Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 2 Civilian Ninja

"If only I could have traveled through time earlier, even without the golden finger, I wouldn't be in such a precarious situation like I am now, right?"

Others were born with the Six Paths bloodline, and at the very least, they were tender little babies who had just entered ninja school, with ample time given to develop.

He, on the other hand, had just traveled through time half a year ago and became a dying twenty-year-old cannon fodder Chunin.

At the tender age of twenty, it seemed that this time travel had gained him several years of life.

But in fact, considering that the average lifespan of a ninja is only a dozen years old, he is now definitely a senior elderly ninja.

Especially now that we are in the Second Shinobi World War and on the front line in River Country.

It can be said that he is old and high-risk.

The kind that could be buried at any time.

When he first traveled through time, he heard people calling him "what is gay", and he once thought that he had traveled through time and space and become Uchiha Sasuke. Unfortunately, he never found his good friend "Naluoduo".

Later he learned that his name was [Umino Sasuke], his surname was Umino, and he was a Konoha ninja. The first thing he thought of was [Konoha Old Lady] Umino Iruka, and Iruka's parents who both died in the Nine-Tails Rebellion: Umino Ikkaku and Umino Kojin, a senior ninja couple.

Having the same last name as Umino, I thought he was a relative of Umino Iruka. His family can produce two Jonin. I guess the Umino family is the kind of ninja family that was never mentioned in the original work, a little bit awesome but very low-key?
Even if I can't get the Six Paths bloodline, it's good to be born into the Konoha Ninja Clan.

Being born in a Konoha ninja family is not bad. Not to mention that he was born in Rome, at least he can leave those civilian mules and horses half a street behind when he starts.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

According to the fragments of memory in his mind, he realized that there was no so-called Umino clan in Konoha. He even had nothing to do with Umino Ikkaku and Umino Kojin. Instead, he had a close relationship with the Sarutobi clan.

The fact that he could become a ninja, and even a villager of Konoha, was all thanks to the Sarutobi clan.

His ancestors for three generations were all commoners, vassals of the Sarutobi clan, and pure tenant farmers and servants.

Although the Sarutobi clan is not a top-tier wealthy family like the Senju and Uchiha clans, it is also a second-tier ninja clan. It even has a fire-style brigade and owns many industries in the Land of Fire.

The main business of the Sarutobi clan is to be a ninja. There are many members who do not have the talent of a ninja and choose to manage the family business, but not many. They naturally lack the ability to manage such a huge industry by themselves. Therefore, promoting some family sons to help manage the industry has become the first choice.

His grandfather, Umino Dairo, was promoted by the Sarutobi clan, which was constantly expanding its industry, because of his handsome appearance and his initial literacy. He was responsible for assisting Sarutobi's foreign affairs members and managing the fish ponds and mines in the Akihabara area.

Although their status was not high, it was only slightly better than those tenant farmers who could only dig for food from the soil, but at least they would not starve to death and could have more children.

During the Warring States Period, human life was worthless. Becoming a vassal of a powerful tribe and finding a place to settle down was something many people dreamed of.

When Konoha Village was built, in order to enrich the population of Konoha, many of these ninja vassals naturally followed the main ninja clan to settle in Konoha and become Konoha villagers.

Although the Kaino family did not catch up with the first large group of immigrants when Konoha Village was founded, they did catch up with the expansion of Konoha Village.

After Sarutobi Hiruzen became the Third Hokage, Konoha Village began to expand again. How could the rootless refugees have a home and reliable children?
So, the Kaino family responded to the call of the Sarutobi clan and became the second large group of immigrants, moving into Konoha Village.

He had gloriously upgraded from a tenant farmer to a self-employed city dweller, and even a city dweller in a first-tier city in the Land of Fire. This was considered a class leap to a certain extent.

However, the Kaino family at that time had no backers in the Sarutobi clan. The competition for servant positions in the Sarutobi family was very fierce. In the end, they were unable to compete with the older generation of immigrants and those who had already sent their children and had found backers, and completely missed the opportunity to continue to eat the public food of the Sarutobi family.

He had no choice but to become an ordinary villager of Konoha and contribute to the population of Konoha.

Living in Muye is not easy.

Konoha is called a village, but it is actually a big city with a population of over 100,000 and extremely high prices.

