Uzumaki Conglomerate, Konoha Transformed
Menma is on her third day after birth.
Naruto paced back and forth in the apartment's living room, holding his son. Menma nestled quietly in his arms, blue starlight slowly swirling in his eyes.
Shiro stood to the side holding a hot towel, Tayuya leaned against the door frame clipping her nails, and Karin sat cross-legged on the sofa flipping through a "Newborn Care Handbook".
Hinata is still recuperating at the Hyuga Main House's residence after giving birth.
Five people live in a 40-square-meter apartment.
Naruto scanned the room.
The kitchen was piled with milk powder cans, baby clothes were hanging to dry on the balcony, and the coffee table in the living room was squeezed into a corner.
"No."
He stopped.
"This place is so cramped you can barely turn around. My son can't live in this pigeonhole."
Bai immediately put down the towel. "Naruto, that three-story house you showed me before—"
"Not enough."
Naruto handed Menma to Haku, casually rummaged through the cabinet for a piece of white paper, picked up a brush, and drew for a few minutes.
The lines are rough and blunt.
The annotations are illegible.
But the meaning is clear.
"They're gone."
He rolled up the paper, stuffed it into his pocket, and went out the door.
Tayuya looked up. "Where to?"
"Go ask my wife for a piece of land."
Hokage Building.
9:17 AM.
Tsunade sat behind her desk reviewing official documents, while Shizune organized files beside her.
"Bang--!"
The door was kicked open.
One of the door hinges is broken.
The door hung askew on the frame, creaking and groaning.
Tsunade paused for a moment.
She didn't look up.
"Naruto, this is the fourth door this year."
"Put it in the books."
Naruto strode to the desk, pulled a crumpled piece of white paper from his pocket, and slapped it onto the table.
The ink wasn't completely dry when it smeared half of Tsunade's official document.
"Signature."
Tsunade finally raised her head.
She unfolded the paper.
I watched for three seconds.
His expression changed.
"Hidden Leaf's Eastern District... from the Training Ground 7 to the border of the Thousand Hands Forest ..." Her finger traced the marked area on the paper, her voice rising, "Do you know how big this is? Three times the size of the Uchiha Site! It takes up one-eighth of Hidden Leaf's total area!"
Naruto plopped down on her desk, crossing his legs.
"I know."
"The construction costs alone could drain the national treasury—"
He hadn't finished speaking.
A sealing scroll flew out of Naruto's hand and landed on the pile of documents.
Tsunade recognized the scroll.
The treasury of the Water Country is sealed.
Terumi Mei's "dowry".
"There's enough space inside to build ten Hidden Leaf."
Naruto flicked the scroll, "It won't cost the village a single penny. The Uzumaki Clan build this territory themselves."
Tsunade opened her mouth.
She wanted to say that it wasn't about the money.
This is a political issue.
One clan occupies one-eighth of the village's territory, which is larger than the combined territory of the Senju and Uchiha at their peak.
The Elder Council, the advisory board, and the various families—
"If anyone has a problem with this, let them come and talk to me."
Naruto tilted his head to look at her.
Their tone was so casual, as if they were discussing what to have for lunch.
"By the way—you were in the delivery room when my son was born three days ago. You know better than anyone what that energy fluctuation meant."
Tsunade shut her mouth.
She picked up the pen.
I hesitated for two seconds.
It's signed.
Naruto jumped off the table and casually took the scroll and the signed documents with him.
I turned around as I reached the door.
"The cost of the door will also be deducted from this."
Tsunade slammed her pen on the table.
Shizune asked softly, "Lady Tsunade... is this really alright?"
Tsunade back in her chair and rubbed her temples.
"If he doesn't have the ability, of course I won't sign."
She closed her eyes. "The question is—who in the entire Hidden Leaf do you think can stop him right now?"
Shizune silence fell.
"Rather than let him cause more trouble, it's better to give him a place to stay."
Tsunade, a shrewd glint in her amber pupils. "A dragon having a nest is actually safer than flying around aimlessly."
Two weeks later.
Hidden Leaf East District
It used to be an abandoned training ground and a vacant lot overgrown with weeds; just half a month ago, you could still see wild rabbits there.
Now--
A super mansion complex covering thousands of acres has sprung up.
The main building has seven floors.
It combines a pure wooden structure with modern Ninjutsu architectural techniques.
The Uzumaki Clan crest on the roof ridge is forged from pure gold, dazzlingly bright in the sunlight.
The courtyard contains a renovated natural hot spring complex.
The Martial Arts Arena was twice the size of the Ninja Academy.
The backyard is a whole transplanted ancient forest of trees, some over a thousand years old.
The wall is not high.
However, every ten meters along the wall was engraved a complex sealing pattern—that was a system reward.
