Chapter 4: The Absurd Scenes of Konohagakure

After finishing dinner, Yamanaka Rino held Ino Yamanaka, leisurely warming themselves by the fire in the living room.

The Yamanaka brothers, under the witness of an Elder, signed a land lease contract; this is what they call "close brothers settling accounts clearly."

The Elder asked with confusion: "Chujiu, do you know how to farm? Do you know that land reclamation takes three years?"

Yamanaka Chujiu replied with a smile: "Elder, I know."

"But I believe that chakra and Ninjutsu can create miracles."

Carrying the contract, he gathered the forty-three bereaved families once more and announced his farming plan.

The adults looked at each other, voicing the same concerns as the Yamanaka Elder.

Yamanaka Chujiu said: "Everyone, do not worry. You continue doing what you were doing; I will lead the children to carry out the reclamation."

"If it succeeds, I, the Yamanaka Clan, and everyone else will all benefit."

"If it fails, it will only be me and the children wasting a few days of time."

Through a year of care, Yamanaka Chujiu had established prestige among the forty-three families; even with such an outrageous plan, everyone felt it was worth a try.

After all, Yamanaka Chujiu had thought of everything for them, without adding any extra burden or risk.

Yamanaka Chujiu immediately began to act, because time was very tight.

The war was about to break out.

Over the past two years, Konohagakure had struck out in all directions, forcing Kumogakure and Kirigakure to bow their heads one after another, relying on the power of the Yellow Flash, Minato Namikaze.

Just in that battle in the Land of Waves, Minato Namikaze, with an unrivaled posture, forcefully crushed the Fourth Mizukage of Kirigakure and the so-called strongest Three-Tails Jinchuriki.

Minato Namikaze also thwarted the conspiracy of Kirigakure, stopping their plan to seal the out-of-control Three-Tails into Nohara Rin and then sending her to Konohagakure to detonate.

As a result, the Three-Tails Isobu was completely destroyed, and Nohara Rin was successfully rescued.

That's right, it was Yamanaka Chujiu who flapped his wings, warning Minato Namikaze through Orochimaru, avoiding the tragedy of the Fourth Hokage's students being wiped out.

Because Nohara Rin did not die, Yamanaka Chujiu thought Obito would not become twisted and the Nine-Tails Night would not happen, so he let down his guard.

As it turned out, the disaster still happened as scheduled.

It is unknown whether the corrective force of history was at work, or if Madara Uchiha made Obito see hallucinations.

In any case, the Fourth Hokage sacrificed himself at the hands of the Nine-Tails, and the deterrent power of Konohagakure to suppress Kirigakure and Kumogakure instantly returned to zero.

The Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure was ambitious, and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist of Kirigakure were restless.

It was entirely foreseeable that it would not be long before the Fourth Raikage turned hostile, and the Fourth Mizukage would also take the opportunity to restart the war.

An even more fatal crisis lay within the village.

Orochimaru did not ascend to become the Fifth, and Jiraiya and Tsunade did not return.

Who exactly would be the new Hokage?

The only ones who could not guess that a battle for power was about to erupt in Konohagakure were likely the children who had not yet come of age.

How absurd!

And even more absurd things were happening.

Yamanaka Chujiu took the children to the commercial street, preparing to buy farm tools, but was blocked halfway by a large group of villagers.

The villagers were blocking the gate of a newly repaired large mansion, crying their hearts out:

"My family's house was right here, how could it be gone?"

"It was you! It was you who built a house on my family's land and occupied my family's plot!"

"Compensate me for my family's house, return my family's land!"

"..."

The gates of those row houses were tightly shut; Yamanaka Chujiu could sense that there were people inside, and they were radiating feelings of secret delight and schadenfreude.

Their arrogant, unconcerned attitude clearly showed they were certain that even if Uchiha ninja arrived, they could do nothing to them.

Clearly, the villagers crying in front of the gate had been cheated.

Their homes had been deliberately erased from the maps during the post-disaster reconstruction.

Yamanaka Chujiu's memory regarding history was activated; terms like "flying registration," "fraudulent registration," "donated registration," and "tampered records" flew through his mind.

He quickly determined that someone was secretly tampering with the records.

That is, taking advantage of the chaos of the great disaster to secretly change the filing certificates inside the Hokage Building, encroaching on others' legal land, houses, and other major assets.

The Nine-Tails Night broke out too suddenly; for ordinary people, escaping the house and saving their lives was already incredibly difficult—who could have thought to bring their housing certificates?

When the sturdy houses collapsed, the property certificates hidden inside were naturally gone; the only things that could prove property ownership were the certificates filed by the village.

For this bunch of guys to be so confident, they must have already swapped the filed certificates.

In the feudal era of China, landlords and gentry felt that encroaching on fertile land during a famine was too slow, so they invented powerful annexation methods; to think this could be replicated in a violent group like Konohagakure.

Now, an interesting question arises.

Who in Konohagakure has the ability to swap housing certificates, and do it so seamlessly that it could withstand an investigation by Uchiha ninja?

It really is so hard to guess!

Yamanaka Chujiu cast his gaze toward the Hokage Building; in this building completely controlled by Sarutobi Hiruzen, the entire second floor was the land certificate warehouse for Konohagakure.

At this moment, a high-level meeting was taking place inside the Hokage Building, with the Konoha F4 jointly pressuring Uchiha Fugaku.

Using the excuse that the Sharingan was seen in the eyes of the Nine-Tails, they demanded that the Uchiha Clan move out of their clan land in the center of the village and relocate to the ancestral land on the edge of the village.

Of course, the village was currently in great difficulty, so there was not a single cent of relocation compensation!

Uchiha Fugaku was naturally furious, but he was coerced by four elders of higher status; keeping his mouth shut was the limit of the resistance he could offer.

Just as reconstruction work was in full swing, the high-level officials were pressuring the Uchiha Clan, while those at the bottom were plundering ordinary villagers.

Konohagakure was staging the most absurd spectacle after the disaster.

Not long after, a group of Uchiha ninja appeared.

Strangely, Yamanaka Chujiu felt that one of the Uchiha ninja was very special; he lacked the arrogant emotional shell, exposing his gentleness and enthusiasm directly on the surface.

The last time he sensed a similar emotional profile was with Uchiha Obito, only Obito's "kindness" was superficial and volatile, while this person's "kindness" was as calm as water.

Yamanaka Chujiu's curiosity was piqued; another kind Uchiha ninja, who was he?

It was Shisui Uchiha.

Then it was fine.

When a person is ambushed from behind by Shimura Danzo, has an eye gouged out, is beaten to the point of being critically wounded and dying, and struggles until they are completely exhausted to barely escape, yet what they think about is not escaping, but how to protect Konohagakure and protect the Uchiha Clan, even being willing to commit suicide for this.

Regardless of whether Shisui Uchiha's methods were right or wrong, his kindness was unquestionable.

Knowing it was Shisui Uchiha, Yamanaka Chujiu intended to take the children and detour to the commercial street to buy farming tools and seeds, to start the land reclamation work as soon as possible.

But he then discovered with surprise that his Mind Severing Realm had lost control; the thin threads condensed from his thoughts automatically drifted toward Shisui Uchiha, continuously wrapping around his body.

Yamanaka Chujiu was stunned.

"How is this possible?"