Chapter 190
["Compared to Sasuke, Gaara doesn't seem to be very interested in Naruto!"]
["Before Gaara changed, he would probably only think Naruto was childish!"]
["Sakura is quite brave. Maybe she's not strong enough, but she's brave!"]
[Gaara covered his forehead with a headache, and Naruto took the opportunity to approach and take away Sasuke next to him. Then he looked at Sakura who had fainted and Sasuke who couldn't move, and swallowed his saliva to Gaara: 'I don't want to fight this guy...']
[Gaara kept pressing his head in pain, and his mind kept flashing back to the eyes of Kai and Sakura blocking important people, and then his childhood memories were uncontrollably brought up. ]
[Young Gaara sat alone on the swing holding a teddy bear, looking at a group of children playing football not far away, with a distressed face. 】
["Hey, what's going on? Naruto seems to be really afraid of Gaara!"]
["From Naruto's memories, I don't see anything about Gaara that's worth being afraid of!"]
["Even Zabuza, who was a demon, managed to survive, so why did he back off now!"]
["Look at Gaara, he's been irritated by the people of Konoha!"]
["Because of his inner desire, he was affected after seeing what they did... Hey, how pitiful..."]
[No one wanted to play with Gaara. Even though he helped get the ball stuck in the high place down, the children were still scared by Gaara's face. Seeing the few people running away, Gaara, who wanted to play with them, subconsciously grabbed them with sand. Seeing that the tragedy was about to happen, Yashamaru appeared in time to stop Gaara, but the price was that he was injured on his forehead and wrist. 】
[Gaara was taken home. He went to the room and looked at the mother in the photo. He took a knife and pressed the blade against his wrist. However, he showed a disappointed expression the next second: "It still doesn't work... The sand will hinder me..."]
["Alas, how can a child of only a few years old bear this!"]
["That's not necessarily true. There were many children who went to the battlefield at the age of four or five during the war. In comparison, this little fact that no one played with them is really not worth mentioning!"]
["Don't always use the situation during the war as an example. Is it the same as now!"]
["Whether it is a war or not, mental problems are common among Jinchūriki. Gaara's seemingly extreme behavior is actually very normal!"]
["What standard are you using? It's not considered a rampage. Normal, right! "]
["Alas, although I know that Jinchūriki is under great pressure, I can't get close to them as an ordinary ninja. I can only ignore them at most, but this will also stimulate them!"]
["It is really difficult to get along with someone who will hurt you out of the blue, unless you have the strength to deal with their rampage!"]
["Those people in Konoha dare to make friends with Naruto because his seal is strong enough, otherwise Naruto's situation may be ten times worse than it is now!"]
"It's exactly the same as mine..." Naruto smiled bitterly and looked at the sky. After seeing Gaara's situation, he couldn't help but think of his childhood. Even if he was always optimistic, that memory was definitely not something that could be easily covered with just a few words.
Gaara stared at Yashamaru on the sky, recalling every bit of his past with him. Before experiencing that despair, this was the only comfort he could get as a child.
[At this time, Yashamaru, with his forehead and arms wrapped in bandages, walked into the room. Listening to his gentle admonition and comfort, Gaara apologized with a guilty look on his face. Then, after Yashamaru said that it was just a superficial wound that would heal soon, Gaara looked at him with a look of longing but distress and asked, "...Yashamaru, what does pain feel like...?"]
["Because... I have never been injured... so I have no idea what it feels like..." Gaara tried to pretend to be nonchalant, but he still lowered his head sadly. ]
[Yashamaru said in distress that he didn't know how to describe it, and seeing the bandages on his hands, Gaara asked timidly, "Then Yashamaru... do you hate me?"]
["Ahh!! I can't stand seeing a child with such an expression!"]
["Fourth Kazekage, look at what you have forced your son to become!"]
["If I had known earlier that the sand contained the power of his mother, Gaara would not have had such a self-harming idea!”]
[“You can’t blame the Fourth Kazekage for that. Although he did seal the One-Tail into Gaara, the general environment of Jinchūriki is like that, and everyone is having a miserable life!”]
[“I don’t care! Seeing Gaara’s pitiful expression, it’s the Fourth Kazekage’s fault anyway!”]
[“Never got hurt... Although it’s a sad memory, after hearing this, I still feel... so envious!”]
[“Everyone will hurt others and be hurt by others in life, but people won’t hate someone so easily. "Yashamaru smiled gently, and Gaara smiled upon hearing that. He then said that he probably understood what pain felt like, because he had always been in pain in his heart. The following content was the same as Gaara's memory in the sky curtain last time, but this memory had a follow-up.]
[After Yashamaru told Gaara about his mother's speculation that he had been protecting him, Gaara thanked him for what happened before, and then asked for some trauma medicine, which he delivered to the home of a child he had injured before at night.]
["Gaara's uncle is so gentle!"]
["The gentler he was to Gaara, the more irritated he was when he was ordered by the Fourth Kazekage to attack Gaara!"]
["The more I see Gaara's experiences, the more I want to scold the Fourth Kazekage. What a crap! ”]
【But obviously, the child who was hurt by Gaara could not forgive him without any grudges. Gaara was driven away by his bad words, which made Gaara, who was in a slightly better mood, immediately become depressed again. He even lost control and killed a man who showed disgust to him on the way home. Then Gaara saw his father, who looked at him sharply, which made Gaara timidly and uneasy.】
(To be continued)