"Thank goodness! I thought Lord Gaara really was going to die this time!"
A male ninja from Sunagakure standing nearby said this through streaming tears.
"What are you talking about! How could Lord Gaara die so easily!"
Another female ninja gave him a hard smack.
"Thanks to Granny Chiyo's amazing Medical Ninjutsu, Gaara was saved. She'll recover once we get back to the village too, right?"
Naruto was so slow on the uptake that he still did not know Granny Chiyo had died to save Gaara.
"I'm afraid not. The technique Granny Chiyo used has already drained the last of her life."
Lin Guang told Naruto. With his Sharingan, he had seen it clearly.
Back then, it had not only been chakra flowing from Granny Chiyo's body into Gaara's, but something else as well.
"What do you mean?"
Naruto was a little confused.
"That wasn't Medical Ninjutsu. It was Reanimation Ninjutsu. Granny Chiyo is already dead."
Lin Guang told Naruto.
"What's going on here!"
Disbelief covered Naruto's face.
"It's ninjutsu that brings the dead back to life at the cost of your own life."
Lin Guang continued. That was what his Sharingan had revealed.
Kakashi and Neji Hyuga also nodded slightly at his words. They, too, had noticed clues about the technique.
Only then did Naruto understand why Granny Chiyo had called it her final request back then. So that was the reason.
Looking at Granny Chiyo again, he saw that she was already lying in Sakura's arms, no longer breathing.
Granny Chiyo's younger brother looked at her and said, "It feels like you'll do that again. Your expression is so peaceful, as if you might laugh at any moment..."
This had been one of the few pleasures the siblings had in their old age: pretending to be dead to