Guests

Everyone went back to their homes, Kaliya got herself a decently sized house near Madara's manor.

This was a sleepless night for Madara, honestly, he never thought about these complicated human bonds before, he didn't really have friends in his previous life because of his circumstances.

Hell, he couldn't even trust people, it was just that lonely and hard for him, so now that he is finally free from all the calamities and finally opens himself up to accept others in his life… he has to face the reality of humanity… mortality… everything has it's time, just like the world and even the avatar cycle itself… humanity follows the cycle of the four elements of Earth, Fire, Air, and Water… Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, and even he wasn't different; it's just that the seasons of his life lasted longer.

'I wonder if everyone has multiple lifetimes... or is that exclusively an Avatar perk…'

He spent his night meditating and trying to get rid of his worries and anxiety, not that it helped much but at least one can try.

The next morning all the employees of the Resort, the maids, the workers, the guards, and the other specialized employees such as gardeners, herbalists, and such gathered together in front of the main Resort building, on a huge square that managed to accommodate everyone.

Lei walked in front of everyone on top of a small wooden platform, that was placed there earlier for today's purpose and turned to the crowd.

"Good morning, everyone, today is an important day for all of us, for the past three years you all have been working under the new owner of this place, but because of circumstances none of you could see or interact with him before, so I gathered you all here today to make proper introductions."

Everyone just nodded, it wasn't any exciting event or anything like that, so they were just very calm and chill about it.

Madara took his time to walk up to the platform and turned to the crowd, who at this point was rather shocked… is this kid our new employer? How the hell did he buy this place?!

"My name is Madara Uchiha, and I'm the new owner of this place… I know that many of you might see me as a kid and to be honest, you are not that wrong, I'm barely 16 years old."

Many murmurs could be heard.

Madara smirked "But I like to think of myself as a genius when it comes to investments, I managed to buy this place when I was only 13, that means something," he chuckled and some people in the crowd followed, "But my goal is not to just keep running this place like always, I have plans to increase our wealth, to increase the value of this place… and to make every single nation want to come here just for the sake of giving us their money!" A cunning grin appeared on his face.

"For the next six months I will be investing in this place, new buildings will be built, new things will be taught, and many new products will be created… if everything goes as I plan...." he stared at everyone that stared back at him "This day next year you all will receive a 50% increase in your wages."

At first, everyone was shocked, then suspicious… but looking at the confident expression on Madara's face and considering that he managed to earn enough money to buy this place at the age of 13… they started shouting and yelling.

"WE WILL DO OUR BEST SIR!"

After the gathering, everyone spread to do their job with renewed energy and focus, and Madara joined Nari, Lei and Kaliya.

"Mr. Uchiha, what kind of plans do you have?" asked Nari, she was a very smart person, enough to even be considered a genius, but she couldn't figure out Madara's plans.

Madara just chuckled and gave her a mysterious grin "Bring me all the herbalists we have around, also go fetch some good architects to build fancy new buildings, we will also need some experts that work with wood, I'm not talking about regular woodworkers, I'm talking about people who can finely carve wooden instruments…. We will talk in the evening."

Madara was about to leave but he stopped "Kaliya come with me, I shall impart to you some things."

She already had a clue about what it was and followed him while the couple stared at one another with conflicted smiles and went to do their own things.

For the rest of the day Madara taught Kaliya the method of opening her chakras, he also recommended she find a very calm and serene place to open them, a place that made her comfortable, to make it easier to meditate.

When evening arrived Lei and Nari brought a group of workers to the Uchiha Manor and they were granted entrance instantly, once they reached the living room Madara was already waiting for them while reviewing a small pile of papers.

"Sit," he said softly, everyone nodded and followed.

He passed the papers to Nari first, not that he didn't trust Lei, no sir! He trusted Lei with his life at this point, but Nari had more talent for business while Lei had more talent for administration.

"These are…?" she saw certain drawings and after she finished reading everything her eyes almost went out of her eye sockets.

"Do you want to turn… this resort… into a Gambling Den?!" She was shocked.

Everyone was shocked too by her words.

Madara chuckled "No, this won't be a gambling den, dens are for low lives, the bottom of society, and the everyday worker; this place will target the rich! I will turn this place into a Gambling Resort."

One of the workers wasn't happy "You plan on bringing chicken fights and arena battles to our fine establishment?!"

Madara just laughed "Of course not, High Society patrons deserve a High Society level of gambling games."

He spent the next four hours explaining the basic games that he 'created' and would be bringing to this place, everyone was shocked and excited about the ideas, the possibilities of such an endeavor would be endless! THE PROFIT WOULD BE UNHEARD OF!

While everyone was discussing ideas with one another excitedly Madara smirked 'Heh.. I will turn this spa resort into fucking Las Vegas!'

"Mr. Uchiha," Nari was very impressed and actually excited about it, but then she looked at the last couple sheets of paper and those were completely unrelated to gambling or new buildings. "What about these?"

