A few minutes earlier, inside an inconspicuous tower in a corner of Sunagakure.
"Dear sister..."
"..."
"Hey, sister!"
"It was so noisy outside just now, I really couldn't fish in peace..."
An old man with white eyebrows and bandages wrapped around his head complained to the old woman holding a fishing rod in front of him.
Between the two elderly people lay a pool.
They held fishing rods and seemed to have been sitting there fishing for a long time.
The old woman replied expressionlessly:
"Judging by the sound, the Jinchūriki must have gone berserk again..."
"Could Gaara be another failure? Sigh, finding a perfectly compatible Jinchūriki is truly difficult. Or perhaps I'm to blame..."
The old woman was named Chiyo.
The old man opposite her was her younger brother, Ebizo.
It was Chiyo herself who had sealed Shukaku inside Gaara.
After Bunpuku, the previous One-Tail Jinchuriki, died, Chiyo and the village's senior officials had selected a total of three Jinchūriki test subjects in succession to meet strategic needs and protect the village from invasion. Unfortunately, all three attempts had failed because Shukaku went berserk. Only after Gaara was born and his body was used as a vessel had they barely managed to suppress Shukaku.
Now, Shukaku's repeated rampages made Chiyo wonder whether the decision she had made back then had been right.
Ebizo said, "Sister, don't overthink it. This has nothing to do with you. If anyone is to blame, it's Rasa for being so headstrong. If he hadn't kept provoking Gaara, things wouldn't have turned out like this."
Chiyo said, "Sigh, if only my grandson were still here. I don't even know where he is now. My fixation on him is probably the only reason I can keep living in this boring world..."
Bang, bang, bang!
As they