Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 152 The Last Thing

The Hyuga family cooperated very well, indicating that members of the Hyuga branch family could live, work, and go to work in Konoha's inner city, and that the Hyuga main family would not interfere too much.

The next day, Yuya went to the Shimura clan and proposed the same method, the same suggestion, and the same desire to have some members of the Shimura clan settle in Konoha's inner city. He even offered them some preferential treatment.

For example, you can get a discount when buying a house, or half price for the second house.

However, the elders of the Shimura clan disagreed.

Or rather, it was Danzo Shimura who disagreed.

The current head of the Shimura clan is Shimura Danzo.

However, aside from the time when Danzo Shimura had to go out for drinks to congratulate Yua on her one-month birthday, he and Yua never saw each other at all.

Yuya couldn't possibly shamelessly approach Shimura Danzo, so their relationship wasn't very good.

Yuya made it very clear this time that it wasn't targeting the Shimura family, but he would also gradually approach the other families one by one.

However, if the Shimura family is willing to set an example, that would be the best.

However, the elders of the Shimura clan refused, absolutely refused.

Yuya was speechless. "Damn it! Those electric fan and Walkman factories are managed by your Shimura clan. They generate billions of yen in revenue every year."

You guys won't even give me face for such a lot of money?

You Ya returned to his office dejectedly. Although he knew that his policy would definitely be hindered, he hadn't expected it to be hindered so quickly.

or……

Did I look at the wrong thing?

Yuya was somewhat unwilling, so a few days later he went to see Hiruzen Sarutobi again.

Yes, Hiruzen Sarutobi was discussing a new program with several beautiful women at the time.

Konoha TV's programming schedule is currently full except for Friday, which is unacceptable to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Because he had figured out how TV stations operate and how they make a profit.

It's simply about broadcasting programs, inserting GG (Goblin) segments in the middle, and the money from GG is the most important source of income.

The issue is……

If you don't even have a show, and you just broadcast GG, the villagers of Konoha will definitely not be happy.

Therefore, he is currently working on a new program.

He changed his approach from the previous talent show, planning to invite a few contestants from the show to sing, fill up the time slot, insert a few jokes in between, and make some money first.

Although Youya doesn't have many rigid targets for the TV station's profit revenue, he also won't take away the TV station's own profits.

Therefore, Hiruzen Sarutobi has actually been very busy lately.

Well, ever since he agreed to take on this position, he hasn't had a single day off.

After Yuya and Hiruzen Sarutobi finished their official duties for the day, they took him to a barbecue restaurant, where they ate meat and chatted.

Yuya inquired about Hiruzen Sarutobi's son, Shinnosuke Sarutobi.

Hiruzen Sarutobi laughed and said that he was not yet one year old and did not understand anything. He just ate and slept all day long.

Yuya laughed and said that his own travelogue was the same, with fat hands and feet in sections, but Tsunade still fed him relentlessly.

After chatting for a while, You Ya brought up the important matter.

Hiruzen Sarutobi also became serious.

When Yua proposed that they send half or a quarter of their clansmen to Konoha's inner city, Hiruzen Sarutobi frowned and thought for a moment before shaking his head.

Yuya was somewhat unwilling. Although she knew that the ninja clans would not agree to her request directly, the straightforward refusal still left her feeling dissatisfied.

Unexpectedly, Hiruzen Sarutobi then made a suggestion: let the members of the Sarutobi clan choose for themselves.

Yuya was taken aback, then quickly put a few pieces of meat on Sarutobi Hiruzen's plate and poured him a glass of wine, eagerly offering to explain in detail.

Hiruzen Sarutobi stroked his stubble and said to Yua, "I don't mind if the Sarutobi clan members move to the inner city of Konoha. Besides, the Sarutobi clan's territory does seem a bit crowded."

Unless you give us the right to renovate the Sarutobi clan's territory and build these twenty-story houses on it, but my uncles won't agree, their thinking is too outdated.

Moreover, once construction begins, it will involve the large cemetery behind the Sarutobi clan's territory.

Those are the graves of our ancestors; even I wouldn't dare to make any work there.

As he spoke, Hiruzen Sarutobi looked at Yua: "But you're different..."

Yuya instantly understood what that bastard Hiruzen Sarutobi was up to.

You Ya shoved a piece of meat into his mouth with annoyance: "So, you were waiting for me here?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi chuckled and poured Yua a glass of wine: "Tobirama-sama is your senior uncle, the Hokage-sama. I am Tobirama-sama's disciple. Strictly speaking, we are roughly of the same generation. Although I am about ten years older than you, we are still peers."

Since we're of the same generation, and you need my help while I need yours, wouldn't it be better to help each other?

You Ya smiled, picked up his wine glass but didn't drink, instead falling into thought.

