Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 113 The Retirement of the Second Generation Shadow and the Pressure to Marry

As mentioned before, the shadows and families in each village have both conflicting and shared interests.

This is the case in several villages.

However, other villages haven't really reached this point, like Kirigakure.

Just how chaotic was the village? To put it simply, during the meeting of the First Five Kage, none of the people the First Mizukage brought with him became the Second Mizukage.

The second Mizukage is Hozuki Gengetsu.

This simple phenomenon alone reveals the irreconcilable conflict between the Hidden Mist Village clans and the Mizukage.

Now, this contradiction has simply become completely public.

Yuya learned from a merchant who went to Kirigakure to gather intelligence that the Hozuki family was besieged by other families after the death of the second Hozuki Gengetsu.

In the original Naruto Shippuden, the Hozuki clan of Kirigakure had already declined.

In just a few decades, the Second Mizukage's family declined, not because of anything Hashirama Senju did intentionally, but because they were targeted.

It's easy to imagine how serious the internal conflicts in Kirigakure were.

Furthermore, many people believe that the Bloody Mist Village of Kirigakure was orchestrated by Madara through Obito's behind-the-scenes machinations.

But if Kirigakure was originally without problems or internal conflicts, how could it have been manipulated by Obito using genjutsu without the Mizukage's knowledge?

It can only be said that Kirigakure itself was already in a state of chaos at that time.

However, these are matters for Kirigakure itself, and Yua couldn't be bothered with them. Since the Third Mizukage had spoken up, then Yua...

"If all the profits are distributed by the Water Shadow, then that's certainly acceptable."

after all……"

Yuya paused deliberately at this point before smiling and saying, "The Mizukage is the head of Kirigakure, after all."

The Third Mizukage remained completely calm, unmoved by Yua's almost explicit suggestion.

Although Kirigakure has many internal problems, if it seeks help from Konoha, the situation will be completely different.

Moreover, he was the Third Mizukage after all. How could a Mizukage get entangled with the Hokage of Konoha?

So he calmly declined Yua's suggestion: "Well then, thank you, Third Hokage. I won't skimp on what's due to Konoha."

Hearing the Third Mizukage's words, Yua knew that the other party had rejected his hint.

Yuya wasn't discouraged. Thinking about it, it made sense. It was just an electronics factory. After all, the Mizukage was the leader of the Mizukage. He couldn't possibly be as ignorant as some small country.

After the meeting of the five Kage concluded, the Third Raikage couldn't wait to return—and upon his return, he immediately gathered his men and dispatched them to Konoha to urge Yua to quickly arrange for people to go and build the factory—

It was obvious that he couldn't stay in Konoha for even a minute longer.

The Mizukage stayed for a day and then left. It's worth mentioning that, compared to the Third Raikage's grand return to Kumogakure, the Third Mizukage disappeared without a trace after leaving Konoha.

It seems that the internal problems of Kirigakure are about to erupt.

Unfortunately, the Land of Water, where Kirigakure is located, is far overseas, so Yua can't get involved.

Don't get me wrong, Yuya absolutely didn't mean to take advantage of the situation. It's just that after your internal strife, I can help you rebuild.

I can help build banks, hospitals, schools, and so on for free, as long as you give me 30% of the shares.

I didn't even ask for more than 50%, and I'm doing this for free. Isn't that generous enough?

Unfortunately, it was too far away, so Youya had no choice but to give up the idea.

The Tsuchikage also left after the Mizukage, while the Kazekage stayed a few more days.

In the past few days, he had approached Yuya several times, trying to persuade him to relent and sell a few of those chakra cannons to their Sunagakure village.

Well, Sunagakure is indeed a poor village.

But even if we're poor, we should definitely buy this weapon if we can afford it.

This is a powerful weapon for defensive warfare.

Yuya was a little curious. The other three Kage just patted their butts and left, obviously knowing that Konoha would never sell this weapon, so they didn't even mention it. Isn't Kazekage a little too arrogant?

The Second Kazekage remained expressionless, simply explaining the specifics of the situation.

Basically, Sunagakure's annual funds are almost entirely used up by the following year, leaving little to save. However, this weapon is a must-buy, so he wanted to give advance notice that if Konoha were willing to sell it someday, they could let him know in advance so they could save some money.

Yuya didn't believe this reason at all. The Second Kazekage must have other reasons, but since the Second Kazekage hadn't said anything, Yuya wouldn't be stupid enough to ask directly.

