What is quietly placed inside Storage Scroll is a special product that Kankuro spent a lot of effort on, using almost all of his contacts and resources as Puppet Master, and even lowered his face to beg Granny Chiyo, who had long been living in seclusion and had the highest level of skills, to come out and give guidance, and finally completed it with great difficulty.
That's a puppet.
However, it is completely different from Sand Village puppets that are traditionally used for combat, assassination, or assistance.
This puppet abandoned all offensive mechanisms, and Kankuro and Granny Chiyo poured all their energy and precious materials into the other two directions.
The ultimate realistic appearance and smooth and natural controllability. Its purpose of existence is not to destroy, but... to "accompany" or "replace".
"Temari, please go out first and let Gaara and I have a good chat alone." Kankuro did not unroll the scroll immediately, but turned his head and said to Temari, who was still in shock and worry.
"Eh? But..." Temari looked at the strange sand sculptures in the room and his brother who was obviously not in good condition, and really couldn't leave without worries.
"It's okay, leave it to me." Kankuro's eyes were full of determination, "Believe me, I will find a way... to make Gaara cheer up again. There are some things that may only be appropriate for us two brothers to say alone."
Finally, under Kankuro's repeated assurances and sincere eyes, Shou Gecai reluctantly nodded, turned back three times, and left the room worriedly.
Only Kankuro and Gaara were left in the room, as well as countless silent "audiences" of sand sculptures.
Kankuro sat down cross-legged in front of Gaara and placed the Storage Scroll on the ground between them. He was not in a hurry to show what was inside, but looked directly into Gaara's still empty eyes and asked in a deep voice.
"Gaara, tell me, what do you need now to cheer you up again? To make you willing to walk out of this room and become the Fifth Kazekage that makes Sand Village proud and everyone trusts?"
"..."
Gaara hugged his knees, put his chin on his knees, and looked at the ground distractedly.
He did not answer. In other words, he thought that the answer he longed for deep in his heart was simply impossible for Kankuro, and speaking out would only increase his troubles and deepen his despair.
Kankuro waited for a moment, and when he saw no response, he continued on his own, "Okay, let me guess... do you... want Naruto to be by your side forever? No matter in any form, no matter how far away, you hope that he can always be in your sight?"
Hearing the words "Naruto will always be by your side", Gaara's curled-up body trembled suddenly. He suddenly raised his head, and his eyes flashed with panic and panic as if he had been stabbed in the center. But then, the light quickly dimmed again, replaced by gloom and self-mockery.
Kankuro is right, hit the nail on the head.
But what's the use? This kind of wish... is simply a dream, a delusion that goes against common sense and reality.
Naruto has his own life, a wife he loves deeply, and responsibilities he shoulders. How can he always stay with his "friend" Land of Wind who is far away?
This kind of extravagant hope will only make him feel more pathetic and ridiculous.
However, just when Gaara was disheartened and ready to bury his face in his arms again--
"Bang!"
A slight muffled sound sounded in the silent room, which was the sound of Storage Scroll being activated by the psychic!
A faint white smoke rose from the scroll and spread quickly.
"Come on, Gaara," Kankuro spoke again. "Look at this."
"... What?" Gaara weakly and instinctively raised his head, looking casually in the direction where the smoke dispersed.
Then--
His breathing, along with all his thoughts, completely stopped at that moment.
His eyes suddenly widened to the limit, and the numbness and depression on his face was like ice shattered by a heavy hammer, instantly disintegrating, leaving only unbelievable shock.
The smoke dissipated, and in the center of the room, on top of the spread Storage Scroll, sat a "girl".
She closed her eyes and sat limply, leaning against the edge of the scroll, as if she was asleep without any breath of life, like an exquisite puppet... Well, that's what it was.
To be precise, she is a suffocatingly exquisite human puppet. However, her "exquisiteness" has reached a level that is terrifying enough to confuse the fake with the real and challenge cognition.
The long golden hair was carefully combed into two lively and playful twin tails, hanging down on the shoulders, with the tips of the hair slightly curled.
The face is incredibly delicate, and the skin is made of special bionic materials, showing real luster and delicacy in dim light.
And on both sides of her fair cheeks, three parallel, iconic beard lines are clearly depicted.
She was wearing a fitted sportswear with bright orange and steady black as the main colors. Although the style was simple, the details were carefully designed.
Whether it's hair color, facial features, beard, or the very personal style of clothing... all the elements combine to form an extremely familiar yet extremely unfamiliar picture.
This is clearly... the female version of Uzumaki Naruto!
In other words, it is the image that only exists in Gaara's dreams and deepest secret fantasies - Naruko Uzumaki.
Kankuro In Granny Chiyo they chose an extremely rare and priceless special flexible composite material from the secret inventory of Sunagakure as the main body.
This material is not only strong and light, but can also simulate elasticity, temperature and touch that are very similar to human skin. It can be said that the cost is high enough to make a miser like Kakuzu stunned.
The internal driving mechanism is also designed to be extremely precise and quiet, aiming to achieve the most natural and least suspicious movement.
Gaara rubbed his eyes vigorously, then rubbed them again, wondering whether he had double hallucinations due to excessive mental lethargy, or whether he still hadn't woken up from some absurd dream.
That vague figure in the dream that made him feel inexplicably warm and throbbing... how could... how could it have appeared in front of him so real and concrete?! How could this be possible?!
"Kankuro... this, this..." Gaara's voice was dry and trembling, and his words were incoherent. He pointed at the puppet, his fingertips trembling slightly, "You... how did you know... how could you..."
"Don't worry about this." Kankuro interrupted him, with an imperceptible tiredness in his tone.
Of course he would not say that on the day when Gaara was so drunk that he carried her back to his residence, Gaara was in a state of confusion and muttered incoherently.
Describing in detail the appearance of the "girl" with "blonde twin ponytails, lines on her face, wearing orange clothes and a warm smile".
Those drunken words were imprinted on Kankuro's heart and became his most direct and accurate blueprint for making this puppet.
(I even think what I wrote is weird... how did I write it?)