Hokage: Ryo's Path

Chapter 43: Concurrent Graduation

In the Yamanaka household, Ryo and Inoichi discussed the Healing

Stone. Inoichi, being the head of his family, he should be dumb to not

realize the great benet

that this idea could bring.

Among the 3 clans of the Ino-Shika-Cho alliance, the Nara’s are in

charge of maintaining the normal operation of Konoha’s

Pharmaceutical System. This means that they are mainly in charge of

providing medical herbs inside Konoha.

The income that they get from that is enormous. In the Manga, that’s

why they use their pills as they like.

The Akimichi’s secret pills are the origin of soldier food pills.

Therefore, all soldier food pill sales contribute to the Akimichi’s

income.

Only the Yamanaka’s have no specialty business and no share in

income of any supplies. Most of the clan’s expenses are covered by

the rewards that its members get for mission.

This Stone that Ryo came up with made Inoichi see a bright

opportunity for the tribe to improve their living conditions. He

approved Ryo’s idea and encouraged him to carry on.

A few days later, Ryo and Inoichi were summoned by the 3 .

In his oce,

the Hokage and Jiraya were waiting for the two to arrive.

The latter delivered a report to the 3 the previous day mentioning

Ryo’s experiments with the healing stones.

The Hokage understood well the value of such a stone to the village.

This will actually give Konoha a huge edge in the upcoming war, and

increase its Ninja’s survival rates greatly.

The two Yamanaka’s, Ryo and Inoichi arrived at the oce.

The 3

went straight to the point and asked: “Ryo, could these stones be

mass-produced?”

Ryo shook his head. Even though he didn’t even give himself time to

sleep, he couldn’t make many stones. So the 3 asked him:

“Then, how many can we make per day?”

“A maximum of 30 a day.” Ryo answered him after giving it some

thought.

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The 3 nodded and Jiraya said that his own estimate was not so

dierent.

Judging from Jiraya’s report, the Sand has internal problems

currently and they shouldn’t be able to go to war anytime soon.

With the pace of 30 stones a day, there will be plenty of reserves for

Konoha before the war starts. This made the 3 very satisted.

“Inoichi, I think you also understand that this kind of stone should

have a great signicance

to the village and to the Yamanaka’s. As the

head of your clan, tell us how you think things should go?”

“Hokage sama, the village is responsible of helping our clan in buying

jade. And out of each sale of a Healing Stone, 30% of the revenue

should go to the village.” Selling the stones should be under the

Yamanaka’s control, Inoichi knew that well.

After that, the two went on for quite some bargaining. Finally, they

settled on making the village buy the Jade, and on giving it 40% of the

income in return.

The two sides were very satised

with this result; and Ryo’s mission in

the hospital was put to a halt: Making the stones was his new mission,

one that’s considered B-Rank.

A bit more than a month later, Ryo was making the stones in the 3

training ground when Yugao entered through the door under

Kakashi’s guidance.

Yugao’s performance in Kenjutsu wasn’t comparable to that of the

super talented Kakashi, but it was still great compared to most

people.

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However, Kakashi discovered a lot of her basic aws

after spending

over a month teaching her. Sakumo pointed out before that his son

never puts his heart into anything unless he sees how serious the

problem is. Now, Kakashi was no longer so repellent to teaching

Yugao.

Ryo asked him: “Kakashi, do you want to go to the academy today?”

“The academy? Why?” Kakashi asked Ryo.

“Rin and Obito are graduating today, didn’t you know?”

Kakashi shook his head. Actually, even Ryo didn’t know about the

graduation. But just a moment ago, while he was making a stone, Ryo

perceived it with his Sage mode.

“Wanna go see them?” Kakashi asked.

“Okay!” Ryo hasn’t seen Obito and Rin for quite a long time.

“Yugao, we’re going to the academy to see our classmates’ graduation

exams. Do you want to go?”

“No I can’t Ryo Nii-san, I want to practice harder.”

After some hard work, Yugao was nally

calling Ryo Nii-san instead of

Ryo san. This made him really happy.

So he and Kakashi went to the Ninja academy and were there just in

time to catch up with Kurenai taking the exam. Passing it was no

problem for the girl from the prestigious Yuhi clan.

After that, it was Asuma’s role, whose exam went smoothly, as its

subject was re

release.

“Next, Might Guy!”

Whenever Guy was tested before, students laughed. His Ninjutsu

skills were bad, and he couldn’t perform Genjutsu. He was only good

with Taijutsu.

The school’s graduation assessment is generally based on testing

students with all 3 techniques. But now that there’s a war that’s about

to break out, Konoha needed more Ninjas, more Cannon Fodder to

enter the battleeld.

Guy was able to impress the 3 , and the director put him in the elite

class because of that.

Unlike other kids, children in the elite classes were the one that are

expected to be the pillars of the future of Konoha. These kids usually

end up with elite Jonins as instructors.

The drums of war were knocking. So the teacher was free to

determine the subject for each student. For Gay, it was Taijutsu, so he

excelled with ease.

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(Translator note: Didn’t the 6 year old Kakashi beat Guy in the the

Chunin exam? Now Kakashi is 8 so, shouldn’t Guy be a Genin already?

Well, maybe this is all the buttery

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or something.)

“Next, Obito Uchiha... Obito Uchiha... Are you there?!”

The examiner’s deliberate repetition made the students laugh out

loud. Because he was an Uchiha, he was put in the elite class. But his

performance was only slightly better than Guy’s, and he had this

problem with punctuality. He was turning little by little into Konoha’s

“King of Late”.

The subject of Obito’s exam was [Cloning Jutsu]. The Uchiha clan

teaches this technique to their children at a very young age. So Obito

had no problem with it.

Later on, it was Rin’s turn. Like Sakura, she had great Chakra control.

After the last student’s exam was completed, all of the members of

the elite class had easy success. Afterwards, their teacher gave them a

lengthy speech, after which he oered

them their forehead

protectors. With that, Obito and the others ocially

became Ninja.

“Rin, Obito, this way!”

“Kakashi Yaro, Ryo Kuzo, I graduated too!” Obito’s was being the usual

Obito as he was yelling to the two.

“Kakashi, Ryo, what brought you here?” Rin asked.

“We were bored and we came to see your exam.” Ryo answered her.

While the 4 were chatting, other student noticed the two familiar

faces.

“Are those Kakashi and Ryo?”

Both of them have been established as examples for the students.

Kakashi was the youngest graduate in the history of the academy, and

the youngest Chunin ever. Ryo was a great medic with skills

comparable to those of Tsunade.

“Kakashi, Obito, Rin, this sounds like trouble. I didn’t come to deal

with all of these students, I just came by to see you and invite you on

a barbecue to celebrate your graduation. See you guys in the

barbecue shop next to the 3 training ground.” As Ryo nished

his

words, he activated his lightning Chakra mode and instantly left.

Kakashi also did the same thing, and left them there. Obito and Rin

looked at each other and rushed out of the crowd towards the

Barbecue shop