Hada... Ichiba!
The Hada Clan...
I'd never heard of that clan...
As he listened to the boy before him answer, Gaara's mind automatically ran through a long list of clans he had been taught about since childhood, whether they had declined, been confirmed as completely wiped out, or were still active in the Shinobi World.
Yet, despite the Land of Wind's intelligence network having operated for years and gathered information on the Shinobi World's major clans, there was no record whatsoever of this so-called Hada Clan.
But if Hada Ichiba did not come from some famous clan and was merely an ordinary person, as well as a ninja from a small village like Kusagakure, then this was practically impossible.
Although Kusagakure's ninja loved studying the ninjutsu of other ninja villages and had accumulated quite a collection over the years, even developing several unique techniques specifically aimed at countering other villages' ninjutsu, their ninjutsu resources were fairly abundant.
However, compared to the great ninja villages, their techniques might stand out in terms of quantity, but their quality left much to be desired.
They had not obtained a single core ninjutsu system from any major ninja village, nor did they possess sufficiently powerful techniques of their own. They had quantity but no quality. On the battlefield, their many techniques could indeed cause trouble for the major villages.
But they could not decide victory or defeat. They were the sort that could be troublesome, but could not disrupt a major ninja village's battle plans.
They were a force that could not be ignored, but not one capable of influencing a major ninja village's decisions.
As enemies, they were a nuisance. As allies, they were simply a considerable source of support.
With resources like those, unless Hada Ichiba possessed a powerful bloodline—such as a