At night, Gaara was getting ready to sleep, when suddenly a call came from the depths of his consciousness, which reminded Gaara of what Nagazawa said, that he wanted to chat with Ichibi and make friends with him.

Gaara thought for a moment and didn't resist. Instead, he took the initiative to welcome him and cooperated consciously.

Just like that, Gaara closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he had arrived in a mysterious space.

The first time he opened his eyes, Gaara saw a huge tanuki with mysterious blue patterns on his body, the Ichibi Shukaku.

Seeing that Gaara did not resist fear as before, Ichibi was also a little surprised and grinned. In line with the dark tone of this space, it looked particularly eerie.

"Haha, you actually dare to take the initiative to greet me. It seems that you have become bolder." Ichibi said sadly.

"Huh." Looking at Ichibi's huge and terrifying body, Gaara took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

This was not the first time he saw Shukaku. Although Shukaku was unconscious when he transformed, Gaara had seen the first tail because of the influence of the chakra of leaving the tailed beast.

Because he was affected before and couldn't sleep.

Anyone who knows that there is an ugly monster as big as a hill in their body will be scared, let alone Gaara is still so small.

'Brother Nagazawa said that Ichibi is not a monster that only thinks about killing, but can communicate with it. You need to be friends with it and get to know it.' Gaara thought of Nagazawa's words and finally controlled his trembling.

Legs that don't stop.

"Shukaku, I want to be friends with you!" Gaara looked at Ichibi with firm eyes, and then said clearly word by word.

Shukaku didn't expect that Gaara would actually ask to be friends with him. He was stunned for a moment, and then Shukaku burst out laughing loudly.

"Hahaha, it's really funny to me that a kid who was too scared to sleep wants to be friends with me. Boy, do you know who you are facing? Be careful I eat you." Shukaku said.

After laughing, he opened his mouth wide and tried to scare Gaara.

Of course, tailed beasts don't like to eat people, or they don't need to eat in the first place.

Because they are a special kind of life, a chakra life, they will be resurrected even if they are killed, but the time of resurrection is unknown.

"Brother Nagazawa said that if you threaten me, let me tell him about it and let him take action." Gaara was not afraid of Shukaku's words and said calmly.

Shukaku fell into silence and began to curse in his heart.

But now it really doesn't dare to threaten Gaara casually. After all, Nagazawa's strength is too terrifying. It is no match at all.

"Ichibi, do you have any friends?" Gaara asked.

"Who do you think I am? I'm a Shukaku. I'm so strong. What's the point of having friends?" Shukaku replied with a proud look on his face.

"Tailed beasts don't need friends!"

Gaara ignored Shukaku's boastful words. If Shukaku was really that powerful, he wouldn't be sealed into his body, and he wouldn't be so afraid of Nagazawa.

"In other words, you have no friends." Gaara grasped the point.

…

"Don't you, a human cub, understand human language? I told you that a strong man doesn't need friends!" Shukaku shouted angrily.

"Well, it seems that you really have no friends." Gaara said with certainty.

"You won't say anything else. Although this is indeed the case now, I don't need it, do you understand?" Shukaku couldn't help but say.

In fact, Shukaku technically has friends, even if the previous Jinchuuriki shared his blessings.

Fenfu truly equated tailed beasts with humans, rather than just talking casually. His clear heart even reminded Ichibi of the Sage of Six Paths.

However, Fu Fu has died and now he has no friends.

"Then let me be your first friend, how about it?" Gaara said again.

"Haha, you are not the first person to become my friend." Yiwei suddenly let out a deep laugh, "But to be friends with a tailed beast, red-haired boy, I take back what I said before about you being timid. You are really brave. big."

"When I was conscious, you were in my body, and you should also understand my situation." Gaara recalled what happened before.

"It is precisely because I have been without friends and been rejected that I understand the pain of having no friends.

