22. Uchiha Who?!
A/N:- Back from holidays! Finally, the day arrived which I absolutely was not waiting for, the final day of holidays.
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"This way, please…"
A staff of the medic-nin leads Kaori and Akio towards the room of the hospitalized Kazuha.
Akio and Kaori enter the room.
The sight of a mummy wrapped in bandages greets them.
"Mom! Looks like we are in the wrong room."
"Seems like it! The Anbu informed us that your uncle had some internal fractures and broken ribs."
Kaori nods at him and both of them turn around to walk away.
Kazuha, who is resting on the bed, twitches after hearing their conversation.
"Wait! It's me. It's me, Kazuha!"
He yells to get their attention.
Aww… Aww…
The excessive yelling causes pain in his lungs.
Haha…
Akio and Kaori burst out in laughter and walks towards him. Akio places a bouquet which he picked from the Yamanaka shop in the vase near the windows.
"How bad it is?"
Kaori asks him with a serious expression.
"Multiple fractured bones, a couple of broken ribs, and a punctured lung!"
Kazuha recounts his pathetic state.
"The doctor treated me with medical ninjutsu for an hour and fixed my ribs, lung, and bones. It will take me two weeks to recover completely."
"Hmm…"
Kaori nods and examines him as Akio curiously stares at Kazuha.
'If it was my previous life, even with the best medical treatment; such injuries will take at least a year to recover. Chakra is incredible!'
"Alright, tell us your encounter and how you ended up in such a state," Kaori questions him.
Akio also perks up his ears to listen to the encounter. When he last saw his uncle, he was already beaten up.
Kazuha recounts the entire incident to him.
"… It was thanks to a shinobi girl named Rin Nohara. I survived with such injuries. If not for her preliminary treatment, I would have died from the internal bleeding."
Kazuha grimaces in pain.
'So Rin saved my uncle! Looks like I have to repay the favor in the future.' Akio makes a mental note.
The trio chats for another hour until a medical staff informs them to move out, since they need to perform a checkup and treatment.
"Here!"
Kazuha slowly takes out a scroll from under his pillow.
"This is the fresh batch of supplies from Land of Iron. You should hurry and distribute it to our customers."
He passes the scroll to Kaori.
"I will handle it!"
Akio grabs the scroll and walks out with Kaori. He turns around and remarks.
"Get well soon, uncle! I have more errands for you."
"This brat…" Kazuha chuckles and shakes his head.
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Back in the store,
Kaori returns to prepare lunch for him and Kazuha. Akio reopens the shop and rests on the counter.
He infuses some nature energy into the scroll to open it.
Poof… Poof…
With a burst of white smoke, multiple batches of weapons appear in front of him.
He quickly gets busy sorting everything out.
After another hour and a quick lunch break, Akio sorts everything out according to the weapon type and customer orders.
"First is Uchiha Clan!"
Akio marks scrolls with the Uchiha clan, Hyuga Clan, Akimichi clan, and Aburame clan. He separates them and places them in a bag.
Next up, Yamanaka clan, Nara clan, Sarutobi clan, Inuzuka clan, and Uchiha Police Force.
He separates them into another division.
Every month, various clans of the village will restock their supplies of weapons. Depending on their strength and standing, each clan can only stock up a certain number of weapons.
The restrictions are in place to prevent unnecessary conflicts, monopoly of weapons, and lastly to prevent any scenario of revolt.
The four Major clans of the village can stock more weapons and out of them, the Uchiha clan has the highest consumption. After that other middle-size clan makes it on the list.
As for the smaller clans, most of them are in the outer district. There is another weapon shop in the outer district which supplies weapons to them.
There is no conflict of customers between the two shops since they source their weapons from the same place and their customers are different.
The shinobis and clans in the outer district won't especially come to the inner district just to pick weapons. Though every once in a while, a few shinobis will purchase weapons when they are straight out of the Hokage building after picking a mission.
Akio sorts out the scrolls in two different bags.
"Mom! I am going to deliver the goods."
"Alright! Don't come late like last time."
"Ok, mom!"
Akio departs for the Uchiha clan since it's the furthest from his shop. He has to personally deliver the goods to each clan since that's the privilege of these clans.
