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I was re-watching the earlier episodes of Naruto earlier and got to the part where Kakashi first encounters Zabuza. Kakashi explains to Naruto about the Chuunin exam for the Hidden Mist village, about how the Genins are pitted against each other in fights to the death. It then showed a shot of a child surrounded by bodies and *something*.
Kakashi: The rules of the exam had to change when a child, who was not even a ninja, killed over 100 of the Hidden Mist Genin.
Zabuza: Ah yes. That was fun.
Now when I watched this the first time I assumed the child was a young Zabuza, but of course back then Gaara wasn't a known character. Now having watched it again the child looks a lot more like Gaara than Zabuza, and the *something* could be either sand or mist. Now I can't figure out which it was supposed to be:
Argument for Zabuza: He was a Hidden Mist Genin in the exam in a fight to the death. Why would Gaara go to the Hidden Village of Mist's Genin exam when he's from the Village of Sand? And why would he spare Zabuza if he killed the other Genins? He admitted it was fun, indicating he must've played some part in the killings.
Argument for Gaara: It looks like Gaara, and Gaara is younger than Zabuza so he wouldn't have been a ninja at that point, plus we're shown that Gaara kills skillessly from a young age because of the sand being sentient and under his control. Zabuza didn't have to kill 100, only 1. Also, he would've been classified as a ninja if he was a Genin.
Kakashi: The rules of the exam had to change when a child, who was not even a ninja, killed over 100 of the Hidden Mist Genin.
Zabuza: Ah yes. That was fun.
Now when I watched this the first time I assumed the child was a young Zabuza, but of course back then Gaara wasn't a known character. Now having watched it again the child looks a lot more like Gaara than Zabuza, and the *something* could be either sand or mist. Now I can't figure out which it was supposed to be:
Argument for Zabuza: He was a Hidden Mist Genin in the exam in a fight to the death. Why would Gaara go to the Hidden Village of Mist's Genin exam when he's from the Village of Sand? And why would he spare Zabuza if he killed the other Genins? He admitted it was fun, indicating he must've played some part in the killings.
Argument for Gaara: It looks like Gaara, and Gaara is younger than Zabuza so he wouldn't have been a ninja at that point, plus we're shown that Gaara kills skillessly from a young age because of the sand being sentient and under his control. Zabuza didn't have to kill 100, only 1. Also, he would've been classified as a ninja if he was a Genin.