Wok Shadow Ninja

Chapter 35: Selling Flowers and Adding Points

The Third Hokage exhaled a forceful smoke ring, his mind made up.

Towards the Uchiha clan, the Third Hokage didn't harbor the same strong animosity as Danzo and Koharu, but to say he was friendly? That would be nonsense.

Back then, the Uchiha clan head, Fugaku Uchiha, named his youngest son after the Third Hokage's father, Sasuke Sarutobi. This wasn't a declaration of "I'm naming my son Sasuke, I'm going to be your dad" kind of thing. It was a gesture of goodwill, hoping that his son could become a powerful ninja like Sasuke Sarutobi.

The Third Hokage wasn't blind to Fugaku Uchiha's efforts to restrain his clan members, but on the eve of the massacre, he still tacitly allowed it to happen.

He did value Sasuke Uchiha to some extent, but the village was too big, with too many people. Sasuke, no matter how you looked at him, wasn't within the scope of his "Sarutobi Tutoring". Not being one of his own, certain measures could be employed.

"Alright, seal this part of the ocular power."

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the four old guys, each with their own thoughts, simultaneously made their move, preparing to apply the sealing technique to Sasuke from four directions.

These four old guys had a combined age of almost three hundred years. Among them, the Third Hokage and Danzo were both masters of sealing techniques. Once their sealing techniques landed, Sasuke would be safe, for sure. That rampaging ocular power wouldn't cause a single ripple anymore, but it was likely that Sasuke would find it very difficult to break through the seal and successfully awaken his eyes in this lifetime.

Inoichi and Hiashi Hyuga, unconcerned, stood motionless where they were.

Kakashi hesitated for a moment, his friendship with Obito Uchiha ultimately prevailing. He dashed forward, grabbed Sasuke's arm, pulled him behind him, and used his own body to shield the four.

"Lord Third Hokage, Lord Advisors, isn't such a strong seal necessary?"

Danzo gave him a sinister look, as if to say, are you teaching me how to do my job?

Kakashi had lost his usual laziness, his right eye filled with determination.

He wouldn't fight the Hokage and the advisors for Sasuke's sake, but as a Jonin of the village, the Fourth Hokage's disciple, when he raised an objection, the village higher-ups had to give him an explanation.

Kakashi was definitely an important figure in the "Sarutobi Tutoring" ranks. Seeing his strong opposition, the Third Hokage seized the opportunity to shift the blame onto the other three.

"What are you all thinking? It's just sealing a part of the ocular power, it doesn't need so many people. Don't move, I'll do it myself."

This time Kakashi didn't stop him. The Third Hokage concentrated chakra on his fingers, adding fire, wind, lightning, earth, and water attributes to the chakra in turn, then aimed at Sasuke's stomach and applied the "Five Elements Seal" technique.

"Kakashi, take this child to the hospital for treatment. The expenses will be covered by the village. If possible, take some time these few days to teach him and see if he can bypass the seal and awaken his Sharingan."

"Yes, Lord Hokage."

Sakura wasn't Tsunade's disciple now, just an ordinary civilian, without the qualifications or courage to barge into the Hokage's office.

She waited outside the building for a while and soon saw Iruka dragging Naruto out. A day later, the news of school heartthrob Sasuke's hospitalization spread among his many fangirls and throughout the entire school.

"What? Sasuke is hospitalized? He seemed fine yesterday?" Ino was a little surprised when she got the news from Shikamaru.

Nowadays, Ino was working at her family's flower shop, Shikamaru was working as a breeder at his family's ranch, and Choji was making food pills at his family's store. The three of them hadn't even graduated yet and had already started working to earn a living.

The three of them were busy with training, working, and going to school every day. Shikamaru had made an excuse to come out for a stroll and tell Ino the news by the way.

Inoichi felt that this matter had nothing to do with his daughter, it was Sasuke who had ruined himself by practicing blindly.

He didn't tell Ino about the series of events that happened afterwards, so Ino had no idea that Sasuke's current state had a direct relationship with her.

She realized the business opportunity within this.

The classmates were so enthusiastic and caring, wouldn't it be too much to capitalize on this and make a little money?

Thanks to the Yamanaka clan's tireless promotion, Konoha Village had truly become a place where you had to buy flowers for everything.

Buy flowers for childbirth, buy flowers for children going to school, buy flowers for teachers on holidays, buy flowers for graduation, buy flowers to visit patients, buy flowers when people die... you have to buy flowers!

In the entire village, there was only their family's flower shop, and yet they still pretended to be poor to the outside world.

Ino couldn't be bothered to greet Shikamaru and Choji, and hurriedly changed the sign in front of the store.

She wrote on the sign: "Buy 99 carnations, get a lucky rabbit's foot for free, wish the patient a speedy recovery, and a future filled with luck, good fortune and longevity!"

And it worked! With this change of sign, the number of people buying flowers immediately increased by 50%, mostly Sasuke's fangirls.

When encountering fangirls who didn't want to spend money, Ino would frantically hint.

Do you love Sasuke or not? If you do, send him flowers! He's sick, so pitiful. To only flirt but not send flowers, that's just being a scoundrel!

After a bunch of nonsense about the language of flowers, you can't afford 999? Buy 99 then? Or 9 will do!

Buy 99 carnations, and she would give a lucky rabbit's foot for free. Some people only wanted to buy the rabbit's foot, and she would also sell them with 2 flowers. At the end of the day, she earned a lot of commission.

While selling flowers, Ino was also studying her Trouble Points.

Bumper harvest!

The acquisition of Trouble Points was directly related to the scale of the trouble and the people involved. If she could put a big blame on the Sage of Six Paths, she estimated that she could fill up her attribute panel in minutes, but she didn't dare...

The riddle incident only involved some students from the ninja academy, and the black pot accumulated almost half a Trouble Point, which was normal. But what happened after that was not normal.

The energy in the black pot was rising steadily, and now it had accumulated two Trouble Points. Ino was dumbfounded.

She had to bear part of the blame for Sasuke's injury, but who was the rest of it blamed on? Some big shot? Was someone like Indra still considered alive? Did the world know of Indra's existence? No way, right?

If she couldn't figure it out, she wouldn't think about it. Since she had two Trouble Points, she definitely couldn't waste them.

Ino's current attributes were: Ninjutsu 7, Taijutsu 3, Genjutsu 3, Intelligence 6, Strength 2, Speed 5, Chakra 6, Hand Seals 5, total attributes 37. In terms of skills, she had level 2 Yin Release, level 1 Water Release, mastered B-rank secret technique Mind Disturbance Technique, C-rank secret technique Mind Body Switch Technique, C-rank Water Release: Water Prison Jutsu, C-rank Water Release: Water Trumpet Jutsu, and D-rank Water Release: Hiding in Mist Jutsu.

According to Ino's analysis, the three attributes "Ninjutsu", "Chakra", and "Speed" were the most important.

The Kage of each village, including the Sannin, Akatsuki, Kakashi and others, except for Kisame who was still honestly forming seals in the later stage when overpowered characters were flying all over the place, everyone else's "Ninjutsu" was 10. This was a must-have attribute for a strong person.

"Chakra" determined whether chakra could become "kiloton chakra".

"Speed" represented the speed of escape. As soon as Pain started floating, she would run out of the village in a flash, that would be ok!

These three attributes were very important.

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