It's Mother

West Gate of Konoha's outer city.

After the village expanded, its east, south, west, and north sides were all connected to national highways.

The West Gate generally served as a transit point for transporting all kinds of goods.

The flow of people here was also immense.

Two people with rather special identities worked here as well.

They were Kankuro and Temari.

After Minato had captured them and brought them back five years ago, they had remained Konoha's hostages.

When they arrived, they had only just graduated from the Ninja Academy and were merely Genin.

Naturally, they did not dare attempt an escape.

Gaara might have seemed cold and unfeeling, but he still acknowledged this sister and brother of his.

After all, the two of them had been the ones who played with him when he was young.

As time passed, they no longer needed supervision and were quite free.

Although they were not Konoha shinobi, Gaara could still use his own name to take on missions for them.

In recent years, the Shinobi World had been leaning toward peaceful development, so the most common missions were actually long-distance transport jobs.

The missions Gaara took for Temari and Kankuro were mostly of this kind.

Today, Temari and Kankuro had just returned from one such mission.

The journey had not been particularly dangerous, but it had been very long. Once they left the Land of Fire, there were no more national highways. The long road had exhausted them.

Only after returning to the Land of Fire and getting onto the highway had they been able to rest in the vehicle for a while.

It was worth mentioning that for transport within the Land of Fire, mechanical vehicles were now basically used.

These vehicles generally used hybrid power. They could run on electricity