Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 568 Shimura: What's going on with this loss?

The Sarutobi clan utterly despises the Shimura clan's shameless act of copying homework.

However, now, apart from Hiruzen Sarutobi's family, almost all the other members of the Sarutobi clan have gone to the Land of Bears.

Thanks to the foolishness and greed of the leader of the Bear Country who took over the Sarutobi clan's possessions, the Sarutobi clan's actions did not elicit much reaction from the international community, with few people feeling that they had gone too far.

To put it bluntly, even though Yuya has been here for so many years and changed so many things, this world is still essentially a world where ninjas are revered.

The Sarutobi clan may indeed have impure intentions, wanting to control your Land of Bears like Mitokado Homura did, but that is absolutely no reason for the people of your Land of Bears to attack them.

Why was Yu Ya originally so pessimistic about the future?

Because if these families were to hide in the shadows and control a country like Mitokado Homura, they would not have the mindset of unification or expansion.

They've all retreated behind the scenes, basically never to be in the spotlight again. Naturally, they won't have any ambition for expansion. Even if they did, the power struggles within the country could easily drag them down.

But it's a different story when you step onto the stage.

Putting aside other things, after the Sarutobi clan became the rulers of the Land of Bears, although there were certainly internal conflicts and power struggles, expanding outwards was not an insurmountable territory for them.

Alternatively, one could say that external expansion can resolve some of the internal conflicts.

In that case, it's not impossible for them to unify the country in the future.

As long as unification is destined in the future, Yuya really doesn't mind feeding these ninja clans well now.

Some might say, what if these ninja clans become enormous in the future and turn around to devour Konoha?

Yuya stated that if that were truly the case, he would accept it. After all, his children wouldn't have access to the power center of Konoha Village, so they wouldn't be exterminated under such circumstances.

Or rather, in order to secure the legitimacy of a legal doctrine, Youya's descendants will likely live very comfortably.

After all, no one with any power can kill someone who can provide you with legitimacy and pose no threat whatsoever. Is it really that hard to make someone rich and powerful for life?

too easy.

If these conditions were applied in a more conventional way, many people would probably fight tooth and nail for them.

But those are things for the future. For now, let's look at the Land of Craftsmen.

Like the Bear Country, the Land of Craftsmen is separated from the Land of Fire by the sea, and a bridge has been built between the two countries to connect them.

The Shimura clan wanted to copy the Sarutobi clan's strategy, so they sent their own clan members, carrying large and small packages of supplies, in a hundred-person team pulling cartloads of goods towards the Land of Craftsmen.

The leader of the Kingdom of Craftsmen warmly welcomed the group and quickly arranged accommodations for them, even providing them with private rest rooms complete with their own showers.

The vanguard of the Shimura clan remained unmoved by the leader of the Land of Craftsmen's deliberate attempts to curry favor.

To put it bluntly, these people came here to their deaths.

Once they die, the Shimura clan will be enraged, just like the Sarutobi clan. They will abandon the Shimura clan head and his family to "guard" Konoha, and then all of them will come to the Land of Craftsmen, kill the leader of the Land of Craftsmen, and become the actual rulers of the Land of Craftsmen.

What a great script! These Shimura clan members don't care about their own lives at all.

They're willing to die for their families as long as their families can reap huge benefits.

However, the leader of the Kingdom of Craftsmen was no fool.

These people aren't just eyeing my position; they're eyeing the entire Kingdom of Craftsmen!

How about we make a deal? You can do what the governor of Whirlpool Country did, and we can play a power game between ourselves?

Well, the broken window theory is truly a testament to the wisdom of our ancestors.

They certainly wouldn't have been willing to relinquish some of their power at first.

But now look at what happened to the neighboring Bear Country...

The Land of Craftsmen suddenly realized that it wouldn't be a problem for them to be governors, just like the Land of Whirlpools.

It's not that we can't talk about it.

However, at this time, the Shimura family could hardly care about such a small benefit as the governor.

Wouldn't the whole Kingdom of Craftsmen be wonderful?

As the name suggests, the Land of Craftsmen is home to a great many craftsmen.

To support this, the Kingdom of Craftsmen has very rich domestic mineral resources.

Although most of them are various iron ores and associated minerals, it's better to have some than nothing.

Once we take over the Land of Craftsmen, it will all be ours. You guys will all be sent to your deaths. Isn't that great?

However, without a reason, it's impossible to have a legitimate claim like the Sarutobi clan.

In fact, even now, many small countries have reservations about the behavior of the Sarutobi clan.

However, the phrase "having some reservations" itself implies that the Sarutobi clan's actions have a certain degree of legitimacy.

That's true; the Sarutobi clan lost a team of over a hundred ninjas.

Although most of them are Chunin and Genin, this also means that these people are indeed the backbone of the Sarutobi clan.

In other words, the Sarutobi clan originally intended to follow Mitokado Homura's path and secretly control the area.

As a result, the Land of Bears, lacking any martial virtue, simply slaughtered everyone, which angered the Sarutobi clan, who then decided to take action against them.

However, the Shimura family is completely different.

Ninjas were indeed sent.

But they're all in their forties or fifties.

If someone is still at the Chunin level in their forties or fifties, their talent is basically not that great.

After these people arrived in the Land of Craftsmen, they caused trouble all the time. To put it simply, you should just kill us already.

The leader of the Kingdom of Craftsmen was in a real bind.

People definitely cannot be killed.

The Bear Country serves as a cautionary tale.

However, these people have really gone too far in their actions.

While they haven't committed any fundamental errors, such as directly kidnapping people or harming them in the street, they are capable of things like not paying for meals or harassing women.

In the end, the leader of the Craftsman Country made up his mind to have a proper talk with the Shimura clan.

So the leader of the Land of Craftsmen arrested all of them and invited Chief Shimura to the Land of Craftsmen for a talk.

No one knows what they talked about, but the Shimura clan did stop causing trouble, and they did indeed move into the Land of Craftsmen.

Well, this was actually the ending that the Shimura family originally wanted.

However, compared to the Sarutobi clan...

Why does it feel like I've lost a lot of money?

All I can say is that the leader of the Kingdom of Craftsmen is intelligent.

The problems of the ninja clans within Konoha Village have been gradually resolved.

After all, these ninja clans have left Konoha, so they can't possibly still be flirting with ordinary ninjas from Konoha, right?

That would completely change the situation!

(End of this chapter)