Sasori slowly walked toward the pair of "parent" puppets, utterly entranced.
The many puppets around them slumped to the ground after losing control.
Granny Chiyo and Sakura Haruno both breathed a sigh of relief.
Sakura Haruno looked at the puppets strewn across the ground, still shaken.
But as Granny Chiyo watched Sasori approach, her face showed her distress.
Under her control, the "parent" puppets slowly opened their arms and went to meet Sasori.
His mind muddled, Sasori smiled happily when he saw the "parent" puppets opening their arms.
As he smiled, two streams of tears flowed down his cheeks without stopping.
Sasori continued to murmur through his sobs:
"Dad, Mom..."
He kept repeating those words, like a baby just learning to speak.
As he walked, Sasori slowly opened his arms as well and quickened his pace.
Granny Chiyo frowned slightly and continued to ask through the puppet's "mouth":
"Sasori, do you regret everything you've done?"
Sasori shook his head firmly and said:
"No, I've never regretted it."
Granny Chiyo's brow furrowed even more deeply.
"But everything you've done has broken Mom and Dad's hearts. Do you know that?"
Sasori's expression suddenly twisted.
"It was their weakness and incompetence that let Mom and Dad get killed."
"I wanted them to take revenge, but no one listened."
"Who could understand my pain? Everything I did was for Mom and Dad!"
"Why are you blaming me instead of those heartless bastards?"
"I've never regretted anything I've done. Ever since you left, I've never felt any warmth again."
Granny Chiyo trembled, nearly losing her footing and falling.
Still, she persisted:
"If you wanted revenge, you could have gone straight to your enemies. Why hurt the innocent? Was that part of your reason for taking revenge too?"
Sasori laughed without restraint.
"Ha ha... it was