Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 15 You'll Be the Third Hokage

Later, You Ya started a textile factory and a cannery.

Hashirama Senju was very satisfied with this, and also with Yua's performance.

The only thing I'm not happy about is that this brat won't leave without a good whipping.

If you have this ability, you should have said so earlier!

Hashirama Senju felt that if Yua had revealed this ability to make the village better a few years earlier, everyone in Konoha would definitely be living a better life now.

As for why Yua didn't do that, it's simple: Yua didn't want to be treated like a monster.

A child who was a little over six years old a few years ago could be outrageous, but not too outrageous. You Ya felt that if he stood out too much, it would be troublesome, and he might be dragged into research.

However, for the people of this world, what's wrong with being six years old? Six-year-olds should be on the battlefield too (Uchiha Fugaku gave a thumbs up). Can anything be more outrageous than the God of Shinobi?

Of course, this is only one of the reasons; the second reason is...

There's no benefit to it!

What else can Youya do to demonstrate his abilities besides working for free?

What benefits do you expect from a six-year-old child like Hashirama Senju?

Moreover...

Both of these are actually necessities; even if Yuya herself didn't do them, Konoha would have started them anyway.

In fact, Konoha Village in the anime is basically the capital of a small, independent kingdom.

In the official setting, Konoha Village and the Land of Fire are not in a superior-subordinate relationship, but rather a cooperative one.

This is why the Land of Fire only has the right to recommend, but not the right to decide, the position of Hokage for Konoha.

Konoha has the ability and strength to transform itself into an independent force that combines politics and economics.

However, it is clear that they were distracted by the large subsidies that the Land of Fire gave them every year, which led to none of the subsequent Hokage focusing on developing Konoha.

Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju were born into a chaotic era of war, with small battles every three days and large battles every five days. They were constantly fighting with the Uchiha clan, so they had no time or energy to learn about development strategies.

Wouldn't it be better to spend that time researching more ninjutsu techniques?

That's how Tobirama became known as the "Ninja Expert".

Hashirama Senju ushered in a new era of one country and one village, but he lacked a clear plan for how to continue developing it.

In short, trust in the wisdom of future generations; all he needs to do is find a way to end this damned era of war.

Thus, what we can see is that from the first year of Konoha until more than sixty years after Naruto came to power, the development of Konoha and even the entire Naruto world was all about military strength.

Of course, this cannot be said to be wrong, after all, force is the foundation for survival.

However, sometimes, force and development are not in conflict.

In other words, only when the economy is doing well can military power be developed vigorously.

Yuya can transform Konoha's infrastructure in six months, but he can't turn Konoha into a super village that has everything.

All we can say is that we should slowly move in this direction.

A few months later, on an ordinary day for the other people in Konoha, Hashirama Senju summoned Tobirama Senju, Mito Uzumaki, and Yua Kamiya to his house.

His face was ruddy, and his body exuded an extremely dangerous aura—overflowing chakra.

Even just the slightest glimpse of that aura was enough to make Yuya's heart pound with fear.

The strength of the God of Ninjas is indeed unfathomable.

"As you can see, I can no longer control the chakra in my body. In order to prevent my death from causing chaos, we need to move to another place."

As soon as Hashirama Senju finished speaking, Tobirama Senju raised his hand and formed a hand seal. Then, Yua's eyes lit up and they left the house and arrived at a forest outside Konoha Village.

"As we said before, after I die, you must seal me away to prevent any villains from desecrating my body," Hashirama Senju instructed Tobirama Senju.

The reason Hashirama Senju scattered the Senju clan members throughout Konoha and forced them to change their names was to prevent those who coveted his Wood Release techniques from targeting the Senju clan.

As it turned out, Hashirama Senju saw things very clearly. After his death, the Senju clan was attacked. In fact, even before his death, his son was targeted, with the aim of obtaining Hashirama's Wood Release. Of course, as we all know, apart from Hashirama, none of the other members of the Senju clan possessed any chakra related to Wood Release.

These guys are ruthless and unscrupulous. Even Hashirama Senju could tell without thinking that someone would definitely try to take advantage of his corpse.

If it weren't for the fact that his body was impervious to fire and water, Hashirama Senju would have preferred to have Tobirama burn him alive.

These ninjas, born in the chaotic era of war, were already mentally prepared for death.

It was an era of uncertainty, where no one could guarantee they would live to see tomorrow.

"I know, brother." Tobirama nodded.

"Then came some words of advice." Hashirama scratched his head and laughed, "Don't keep such a close eye on the Uchiha clan members. You need to relax a bit sometimes."

Tobirama pursed his lips. With Madara Uchiha as an example, he really couldn't trust the Uchiha clan.

"Alright, you have your own plans. Uchiha Kagami is a good successor. After he becomes the next Uchiha clan leader, you can allocate some of your resources to the Uchiha clan."

Tobirama nodded.

As Yua was muttering to himself, Hashirama looked at him and said, "Yua, compared to Tobirama, I haven't taught you much. Apart from picking you up, I haven't really taken care of you. I'm certainly not a very good teacher."

You Ya remained silent for a moment before speaking, "Master... no matter what, I will never forget your life-saving grace."

Hashirama Senju looked at Yua and said softly, "After Tobirama, how about you become the Third Hokage?"

Yuya's pupils dilated suddenly, and he looked at Hashirama Senju with a shocked expression.

"Master... are you serious?"

Hashirama Senju smiled slightly, then looked at Tobirama: "With Tobirama here, you can grow slowly. I believe that in ten years you will be able to change Konoha completely."

In terms of strength, there are very few people in the entire ninja world who can beat Tobirama and me, but even if the two of us were together, we wouldn't know how to start a clothing factory, let alone how to run it...

Hashirama Senju took a deep breath, then looked at Yua with a very serious expression and said, "Tobirama and I are just rough men who only know how to fight. We know nothing about how to make everyone in Konoha live a good life, but you are different."

I believe that as long as you focus on improving your abilities during these ten years, and succeed Tobirama as the Third Hokage ten years later, Konoha will definitely become a better place.

In this respect, you are far superior to me and Tobirama.

Therefore, I want you to become the Third Hokage.

(End of this chapter)