Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 181 Uchiha Fugaku's Weekly Observations

Uchiha Fugaku, nineteen years old.

Born in Konoha in the 19th year of the war between Konoha and Kumogakure.

Fugaku Uchiha, influenced by his elders, believed that the people of Kumogakure were a bunch of bad people.

That's what he thinks.

Today is his first day officially starting work at the security department.

The Uchiha clan members feel a sense of pride and responsibility towards the security forces.

The same applies to Fugaku Uchiha.

His parents told him that the Security Department was something their Uchiha clan had fought for themselves, and that it was proof of the Uchiha clan's resistance against oppression.

Fugaku Uchiha firmly believed in this claim. He graduated from the Ninja Academy at the age of 13 with all his grades being A. Although he did not reach the level of an S-rank genius, no student had ever received an S-rank rating since the Konoha Ninja Academy was reorganized.

The criteria for S-rank evaluation are simple: anyone with superhuman talent in ninjutsu, mathematics, or science can be rated S.

In the more than ten years since You Ya took office, not a single student has achieved an S-level.

However, it should be available soon, after all, Kakashi is a genius who became a Jonin at the age of 12.

While others had just graduated from the Ninja Academy, he was already a Jonin, and he even figured out the Chidori, a powerful weapon. He could definitely be called a genius.

As for Itachi, who came later, and Minato Namikaze, who has now entered the school, they can both be considered geniuses.

Ok……

However, it seems that Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, this young couple, are having some trouble lately, because the math taught at the Ninja Academy is already at the junior high or high school level.

To put it another way, what Yua learned in those boarding, day school kindergartens and elementary schools before the Ninja Academy was mostly the content of Yua's previous elementary school, at most with the addition of basic concepts of geometry, algebra and equations.

It's not difficult; the main point is to give you a general idea.

Then I went to the Ninja Academy. The first year was about rational numbers, irrational numbers, quadrants, functions, and solid geometry.

That amount of knowledge is simply beyond what an ordinary person could remember.

Of course, Yuya also said that the requirements were not high. A score of 60 in math was enough to qualify for the selection of an outstanding student. The specifics depended on the other subjects. A score of 40 in math was considered passing and would not result in the teacher calling the parents. A score of 20 in math, if the grades in other subjects were good, would allow the student to graduate after making up some extra classes—by the way, that's how Rope Tree graduated—but if the score was below 20…

That will definitely make you fail the course.

Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, two top students who started playing ninja in their childhood, are now 11 years old and in their first year at the Ninja Academy, and most of the time they score below 80 points.

This was somewhat unacceptable to the two proud individuals.

However, there is also an advantage: they skipped what would normally be their rebellious phase because of their unwillingness to admit defeat.

These two can only barely get an A- grade now.

From this perspective, you can see that Fugaku Uchiha's A-rank evaluation upon graduation was already quite good.

After graduating at the age of 13, Fugaku Uchiha spent two years learning ninjutsu under the tutelage of his senior, Uchiha Hatake, and was promoted to Chunin at the age of 15.

He could have joined the police force at that time, but Fugaku Uchiha did not choose to do so.

Because he felt that his talents were more than that.

So, four years later, he was promoted to Jonin.

To be promoted to Jonin at the age of 19 is already considered very fast.

According to Yua's regulations, if a person who has been promoted to Jonin wants to be promoted to Elite Jonin, that is, to skip the Intermediate Jonin exam and become a High Jonin, there must be a ten-year transition period.

While some geniuses do possess Kage-level strength at the age of 18 (Sasuke and Prince, don't look at me, I'm talking about you two), if someone really reaches Kage level at 18, how could Yua have the nerve to make him do the menial tasks of a Jonin?

Each village keeps this level of combat power as a trump card.

Even if there is a task to ask, it is a very important task.

Konoha Village doesn't need those outrageous missions right now. For example, Yua definitely wouldn't do a brain-dead mission like having Kakuzu assassinate the Hokage in the Land of Waterfall.

Why get involved in other villages' affairs?

Therefore, Yuya still needs these Jonin to work for him.

If I just promote you guys to high-ranking Jonin, where am I supposed to find cows and horses?

