NOTE: You must have read "Gaara's Romance #1" - "The Legend of Diyuma" ( https://www.wattpad.com/story/96060726-the-legend-of-diyuma-gaara%27s-romance-1-naruto ), in order to understand this volume. The first book, "The Legend of Diyuma", regards Ga...
Gaara was walking in the corridors of Kazekage house.
"Shinki!" he cried out.
"Um... He's in his room," Kankuro told him, who was there nearby, talking to one of the subordinates.
"Oh..." Gaara straightly walked up to Shinki's room, and knocked on his door.
"Come in!" was heard a strict voice from there.
Gaara opened the door and looked into the room.
Shinki was sitting on his bed, adjusting his skeleton puppet.
"What are you doing, Shinki? You should've been on the training ground by now. Sensei's been looking for you," Gaara told him in surprise, "It is not like you to be late..."
"I'm sorry dad," Shinki answered without raising his head, "Just been upgrading my puppet here... I'll finish soon, just some minutes left," he was zealously infusing iron sand in his puppet.
"Oh... What upgrades are you exactly doing?" Gaara got interested, and walked up to him.
"Just a few ones," Shinki answered, and then finished infusing the sand. He wiped sweat off his forehead. "Whew... Done. Here, look," he grinned and attached chakra threads to his puppet, hastily moving his fingers.
Oh, my, the puppet opened his mouth as if in rage, bent down as if wanting to stand on fours, opened up his claws and roared in a puppet voice!
Seeing this unusual pose of Shinki's puppet, Gaara gasped - no way!
"Diyuma Wielder pose?!" he exclaimed.
"Yes!" Shinki grinned, "Shamo and mom fought really cool with this pose. I bet when my puppet fights like this, he sure will win any battle!" and he moved his fingers again.
Skeleton puppet grew chakra fusions on his claws and began moving just like Shamo did when she took her Diyuma pose!
Gaara widened eyes in stupefaction.
"That's... amazing..." he murmured, and then looked down at Shinki, noticing his saddened eyes... Gaara guessed everything, and sighed. "You miss her, don't you?" he quietly asked.
"I just upgraded my puppet, that's all..." Shinki replied, as if nothing, but the same minute he wiped his eye.
Gaara bitterly beamed. He caressed Shinki on head.
"It is okay Shinki... She is your sister... Even I miss Temari sometimes, even though she is just over the border... And your sister, she's over the vast ocean... It is only natural you miss her..." he said.
"I know she will come back... And then we'll do the rematch..." Shinki bitterly smiled, and grinned, "With this puppet, I'll show her!"
Gaara laughed.
"I bet you will," he smiled. "But for that you will need to become stronger. Go to the training grounds now. Your team's waiting for you".
"Oh, of course! I almost forgot!" Shinki awedly grinned, and grabbed his upgraded puppet with iron sand, running off.
Gaara watched him as he disappeared behind the door, and then sighed, looking out of the window, in the sky...
A grateful smile covered his face...
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