Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 49 Newspapers and the Three Little Ones

Two weeks later, at the Konoha Ninja Academy:

"That's so cool!!!" Jiraiya, who looked like a white-haired thug, was extremely excited as he looked at the newspaper in his hand.

"Hey, have you finished looking? This is what I bought." Orochimaru... Little Orochimaru shook his head helplessly at Little Jiraiya, hands on his hips.

"What does it matter? There's no distinction between you and me in our relationship..." Little Jiraiya pouted and stuck out his tongue at Orochimaru.

"Never mind that, look at this! Our big brother is amazing!" Little Jiraiya hugged Little Orochimaru and shared the headline in the newspaper intimately.

Orochimaru sighed, then said helplessly, "That's just your opinion, not ours... Never mind, more than that, I'd like to know if those grain stores will even be open this month."

Jiraiya was a little confused: "Huh? What grain store? Isn't the grain store always open?"

Orochimaru shook his head: "I meant the grain store downstairs on our street. Grandma Ryoko has trouble walking, and the grain store in the central commercial street is too far away. If it's not open today, I'll bring Grandma Ryoko a bag of rice home after class."

Jiraiya blinked, then nodded and handed the newspaper back to Orochimaru: "Alright, take a look."

Orochimaru took it and immediately flipped it over to look at the "Life" section on the back. He was somewhat disappointed not to see any notifications.

Children have a very strong ability to accept new things.

In fact, some elderly people in Konoha Village no longer have the habit of buying newspapers, but the children have taken to reading them (mainly because there are so few entertainment options, and the newspaper has an entertainment section that occasionally features short stories or anecdotes, which is very appealing to the children of Konoha who lack entertainment these days). They can even learn to read through the newspaper, which is truly an unexpected result.

However, since the outcome was good, Youya stopped caring about it.

A crisp sound rang out as Tsunade walked into the classroom, humming a song.

Jiraiya saw it and quickly stretched out his hand: "Tsunade, Tsunade! Over here! Your brother is in the newspaper!"

Tsunade's face darkened, and she quickly walked over and punched Jiraiya in the stomach.

Jiraiya, curled up like a shrimp on the ground, pointed a finger at Tsunade and said, "You, you violent woman..."

Tsunade, hands on her hips and looking displeased, yelled at Jiraiya, "He's not my brother! He's not even one of my clansmen!"

It's clear that Tsunade still harbors resentment towards Yua.

This is quite normal. Yuya said last time that he would make those families who did not support the front line pay the price, but in the end, nothing happened.

Although the lives of ordinary people in Konoha Village are improving, meat, which they never dared to dream of before, is now available through canning factories. They can choose fish (from Kirigakure), beef (from Kumogakure), and for those who want something more exotic, they can even get some lizard meat (well, from Sunagakure; after all, there aren't many kinds of animals in the desert, so it's edible, but... well, Yua didn't buy much. She bought 100 kilograms, made it into canned meat, and it's been half a year and it's still not sold out. There are indeed very few people who are curious about exotic things).

However, for Tsunade, this change came about little by little each day.

Being a child in the situation, with no concept of reality, one would naturally assume that Youya did nothing.

Moreover, Tsunade's parents and neighbors all spoke highly of Yua, saying that Yua had done a lot of good deeds.

Kids naturally feel that Yuya hasn't done anything, but everyone around him keeps praising him, so Tsunade will naturally have a rebellious mentality and want to go against him.

After Tsunade knocked Jiraiya down with a single punch, she looked at Orochimaru and asked, "What did the newspapers say about him this time? Did they say he opened some factory or shop and was urging ordinary people to go to work?!"

Orochimaru shook his head and turned the newspaper over so Tsunade could see the headline: "He went to the front lines and fought the Raikage, and it's said he seriously injured him."

(Second Raikage: Slander! This is slander! He's slandering me! He's slandering me!)

Tsunade was stunned, then looked on incredulously: "How is this possible?! That's the Kage of an entire village!"

Jiraiya pointed to the newspaper: "Anyway, that's what it says. But Brother Yua is also seriously injured, and it's said that he's even in a coma."