So he nodded and agreed to the Second Kazekage's conditions.

This cannon will definitely be sold in a few years.

However, it will definitely be sold only after Konoha develops an even more powerful product.

Develop one generation of equipment as a backup, then sell the next generation.

Despite the generational gap of three generations, Youya is even more conservative than America in her previous life.

After all, those bastards in America really dare to sell new weapons; they're truly not afraid of being attacked with their weapons.

You Ya is too scared to do that, so let's stick to the stable three-generation gap.

After obtaining Yua's promise from here, the Second Kazekage returned to Sunagakure.

Yuya's life once again turned into dealing with various scroll reports from Konoha Village.

A few days later, Tobirama Senju found Yua and scolded him.

You Ya was a little confused. Where did he go wrong?

Tobirama Senju rarely showed a smile, and then laughed as he said he was blaming Yua for not introducing Orochimaru to him sooner.

Tobirama Senju truly used people to the point of exhaustion.

However, Orochimaru is no ordinary person either.

At first, you might feel a bit overwhelmed, since you haven't done any experiments before, you've only heard about them.

But now that he's familiar with the situation, he'll definitely become a capable general under Tobirama Senju.

Yuya was also very satisfied, but what pleased him even more was Tobirama Senju's attitude towards Orochimaru.

Yuya knew Tobirama Senju well and knew that his senior apprentice had very high standards for others.

For those conducting experiments, working overtime is normal. Getting up earlier than the chickens and going to bed later than the dogs every day for one or two months is not uncommon.

If a breakthrough is achieved in the research, then they might as well sleep on the floor in the lab.

With such a high intensity of work, Yuya believes Orochimaru must be having a very fulfilling time.

Once you have a fulfilling life, you won't think about random, nonsensical things.

Of course, this is only the initial stage. After Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru finish researching the iteration of weapons, Orochimaru Yua will be brought back and put in charge of the research and development of industrial products.

The main focus is on providing substantial benefits.

However, for now, let Orochimaru, this pitiful laborer, be used by his uncle.

In the late summer of Konoha 26, a caravan from Sunagakure brought back some news.

The Second Kazekage has passed away.

It is said that his body was weak and his old injury relapsed. He recuperated for a while, but in the end, he couldn't hold on and passed away.

However, before he died, he still designated the Third Kazekage as his successor.

He also gave the Third Kazekage some instructions, the specifics of which the scouts couldn't find out, but Yua could roughly guess. It was nothing more than things like not relying entirely on Konoha, and that Sunagakure should have its own land where it could grow food.

The Second Kazekage has now lived out his brilliant life.

From following in the footsteps of the First Kazekage to the First Five Kage Summit in his youth, to the current era of rapid development and peacetime for various countries, and even taking the lead in constructing a canal connecting half of the Land of Wind during his term—though it is not yet completed...

The Second Kazekage's life was quite remarkable.

With this, the second-generation Kage of all five countries have stepped down, and the era that follows will be a shared era between the third and fifth Kage...

……

Whether it was common or not, You Ya didn't know; he only knew that he was in some danger now.

Because at this moment he was kneeling beside Mito Uzumaki in the main seat of Mito Uzumaki's mansion.

And opposite him...

It was Tsunade's true form, with her cheeks flushed...

Yuya never imagined that even after becoming Hokage, he would still face this unsolvable problem:

Urge marriage.

The reason I'm so late today is because something happened. I mentioned before that my mentor wanted to help me get freelance work, but I refused. However, today my supervisor called me into his office after get off work and talked to me for over half an hour. Basically, he was saying that my sales were so bad the past few months—last month I made 50,000, and this month I've already made 20,000—and that I shouldn't have been doing freelance work before. I'm speechless. If I were doing this kind of work myself, would my mentor be dragging me into it? I don't even have that kind of connection! But I roughly know what happened; a woman probably complained. I'm laughing so hard. Even three-year-olds in kindergarten don't tattle anymore, and adults are still playing this game? After get off work, my mentor and I had a few drinks, and when I got home I just collapsed on the bed and slept until midnight. To be honest, I didn't want to update and planned to wait until tomorrow, but I couldn't sleep, so I just started writing. It's actually quite nice. Now I'm sleepy, so I'm going to bed later. What happened today has truly shattered my worldview once again. No normal adult would do something like this, right? My sales last month were 50,000, but my commission was only 1,500. Surely no one's jealous, right? Ha, that's really...

(End of this chapter)