Elsewhere!
At a temporary camp several hundred meters from Gaara's corpse, Konoha's two squads sat around a campfire with a pot of water boiling over it.
Baki stood alone several dozen meters away, positioned between them and the other side of the small dirt mound, where someone was being revived.
"Captain Yamato... is there really a jutsu in this world that can bring people back to life?"
Sakura asked curiously.
Her question made everyone else turn their eyes toward Yamato.
No one could help being interested in such a question.
Yet Yamato smiled bitterly inwardly, because he truly had never heard of such a thing... Though there was a similar jutsu, so he said:
"I've never heard of a true resurrection jutsu!"
"But Konoha has a forbidden technique called Impure World Reincarnation, which can summon the dead back into this world!"
"However, those summoned are still dead. They can be controlled like Summoning Beasts, and they're extremely dangerous, which is why the First Hokage recorded it in the Book of Sealing!"
It was only because those before him were all seeds of Konoha's future that he dared reveal such information.
If they had been ordinary shinobi... Sorry, but did little nobodies like them think they could hear such classified intelligence?
Of course, Yamato only knew this because Orochimaru had used Impure World Reincarnation in front of so many people during the Konoha Chunin Exams, prompting the village higher-ups to release information about the technique.
Otherwise, knowledge of this jutsu would only be known by a few core members of the Hokage Faction.
The most shameless thing about the Hokage Faction was that it regarded everything in Konoha as belonging to the Hokage Faction. Anyone outside the faction was merely a tool.
"What?!"
"Impure World Reincarnation?"
"**A jutsu like that really