"They are like VIP customers of my shop since they make up for the major revenue of the shop each month. The earning from the clans contribute around 90% of the shop's monthly earning. The rest 10% is from civilian shinobis and other people like Kakashi. So, I have to personally make a trip to deliver the goods."
After an hour of leisure walking, Akio arrives in front of the Uchiha district.
He raises his head and stares at the intimidating Uchiha clan logo engraved on the arc-shaped entrance of the Uchiha Clan district.
'Men! Uchiha hates other clans after Tobirama did them dirty. He pushed them to a remote corner, away from the center of the village.
Later, after the Nine-tails attack, the straw which broke the camel's back was Danzo's idea to push the Uchiha clan even further to the outer district.
This led to a grudge in the hearts of the Uchiha clan against the village, since the Hokage did nothing to prevent it. Soon, the grudge turned into hatred when many Uchiha clansmen starts to disappear because of Danzo's scheme of harvesting Sharingan.
I mean, it's not like Orochimaru succeeded in his first attempt. He must have spent quite some time and sharingans to create Shin Uchiha.'
With such thoughts in mind, Akio walks through the clan district.
'Pushing them to the brink of the village was one reason. The primary cause was the lack of any action from the village after the disappearance of multiple elite members of the Uchiha clan. I believe this is what pressured Fugaku to take that action.'
Soon, Akio arrives in front of the Clan Leader residence.
"I am here to deliver supplies."
He informs the attendant present at the doorsteps of the house.
"Wait for a second!"
The attendant flickers away to inform Fugaku.
A few minutes later,
The attendant arrives in front of him and gestures for him to enter the house. He follows the attendant and enters a meeting room.
Fugaku is sitting on a futon with another person beside him. Both of them stop their conversation and turn to Akio.
Fugaku frowns as he notices Akio. He gestures the attendant to take his leave.
"Sit!"
Mm…
Akio sits on a nearby futon under Fugaku's scrutinizing gaze.
'Damn! Why is he staring at me like my instructor from the previous life?'
The silent atmosphere remains for another minute since neither of them speaks any word. Akio keeps quiet out of his nervousness.
Pfft… Haha…
The man beside Fugaku burst out in laughter.
"It's enough, Fugaku! Don't scare the kid like that."
The frown on Fugaku disappears. Well, it's still there because of his face.
The Sage Ring releases a soothing aura and calms his nerves.
"Clan leader Fugaku! Here is the monthly supply of weapons."
Akio carefully places the storage scroll with the Uchiha label in front of Fugaku.
Hmm…
Fugaku picks up the scroll and infuses some chakra in it to summon the contents as Akio informs him.
"Fugaku-san, there is 1000 kunais, 2500 shurikens, 500 explosive tags, 100 tantos, 50 chakra blades, 30 Kusari, and a total of 10 custom orders."
Shiing…
Fugaku activates his Sharingan and glances at the supplies.
Mm…
He nods in satisfaction as Akio recounts the price.
"It's 800,000 Ryo for kunais, 750,000 for shurikens, 1,500,000 for explosive tags, 1,000,000 for tantos, 2,500,000 for chakra blades, 900,000 for Kusari, and 1,700,000 for custom orders. That total up to…"
Akio performs a mental calculation.
"9,150,000 Ryo! But since Uchiha clan is a fairly large customer of our shop, the usual 10% discount will apply."
Akio speaks with a pained expression while there is a smile on his face.
'Damn! That's almost 915,000 Ryo or 915 system points.'
Mm…
Fugaku nods in satisfaction and walks out of the room to fork the money, leaving Akio and the other Uchiha alone.
"Kid! Your temperament is quite good. I am impressed you regained your composure so quickly."
The Uchiha clansman praises Akio.
Ah!
Akio raises his head and stares at the Uchiha member.
He has short, unkempt hairs, dark black eyes, black hairs, a broad nose, and well-defined eyelashes which turn upwards at the end. There are small tear marks around his eyes. The tear marks aren't as prominent as Fugaku.
Akio is stunned to see the face of the Uchiha member since it's quite familiar to him.
"I am Yagami Uchiha. What's your name kid?"
"Uchiha who?!"