As the days passed, the Uchiha Clan Massacre caused little of a stir in Konoha. With all the moves Konoha had made lately, people gradually forgot about the Uchiha.
The vast Uchiha compound wasn't left vacant, either. The Konoha High Command signed a lease with the current Uchiha Clan Head, Sasuke Uchiha, and rented out most of the Uchiha properties.
Although Konoha was nominally just a village, it actually had a population of over a hundred thousand and was comparable to a small city. Housing was still in short supply.
The people Konoha moved into the Uchiha compound were ordinary civilians.
The Uchiha compound was now a shell of its former self. Only the Uchiha Clan Head's residence and the Uchiha shrine in the central area had escaped Konoha's grasp.
After all, Konoha couldn't afford to look too greedy. The Uchiha were still one of Konoha's major clans, and going too far might antagonize the other clans.
Sasuke was now one of the wealthiest people in Konoha. All the Uchiha clan's assets had been put in his name. Even though some had been swallowed up, what remained was still an enormous fortune.
Furthermore, under Sasuke's contract with Konoha, he received a huge dividend every year.
Single, handsome, wealthy, and blessed with a prestigious bloodline, Sasuke had become the ideal match in the eyes of countless girls.
He was still young, but age wasn't an issue in the world of Naruto. During wartime, children as young as seven or eight could be sent to the battlefield to kill. Getting married early was hardly a big deal.
Some clans even viewed Sasuke as a target. If they could get him to marry one of their daughters, they would gain the legacy left behind by the Uchiha clan, and the Uchiha bloodline could greatly strengthen their own clan.
If Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others hadn't kept things in check, who knew what might have happened over such a tempting prize as Sasuke? People could do anything to fulfill their desires.
Meanwhile, Yu was living a very comfortable life, with a small courtyard all to himself.
Even though all the Uchiha were dead, as long as you had money, you could hire people. So Yu had servants to wait on him and was living like a full-fledged noble. The saying "clothes brought to you, food brought to you" wasn't an exaggeration at all.
This was very different from what Yu had expected. Judging by the anime, Sasuke didn't seem to have lived all that well. But in reality, even a starving camel was bigger than a horse. The fallen Uchiha were still a behemoth.
"Grandpa Jinwei, is Brother Sasuke still at the training ground?" Yu asked the new Uchiha steward beside him after breakfast.
"Yes, Young Master Yu."
Yunshang Jinwei Lin Yu replied with a bow. Yunshang Jinwei had applied for the Uchiha steward position of his own accord. He had once managed the household of a high-ranking official in the Land of Fire, but lost his job after his employer was convicted and the king ordered the family's assets seized. The main reason he'd come to the Uchiha was that the "salary" was simply too generous.
Yunshang Jinwei was indeed highly capable. In a very short time, he had gotten the Uchiha household running again.
The Uchiha Clan Head's residence was no small place. It was every bit as large as the mansions of nobles in the ancient world Yu had come from.
After getting his answer from Yunshang Jinwei, Yu got dressed and ran toward the training ground. Servants along the way stopped to greet him. "Good morning, Young Master Yu!"
It put Yu in a very good mood.
The training ground was enormous. Weapon racks around its perimeter held all kinds of weapons, and the grounds were fully equipped with training tools and facilities.
Only members of the Uchiha were allowed to enter the training ground freely. Four ninjas stood at the entrance, hired for the job.
When they saw Yu, the ninjas greeted him and opened the gates.
Once Yu entered the training ground, the ninjas shut the gates behind him.
Inside, he saw Sasuke training. Dressed in a fitted outfit and wearing weights, Sasuke darted through a forest of wooden posts, occasionally throwing a few Kunai that struck the bullseyes hidden among the posts with pinpoint accuracy.
Even after noticing Yu come in, Sasuke didn't stop training.
Watching Sasuke's movements made Yu envious. He could never pull off those moves. His Kunai throwing and Shurikenjutsu were especially terrible; nine times out of ten, he missed the target.
Theoretically, members of the Uchiha clan were naturally talented at Shurikenjutsu and throwing Kunai. But when it came to Yu, none of that talent seemed to show.
Taijutsu was important for a ninja, but ninjutsu was even more important. Most ninjas only knew a few techniques. Ninjutsu wasn't something you could find just anywhere. Only ninjas with inherited teachings or those from major clans could learn a wide range of advanced techniques.
As one of the only two remaining members of the Uchiha, Yu naturally had no shortage of ninjutsu to study. He could learn anything he wanted.
But he was facing a problem: his Chakra reserves were too low. Even using the Three Body Technique was difficult, let alone other ninjutsu.
The Three Body Technique consisted of the three most basic techniques taught at the Ninja Academy: the "Clone Technique," the "Transformation Technique," and the "Substitution Technique." After Konoha had continuously refined them, their difficulty had been reduced to almost nothing.
Yu had learned the techniques, but he couldn't use them reliably. He wasn't the worst, but he was still near the bottom of the class—though he was a little better than Naruto, the so-called dead-last.
But unlike everyone else, Yu knew the truth about Naruto's situation.
Naruto couldn't use the Clone Technique because he had too much Chakra. The excessive output made it impossible for him to control the amount precisely enough to perform the technique.
Yu, on the other hand, simply had too little Chakra. It was a congenital deficiency.
Yu knew that Chakra was a special energy created by perfectly combining physical and spiritual energy. As a member of the Uchiha clan, he had learned how to cultivate Chakra at a very young age.
He'd thought that after gaining the Slime Bloodline, his body would at least be much stronger than before. But when he tried to cultivate Chakra, he was still just as slow—and it even seemed slower than before.
So for the past few days, Yu had been trying to find ways to increase his Chakra. He wasn't as diligent as Sasuke, but he wasn't slacking off either. Aside from eating and sleeping, he spent most of the day cultivating Chakra, yet the results were negligible.
Sasuke couldn't help him with this problem because he'd never encountered anything like it. Although Sasuke's Chakra couldn't compare to a freak like Naruto, it was still far greater than that of an ordinary ninja.
"Slimes really are just slimes," Yu sighed.
The Slime Bloodline had given him something close to an "immortal body," but there was no denying that its level was too low and its growth potential was far too limited.
In the multiverse, slimes were always at the very bottom. So this situation was only to be expected.
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