Building a bond is not as easy as it looks. For one thing, Gaara is no good at making statuettes.
Come on... just a little bit of sand, right- damn. No, left. More left. More- bugger. Right. Right, right, righ- That's his cheek: you cannot put a nose there. So, just a tiny shift to the... ah! Yes. Good...
Wait...
No, damn! No! That's not what his nose looks like! It's almost like somebody's jumped on it! Damn. Smaller. Less sand. Ok, take some sand away from... urgh! That's just eroded one of his nostrils... How am I ever going to... I hate this picture. It's too small and you can't see anything below the neck. Damn.
What about the eyes. Eyes, eyes, eyes. Add eyes. Small ones. No- smaller. Pin-size. Too small. Make the other one bigger as well, just a tiny bit - and it's in the middle of his cheek. Why am I not surprised? Higher. Slide it hiiiigherrr-notintothehair! Dammit.
He slams the encyclopaedia with a bang and slumps down onto his bed. The statuette, now that he is not concentrating, dissolves into his fingers and dribbles onto the floor. For a moment, he sits in silence.
How am I going to build a bond for him now?
I should have waited. I should have listened to Kankuro. 'Let's build a bond'. Not just 'build a bond'. Together. I should have waited and done it with Kankuro. Kankuro's good at art. Kankuro's good at-
It does not help that he does not know who 007 is, nor that he got the wrong page of the encyclopaedia.