Chapter 71: Havel Construction Company

Silence ensued as Itachi finished.

Sasuke sobbed in front of his brother inside the earth dome that Hikaru created.

While he lived in luxury, his elder brother was suffering. He had to keep his Mangekyou Sharingan activated just to see almost normally because of his eyes deteriorating to the point of blindness. His brother was forced to be a criminal and ridiculed by the very people he was protecting. Unforgivable! He is a hero that no one deserved! Yet… he was the hero we all needed.

Pak!

Sasuke held his cheek as he felt a stingy pain from it, Itachi had slapped him.

"I can understand your hatred but don't direct it to other people. Danzo and the elders are the ones needed to be killed, along with Uchiha Madara. They are the ones that truly need your hatred." Itachi said seriously.

Sasuke looked down and silently said, "I know, but those people, they all sneered at you and hated you. Why can't I hate them back?"

"That's because it would create even more hatred. But Danzo, the elders, and Madara are the ones directing the circle of hatred. Remember this well, Sasuke. Hatred will only create more hatred, and the circle of hatred would continue to spin unless someone stops it." Itachi explained in a serious manner.

Sasuke knew his brother was right, if he continues this way, he will be amongst the ones who are spinning the circle of hatred. Hatred is a very powerful emotion, he had known from a very young age. It could make you misguided and everyone around you will be hurt.

But for now, it doesn't matter to him. If his own brother says so, then he must be right.

He smiled at his brother and with his eyes full of tenderness, he said, "I understand, Nii-san."

(With Hikaru)

Ever since he came back, Azumi hasn't let go of him. She kept holding on his left arm, like a lovesick girl. Well, she is anyway.

From time to time, she would just adore his face and sometimes, she would smell his scent until she got tired of it, which never came. But even after all this, Hikaru wasn't grossed out of Azumi. No, far from it. Like Azumi, he's also lovesick. He loves her far too much to be grossed out of her.

After leaving the two brothers alone, Hikaru took out the Ring of Favor and Protection and gave it to Azumi. He warned her to never take it off or it will break permanently. In the system, Rings from the shop can be enhanced as long as you have souls. The maximum level for enhancing rings is 10. This ring that he gave her has already been upgraded to the max level. It has 90% Health Boost, 80% Stamina boost, and 70% Strength boost. She's basically two times stronger than before, and even she could see that.

As soon as she put on the ring, she felt a sudden increase to her chakra, vitality, and stamina. When she explained to Hikaru what happened, he was quite surprised that it could also increase her chakra. Must be another effect of the ring he doesn't know off.

But that's not all, her chakra control seems to have been boosted too.

It seems like giving this ring to her was the right choice after all.

Meanwhile, Sakura was quite jealous of Azumi. That beautiful ring, even she could see that that ring was made from expensive materials. And she noticed as soon as Azumi put on the ring, the increase of her chakra was felt by everyone near them. She was utterly jealous.

(Time Skip)

It's been a few days and they've already arrived at their destination. After making up with his brother, Sasuke decided to have some bonding time with his elder brother.

Azumi and Hikaru, though, f*cked like rabbits over these past few days. It's been long time since Hikaru had sex along with Azumi and they couldn't help themselves this time.

The second phase of the exams has yet to start, it was said that it will start in 3 weeks. So they have a lot of time to "bond" with each other.

Sakura, on the other hand, was left out by her team. She tried asking her Sasuke-kun to stay with her but he just told her to shut up and left with his brother. For these past few days, she's just been staying in an inn, not doing anything. She thought that she might go crazy, so she decided to go out and eat outside.

Since the financial status of Konoha has been fixed by Hikaru's golds, every citizen was able to live comfortably. The amount of money that the gold brought to the village could last them for about a decade. Unless something bad happens, they wouldn't run out of money anytime soon. Right?

Sunagakure was able to rise from their fallen financial stability by doing something only unique to them. Glass Making.

By gathering large amounts of sand and turning it into glass, they were able to sell them all rather quickly since the demand for it was huge. Normally, no one would use glass windows or anything of that kind. But one construction company had been buying all of their glass, giving them a huge amount of money. Every month, they would make billions of ryo from just selling all of their glass to this famous company.

The name of that company was The Havel Construction Company. Their logo is some kind of large pointy object, which they like to call a Dragon's Tooth.

Well, their name or logo doesn't matter as long as they could make profits.

With Gaara's help, they were able to gather large amounts of sand. While his father, the Kazekage, has been busy making gold sand for golden windows. It seems like some nobles from the capital liked that kind of expensive thing.

And from what they've seen, the houses and buildings made by this company were all beautiful art works. The Head of that company was someone named Kimimaro Kaguya. It was said that all employees of that company were shinobis, that's why they were able to efficiently create houses that were beautiful.

Also, with all the supplies of their sand, they were able to recently establish a trade with that company. Not only could they create glass with their sand, they were also able to create concrete and such, which turned out to be one of their greatest profits. But with all this god's grace happening to them, other people have also targeted their sand. So, they've sent out many shinobis to guard the desert but, recently, this turned into a big problem.

They were all stealing sand that's in their land, but they soon found out that the one who sent them was the Wind Daimyo himself. Even though they knew that glass making was also the main income of the Wind Capital, the Kazekage couldn't believe that someone was strong enough to threaten the Wind Daimyo to just give up on their land.

But the Daimyo was persistent and tried stealing sand from the land. The capital of the Land of Wind was going through a huge loss of finance and after a while, the Nobles themselves turned to begging other nobles for money. Since only a huge amount of Nobles only live in the capital, they've never been exposed to hunger in their lives. The Nobles were all arrogant enough to think that their wealth would last forever. But now, they are all living in poverty.

That's right. All of this was because of Hikaru. He has established dozens of companies across the entire elemental nation, and the Havel Construction Company was made to help Sunagakure. That same company turned huge after a while after he introduced new ways of making houses and buildings, I.e modern buildings.

He met Kimimaro coincidentally after a year had passed back then and he decided to accompany him for a while. After a month or so, Hikaru finally decided on what company he should make and decided to let Kimimaro handle it. Since he encountered many shinobi bandits, he made some of them his slaves and made them work their ass off in the company as their punishment.

To help Suna even further, Hikaru decided to threaten the Wind Daimyo, which worked. But he, too, noticed that their movements had been suspicious lately. But if the Wind Daimyo refuses to his commands, Hikaru would then be forced to kill him as an example and put on a puppet in place as the Wind Daimyo. They are all easy to replace, Daimyo's are nothing but tools for Hikaru to use anyway.

He has also planted countless spies across every village in the elemental nation. He may not be omnipotent, but his eyes and ears are everywhere. No one can escape him, even if they try to run to the end of the world.

(Time Skip)

For 4 weeks, he and Azumi have been spending a lot of time with each other. That time may be short but it was the best he could ever ask for. A year from now, he would return to Konoha and live with Azumi for a while. After that, it's going to be time to battle the Olden God.

He was sad, but he and Azumi had to part ways since his journey is still not finished yet. They only stopped in Sunagakure for sometime for other reasons. Itachi also followed Hikaru and sadly left Sasuke but their journey was still not finished, he felt that if he followed Hikaru, he might be able to see the hidden wonders of this world.

With one last parting words to their loved ones, Hikaru and Itachi left to go on their adventure.

But before that, he has a Daimyo to kill.