Madara looked at the paper she was holding and nodded "These will be the first of our new unique products and the reason I wanted you to bring the herbalists here," he turned to the three old men dressed into long fancy robes "I want you to research herbs used for meditation or others with similar properties, I want your whole focus on this for the next three months."

When they saw the paper, they raised their eyebrows "You want to create a herbal concoction that will be used for inhaling?"

Madara then proceeded to explain the concept of trying to create something similar to tobacco to these old men, who were actually surprised by such a groundbreaking idea… such a product, if done well, could find its way into any rich man's house, not only that... it was a consumable, so they would constantly have a flow of customers for the foreseeable future, it's completely different from making massage oils and resort related products that were only used for limited activities!

"But, what about this pipe, Mr. Uchiha?" asked one of them.

"It doesn't only matter how good our customers will feel after smoking our new product… High Society people want more than just feeling good, they want to display status, they want to display wealth… and to do so… our product will need something fancy that will give them exactly that, this little pipe is what I call… Kiseru… and I want it to be crafted from simple materials to expensive fancy ones!"

For the next three months, the builders, herbalists, and other workers did their new jobs with full focus, these new ideas were revolutionary to them, gambling dens were very common but this level and scale of gambling were never done before, they knew how much the rich and powerful liked to spend, to display wealth and power, so it was obvious that this idea would be more than successful, it would start a whole new era of business.

A new building could be seen from the distance on top of a platform in the middle of the river, a bit further from the resort but still connected by a fancy bridge, fancier than any other bridge in this place.

It was a fancy pagoda-like tower with red roofs and delicate carvings, it had seven floors and many different rooms built, some private rooms for private games, it was name Koei Tower (Lonely Tower). Madara would bring smoking and gambling to this world, but not prostitution, not only would the backlash be too annoying for him… he couldn't bring himself to do it, he was no white knight to prevent others from doing it, in fact, he didn't even care if others did it because he was sure others already did, but he didn't want that weighing on his conscience.

Everything was going according to plan and he was very satisfied, all the gambling games and tools that would be used inside the casino would be made out of fancy carved wood, platinum metal wasn't invented yet and Toph will come up with metal bending in a couple of years and spread the knowledge, so he won't be using regular metals, wood was the one thing that he never heard of anyone being able to bend in canon.

As Madara was in his study writing another book that had some things he learned from the Library, he was trying to build his own library to pass to his descendants, he heard a knock on his door.

"Mr. Uchiha?"

"Oh, Jackie? Come on in!" he said with a smile.

Lei entered his study to see piles of books spread through every corner, he raised an eyebrow but ignore the sarcastic comment he was about to say and went straight to the point.

"We spotted a lonely Fire Nation ship coming towards our docks, Mr. Uchiha, they must've already docked it by now…. And as you asked I'm here to let you know if such an event ever came to pass… to be honest, it's scary how you can see the future like this."

Madara raised an eyebrow but then grinned "It's not really hard to predict certain events, Jackie, it's not like I can see the future or anything, but I can calculate certain possibilities based on the knowledge I already have." he said while closing his half-written book and standing up. "Let's go, I want to meet our guests"

They walked all the way to the inn area of the resort, when they arrived by the door, they heard an angry youthful male voice shouting.

"We have no time to spend in this place, Uncle! We still have most of the Earth Kingdom to scout!"

"Ahhh, don't be like that, can't you let this old man enjoy some comfort in his retirement once in a while?" answered an old male voice with a bit of mischievousness.

BAM, the sound of a fist colliding against a table echoed.

'If you broke my furniture, I will rip one of your arms off and shove it up your ass, royalty or not… don't you dare break my stuff! These things are hella expensive you brat!'

Madara thought as he accelerated his steps and opened the door, entering the inn's main room, and spotting an old man with a relaxed expression drinking tea like he had no worries in this world, and an angsty teen standing up with his fist collided against a fancy wooden table.

Madara's eyebrow twitched "You better not have broken that… or you will have to learn how to live without an arm."

The teen had a half-burned face and a bald head, except for a high ponytail, and he wore typical Fire Nation robes, he wasn't wearing any armor right now.

The old man on the other hand had a very known face and armor.

Hearing the person that just arrived the duo looked towards the door to spot Madara in his fancy black palace robes.

"And who are you? Do you have any idea who you are talking to?" Asked the teen while igniting a small fire in his hand.

Madara just snorted and replied "A dead prince if he keeps talking and behaving like that in my establishment." He snapped his finger and the flame was extinguished, making both the teen and the old man shocked.

Madara then turned to the old man and gave him a welcoming smile "It's an honor to finally meet you, Iroh, also known as the finest tea expert in all four nations and also a very good Pai Sho player."

The old man that was sitting down enjoying his tea chuckled at Madara's antics and replied "You are the first one to not call me General or Dragon of the West."

Madara just chuckled in return "Oh yeah… you are also known by those titles… i completely forgot."

Iroh stared at Madara for a few seconds before starting to laugh, Madara followed and laughed too.

At this point, both Zuko and Lei were just staring at the two laughing people with a weirded out expression 'What the fuck?'