After his reminiscing, Gaara looked down at the now unsealed Ryumyako source. The concept of unlimited chakra made him smile even in his dreams. He took out a scroll and layed it on the floor.
"Terraforming seal!"
The whole ruins rumbled like a great beast awakening. Sand and stones shifted and transformed visibly into a metallic-glass substance layered with lines upon lines of seals. Something that could not be done even with the chakra of a jinjuriki is occurring right in front of his eyes.
"Hahahahahahahahahaha! Arise!"
Laughing evily and then suddenly berating himself for acting like a chuuni with another chuckle he looked like he lost his marbles.
'The previous generation claimed that only their royalty can allow access to Ryumyako source but the truth is that they are just tricking others who know jack shit about putting up seals. Exclusive my ass. Now this is mine!'
Gaara watched as his surroundings changed into what he envisioned it to be. A man's romance. A kid's dream. His very own secret base! His batcave. His laboratory. His future home.
The ruins slowly vanished and in its place, a gigantic metallic pyramid rose up like a great gold tipped mountain, an energy dome surrounded the pyramid and dust slowly rose from the desert floor before joining the vortex of spinning sand covering a few miles around the pyramid.
The rumbling gradually lessened and finally stopped after some time. Gaara smiled with satisfaction, the trial is a huge success. The Ryumyako source is indeed limitless!
Gaara once again took a scroll from his pocket and summoned a sphere. He connected it to the fuinjutsu seal and with a humming sound, the sphere slowly rose from the ground.
[Greetings creator!]
"Hahahahaha good! Greetings to you too."
Gaara's smile grew wider as he heard the mechanical voice from the sphere.
"From today onwards you will be called Adam and you will refer to me as To... I mean Gaara. You will be in charge of taking care of and guarding this place while I'm away. You will also assist me with my future research and most importantly, you will tend to the garden at the first floor (whut? i like plants.)."
Jinn loved to take care of plants and he intended to keep at his hobby even in this world as Gaara. He started collecting a variety of rare plants long ago and the only thing left is to transfer them from his temporary greenhouse and into his new one.
"Let us call this place 'Eden'. To outsiders, let this place be known as Takamagahara."
'Yes because this is my own piece of heaven, or will be, in the future. Don't worry, I will not make an eve so as to not allow you my beloved creation to be corrupted and diverge onto a different path. The path of sin. hehehe'
[I hear and obey Gaara... great creator, manager, boss, amo.]
"Alright lose the long title, Gaara is fine. Use these guys as you see fit. These guys should be invincible within the territory of Eden. Gather data and improve them as necessary. I'll leave it to you for now I have much to do."
[I await your return. Great creator.]
Gaara sighed and vanished from his spot, he created the AI to fulfill his childhood dreams of becoming Iron Man and now that its here it wouldn't stop with his 'oh great creator'.
Reappearing in his room, Gaara's clone greeted him before vanishing into a puff of smoke, from which he learned of its experiences in the frame of time that he left.
The time is drawing near for the chunin exam. He didn't know what exactly happened in Konohagakure after the scroll incident but from what he little he managed to scrape from his agents, Naruto wasn't really implicated by the event and was able to graduate after showing mastery over the multiple shadow clone jutsu.
In reality, Mitzuki the only lead Konohagakure had did not give in to torture and did not respond to any questions. Orochimaru did a very thorough job on him that he is willing to lay his life on the line instead of ratting out on the rogue sannin.
'If the timeline is right, then Naruto should be in the land of waves with Sakura and Sasuke on a C class mission led by Kakashi Hatake. Its time for me to recruit my research and development team.'
Gaara looked towards the map on his table towards Snow country, the most technologically advanced in the shinobi world.
The people of Snow country is being oppressed by the ruling Daimyo who staged a coup against his own brother. Under his tyranny, many of its citizens fled to the neighboring countries to look for a life of peace.
'Alright I've decided to save these people.'
Gaara shamelessly claimed to saving people when he was truly planning on taking only those people with high value along with their imidiate family if they requested it. (American style!)
Aside from this, he also made sure to increase the efforts on finding the lost mines of Gelel which is supposed to also be within the wind country, while his men are on the lookout for Haido and Temujin.
The former carried the book that could help in processing the special mineral called Gelel and the former, well the former is not very valuable actually. Finding Kahiko and the ferret Nerugui is a better option, his only use is that he could actually lead to finding Haido, he is like a single use consumable item in games.
After updating his orders without forgetting about having his beloved plants moved to Takamagahara he stood up and went out as he felt the grumbling of his stomach. He forgot to eat due to excitement again, if Temari knew then he would get a nagg...
"Where the hell have you been?"
The sudden chokehold almost activated Gaara's near passive protection and in fact it already is activated but his quick reflexes and great control of the sand managed to salvage the situation before it became a crime scene.
'Speaking of the devil.'
"Ummm Ano... You see... I got caught up in a project I'm working on and didn't track time."
Gaara explained as Temari who looked very annoyed kept on rubbing his head with her fist, she cooked Gaara's favorite curry for dinner as a token of appreciation for helping her and Kankuro only to be kept waiting. Kankuro is very hungry but she insisted on waiting no matter what. thus... Gaara needed to be punished.
"You little twerp I will reheat the food. You can wash up first you already smell like them old guys. Ughh"
Temari covered her mouth with an exaggerated expression of wanting to vomit as she teased Gaara. Gaara on the other hand flinched, he's been so busy that he forgot to bathe in a few days already, the lack of water supply didn't help his situation either.
When he came out from the bath and changed he felt like a new man while thinking how these little things can make a man be filled with satisfaction. Kankuro who sat across him was glaring daggers at his younger brother. He was tortured, the food is placed in front of him but not allowed to eat.
"Ughh you brat, if you didn't come in another thirty minutes then I'd be on my way to hell due to hunger. You have to help me with my new design as compensation."
Gaara knew Kankuro this big softie isn't truly angry and realized what the other is getting at. He must have been stomped by a problem in his research and needed 'professional' advise, otherwise, this prideful brother of his wouldn't even mention it so he just smiled and nodded.
Soon the food arrived and the three enjoyed a meal together. Peals of laughter can be heard every now and then. When Yashamaru came in and saw this scene, he smiled and thought about his sister.
'Karura do you see this? They've all grown up happily.'
"What are you standing there for? Come and eat with us uncle Yashamaru!"
Gaara beckoned for his uncle to sit on a chair beside him to which the man complied with a smile on his face and a gentle wipe to the forming tears in the corner of his eyes.
The more the merrier isn't always true but when you are with the ones you care about, the more of them present is indeed a source of happiness. He was thankful to be given another chance.