People without friends see others playing in groups with happy smiles on their faces, but they can only be there alone. Although they are not far away, they are like two different worlds.

When you gain joy, you find no one to share it with, and when you feel sad, you have no one to talk to."

"You guy." Shukaku put away his frivolous and mocking smile. It felt that Gaara really seemed to have a determination and was not just talking about it casually.

It has always been in Gaara's body, and of course it knows what kind of treatment Gaara has suffered.

But from Shukaku's point of view, this is quite normal. Not only the tailed beasts, but also the jinchūriki with the tailed beasts in their bodies are regarded as monsters.

Because of this reason, Fenfu was imprisoned by Sunagakure for his entire life. He stayed in a dark prison until his death.

"Shukaku, let me be your friend." Gaara said firmly.

"It's not easy to be a friend, but I recognize your boldness." Shukaku grinned.

Suddenly, Gaara found a large amount of yellow sand-like chakra emerging from the ground, surrounding him.

"Celebrate, this is a reward for your bravery, but you are still far from being my friend."

Gaara then realized that it was the tailed beast that was giving him its chakra.

Gaara closed his eyes and fell asleep completely this time, and his body disappeared in the space of consciousness.

"This boy is quite interesting." Looking at Gaara's disappearing figure, Ichibi said with a smile.

If Gaara really showed the quality of sharing blessings, then there would be no harm in becoming his friend.

By that time, Ichibi may still try his best to help Gaara fight.

In advance, Gaara can really show the quality and mentality of Fenfu.

…

When Gaara woke up the next day, he suddenly felt as if he could summon more sand.

"Is it because of the power Shukaku gave me?" Gaara stared at his hand for a while.

…

While eating breakfast, Yashamaru suddenly discovered that Gaara looked refreshed today, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Gaara used to feel groggy in the morning, as if he had stayed up all night.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Yashamaru couldn't help but ask.

Gaara swallowed the food in his mouth, then nodded and said, "Well, I slept well, better than ever before."

"That's great." Yashamaru smiled, feeling happy for Gaara.

He had a hunch that someone from Konoha might have done something.

Otherwise, how could I not be able to sleep in Sunagakure and still fall asleep in a strange place?

But this is a good thing after all.

At noon, an unexpected person came to Gaara.

It's Naruto.

Gaara didn't expect that Naruto would actually come to him. He didn't even tell Naruto where his home was yesterday.

"Hehe, I didn't expect Gaara that your home is so close to Uncle Nagazawa's house." Naruto scratched his head and laughed.

He got the address of Gaara's house from Nagazawa, but he didn't expect that Gaara actually lived next to Nagazawa's house.

"Today, Zuosuke, I and some other friends are going to play in the forest to the west. Do you want to go with us?" Naruto asked.

He is still interested in Gaara and wants to become good friends with this kid who is also a Jinchuuriki like himself.

This belief became stronger after learning about Gaara's previous experiences from Nagazawa.

"They are all very good people." Naruto added.

"I'll go." Gaara nodded without thinking much. This was the first time someone invited him to hang out with him, and it was Naruto. How could he refuse.

"Then let's go quickly, don't keep them waiting." Zuosuke urged.

So Gaara followed Naruto Sasuke to the agreed meeting place.

By the time Gaara Naruto and the others arrived, Shikamaru and the others had already arrived and were sitting there waiting.

Choji tore open the bag of potato chips and complained: "Naruto, you are a bit slow."

"Haha, I'm sorry." Naruto scratched his head and apologized.

"Hey, who is the person next to you?" Ino, who was sitting next to Yurika, noticed that Naruto had brought someone over again this time.

"He calls me Gaara. He is the new friend I called yesterday. He is very awesome." Naruto smiled and introduced Gaara to everyone.

"Hello, I'm Gaara." Gaara said with a slight blush, introducing himself to several people at once, he was still a little shy.

"Hello, my name is Ino Yamanaka." Ino introduced herself generously.