Of course, Fugaku Uchiha was unaware of all this. He was quite proud of his promotion to Jonin at the age of 19.

He just won't show it.

He considers himself to be the type of person who talks little but gets things done.

However, he felt a bit numb on his first day at the security department.

Because he was already a Jonin, he was assigned to lead a squad.

There's nothing wrong with that in itself.

The problem is that as Konoha Village develops, all sorts of issues will inevitably surface.

For example, in the past, the people of Konoha Village mostly went to other villages to farm or open small shops. These people had a lot of rest time every day and generally did not cause trouble.

Nowadays, many jobs require a contact person, and there are also many service industry jobs. When people come into contact, conflicts arise, conflicts lead to trouble, and big troubles lead to more trouble.

Not to mention that even though we haven't talked about the dark side of Konoha Village before, there are still people in Konoha Village who are lazy, good-for-nothing, and just waiting to die.

Yuya has been in power for fifteen years. Many people who were three or four years old when Yuya became Hokage are now adults. They have houses at home and no pressure. They don't want to go to school or work in factories. They inevitably become hooligans, or petty thugs.

Of course, there aren't many of these people, but they just gather together when they have nothing to do, ask their families for money, verbally flirt with pretty girls passing by, and whistle.

Forget about robbing people with knives; even harassing a passing pretty woman is considered harassment if they actually lay a hand on her.

And that's enough to make them spend their time in jail working on sewing machines.

You won't get paid if you go in and operate the sewing machine.

Oh, by the way, the Sarutobi clan members who went to jail for embezzlement have already been released. They went in when they were in their thirties, and now they're over fifty. Konoha has changed so much that they're basically showing signs of being out of touch with the times.

If it weren't for the Sarutobi clan protecting their livelihood, they probably wouldn't know what to do.

Putting everything else aside, urinating in public is no longer allowed in Konoha Village, and public toilets have already been built.

Meanwhile, phone booths are being built along the road, and all the old low-rise bungalows have disappeared and been replaced by apartment buildings. This brings a sense of alienation to some people who have spent more than ten years in prison.

Yuya dared to arrest members of the Sarutobi clan. Although Konoha Village has expanded its area by requisitioning the clan lands of various ninja clans, it is still technically just a county-level city.

How big can it get?

Everyone knows the news.

Therefore, some people with evil intentions only have the desire but not the courage to do so.

But that doesn't stop them from being disgusting.

On his first day in office, Fugaku Uchiha received a complaint. As it was his first case, Fugaku Uchiha went over in high spirits, ready to uphold justice.

Then I saw two vendors fighting in the market.

Fugaku Uchiha stepped forward, separated the two, and asked what was going on. Upon learning that it was a verbal dispute, he immediately frowned.

Why did you let him come over when it was just an argument?

Okay, we can't think like that. The Security Department manages the entire Hidden Leaf Village. If the verbal dispute continues to escalate, it might lead to injuries or fatalities.

Fugaku Uchiha patiently persuaded them for half an hour, but when he saw that neither side was prepared to make peace, he frowned and put on a serious expression.

He wasn't the kind of person who would be a pushover. If the two of them really weren't willing to shake hands and make peace, he would arrest them and take them to the police station to talk.

This method was very effective, but this was just the beginning. Just as things were resolved here, someone came to Fugaku Uchiha and said that someone was acting drunk.

Is someone acting drunk and disorderly in broad daylight?

Fugaku Uchiha frowned, then went over to take a look. It wasn't a drunken tantrum at all; he was clearly using this as an excuse to grope her.

Fugaku Uchiha was furious and wanted to arrest the man and imprison him.

His team members quickly stopped him, saying that a lesson was enough and arresting him was unnecessary.

Fugaku Uchiha frowned. Why was that?

The laws enacted by the Third Hokage clearly state that people can be arrested directly.

After the matter was resolved, he realized that if people were arrested and imprisoned for such a trivial matter, many people in Konoha would have to go to jail, and there weren't enough places in the prison. Besides, they had to handle more than a dozen incidents a day; they didn't have that much time to waste on such minor matters.

Fugaku Uchiha frowned. For him and the members of his group, this was indeed a trivial matter.

