But from the day they became ninja, perhaps fear had truly left them.
After all, humans were not cold-blooded creatures.
Scene after scene gradually flashed before their eyes.
They reminisced and reflected.
Kankuro had only just recovered, so he was still somewhat weak.
After all that, his body immediately sent signals of protest.
But Kankuro paid no attention to it.
Only after a long while did Baki speak. "All right, let's return to Sunagakure!"
Then Tenten and Sakura helped Temari up, while Naruto and Rock Lee helped Kankuro up.
They then began their return journey.
But there were clearly two more people in the group who were lost in thought.
Baki remained silent.
When he had decided to come here and directly support Kakashi and the others,
as one of Sunagakure's higher-ups, he had instead met with unanimous opposition.
They said that Sunagakure's weapon was not currently within Sunagakure.
To prevent any accidents, they had decided not to send a single soldier.
What that revealed was naturally their naked abandonment of Gaara.
Indeed, Gaara was powerful and young.
But it was one thing for Gaara's way of doing things to make people uncomfortable.
When his attitude toward the ninja of his own village was the same, it caused many people to become dissatisfied with him.
And that dissatisfaction naturally surfaced at this moment.
Especially since everyone knew that Baki intended for Gaara to become Sunagakure's Fifth Kazekage. ()
How could that be? Everyone pondered it. How could that be? They could never agree to it.
But Gaara's strength was indeed formidable.
Naturally, they did not dare offend him lightly.
But with what had happened this time, although they might lose One-Tails Shukaku, that great weapon,
they would also directly eliminate Gaara, an unstable factor to them.
It had to be