"There is no need to be so nervous. Their target is me, so as long as I am still here, they will surely come."
Gaara stood outside Kazekage's office and looked at the nervous Kankuro and Baki. He couldn't help but persuade them.
"We were clearly the ones who held the initiative in the beginning, but now it is us who are led by the nose. We don't even know when they will come." Kankuro said angrily.
"As long as they enter the village, I will immediately notice them." Gaara scattered his sand in many places in the village. This sand could become his eyes at any time. The security in the morning was very tight. Even the Akatsuki would not come at this time. They would only come at night.
Anyway, Gaara had not slept for ten years. A year ago, Ryoha asked Tsunade to modify Gaara's jinchuuriki seal so that Shukaku could not appear when he was sleeping. After ten years, Gaara finally could sleep normally.
Therefore, because he was used to not sleeping, his spirit became more vigorous. He had not slept for more than ten years. Since he could sleep now, he could survive without sleeping even for a few months. It would not affect him because he has long been used to it. This could be considered a kind of gain.
After knowing that the Akatsuki might be the closest, he decided to not sleep again. Every night, he would cultivate while waiting for the members of the Akatsuki to come.
"Mr. Sasori, we are almost there. You are not going to storm in, are you?" Deidara sat on the giant clay bird that could fly and looked around the village's vicinity.
"Even though Sunagakure is my old home, how could I just storm in to attack them alone?" Sasori almost fainted. Even the strongest of ninjas like Madara or Hashirama wouldn't dare to attack a village alone.
Even these people might not be willing to attack the entire Ninja Village alone. It was not that they did not have the strength, but if the other party tried to overwhelm them with numbers, they would easily get killed.
"Eh!" A picture appeared in Deidara's mind. He brought Sasori into the Iwagakure. The first one he encountered was the violent Kurotsuchi, the stubborn old man Onoki, and a large group of Ninjas shooting at them. Thinking of this, he shook his head. "Forget it, it was too dangerous!"
"Release!" Sasori did not pay attention to Deidara. He had already arranged for a backup plan. He had prepared a sleeper agent to help him. He used Memory-Concealing Manipulative Sand Jutsu on one member of the village's advisory council. The one who got manipulated by this jutsu would possess no memory of being a sleeper agent for Sasori because their brain's memory center was infected by Sasori's needles.
Yuura (the one Sasori converted into his sleeper agent) would help the two to enter the village without alarming anyone. Due to the effect of this jutsu, he had no memory of serving Sasori, and he was able to perform his spy duties safely. As a former Suna ninja. Sasori understood very well that they couldn't break the village's defense if everyone was alarmed by their arrival.
Because once he attracted the attention of the village, a steady stream of ninjas would join in. They would utilize the village's natural terrain to form a terrifying line of defense that was difficult to attack but easy to defend.
Sasori and Deidara walked for around 15 minutes. Sure enough, with Yuura's high status, no one suspected them. The guards were completely unprepared. They were wiped out easily.
"Thank you for your hard work, Yuura. You must have remembered who I am." Sasori's deep and hoarse voice, which was even more hoarse than Orochimaru's, entered the ears of the person in front of him.
"Yes, Sasori-sama." Although Yuura was very concerned with his companions' death, once his memories were restored, he knew that he was not Yuura of Sunagakure, but a loyal subordinate of Sasori.
"Mr. Sasori, just watch my performance here. I can do it alone." Deidara stood on his giant bird and said.
"Humph, Deidara, don't make me wait so long." Sasori did not object. Originally, Deidara, who was very strong at this time, had deeply recognized his shortcomings after the battle in the Land of Snow two years ago. Therefore, he trained really hard to improve.
He was much stronger than he was at the time of the original work, so Sasori was very assured about him. Even if he was defeated, with Deidara's intelligence and strength, he could still retreat. Of course, these two years were not in vain.
His hundred puppets were almost completely destroyed by Tsunade before, so he had been developing new puppets for the past two years. Even if his puppets could not resist Tsunade's monstrous strength, she would not destroy them all with one punch. As for collecting puppets, it was too simple.
He casually accepted a mission with a high bounty. Then, Deidara would use that opportunity to test his new jutsus and get stronger. Then, Sasori didn't need to do anything. Deidara killed their target and brought the target back to be transformed into a puppet.
The money he got could also buy the best materials for the puppets, or he could give the extra money to Kakuzu so that when Kakuzu went for bounties, he could bring back his victims' bodies to be converted into a puppet.
Therefore, in just over two years, not only Sasori was able to replenish his army of puppets, but he was also able to make them much stronger. It could be said that in the past two years, everyone had their own encounters. They either became stronger or became stagnant.
"How could that be? It's not like you don't know how powerful I have become now." This is really a bit difficult. Although Gaara had become stronger than the original, Deidara was also different.
If Deidara still used his original method, using the villagers as his hostages, and taking advantage of the time when Gaara was busy protecting his village, it was unknown who would win this battle.
Although Deidara was still as quirky as ever, compared to the original, the extra battle in Land of Snow made him a lot more mature and considerate. After entering the Sunagakure, he was very careful, doing his best to not let anyone find out.
Therefore, he hid from almost everyone, and the price he paid was naturally a lot of time. He only arrived at the top of Kazekage's office at night. However, when he was just landed on his feet, a man with a gourd on his back appeared in front of him.