Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 122 Jiraiya, get out of here right now!

You Ya immediately sensed something was wrong because the list contained so many unfamiliar faces.

There isn't a single famous ninja in Sunagakure.

It's understandable that Chiyo and the Third Kazekage are not here.

With the Third Kazekage stationed at the main camp, and the still very young Chiyo being the only one in Sunagakure capable of confronting Hanzo of the Salamander, it's impossible to allow Chiyo to appear in this advance force.

It's normal that these two aren't showing up, but some other well-known Jonin from Sunagakure are also absent...

This is very strange.

Many of the Jonin names mentioned above share the same prefix.

The team consisted of over a thousand people, including sixty-one Jonin, forty-nine of whom had the surname Sand Explosion.

Yes, Sandstorm. Do you know Gaara's full name?

Gaara the Sandstorm.

Gaara is from this family.

His father was also from this family.

As for Luo Sha, in terms of actual strength, he's definitely not that strong. The only thing worth mentioning is his secret technique for gold panning.

It's certainly not an easy thing for any village's leader to rise to power.

Could it be a coincidence that the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, shares the same Dust Release technique as the Second Tsuchikage?

They are both from the same two-scaled family, so you can imagine their status in the Tsuchikage.

For any non-family member who rises to power, a crucial task is to suppress the family.

This is similar to how a family will inevitably allocate resources to its own members when promoting them to positions of power.

The Sarutobi clan probably thought the same thing, but the old man Hiruzen got so excited by the Second Hokage's "Will of Fire" that he devoted himself to it.

In the end, they even fell out with their own family, and no one in the family, except for their own, was willing to serve Konoha.

The Sarutobi clan was probably dumbfounded. They pushed you to the top and you didn't even give them any benefits, and then you had this Will of Fire thing... Can that stuff be eaten?!

Forget it, I'm not playing with you anymore. Go do whatever you want, we're not going to bother with you anymore.

Then the Sarutobi clan began to focus solely on closing their doors, creating humans, and developing their power.

Decades later, the Fourth Shinobi World War directly resulted in an army of three thousand shinobi.

This is the foundation of a family.

The same applies to Sunagakure.

After understanding this, You Ya felt much more at ease.

I initially thought Hanzo had used cheat codes to wipe out an entire squad, but it turns out it was just internal strife.

Then it's alright.

However, this also shows that the Third Kazekage was a ruthless person.

They're capable of turning against their own people during wartime.

No matter how powerful the Sandstorm Clan is in Sunagakure, you can't deliberately kill dozens of Jonin during wartime!

How many Jonin can a clan have?!

This is a Jonin!

He can basically be considered the true backbone of the family!

Even for Sarutobi, at this stage, out of the hundreds of ninjas in his clan, there are at most close to eighty Jonin.

Of course, you could say this is Sunagakure, and the competition there is definitely not as fierce as in Konoha. Once a large clan moves there, it has no rivals and its development will definitely be more rapid than Sarutobi's share in Konoha.

Once You Ya understood all this, he relaxed and quickly finished the administrative tasks that had accumulated over the past two days.

In fact, Yuya knows how to solve many problems once he sees them.

The reason why Tobirama Senju was so slow in handling government affairs when he was in this position was because he didn't have the same clear understanding as Yua.

For example, a beverage factory sends a document stating that someone had a sudden inspiration while working and came up with a new transportation method that could save ten seconds per shipment, and they would like to ask what level of reward should be given.

For Youya, this is a simple arithmetic problem: if it can shorten the time by ten seconds at a time, how much time can it save in a day? In a month?

Just give this person a bonus based on the salary amount corresponding to this time. It's only a month's salary anyway. Although it may seem like a lot, hundreds of thousands, You Ya would be happy to give everyone this kind of efficiency-enhancing method once.

Of course, it has to be the kind that is actually feasible.

Tobirama Senju couldn't do that. He had to check the data first and confirm the salary details before doing this. After all, he didn't set the salaries at the beverage factory, so he naturally had to check since he didn't remember them.

After checking, we still need to calculate how much to give, and only after that can we determine the final bonus amount.

It would take Tobirama Senju at least five to ten minutes to process what Yuya had gone through in his mind.

