Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 46 Two Hundred and Fifty Tons

Yuya followed Uchiha Kagami to the Land of Lightning.

The journey took six and a half days.

If Yuya and Uchiha Kagami weren't both ninjas, this journey would have taken them at least half a month if they were ordinary people.

After all, they came from Konoha in the Land of Fire to the border of the Land of Lightning.

Yuya rushed to the makeshift command post set up at the front line, where he met his senior apprentice, Tobirama Senju.

After Tobirama Senju dismissed the others, his usually icy and indifferent face became somewhat anxious.

Then he rubbed his hands together and told Yuya about what happened when he was training in Water Release techniques.

Upon hearing this, You Ya's eyes lit up.

If they can already extract pure gold from the gold dust, there must be a lot of gold mines down there!

The Hidden Cloud Village is indeed a bunch of muscle-bound idiots; they couldn't even detect such a large gold mine.

Well, after all, it was originally under the riverbed.

Then Youya hurriedly asked for coordinates: "Uncle-Master, where is the gold mine?!"

Tobirama Senju, however, composed himself and spoke softly to Yua, "Yua, this gold mine must have improved your strength, right?"

You Ya nodded repeatedly. Now that his gold reserves have exceeded one ton, he feels that his abilities have increased significantly.

Tobirama Senju nodded and continued, "Then let me ask you, who do you think was the main contributor to finding this gold mine?"

Yuya's excited expression vanished instantly, and he stared at Tobirama Senju with dead fish eyes: "Uncle-Master, just say what you want to say."

Tobirama Senju coughed and said, "Um, after you use your ability to extract the gold, we don't need any more. How about we split it in half?"

You Ya was shocked: "Uncle-Master, what nonsense are you talking about? Half for each of us?! I only take half? What if I use my abilities to absorb the gold, and then I'm only short of your half to increase my strength?"

Tobirama Senju's smile faded as he calmly looked at Yua: "Then how do you think it's appropriate to divide them?"

You Ya: "June 4th, I'll say June 4th, you..."

Tobirama Senju turned and left, saying, "Never mind, I didn't tell you about this."

You Ya immediately panicked: "No, Uncle-Master, alright, alright, half and half, half for each of us!"

Tobirama Senju finally nodded in satisfaction.

Afterwards, the two arrived at the riverbank, whereupon Yuya squatted down and began exploring using her abilities.

Afterwards, Yua looked at Tobirama Senju with a strange expression.

"What's wrong?"

Yuya: "My current ability can only extract gold within a ten-kilometer radius centered on me, and within that radius... the gold below is probably only..."

Tobirama Senju grew anxious. "Is it really that little?"

"It's probably only a little over a hundred tons."

Tobirama Senju: "What? Only a little over a hundred... wait, a ton?"

Tobirama Senju's expression changed instantly, and he started calculating in his mind how much a ton of gold would cost, or how much a hundred tons of gold would cost.

After a while, Tobirama Senju still couldn't figure it out, so he simply told Yua to get the gold out first.

You Ya then activated his ability, sucking up more than 100 tons of gold from underground.

A hundred tons sounds like a lot, but in reality, it's just a stack of cubes about five meters high.

Tobirama Senju clicked his tongue, then looked at Yua and sighed, "Your bloodline limit is really useful. Although the gold you create with your ability will revert to its original state when it comes into contact with water, this kind of gold that exists naturally doesn't have this limitation. Moreover, it can directly extract gold from the soil from underground, bypassing the refining process..."

If you had been born twenty years earlier…

Tobirama Senju sighed a few times, then had Yua divide the gold in two.

Afterwards, watching Yua absorb half of the gold into his body, Tobirama Senju's lips twitched.

That good-for-nothing wastrel! If that gold were used to develop Konoha...

What Tobirama Senju didn't know was that Yua could absorb gold, but she could also spit it out.

With one inhalation and one exhalation, not much gold was lost.

However, Yua certainly wouldn't tell Tobirama Senju.

Let him think that the gold has been absorbed and consumed by him.

"By the way, what else did you want to say? You can continue now."

You Ya nodded: "Oh, what I was just about to say is that there are several thousand tons of gold down there, but because my ability only covers a range of ten kilometers, I can't absorb them all."

Tobirama Senju suddenly froze on the spot.

A moment later, Tobirama Senju rushed over with bloodshot eyes (his eyes were already red) and grabbed Yua's shoulder: "I'm going to teach you Earth Release!"

You must learn Earth Escape Technique within one day!

Tobirama Senju is clearly somewhat possessed.

That makes sense; it's impossible for anyone to remain unmoved by thousands of tons of gold.

Unless he doesn't know the value of gold.

So, in the following week, Tobirama Senju began to teach Yua Earth Release techniques.

The main premise is that Yuya must find a way to go underground and retrieve the gold.

In a week, seven days, Tobirama Senju himself could create a new ninjutsu.

However, You Yacai had only just learned three earth escape techniques.

Strictly speaking, all three Earth Release techniques are actually of the same type, all using chakra to soften the earth and change its shape.

Basically, if you learn one, you should be able to learn the other two. But it took Youya a week.

Tobirama Senju sighed, but he knew in his heart that if he finished learning in a week, he wouldn't be much inferior to the others in his elite team, except that he couldn't compare to him.

But now time is money.

After learning Earth Release, Yuya brought more this time?

The pile of gold they brought up was over ten meters high.

Tobirama Senju suffered a sudden cardiac arrest, but quickly recovered.

Because he knew he couldn't afford to fall.

He divided it in half again, happily sealing it in a sealing scroll. Tobirama Senju then wondered, "What you just received, was that several thousand tons?"

You Ya: "No, there are only 500 tons in total, and you have 250 tons, Uncle-Master."

Tobirama Senju was furious: "Didn't you say several thousand?!"

You Ya sighed: "That's even further down, dozens of kilometers away."

Tobirama Senju frowned slightly: "You can't get down?"

Youya rolled his eyes: "Uncle-Master, you can try. I can't go down more than two kilometers underground. The soil is too hard. If I overuse my chakra, I'll have to stay down there for the rest of my life."

Tobirama Senju understood; that little bastard Yua had chickened out.

Tobirama Senju said, "I can take you down there."

You Ya shrugged, indicating that you could try it yourself first, Uncle-Master.

Tobirama Senju tried it himself and found that he could only burrow down three kilometers at most, because the rock layer below seemed to contain other elemental concentrations and he couldn't continue.

With a sigh, Tobirama Senju knew that this was as far as he could go, and that Yua indeed couldn't come here.

So they gave up on that plan.

However, they still remembered the location of this gold mine. When Yua became stronger, the two of them secretly came here and gave the mine to the Land of Lightning.

Anyway, it would be a waste for those roughnecks in the Hidden Cloud Village to take it.

So, Tobirama Senju took Yua back to the temporary camp.

You Ya was secretly delighted, as his gold reserves had increased.

He had a premonition that his next advancement would occur when he absorbed over a thousand tons of gold, at which point his detection, perception, and absorption capabilities would definitely become stronger.

However, Youya definitely won't tell anyone about this.

He understands the principle of not flaunting one's wealth.

That same night, the elite forces of Kumogakure launched a night raid on the temporary camp of Konoha Village...

(End of this chapter)