"Ah, what? No, I just didn't understand for a moment."
"Hello."
After Hozuki Mangetsu grew up, he basically didn't have much contact with kids this small.
Although he had supervised students taking the Chunin exam, those people were all eleven or twelve years old.
He rarely even sees kids this small, about three feet tall, when he's working.
And just while he went out to buy some clothes, a little boy suddenly appeared in Hatake Satoru's house.
He didn't understand what was going on when he walked in.
He reached out to Scorpion in a bit of a panic, wanting to explain.
Kids' feelings should still be pretty sensitive at this age. Would his silence just now hurt the child?
When Scorpion heard Hatake Satoru's loud and wild laughter, the thought of killing everyone in the room flashed through his mind.
If he could beat Hatake Satoru, he would at least sacrifice Sunagakure Village along with this guy.
"You...you're doing this on purpose, right!"
Scorpion suddenly jumped up and pounced on Hatake Satoru, who was laughing wildly beside him.
"I'm just finding someone for you to get used to, so you won't be overwhelmed later."
Although Hatake Satoru was laughing so hard he could barely breathe, he still easily grabbed Scorpion's wrist and lifted him up.
No matter how unwilling Scorpion was, his current body wasn't the shell he had made himself.
There were no tricks or poisons.
He could only jump up and hit Hatake Satoru's knees like a normal kid.
"What...they seem to get along pretty well..."
Hozuki Mangetsu looked around blankly, unsure of what to say.
The little kid was speaking softly a moment ago. How did he suddenly rush over to fight Hatake Satoru?
And it feels like the kid's way of talking is a bit strange.
"Which eye of yours thinks this is good, brat?"
Scorpion, held down by Hatake Satoru, turned his head to glare at Hozuki Mangetsu, annoyed.
"Huh? Huh??? Brat?"
Hozuki Mangetsu pointed at his own face, confused. Wasn't the kid calling him "brother" nicely when he first came in?
Why has that changed to "brat" now?
Hozuki Mangetsu is a bit older than Deidara, but Scorpion is old enough to call him that.
"Too bad~ It would have been good to record you just now."
"It would probably be your shame for all time."
Hatake Satoru grabbed Scorpion's wrist, put him down, and looked at the two with a smile.
"What's wrong, teacher...? Is this kid okay?"
"You should put on some clothes first."
Hozuki Mangetsu took some clothes out of a bag nearby.
He wanted to walk over, but he felt like Scorpion's behavior was strange and hard to figure out.
Even though he's a kid, and there's no one else of the other gender in this room...
He just felt a bit awkward.
Especially after being called "brat" by a kid, Hozuki Mangetsu felt a subtle disturbance in his heart.
Because Scorpion wasn't wearing any clothes, Hozuki Mangetsu could see him quite clearly.
No visible injuries or any other problems.
The only thing Hozuki Mangetsu could think of was that the kid might have some kind of mental issue.
"That kind of thing doesn't matter much."
Scorpion had changed his entire body, so he naturally wouldn't care about being naked.
If he had to say, the most important purpose of wearing clothes was to hide his core.
But now that Hatake Satoru had made this flesh body for him, it could directly hide his core, so there was no need to cover it.
"That's quite a shameless thing to say. It really sounds like something a guy in his thirties would say."
"Unbelievable...unbelievable..."
Hatake Satoru loved watching the fun and added fuel to the fire, shaking his head.
"You!"
Scorpion could almost feel the veins tightening on his new forehead.
He must kill this guy.
Scorpion couldn't help but angrily turn his head away.
Hozuki Mangetsu, with the sense of shame of a young person, couldn't stand Scorpion's unrestrained nude behavior and directly threw the clothes over his head.
Sasori The Red sand, thirty-five years old, had clothes put on him like a child while a young man held his head.
A terrible humiliation, and top-secret information that must not be revealed to anyone.
"...Thirty years old?"
Hozuki Mangetsu muttered as he forcefully put the clothes on Scorpion.
Messy red hair stuck out from the collar. Hozuki Mangetsu's taste in clothes wasn't that great.
The clothes weren't much different from the clothes Scorpion wore as a child. Hozuki Mangetsu was an absolute genius at buying clothes to find such old-fashioned styles after all these years.
But having something to wear is good enough, so Hatake Satoru didn't say much.
"Yeah, this guy is already thirty-five years old."
"Well~ It's easier to explain if he's a kid, so I made him a kid's body."
Hatake Satoru shrugged innocently.
"............"
Hozuki Mangetsu looked down at Scorpion and met his eyes, which were a bit droopy and seemed to be showing a hint of pride, for three seconds.
Scorpion's face was already pretty, and with him being a kid, he looked even more cute.
He might even be able to make women feel sorry for him.
This guy is thirty-five years old?
...It's hard to imagine in many ways.
One is that the person using this body is actually a guy in his thirties.
Another is that Hatake Satoru hadn't done anything like merging with a living person before.
Even if Hatake Satoru made all the puppets look lifelike, puppets are basically puppets.
They definitely won't merge with other things.
His puppets may seem fully automatic, but they're like Karna.
The skin is blue-white, they can't talk, and they don't have the ability to think.
Merging a person and a puppet to achieve such a high degree of completion is simply incredible.
"I know the teacher is good at making puppets!"
"But the contrast of a little boy and an old guy is too awkward!"
Being called "brother" by a guy in his thirties, and the soul inside the cute little boy shell being a guy in his thirties who will angrily call him "brat"...
Comparing these two things, it's hard to say which is more disgusting.
Hozuki Mangetsu's youthful spirit took a heavy blow.
"People always have to experience all kinds of things."
Hatake Satoru slightly raised the corners of his mouth and then looked at Sasori The Red sand, who was pulling at his clothes to fix them.
"Oh, right, I can teach you how to make puppets, and I'll use your current body to explain."
"But I have one condition: give me information about Orochimaru."
"You must know something about that, right?"
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