Sunagakure Village
Located in a desert area
This place is barren
Sand and wind fill the sky
Sasori of the Red Sand walks on the burning hot sand, his feet can no longer feel the temperature.
The sand that used to sting his face no longer feels like anything.
All that remains is his beating heart, which still has warmth.
"Grandma..."
Chiyo has not been well lately, often staring into the distance, and has lost almost all her teeth.
Her hands also tremble.
She is old...
Not everyone is like Swain Orochimaru, not caring about the wear of time.
Chiyo's eyes are also bad, probably the distortion of the heat makes her vision blurry, causing hallucinations. How could it be Sasori?
"I'm back."
Sasori's voice is very calm, because of the human puppet, he no longer has tone.
However, Granny Chiyo's voice began to tremble, and tears of body temperature fell from her wrinkled face. "Sasori... You're back? Is it really you? I'm sorry... I'm sorry... It's grandma who didn't take good care of you."
Seeing her grandson, even though he has become a rogue ninja, even though he is no longer a member of the village, Chiyo only feels guilty.
Sasori was speechless, not knowing what to say. "I..."
Chiyo stepped forward and touched Sasori's cold body. "I'm sorry, it's all grandma's fault for turning you into this. I'm sorry..."
The woman who held up Sunagakure Village with her old body, now sobbed, crying like a helpless old woman.
"I'm back, grandma."
Swain, you're right.
Maybe it was Sasori's last remaining heart that gave him the last bit of feeling. Forget about what Baduanjin is, the brain is what controls emotions.
The human puppet itself is unscientific.
...
"Why did you think of coming back? Don't worry, grandma will take the Kazekage position right away."
The village can gain a shadow-level power, and her grandson is by her side. This is the best news Chiyo has heard in years.
"It's because I met the Black Devil, and he told me..."
"What?! Lord Swain is here?! Ebizo! Where's the outfit Lord Swain gave me?! Find it quickly! Where's my lipstick?! I want to dress up nicely to thank Lord Swain!"
Sasori was in chaos. Wasn't she just loving me? Looking like a helpless old woman? Now what's going on? Hearing Swain and she puts me aside?
"Grandma, actually..."
Chiyo didn't have time to listen. "Wait a minute, Sasori baby. Wait for grandma to get dressed up, and we'll go thank him together. I must repay this great kindness! No, I'm so old now... Ha! Transformation Technique! Let's go, Sasori, we'll go find Lord Swain."
Actually, Chiyo was definitely one of the top beauties in the ninja world when she was young.
But now... There's no way, time is the enemy of beauty.
The noodles of this second and the noodles of the next second are completely different bowls.
"Actually, Swain didn't come."
"It's okay, grandma will go to Konoha to thank him." Chiyo, in her transformed state, released the transformation, controlling the near-perfect Ten Puppets with ten Chakra threads, and sped away, leaving Sasori in a confused daze in the sandstorm.
Ebizo slowly walked over to look at Sasori. "You'll get used to it. Before, whenever there was a battle involving Swain, she wouldn't let Sunagakure Village participate."
"Second Grandpa, what's wrong with Grandma?"
"Girlhood feelings. Even older women have girlhood feelings. Have you eaten? I just grilled some Sasori."
"Thank you, I don't need to eat..."
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Konoha Holy Land
Swain hasn't been to the Bird's Nest in a long time. This is made according to the Beijing Bird's Nest at a one-to-one scale.
Although he hadn't been to the Bird's Nest in his previous life.
But as soon as he entered his house, he saw a little black-haired beauty in the kitchen...
Um... Who is this person? She looks familiar, and she's holding a pig.
"Um, little girl, who are you?"
The black-haired girl who was cooking heard this and suddenly cried with tears in her eyes, feeling wronged. "Swain-sama... You, you're going too far!"
Hyakume, who is best at voices, flew over. "Master, you really went too far."
"I, what did I do?! I'm so pure, what did I do to you?! Girl! Girl, don't cry, I just asked who you are?!"
"I'm Shizune! Didn't you say that you wanted Tsunade-sama to give me to you as a secretary? But you never once came to feed these summoned beasts, so I've been working hard all the time, and now you actually say you don't recognize me, it's too bullying! Waaah!"
Swain's memory traced back to the scene where Tsunade asked for the Sage's Mark. I seem to have, maybe, possibly said that?
"Eh? Shizune, why are you crying?"
"Brother Orochimaru, Swain-sama is bullying me."
"That's not right of you, Swain-sama. How can you bully a little girl?" Orochimaru chuckled, happy to see Swain at a loss.
Swain came to his senses. "You knew Shizune was here a long time ago?"
Orochimaru rolled his eyes. "I know, didn't you ask her to come? Shizune has been here for almost three years."
"Then this silly girl has been feeding birds here for three years?" Swain opened his mouth incredulously.
Orochimaru didn't understand. "No, she also buys groceries. Don't you know what you've been eating these past few days?"
"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Orochimaru sighed. "I thought you knew? There are crows all over the holy land, your spies, how could you not know?"
"But I really didn't know... Getting old, forgetful. Shizune, don't cry, which tailed beast do you like? Pick one, I'll give it to you."
Orochimaru's eyes lit up. "Should I cry too?"
"Get lost, you're not a maiden."
Orochimaru wasn't giving up. "I can be."
Who cares about gender as much as he does.
"I don't want it. Hyakume and the others are more fun than the tailed beasts, and they look nice too. They can also fly me around."
Shizune stopped crying.
She picked up sushi to feed the peacocks.
"I never knew you guys ate Japanese food..."
The birds I raised are quite high-class, eating Japanese food every day.
"Then pick a phoenix chick, just feed it a drop of blood and you'll sign a contract. I also have a mahjong appointment with Tsunade. That's it."
Orochimaru shook his head with a smile. Experts are unreliable, that's a consensus.
"I'm going too, Shizune. We need one more player."
Little Shizune was playing happily with Ton-ton and a few phoenix chicks.
...
Chiyo, who was flying straight to Konoha, was filled with mixed feelings.
So Lord Swain hasn't forgotten me, and he kindly sent my grandson back...
He's still as considerate and handsome as he was back then. I've always treasured the outfit you gave me, and I'll wear it for you when I get to Konoha.
I still remember when I was alone and helpless, seriously injured, and couldn't even release Chakra threads.
Lord Swain saved me from the jaws of beasts, that charming black feather, that slightly evil smile, and that gentle and considerate care...
If it weren't for the war back then, we would have definitely ended up together. Sasori might not have lost his parents, and Lord Swain and I would have had a happy family.
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