"Is that so." It was an inadequate response already, but Gaara's renewed silence afterwards meant that it had to cover for both parcels of information at once and went from 'inadequate' to 'laughably so'. How could a jinchuuriki become a central part of their own community? Every piece of his own progress had been in Konoha, every friend and bond he'd made had been outside the walls of Suna.
Well, not every bond. The few were the exception that proved the rule. And here, wearing this woman's face and actually watching the people around them, he could detect faint motions, differences; someone drawing themselves up as he passed, someone smiling a greeting. A pillar of support. How had she done it?
His - her - jaw clenched.
"She could be in danger- no, if she and I have been switched, there's no 'could' about it." He bit off the rest of the explanation. The people around him whose reactions had given him the will to answer Kakashi were also the reason he couldn't say any more. Even in somewhere like Konoha, the news that two jinchuuriki were unstable and compromised would cause unrest. "Hatake-san, will you send a missive for me? To... Temari of Suna?"
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Well, not every bond. The few were the exception that proved the rule. And here, wearing this woman's face and actually watching the people around them, he could detect faint motions, differences; someone drawing themselves up as he passed, someone smiling a greeting. A pillar of support. How had she done it?
His - her - jaw clenched.
"She could be in danger- no, if she and I have been switched, there's no 'could' about it." He bit off the rest of the explanation. The people around him whose reactions had given him the will to answer Kakashi were also the reason he couldn't say any more. Even in somewhere like Konoha, the news that two jinchuuriki were unstable and compromised would cause unrest. "Hatake-san, will you send a missive for me? To... Temari of Suna?"