Sasori was still only a half-grown child at the time.
With crimson hair, a childish face, and melancholy eyes, he looked remarkably brooding for someone so young.
When Yanbai asked Chiyo to let him meet Sasori, she hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
While they waited.
Chiyo took the opportunity to ask Yanbai what he thought of Sunagakure, as well as where Konoha's Farmers' Market was headed.
Yanbai answered casually.
Chiyo felt that Yanbai probably had no interest in harming them. Perhaps he simply liked children now that he was older and hoped the children of the shinobi world would not suffer.
So Yanbai had probably only opened the Farmers' Market as a side venture while commissioning puppets from Sunagakure.
Of course, that was merely how Chiyo comforted herself.
Yanbai's answers only reinforced that reassurance.
Yet when Shikaku Nara led Sasori into the Hokage Office.
Sasori stared at Yanbai for a long time, then said something entirely unlike what anyone else had said.
"Marry me!" Sasori stared at Yanbai expressionlessly.
It was not as though Yanbai had never received foreign visitors.
Countless people began with pleasantries when they met him.
But someone proposing marriage at their very first meeting? That was a first in this lifetime.
Shikaku Nara looked at Sasori with a livid expression and was about to speak.
"Pfft... stop that!" Yanbai could not help laughing.
Yanbai sounded as though he were coaxing his grandson.
Chiyo froze for several seconds before saying in alarm, "Lord Hokage, Sasori is still young. Please forgive him."
Chiyo had never imagined that the usually introverted Sasori would deliver a nuclear-bomb-level shock the moment he appeared.
However, the excuse Chiyo blurted out in her panic was not accepted.
Shikaku Nara looked at Chiyo sternly. "Granny Chiyo, in the Land of Fire, fourteen is