Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 427 Movements from All Sides

Kushina didn't have a chance to tell Minato Namikaze, but she sighed and told him about the recent situation of the Uzumaki clan.

Minato Namikaze was somewhat puzzled: "The railway construction in the Land of Whirlpools? Hmm, I have indeed heard some things about it. I heard there was some trouble there, but I can assure you, this has nothing to do with the Hokage."

Kushina rolled her eyes at Minato Namikaze: "Do you think I'm stupid? How could someone as smart as the Hokage do something so clumsy? This is obviously the work of those unlucky elders of the Uzumaki clan."

Minato Namikaze: "Huh? Them? But wouldn't the completion of the railway benefit them too?! Why would they do this?"

Kushina shrugged: "That's why I said they were just unlucky."

Minato Namikaze looked speechless: "...That's really unlucky."

Kushina waved her hand: "Never mind, let's not talk about them. Let's talk about you. Didn't we hear that the Hokage intends to choose you as the next Hokage? If you agree, you'll be the Fourth Hokage!"

Minato Namikaze waved his hands repeatedly with a look of disgust: "No, no, no, I'm not suitable, I'm not suitable."

Kushina laughed and said, "Why isn't it suitable? When I was chatting with Mikoto, she kept saying how outstanding you are. If you take over, the Uchiha clan will definitely support you~"

Minato Namikaze looked at Kushina speechlessly: "Didn't you ever consider why Mikoto said that? Why doesn't she support Fugaku going up?"

Kushina asked with a puzzled look, "Can an Uchiha become Hokage?"

Minato Namikaze: "...Don't be misled by those conspiracy theories. Believe it or not, in ten years, Shisui Uchiha might be the most suitable person to become Hokage."

"Uchiha Shisui?" Kushina thought for a moment and asked疑惑地问道, "Who is that?"

Minato Namikaze: "..."

Well, Shisui is indeed not well-known.

They're not famous, at least not now.

"Well, never mind. Anyway, I've met him. He's calm and reserved. I don't know what he's been through, but he always considers everything very thoroughly before implementing anything. And every time he deals with a new policy, he first tries it out in a certain area for a period of time to make sure there are no problems before promoting it."

The Hokage has said many times that Shisui is too conservative and lacks ambition, but we all believe that if Shisui could maintain this initial aspiration, he would be the perfect successor to the Hokage.

Kushina asked in confusion, "Why?"

Minato Namikaze smiled mockingly: "Because he is stable enough, many of the beneficiaries of Lord Yua's era can still benefit after he comes to power."

Kushina was somewhat dissatisfied: "This is too pragmatic."

Minato Namikaze ruffled Kushina's hair: "There's no way around it, Konoha is just too big for its own good right now. Apart from Lord Yua, no one is confident they can handle it well, not even the Hokage himself..."

Kushina was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and looked at Minato Namikaze: "Don't speak ill of Lord Yua, or many people will be unhappy with you."

Minato Namikaze realized he had misspoke and quickly tried to salvage the situation, saying, "I'm not saying that Lord Yua did a bad job, it's just... Lord Yua is very good at developing the village, but because of that, he doesn't have the energy to take care of his family."

You know about Lord Yuya's eldest son, Yuki, right?

"Ah, is that the travelogue about spending most of his time in the military camp?"

"Yes, he has fallen in love with a girl from Kumogakure, but that's not the point. The point is that he wants to go to Kumogakure and settle down with that girl."

Kushina took a deep breath: "Hiss, I really don't know. Isn't he afraid that if he goes to Kumogakure, the people of Kumogakure will use him to blackmail our village?"

Minato Namikaze laughed immediately: "See, you understand this principle, but Yuuki doesn't. So now you know why Lord Yua has been so exhausted lately, right?"

Kushina laughed and hugged Minato Namikaze: "In that case, you really shouldn't be the Hokage."

Minato Namikaze nodded repeatedly: "Konoha is developing too fast and too rapidly now, and there are too many people. Even someone as capable as Yua-sama can't take care of his family perfectly if he wants to manage it in an orderly manner. I don't have that much ambition. I just want to take care of my family, take care of you, take care of Naruto and Hana-rei. I really don't care about anything else."

Kushina nodded happily.

Then, after thinking for a while, Kushina said angrily, "If those old fogies of the Uzumaki clan had the same thoughts as you, they wouldn't have done such outrageous things."

Minato Namikaze: "..."

As expected, Kushina still cares about the Uzumaki clan.

Although those old guys are unreliable, at least the Uzumaki clan has more than just these few old fellows.

……

Uchiha Clan Territory:

While applying medicine to Sasuke, Mikoto Uchiha couldn't help but complain, "Don't you and Naruto always fight too brutally?"

Sasuke, thinking his mother was referring to how badly he had been beaten, immediately jumped up and shouted, "Mom! I beat Naruto up pretty badly too! He got a really bad beating too!"

Mikoto Uchiha, her face darkening, tapped Sasuke on the forehead: "You're three months older than him, you're the older brother, why do you always bully him?!"

Sasuke covered his head, looking aggrieved: "It's all because he always provokes me."

"I'm back."

At that moment, Itachi Uchiha also went home after school.

Uchiha Itachi graduated from the Ninja Academy last year and is now preparing for university entrance exams.

After all, in Konoha Village right now, only college students are truly superior people, the kind that everyone is scrambling to hire when they go out to find a job.

Mikoto Uchiha glared at Itachi Uchiha and said irritably, "Itachi! You've gone too far! Who told you to teach Sasuke those taijutsu and shuriken techniques? Do you even know that Sasuke beat up his classmate again today?!"

Uchiha Itachi nodded and said, "As long as Sasuke didn't lose, that's good."

Sasuke grinned when he heard that.

Mikoto stared at her eldest son, her fingers trembling, and turned to look for the feather duster in the house.

Itachi panicked for a moment, grabbed Sasuke's hand, and said, "Sasuke and I are going to visit Grandpa and Grandma today, we'll be back in a couple of days!"

"Stop right there! Both of you stop right there!"

night:

Mikoto and Fugaku were also discussing the next Hokage.

Now, basically everyone in the Jonin circle of Konoha knows that Yua wants to find the Fourth Hokage.

The problem is who will take over.

However, Mikoto and Fugaku know their own situation and there's no way they would choose to become Hokage.

Fugaku has been quite happy lately because, with Yua confirmed to be looking for a successor, and because it's uncertain what the next Hokage's attitude towards the Uchiha clan will be, Fugaku has been persuading the clan elders to give up their clan lands and integrate into Konoha Village much faster.

Aside from a few old guys who were really reluctant to give up their current and future interests, Fugaku even felt that if he announced the disbandment of the Uchiha clan on the day Yua announced his resignation as Hokage, there would definitely be people willing to follow him.

And at that time, his long-cherished wish will be fulfilled.

Once they integrate into the village, the Uchiha clan will no longer face any issues of being ostracized and causing members to consider rebellion.

He would never forget the atmosphere of the family during Tobirama Senju's reign.

That was what his father told him—a situation where the powder keg was just one step away from exploding.

Fortunately, Yuya stabilized the situation and led the Uchiha clan to new heights.

Now, although the Uchiha clan faces a troublesome situation, there is no longer a risk of being wiped out for rebelling.

that's enough.

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(End of this chapter)