Later, with Naruto's help, Gaara successfully got to know everyone present.

"Naruto, you said Gaara is very powerful. Does he know anything unique?" Ino asked curiously.

"Unique is very unique. There are only nine in the whole world, but it shouldn't be convenient to display." Naruto thought for a while and said.

Although he himself is not very afraid of Ichibi, the aura of the big tanuki is too strong, and he will just scare his friends later.

"Unique..." Gaara muttered silently, and then he raised his hand, and a line of sand as thick as an arm appeared around him, spinning around Gaara like a flexible snake.

…

"Does this count?" Gaara felt that this should be considered relatively rare, but he had never seen anyone like this among his peers.

"It's indeed amazing." Ino applauded.

"You can actually control the sand." Choji looked at Gaara in surprise, grabbed a handful of potato chips and stuffed them into his mouth.

"What secret technique?" Shikamaru showed a thoughtful expression. This Gaara seemed to be very simple.

"This person is very dangerous." Yurihua, who had been throwing kunai upwards, suddenly said.

In her perception, Gaara's small body contained huge power and special danger.

"Hey, even Yurika said it was dangerous." Ino didn't expect that Yurika would suddenly say Gaara was dangerous.

Although Yurika is the youngest among them, Yurika is very strong and has particularly keen senses, giving Ino the feeling of a powerful and cold ninja in TV dramas.

All in all, it's very reliable.

Ino held Yurika's neck from behind and said, "If there is really any danger, I will definitely protect Yurika."

Yurika took away Ino's hand with an expressionless face, she felt insecure with someone holding her neck.

He was still protecting her, but with Ino's flabby appearance, she could easily find a dozen flaws and kill him instantly with one blow.

Although Naruto didn't know that Gaara still had the ability to control sand, he laughed and said, "Look, I'll just say it's awesome."

"Why hasn't Hinata arrived yet?" Naruto looked and found a problem, Hinata didn't come.

As soon as Naruto finished speaking, Hinata ran in front of everyone panting.

"No...I'm sorry, I'm late." Hinata said with a blushing face.

As the eldest lady of the clan family and the future Hyuga heir, she has a lot of classes and she was still in class just now, so she was late.

"It's okay, actually we haven't been here long." Naruto said with a smile, "We have a new friend this time."

Although Hinata was late, Hinata's usual image worked. Everyone knew that she was an honest person and she was definitely not late on purpose, so no one said anything.

A group of people started playing in the forest.

First, we played hide-and-seek, limiting a large area within which you can hide at will. Two people can catch and hide six people.

I don't know whether I should say that Yurika is unlucky or that Naruto and the others are unlucky. Yurika initially took on the role of catching people.

Under Yurihua's excellent perception, no one could escape, and one person quickly captured everyone, leaving her teammate Hinata stunned.

"It's so relaxing." Lily Hua said calmly.

"Damn it, I didn't expect that my perfect disguise would be discovered!" Naruto was a little depressed. He hid in a place with thick leaves and covered himself with leaves. He didn't expect that all of it would be discovered.

"Naruto, that's called a perfect disguise. Even when I hid it, I saw your golden hair. It's so conspicuous." Choji laughed, although he lost, he was very happy.

"Tch, Choji, you are not. I saw you fell down while climbing the tree." Naruto retorted.

Seeing so much laughter and laughter around him, and that he was one of them, Gaara felt a little confused.

It's not that he has never imagined this kind of scene, on the contrary, he always fantasizes about this kind of scene.

But he didn't expect that happiness would come so quickly.

Obviously not long ago, he reached out his hand and was severely rejected, but now he suddenly has so many friends to play with.

These people didn't mind his thick dark circles, nor were they afraid of his ability to control sand.

"If you ask me, Gaara, you should use sand to take yourself to the sky. No one will think of it." Naruto helped Gaara make plans.

"Yeah." Gaara smiled and nodded.
Chapter completed!