{Valley of Hell, Land of Hot Springs}
{12:03 PM, 1st July 78 Yrs}
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"Did you find anyone?" Naruto asked.
"I did, Karin Uzumaki just participated in the chunin exams along with your team although her team got eliminated in the second exam," Hiroshi replied.
"Karin..." Naruto went back to thinking aloud, Hiroshi turned to Temari and asked, "So you guys leaving or staying?"
'I shouldn't give them more time to find flaws in my explanation, although it is canonically correct I really wasn't there for the Yondaime kazekage's death now was I...' Hiroshi thought as he looked at the conflicted expression on Temari's face.
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"Since you know the Flying Thunder God, you would be able to get us back to Suna right this moment right?" Temari asked tentatively, no matter the fact if Hiroshi was telling the truth or not, right now their best option would be to go back to the safety of their village.
"Suna no, Konoha yes" Hiroshi replied.
"Why not?" Temari asked confused.
Hiroshi shrugged dashing her hopes of quickly going back she looked at the black-haired man in front of her he looked to be in his early twenties. She scanned his face hoping to find anything that would make it easier to make a decision.
"Kankuro," Temari spoke as she turned to her brother, "Go around and see if we are really in the land of spring."
Kankuro hesitated for a moment before he rushed toward the only entrance he could see, Hiroshi looked at his departing figure and shouted, " There is a village 15 km southwest of here..."
The cave descended into silence once again, Hiroshi stood up and asked, "So I'm guessing you don't want me to look at Gaara's seal?"
"No thank yo-" Temari replied before she was cut off by Gaara's sand moving. Gaara was agitated he remembered Naruto's words about fighting for people you believe in. He slowly walked till he was a couple of feet in front of Hiroshi.
"Fix it..." Gaara spoke softly, Temari instantly protested but Gaara cut her off again by building a solid wall in front of her hiding her from Hiroshi's view.
Gaara paused, freezing for a moment before the wall collapsed and he turned around to stare at Temari's anxious expression.
"From the first moment that I could remember I have always had a voice in my head..." Gaara spoke, shutting up Temari's protest, "...people say I'm a monster, but Mother has always consoled me otherwise." Gaara looked into Temari's eyes, Hiroshi wasn't sure what she saw but her protests died down instantly.
"I'm not naive..." Gaara continued, "...I wanna know if that voice is actually that of a demon."
'Right, I forgot about this part. In the anime, Gaara did continuously talk to his mother when he went crazy, but since it was shown just one or two times I forgot about that.'
Hiroshi pulled out a storage scroll and unsealed a table for Gaara to lie down, "Remove your T-shirt and lie down, let me look at your seal actually."
Gaara walked up to the table but paused as he actually clutched his head he grunted causing Temari to run towards him but Hiroshi noticed she stopped a meter away from him out of habit.
"SHUT UPPP!!!" Gaara shouted as the sand surrounding him started to vibrate with him, Hiroshi injected a small amount of chakra into the Hiraishin seal engraved on his hand as he got ready to dash to Naruto and teleport away at a moment's notice.
Gaara calmed down after a few minutes and Hiroshi let his tense muscles relax. He removed his T-shirt and the lie down on the table on his back.
"Alright, I'm gonna approach you now try to keep your sand under control." Hiroshi cautioned as he walked slowly up to the table.
"The seal that is on your forehead is a compressed seal," he explained to let the tense nerves of everyone relax, "Fuinjtusu users normally compress a seal so that it is compact and not easy to decipher if someone doesn't know what they are doing, I'm going to inject a small amount of chakra to expand your seal so that I can see where it needs reinforcement okay?" Hiroshi continued as he focused and molded a small amount of chakra, he used his index finger to touch Gaara's forehead and used {Seal Compression} to undo the compression effect.
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He blinked and looked confused as if nothing happened, "Uhh..." He hesitated but before he could speak, Gaara's skin started breaking into a layer of sand and a new clear unmarked skin appeared in front of him, Hiroshi wanted to slap himself but he continued and used {Seal Compression} to undo the compression effect again.
The kanji on Gaara's forehead started wriggling into small seal structures and expanded down Gaara's neck and onto his torso. Hiroshi looked at the unveiled seal once again though some part of the seal was on Gaara's back, he quickly memorized the seal structure as he maintained the chakra flowing through his figures.
"Sit up," Hiroshi spoke and Gaara obliged, Hiroshi did a quick scan and then let go of his finger causing the seal to read into the Kanji for love once again. Hiroshi pulled out a large seal scroll from his inventory along with a couple of brushes and ink before he focused on starting to map out the seal on the sealing scroll.
Gaara stood up and pulled his T-shirt and chainmail vest on once again as Naruto looked down at the seal that Hiroshi drew. He worked in complete silence for about 10 minutes when Kankuro returned.
"So?" Temari asked.
"Yeah, we are in the land of Hot Springs..." he whispered back, "what the fuck is he doing now?" Kankuro asked but his sister shushed him down.
After another 5 minutes Hiroshi finally stopped, his mind was already breaking down the seal, as his counterpart found in the simulation the seal was an incredibly basic patchwork of multiple ideas somehow cramped together with transmission seals.
"So?" Temari asked, her gaze wasn't as hostile as it was half an hour ago.
Hiroshi bit his lip as he focused on scanning the whole seal, he then turned towards the Sand trio and spoke, "This seal is worse than in the rumors here let me show you..."
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