[Ding-- Detected that the host has established a clan settlement. Hidden achievement triggered: Uzumaki Revival - Foundation!]
[Reward: Divine Spirit-Gathering Array (Passive). Effect: Increases the Chakra recovery speed of all personnel within the base by 100 times; long-term residence can prolong life; increases Chakra training efficiency within the base by 10 times.]
Naruto stood on the rooftop terrace of the main building, overlooking the entire mansion.
Behind her, Shiro, dressed in a light blue kimono, was holding Menma in her arms.
Tayuya sat on the railing, a blade of grass dangling from her mouth.
Karin adjusted her glasses, checking the renovation costs against the ledger.
In the distance, Hinata was personally escorted there by Hiashi in a palanquin.
Neji followed behind, carrying more than a dozen boxes of congratulatory gifts from the Hyuga Clan.
Naruto looked at the busy servants and guards below, unable to suppress the smile on his face.
"Starting today."
His voice wasn't loud, but everyone on the terrace could hear him clearly.
"The Uzumaki Clan has officially established itself in Hidden Leaf."
Beneath Konoha.
Root stronghold.
Shimura Danzō sat in the dimly lit room, a newly delivered intelligence report spread out in front of him.
"A thousand acres... Divine Spirit-Gathering Array... Chakra restored a hundredfold..."
His single eye was fixed intently on every word of the intelligence report.
On the half of his face, which was wrapped in bandages, the veins bulged out one by one.
The members of the Root beside him knelt upright, not daring to breathe.
Danzo clenched the intelligence report tightly, his knuckles cracking.
What do you want to say?
But the image of that sinkhole kept replaying in my mind.
That bottomless crater created by Naruto's single attack.
The hand loosened its grip.
The love letter fluttered to the ground.
"... Continue monitoring."
His voice was hoarse, as if it were being squeezed out from the deepest part of his throat.
That's all.
At the same time.
The outer edge of the Hidden Leaf.
Deep in the dense forest to the northeast.
A figure lay motionless in the shadow of an ancient tree.
He had dark skin and very pale pupils.
His Chakra aura was suppressed to the limit, but if someone looked closely—there was a cloud symbol engraved on the Forehead Protector strip at his waist.
Hidden Cloud ANBU.
A covert spy.
Code name "C".
He has been lying in wait on the outskirts of Hidden Leaf for three months.
The original mission was to monitor the Hyuga Main House and find an opportunity to reclaim the Byakugan.
The last failure— the Kinkaku Incident —caused the Fourth Raikage to suffer a hidden loss for fifteen years.
But three days ago.
The energy surge that erupted in the Hyuga Main House room nearly made him fall from the tree.
The subsequent fragments of intelligence sent his pupils constricted even further.
The eldest daughter of the Hyuga Main House gives birth to a child.
The purity of the baby's Byakugan surpasses that of all known members of the Main Family.
Suspected variant of Dōjutsu.
"C" licked his lips.
He pulled out a tiny psychic Katsuyu from his pocket—a transnational communication medium used exclusively by the Hidden Cloud ANBU.
He whispered a password.
"Top-level intelligence. A-001."
"A mutated Byakugan infant has appeared in Hidden Leaf. Its purity surpasses the known upper limit of the Hyuga Main House. The infant's father is Naruto Uzumaki, 12 years old, whose strength has recently surged, but the specific level is unknown. The mother is the eldest daughter of the Hyuga Main House."
"Recommendation: Report this to Lord Raikage immediately. This target is far more valuable than the Hyuga Branch Family incident. If we can obtain this infant—"
He paused.
A greedy smile crept across his lips.
"--The Hidden Cloud Village will possess the strongest Dōjutsu in the Shinobi World."
The Katsuyu swallowed the intelligence and silently disappeared into the soil.
"Bing" leaned back against the tree trunk and closed his eyes.
What he didn't know was --
The blond boy he described as "twelve years old, with a surge in strength, and whose specific level is unknown" had, three days ago, casually released a wisp of energy that turned half the glass in the corridor to dust.
What he didn't know was—
In that newly built Uzumaki Estate, the Chakra fluctuations of every ant and every fallen leaf within the coverage area of Divine Spirit-Gathering Array were all within Naruto's perception range.
Including him.
Uzumaki Estate.
The top floor of the main building.
Naruto withdrew his gaze from the northeast direction.
A cryptic smile curved at the corner of his lips.
"Hidden Cloud..."
He muttered to himself, his tone as if he were reciting the name of a dish.
"Perfect --"
He looked down at Menma was sleeping peacefully in Bai's arms.
Blue starlight subtly swirled beneath the baby's eyelids.
"--My son's gift for meeting you hasn't been decided yet."