Happiness Belongs to You...

Forward! Keep moving forward!

Stop! Watch below, watch below! Watch out for flanking maneuvers!

Come on! Victory is right ahead! To the right! To the right!

"..."

In the Ninja Academy classroom, Minato wore a thoroughly bewildered expression.

One of his two deskmates had his eyes closed, while the other was spouting all sorts of nonsense. They had been like this all morning.

He had absolutely no idea what the two of them were doing.

Happiness belongs to you, while I have nothing...

"Done!"

Suddenly, Kushina's eyes snapped open.

Wuye immediately spread out a scroll beneath the desk. Her hand pressed down on it just as a black formula slowly took shape beneath her palm.

"That's the fifth one!"

Kushina beamed.

Wuye put away the scroll, then raised both hands and happily high-fived her. "Keep it up. Let's try to make three hundred in half a month!"

Minato propped up his head, looking utterly melancholy.

Happiness belongs to you... while I... have nothing...

"Hyuga Wuye! Uzumaki Kushina!"

At that moment, the chunin instructor suddenly roared, "Don't think that just because you defeated the graduating class, you can ignore my lesson!"

He pointed outside. "Now! Get out there and stand as punishment!"

The entire class turned to look at them.

Quite a few people muttered to themselves... If it weren't for the fact that they could skip class, why would you send them outside to stand?

"Thank you, Sensei!"

Kushina grabbed Wuye's hand and excitedly ran out... Making sealing scrolls outside was obviously much more convenient.

The chunin instructor: "..."

Two weeks passed just like that, and Hyuga Wuye and Kushina finally finished making all three hundred sealing scrolls.

"Next, we need to sell them," Wuye pondered from his seat. "No ninja tool shop would likely take in this many scrolls, and wholesale prices won't get us one hundred thousand ryo. It'd be best to open our own shop. So where do we get the startup capital...?"

"Wuye, Wuye, I have money." Kushina raised her hand.

But Hyuga Wuye shook his head. "That was left to you by Grandma Mito. Try not to use it. Save it for your dowry."

Kushina's cheeks reddened. "So you were planning to take it away later..."

Hyuga Wuye: "???"

Was that what I meant? Was that really what I meant?

"Then where do you plan to get the money?" Kushina asked again.

"Hmm, with these three hundred scrolls, I have the capital to secure financing." Wuye clapped his hands. "After class, let's go find Uncle Torifu!"

"Uncle Torifu? Great! He said last time that he wanted to make money with you too!" Kushina brightened.

"Hyuga Wuye! Uzumaki Kushina!"

The chunin instructor let out his thirtieth roar in two weeks. "Get out!"

"Yes!"

The two ran out happily, one after the other.

Minato propped up his head and sighed.

Ah, happiness belongs to you...

And I have nothing...

"Wuye, you've finally decided to do business with me?"

In the barbecue restaurant, Akimichi Torifu's face immediately broke into a cheerful smile upon hearing why they had come.

"Yeah. We plan to open a ninja tool shop, so we came to ask Uncle Torifu to invest," Wuye said with a nod.

"A ninja tool shop?"

Akimichi Torifu paused. "That requires a lot of specialized blacksmith shops for supplies. Can you manage that?"

Wuye and Kushina exchanged a look and grinned. "We don't plan to sell ordinary ninja tools. We'll only sell one thing..."

He stretched out his hand, and a scroll appeared in his palm, spinning. "We're selling this."

Akimichi Torifu opened it for a look, then said in surprise, "A sealing scroll? You two made this?"

When he saw Hyuga Wuye and Kushina nod together, his expression turned serious. "Sealing scrolls are strategic supplies. Before selling them externally, you must first supply the village. You can only sell them after the village has purchased enough."

"The village will pay too, right?" Wuye frowned.

Akimichi Torifu nodded. "Of course, but the price will only be eighty percent of the market rate."

Wuye's face darkened. "That's robbery!"

But Akimichi Torifu chuckled. "With me here, though, you can obtain exclusive rights to sell sealing scrolls. How about it?"

"That's good!" Wuye's eyes lit up.

A monopoly!

How could that not be good?

Although other shops would have no supply source, it would still affect them if someone resold the scrolls.

"By the way, how much money are you planning to get from me?" Akimichi Torifu suddenly asked.

Wuye looked at him. "Uncle Torifu, do you have thirty million ryo? I want to exchange thirty percent of the shares for thirty million ryo."

"Thirty million ryo?"

Akimichi Torifu immediately recalled Tsunade's request from some time ago, and amusement appeared in his eyes. "I can scrape together thirty million ryo, but thirty percent is too much. Ten percent will do. After all, your three hundred scrolls are already worth thirty million ryo."

"Then twenty percent," Wuye said with a smile.

"Twenty percent..."

Akimichi Torifu tapped the table and thought for a moment. "Then I'll also give you a shop in the bustling district. Including the renovations and hired workers, we'll count all of that in too. How about it?"

"A shop in the bustling district?" Wuye asked curiously. "Where?"

Akimichi Torifu waved a hand. "You know Konoha's largest ninja tool store, across from the red-light district? That belongs to our Akimichi Clan. I'll make the decision and transfer the whole thing to you!"

"A shop in the bustling district, across from the red-light district... A storefront in that location is worth at least fifty million ryo, isn't it? And that doesn't even include the existing ninja tool store. Besides, you can't get a shop there even if you have money," Wuye said in amazement.

Akimichi Torifu gave a low chuckle. "I'm taking twenty percent of your shares, so it's hard to say who's getting the better deal."

"Then it's settled!"

Wuye looked at Kushina. "There's still eighty percent left. Kushina, you should take the larger share. I'll count as contributing technical expertise and take ten percent. And let me use these thirty million ryo first for something urgent, all right?"

Kushina blinked her large eyes. "I couldn't make them without you either. I don't want any of these shares. You can have them."

"This is a steady stream of cash flow. No matter how good our relationship is, we need to make things clear," Wuye said seriously. "At the very least, we need to agree on it beforehand so we can avoid disputes later."

"I won't have disputes with you."

Kushina shook her head, her fiery red hair swaying back and forth.

Akimichi Torifu looked at Kushina's expression, especially the way she looked at Hyuga Wuye, and an amused, knowing smile suddenly appeared on his lips. "Hehehe, how about I give you two an idea?"

"What idea?" Wuye asked.

Akimichi Torifu smiled. "The two of you can open a joint account. Deposit all of the shop's profits and dividends into it, and count it as jointly owned by both of you. In the future, no matter who wants to withdraw money, the other person must know about it. How about that?"

Wuye twitched at the corner of his mouth... Isn't that marital joint property?

"Kushina, what do you think?" Akimichi Torifu did not ask Wuye. He looked directly at Kushina instead.

"I think it's great." Kushina nodded her little head.

Akimichi Torifu clapped his hands. "Then it's settled."

Hyuga Wuye: "..."