Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 497 Life and Death

[Cover page story: Nadeshiko Himiko looked at Jiraiya lying on the bed, his chakra drained and his face weak, and chuckled softly, covering her mouth. Then she opened the lunchbox for him, which was full of clams, chives, lamb kidneys, beef kidneys and other food.]

Jiraiya's face grew even paler...

……

The successful replication of the Six Paths Chakra does not mean that it can be mass-produced.

Only when the Uchiha clan's Mangekyou Sharingan users have unlimited chakra, the Tailed Beasts have unlimited chakra, and Hashirama's cells are all combined can true mass production be achieved.

However, this was not a problem for Orochimaru.

Since the Six Paths Chakra has been successfully synthesized, there's no reason why this Chakra can't be synthesized as well.

It's just continuing to do experiments, what's the big deal?

We love experiments.

With Orochimaru's side on track, Yua turned his attention elsewhere.

Urashiki Ōtsutsuki's attack served as a wake-up call for Yua.

That means the attack by the Otsutsuki clan came from outside the universe.

Therefore, the only way to avoid harming Konoha is to keep the enemy outside of Earth.

Achieving this is difficult in some ways, but if you really want to know how simple it is...

It seems there is a way.

Why not just build a space-based mothership?

While this seems extremely difficult, in the Naruto world, there is actually a natural, space-class space carrier.

That's the moon.

Yua didn't find the teleportation array-like place that connects to the moon in the movie, but there's no need to look for it, since he has other ways to get to the moon.

Now all we need to do is hurry up and go to the moon to talk to Toneri Otsutsuki beforehand.

If we can find a portal, great; if not, then let's fucking get to it!

Just launch the rocket up there.

It is entirely feasible to send rockets carrying launch sites for various advanced weapons to the moon, and then assemble them there.

But as for the cost...

That left Youya speechless with despair.

I have no money...

But it still has to be done.

So, one day in the middle of Konoha year 62, Minato Namikaze was once again scheduled to be launched to the moon.

However, this time, he was accompanied by the brothers Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi.

Yua mainly told the two about Otsutsuki Toneri.

All the two of them knew was that there was a guy on the moon who stayed home all day watching movies and anime, making him a true shut-in.

However, neither of them knew that Otsutsuki Toneri actually shared the same origin as the Hyuga clan.

However, the two of them got excited afterwards.

This is the chance for our Hyuga clan to rise to power!

Ok……

Well, there is indeed an opportunity, but whether or not we can seize it...

Youya felt it was a bit far-fetched.

However, he couldn't be bothered with it anymore.

Anyway, Otsutsuki Toneri will definitely agree to Minato Namikaze building a lunar launch base.

When those bastards from the Otsutsuki clan are about to come to Earth and cause trouble again, we'll loosen their muscles with all sorts of missiles first. It would be best if we could kill them, but if we can't...

Let's do it again then.

After arranging everything, Youya faced one challenge.

The Ninja Academy graduation ceremony is just around the corner.

That means Naruto and Sasuke's class is about to graduate.

He needs to prepare a speech.

The speech can be left to Nara Shikaku, but Yua will still have to deliver it herself.

It should be like this.

However, an unexpected event occurred first.

Sarutobi Hiruzen's wife, Sarutobi Asuma, Sarutobi Shinnosuke's mother, Sarutobi Biwako, passed away.

Upon hearing this news, You Ya remained silent for a long time.

What can be said? Sarutobi Biwako should have died more than ten years ago, the year Naruto was born.

Now that she has lived for more than a decade longer, theoretically speaking, she should be more open-minded about it...

only……

Birth, aging, sickness, and death—it seems no one can escape them...

On the day of Sarutobi Biwako's funeral, many members of the Sarutobi clan came.

In reality, nowadays many large families don't interact much with each other anymore.

There were factors involved in avoiding suspicion, and there was also the fact that they didn't really need to move around much.

Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu rushed back from Uzushioka Province and Daimyo Prefecture to attend the funeral.

There wasn't much crying at the funeral. After all, in the minds of these older generations, dying at thirty was normal, dying at forty was not strange, dying at fifty was a great achievement, dying at sixty was already a happy thing, and dying at seventy was something they wouldn't even dare to dream of.

Although Sarutobi Biwako was not yet seventy years old, it was enough for her.

On her deathbed, Biwako was surrounded by her children and grandchildren, and she closed her eyes with a smile.

Yua attended Sarutobi Biwako's funeral, for which Hiruzen Sarutobi was very grateful.

Yuya's expression was complicated. He simply patted Hiruzen Sarutobi on the shoulder and told him to take care of himself.

In the end, Yuya didn't say anything more, and left after placing the offerings.

Yua couldn't continue participating indefinitely, a fact that Hiruzen Sarutobi understood.

Because of Sarutobi Biwako's death, Yua spent several days slacking off, and many of the village's higher-ups were also not in a good state.

Because they discovered it too.

No matter how heroic or talented they were in life, when they die, all they are left with is a photograph on a tombstone and a pile of ashes in a box.

So... what these people want most right now is...

There is no doubt that there is only one thing.

Leave your name to prove that you were at least here.

Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, the God of Shinobi—such a powerful person ultimately died young…

Yes, for Hashirama Senju, dying in his forties might have been enough.

But for the people of Konoha now, forty years old...

That's definitely not enough.

That could only be described as middle-aged...

What Yuya found strange afterward was...

Suddenly, the villagers started working incredibly hard.

Although this is good, but...

Has something happened that I don't know about?!