Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 563 Wouldn't that make me look useless?

All of the above is what we see from Yua's perspective when looking at the big picture.

It can be said that this aligns quite well with Youya's understanding.

What else can you see besides profit in this?

There's nothing there.

So how do we analyze each individual case in detail?

First, there's Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze.

One of Mitokado Homura's clever moves was that when he realized he could no longer control the Land of Whirlpools, and there were no particularly outstanding individuals in his family to inherit his position, he decisively relinquished his power to Namikaze Minato, while simultaneously making an agreement that once the Mito family members came of age, Namikaze Minato would return the position of governor.

This was a very clever move. What made it so clever?

What's so clever is that the agreement between Mitokado Homura and Namikaze Minato was somehow leaked. Isn't that strange? The entire Hidden Leaf Village, or rather the entire ninja world, knew about their agreement.

In this situation, is Minato Namikaze left with no choice but to accept his fate, keep his promise, and wait for the right time to return the power?

Or, to put it another way, Minato Namikaze chose to be shameless and directly confront Homura Mitokado to reclaim all power.

No, both of these methods can be considered the worst possible solutions.

Minato Namikaze took the third path.

After consolidating power, it was returned to Youya.

You could say that Minato Namikaze's move was a trap set by Homura Mitokado, but in reality, Homura Mitokado didn't really care about Minato Namikaze's choice.

Why?

Mitokado Homura did not simply sit idly by during his decades in the Land of Whirlpools; he had planted countless of his own people in various mid-level institutions throughout the country.

And all of these people came from universities.

Or perhaps they graduated from Konoha University, then felt that Konoha Village was too corrupt and wanted to live off others. They happened to know someone from the Mito clan, so they went to the Land of Whirlpools and chose to work for Mito Homura in the easy difficulty of the Land of Whirlpools. Or perhaps they were graduates of the university built by Mito Homura in the Land of Whirlpools and became one of Mito Homura's people after graduation.

These people with tinnitus will not move unless absolutely necessary.

After all, although they hadn't reached the top levels of power, reaching the middle levels was enough for Mitokado Homura to pull off something big.

Minato Namikaze simply returned power to Yua; did this conflict with Homura Mitokado? Of course not.

What good is it if power ends up in You Ya's hands? In the end, won't it still be delegated?

Even if Yua found someone else to serve as the next governor of Uzushiogami, would Mitokado Homura care? No, he wouldn't.

If you like someone, you might lend them a hand. For example, if Yua appoints Koharu Utatane as the next governor of Uzushiogakure, Homura Mitokado certainly wouldn't let his mid-level leaders planted in various departments of Uzushiogakure go against Koharu Utatane. They might even help her out.

However, if someone whom Mito Menkaure doesn't particularly respect rises to power...

Then don't blame Mitokado for causing trouble.

When Nagato first started working in the Ministry of Transportation on railway construction, his direct superior, the official who supported Nagato but didn't fully support him, was Mitokado Homura.

These people have their own values. The things they do ensure that they won't offend their superiors, nor will they discourage those who are actually doing the work—like Nagato. This is because those who are actually doing the work know that these people are suppressing them because the higher-ups don't want things to go well. Generally speaking, they don't have any contact with each other, since these people's resumes are too clean.

How clean is it?

Many people lose touch after graduation, maybe getting together once a year for a class reunion.

You can't just not let people have their class reunions, can you?

That doesn't make sense.

He may not show off normally, but if something really happens, Mitokado Yan can get most of the people here to work for him.

Why do we say it only applies to the majority, not all?

This brings us to another crucial point.

That is personal desire.

When Minato Namikaze took office as governor, everyone knew that he and Homura Mitokado had made an agreement.

Now, here's the crucial point: if you were promoted by Mitokado Homura, would your best option be to simply sit back and observe the situation without taking the lead?

That's right, that's true. But as the saying goes, greed knows no bounds, and there will always be a few who will choose to go to Minato Namikaze's side, to cheer for the newly appointed Minato, and to pledge allegiance to him.

This is a perfectly normal thing.

You can't say who did something wrong here. People follow Minato Namikaze for their own future, can you say that the other party is wrong?

They didn't commit a crime.

However, here's the problem: from their perspective, of course they have no problem.

So what about from Yua's perspective?

Isn't this a clear case of sharing the Hokage's power?

This is just one example from the Land of Whirlpools.

