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