Red Nara

Of course, most of the talk was about the final chunin exam and the various candidates to bet on to win the prize, but there was something else to catch on - due to the recent defeat in the war, the Kazekage's position was very precarious and the elders belonging to other clans were rapidly gaining political weight, especially Sabaku, who had the most suitable candidate for the post, who owned the golden sand. Here is the future fourth showing up.

And the ongoing exam is a great opportunity for the Kage of Suna to consolidate his position on the throne and fix the village's shattered budget. Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to find out anything about Pakura and Sasori, since the locals had the brains not to start such topics, but shadow clones easily planted with other people could learn much more from their stealth alone, so it wasn't worth the trouble.

Especially considering the constant surveillance of the already nervous Sunovians. I wandered around the village for a while, bet on Senju Genin from my friend's team to win the first round, and then returned to the inn after a bite to eat at one of the eateries. I had satisfied my initial curiosity, and the rest would wait until the clones returned.

The new information came only by nightfall and brought quite a lot of contradictory information not only about Sunagakure itself, but also diverging from the information I had from my previous life. I was sure that the genius puppeteer Sasori was an orphan and that he had only his grandmother Chiyo and her brother.

Yeah, right! Ten times! The boy's mother died in the middle of the recent war, but the elder's son is feeling pretty good, is one of the strongest users of kugutsu, and got married two years ago, almost immediately giving Sasori a baby sister.

The most possible future member of Akatsuki is eleven years old, and he even managed to participate in the war (being famous for his talents not only in controlling a couple of personally collected dolls, but also for creating intricate poisons only a little worse than his grandmother's), though only for a couple of months, but he became a genin at eight and in the future he threatens to become a big pain in the ass of Suna's enemies, if they don't swat him. Although, with such a cool dad, it's unlikely (as well as apostasy, by the way), and a couple of elders would tear anyone to shreds for their favorite grandson.

I used to think that in Suna or any other hidden village there wouldn't be such a mess and graft among those close to power for short-term gain, but the information delivered by the clones made me realize that people everywhere are still people, even in the other world, trying to get more for themselves or blame their guilt on others, preferably with a profit.

A couple of conversations between the chunins who were bored on the rooftops, watching the crowds, gave a lot of information, as did the gossip of the local merchants, which was spread only among themselves and when there were no ears nearby.

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