Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 58 Low-Level Methods

At the end of Konoha's nineteenth year, the annual review began.

This is an important occasion to organize what we've done and how much money we've made throughout the year.

Year-end audits are always the busiest time.

You Ya hasn't come to bribe the three little ones for a whole week.

Tsunade was furious. He had said they would meet every day, what a big liar!

Orochimaru and Jiraiya didn't know what to say.

You Ya gave the barbecue restaurant manager instructions: the three little ones could just show their faces and he could bring them whatever they wanted to eat.

But for the three little ones, it would be a bit much to shamelessly go over and eat barbecue without paying.

Children are very concerned about saving face. If it were Jiraiya decades later, he would definitely be shameless and go straight in, and he would definitely eat and drink to his heart's content.

The three children ultimately decided to wait for Youya to take them to eat barbecue.

However, another week passed, and their holiday was almost halfway over, but there was still no sign of You Ya.

Jiraiya and Orochimaru were very curious about what Yua was doing, and Tsunade was also very curious, but she was somewhat reluctant to go to the Hokage's office.

Because Tobirama Senju did indeed scold her when he was alive.

Oh, my second grandfather is on the front lines!

That's fine.

Having figured this out, Tsunade skipped and hopped to the Hokage's office, humming a tune.

Everyone here knows her; she's the princess of Konoha, who doesn't know her?

Just like how Konohamaru casually went to the Third Hokage's office to seduce the old man... well, the second half of that sentence is redundant.

No one would stop Tsunade, a relative of the Hokage.

Thus, Tsunade successfully arrived at the Hokage's office.

She knocked on the door, and a voice inside said, "Come in."

Tsunade pushed open the door, grinning as she called out, "Yoo! You haven't taken us out for barbecue in ages!"

Then Tsunade was stunned.

On Yuya's desk and on the floor, there were all sorts of documents and papers everywhere; the entire Hokage's office seemed to be filled with them.

Yuya turned to look at the door: "Oh, it's Tsunade. I'm sorry, I've been too busy lately and haven't had time to visit you."

After saying that, You Ya pushed a stack of documents next to him aside: "This is the completed billing statement for the steel plant. There are irregularities in the bills of thirteen management personnel. Notify the Dark Division to start monitoring them."

Uchiha Kagami appeared behind Yua and said hesitantly, "Acting Lord, the Anbu is short-handed. There are too many people we need to arrest and monitor lately, so..."

You Ya waved his hand: "Then let's arrest the people monitoring us and put them under unified management. The freed-up manpower can continue to make arrests."

"..." Uchiha Kagami remained silent for a moment before nodding: "Yes."

Then he took the documents and left.

Yuya looked at Tsunade and shook his head helplessly, saying, "Please apologize to Orochimaru and Jiraiya for me. I really don't have time to go find you."

Looking at the piles of papers in the office, Tsunade thought for a moment and asked Yua, "Can I help?"

You Ya was slightly taken aback, then immediately laughed: "Of course you can, but how far have you gotten with your math?"

"Arithmetic?" Tsunade's face immediately darkened; she truly hated this subject. While Konoha used to have it, it wasn't mandatory. Until a bastard named Yua graduated and strongly advocated for making arithmetic a compulsory subject…

So... this bastard in front of me did all this... Tsunade squinted at Yua.

Yuya laughed and said, "We're compiling Konoha's total revenue and consumption figures for the whole year. If even one piece of data is wrong, it could affect dozens or even hundreds of people, so we can't afford to make mistakes. Is your math... good enough for that?"

Tsunade was immediately embarrassed and could only shake her head with an awkward smile.

You Ya smiled, and was just about to continue comforting him when the pile of documents beside him suddenly moved: "Finally finished!"

Tsunade jumped up in fright. Only then did she realize that there was actually a person under the pile of documents and papers next to Yua!

You Ya, expressionless, continued to hand over a stack of papers: "Oh, all done? Okay, these are the consumption data for Dongcheng District this year. Take a look and see if there are any problems."

"...Yoo! This is revenge! This is blatant revenge!" Shika was really crying. He had been trapped here for half a month. Yua had been using the Flying Thunder God Technique to go to the toilet and eat, and had basically never left the Hokage's office.

The deer is the same, except he doesn't have the Flying Thunder God technique, so going to the toilet and eating are his only times to relax.

At other times, I'd just settled into a comfortable sleep when Yuya would wake me up.

The deer was almost in tears.

Brother, I know you're very capable, but I can't do it!

You Ya simply told him expressionlessly to keep working, and that if he didn't want to, he could quit and go back.

Can a deer resign?

They've already made it clear that he's one of Yua's men. If he goes back, the Nara clan will probably kill him.

Tsunade eventually got to play with a yo-yo.

He secretly vowed that he would study arithmetic hard next year and then come to the Hokage's office to help out.

Then he turned around and went with Jiraiya and Orochimaru to the back mountain to catch hibernating animals to raise.

study?

Hmm... Next year, I'll definitely study hard next year.

Youya had no time to care about what was going on with the three little ones; he was simply too busy to care.

Of course, he knew why.

The development of Konoha Village is one thing, but development brings problems, and the more problems there are, the more people need to deal with them.

Konoha is performing better this year than last year, but at the same time, more problems have emerged.

For example, You Ya knew long ago that someone would use their position to embezzle public assets.

I just didn't expect it to happen so quickly...

The steel mill has only been established for two and a half years, barely a year, yet these people can't wait...

This is really...

Of course, these are all minor issues. Last year, there were just as many problems to be accounted for at the end of the year.

But last year it only took a week to solve, why?

Last year, it wasn't just the Hokage's office that was doing the work; other clans also cooperated in helping their clan's ninjas with year-end accounting.

The ninjas naturally did their best to help.

But this year...

With everything falling on Youya's shoulders, how could she not be busy?

Yuya was genuinely surprised. He thought these ninja clans would secretly plot against each other in order to compete for the Hokage position, with everyone appearing harmonious on the surface but secretly engaging in all sorts of sabotage.

I never expected these families to be so simple and brutal.

Are they really ganging up on each other without sending a single person to help?

You Ya really just wanted to laugh. Your methods of fighting are so low-level!

Do you really think I can't handle this?

I'm working myself to the bone. I'm going to handle all the year-end accounting myself this year. You'll see who gets into trouble then.

Another week later, most of the documents in You Ya's office had been cleared out. You Ya looked at the documents in his hand and sneered disdainfully: "Do these people think I'm stupid? They have to ask me how much to price it? Is it because they can't find anything for me to do in the village that they're handing all these things over to me?"

You have to ask me this? Next time, will you ask me whether I use my left or right hand to wipe my butt after using the toilet?!

Youya threw the documents on the ground and looked at Lu Ye: "Send them back! Send all of these back! Also, cancel everyone's year-end bonuses! Cut salaries in half! I did all the work, what right do they have to take the money?"

The deer was also in agony; why was this task assigned to him?!

The Nara clan also has many ninja in service...

Thank you for pointing out any typos.

(End of this chapter)