Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 1 Shenjin Youya

The fifteenth year since the founding of Konoha Village.

In a traditional Japanese-style house with a courtyard in the village, a boy of about seven or eight years old was kneeling in a secondary bedroom with the door open.

There was a low wooden table on the tatami mat, and a map was laid out on it.

The boy placed his hand on the table, staring at the black dots marked on it, lost in thought.

The boy's name is Kaminari Yua, a child whom Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage of Konoha, picked up a few years ago.

He is currently living in the home of Hashirama Senju.

Today is a rest day at Konoha Academy, so Yuya is resting at home and taking a look at the map.

As for what this map is...

Hmm... it's the location of a gold mine within the Land of Fire.

Shen Jin Youya died from electrocution while playing a mobile game in her previous life, and when she woke up again, she was in this world.

He also obtained the cheat code for that mobile game.

Yes, the mobile game he plays is called Strongest Path, which is a mobile game based on another of the three major shonen manga series called One Piece.

However, he brought this cheat ability to the world of Naruto, which is truly...

The starter account he bought directly recruited the newest character in the latest version, Gild Tesoro, who possesses the Golden Fruit.

His cheat ability is the Gold-Gold Fruit (also called the Gold-Gold Fruit) of the corresponding character.

—To be honest, Yuya thought it would have been better to just give it to him directly; having to create a physical fruit just made it taste awful.—

This fruit's ability can turn any object it touches into gold, but the downside is that it will revert to its original state once it gets wet.

Basically, it's useless in the early stages. If you're discovered, you might get chased and attacked. Later on, after the fruit awakens, this ability becomes less useful.

However, there is one ability that is quite good.

It's about perceiving gold.

Konoha Village is located in the central-northwest part of the Land of Fire, with a wide surrounding area. When Yuya is doing missions, he will take the opportunity to check if there are any gold mines nearby.

You Ya has already sensed three locations, but they are all scattered veins, with a total amount not exceeding a few hundred kilograms. He will have to go there sooner or later to absorb all that gold.

However, since there is a scattered pulse, there must be a main pulse below it.

The vast majority of gold reserves are underground, at least 50 kilometers below the surface, with only a very small fraction on the surface.

You Ya currently lacks the means to obtain gold from underground sources. Therefore, even a small quantity of scattered gold is still very much needed by him.

The ninja world has been at peace for fifteen years, and all countries are developing. What Yuya needs to do now is to improve his strength in the shortest possible time.

This power comes from individuals, but there's also the universal truth that holds true in every world: money talks.

Gold is a hard currency in the ninja world.

Although the common currency in the ninja world is the ryo, there is also an exchange rate between gold and ryo.

In recent years, due to the gradual peace, this ratio has decreased significantly compared to wartime levels, but the fundamental nature of gold as a hard currency remains unchanged.

Of course, Yuya's strength is not very good right now. In this ninja world, nothing is more important than one's own strength. Even if you want to become Hokage, you still have to be strong yourself.

therefore……

"Tap tap," Youya used a wooden stick to mark the three points, and then put the map away.

He must get his hands on the gold contained in the veins of these three gold mines.

"Bang bang bang bang"

Hurried footsteps approached, and Youya looked up at the doorway. A man with long, tied-up hair and a silly-looking face rushed to the door and pounced on Youya: "Youya! My good disciple! Please save your master!"

Yes, this person is none other than Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage of Konoha, the greatest ninja in the world, the god of ninjas, who founded Konoha and pioneered the one-country-one-village system.

Yu Ya, expressionless, calmly asked the guy clinging to his leg, "How much do you owe this time?"

Hashirama Senju grinned: "Three hundred thousand taels."

"Three hundred thousand?!" Yuya stared at Hashirama in shock. "That's enough for Mito-sensei and me to live on for a year!"

Hashirama: "I can't help it. I was winning at the beginning of the day, but then I lost it all. I wanted to win it back, so here it is..."

Youya stared speechlessly at the guy in front of him who was scratching the back of his head with a sheepish grin.

To be honest, he didn't have a particularly deep impression of the first generation character when he watched the anime in his previous life because the first generation character didn't appear much.

However, after living under this roof for a few years in this life, he discovered that Hashirama Senju, the god of ninjas, was actually just a very easy-going ninja who liked to gamble a little.

He knew perfectly well that place was dirty, but he still went anyway, and even used a transformation technique to avoid being recognized as the First Generation.

Although he had his wins and losses, his wife, Mito Uzumaki, scoffed at the times he won, and when he lost, she would directly hit him...

"If Master's wife finds out, Master, you'll probably be kneeling in the courtyard all night, right?" Yuya said speechlessly, looking at the smirking Hashirama Senju.

Hashirama Senju laughed heartily: "Hahaha, yes, yes, Mito would definitely do it."

Then he looked at Youya expectantly: "So, I came to see you, didn't I?"

Youya looked troubled: "As you know, Master, my ability isn't that good. The gold I conjure up will..."

Hashirama Senju quickly waved his hand: "Hey, don't say that. Those people don't care about these things. As long as you conjure up the gold, they can't possibly pour water on it, can they? This has happened many times before."

Yes, this isn't the first time.

Yuya looked at Hashirama Senju, whose face still showed a troubled expression: "But...but..."

Seeing his disciple's expression, Hashirama Senju understood, so he decisively said, "I'll talk to your master tomorrow, and you don't have to go to school tomorrow."

Youya grinned, then got up and casually picked up a small stone from the yard. Holding it in his hand, he activated his ability. The stone gradually turned golden.

"Hmm, this is probably about half a jin... a little over two hundred grams. Converted to money, that's about a million taels." Yuya said, tossing the stone in his hand to Senju Hashirama. "Remember, it absolutely cannot get wet!"

Hashirama Senju nodded repeatedly, then turned and slipped away.

You Ya clapped his hands. Whether his gambling master would be discovered to be deceiving people was none of his business. Anyway, he had helped, and he would have a day off tomorrow.

If we only have one day... it's not feasible to visit all three locations. Let's go to the west first.

With that in mind, Youya began preparing her things for tomorrow.

Yua's chakra nature is water, wind, and earth.

Three attributes seem like a lot, but it also means that if Yua were to follow the proper ninja path, she would need to be proficient in Water Release, Wind Release, and Earth Release.

Rather than that, I'd like to improve my cheat system first; that's easier.

He didn't have any special abilities to help him learn ninjutsu, so it was a slow process for him.

After all, he didn't have the chakra of Indra and Ashura within him, so he had to put in three times the effort of others to succeed as a ninja.

Without a cheat code, Youya might have to work as hard as Xiao Li right now.

But if there were a Golden Fruit...

I think it's more reliable to go and see where there are gold mines.

Once we find a gold vein, we can take off immediately. How so? Take off!

PS1: Gold on the Earth's surface accounts for less than 0.001% of the total Earth's gold content. Even including the gold in the Earth's crust, it's still less than 0.01%. The vast majority of gold reserves are in the Earth's core, making mining extremely difficult. In fact, even extracting gold from the Earth's crust would require a huge cost, potentially exceeding the gold's intrinsic value. PS2: The gold-to-gold ratio in Japan is roughly 1:10,000 yen, but this ratio is too high, so we've cut it in half and used 1:5000. [The three major shonen manga, Bleach, had a terrible ending, One Piece is still ongoing and increasingly leaning towards fantasy. The Five Elders' big-bearded character has even become a spider demon! This is really… Naruto is better; it's confirmed to be finished, so there won't be any unexpected problems.] [However, I don't know if anyone will read Naruto now. Oh well, if no one reads it, I'll write it slowly; there's no rush.]

(End of this chapter)