The kidnapping of the Kazekage was sudden and urgent. Actually, when Kakashi received the news, his first thought was of that Hatake Satoru.
Logically speaking, if Hatake Satoru was here, this kind of thing shouldn't have happened.
But the situation was urgent, so they quickly came over.
Kakashi's understanding of Hatake Satoru was limited to the fact that he was very strong, but it was hard to say how strong.
Also, Akatsuki members usually act in pairs.
If something unexpected happened, it would be hard to say.
So they rushed over here almost without delay, overnight, but…
They didn't expect Hatake Satoru to be asleep… He didn't even receive the news when the Kazekage was kidnapped.
Although it felt quite unreliable, it also felt like something that guy would do.
"Well... Gaara is fine now anyway!"
Naruto looked at the nearby Gaara with shining eyes.
He didn't expect that after so many years, when he came here, Gaara was already the Kazekage.
And he himself was still just a Genin.
The difference was quite big.
Then Naruto lowered his eyes as if complaining, and whispered to Kakashi.
"And actually, Satoru-sensei solved everything!"
"Let's go back and do new missions quickly."
"But after so long, Satoru-sensei doesn't seem to have changed at all."
Unchanged in many ways...
Before, Hatake Satoru would wear a blindfold, so you couldn't see any changes in his age.
After they came this time, they found that he had switched to wearing sunglasses. You still couldn't see his eyes from the front, but from the side, you could still see his whole face.
Although two or three years wouldn't make much difference for adults, Hatake Satoru's face still looked like it was only around twenty.
Completely ageless, nothing changed.
And his abilities were still amazing…
This made Naruto and Kakashi feel most confused.
After Naruto came back, Kakashi organized another bell-stealing test for the two of them.
This time, even without Sasuke's help, Kakashi was already struggling to deal with them both, and the bells were stolen.
Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura all felt firsthand that they had grown.
But why did they still feel like their age was completely useless compared to Hatake Satoru?
"Haah… that's just him."
Kakashi shifted his gaze helplessly, looking at Hatake Satoru, who was swaying nearby to see them off.
Although he's quite unreliable, at least he knows to see them off.
"How to open the connections between the parts and joints? I've made a new device, the current one is too weak…"
A small red-haired boy jumped up with effort, hanging on Hatake Satoru's arm, seemingly arguing about something.
"Ah—kids shouldn't touch such dangerous things!"
"This one is perfect for you now."
Hatake Satoru didn't even turn his head, waving to Kakashi as a greeting, while smiling and replying in a light tone.
The red-haired boy looked only about five or six years old, about one meter tall.
Hanging on Hatake Satoru's arm, who was over one meter ninety, he looked no different from a noisy cat.
Hatake Satoru was obviously holding him up with ease, swinging his arm casually.
"You didn't say that before…"
Sasori seemed to realize something was wrong, turning his head to look at the other side, at the Nine Tails Jinchuriki and Kakashi.
He clicked his tongue with some dislike. Although he wanted to argue with Hatake Satoru, this situation obviously wasn't very suitable for arguing.
Sasori honestly jumped down from Hatake Satoru's arm.
Naruto and Kakashi rubbed their arms in a strange way. That kid seemed to have shown a strange look just now.
Did that kid just glare at them with contempt? He glared, right?
"But that kid only appeared after Gaara was brought back, right?"
Naruto blinked, looking at Gaara's red hair and then at Sasori's hair.
He seemed to understand something!
He didn't expect that after going out for a trip, Gaara actually!
As soon as Kakashi saw Naruto showing that kind of look, like a cat gaining strange knowledge, he knew that he must be thinking about something weird again.
This kid had grown a lot in ability after going out for training, and his imagination had also become strangely wild.
Kakashi quickly reached out and waved in front of Naruto, interrupting his unreliable and bizarre train of thought.
"What are you thinking about…"
"He's the child of the medical staff in the research lab, he seems to be called Sasaki… same as the train station name."
"My brother is popular with kids."
Kakashi explained to Naruto in a lazy way. Hatake Satoru's trait of liking and being liked by children was almost obvious.
Naruto nodded thoughtfully.
After all, he also liked Hatake Satoru when he was a kid. That person just had the quality of attracting children.
Sakura had chatted with the other staff and realized that almost everyone from Naruto's side had arrived, so she also walked over.
She immediately saw Sasori, who was the most out of place among the group of people.
"Eh, you came to see us off too."
"I didn't think you would come out."
Sakura squatted down in front of Sasori with a smile, and reached out to rub his head.
Medicine and poison go hand in hand. Since she knew that this little girl was Tsunade's student, Sasori had intentionally or unintentionally tried to trick some medical knowledge out of her mouth, to use for making poison.
Sakura was after all only a teenager, and had no resistance to this kind of child at all.
She answered whatever he asked, and also felt proud of being liked by the cute child.
"Yes, after all, elder sister has taught me a lot of things, and everyone worked very hard to save Kazekage-sama."
"I'm very grateful to you, I will read the books elder sister left behind carefully."
Sasori showed a very sweet and cute smile, replying in a childish voice.
Sasori could have memorized those medical books ten or twenty years ago, he just wanted Sakura to leave behind some antidotes and drug formulas.
Every word that came out of his mouth felt like torture to Sasori. Calling a woman who was almost half his age "elder sister" and acting so soft and spoiled.
Sasori's toes were digging a three-bedroom apartment on the ground out of embarrassment.
"So cute!!"
Does this kind of sensible and cute child really exist?!
Sakura's maternal instincts immediately exploded, hugging Sasori and rubbing his cheeks against his face.
"Ah, hey, don't do that…"
"…"
Hatake Satoru pursed his lips, holding back his laughter and turning his head away. The few insiders all desperately tried to hold back their laughter, lowering their heads or covering their faces.
How could there be such a funny thing?
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