Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 34: If I can’t afford to offend the Uchiha, I can’t afford to offend you?
"Yeah, I was a little worried at first. After all, your target of this mission is Orochimaru, one of the three famous ninjas." Uchiha Fugaku said with a smile.

At this time, Uchiha Douhuan took out the mission scroll he got from the Lord of Yamamoto Castle and placed it on the table.

"Douhuan, what is this?" Uchiha Fugaku was a little curious, but Uchiha Douhuan signaled with his eyes that he should open it and take a look.

Uchiha Fugaku picked up a scroll and injected some chakra into it. After just one glance, he became restless and looked up at Uchiha Douhuan: "What are these...?"

"The total is 1.5 billion ryo," Uchiha Douhuan said, "If we weren't in a hurry and didn't bring too few sealing scrolls, we should be able to get a little more."

"You're really amazing, Douhuan." Uchiha Fugaku said happily. You know, after deducting the family's necessary expenses such as ninja tools, it would take several years to save so much money from their Uchiha clan's assets. But Uchiha Douhuan brought back so much money in just one trip, and from what he said, it was far more than that.

"Let's send two senior ninjas from our clan to Tansho Town tomorrow. This is the reward for a long-term escort mission," said Uchiha Douhuan.

"I understand," Uchiha Fugaku nodded.

"How is the security department these days when I was away?" Uchiha Douhuan asked.

"The situation is pretty good, right? With the guidance of the work manual you left before you left, the new ninjas got the hang of it quickly and can now patrol and perform their duties normally." Uchiha Fugaku said, "But..."

"Did something happen?" Uchiha Dohuan saw that Fugaku was hesitant to speak, and asked.

"In the past few days, the number of complaints received by the Security Department against patrol and on-duty personnel has increased several times compared to the past. They are all directed at the newly arrived civilian ninjas, but there are no complaints against our original family ninjas." Fugaku said.

"Is that so?" Uchiha Douhuan chuckled after hearing this. "Did those new members fail to pay attention to the Smiling Enforcement?"

"How could that be?" Uchiha Fugaku rubbed his brow in annoyance. "The security department now consists of four battalions and 4 squads. Before every patrol, the captain repeatedly reminds us to enforce the law with a smile. Yesterday, the entire security department held a meeting to emphasize this matter, but the number of complaints we receive continues to increase. Dohwan, this won't affect your plan to integrate the clan into the village, will it?"

"Don't worry, Elder Fugaku, I will take care of this matter tomorrow." Uchiha Douhuan said calmly. He had expected this kind of thing from the beginning.

After all, he knew very well the character of these unruly people in the village. When the security department was originally composed of members of the Uchiha clan, they might have restrained themselves a little under the tyranny of the Uchiha clan, but now with the joining of civilian ninjas, everything is different.

If I can't afford to offend Uchiha, can I afford to offend you? This is the best portrayal of the mentality of this group of unruly people.

Uchiha Douhuan was actually happy to see this happen. First of all, with these civilian ninjas blocking the way, the public opinion environment of their Uchiha clan in the village would be greatly improved. In addition, these civilian ninjas who were obviously enforcing the law impartially but were maliciously complained about would probably accumulate a lot of grievances. When one day they needed to take action against this group of troublemakers, I think their batons would be much more powerful.

"It would be great if you have a solution." Uchiha Fugaku said, "Besides these, the rest is my personal matter."

"Elder Fugaku, please speak," Uchiha Douhuan said. "I would like you to become Sasuke's teacher."

"Oh?" Uchiha Douhuan raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why did Elder Fugaku suddenly have this idea?"

"Sasuke has reached the age where he can officially begin training in ninjutsu. The day before yesterday, I taught him the clan's formal introductory ninjutsu, the Great Fireball Technique." Uchiha Fugaku said, "But Sasuke's performance is far inferior to his brother's."

"Really?" Uchiha Douhuan also laughed when he heard that. He remembered that when he was learning this ninjutsu in the clan's private school, there were a total of 28 Uchiha children at the same time, and he ranked 27th. This even made him doubt whether he was suitable to be a ninja.

"But after all, we have you as a precedent in our clan, so I asked Sasuke to test the attributes of his chakra. His chakra attributes are fire and lightning. I also asked him to try to learn lightning escape. His talent for lightning escape is far superior to fire escape." Uchiha Fugaku said with a wry smile.

Sasuke's talent in Lightning Release was no less than Itachi's in Fire Release. After reading the scroll of Lightning Release: Thunder Ball twice, he was able to release a lightning ball with a diameter of up to one meter. However, their family were all ninjas specializing in Fire Release. Although Mikoto's chakra also had lightning attributes, her research on Lightning Release was not deep. Therefore, how to teach Sasuke became a difficult problem.

Fortunately, there is a person in the clan who is in a similar situation to Sasuke. As the former clan leader, Uchiha Fugaku is very familiar with Uchiha Dohuan's resume. When Uchiha Dohuan was still studying at the Ninja School, although he performed well in the Ninja School thanks to his family's talent, he was just mediocre in the clan. His performance in the clan's private school, which mainly taught Fire Release Ninjutsu and Illusion Jutsu, was terrible. At that time, the family was planning to give up training him until he relied on coaxing and getting the first Lightning Release Ninjutsu from the clan elder who guarded the Ninjutsu warehouse. Only then did he really begin to show his talent.

Therefore, facing Sasuke's current situation, Uchiha Fugaku naturally came up with the idea of letting Sasuke become Uchiha Dohuan's disciple.

"Also, Douhuan, you know that I'm not good at educating children. Itachi has gone astray, so I want to entrust Sasuke to you." Uchiha Fugaku said.

"I understand. From now on, let Sasuke come to my place after school." Uchiha Douhuan said with a smile.

"Thank you very much, Douhuan-kun." Uchiha Fugaku said solemnly.

"That's true, Elder Fugaku. I would be more than happy to help kids who are in a similar situation as I was before avoid taking detours," said Uchiha Douhuan.

"No, Douhuan, this is a thank you from a father." Uchiha Fugaku said with emotion, "Please pay more attention to Sasuke."

"I will." Uchiha Douhuan nodded.

"Then I won't bother you anymore." Uchiha Fugaku said goodbye, and Uchiha Douhuan stood up to see him off.

After Uchiha Fugaku left, Uchiha Dohuan finished maintaining the sword and went to rest.

The next day, Uchiha Douhuan arrived at his office in the Security Department and nodded with satisfaction as he looked at his subordinates who had redecorated his office while he was on a mission.

(End of this chapter)