"You seem to have forgotten the current situation." Tianming was no fool; naturally, he would not reveal what was going to happen ahead of time.
Shukaku pondered for a moment, his massive claw patting his head. "Rather than being captured and fused back together, wouldn't it be better to coexist with this kid?"
Shukaku quickly made his choice. He chose to believe Qingchuan Tianming.
After all, they had been forcibly separated and sealed away back then.
If he had to return to that void where even consciousness did not exist, then he would rather remain inside Gaara.
Shukaku soon relinquished control of Gaara's body and returned to the seal.
Gaara's true form reappeared. The moment he regained control of his body, he glared at Tianming and asked, "Weren't you confident you could kill both me and Shukaku? Why did you hold back?"
"Because there was no need to. My goal was never to kill you," Tianming said calmly.
"Not to kill me?" Gaara was somewhat stunned.
"I merely wanted to see Shukaku's power for myself." Tianming's expression remained composed.
Gaara did not know what to say. His feelings were complicated. Even after using the tailed beast's complete form, he still had not been this guy's match.
"Who are you? Why do you know so much? And you even saw through the Konoha Crush plan. As a Konoha ninja, why didn't you arrest me?" Gaara fired off question after question.
"You have too many questions." Tianming shook his head. "Because a new era has arrived."
"I'll give you one piece of advice: open your eyes and see the world. My companion fighting Temari over there is, like you, a jinchuriki."
"What?" Gaara looked up at the bedraggled Naruto Uzumaki in the distance, unable to believe it.
In Gaara's understanding, weren't jinchuriki