The ninjas sent by Konoha set out for the Kingdom of Wind and met up with the waiting Maki team at the border of the Kingdom of Wind.
The feelings of the Konoha Genin towards Temari and Kankuro, two ninjas of the same age from the Hidden Sand Village, were serious and silent.
But considering the impact of Gaara's disappearance on them, it is not difficult to understand why Temari and Kankuro kept a gloomy face.
On their way to the ruins of Loulan, Maki shared more specific information: the Red Sand Scorpion and Gaara had already launched an attack on the ruins of Loulan, but were repelled by the guard ninjas of the Sand Village.
They temporarily evacuated and their whereabouts are unknown, but it is very likely that they will not give up, but will look for the opportunity for the next attack.
The ruins of Loulan have now been blocked, and unrelated personnel and tourists are prohibited from entering.
They met the captain of the guard of the Hidden Sand Village at the ruins of Loulan. Although the Konoha ninjas did not know him, they had all seen him - that was the old man who had saved Gaara with his own life on the sky curtain.
Grandma Chiyo.
Grandma Chiyo's face was as gloomy as Kankuro and Temari's.
"They were not repelled... they chose to evacuate on their own." She gave more specific information as an eyewitness:"There were a lot of tourists at the time, and Scorpion wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack. His puppets mixed in with the crowd, causing a lot of trouble for Sand Village... but Gaara……"
Chiyo thought of that day and closed her eyes.
……
A few days ago.
The attack site was in chaos. The Sand Villagers were unable to determine the exact location of the attackers at first, and they also had to ensure the safety of the tourists, so the defense of the Loulan ruins soon showed flaws.
"Why don't you do it?"According to the agreement, when Scorpion created the chaos, Gaara should have dealt with all the Sand Ninja guards who were lured out. However, Gaara stood on a high place and did not move.
Scorpion could not help but frowned and questioned:"If we delay any longer, the people of Sand Ninja will react."
Gaara showed a hesitant look:"My mother gave me... the power to protect me."
The mother was in his sand.
The mother was... watching him.
After knowing this, Gaara's eyes fell on the panicked crowd. He saw other people's mothers calling their children nervously and anxiously, holding them tightly in their arms, with a look of panic.
Gaara used to not care about these reactions. He enjoyed killing, but now for some reason, he couldn't raise his hand to summon the sand flow to them.
Scorpion immediately understood something, and he angrily said:"Are you still a ninja?!"
But this question could not change Gaara's mind.
Scorpion:"Do you still want to see your mother! ?"
Gaara then showed a wavering look.
But by then, the Sand Village ninjas had already reacted quickly to evacuate the tourists and began to organize a counterattack. After discovering the figure of Granny Chiyo as the captain of the guard team, Scorpion was slightly stunned, and then he said"tsk":"Thanks to you, we missed the opportunity, let's retreat first."
Their original plan was to kill all the Sand Village guards and enter the Loulan ruins.
Scorpion didn't care about killing all the Sand Village guards and then being caught by Chiyo, but if he ran into Chiyo first, it would be a bit troublesome to kill all the other Sand Village ninjas.
……
After the memory ended, Chiyo lowered her eyes:"Gaara...didn't do anything."
Sarutobi Asuma said:"Could it be that they still care about the lives of civilians?"
If that's the case, it's good news.
"I don't know." Chiyo shook her head:"But my grandson... Scorpion can't care about this. Maybe he and Gaara had some disagreements, and he didn't want to fight alone, so he retreated."
Fortunately, although the desert is vast, there are traces for trackers to follow.
Even ninjas cannot live without water, which is the most important source of life in the desert. However, there are not many water sources and cities that can get supplies near the Loulan ruins.
Since Hyuga Neji of the third team has the Byakugan, he temporarily joins Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji's Tenth Team, led by Sarutobi Asuma, and is responsible for searching for Gaara and Scorpion in the desert.
As a native of the Wind Country and familiar with the environment, Temari became the fifth member of the team and was responsible for taking them to various oases for exploration.
Kai took Tenten, Xiao Li, Maki, and Kankuro to stay in the Loulan ruins to supplement the defense of the Sand Village here.
