Hokage Rock Gains Another Face

These few streets were all relatively old, major thoroughfares in Konoha.

There were countless homes and businesses lining both sides. These five streets were worth tens of billions.

Even Shikaku Nara looked stunned.

Kushina's identity had been kept fairly confidential. At most, people knew she was the Fourth Hokage's wife and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

But Minato had died barely a year after taking office. No one had known Kushina was this wealthy.

Compared to this, Minato's inheritance was hardly worth mentioning.

Kakashi was somewhat shaken. "My teacher's wife is that rich?"

Tsunade looked at Kakashi with faint amusement:

"Don't forget what my grandmother's surname was."

Before Mito Uzumaki died, she had left a vast portion of her inheritance

to Kushina, a clanswoman who shared her fate.

Everyone suddenly understood. By that calculation, this was actually not much at all.

Shikaku Nara asked:

"Fifth Hokage Lord, when you transferred all the properties on these streets to the Sarutobi Clan some time ago, were you planning to have the Sarutobi Clan return everything to the Fourth Hokage's wife?"

Orochimaru waved a hand:

"Those originally belonged to Kushina. Hiruzen Sarutobi merely converted all those properties into supplies and distributed them."

Everyone present came from major clans, and more or less all of them owned properties along those five streets.

The way Orochimaru had made the Sarutobi Clan purchase the properties was extremely clever.

Property prices were exorbitant.

There was no way the Sarutobi Clan could have earned that much money in just two years.

So Natsuki came up with an idea.

Orochimaru, as Hokage, would extend them a loan and sell those properties to the Sarutobi Clan first.

After obtaining the properties, the Sarutobi Clan could slowly repay Orochimaru over time.

The Sarutobi Clan thought this was Orochimaru's way of binding himself closely