But is this a trivial matter for the person being harassed?

Before Fugaku could think it through, he was notified of the next incident to be dealt with.

Moreover, this time the call went directly to the General Headquarters of the Garrison Command.

While telephone lines haven't been laid to every household in Konoha yet, they were certainly put into service in some important locations immediately.

There is no doubt that the list also includes a member of the security forces.

The call came from the logistics team in the Hokage's office building. They discovered that the number of documents delivered this time was incorrect; there were three fewer volumes than the number reported by their subordinates.

Fugaku Uchiha was somewhat puzzled. It was only three volumes; what was the big deal?

His team members were instantly terrified.

Because the scrolls in the Hokage's office were collected, compiled, and reported to the office building by factories, businessmen, and various street offices.

Then the office clerks categorized the relevant information as important and unimportant. The important information was passed up the chain of command and finally delivered to Yuya. The unimportant information was marked as read and then written down with their own processing opinions before being sent to Nara Shikaya's secretariat.

Strictly speaking, most of the time the information handed in by subordinates is not important.

But that doesn't mean they don't need to look for one.

What if those three rolls of error are actually important?

Fugaku Uchiha and his team worked for more than two hours and finally found it; it had fallen onto a government vehicle during transport.

Once this task was finished, the next one came right away.

Fugaku Uchiha didn't get home until 11 p.m.

After getting home, I just lay down on the bed and didn't want to move.

The feeling of being ready to get things done when I start work at nine in the morning is completely gone by the end of the day.

Fugaku Uchiha felt that something was wrong with the security department, but he was too busy to think after a long day and just wanted to sleep.

After a week of this intense work schedule, Fugaku Uchiha, who was called in to work overtime on what should have been his day off, finally couldn't help but ask a question:

"Our security department is so busy, why don't we hire more people to relieve the pressure?!"

Fugaku Uchiha's words immediately silenced many members of the security forces.

It was only then that Fugaku Uchiha realized that he wasn't the only one thinking this way; many people in the Security Department were doing the same thing...

That being the case...

"Why don't we jointly petition the Minister and ask him to expand the size of the Security Department and recruit more people?" Uchiha Fugaku suggested.

However, at that moment, a cold snort came.

Uchiha Setsuna stepped forward with a gloomy face.

Fugaku Uchiha could only lower his head: "Vice-Captain..."

Uchiha Setsuna's eyes grew increasingly grim as he looked at Uchiha Fugaku: "Are you suggesting we hand over the Security Department to other people in Konoha to manage?!"

Fugaku Uchiha lowered his head and explained, "No, Vice-Captain! I was just too busy with everyone's work..."

"That's because you're incompetent!" Uchiha Setsuna stared at Uchiha Fugaku with bloodshot eyes and spoke coldly.

"Too busy? That's because you're all incompetent! If you're too busy, then don't rest! Get back to work! You could have resolved a dispute in the time it takes to complain like this."

Get out of here, and don't let me hear your complaints again, understand?

Fugaku Uchiha could only bow his head and agree.

But what he was really thinking, only he himself knew.

Uchiha Setsuna glanced around, and none of the Uchiha clan members dared to meet his gaze.

Uchiha Setsuna grinned with satisfaction, thoroughly enjoying the feeling of being "respected" by everyone in the security force.

That was so enjoyable.

……

Inside an apartment in the Konoha Village public officials' accommodation building:

"That's why I don't like Setsuna. He's too gloomy." Uchiha Kagami picked up a cup of tea, drank it all in one gulp, then shook his head and said to Yua sitting opposite him:

"I know about the security department's affairs, but I can't, and I don't want to, get involved in that place..."

Uchiha Kagami shook his head and sighed again: "They used to say that place was the Uchiha's last stronghold, and that they absolutely could not back down. If even that place were taken back by the village's higher-ups, the Uchiha would truly have nothing left. That's why they would wholeheartedly complete the work of the security department, so that the village's higher-ups would have no excuse to interfere..."

You Ya hadn't meant to laugh, but upon hearing this, he couldn't help but burst out laughing. He quickly apologized, "Oh, I didn't mean to, it's just that what you said was a bit..."

"Hmm, unbelievable, so that's what you guys used to think."