The Sarutobi clan's territory was basically the most severely damaged by Yua's sword. The One-Sword Hospital, the One-Sword Bank, and the elementary and high schools currently under construction for the commoners of Konoha Village.

In Konoha, child ninjas typically attend the Ninja Academy between the ages of eight and twelve, a period generally lasting three years. However, after Yua added mathematics as a compulsory subject at the Ninja Academy…

Well, anyway, Tsunade's younger brother Nawaki has already repeated a year, so he might... have to repeat another year.

Because of this, Nawaki harbored a lot of resentment towards Yua and was often ridiculed by Tsunade.

In Konoha Village, the ninja children of this age have access to education, but ordinary children from the common people do not.

Therefore, Youya directly introduced the junior high and senior high school system.

After graduating, most ninja children are trained by Jonin for a year to familiarize themselves with the ninja process. After that, they spend one or two years as Genin until they are about fifteen years old, at which point they have a general understanding of the process and are of marriageable age.

Of course, these are the educational procedures that Konoha has followed since its founding to deal with crises, and they are no longer suitable for the current Konoha.

What Konoha lacks right now is high-end talent, talent who can help Konoha's development.

To put it more bluntly, they are the talents who can get into research institutes.

However, if the old education methods are continued and these ninja families are left to educate themselves, it will lead to a vicious cycle.

He might become an excellent ninja, but that's about it.

Therefore, the optimal solution is to let these ninja clans leave their clans and come to Konoha's inner city, where they will be influenced by the ever-changing environment and learn and contribute their own strength.

Yuya thought that it would be best to get the help of the main ninja clan in this matter, so that the ninjas who came out would not have any complaints.

only……

Hiruzen Sarutobi's proposed transaction method could very well cause Yua to offend members of the Sarutobi family.

The Sarutobi family's ancestral tombs...

Those mounds of earth are where the ancestors of the Sarutobi clan are buried...

They were Sarutobi clan members who died fighting for Konoha after the village was founded...

If Youya disturbs those cemeteries...

The Sarutobi clan might even revolt.

You Ya ultimately did not finish the drink in his glass.

Instead, he slowly put it down, then looked seriously at Hiruzen Sarutobi: "The Sarutobi clan's cemetery occupies one-third of the current Sarutobi clan territory, right?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi looked slightly disappointed, but still nodded and answered Yua's question: "That's right, in fact it's more than a third, because the defensive points built around the cemetery are also included. These places are actually unnecessary. I can demolish them if I want, but these areas aren't very big. If I move them, it might make my uncles anxious, so I want to wait until the time is right before doing it all at once."

You Ya rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on.

These are all difficult to solve because they are just old products left over from the past, hindering the development of the new era. However, strictly speaking, they are not "mistakes".

If it's not a mistake, then what's the point of talking about correction?

Since it's not a mistake, if you want to take action against them, you definitely need to come up with a reason that everyone can believe.

And that's the crux of the problem.

Everyone was convinced...

Who can do that?

Moreover, these are people's ancestral graves. If you disturb their ancestral graves, they will fight you to the death, and they will always have a reason to do so.

You Ya recalled the conflicts that arose in his previous life when he moved his ancestral graves for the sake of urban development.

Can you say that both sides are at fault?

On one hand, it's for development; on the other hand, it's for the ancestral graves of one's ancestors...

Neither side is at fault.

But the key issue is...

It is indeed there, and these ancestral graves have indeed hindered the family's development.

Putting aside other things, if the Sarutobi clan's cemetery could be moved elsewhere, say to the Martyrs' Cemetery in Konoha Village, it would free up one-third of the current clan's land area.

This is such a big piece of land, what's wrong with doing it?

To put it bluntly, even building an amusement park on it could bring the Sarutobi clan an extra billion yen in revenue.

Well, although it's a bit like dancing on one's ancestors' graves, for the sake of a few billion ryo a year, Hiruzen Sarutobi felt he was willing to do such a rebellious thing.

So the crux of the problem goes back to where it started...

How can we get the descendants of these ancestors to agree to relocate the graves...?

Yuya was in a real bind; Hiruzen Sarutobi had really come up with a good offer.

He needs to set a good example for the Sarutobi clan, so that other clans can gradually encourage their members to leave their clan territories, embrace Konoha, and transform their previous mindset of serving their clans into one of serving the village.

Hiruzen Sarutobi also needs to contribute to the development of the Sarutobi clan. In fact, it's not just the Sarutobi clan's cemetery; if possible, the heads of clans like Shimura and Hyuga would like to move their clan's cemetery plots to the Konoha Cemetery. What can't they do with that large empty space? They could even grow crops and get a harvest.

I just don't dare.

Nobody dares to be the first to do this.

You Ya didn't dare either.

