In Gaara's heart, the concept of "father" is a bit too abstract.
Because, everything his biological father Rasa did to him, made Gaara hate these two words very much.
His miserable childhood, at least ninety percent of the responsibility, all lies with his father.
Gaara knows this very well.
What he didn't expect was that someone would actually want to be his father and adopt him as a son, is this a joke?
And that person happens to be Whitebeard in front of him!
Gaara could feel that Whitebeard was not lying, the scene in front of him was not Genjutsu, he just looked up at Whitebeard blankly.
Gaara's brain was a bit stuck for a while.
After all, this is something he didn't expect.
A gust of wind and sand blew by, making Gaara a little bit more sober.
He pursed his lips, although the thousands of thoughts in his heart were tangled into a mess, he still pretended to be cold and resolutely shook his head: "Don't be delusional, I came here to kill you, how could I possibly become your son?"
"Gurararararara, you have some personality!"
Unexpectedly, Whitebeard was not angry at all, but rather nostalgic: "You remind me of a stupid son named Ace, this stupid son was a bit like you back then!"
Whitebeard slowly stood up, he grinned: "Little brat, what do you want to do most now? Or what do you want to do most in your life? What are your dreams and goals?"
An unexpected question left Gaara stunned.
Gaara frowned and thought for a while, he said solemnly: "To possess the great power, to kill the person I want to kill, to live this life only for myself!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Whitebeard's flicking finger instantly landed on his forehead, directly knocking him flying.
Gaara rolled several times on the deck, hitting the wall in an embarrassing manner, he didn't expect Whitebeard to suddenly make a move.
And he did it in such a teasing way!
Just as Gaara wanted to stand up and fight, Whitebeard's voice sounded: "Little brat, how can a person live only for themselves in this life! People need to have family and friends!"
Gaara stopped on the spot.
Family.
Friends.
He thought of Rasa, his mother, Temari, Kankuro, Yashamaru... these people are all his family.
As for friends?
He has no friends.
Gaara touched the bruise on his forehead, he said with a stern face and stubbornly: "I don't need such a family! Their existence is of no use!"
Family, on the contrary, is what Gaara hates.
Because, Rasa, in order to test whether Gaara was a qualified Jinchuriki, told Gaara two years ago a wrong "truth" through Yashamaru.
That wrong truth caused Gaara to misunderstand everything in the past.
Heavy footsteps sounded, and Whitebeard stood in front of Gaara again, he looked down and said: "Little devil, then do you want to have a different family?!"
Gaara couldn't answer.
According to reason, according to his character, Gaara thought he should refuse Whitebeard again.
But for some reason, he couldn't say the words in his heart.
The words Yashamaru said to him before he died once again surfaced in his mind, Gaara felt a little headache.
He uncontrollably held his head, his body was trembling slightly.
He didn't make any resistance, nor did he make any radical actions, he curled up his body like a wounded puppy.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Whitebeard caught a glimpse of some sand drilling out of the tattered big gourd on Gaara's back.
The sand condensed into a slender palm, gently stroking Gaara's hair.
"What is this?" Sasuke on the side was also a bit surprised: "Sealless Ninjutsu?"
Neji activated his Byakugan, he said: "It's not Ninjutsu. As expected, like last time, the sand in the gourd is not controlled by Gaara."
Neji explained: "The flow trajectory of the chakra in the sand has nothing to do with the chakra in Gaara's body, which means that the sand should have an awareness."
Naruto's eyes widened, he asked curiously: "Is this some kind of strange weapon?!"
Thinking of how he accidentally broke this big gourd before, Naruto was a little embarrassed.
"There's a soul's breath." The voice of Nohara Rin sounded, she said in surprise: "There's a soul's breath in the sand, and it's not a living soul!"
Nohara Rin, as a dead person, no one in the field understands the soul better than her.
"The soul of a dead person?" Kakashi touched his chin: "Could it be that a dead soul is living in the gourd? It seems that he had a deep relationship with this child when he was alive!"
Gaara's body had stopped trembling, he seemed to be trying to throw away the memories that surfaced in his mind.
He also heard a group of pirates discussing.
Gaara had a cold face, he lowered his head and said coldly: "Tsk, if there really is a soul inside, it should be the soul of my mother who bears a grudge against me!"
His words revealed a lot of information.
Hinata clasped her two small hands, her voice was a bit weak: "A mother who bears a grudge against you?!"
Hinata looked at the gentle "sand palm", she murmured: "It doesn't seem to bear a grudge."
Bang!
Gaara slapped away the annoying hand on his head, shattering the hand made of condensed sand.
He snorted and said, "This is hatred! She didn't want to give birth to me at all. She named me 'Gaara' with resentment and hatred, wanting me to become a Shura who only loves himself, and let me survive in the village with her hatred."
Gaara's fingers tightly gripped the deck.
As a result, because the deck was too hard, his fingers couldn't penetrate the deck, but instead, a lot of blood oozed from his fingernails.
Everything he said... was the "truth" that Yashamaru once told him.
And it was from that night that Gaara decided that he would never love anyone other than himself.
In that way, he wouldn't be betrayed, and he wouldn't feel heartache.
"I won't have a family, and I don't want to have a family." Gaara slowly stood up, he looked up at Whitebeard, "If you don't kill me, then I will try my best to kill you!"
Because, just now, Gaara was moved for a moment.
He doesn't allow himself to be moved, and he doesn't allow himself to love anyone.
He doesn't want to be betrayed again.
"Hehe... interesting kid." Orochimaru, standing in the corner, looked at Gaara with interest.
Naruto frowned, just from what Gaara said, his family really wasn't any good.
So, it's normal for him to resist having a family.
