Kapitulo Onse

Gaara landed near the border of Suna and Konoha. He walked unabated like he's been there before. Inside the dimly lit tunnels are lines of tanks that contained strange creatures, animals, humans, and many other unidentifiable curious things.

"Let me guess... you need more equipment? Gaara spoke not waiting for the other person in the room to turn to face him."

A man in a lab gown deathly pale skin and golden eyes smiled widely when he turned towards Gaara.

"You know me too well PH69 (PussyHunter69). I indeed need more equipment for my research. I have the list here."

Orochimaru stretched his mouth and took a scroll. He tossed the saliva laced scroll towards PH69 who smilingly caught the scroll with a hand made from chakra.

"How about the thing I asked?"

Gaara asked.

"It's in the scroll too. I don't know why you're interested in that old man I can just give you the technique he gave last time. For a price of course."

Gaara shook his head.

"You know it still has flaws. I only want the jutsu in its peak form, if he hasn't completed his research even now then I don't think it's not something a little motivation can't solve. Don't you think? As for my other reasons, those are none of your business."

Gaara spoke with a gentle smile on his face. His words laced with poison. Dealing with creepy wildcard characters such as Orochimaru will never be easy as one would have to be constantly vigilant around them. One wrong move can lead to unwanted outcomes.

'Well, business does come with its own risks. Sink or swim is an often acquaintance of a businessman. The more you don't want to risk anything, the more you are at risk.'

Of course a clone is speaking to Orochimaru. Gaara didn't want to take his chances to get reincarnated again. At least he already gained something in this trip as he is able to pinpoint the location of the village where the ruins of Ankor Vantian rests.

Gathering negative emotions and turning it into usable chakra is a good tool, but what truly piques the interest of Gaara is the interaction between the sharingan and the negative emotions.

Gaara of course did not let the chance to slip and gathered some dozen pairs of sharingan samples from corpses during the massacre of the Uchiha clan. Just in case the children failed in awakening their sharingan and some other eye related issues of the Uchiha children he rescued. Without ulterior motives of course.

If it didn't work then there's also that box in Hidden Grass Village. It should have relation to the use of fear but not much is known about the weapon. The biggest setback is still lack of advanced sharinggan users.

There's also the Body Activation Jutsu from that strange old doctor who didn't know that he should not play with the show's protagonist and should just kill them quickly for safe measure.

The doctor claimed that the jutsu is capable of enabling the user to activate the eighth gates without the negative side effects, and as one can see from the show. YOUTH is very powerful indeed. Madara Uchiha himself can attest to that.

While Gaara is not really afraid of the consequences of opening the eighth gates due to his natural mitotic regeneration and borderline strength of a hundred seal that his physique naturally possessed after the absorption of life essence.

Besides, its not like he's in possession of the special taijutsu-kinjutsu Eight Gates Formation at the moment. However, having the capacity to practice Eight Gates Release Formation without the consequences and not use it is always better than not having it when he needed it.

Gaara carefully planned his agenda for his second visit to the land of fire. Hopefully it will be a fruitful affair similar to the first one so that he wouldn't have to waste that much effort with research or in 'talking' to stubborn people. Beautiful ladies not included.

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"Tell me who you are and the reason why you're here."

A tall man with long silver-white hair wearing a bandana spoke wearily towards the black-haired man at the door. He had a smile on his face but the blood-red eyes he has showed he is ready to commit murder. At first he thought it was an Uchiha but remembered how the clan was massacred not too long ago.

"I'm called PH69 my good friend Orochi pointed me here when I asked him for directions and here I am."

Gaara observed the man who eased up a little when he heard Orochimaru's name. There should be some kind of deal between these two.

"I want to study the ruins of Ankor Vantian and get a copy of the Body Activation Jutsu you have developed."

The doctor nodded and glanced behind him to where a child lay peacefully asleep on the bed with hay mattress.

"Let's go. I will lead you to the ruins. As for the scroll, its in the ruins as well."

The doctor wore a coat and stepped out of his hut before gently closing it. The two men walked forward without a word when the doctor broke the silence.

"Its weird that I can't feel any form of malice or fear from you even while knowing how dangerous you are. Can you satisfy my curiosity?"

The doctor did not stop walking. A voice in his head told him how dangerous the man before him is and told him to avoid conflict.

'Is the zero tail's consciousness already awake? Could it be that zero tail is wary of the overly positive energy inside of me?'

Gaara smirked.

"I don't fear the thing you call 'zero tail' and I don't plan to kill anyone unless necessary... the other reasons involve my secrets. If I tell you then I'll have to kill you."

'What a cringy line. Is that from a bond movie or something?'

The doctor nodded in understanding. The journey was creepy at best and was mostly boring. The large man and the teen looking Gaara entered the temple and ended up in the 'throne room' (just a chair). The doctor came close to the pillar thingy behind the throne and dragged his fingers down activating something in the process which opened a small compartment.

"It's here. Huh!? Its gone!? Who... You?"

The safe is empty. Not safe at all it seems.

"I liked what you did to the place. What are you waiting for before making a move on the Konohagakure? Gears? Weapons? Ships? Hehehe it looks to me like its all of the above."

The doctor was visibly shocked they are indeed only in the preparation phase in their plan to attack the five great nations starting with Konoha. It looks like the teen before him knew far more than he originally expected. There's also a huge possibility that he was the one who stole the scroll he hid in the throne room.

"Wh... Are you playing around with me? Are you a spy from Konoha or something?"

Gaara shook his head and laughed out loud much to the doctor's confusion.

"I'm so very sorry mister. It was a test. Take this. My good friend Orochi is actually one my favorite customer. Well he mentioned you might be in need of my um... Expertise. Here... catch!"

The doctor caught the black thing that was tossed over casually. It was pretty light, he noted as he weighed it in his hand. What came slowly flying to him next is the missing scroll.

"You don't need it anymore?"

'This guy, do you want it or not?'

Gaara was close to laughing out loud thinking how he can now relate to those two-bit villains who talked on and on about their plans.

'Jeez cameras are already in great circulation and these guys still don't realize it's power. One clip is all it takes to record everything nowadays old man. You've just been left by the times.'

"Yeah... I don't think I need it anyway. The gathering array and the converter in there on the other hand is something we can talk about."

The doctor shook his head quickly. There's no point in pushing further as it will just agitate the old man.

"Hahahaha no need to worry old man. I'm pretty sure we can work something out."

Gaara disappeared without a sound and the doctor sighed with relief. He felt some kind of natural suppression coming from the creature wearing the skin of a teenager. For all he knows it could be some old monster after all, those capable of speaking Orochimaru's name casually are very few in numbers.

*ring ring ring

The black phone on the doctor's hand rang loudly and vibrated in his hands. Sure the keypad model is not too high tech to an Earthling but it's the best in the known shinobi world so far.

[Yo. Hehehe can you hear me? The user manual for the thing you hold is in the table of your hut. Be sure to contact me if you require gear. The price is guaranteed to be... reasonable.]

Gaara kept his phone and Tutubi dashed towards his next destination.

*beep beep beep