"If only I could travel through time earlier, even without the golden finger, I wouldn't be in such a precarious situation like now, right?"
Others have the Six Paths bloodline from their mothers, and at the very least are tender little babies who have just entered ninja school, with ample time given for development.
He, on the other hand, had just traveled through time half a year ago and became a twenty-year-old cannon fodder Chunin who was on the verge of death.
At the tender age of twenty, it seems that this time travel has gained several years of life.
But in fact, considering that the average lifespan of a ninja is only in his teens, 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 to be both old and high-risk.
The kind that could be buried at any time.
At the beginning of his time travel, when he heard people calling him "what a gay", he thought he had traveled through time and space and become Uchiha Sasuke. Unfortunately, he never found his good gay friend [Naroduo].
Later he found out 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: the Jonin couple Umino Ikkaku and Umino Kojin.
With the same surname 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 has never been mentioned in the original work, which is a little bit awesome and very low-key?
If he didn't get the Six Paths bloodline, it would be good to get a 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, things did not go as planned.
According to the fragments of memory in his mind, he realized that there was no so-called Umino Clan in Konoha, and he 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, pure tenant farmers and servants.
Although the Sarutobi clan is not a top-tier 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 ninjas. There are many members who do not have the talent for ninjas and choose to manage the family business, but not many. It is naturally beyond their 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, Dairo Umino, 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 the Sarutobi clan's foreign affairs members and managing the fish ponds and mines in the Akihabara area.
Although their status was not high, only slightly better than those tenant farmers who could only dig for food in 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 clan 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 vassal ninjas 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 built, they did catch up with the expansion of Konoha village.
After Sarutobi Hiruzen became the Third Hokage, Konoha Village once again welcomed expansion. How could the rootless refugees have a home to raise children?
Therefore, the Umino family responded to the call of the Sarutobi clan and became the second large group of immigrants, moving into Konoha Village.
He was gloriously upgraded from a tenant farmer to a self-employed city dweller, and even a city dweller in a first-tier city in the Fire Country, which was considered a certain degree of class transition.
However, the Kaino family at that time had no backers in the Sarutobi clan, and 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 could only helplessly 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 in fact it is 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 price inflation had not yet reached the level it had during 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 their own houses or spend huge sums of money to buy them.
I can only say that ninjas are indeed high-income people, and everything about them is expensive.
If the Kaino family had not 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 and been driven out of Konoha Village long ago, becoming refugees with their lives worthless.
Kainojia started a second business and became a fishmonger in the fish market of Konoha Village. However, he was not Gao Qiqiang, 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 there are some rotten fish and dead shrimp that cannot be sold, so they can be eaten by themselves, reducing a lot of food expenses. Otherwise, for a civilian family like his at the bottom of Konoha, it would be impossible to train an ordinary child like his predecessor without genetic mutation into a glorious ninja with only one generation's efforts.
When his predecessor was a child, his parents changed his name to "Sasuke", which shows how much the Umino family hoped that they could 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 does not mean that he wants to be Sarutobi Hiruzen's father, but rather it is an expression of special affection and respect.
There are many people in Konoha named "Hashirama", and various "Mana"s, which are as numerous as stars.
God will never let down those who work hard.
The whole family lived frugally and put all their efforts into one person, and finally they cultivated a ninja.
The Kaino family naturally experienced another class leap, from being a lower-class civilian to becoming a ninja class.
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Although ninjas are not nobles like the samurai of the past, they still have all the privileges they deserve.
At least his family doesn't have to take a commission from selling fish anymore. This commission is higher than the profit from selling fish in the first place. Before, he was just working for others and he only earned hard-earned money.
Of course, if it wasn't hard work and the profit was not low, selling fish would not have been his family's turn in the first place.
Ever since their predecessor graduated from the Ninja Academy and became a Genin of Konoha, the Kaino family has undergone tremendous changes.
The predecessor was a 10-year-old graduate of the Ninja School. It was the 28th year of Konoha, which was the longest period of peace in the Ninja World.
There was more than ten years of peace between the First Ninja War and the Second Ninja War which started last year.
Maybe it was thanks to the political influence of the Sarutobi clan. He went to a ninja school when the First Ninja War was about to end. His qualification for the ninja school test was just on the line, but he was not eliminated and was lucky enough to be admitted to a regular class in the ninja school.
By the time I graduated, I had missed the first ninja war.
Ninjas are a group of high-income people. 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 several life-and-death tests, it took him six years to finally become a Konoha Chunin before he reached adulthood.
After becoming a Chunin, not only did their income increase several times, but the Kaino family also finally made a major leap in class.
Genin are consumables, but Chunin are the backbone of Konoha.
Various invisible benefits were gradually opened up to him, such as the exchange of mission merit points for ninjutsu, low-interest loans for buying a house, etc.
Although the super 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, have high interest rates, and are not located on the main roads, they have the advantage of being properties in a first-tier city in the Fire Country, and will definitely have great 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 bought 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 potential.