Tsunade immediately tensed up: "What?! Seriously injured and unconscious? Will he be alright?!"

After all, they grew up together, often going to Hashirama Senju's place to play with Yua whenever they had free time, so there's definitely some bond between them.

Jiraiya touched his chin: "Hmm, it's hard to say. After all, that's the Raikage. Although my older brother is very powerful and seriously injured the Raikage, he must have suffered a lot of damage himself as well."

It's hard to say.

Tsunade's face paled, and she became distracted during the rest of the day's classes.

She wanted to finish school quickly so she could ask the adults at home what had happened.

Especially his own father.

Tsunade's father, and Hashirama Senju's son.

Several years ago, it was announced that he died while on a mission. Tsunade didn't know why her father would make such an announcement, and then she held a new wedding with her mother.

But thinking about it carefully, the way he addressed me hadn't changed anyway, so I didn't really care and just called him Dad.

However, Tsunade's parents knew the reason.

Or perhaps it was Hashirama Senju who disbanded the Senju clan and merged them into Konoha.

He didn't want the Senju clan members to be targeted by malicious individuals because of him.

Tsunade's words could not be hidden. After all, Konoha was at peace when Tsunade was born, and everyone in the village knew of her existence. It was impossible to simply erase a person's trace.

But Tsunade's father was different.

The son of the God of Shinobi, just think about how many people are eyeing him. What if they can really extract Hashirama Senju's genetic information?

Wouldn't that make it possible to mass-produce the God of Ninjas?

The temptation is too great; other villages will go crazy for it.

So Hashirama Senju simply announced publicly that his son had died while on a mission.

Anyway, his son, as an ANBU ninja, only knew a few people, so even if he was exposed, they could find out who betrayed him.

Therefore, he simply faked his death, then married his wife publicly after a while, changed his surname, and was no longer a member of the Senju clan.

There is no doubt that Hashirama Senju's operation was a success.

Until Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage in the original timeline, there were no reports of the Senju clan being attacked.

Even a genius like Orochimaru from Konoha could only achieve Wood Release through repeated experiments, ultimately creating Yamato, a very low-end version of Wood Release ninja.

To be fair, Yamato's strength is not weak, but comparisons are always a risk.

Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi, had such incredible Wood Release that even though Yamato was also an elite Jonin, he seemed rather weak in comparison.

In short, although Tsunade didn't know all these intricacies, she knew that asking her father would surely tell her whether Yua was dead or not.

But there's no need to ask anymore.

Tsunade left school in a hurry after school.

Young Jiraiya and Orochimaru, seeing Tsunade in such a hurry, assumed she had something urgent to attend to and, out of childish impulsiveness, chased after her.

Then, after running for only a few minutes after leaving the school gate, a boy walked towards him...

The boy had a gloomy expression and looked down as if he was thinking about something. All three of them recognized this figure.

It was the same person who appeared in the newspaper before:

Shenjin Youya.

I'm guilty, I confess. I carelessly wrote that Tsunade's father died, and then a reader pointed out that Nawaki hadn't been born yet, and that's when I realized my mistake. I wanted to change it immediately, but after thinking about it carefully, it's impossible for Tsunade's father, as the son of the God of Shinobi, not to be targeted. After all, Nawaki's internal organs were emptied when he died, so it's impossible for Hashirama's son not to be targeted. As for why Nawaki would be targeted, it's simple: Tsunade's mother was also a member of the Senju clan, albeit an ordinary person. As I've mentioned many times before, every clan has ordinary people, but because she gave birth to Tsunade, this mother is no longer ordinary. Later, it could be written that Nawaki is one of only two known ninjas from the Senju clan. The other is naturally Tsunade. Tsunade and the others wouldn't dare to touch him, probably because they couldn't win. But Nawaki isn't an ordinary person; he's a ninja! Naturally, he was targeted. After all, the allure of Wood Release is too great. This explanation is reasonable. (Of course, I've changed too much in this book; the rope tree can't possibly be the same as the original history.) [I've landed in Xi'an, and the knife-cut noodles at the high-speed rail station are absolutely awful... and ridiculously expensive, even though it's reimbursable...]

(End of this chapter)