completely isolated from the majority of the population and his siblings who truly feared him. From what we know, it seems that Karura never loved and never wanted Gaara from the beginning and, wishing to take revenge on her husband that condemned her to give birth to a demon, she baptized her son with the name “Gaara” that means “The demon who loves only himself”.īy giving him this name before she died, she hoped that her child would follow her will by looking only after himself and that he would use the power of his Tailed-Beast to destroy Suna. Gaara’s mother was therefore forced to sacrifice herself to give birth to a premature baby against her will. However, both his two children, Temari and Kankuro, were not compatible to become Ichibi’s host, so he’s fathered a third child who was given the responsibility to become Shukaku’s Jinchūriki ? while he was still in his mother’s womb.Īlthough he knew that the ceremony to seal Shukaku was deadly, Rasa decided to follow up on his quest of power even if it meant to sacrifice his own wife, Karura. The Fourth Kazekage needed an ultimate weapon to help the village become more independent and decided to create it by trying to own the power of Ichibi, the One-Tailed Beast, at all cost. The Hidden Sand Village governed by Gaara’s father at the time was suffering from heavy budget cuts and was therefore in a critical situation.

He is the 3rd born of his family, the other two being Temari and Kankuro. Subaku no Gaara, Gaara of the Sand, is a shinobi born in the Hidden Sand Village (Sunagakure) and is the son of Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage, and a mother named Karura who died during Gaara’s childbirth. If you have watched these episodes about the Fifth Kazekage’s past carefully, you already know that Gaara’s tattoo is in fact the Kanji 愛 (a i) which means “Love” in english. However, the origin of this tattoo is much darker than it seems, that is why today we’re going to leap into the past of Sunagakure to discover what does the symbol on Gaara’s head mean and the terrible story that gave birth to it. Discovered for the first time during the first Chunin Exam of the Naruto series, Gaara’s tattoo meaning has stayed a mystery for a long time until we discovered the truth in episodes 75 and 76 of the anime Naruto. If you’re a real fan of the manga Naruto, it’s therefore impossible for you to never have asked yourself what does Gaara’s tattoo mean.

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