Scorpion's puppet is very suitable for going out to buy supplies and gather intelligence. He soon found the traces of the Konoha ninja, but one of the puppets was discovered by Hyuga Neji and an encounter was fought.
"Thanks to you, it is much more difficult for us to get close to Loulan now."Scorpion gave up the puppet that was finally smashed by Akimichi Choji's fist, and snorted at Gaara in the safe house he had left in the Kingdom of Wind.
"They evacuated the civilians and only left the ninjas behind," Gaara replied,"Next time, I won't show mercy"
"Humph, don’t you have any concerns about attacking the ninja?"
"Because ninjas are born to fight."
"So they don't deserve to be loved?" Scorpion said coldly:"You don't want to attack civilians, but ninjas also have parents and families."
"Civilians have no chakra, and cannot fight or resist." Gaara obviously has his own logic:"And ninjas... just like Haku and Zabuza, when the two ninja ways conflict, all both sides can do is stick to their own ninja ways and carry them through to the end!"
Scorpion examined him for a moment, as if evaluating his determination:"It's better this way. There is no time to lose, if that Byakugan kid finds our tracks, we will lose the advantage of a surprise attack. We will act tomorrow."
Gaara clenched his fists:"Tomorrow……"
"Are you scared?"
"No, I'm just excited at the thought of...seeing my mother tomorrow." Gaara said,"No matter who tries to stop me, I will never let them go."
Scorpion did not comment.
Suddenly, Gaara looked at him and asked,"But what should I say if I see her?"
Scorpion paused slightly.
He looked into Gaara's eyes, and saw a hint of nervousness and uneasiness in his seemingly calm face.
Only then did he realize how immature the Jinchūriki in front of him was.
To him, he was still just a child.
Scorpion was silent for a while, and seeing this, Gaara asked again,"What about you? If you see your parents...what would you say?"
As he spoke, two blurred figures emerged in Scorpion's mind - after all, they had been away from him for too long.
What did he want to say to these two figures?
Scorpion subconsciously wanted to ask them: Why do you want to die?!
No, that would be too childish.
He had to accept that his parents were not strong enough, at least, not as strong as Hatake Sakumo.
He was already a mature adult, and he wanted to ask some calm and mature questions.
But Scorpion found that he could not think of anything else to say:
Why did you make me wait so long?
He just wanted to ask this.
Because until now, he seemed to have been waiting for something.
Those two figures who never returned made him feel something was missing in his heart, and it had never been completed.
The human body was too difficult to understand. If it was a puppet, no matter where... Scorpio knows clearly that there are problems.
If he abandons his identity as a human, perhaps that feeling of emptiness will disappear.
But for some reason, although it is a happy thing to create himself into an excellent human puppet, sometimes, Scorpio feels that the looming emptiness has never disappeared, and even seems to be expanding day by day.
Maybe it's because he can't get rid of the last"core", he can't abandon the last part of being a human. Unfortunately, he hasn't thought of a good solution yet.
If he can solve the existence of the"core", he will definitely be truly"perfect".
If you don't want to answer or can't answer a question, a very useful strategy is to change the subject with another question.
Scorpio said coldly:"Are you going to appear in front of your mother and say to her, 'I am your son from the future'? She might think she has met a lunatic. Moreover, you may also affect the future, which may cause your future self to disappear."
"I disappear?" This seemed to remind Gaara of something, and his eyes lit up:"I know what I have to do."
"what are you up to?"
"I want to kill Luo Sha. I want my mother to no longer have to marry that man and be his wife, so that she won't suffer so much and lose her life for it."
Even after being in the Akatsuki organization for so long, where there are so many weirdos with different personalities, Scorpion couldn't help but say,"Are you crazy! ?"
"It doesn't matter if I'm not born," Gaara seemed to have made up his mind:"I hope my mother can marry a better man, so that she can live to grow up with that child."
He lowered his eyelids, stretched out his hand, and a fine stream of sand gently flowed into his palm.
"My mother gave me all her love, and I can't give anything back...so……"
He clenched his fist
"I hope she can be happy."
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