This is just one issue; there are many more to deal with.

When all of these factors are combined, it seems that Tobirama Senju's efficiency is very low.

Of course, Ya's efficiency is not high either.

Because Konoha doesn't create many legends, you wouldn't know why this seemingly dilapidated village has so many problems every day!

the most important is……

"Um, that's right, Third Hokage, Jiraiya has been arrested by the Uchiha police again..."

You Ya sighed, he was filled with regret, deep regret!

Why did you take Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade as your subordinates in the first place?

Now Tsunade wants to become the eldest sister-in-law, and Orochimaru, her little brother, seems to have lost his mind at the research institute, but Tobirama Senju is there to keep an eye on things, so there won't be any problems.

All that's left is that bastard Jiraiya!

He doesn't know what he's doing all day long. He's a Chunin, so theoretically he should be working hard to complete missions and get promoted to Jonin, marry a rich and beautiful woman, and reach the pinnacle of life, right?

No!

Every month, after receiving the 300,000+ ryo subsidy from a high-ranking Chunin, I go out and have fun. After having fun, when I run out of money, I do missions. After finishing missions, I like to peep into the women's bathhouse. And not only that, I often get caught peeping!

You're spying on female ninjas of the Hyuga clan taking a bath? What else could you be but mentally ill?

Most importantly, the current Konoha law stipulates that the crime of peeping is determined on a case-by-case basis. For minor offenses, the offender is detained for three days and fined.

This "not serious" refers to the kind where no light was seen.

This bastard is standing in the women's corridor watching the beautiful women wearing bath towels going to the bathhouse.

Yes, he was looking at the one wearing a bath towel.

If any female hero were willing to sacrifice herself in the corridor, Jiraiya could be sent to prison.

But how could anyone be willing to debase themselves?

And more importantly...

If this bastard is like this now, won't he be even more outrageous when he gets old?

The laws governing tourism in Asia should definitely be more lenient towards the elderly.

When Naruto grows up and Jiraiya is in his fifties or sixties, will you have the nerve to send him to prison?

Yuya rubbed his head and asked Nara Shika, "What did he do this time?!"

Nara Shika also spoke with a very subtle expression: "He said... he said he wants to travel around Konoha, visit all of Konoha, and then come back."

Yuya was stunned, her headache instantly gone. She looked up at Nara Shikaya with a hopeful expression: "Really? When is he leaving?!"

Seeing that Yuya had misunderstood, Lu Ye quickly finished what he hadn't said: "No, no, no! I'm not reporting that he left the village. What I'm saying is that because he was leaving the village, he thought he might not be back for several years, so he went to the corridor of the women's bathhouse again today and got caught and sent to the security department."

You Ya: "..."

You Ya slumped in his chair, only one thought in his mind:

I was so stupid, so incredibly stupid. I only wanted him to leave Konoha, but I overlooked the fact that his nature is hard to change...

Yuya slumped down for a moment, then forcefully propped himself up, pointed at Nara Shikaya, and roared, "Tell him! This brat is not allowed to enter Konoha's inner city for three years!!!"

"Yes!!!" Nara Shika turned and ran, his voice carrying in on the wind.

You Ya sat in the chair, panting heavily, feeling that he would be driven to his death by these bastards sooner or later.

He finally understood what the phrase "heart and soul exhausted" really meant.

Yuya stared silently at the documents on his desk, his mind filled with information about that brat Jiraiya.

Arrested, arrested, arrested... We went to eat barbecue together, and then we got arrested...

You Ya closed his eyes tightly.

No, we can't just let it go like this!

He made me so angry, I absolutely can't let him get away with it!

but……

Is there any way to make Jiraiya feel bad without being seen as petty and damaging to his reputation?

Youya scratched his head, deep in thought.

A week later, Jiraiya arrived at a small village several dozen miles west of Konoha.

The roads here are dilapidated and the buildings are in ruins. Although some new wooden houses have been built in some places, there are still traces of war in some of the broken walls and ruins.

This is a small village that was built after a war decades ago.

Later, when Konoha was established, this small village was protected because of its proximity to Konoha, and no bandits or robbers in the Land of Fire dared to attack them.

