Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 605 Betraying the Village? No, It's Abandoning Darkness and Embracing Light [Part 2]

Therefore, Yua truly understands the choice of the captain of the Star Ninja Village.

He could understand that the people of Hoshigakure couldn't accept it, and the people of other villages also looked down on it. Even the Hidden Cloud Village had some reservations about their village accepting such a traitor.

However, these people are only a small part of the population in Hidden Cloud Village. After all, Hidden Cloud Village has actually absorbed a lot of outsiders over the years.

Otherwise, given the three economic crises that Kumogakure has experienced so far, the village would have had very few people left by now.

Therefore, these villagers, who were originally immigrants to Kumogakure, welcomed the departure of the Star Village squad leader to Kumogakure.

After all, their boycott of this person is tantamount to boycotting their own parents' or grandparents' generation.

This is a very big deal.

How big is it?

The third round of Chunin Exams, which was originally scheduled to begin tomorrow, has now been forced to be canceled.

Why?

Because the message this sends is very bad...

Simply put...

If your Hidden Cloud Village can do it, why can't we?!

The most absurd thing is that Yua originally wanted to strengthen the connection and cooperation between the various villages, so he brought the Kage of the other five great ninja villages to Konoha Village, but this actually made it easier for them to do their thing.

Take Mei Terumi for example.

His first reaction upon learning that the captain of the Star Ninja Village squad had betrayed the village was to verify whether it was true.

Upon learning that it was indeed true and that the Fourth Raikage had publicly welcomed her to join, Mei Terumi's eyes immediately lit up.

Then they went directly to the Nara clan's residence.

Yes, she thought Nara Shikamaru performed very well and that the Nara clan was very intelligent. Kirigakure needed these intelligent ninjas, so she came. Upon arrival, she stated that as long as your clansmen came to Kirigakure, you would be given money, land, and houses. If you wished, it wouldn't be impossible to arrange marriages between women from Kirigakure and members of your Nara clan.

Nara Shikakuto was completely stunned. He was originally pondering whether there were any problems with Yua's modified third round format, but then this damn thing happened. How could he even talk about finding loopholes in the format?

If they try to find any more members of their own family, they'll all be poached!

Indeed, Mei Terumi wasn't the only one eyeing the Nara clan. Onoki and Rasa from Sunagakure also sent invitations to the Nara clan, expressing their desire to pay them a visit.

You Ya doesn't believe those two could possibly have any good ideas!

And this is only the first day of the impact of the Star Ninja Village squad leader's defection!

Next, the Fourth Raikage struck again, targeting the team from the Land of Iron.

The current ruler of the Land of Iron is Mifune. Since their original ruler was killed by Black Zetsu, and Mifune is not capable of dealing with Black Zetsu, he can only reluctantly take over the position of Prime Minister of the Land of Iron and do it first.

Over the years...

Well, putting everything else aside, I definitely have a lot more gray hair now.

After all, the Land of Iron is right next to the Hidden Cloud Village in the Land of Lightning. Just look at what the Fourth Raikage is doing now, and you'll know what kind of life Mifune usually leads.

Damn it, Kumogakure is like the husky of ninja villages; getting involved with them is definitely not going to end well.

And now, the Fourth Raikage is actually poaching their people?!

Mifune was completely stunned when he learned about this from the team leader.

No, I only sent a squad of geniuses to participate in this Chunin Exams, how could there be any risk of losing them?!

Mifune knew that the Land of Iron couldn't fly over, so he could only call Yua.

As for Youya, he's already given up and is ready to give up.

Because at the same time, more than a dozen other ninja villages were calling him...

The leading effect set by the Fourth Raikage, this husky, also made the other Kage realize it.

What good things haven't these clans in Konoha seen? Konoha is now the number one village in the ninja world. If you ask them to go to their own village, they'll have to compromise.

But the other small ninja villages are different!

How much worldly experience have these small ninja villages had?

If we offer the right conditions, wouldn't it be easy to get people over here?

As a result, the other villages that came to take the exam were doomed.

Even some candidates who gave up in the first round but hadn't returned to their villages yet were targeted.

As mentioned before, the candidates who came this time may not be the most talented in their own villages, but their talents are definitely not bad.

Therefore, no matter what, getting one is a win, no matter what.

To be honest, if it weren't for his status, You Ya would actually want to join this talent war.

However, Yua is ultimately the Hokage and cannot do this.

Moreover, he also had to crack down on this trend.

Otherwise, this first Ninja World Exam would be the last one.

Other villages definitely won't come to participate then.

After all, losing three geniuses from their village just to take an exam—who could possibly bear that?!

So, on the day after the exam, which was originally scheduled to begin the third round of exams, Yuya issued an announcement.

That's the disciplinary notice regarding the captain of the Star Ninja Village squad.

In short, it means being expelled from this Ninja World Exam, expelled from the country, blacklisted, and barred from entering any territory of Konoha for twenty years.

Putting aside other aspects, the blacklisting is a very severe punishment.

Because everyone knows that Konoha's influence extends throughout the ninja world, and which village doesn't have a representative sent by Konoha?

Even the Hidden Cloud Village has a resident representative from the Hidden Leaf Village.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, no matter where they are, the representative of Konoha Village can request the local leader to expel this person from the village.

Of course, whether or not to listen depends on the village leader.

Anyway, the Fourth Raikage would never agree to this.

To be honest, Yua felt some sympathy for the captain of the Star Ninja Village squad.

After all, he wasn't the only one who made the mistake, but he ended up taking all the blame.

That's one thing, but why are people from other villages criticizing him, and why is his own village also criticizing him?!

Is he really that bad?!

Therefore, in Youya's view, his defection from the village was actually a change of heart and a return to the light.

pity……

Since you haven't joined our Konoha Village, this is the only way I can handle it.

After the punishment was announced, the captain of Hoshigakure almost collapsed, because as mentioned before, Konoha Village's influence extends throughout the ninja world, and theoretically, he would be expelled no matter where he was.

Fortunately, the Fourth Raikage assured him that he would not obey Konoha, which calmed the man's nerves.

However, his face was still extremely pale, and he undoubtedly regretted it.

After all, it is foreseeable that he will basically have to stay in Kumogakure from now on, and he can't go anywhere else.

If I had known it would turn out like this... I would have preferred to stay in Hoshigakure...

At least there's freedom... So what if I get yelled at a few times...

Ugh……

As soon as this punishment was announced, the villagers who had harbored some thoughts of betraying the village immediately fell silent and no longer dared to have any ideas about betraying the village.

Youya's side was not harassed by the leaders of other villages.

Everything was on track, and the official date for the third round of exams was soon announced.

but……

At this moment, Youya was already thinking about something else...

That is……

Is there a way to get these test takers to stay in Konoha voluntarily, without letting people from other countries know their intentions?

Hmm, that's a bit difficult.

But it seems worth a try?

(End of this chapter)