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When Shikamaru goes missing on an ill-fated expedition in the south of Wind, Gaara heads up a search party in order to find him. He gathers a team from Suna and calls for aid from Konoha. Not long before Gaara departs for the south, Rock Lee arrives with word from the Hokage: the Konoha team will meet them in the south with a team best suited to the forest, and Lee will be joining them...
But Lee's presence is more of a distraction than a help, and Gaara can't afford to be distracted when his brother-in-law's life is on the line. Distraction on a normal mission would be folly, distraction when entering the Komodo Forest could lead to a fate worse than death.
For deep in the forest, something dark lurks, something more deadly than sand or fists, something none of them are prepared to face.