Chapter 43 - 43 (1/2)
In the Yamanaka household, Ryo and Inoichi discussed the Healing Stone. Inoichi, being the head of his family, he should be dumb to not realize the great benefit that this idea could bring.
Among the 3 clans of the Ino-Shika-Cho alliance, the Nara's are in charge of maintaining the normal operation of Konoha's Pharmaceutical System. This means that they are mainly in charge of providing medical herbs inside Konoha.
The income that they get from that is enormous. In the Manga, that's why they use their pills as they like.
The Akimichi's secret pills are the origin of soldier food pills. Therefore, all soldier food pill sales contribute to the Akimichi's income.
Only the Yamanaka's have no specialty business and no share in income of any supplies. Most of the clan's expenses are covered by the rewards that its members get for mission.
This Stone that Ryo came up with made Inoichi see a bright opportunity for the tribe to improve their living conditions. He approved Ryo's idea and encouraged him to carry on.
A few days later, Ryo and Inoichi were summoned by the 3rd.
In his office, the Hokage and Jiraya were waiting for the two to arrive. The latter delivered a report to the 3rd the previous day mentioning Ryo's experiments with the healing stones.
The Hokage understood well the value of such a stone to the village. This will actually give Konoha a huge edge in the upcoming war, and increase its Ninja's survival rates greatly.
The two Yamanaka's, Ryo and Inoichi arrived at the office. The 3rd went straight to the point and asked: ”Ryo, could these stones be mass-produced?”
Ryo shook his head. Even though he didn't even give himself time to sleep, he couldn't make many stones. So the 3rd asked him:
”Then, how many can we make per day?”
”A maximum of 30 a day.” Ryo answered him after giving it some thought.
The 3rd nodded and Jiraya said that his own estimate was not so different. Judging from Jiraya's report, the Sand has internal problems currently and they shouldn't be able to go to war anytime soon.
With the pace of 30 stones a day, there will be plenty of reserves for Konoha before the war starts. This made the 3rd very satistfied.
”Inoichi, I think you also understand that this kind of stone should have a great significance to the village and to the Yamanaka's. As the head of your clan, tell us how you think things should go?”
”Hokage sama, the village is responsible of helping our clan in buying jade. And out of each sale of a Healing Stone, 30% of the revenue should go to the village.” Selling the stones should be under the Yamanaka's control, Inoichi knew that well.
After that, the two went on for quite some bargaining. Finally, they settled on making the village buy the Jade, and on giving it 40% of the income in return.
The two sides were very satisfied with this result; and Ryo's mission in the hospital was put to a halt: Making the stones was his new mission, one that's considered B-Rank.
A bit more than a month later, Ryo was making the stones in the 3rd training ground when Yugao entered through the door under Kakashi's guidance.
Yugao's performance in Kenjutsu wasn't comparable to that of the super talented Kakashi, but it was still great compared to most people.
However, Kakashi discovered a lot of her basic flaws after spending over a month teaching her. Sakumo pointed out before that his son never puts his heart into anything unless he sees how serious the problem is. Now, Kakashi was no longer so repellent to teaching Yugao.
Ryo asked him: ”Kakashi, do you want to go to the academy today?”
”The academy? Why?” Kakashi asked Ryo.
”Rin and Obito are graduating today, didn't you know?”
Kakashi shook his head. Actually, even Ryo didn't know about the graduation. But just a moment ago, while he was making a stone, Ryo perceived it with his Sage mode.
”Wanna go see them?” Kakashi asked.