Land of Wind, the yellow sands of the great desert.
The boundless yellow sand stretched to the horizon, and the blazing sun hung high, baking the grit until it was scorching hot.
The wind swept over the dunes, kicking up fine golden sand and drawing a hazy golden mist in the air.
At this time, it wasn't Nekomata carrying Ryou, but Ryou carrying the three cats: Nekomata, Candy, and Snowy.
Because creatures like cats are very afraid of heat, even more so than dogs.
Their ability to dissipate heat is poor; they can only do so through their paw pads and panting.
The Ninja Cats couldn't bear the extreme heat of the Land of Wind's desert; Nekomata would hiss the moment his paws touched the ground.
Ryou felt pity for him and stopped letting Nekomata lead the way.
Ryou summoned a Wood Dragon and let it fly in the sky to serve as a means of transportation.
On the Wood Dragon, Ryou began to study Sasori, channeling his Chakra into Sasori's regeneration core.
"Stop faking it, Sasori. Your Chakra reaction is still there, so don't be so unresponsive."
The so-called regeneration core meant that as long as this core remained, Sasori could continue to regenerate indefinitely.
If paired with Orochimaru's Living Corpse Reincarnation, it would be a complete Nascent Soul.
If the physical body were destroyed, the regeneration core would immediately flee and find a fresh body to possess.
Head, armor, gun, chest rig, backpack!
Wala!
Sasori snorted, his voice coming from the regeneration core: "Uchiha Ryou, I suppose I've fallen into your hands."
"Do with me as you wish!"
Ryou smiled: "Sasori, we have no grievances or enmity; why would I kill you?"
Sasori asked in confusion: "If you're not going to kill me, what do you plan to do with me?"
Ryou said: "Sasori, you are a master Puppeteer of Sunagakure after all. Have you never thought about passing down your puppetry techniques?"
Sasori understood: "You want my human puppet technique?"
Ryou nodded: "Your human puppet technique is quite good; it can preserve the Chakra and Ninjutsu the deceased had while alive."
"I want to learn your human puppet technique. If I accidentally kill some beautiful female Ninja in the future, I'll use the technique to preserve her."
"That way, I can play with her without having to take responsibility. How comfortable!"
Sasori was furious, his regeneration core throbbing: "You bastard, is my human puppet technique meant for you to do such things?"
Sasori was an artist; the filthy things Ryou mentioned were a complete insult to his art and to the profession of a Puppeteer.
"Uchiha Ryou, give up on that idea. I will never pass my art to you to wreak havoc on the Ninja World."
As Sasori spoke, he prepared to detonate his Chakra in a self-explosion.
Ryou quickly pressed down on the regeneration core, injecting his Chakra to disrupt Sasori's.
He shouted: "Sasori, you're a terrorist acting all righteous. Let me tell you, anyone who falls into my hands can only be manipulated by me at will."
"If you won't give it, I'll take it myself!"
Ryou merged his spore into the regeneration core, letting the spore live in symbiosis with Sasori, directly controlling everything about him.
"Sasori, let me flip through your past!"
Sasori was somewhat exasperated: "Uchiha Ryou, you naturally evil Uchiha!"
Ryou's Chakra touched Sasori's. At this moment, Sasori was like a young girl stripped of all her clothes, being toyed with by Ryou, a large man.
Nekomata listened to Sasori's miserable wails, and his perception of Ryou's evil reached a new level.
Ryou used Genjutsu energy to invade Sasori's regeneration core, beginning to deconstruct Sasori's Chakra and, by extension, his past.
Chakra is energy that carries memories, emotions, and will.
It is composed of physical energy and spiritual energy.
In the original work, Naruto just bumped fists with Killer Bee and told him everything that happened in the sealing space.
Originally, the Sage of Six Paths distributed Chakra to connect people's hearts and bring them closer together.
Back then, the concept of Ninjutsu didn't exist; Chakra was used to join the Ninshu.
But ever since Indra invented Ninjutsu using Chakra, it began to be used for combat.
Ninshu was abandoned, and Ninjutsu became the mainstream.
Because people discovered that instead of trying to understand you, it was better to simply eliminate you.
Why bother with those useless ideologies of Ninshu?
What makes people calm down and listen to you isn't logic, but physical force.
Ryou began to come into contact with all of Sasori's Ninjutsu and his past.
Sasori was born in the year Konoha 32, the same age group as Konan and Nagato.
His parents were elite Jonin of Sunagakure, and he had an extremely significant identity: the grandson of Chiyo, the Advisor of the Sunagakure Kazekage.
In the Ninja Academy, Sasori wrote an essay—"My Advisor Grandma."
Not surprisingly, Sasori's essay won first prize for the entire grade.
Because the emotions were sincere, it was said that even the language teacher at the time was moved to tears.
His parents were elite Jonin of Sunagakure, his grandmother and great-uncle were high-level Advisors of Sunagakure, and he himself was a genius Puppeteer.
The Third Kazekage also held Sasori in high regard.
One could say Sasori was a perfect candidate for Kazekage; as soon as the Third Kazekage stepped down, Sasori becoming the Fourth Kazekage was a certainty.
Rasa's position as Kazekage was essentially picking up what Sasori left behind.
Sasori killed the Third Kazekage and defected.
It was almost as if he did it just to pave the way for Rasa.
Rasa's family really took advantage of Sasori!
The father did, and so did the son!
As long as nothing went wrong, with Sasori's talent as the strongest Puppeteer, inheriting the title of Kazekage was guaranteed.
But "as long as nothing goes wrong" usually means something will go wrong.
The Second Great Ninja War broke out. When Sasori was eight years old, his parents encountered the White Fang during a mission.
Although Sasori's parents were elite Jonin of Sunagakure, when they met the White Fang, a guy who killed without blinking, their Ninjutsu and puppetry were completely countered by the White Fang's sword techniques.
Sasori's parents were killed by the White Fang, and even their bodies could not be recovered.
That year, when he was eight, the wind of the Land of Wind gave Sasori a birthday gift; Sasori opened it, and only loneliness lay inside.
The death of his parents filled Sasori's childhood with loneliness. At that time, Chiyo was busy with the war and didn't notice that Sasori was beginning to change.
Sasori began to hate the brevity of life and developed a huge passion for puppets.
To satisfy her grandson's hobby, Chiyo taught Sasori puppetry.
At that time, Sasori was still normal, wanting to learn puppetry to become a powerful Ninja and seek revenge against the White Fang.
Until five years ago, when the White Fang committed suicide, the 13-year-old Sasori completely lost the target of his hatred.
His heart began to twist, and he transferred his target from the White Fang to the Third Kazekage.
At the age of 15, Sasori turned himself into a human puppet, discarding his useless physical body and emotions.
Subsequently, he made his move against the Third Kazekage.
Sasori believed it was the Third Kazekage's failure to protect his parents that led to them being killed by the White Fang.
Thus, Sasori conceived the idea of killing the Third Kazekage and turning him into a human puppet.
He succeeded. The Third Kazekage highly valued Sasori and essentially treated him as a confidant.
The Third Kazekage had no guard against Sasori; he was directly poisoned and then killed to be made into a human puppet.
Sasori took the Third Kazekage and defected from Sunagakure to enter the world of rogue ninjas, then wandered around, capturing powerful Ninjas while perfecting his regeneration core and puppetry techniques.
This was the life of Sasori.