As silence fell over the Kazekage's Office, no one noticed that in a corner of the office,
a tiny device shaped like a horn had recorded the entire meeting.
Through narrow, purely mechanical conduits, the sounds of their arguments traveled along copper wires all the way to Granny Chiyo's home.
Although it was daytime, the room where Sasori researched puppets was still extremely dim.
As Chiyo's grandson and a genius puppeteer, planting a little device in the Kazekage's Office hardly took much effort.
Young Sasori's five fingers moved up and down unconsciously. Beside him, an unfinished puppet's mouth opened and closed, making the clicking sounds unique to wood and machinery.
The receiver beside him, connected to the Kazekage's Office, kept relaying a series of arrangements for war preparations, but Sasori could no longer bear to listen.
His parents had both died in the last war. Born perceptive, Sasori had noticed something unusual about his grandmother, though she had put him off with the excuse that his parents were both away on long-term missions.
But his investigation had still uncovered the truth, and he had also learned that both his parents had died at the hands of Konoha's Demon, Takahashi Yū.
After that devastating blow came a frenzied urge for revenge!
The high-grade puppet materials filling the room were proof of his efforts. With Granny Chiyo indulging him, he could read every secret Puppet Technique manual in Sunagakure.
Takahashi Yū was known as the bane of the Puppet Technique. He had devastated Sunagakure's entire puppet corps, dragging the Puppet Technique's standing in the village into the mud.
But Sasori wanted to avenge his parents with the very Puppet Technique they had been proudest of!
Even if he was still only a child.
But...
The news coming through the receiver left him