Uchiha Makoto: The Scapegoat Volunteered, Senju

Tobirama, let me thank you.

Tobirama Senju stood in his office, furiously cursing out Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō. The two of them stood there like underlings, trembling as they listened to Tobirama Senju's reprimand.

Even their fathers, Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura, were shaking with fear.

After quite a while,

Tobirama Senju finally stopped shouting. Exhausted, he sank into his chair and began considering what to do next.

That was five hundred million ryō!

For Konoha, that was an enormous sum. Not to mention that more and more ninja clans were joining Konoha now, and money was needed everywhere. There would only be more expenses in the future.

According to Tobirama Senju's plans, he wanted to form a secret unit within Konoha. Nominally, it would answer directly to Hashirama Senju, but in reality, it would report directly to him. There were also the Ninja Academy, Konoha Hospital, and so on.

None of that could be accomplished without money!

And there was still no reply from the Daimyo. If this continued, Konoha's cash flow would be cut off. Even the supplies originally intended to bring in ninja clans and keep the village running would be fucking gone!

The more Tobirama Senju thought about it, the angrier he became. He fixed Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō with an icy stare, so furious he nearly wanted to kill them both.

"Lord Tobirama, this worthless son of mine is yours to beat or kill as you please. The trouble they caused this time is far too great. They need to take responsibility for it themselves."

Sasuke Sarutobi and Shima Shimura noticed the murderous look in Tobirama Senju's eyes and spoke up. Even as fathers, they could not protect their sons now.

Still, Tobirama Senju remained rational. He merely snorted coldly without saying anything.

If killing Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō could bring back those five hundred million ryō, he would have done it without hesitation!

But obviously, that was impossible.

That was five hundred million ryō!

The lives of those two were not worth five hundred million ryō!

Killing these two idiots now would be completely meaningless. The most important thing was figuring out how to clean up their mess!

"I seem to have heard the name Tulip before. You two bastards, tell me everything about this from beginning to end. Don't leave out a single detail."

Tobirama Senju spoke to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō. In a sense, it was no easy feat for the two of them to lose that much money in such a short time. Instinctively, he felt something was wrong. Was someone deliberately targeting him?

Then,

the Uchiha Clan automatically appeared in his mind. This was locking onto an enemy out of thin air.

Hmm. Of course.

Tobirama Senju had not been wrong. The mastermind behind it all really was the Uchiha Clan.

"Yes, Lord Tobirama."

Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō nodded. They told him everything they knew, from Shimura Danzō initially making a fortune in the Tulip market, to Hiruzen Sarutobi being unable to suppress his restlessness and entering the Tulip market as well. The two of them had indeed made a large sum at first, but later, they were completely consumed by greed and desire. In the end, they could not stop until they had lost five hundred million ryō.

"Lord Tobirama, we really did make a lot of money at first. We even planned to donate it all to the village in exchange for your approval, but we never expected things to turn out like this."

Shimura Danzō could not help defending himself. He really had planned to use money to win Tobirama Senju's approval.

Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded beside him. How he wished he had stopped while he was ahead, then returned to Konoha with a huge sum of money. How wonderful that would have been.

"Enough! Haven't you embarrassed yourselves enough?"

Tobirama Senju still wore a grim expression. He had no interest in hearing their empty promises right now. Instead, he considered the sequence of events Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō had just described.

The Uchiha Clan had not appeared anywhere in it.

That made him immensely relieved, yet also disappointed. Even he found that sense of disappointment baffling. It was the feeling of having his expectations dashed.

Strange!

However, Tobirama Senju quickly suppressed that feeling and began considering a solution. According to Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō, tulips were precious flowers favored by the Daimyo and Nobles. Later, they had become the subject of all sorts of speculation. Although Tobirama Senju had never dealt with business before and had yet to understand the principles behind this new model of contract trading, he immediately identified the key point—tulips.

Tulip prices had risen from low to high. Even though prices had now collapsed and were continuously falling back, market demand still existed. As long as they had enough tulips on hand, they had a chance to earn back all their losses.

Tobirama Senju then asked Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō how tulips were cultivated.

"Lord Tobirama, tulips are extremely difficult to grow, and the cultivation period is very long. After planting the seeds, it takes seven years for them to grow into bulbs. Once the bulbs form, it takes another eight months for them to bloom. Otherwise, contract trading would never have emerged."

"If Lord Tobirama wants to grow tulips and recover the losses, I'm afraid that's impossible."

Faced with Tobirama Senju's questions, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō immediately understood what he was thinking. Even though tulip prices had already crashed and entered a prolonged decline, they were still luxurious goods for Nobles and precious flowers. Tobirama Senju wanted to recover the losses by selling huge quantities of tulips, but the difficulty and lengthy cycle of growing them made that idea hard to realize.

"What do you two idiots know!"

Tobirama Senju sneered and cursed at Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō before hurriedly leaving the office.

He was going to find his Big Brother, Hashirama Senju!

Big Brother, stop fucking hanging around with Uchiha Madara all day. The village is in trouble now. It's time for you, the Leader, to step in!

Yes.

Tobirama Senju had thought of Wood Style!

Wood Style was Hashirama Senju's exclusive Kekkei Genkai. It could rapidly make trees grow, even creating an entire forest in an extremely short time. Tulips might be flowers, but Hashirama Senju's Wood Style should work on them too. Even if there were technical difficulties involved, Tobirama Senju believed he could solve them.

"Big Brother, hurry up and use Wood Style on these tulip seeds!!"

"This concerns the village's future!"

Hashirama Senju was dragged over by Tobirama Senju with a baffled expression. He had originally wanted to say something, but the moment he heard that it concerned the village's future, he immediately used Wood Style on the tulip seeds before him.

Then, a miracle happened.

"Holy shit!"

"An unlimited supply of tulips?"

"Is Konoha really this ruthless? They want money over their lives? At a time like this, they're entering the market to crush the tulip trade?"

"Do you people in Konoha still want to take ninja missions in the future?"

"Don't you know that the resentment of more than half the Nobles and Wealthy Merchants in the Ninja World is about to explode? And now you've jumped out to become their target. Good. Very good!"

"The scapegoat has appeared!"

Uchiha Makoto looked at the intelligence in his hand. He had originally been worrying about how to clean up the mess before him. While the Nobles' power was not enough to shake the overall situation in the Ninja World, the damage they could cause was still not to be underestimated!

Wonderful!

Now none of this had anything to do with me!

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