Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 54 Who is the only survivor now?

In the autumn of the nineteenth year of Konoha, a delegation from Iwagakure (Hidden Stone Village) in the Land of Earth visited Konoha once again.

Red Earth was still leading the team. They were discussing the cooperation between Iwagakure and Konoha.

The cooperation talks went very smoothly, thanks to the precedents set by Kirigakure and Sunagakure, the publicly available regulations, Iwagakure's genuine desire to cooperate, and the first phase of 100 million ryo from Konoha's funds.

How could Iwagakure possibly refuse to give them face?

At this point in time, 100 million taels is still quite valuable.

The conditions proposed by Iwagakure were not much different from those discussed between Konoha and Sunagakure and Kirigakure.

You Ya was naturally happy to accept it.

Unlike the impoverished Sunagakure, or the distant Kirigakure, where a single round trip by fleet takes a month, Iwagakure is far away.

Iwagakure not only has abundant resources within its own country, but also convenient transportation.

One can enter Konoha through the Land of Grass, or travel by water through the Land of Rain.

The Land of Rain is not large, and its waterways are not very long; in any case, they are definitely much shorter than those from Kirigakure to Konoha.

With such convenient transportation, it is foreseeable that Iwagakure will likely rise to prominence, just like Kirigakure did in the past.

Its development momentum will be faster than that of Sand Village and Mist Village.

But it doesn't matter, Yuya likes everyone to make money together.

Now, four out of the five countries have officially confirmed their cooperation. So who is the last one left out?

……

In Kumogakure, the Second Raikage smashed a table in anger.

"Hey bro, calm down. They change the table every few days. The cost of changing tables every year is enough to pay an elite Jonin a month's salary!" Raikage A's good friend, who is also the Eight-Tails' Jinchuriki, sighed helplessly, covering his cheek.

He was almost blown up by Tobirama Senju's multiplicative explosive tags, so he must have some psychological trauma.

Previously, since it was within Konoha's territory, Tobirama Senju certainly wouldn't have dared to use such a deadly move. If he had destroyed an entire forest, the Daimyo of the Land of Fire would have had to come and have a heart-to-heart talk with Tobirama.

Similarly, they later clashed in the Land of Iron. Tobirama Senju certainly wouldn't dare use such ninjutsu in the Land of Iron, because the samurai of the Land of Iron, whose homes were blown to smithereens, would have to fight Tobirama to the death.

Then, when they arrived at their Land of Lightning, they unleashed a barrage of bombs, leveling the land for dozens of miles around.

If the Second Raikage hadn't rescued him, he genuinely doubted whether he would have died there.

"Shut up! I thought you could stall for a little longer! But you couldn't even hold out for two minutes?!" the Second Raikage roared.

The younger brother could only remain speechless.

The Second Raikage gritted his teeth in anger as he looked at the intelligence he had gathered.

How could he not know that his goal was indeed correct?

That young boy was actually Tobirama Senju's chosen successor as the next Hokage.

This is really...

However, only the high-ranking officials and ninja clans of Konoha understand this news so far, and there should still be room for some action.

Since nothing had been settled yet, the villagers of Konoha were unaware that this young man was Tobirama's chosen successor as the next Hokage.

Then there's still a chance.

The Second Raikage narrowed his eyes, a series of schemes brewing in his mind...

"Brother, should we still fight this battle?"

The Second Raikage: "..."

Damn it, can you please not interrupt me when I'm thinking?!

but……

It is indeed a problem; this war simply cannot continue.

The Hidden Stone Village and the Hidden Mist Village are a bunch of idiots. They were fooled by Konoha with a few petty favors.

Damn it, if you guys came with me, Konoha would probably be taken over by now.

Of course, the Raikage also knew that his idea was somewhat unrealistic, as Konoha's strength was not that weak.

Moreover, in the first year of the war, which was the most difficult, that little bastard actually mobilized all the villagers of Konoha to collect supplies for the front lines.

Are you kidding me? Is this how you do things? The whole village is donating money and supplies to the front lines?

Moreover, after things recovered in the second year, supplies to the front lines never stopped.

They even had special supplies like canned meat and certain beverages delivered to the front lines.

Ray Shadow also seized that canned food and the black drink; they actually tasted pretty good, damn it.

The more Raikage thought about it, the more upset he became.

The enemy has logistical support, and after signing agreements with Kirigakure and Iwagakure, their supplies are unlikely to be cut off.

Konoha's strength isn't bad...

It gets harder and harder as the fight progresses.

Even the most reckless Second Raikage knew that if the war continued, the Hidden Cloud Village would be wiped out; war is all about logistics.

How can he possibly compete with Konoha's logistics now?!

The Second Raikage pondered the matter repeatedly, pacing back and forth for several tens of minutes, but still couldn't come up with a solution.

Finally, the following conclusion was reached:

There's no way to save them unless a meteorite falls from the sky and hits Konoha's front-line command post, and Tobirama Senju happens to be asleep and doesn't use Flying Thunder God Technique to avoid the meteorite and gets killed. Only then will Kumogakure have a chance of winning.

Or perhaps Tobirama Senju committed too many sins and was struck by lightning on the street, which would give Kumogakure a chance to win the war.

"Sigh..." But what are the "what ifs"? In the end, all the Raikage could utter was this sigh.

"Knock knock" Just then, there was a knock on the door of Raikage's office.

"Lord Raikage..." The two figures outside the door wore wicked smiles.

"We are the Golden Horn and Silver Horn brothers..."

……

In the late autumn of the nineteenth year of Konoha, a riot broke out in Kumogakure. The Second Raikage was killed by the Gold and Silver Brothers, who cut off his head and displayed it to the common people of Kumogakure. They also announced that they would become the Third Raikage of Kumogakure and would personally go to the front line to start a war against Konoha.

This event is historically known as the Cloud Village Rebellion.

……

When the news reached Konoha, Yua was completely stunned.

Along with him, a young man from the Nara clan, not much older than Yua, was also bewildered.

This man, supposedly a genius of the Nara clan, was someone Yuya couldn't see any genius in. The Nara clan had sent him to be his helper, but he ate a lot of tea and sweets and didn't offer any advice or suggestions.

Although Yuya can handle many things on her own, it would be much more enjoyable to slack off while someone else does the work for her!

What does it mean that this Nara clan bastard is slacking off while I'm doing my job?!

She's only a year older than me!

"Shika, what do you think?" Yua looked up at Nara Shika.

Nara Shika raised his hand and gave Yua a perfunctory bow: "Yua, I'll see things the way you see them."

You Ya's lips twitched. "You damn paycheck thief! And you even ate my afternoon tea!"

So Yuya smiled and said to Shika, "I think that as a country of etiquette, Konoha should send someone to Kumogakure to offer condolences, after all, that was the Second Raikage."

Lu nodded repeatedly: "Absolutely, absolutely, Youya is right to be the agent."

You Ya continued with a smile, "I think you're a pretty good person."

Nara Shika nodded: "That's right, that's right, as expected of Yuya's agent, it's truly... What?! Me?! No way! Absolutely not! This news is clearly suspicious!"

"Kumakushi Village is absolutely dangerous!"

Going back to Wuhan tomorrow. Sigh, I visited three companies, talked to their purchasing departments, and even treated them to dinner. Business is really tough this year. They used to have a great working relationship with our company, but this year their order volume has decreased significantly. Our unit price wasn't as low as others, so they switched suppliers. It's really difficult to make PCBs now, especially since our company is a small factory… Sigh, whatever, I'm going back tomorrow. I'm already prepared to go to the factory assembly line.

(End of this chapter)