However, Naruto always felt something was wrong.
If his mother really wanted Gaara to survive with a kind of hatred, and wanted Gaara to become a time bomb in Sunagakure Village...
What was that just now?
Is this really hatred?
Naruto's subconscious told him that the truth might not be that simple.
"Hey, where is your mother buried?" Naruto suddenly asked Gaara.
Gaara gave Naruto a cold glance, "What do you want to do?"
Naruto put his hands behind his head and said, "I always feel that your mother is not as bad as you said. Don't be angry first... If you think I'm talking nonsense, maybe you can give me a chance to prove it?"
"As long as you tell me where your mother's body is buried, I can bring your mother out of the underworld and talk to you."
Gaara: "!!!"
At this moment, Gaara's mood was completely unsettled.
He stared at Naruto with wide eyes, his face full of disbelief.
Naruto grinned and said, "How about it? Dare to bet?"
Gaara's struggle lasted less than two seconds.
He responded, "In the ninja cemetery of Sunagakure Village."
Naruto's mouth curled up, "Can you take me there?"
Then, Naruto turned his head to look at Whitebeard, "Pops, let's stop Moby Dick here first. I'll go into Sunagakure Village with Gaara first, dig up his mother's grave, and bring his mother out with Edo Tensei first, and then figure out some things."
Whitebeard raised his eyebrows, digging someone else's mother's grave?
It's also thanks to Naruto, this stupid son, for coming up with this!
But it seems feasible.
If we can take this opportunity to untie the knot in Gaara's heart.
Then the Whitebeard Pirates might welcome a new member.
Whitebeard grinned, "Stupid son, move quickly! Don't disrespect the dead!"
"Okay!" Naruto's smile grew brighter. Because Pops agreed.
"I'll go too." Sasuke stood up and said, "So Naruto won't mess things up."
"Add me in." Neji, with his hands in his pockets, said, "If we're discovered, my Byakugan can quickly spot the pursuers from Sunagakure."
A simple "grave-digging" team of four was assembled.
They were Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuga Neji, and Gaara.
"Pops, should I go with them?" Kisame was a little worried about these kids.
"Gurara, consider this as their special training!" Whitebeard didn't let stronger people participate, which could be seen as a way to train these foolish sons.
"I understand." Kisame nodded and didn't continue speaking.
And so...
The Moby Dick really stopped, stopping in the vast desert.
...
Time passed in the blink of an eye, an hour.
At this time, the sky in the desert was getting dark. Although Gaara's face showed no unusual expression, he was still a little dazed inside.
Gaara couldn't understand why things had developed this way.
He couldn't help but look at Naruto next to him, "Did you deliberately provoke me with your words earlier, and I agreed to take you to Sunagakure Village? And you pirates just let me go?"
Naruto looked innocent, "Provoke you on purpose? No!"
He hid the cunning in his eyes very well.
Sasuke spoke up, "Don't overestimate yourself, even if you are let go, you can't run away."
Gaara's forehead veins bulged, and he glared at Sasuke with a murderous look.
Sasuke looked back without courtesy.
Neji twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, a bit helpless.
One with a violent temperament, one with a proud temperament, when these two are together, indeed, they don't get along well.
At this moment, these four young kids of similar age were walking in the desolate desert, one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Suddenly, Gaara stopped.
"We're here."
He gazed at a group of buildings not far ahead. In the dim night, he could see the twinkling lights in front of him.
That was the light in the village.
Naruto was also trying hard to look into the distance, he muttered, "Is this Sunagakure Village? It looks so desolate!"
Sasuke, touching his chin, commented, "This place looks pretty poor."
Neji suddenly frowned, he said, "Be careful, there are people nearby! Quite a few people!"
His Byakugan had a visual range of a full kilometer, which was even wider than Naruto's Observation Haki.
Under Neji's Byakugan observation, he found that within a radius of one kilometer, there were actually five or six ninjas!
Neji frowned and said, "Strange, they seem to be looking for something."
Then, he reacted. Neji couldn't help but look at Gaara, "Did you come out on your own?"
Gaara didn't answer, he took it as a default. Gaara snorted and said, "What's the big deal, just kill them."
"Let's go around." Neji held a different opinion, "We can kill five or six ninjas, but that doesn't mean we can kill five or six hundred, or even five or six thousand ninjas. Their goal is to infiltrate Sunagakure Village, not to kill into Sunagakure Village."
Gaara pouted, and said unhappily, "What a hassle."
But he still followed Neji and bypassed those ninjas from Sunagakure Village.
In the end, the four little kids finally entered Sunagakure Village, and no one discovered them during the period.
The ninja cemetery of Sunagakure Village is located near the back mountain of the village.
This time it was Gaara's turn to lead the way, and the few people quickly shuttled through the buildings.
...
Meanwhile.
On the other side of Sunagakure Village.
"Huh? We're leaving the village to find Gaara? This... Father will definitely not agree, right? If Father finds out, we're doomed!"
Kankuro swallowed a mouthful of saliva, expressing his disagreement with Temari's proposal.
"Moreover, Gaara is so powerful, he won't be in trouble, right? Even if we find Gaara, we may not be able to bring him back!"
Kankuro shivered, "What if... what if he wants to kill us?"
Temari kicked Kankuro's butt and complained, "Are you that scared? He is our brother after all!"
"Hmm?" Suddenly, Temari quickly turned her head.
But she saw nothing.
"What's wrong?" Kankuro was confused.
Temari frowned, "Why do I always feel like something just ran past?!"
Kankuro was stunned, "Ran past? Where?"
Temari grabbed Kankuro's collar, "Come on, follow me!"
Kankuro was dumbfounded, "Huh?"
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