"You sure know a lot about Konohagakure, have you been here before?"
Temari asked with curiosity. They've been on a tour of the entire village and are now resting on the designated rooms for the participants of the Chunin exams. Under Gaara's lead they managed to explore the best places and taste a vast variety of Konoha's cuisine.
"Once or twice, I think."
'If my CCTVs count then I technically lived here for years now.'
Gaara had gave a perfunctory answer while thinking about his focused monitoring on this village. After the CCTV became available for use, one of his main focuses has always been the monitoring of the most important characters that he saw in the anime.
*ring ring ring
"It's me. What's is it?"
Gaara answered the call. Although not everyone has phones these days, most of the important people engaged in business, or people with sufficient amount of cash can purchase one in an Yggdrassil store. The Shinobi is in fact one of the biggest consumer of telecommunication products.
[I think we found him. The Pope Francis wannabe and the blonde boy you described. I also had them looked into. I will sent the details after this call for confirmation.]
"Took you long enough, how about the book?"
[We managed to get a glimpse of a book but we can't be sure if that is actually the one you we're looking for.]
"Investigate the blonde boy first. If his name is indeed Temujin then you may act according to our initial plan. Capture the boy and extract the stone from the minions. Hurry up so you can get back before the start of winter Haku should be missing you already."
[That little girl became addicted to taking care of the 'fairyland' you created in the old ruin. Now she only cares about studying and raising that big ass tree in there and forgot every sacrifices this old man had to make for the two of us to survive. Only if I had grandchildren... sigh. Getting old sucks ass. Say, did you make up your mind about the deal?]
"Getting old my ass. We're too young for what you are proposing, honestly, who would act like you? You're more like a pimp than a shinobi. Just get the job done and go home already."
[Why are you so serious? Man you sure are boring. Hehehe. Guess what...]
"What?"
[The tech here is not too shabby at all almost similar to the weapons you are developing in that facility of yours.]
"You know what to do. We will be waiting for good news then."
Gaara is happy with the News he got and his mood became brighter. He already had a comprehensive understanding of the Gelel ruins as well as that of Roran.
The two ruins have very similar characteristics and technology. The use of inscription to gather energy from the light of the sun and the transformation of said energy to vital energy in Gelel, and to chakra in Roran. This is the reason why these two sites contained almost endless amounts of energy, as long as the sun is in the heavens, the energy will keep on accumulating.
He already managed to open Roran, now he wanted to also open Gelel and find out its secrets. He also had other ruins which he visited and sponsored as a side project like the one in Hidden Grass Village.
Gaara's current projects mostly involves the technological advancement of the Shinobi world. The presence of chakra made it so that his old world's purely electric based technology can be combined with the use of inscriptions through the process of fuinjutsu. The advantage of this is outrageous, complex machinery, circuits, and materials can be bypassed by the use of ink and canvas which means that the material resource is drastically lessened.
This however also means that years of dedicated research into fuinjutsu is needed in order to replicate the working process of a purely electric based technology into a Chakra Gear. So far, about ten percent of the materials for an Yggdrassil tech is already using fuinjutsu products in their development of Chakra Gears.
This means that the things they make become smaller, lighter, and more efficient than before. Of course the most advanced technology will not be available to everyone. Gaara made sure that he is at least ten years ahead or more than other villages in the technological race.
*ring ring ring
"Hello little princess! What can I do for you?"
[Hmph. You wouldn't even call me anymore how can you do this to Karin? You promised to come by every now and then. Huhuhu.]
"Ohhh my poor princess. Oniichan is taking an exam right now you see. After the exam I promise to bring you lots of chocolates. Deal?"
[Hmph. You better not buy me the ones with liquor. Mommy made fun of me the last time you brought some of those over.]
"Hehehe my silly little princess, that's because those are not for you but your Okaa-san."
[Umm okay. The kids are also running around... Oh I've got to go Mom is calling for me. Bye oniichan!]
"Byebye princess."
The babies that Gaara 'saved' from the night of massacre are already four years old and are developing well under the nurture of Karin and her mother. The constant exposure to high levels of life essence made them grow fast and healthy. In order to make them live simple but happy lives Gaara capitalized on the growing popularity of the area around the Gelel mine base and established a small village where people can farm fruits and vegetables or go out to sea in order to fish. At this time, there are less than a hundred families who lived here but due to it being under Gaara's protection no power managed to inflict any form of damage to its people.
The village is small but it didn't lack anything at all. The housing is free, the hospitalization is free for everyone, children's education is also free, even the boat used to catch fish is given by the mysterious village head. People only needed money, to buy appliances, and other things that they liked. Simply a small paradise in the chaotic Shinobi world. It has been estimated that its population will explode within the next five years due to migrating civilians.
*knock knock knock
"Whose there?"
[Master Gaara, It's me 'Baki the grappler'.]
".....pffft!"
Gaara forced down a laugh out loud but it escaped. Baki who is somewhat of a zealot to Gaara is entrusted with the eighth gates release and body activation jutsu. Since then, Gaara made sure to make him introduce himself as 'Baki the grappler' every time it is required. True to his name Baki made a name in this past year as a matchless taijutsu expert who is being compared to the hero of Konoha who almost wiped out the seven ninja swordsmen of Kirigakure. Of course only rumors reached other villages because not one lived to tell the tale when faced with the brown beast of the Sand.
Gaara gestured and the door opened for Baki.
"I've come to report the movements of the Kazekage..."