It had been three days; a gloved hand reached out and retreated promptly. This series of actions had been happening every so often since he returned home, reach, retreat, reach, retreat. Upon returning home from his mission he found three rolled parchment scrolls laying right beside the door of his small house. Things like this: appearing scrolls, were never really a good sign especially in a place batshit crazy like sunagakure but curiosity as they say… kills the cat. There was a feeling he got from them that was no good but… It had been three days and he could resist no longer.
A scroll promptly pressed against the table of red oak and fingers slipped open the tab smoothing it flat against the wood eyes widening as the dark pupils read over the contents. What… was this? His heart pulsed slipping a thumb over the characters of ink reading quietly to himself. "Altering your puppets and Kugutsu no Jutsu techniques and strategies…", there had to be well over 4000 different moves listed, 'this is incredible.. these moves and strategy plays are so advanced. Memorizing all of this… loosing to anyone would be almost impossible!" Why though would someone leave these here for him to find? ". . ." No way.
Quickly his hand grabbed the edge of the scroll and rolled it back up taking a step back. Most of those were forbidden he'd bet. No.. Kankurou had studied most Kugutsu No Jutsu scrolls available and not a single one of those plays had he ever come across. The mid-teen male shot a look to the side at the other two. Where these…?
"Stop shittin' yourself," he spoke aloud with a wave of his hand. It was probably nothing, some little kid trying to scare him after hearing about his run in. Fucking kids. Man he hated kids. The boy stopped a few meters away… that was impossible. Those techniques and strategies were very intricate, precise and perfectly written out. Only a highly skilled master would think up things like this.
A sharp pivot brought the sand-nin to face the table once more, now he really needed to know. With a quick brush of his arm all contents of his desk was cleared abruptly making way for the other two scrolls and in the same motion as before he popped open the tab of the second one splaying the smooth paper over the table. A list of poisons? Not just any list but a complete guide to the creation, effect and counter of lethal poisons and again… thousands of them. His body bent in running a finger down the list fixated on the information before him. Minutes passed before he stopped upon one in particular. Was this? Kankurou leaned in closer reading over the effects.. no.. he reread them once more.. it couldn't be.
Quicker than before he took the last scroll flattening it out in seconds and what his eyes laid upon had his body frozen in motion; Hitokugutsu. So it was. A list of forbidden techniques, poisons and now this.. the human puppet technique. Used by the one and only…
"Sasori…"