What about Konoha Village? In Konoha Village, would anyone choose to work for the heads of those ninja clans?

Of course they exist, and there are quite a few of them.

Here's a very fitting example.

You go to university, and one of your classmates is someone from the Shimura family. He's not a direct descendant, just an ordinary family member.

However, after graduation, you took the civil service exam and joined the ranks of civil servants, eventually becoming an employee at a bank.

After that, you would attend the class reunion every year, and occasionally chat with your classmates and brag a little.

This is a perfectly normal thing.

After about ten years, you became a section chief at a bank, which is a very normal promotion. In fact, you could say that your promotion speed was relatively slow.

You know how to get promoted quickly: work for the Sarutobi clan, give them preferential treatment in certain areas, speed up the review process, and sometimes even pay them upfront and complete the formalities later.

You know someone who used this method to gain the boss's favor faster than you got promoted.

However, you feel that once you do something like this, there's no going back, so you've always been very careful and haven't gotten involved in these things.

After you were promoted to section chief, some people tried to ask you for favors, but you turned them away using proper procedures.

You felt that all of this was fine, so a few years later, you were promoted from section chief to division chief, managing a team of about thirty people, and you were quite satisfied.

Just then, a classmate approached you. He said he needed some money, and of course, he wouldn't make things difficult for you; everything would follow the proper procedures. However, he hoped you could expedite the review process by prioritizing his reports. If the reports were not up to standard, he would send them back for him to redo.

If you were him, what would you choose?

Most people would agree, right?

This isn't a violation of any rules.

However, this has the consequence that some ordinary businesses that rely on bank loans to survive may have to wait a day longer to receive their money.

Moreover, even being one day late is considered fast progress.

More likely...

You'll be a few days late, a few weeks late.

For many companies, receiving money a week later than they would normally receive is enough to threaten their very survival.

Moreover, this is very likely to happen more than once.

If it's delayed by a few days this time, and then delayed by a few days next time, in the end, many companies simply can't afford the time cost.

But did you find any major violations from beginning to end?

No, he followed the rules and regulations. In fact, if the report was not up to standard, he would not show leniency for his classmate but would reject it directly.

However, in reality, problems have arisen.

You Ya wasn't unaware of all this, but he always felt that this world was just a makeshift operation, just like in his previous life. He believed that if he could make do, he should try his best to get by.

However, it wasn't until Kushina Uzumaki found Hiashi Hyuga and expressed her desire for the Hyuga clan to go to the Land of Whirlpools to help that Yua suddenly realized...

The situation in Konoha Village has reached a point where it absolutely must be changed.

It doesn't mean that the power of Konoha Village has been taken over by these ninja clans. As mentioned before, the power to appoint and dismiss high-ranking officials is still in the hands of Yua, who is also the Hokage. Therefore, the Hokage's position must have the greatest power.

But the Hokage has the most power...

This does not mean that the common people of Konoha Village can live a good life.

These are two completely unrelated outcomes and cannot be equated at all.

Of course, if things continue like this, Konoha will continue to develop, it will remain the number one ninja village in the ninja world, and it will remain a paradise that everyone in the ninja world yearns for.

Yuya could simply pretend he didn't see it, since this rapid development could continue for at least another twenty years, and Yuya could leave this problem to the next Hokage.

This problem might even be left to the next Hokage before it comes to light.

At that time, all those in power will have some degree of kinship or connection. The Hokage does indeed hold the greatest power over personnel matters and can promote his own people.

But what about ordinary people?

What about ordinary people who just want to be ordinary section chiefs or division chiefs?

What if they want to get promoted?

Yuya didn't want to leave these issues to the future Hokage.

That would make me seem rather useless...

Therefore, he must change.

First of all...

……

Yuya sat in the main seat of the conference room in the Hokage's office building, with his back to the conference room.

One by one, the leaders of the other ninja clans walked in with puzzled expressions.

They genuinely didn't know what had happened. After all, this time, the situation had developed exactly as it had in reality, and it couldn't really be blamed on these people. Some of them might have already realized it, but realizing it doesn't mean that changes need to be made.

If the outcome is favorable to them, why should they change it?

They didn't intentionally create this situation.

It's not their fault at all.

After everyone was seated, Yuya slowly turned his chair around, looking at all the ninja clan leaders. Yuya sighed inwardly; he certainly didn't want to be the villain, but…

They just keep passing the buck to future generations...

Wouldn't that make me look useless?!

(End of this chapter)