House prices and rents are also ridiculously expensive.

A bowl of ramen, even though the price inflation had not reached the level of the Naruto and Sasuke era, would still cost fifty or sixty taels.

In terms of housing, ninjas and war orphans generally have basic public housing, while ordinary villagers can only rent houses themselves or spend huge sums of money to buy houses.

All I can say is that ninjas are high-income earners, and everything is expensive. If the Umino family hadn't managed fish ponds for the Sarutobi clan and knew the skills of raising and killing fish to make a living, they would have gone bankrupt long ago, been driven out of Konoha Village, and become refugees with their lives as worthless as grass.

Kainojia started a second business and became a fishmonger in the fish market of Konoha Village. However, he was not as powerful as Gao Qiqiang. He was just a low-level fishmonger. Apart from food, clothing, housing and transportation, he could barely make ends meet and earn a hard-earned living.

This is because some of the rotten fish and dead shrimps cannot be sold, so they can be eaten by themselves, which reduces a lot of food expenses. Otherwise, for a commoner family like his from the bottom of Konoha, it would be impossible to train an ordinary child like the predecessor without genetic mutation into a glorious ninja with only one generation's efforts.

The predecessor's name was changed to "Sasuke" by his parents when he was a child, which shows how much the Umino family hopes that they can cultivate a powerful ninja.

The name change to "Sasuke" does not refer to Uchiha Sasuke, but Sarutobi Sasuke, the father of the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, a Kage-level strongman of the same generation as Senju Hashirama.

The name Sasuke was given not because he wanted to be Sarutobi Hiruzen's father, but rather it was an expression of special affection and respect.

There are many people named "Hashirama" in Konoha, and there are even more people named "Ma" as numerous as stars.

God will eventually reward those who work hard.

The whole family lived frugally and poured all their resources into one person, and finally cultivated a ninja.

The Kaino family naturally ushered in another class leap, from being a commoner to becoming a ninja class.

Although ninjas are not nobles like the samurai of the past, they still have all the privileges they deserve.

At least his family no longer needs to take a commission from selling fish. This commission is higher than the profit his family made from selling fish in the beginning. Before, he was just working for others and only earned hard-earned money.

Of course, if it wasn't hard work and the profit was not low, it wouldn't have been his family's turn to sell fish.

Ever since their predecessor graduated from the Ninja Academy and became a Genin of Konoha, the Umino family has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The predecessor was a 10-year-old graduate of the Ninja School, which was the 28th year of Konoha, the longest period of peace in the Ninja World.

There was a period of peace of more than ten years between the First Ninja War and the Second Ninja War which started last year.

Perhaps thanks to the political influence of the Sarutobi clan, his predecessor attended a ninja school at the end of the First Ninja War. His qualifications for the ninja school test were just on the line, but he was not rejected and was lucky enough to be admitted to the ordinary class of the ninja school.

By the time I graduated, I had completely missed the first Ninja War.

Ninjas are a high-income group. Even if they are just Genin, their income in peacetime is quite considerable.

High income comes with high risk.

Even in peacetime, various emergencies may occur during missions.

It is very rare for an ordinary C-level task to suddenly become a B-level task, but it does happen.

After several emergency missions and going through several life-and-death tests, it took him six years to finally become a Konoha Chunin before he came of age.

After becoming a Chunin, not only did their income increase several times over, but the Kaino family also finally made a major leap in class.

Genin are consumables, but Chunin are the backbone of Konoha.

Various hidden benefits were gradually opened up to him, such as the exchange of ninjutsu for mission merit points, low-interest loans for buying a house, etc.

Although the ultra-low-interest properties developed by the Senju clan have long been sold out, the Sarutobi clan is also very good at earth-style infrastructure. Even if the properties they develop are a bit more expensive, the interest rates are high, and the location is not on the main road, the advantage is that they are properties in a first-tier city in the Fire Country, and there is definitely room for appreciation in the future.

Less than a year after working as a Chunin, my predecessor moved out of the Senju family's low-rent housing and was able to buy a house with a loan.

After working for another two years, the mortgage was paid off in full. During this time, he even bought a small fish market shop for his family.

No wonder all the villagers in Konoha want to become ninjas. It’s not really about the will of fire, but the ninja profession, which really has great financial prospects.

(End of this chapter)