okay.
first of, Gaara has shown the ability to freely make sand in any location that has earth or rock at an alarmingly fast rate. even as a child he turned a forest into a sand box under a minute
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and currently could make sand from rocks nigh instantly as shown against sage and juubi jin madara.
Here he is much older and stronger than before,
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blocking fast attacks easily,and showing high levels of reactions,by reacting to point blank explosions at the instance of explosion,shown with deidara's c3
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,
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and joki boy's explosion
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. Even capable of perfoming powerful sand moves in the air too,
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countering naruto's speed:
gaara has reacted to things faster than naruto and someone wiyh better sensing and reflexes,.
He reacted to sm madara's attack.the same madara who
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countering,rasengans, frs and oodama frs
first of all, the rasengans are not going to breach his sand, his sand was able to protect him from a meteor attack that sent shockwaves
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and from susanoo strikes,from a
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. Also naruto has to get close to hit gaara,which wont happen as gaara can easily hit him with a sand hail or just take flight.
As for FRS,naruto himself acknowledged gaara' defence to be
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,the same raikage who could
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. Neverthe less,naruto cant spam FRS,infact,he can only perform it
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before running out,and this is with NO OTHER TECHNIQUES INBETWEEN. Therefore if he is to use other techs he will have at most two,and this is not counting any summons he may wish to summon. The oodama FRS is definately a one time jutsu only,and it
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allowing gaara to easily take advantage by attacking or
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.
Combining oil and water is useless as they dont mix naturally,that oil-water compund was inherent to the mizukage only.
countering cqc i might as well just deal with this,flight rensers cqc useless,and gaara being long range can easily keep him at bay.
All in all gaara's sand abilities allow him to swiftly overmaneouvre and overwhelm naruto
sorry i am using a phone,so not well detailed