Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 384 The Class Question

I don’t know when it started, but in Konoha Village, the younger generation of the various clans—especially the four- or five-year-old children—began to stick together from kindergarten.

It's not quite accurate to call it forming a clique; it's more like, with the interference of elders, a social circle has been forcibly created for these children, one that consists only of the powerful and wealthy.

For example, if a child, from the very beginning of his life when he starts to interact with the outside world from kindergarten, is surrounded by people of the same social class as his father, what would be the worst possible trajectory of his life?

Take Hyuga Neji, for example, who is now in kindergarten.

Neji Hyuga attended the Hyuga clan's own kindergarten.

The kindergarten's fees have increased from being affordable for ordinary families to becoming increasingly elite. From the age of five until he entered the Ninja Academy at the age of ten, Hyuga Neji was basically surrounded by clans of the same level as the Hyuga clan, such as the Sarutobi and Shimura clans.

The Hyuga clan's kindergarten has now been expanded into an elementary school.

It's also a three-year program.

Why?

It's all because You Ya has been promoting a nationwide atmosphere of mathematics education since the civil service exam.

But when it comes to math, if you don't know it, you really don't know it, even if you're extremely angry.

Youya understood this, and so did the other families.

We're not idiots. Math is so important, what else is there to say? Just study it!

Therefore, the Hyuga clan's kindergarten and the elementary school they went on to were both under closed management.

Simply put, unless there are special circumstances, it's generally impossible to get into Hyuga Elementary School without special reasons.

What special reason?

Either be exceptionally outstanding, or... pay enough money.

And where do the students for Hinata Elementary School come from every year...?

How about direct admission from kindergarten?

Yes, simply put, if you enroll your child in Hinata's school, Hinata can take care of your child from age five to ten.

Even after graduating from the Ninja Academy at the age of twelve, there are special schools available for those who wish to continue studying Hyuga.

If they achieve excellent grades, they can then directly enter university.

Yes, it's the second university in Konoha, jointly named by the Hyuga, Sarutobi, Shimura, and other clans.

Although it can't compare to the top university appointed by the state, it's still quite outrageous that there are only two universities in a big city with several million people.

In this way, his life is actually controlled without the children's knowledge.

For example, Hyuga Neji.

It is foreseeable that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Hyuga Neji will encounter other wealthy and privileged children in kindergarten, and the same will be true in elementary school.

The only special thing might be his three years at the ninja academy.

This may have been the only way that Hyuga Neji came into contact with ordinary villagers in Konoha before he turned twelve.

The Hyuga clan can still arrange a path for Hyuga Neji's advancement.

While this requires Hyuga Neji to be outstanding, and even more so, it requires the Hyuga clan members not to hold him back, given Hyuga Neji's talent, it should be no problem.

Therefore, the younger generations of these families have become bound together in this way.

Yuya wasn't unaware of this, nor was she incapable of preventing it, but...

What reason?

Are such things rare?

In that prosperous era of my past life, when did the children of high-ranking officials, wealthy merchants, and tycoons ever start playing together with ordinary people?

This is a class issue, and You Ya doesn't think he has the ability to solve it. If he did have that ability…

He would have unified the ninja world long ago.

Yuya was well aware of his own abilities. Regardless, allowing Konoha to continue developing in this way would undoubtedly make it stronger. As for other issues…

You Ya could only sigh helplessly.

What could he do? This was a problem that even that great man from his previous life couldn't completely solve.

Therefore, Naruto Uzumaki is really having a headache about which kindergarten to choose for his trip next year.

Logically speaking, the matter of children going to school should not fall under the jurisdiction of Youya.

But Naruto isn't an ordinary kid...

He has half a Nine-Tails inside him...

You Ya sighed helplessly. He already faced difficult choices, and now he had to make this decision...

Ugh, this is annoying.

Ultimately, Yua decided to pass the buck back to Minato Namikaze and Kushina.

The two of them were also having a headache about how to choose a kindergarten for Naruto.

They did want Naruto to go to the Hyuga clan's kindergarten, since they both knew that the people there were all rich and powerful, and that going there would be good for Naruto.

But the problem is...

They're not from that circle...

And if we really want to delve deeper...

Kushina and Naruto are the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, so theoretically this mother and son must be Yua's people.

But the Hyuga Kindergarten is clearly a place for those few clans to play in. If they let Naruto go there...

Will there be some...

Negative impact?

So they handed the problem over to Youya.

Yuya was also having a headache. He didn't want to just pick any kindergarten and then have Naruto grow up and look back on his kindergarten days only to find it a complete mess and hate his third-generation grandfather.

Kindergarten is a very important stage, and You Ya herself knows this very well.

Therefore, he ultimately decided to let Minato Namikaze and Kushina, the couple, think about this problem.

……

In the end, Minato Namikaze and Kushina found Naruto.

And Naruto, quite naturally, asked a question that only a child would ask:

"Mommy, can I not go to kindergarten?"

Kushina's face turned cold as she looked at Naruto. She stared at him expressionlessly and said, "Of course you can, but you're not allowed to sleep in your room for a day if you don't go to kindergarten."

Naruto was a little puzzled. What could a four-year-old child be thinking?

He agreed immediately.

Three days later, Naruto begged Kushina to send him to kindergarten.

Kushina sneered inwardly: "I can't even handle a little brat like you?"

Furthermore, taking advantage of this moment, Kushina told Naruto that he could choose his own kindergarten, whichever one he wanted, but once he made his choice, he couldn't back out.

Naruto thought about it for a long time and finally made a decision:

Go to Konoha Southeast Kindergarten.

……

Yes, this Southeast Kindergarten is the kindergarten where Yakushi Nono attends.

The reason Naruto chose this place is very simple...

Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki lived in the eastern part of Konoha.

As is well known, apart from a few commercial streets, many civil servants live in the northern part of Konoha.

Yuya also lived in the North City, which led many officials of Konoha Village to live there as well.

The western city was the private territory of many ninja clans, while Minato Namikaze came from a commoner background and was born in the eastern city, so his hometown was in the eastern district.

As for Kushina...

She lived in the North City when she was a child, near the Hokage Rock. After getting married, she naturally moved to the East City.

It all comes down to the same problem.

Where you are, you will associate with people of that class.

(End of this chapter)