Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 23 Supplies and Letters

There's another reason why the villagers of Konoha contributed more to this fundraising effort than the ninja clans: Hashirama Senju had previously dispersed the Senju clan members among the ordinary villagers of Konoha.

Although Hashirama Senju's original intention was to prevent petty people from coveting his Wood Release techniques, which would lead to the Senju clan members being targeted, these Senju clan members would naturally give their full support to this fundraising effort.

The reason is that Tobirama Senju is also a member of the Senju clan, and he is still sitting in the position of Hokage. Who would you support if not him?

Similarly, the reason why Tsunade was able to overpower Jiraiya and Orochimaru (okay, Orochimaru doesn't count) to become the Fifth Hokage in the manga is because there were many Senju clan members scattered among the villagers of Konoha.

The villagers are not very educated and are easily swayed and manipulated. Everyone around them says that it would be great if Tsunade became the fifth senju, so you would naturally think so, without thinking about the deeper reasons.

This is normal. In fact, whether it's these ordinary villagers who haven't received much education, or the technologically advanced era where everyone had read books in Youya's previous life, ordinary people are the kind of people who are easily swayed.

You Ya also used this kind of coercion this time.

However, those ninja clans were different from ordinary villagers.

They only acknowledged Konoha because of Hashirama Senju. Now that Hashirama is dead, it's questionable whether Tobirama Senju can withstand attacks from other countries.

Yuya knew what they were thinking. If they won, they would still be a ninja clan from Konoha. If they lost, well, sorry, Konoha? What Konoha? We've always been the XX clan. Don't talk nonsense. I don't know anything about Konoha.

It's realistic, but that's the norm for ninja families.

More than a decade ago, they had survived by fighting in various wars.

It's only been a little over a decade, and the same group of people are still in power.

Apart from the Uchiha clan, who were defeated by Hashirama Senju and, in their early years, grew tired of the endless wars and devoted themselves to following him, all other clans in Konoha had an attitude of watching him rise to prominence, watching him entertain guests, and watching whether he could withstand the pressure in the future.

To be honest, some families now have their power divided by the establishment of Konoha Village, and their voices are not as strong as they were during the war.

These people are typical puppets of power, completely disregarding the suffering that war will bring. All they care about is keeping the power in their hands. Hokage? What is that?!

Hashirama Senju was well aware of this situation, as was Tobirama Senju.

The two even had the same solution.

That means setting the sights on the next generation of each family.

Why did Tobirama Senju teach Hiruzen Sarutobi, Koharu Utatane, and a few others at the academy?

Do you really think students are selected randomly?

Just look at where these people are on the battlefield now and you'll understand; Tobirama Senju is playing a grand game.

Theoretically, if Tobirama Senju hadn't died, Konoha would have smoothly transitioned to Hiruzen Sarutobi becoming the leader of the Sarutobi clan, Danzo Shimura becoming the head of the Shimura clan, Torifu Akimichi becoming the head of the Akimichi clan, Kagami Uchiha becoming the head of the Uchiha clan, and Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado becoming the bridge of communication between Koharu Utatane and the Daimyo of the Land of Fire...

The daimyo of the Land of Fire and several major clans of Konoha Village all stood with Tobirama Senju, and the Senju clan members scattered throughout Konoha Village would also support him.

It can be said that after ten years, Tobirama Senju will be the undisputed supreme leader of Konoha.

Ten years later, Tobirama Senju would only be in his fifties. In the original timeline, after Tobirama Senju completely eliminated the troubles within Konoha, he could then begin to train the next Hokage.

No matter who the candidate is, as long as it is Tobirama Senju who decides, no one will object.

Even if, in order to completely win over the hearts of the Uchiha clan, Kagami Uchiha were to take the stage, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo Shimura would have no objections.

The fact that this decision was made by Tobirama Senju is enough.

However, who could have imagined that in a war they had already won, the Second Hokage insisted on taking his personal guard to negotiate on someone else's territory, resulting in the loss of his men and the complete disarray of the group. The Uchiha clan, who had already found a solution, headed straight for their doom. Shimura Danzo also wondered, "Why should that bastard Hiruzen Sarutobi become Hokage? I'm not convinced!" and started causing trouble.

Well, with Yua around, it's practically impossible for Tobirama to lead his own team and send his chosen next generation to their doom in this lifetime.

Returning to the recruitment for Konoha Village, Tobirama Senju remained calm, simply nodding slightly to Yua: "I understand, you may leave now."

After Yua left, Tobirama's face showed obvious anger.

These bastards! This war can be considered the founding war of Konoha. If we win, it will prove that even without the protection of the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju, Konoha is still the most powerful force in the ninja world.

If they lose, Konoha will definitely be attacked by other countries.

At a time like this, you're still playing these kinds of tricks on me?!

The anger on Tobirama Senju's face gradually turned into calm.

What's there to be angry about?

Didn't we already know what kind of people these families were?

Fine, since they refuse to help now, then once we win, they won't get any benefits from me either.

Everything depends on the final outcome of this war.

……

When Yuya stepped out of the tent, he was greeted by a man wearing a Konoha headband and with three blood-red tomoe in his pupils.

"Huh, it's you?" Uchiha Kagami's first reaction upon seeing Yua was to look him up and down.

Yuya knew that he was using his Sharingan to see if he had transformed into something using the Transformation Technique.

Youya was speechless: "Uncle Jing, are you serious? If the enemy manages to take this place, we'll definitely lose this war."

Uchiha Kagami was a little embarrassed, then said to Yua, "Could you please not call me uncle? I'm only in my early twenties... Can you call me brother?"

You Ya picked his nose: "Oh, really? A man who's already married and about to become a father is asking me to call him 'brother'?"

Uchiha Kagami chuckled and scratched his head: "But it really does make me sound old."

Then Uchiha Kagami sighed, "Fine, old man it is then. I'll go talk to the Hokage first. You go and do your own thing."

As he spoke, Uchiha Kagami walked into Senju Tobirama's tent.

You Ya was completely bewildered. Was this guy deaf? Didn't he hear what I just said?

Then the tent was suddenly opened, and Uchiha Kagami poked his head out to look at Yua: "What did you just say?! I, I want what right now?!"

Yu Ya, with dead fish eyes, took out a letter from his pocket and handed it over: "Here you go, a letter from Aunt Yako."

Uchiha Kagami excitedly took the letter from Yua's hand.

You Ya chuckled, not minding the other party's rudeness, and turned to walk outside.

He still has many letters to deliver.

I'm sorry, Uncle-Master, but I'll gladly accept this opportunity to win people's hearts.

For Tobirama Senju, what he valued most were the supplies that Yuya had brought over.

However, Yuya knew that he had contacted the families of these ninjas on the battlefield in Konoha, offering to help them write letters and deliver them to the front lines.

These letters were a thousand times more important to those on the front lines during the war than any supplies.

This is the human heart.

(End of this chapter)