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Gaara is the youngest son of the Fourth kazekage, thus having Temari and kankuro as his older siblings. Because of sunagajure's weakened state, the Fourth Kazekage ordered one of Suna’s elders,chiyo, to use a possession jutsu to seal the shukaku into Gaara, in hopes of making his son into the ultimate weapon against outside attacks on the village. Because of this possession, Gaara’s mother,karura, died while giving birth. Before she died, Karura cursed Sunagakure, hoping Gaara would avenge her death.Gaara was trained by his father, but raised mainly by his uncle yashamaru. For six years, Gaara was feared by his family and the other villagers and believed that Yashamaru was the only one who loved him. However, when Gaara was six years old, Gaara's father the Kazekage ordered Yashamaru to assassinate him. Gaara had become, in the Kazekage's eyes, a failed experiment and too much of a threat to the other villagers to be allowed to live. Gaara mortally wounded the assassin before he knew the assassin was in fact Yashamaru. Before he died, Yashamaru revealed to Gaara that he never did love him. In fact, despite trying to love him, Yashamaru always resented Gaara for taking away the life of his beloved sister, Gaara's mother, Karura. Yashamaru also revealed the source of Gaara's name: 我を愛する修羅, (Ware wo ai suru shura, "a self-loving carnage").
Gaara's mother had resented the village for using her and her son as a sacrifice for a weapon, and cursed Gaara for putting her in so much pain. After realizing that nobody loved him, Gaara used his sand to create the tatoo on his forehead, 愛 (ai, "love"), as a symbol of a "demon loving only himself." For the next six years, Gaara would be the victim of almost constant assassination attempts, all ordered by his father.
Gaara, like Naruto, is a jinchūriki, or the (unwilling) host of a biju. His entire village hated and feared him for the awful power of the spirit sealed within his body; his own father, before later realizing that Gaara could be an effective tool, wanted him dead. As a result, Gaara became emotionally withdrawn, all but silent, and consumed with a bitter loathing for everyone but himself. He learned to find pleasure and eventually a reason to live in annihilating the numerous assassins sent to kill him - and by extension, anyone who threatened his existence (anyone who was not himself). His insomnia, forced upon him by the fact that the demon inside him would eat away at his personality if he were to fall asleep, made Gaara further unstable.
In fact, Gaara's situation is almost identical to Naruto's, albeit more unfortunate. Loneliness and the desire to be liked, loved and acknowledged as an individual, free of others' prejudices — they are themselves, not the demons they were forced to "contain" — drives both into a desperate state. While Naruto consequently developed the misconception that pranks and mischief would bring him the attention (more precisely: recognition) he sought, Gaara came to the conclusion that he could preserve and confirm his own existence by killing any and all who challenged it. In the absence of others' acknowledgment, he could compensate by valuing only himself to the exclusion of everyone else — an extreme form ofnarcissism. Furthermore, while Naruto eventually had Iruka and Team 7 acknowledge him, Gaara never had anyone to bond with and did not understand the concept of fighting for anything other than himself until his confrontation with Naruto.
Beforehand, both boys tried to gain positive attention by being cheerful (in Naruto's case, overly so), kind, and caring, and both had little success. On one occasion, Gaara used his powers to retrieve a ball for a group of children playing nearby and injured them unintentionally with sand when they ran away from him in fear. Later, little Gaara brought medicated ointment to the house of the girl whose wounds were the worst, but she slammed the door in his face, calling him a "bakemono" (monster).
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