"Mm, we're here."
Looking at the bustling docks and the crowded ships, Yun Xi felt a little excited.
This was the most important part of his early plans.
It was also the main reason he had left the village this time.
The reason Yun Xi had chosen the Land of Waves as his destination was actually quite simple.
He planned to come here and make some money, and as luck would have it, there was a major tycoon in the Land of Waves—Gato.
He was the first minor villain to appear in the original story: Gato, the shipping magnate.
And despite being such a tycoon, he wasn't even a ninja. His own strength was practically nonexistent.
He had merely hired a few rogue ninja as bodyguards.
Their strength was nothing worth mentioning to Yun Xi.
That was the fundamental reason Yun Xi had made Gato his target.
"Big Brother Yun Xi, what are we doing here in the Land of Waves?"
Because the Land of Waves was close to the sea and had a humid climate, Karin seemed unaccustomed to the environment.
She tilted her head toward Yun Xi while fanning herself to cool off...
"Making money!"
In response to Karin's question, Yun Xi didn't hide anything.
He told Karin his plan directly.
"Oh..."
Though Karin didn't understand why Yun Xi liked money so much,
she would support anything he decided without question, even if it meant paying any price!
"Come on, let's go in."
After taking in the general surroundings of the Land of Waves, Yun Xi led Karin inside.
Since the Land of Waves was an island nation, it had almost no ninja.
And because Yun Xi and Karin were children, no one paid them any attention as they entered.
As soon as they stepped into the Land of Waves, both Karin and Yun Xi were a little surprised.
They hadn't expected the Land of Waves, under Gato's control, to be so poor.
The roads were in terrible shape, and the residents looked numb.
Most of the houses along the streets were made of wood. Apart from Gato's headquarters in the distance,
almost the entire Land of Waves looked like one enormous slum...
The shabby conditions inside the Land of Waves were in stark contrast to the busy scene they had seen before entering.
"This..."
Looking at the people of the Land of Waves, dressed in rags and wearing numb expressions,
Karin, standing beside him, was at a loss for words.
She wondered if Yun Xi had chosen the wrong place.
How could there be any money in a place like this?
"We came to the right place. The gap between rich and poor in this country is frightening..."
Seeing Karin's puzzled expression, Yun Xi understood what she was thinking.
In truth, he had prepared himself before coming.
After all, having read the original story, Yun Xi knew that the common people living in the Land of Waves had it very hard.
Even when they planned to send Mr. Tazuna to Konoha to hire ninja, they had to lie about the situation.
But the reality here still came as a shock to Yun Xi.
The Land of Waves was a country in the original story, and it was also the country where Naruto and the others' first high-level mission took place.
Yun Xi remembered a few things about this country.
It had no ninja and was extremely small.
Gato controlled all the country's wealth and shipping.
The common people at the bottom had no wealth at all...
Yun Xi wasn't a saint, and he had come to the Land of Waves only to get some money.
But looking at the scene before him, he decided to do something good!
Get rid of Gato!
And turn the Land of Waves into his own backyard.
After going through several battles, Yun Xi had come to understand how important it was to have a force of his own.
And the Land of Waves was definitely one of the most suitable places in the entire Naruto world.
Having no ninja meant there were no powerful forces that could occupy the place.
It was also far from the major powers, so establishing his own force here wouldn't attract the attention of the Five Great Nations.
How could Yun Xi pass up such a good place?
"Karin, come with me!"
Having settled on his plans, Yun Xi stopped wandering the streets of the Land of Waves.
He headed straight for Gato's place with Karin.
"Who's there?"
A few minutes later, Yun Xi and Karin arrived outside the Gato Company headquarters.
The samurai on security duty spotted them.
"What are you so nervous about? They're just a couple of kids. Just chase them off!"
But when they saw that Yun Xi and Karin were only children, they didn't take them seriously.
After all, this sort of thing was quite common in the Land of Waves.
The children of the poor seemed to be curious about the tall buildings.
When they'd run into this sort of situation before, the two samurai on security duty would usually kill them on the spot.
But since he was in a good mood, one of them decided to just chase Yun Xi and Karin away."
"Brats, if you don't leave, I'll kill you and throw you into the sea for the fish!"
When Yun Xi and Karin showed no reaction to the threat,
the two samurai shouted again, even drawing their swords to intimidate them.
"Karin, stay behind me. I'm going to make a move."
Faced with two nobodies who weren't even ninja,
Yun Xi didn't think much of them. In his eyes, there was only one person here who posed any threat.
That was Zabuza Momochi, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
Of course, when Yun Xi called him a threat, he only meant compared to these nobodies.
In reality, Zabuza's strength at this point was no more than that of an Elite Jonin.
He was absolutely no match for Yun Xi, but Yun Xi had no intention of killing him.
Instead, he wanted to recruit him as one of his subordinates.
"Hey, brat, if you're looking to die, I'll grant your wish!"
When the two samurai saw that Yun Xi hadn't reacted at all to their words,
they grew angry and immediately drew the sharp swords at their waists, swinging them at Yun Xi's head.
"Die..."
But what the two samurai hadn't expected was that their swift attack had only cut through an afterimage.
Yun Xi, who had been standing right there, had vanished.
When they turned around, the two samurai caught only a glimpse of their own bodies and the blood gushing from them...
"Let's go. We're heading upstairs."
After casually taking care of the two samurai, Yun Xi headed straight for the top floor of the building.
"Wait! I'm going to pick up the money."
At Yun Xi's call, Karin hurriedly replied.
She searched the two dead samurai and took everything they had.
Only then did Karin follow Yun Xi into the Gato Company headquarters.
She grinned at Yun Xi and said, "Look, Big Brother Yun Xi, the spoils of war!"
Seeing how cute Karin was, Yun Xi, who had been cold-faced a moment earlier, smiled too.
He hadn't expected Karin to remember what he had told her.
"Remember, next time, we won't bother taking money from nobodies like these."
Taking the few hundred yen Karin handed him, Yun Xi added,
"Mm-hmm, I'll remember. Next time, we'll get more money!"
Karin nodded again and again, her face full of delight.
"Who dares to cause trouble here?"
Just as Yun Xi and Karin were chatting... flirting...
Ahem, talking, a group of people came down the stairs.
Yun Xi recognized three of them.
One was Gato.
The other two were Zabuza and Haku as a child...
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