Kankuro improved very quickly under Gaara's nurture, Temari who saw his improvements first hand was soon in on the 'secret' and decided to join in on the fun of growing stronger.

Strength is all the fuzz in the desert and in the entirety of the shinobi world after all. Those with greater strength gets the best benefits and those who are weaker have no rights but to follow the rules of the strong.

These two graduated soon with flying colors so to say.

Years passed and Gaara is now twelve years old. He accomplished many things in these years, he solved his financial problem by selling the tags he made he limited it to the most common ones so as to spread his original inventions and the improvements he made on the already existing tags. He did however sell one of his original creations, the healing tag which can be effective when placed over external wounds.

Over time, he established an intel gathering organization through the accumulated funds he received from his business. Although it is run under a different name, most of the money still belongs to him.

He also improved the puppet style of fighting while guiding Kankuro on the path to building the 'ultimate puppet'. Kankuro still hated his naming sense but couldn't be bothered to argue with him over it. Resigned to his fate, he hung his head low and focused on his true passion.

He also learned if not mastered poison making under Lady Chiyo's tutelage. Making one of his own design is only a matter of effort. He even had the time to dabble in agriculture making orders of rare plants and their method of propagation to improve the economic status of the village.

Everybody is a degree happier due to these developments, even Rasa can often be seen in a bright mood in the past few years. The future looked very bright for sunagakure . Oh yeah. Who would imagine most of it if not all came from a kid under the age of twenty? Not even fifteen.

••••

Gaara opened a small scroll secretly delivered to him through a transmission seal he developed specifically for sending small non-living items. It is similar to the flying raijin seal created by the second hokage and that is because this seal is based on it.

Advanced technology can already be found in other places in the shinobi world and Gaara did plan to get these juicy pieces of meat foe himself but many restrictions made it difficult for him to personally acquire them so he set it aside for the future.

'Ruins found. Marker set.'

Gaara smiled after reading the content of the scroll. His plans are advancing quite smoothly. He produced a clone and with a series of hand seals disappeared from his room using flying raijin.

Roran or what was left of it stood before him. After Minato Namikaze sealed the source ryumyako, the kingdom fell to war and ruin.

Gaara quickly surveyed the area with an army of shadow clones and soon found the seal placed by the fourth hokage.

'What do you think of this seal Shukaku?'

Gaara already have his own thoughts but an advise from another expert wouldn't hurt.

[Its not that simple. There's a lot of rules placed in this seal. If one didn't know the correct way of unsealing it then the whole thing is set to self destruct. That Minato is indeed a genius even when he came from a humble origin.]

Shukaku acknowledged the skill of Minato in fuinjutsu, the man came far after receiving an incomplete inheritance.

'Come on now Shukaku, these seal may be difficult for anyone equal to or similar level as Minato but for the Ichibi this shouldn't pose that much difficulty, yes.'

[Hmph, Dont patronize me kid I'm just stating facts, fuinjutsu have stagnated for a long time now. Except for you, you can probably count the number of masters with the fingers of your hand. For you who have learned from none but the best, it would be a shame to this great one if you are stumped by this seal. Now hurry up and release the seal I want to see how you will resolve it.]

'You're no fun. Make sure to lend me some chakra, this seal is tapped to the source of ryumyako. Like you said, not just anyone with mastery over fuinjutsu can release it as the chakra requirement is huge. I wonder if Minato deliberately packaged this seal for a certain blond boy.'

'Tsch, Do I have a choice? You will keep pestering me if I refused anyway. Quit your musings and get to work.'

The Ichibi thought.

The hand seals exceeded hundreds, when Gaara touched the ground, lines began to spread out and intertwine with the seal symbols. Sweat began to form on his forehead and he is visibly exhausted from the abrupt chakra depletion.

Then the ruins began to rumble like rolling thunder and shifting boulders. Violet light began to emerge lighting up the whole chamber they are currently in.

"That's better!"

Gaara comented with a smile on his face. He watched the movies but now that he's here to his own stuff, he felt a little too excited about the things that an unlimited amount of chakra can offer.