Matsuri is eccentric, and her good friend, Miss Yukata, who is also a member of the 'Gaara Fan Support Group,' is even more so. This beautiful smiling girl is 100% a clueless sweetheart. Her basic Ninja knowledge is comparable to Naruto's before his remedial classes; she's a complete academic failure, with nothing going for her except the collagen on her face.
Temari chose a stone house closer to the Village entrance as their meeting point.
Most of the Ninja who came to meet them were Kunoichi, and young, beautiful Kunoichi at that.
Ino didn't see many capable fighters.
She looked at Temari, who seemed a bit nervous.
Seeing Ino's strange look, Temari asked testily, "What?"
Ino lowered her voice: "Are all these girls in love with Gaara? Are you choosing concubines for your brother? Wow, you're truly the best big sister in the Ninja World, I'm so impressed with you."
She felt a bit of a headache; sending such a large group of girls back to Konoha would certainly liven up the younger generation's leisure life, but... these Kunoichi were basically just pretty faces, not a single one could fight.
A large group of chattering girls gathered together, and it was pure chaos.
"Sister, I heard there's a Kunoichi from Konoha Village named Ino. I heard she fought with Gaara and was thoroughly defeated by him. Do you know that Ino?" The naturally clumsy Miss Yukata asked Ino directly, making her laugh in exasperation.
You half-grown kids must have talked a lot about me behind my back.
The main instigator, needless to say, must be Temari!
She didn't speak, just squinted at Temari, as if asking, 'You said all these things, didn't you?'
Temari's gaze drifted. She certainly couldn't say that a Konoha Kunoichi had beaten her younger brother, the former Fifth Kazekage, into the ground. What about Gaara's reputation?
Being caught badmouthing someone on the spot, that was awkward.
More and more people gathered on their side. Shikamaru suggested three times that the team should gather outside the Village, with those who could leave doing so first, but Temari refused every time.
"That doesn't make sense. Why is this strongman so stubborn at a time like this?" Shikamaru couldn't say much, so he could only discuss it with Ino.
He could tell that Temari was very nervous, and this nervousness seemed to be not just about leaving the Village, but also about something else.
"Let's be careful. If there's any problem, we'll withdraw first," Ino said, stating her judgment, and Shikamaru immediately nodded.
Currently inside Sunagakure, such large Ninja Villages have special sensing techniques. Once Ino activated her sensing ability, she would definitely be discovered by the Sensing Team.
Unless absolutely necessary, she wouldn't rashly use her sensing ability. Now, the lack of information was severe, leaving her passive like a blind person.
"Lady Temari! Lady Temari! Something's wrong!" A young Sunagakure Ninja rushed in, looking about thirteen or fourteen years old, his face full of panic: "Lord Kankuro, Lord Kankuro has been captured by Elder Huangsha and the others!"
Temari, as the eldest sister, often took on half of a mother's responsibilities. She cared for her two younger brothers with all her might. Hearing that Kankuro had been captured, her eyes turned red.
But before she could even consider how to handle the situation, a greater change occurred.
A middle-aged man, dressed in a white robe, with a white cloth wrapped around his head, wearing the traditional Sunagakure Elder's attire, burst into the room. His chest and the corners of his mouth were covered in blood, and half of his face had turned purplish-black. He was poisoned, deeply poisoned. The middle-aged man stumbled into the room and soon collapsed unconscious.
"Elder Ryusa?! The Elder is poisoned, can anyone here detoxify him?" Temari was frantic, but she forced herself to calm down, anxiously looking at the Ninja behind her.
Ino took a quick glance from afar. Huh? She recognized this poison; it was Sasori's potent venom.
"Here, take the antidote," she said, tossing out a tube of light green solution.
Temari didn't hesitate, immediately injecting it into the Sunagakure Elder.
This was an antidote researched by Tsunade, and its effect was excellent. The Sunagakure Elder quickly regained consciousness. He tightly grabbed Temari's sleeve: "Yura... Yura has gone mad! Huangsha has also gone mad! They want to destroy Sunagakure! Cough, cough, cough, cough—"
The former Sunagakure high-level officials consisted of seven people.
The Fifth Kazekage Gaara, Baki who was in charge of the Ninja Academy and daily Ninja promotions, Yura who oversaw the Village's defense and intelligence, the gentle Elder Ryusa currently present, the neutral Elder Sasori, the strong-willed Elder Huangsha, and Elder Ding Shi who was extremely dissatisfied with Gaara serving as the Fifth Kazekage.
A small temple breeds many demons, a shallow pond harbors many turtles; each person had their own ideas.
When Gaara became a Rogue Ninja, the other six formed the Elder Council and fought constantly. Huangsha and Ding Shi, with the support of numerous Ninja families, pulled in the neutral Sasori and Yura. With four against two, they cornered Baki and Ryusa's factions.
Her brother captured, and an Elder from her faction deeply poisoned, Temari was furious. She grabbed her three-star fan, intending to go rescue him.
"Are you crazy? Listen outside!" Ino stopped her, gesturing for her to look outside.
Chaos! Sunagakure was in complete disarray! There were large numbers of Sunagakure civilians frantically running, leading to stampedes. Countless people were trampled to death, but no one cared about that anymore.
Civilians were running, and some Ninja on duty at the Village entrance were at a loss, not knowing what had happened in the Village.
"Something big must have happened, but there's too little information to analyze it," Shikamaru pondered. Then he looked at Ino, meaning, 'Let's sense what's going on, we shouldn't just guess blindly.'
Ino looked back at Gaara's 'harem.' The girls, who had been like little sparrows, were now huddled together, clearly incapable of handling a crisis.
"Are there any members of the Sensing Team here? Do you know the specific type of sensing technique used in your Village?"
The group of girls all shook their heads.
"...Never mind, I'll do it myself!" Ino, like the Second Hokage, brought her index and middle fingers together, half-crouched, and lightly tapped the ground with her fingers, using the subtle vibrations of the ground to amplify her sensing range.
Her sensing triggered Sunagakure's alarm, but with the current chaos, the Ninja of the Sensing Team were already in disarray, and no one paid attention to her.
She scanned the entire Sunagakure and grew more and more puzzled. What was wrong with these people in Sunagakure? Had they all gone mad?
Many strange Chakra reactions appeared in her perception, somewhat reminiscent of her Yin Style Chakra. However, so much time had passed, the Yin Style Chakra from back then should have been depleted by now. Had it mutated?
A biological crisis in Sunagakure?
She quickly pulled Temari and Shikamaru into her sensory connection, hesitating for a second, then also pulled Choji in.
Temari was startled to experience such a vast sensing range for the first time. Fortunately, as the Kazekage's daughter, she had basic knowledge and understood priorities.
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