Not to mention that doing this would definitely leave a stain on his future Konoha history, a stain of demolishing someone's ancestral grave.

Even if You Ya doesn't care about this stain and goes ahead with it, whether he can succeed is another question.

Don't let yourself get a bad reputation; if you can't wash away the stain, you'll end up failing to accomplish anything.

That's the most annoying thing.

"Regarding this matter... I'll think about it carefully when I get back..." In the end, Yua could only give Hiruzen Sarutobi a promise that wasn't very effective.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was somewhat disappointed, but he still nodded.

He knew this was a thankless task, and other families didn't dare to do it, so he didn't dare to be the first to take the lead. He decided to wait and see how things developed.

but……

"I will talk to the young people in the clan. If they want to settle in the inner city, I will not stop them."

In the end, Hiruzen Sarutobi made his choice to Yua.

Yuya was taken aback, but secretly delighted. On the surface, he nodded calmly and thanked Hiruzen Sarutobi.

……

No one else knows the content of the conversation between Yua and Hiruzen Sarutobi.

That barbecue restaurant was booked by You Ya that day.

Anyway, the barbecue restaurant was originally his, so he could close it whenever he wanted.

Therefore, many people only know that Yua and Hiruzen Sarutobi talked about some things, but they don't know the specifics of what those things were.

However, there's one person who can't be kept in the dark about this.

Tobirama Senju.

Of course, Yua herself didn't need to hide this from Tobirama Senju.

Tobirama Senju himself knew what he had done to the other families.

And it was highly praised.

Tobirama Senju believed that if Yua could successfully undermine the other clans, it would be very beneficial for the development of Konoha.

Forget about clans; the Senju clan was scattered and reassigned to the commoners in the village by Hashirama Senju.

For Tobirama Senju, his clansmen were the villagers of Konoha.

He would stop at nothing to advance the development of Konoha.

And within this...

He was included naturally as well.

For Yua and Hiruzen Sarutobi, the matter of relocating the grave was almost a dead end. Unless they used violence to directly dismantle it, conflict was inevitable.

However, there is one person who can resolve this peacefully.

Without informing Yua, Tobirama Senju, leaning on a thick cane, went to the Sarutobi clan alone.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was working on that Konoha's Best Voice music program at the time, and he was terrified when he heard the news.

Tobirama Senju is now over sixty years old, and his once silver-white hair has turned a lifeless, pale white.

Almost everyone in Konoha knew that Tobirama Senju didn't have many years left to live, and no one would be shocked if news of his sudden death suddenly came out.

After all, Tobirama Senju spent his youth and middle age constantly on the battlefield, suffering countless injuries, both large and small. The fact that he lived to be over sixty years old is already a testament to his good fortune.

Tobirama Senju's original goal was to cultivate a new generation of Konoha's talents, including Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura.

Now, these new generation members have officially entered Konoha's decision-making body.

Correspondingly, Tobirama Senju himself was someone who naturally deserved the utmost respect from these people.

However, this time Tobirama Senju is doing something different.

He was looking for the elders of the Sarutobi clan.

Hiruzen Sarutobi's uncles were also taken aback when they heard that Tobirama Senju had come to visit them in person.

Tobirama Senju's current situation is not good. If he dies in the Sarutobi clan's territory, the trouble it will cause will be enormous.

Tobirama Senju, however, paid no attention to the Sarutobi clan's panic. Instead, he used his old face to make a request to the elders of the Sarutobi clan.

—When people get old, they become unaccustomed to loneliness.

If it's like this while we're alive, I'm truly afraid that after we die, we'll still be all alone and miserable in the underworld...

So, could you please allow my... old comrades... to be buried in the same place as me after I die?

Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi burst into tears.

Even on his deathbed, Tobirama Senju was still thinking about making a final contribution to them and the village.

The Sarutobi, Shimura, and other families were targeted one by one by Tobirama Senju. Even when Yua, who had received the news, came to investigate, she was unable to stop Tobirama Senju's actions.

They went to each house one by one, asking each one, and no one dared to refuse.

Those who died...

He and the second generation were truly comrades-in-arms on the battlefield...

With his last shred of dignity, Tobirama Senju helped his students complete the thorough cleanup of their clan's territory.

This also allowed Yuya to make arrangements for the new generation of Konoha ninja clan members.

From then on, for the new generation of Konoha, their reliance on their clan might simply be based on the existence of a surname.

And more importantly...

What they wanted to protect was not their family, or rather...

It's not just about family.

Rather, it was the place where he lived, the place where he resided—Konoha Village.

Tobirama Senju used his last moments to help his descendants, averting a potential conflict and ensuring that Konoha's cemetery became a universally recognized ancestral resting place for all clans.

For this one thing alone, Tobirama Senju is worthy of being the Hokage of Konoha.

(End of this chapter)