This was not how Naoki had pictured this going. Show up, hand over the gift, and leave before his presence became something to talk about. Running into Gaara's jounin squad leader was not part of the plan, but Naoki didn't visibly react before blinking twice.

"I'm here to see Gaara." As far as he knew, Gaara hadn't told anyone on the Suna side about training Naoki. Naoki didn't mention it either, and Kisame only knew because he'd been there the first time Gaara asked to have the Silent Killing technique used on him.

"I brought him a gift."