Uchiha Kagami looked somewhat helpless, but then couldn't help but laugh.

"Looking back now, it really is laughable." Uchiha Kagami said, taking a sip of tea and sighing, "I truly believed it back then. I believed they were acting out of selfless motives, trying to make the village better. Although they might have had their own selfish reasons, they were still making an effort..."

Uchiha Kagami said, rubbing his forehead and shaking his head with a smile: "But now I really see clearly where all that public spirit came from. The way he acted in resistance before was just to fool the people in the clan, to make them stand with him and fight against the village's higher-ups."

Now, they understand that the security department is no longer sufficient to handle their workload. However, since you have not expressed any intention to forcibly take back the security department, they naturally cannot give up so easily.

Yuya grinned. Konoha was short of manpower everywhere, and with the Security Department being recalled, Yuya had to deploy a large number of personnel. The inner city of Konoha had a floating population of over two million, which required at least five thousand Security Department members to manage.

The Uchiha clan only has a little over 500 members. Where will the missing 4,500 members be filled?

Moreover, these are members of the security department, responsible for maintaining order. Therefore, while not all of them must be Chunin or Jonin, at least most of them must be Chunin.

Where did these people come from?

Therefore, rather than taking back the Security Department, Yuya would prefer to make the Security Department the scapegoat.

If there's any chaos in Konoha and the Security Department doesn't arrive in time, then the blame will fall on the Security Department; no one will hold Yua responsible.

He was the illustrious and revered Third Hokage; the villagers of Konoha were more than grateful to him, so how could they possibly blame him?

It's all the fault of the damned security department and the damned Uchiha clan that we've suffered!

You Uchiha ninjas, if you're so capable, then manage the security department properly!

It's all your fault for not managing it well and refusing to hand over the security department to our great Hokage! It's all your fault!

After all, Konoha Village is only so big, and it's no secret that the Uchiha clan refused to hand over the security department to Yua for management. This naturally made some people who suffered losses due to the mismanagement of the security department feel dissatisfied with the Uchiha clan.

That's exactly the effect that You Ya wanted.

As for Uchiha Kagami, he was also helpless.

From his perspective, handing over the security department to Yuya was definitely not a problem.

Yuya is the Hokage, the highest-ranking administrator in Konoha. Is there anything wrong with handing it over to him? No, it's you people who don't want to hand over the Security Department who have the problem!

However, what Uchiha Kagami got in return for this idea was that he, the head of the Anbu, now lives in the official Konoha residence building.

Uchiha Kagami was also annoyed by this. "You all reject me? Do you really think I want to stay in the clan?!"

So they simply moved out.

It's quite similar to Madara's style.

Yuya came to see Uchiha Kagami today mainly because of the Security Department. There have been too many complaints, so Yuya had to put on a show and spread the word that he wanted Uchiha Kagami to take over the Security Department.

The minister and deputy minister of the security department certainly wouldn't agree to that.

Therefore, this matter will definitely be dropped in the end. Yuya's reputation will not be affected at all. All the blame will fall on the Uchiha, and he will be completely innocent.

Perfect timing, I'll take this opportunity to rest.

You should definitely move around more after sitting in the office for too long.

"Ding-dong"

While the two put down their work and started talking about other things, Yuya asked Uchiha Kagami about his son, who was almost an adult and of marriageable age. He wondered when they should start preparing for the wedding, as it would soon be Konoha Year 39.

Uchiha Kagami felt somewhat helpless. He always felt that Yua was just waiting for his grandson or granddaughter to be born so he could have some fun.

Although... he was actually quite looking forward to it.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

Yuya and Uchiha Kagami exchanged a glance, both somewhat puzzled.

Who would bother looking for Uchiha Kagami for no reason?

And it's done by ringing the doorbell. If it were someone from the Anbu (Anti-Secession Bureau), what would they use for the doorbell?!

I came in right through the window!

Uchiha Kagami went to open the door and saw a black-haired person wearing an Uchiha clan robe standing outside. He looked at Yua with some surprise.

"Third Hokage... what are you doing here?"

The newcomer was none other than Uchiha Fugaku.

(End of this chapter)