As a result, their village gradually developed.

These ruins wouldn't be difficult to clear, but since the village is mostly made up of ordinary people and the population is small, leaving them might provide shelter from the wind and rain.

Secondly, leaving it there might deter bandits from coming, assuming the village is poor.

In fact, with Konoha around, some bandits and robbers wouldn't dare to come.

However, after all, the peaceful days have only lasted for more than twenty years. The old people in this village still remember what life was like before, and they won't let their memories fade away.

However, because it is close to Konoha, and as everyone knows, Konoha is currently in dire need of people.

Such a large village with a population of just over a million, and that includes the population of the outer city. Is that even possible?

Therefore, Youya has been trying to expand its influence.

Newspapers are one of them.

Therefore, every day, pigeons would fly here carrying newspapers to drop off one newspaper, and then drop off another newspaper in other places.

It only requires one bowl of pigeon feed to cover 100 kilometers of fuel.

Jiraiya is resting here today, and it is also today that specially trained ninja pigeons have arrived in this village, which is dozens of miles away from Konoha, carrying newspapers with their beaks. They cluck and use their beaks to take a newspaper from their satchels and drop it down.

Jiraiya looked up at the pigeons and muttered, "There are still pigeons here? My brother even sent these pigeons to places outside Konoha Village..."

After muttering to himself, he prepared to go and take a look. A week had passed, and Konoha should have undergone some changes.

Since Yua came to power, Konoha Village has been constantly improving, with strange and unusual things happening every day.

Yes, although Jiraiya was often involved in these things as well.

His departure from Konoha was also related to the summoning technique that Hiruzen Sarutobi taught him.

He was directly summoned in reverse to a place where a group of giant toads lived.

There is a very big old toad living in that place called Mount Myoboku.

Then the old toad said he saw the future, which was the case, but seven years ago he suddenly couldn't see it anymore. He was puzzled about why, but he was still going to tell him some things about the future as originally planned.

Then Jiraiya heard the old toad say that in the future he would write best-selling books and become a famous author, and that he would also take a prophetic child as his disciple. Who this prophetic child was and how he became his disciple were not important. What was important was that the prophetic child would become the key to saving the entire ninja world, and he would carefully teach him to prevent him from going astray.

After that, Jiraiya left Konoha.

His plan is to write a book first.

As for what this book should be about...

He's already decided to write a book about ninjas!

The story of ninjas facing the enemy without fear on the battlefield and turning the tables on them, thus influencing the entire war.

Well, he hasn't decided on a name for the novel's protagonist yet, but that's not important; finishing the book is what matters first.

But before that, let me see what happened in Konoha this week~

Jiraiya went over to take a look, and the front page of the newspaper had a large headline:

[Konoha's First Beauty Pageant Begins! The winner will receive the lead role in a movie funded by the Hokage's office!]

Jiraiya didn't understand what the movie heroine meant, but he did understand beauty pageants!

Holy crap!!!

Why did this happen after I left the village?!

(P.S.: We still don't know why Jiraiya, who initially wrote in a pretentious ninja style, ended up writing erotic novels.)

Some say the protagonist's Devil Fruit ability is dispensable, given the numerous chapters dedicated to intrigue and power struggles. I admit that; I never intended this book to focus on Devil Fruit battles. The Gold-Gold Fruit is merely a crucial advantage, a power-up used in critical moments. And what constitutes a critical moment? Right now, it's undoubtedly when Konoha Bank opens. Without this Devil Fruit ability, Konoha Bank simply couldn't open. Konoha Bank can only operate because it has over two hundred tons of gold as its foundation. You don't think a bank can be opened with just a few words, do you? It needs the ability to withstand risks, such as repaying depositors during economic downturns. That's crucial. And later, I'm not afraid of spoilers; many readers have probably guessed it—this Devil Fruit ability will be useful during an economic crisis. —Does this feel a bit like Rasa's style? —Anyway, if you want to see Devil Fruit abilities used for fighting, you can check out One Piece fanfiction. There are many good One Piece fanfics, such as… well, I won't recommend any specific ones; you can search for them yourselves. As I mentioned before, this book is definitely focused on farming.

(End of this chapter)