Sage training progressed smoothly.
After leaving Mount Myōboku, Uchiha Soren continued refining sage chakra in the outside world, carefully feeling out the nuances between it and normal chakra.
Time passed.
Three years later, the shinobi world had completely transformed.
The great daimyō mansions of every nation were overtaken by shinobi forces.
After a brief period of resistance, the daimyō who refused to accept the new era… were crushed beneath its wheels.
With military and political authority unified, shinobi became the true rulers of every country.
Each nation copied Konoha's policies.
Ordinary people began training as shinobi in enormous numbers—and they soon revolutionized every industry.
The clearest example was agriculture.
A new series of basic agricultural ninjutsu, so simple that even a genin-level laborer could perform them, replaced traditional farming completely:
Turning soil → Earth-Style Agricultural JutsuIrrigation → Water-Style Agricultural JutsuHarvesting → Wind-Style Crop CutterEven the least talented individuals, strengthened by chakra, could now complete tasks easily.
Huge amounts of farmland were freed from reliance on manpower.
The vast, sparsely populated continent now bloomed with large-scale agriculture—and a massive baby boom soon followed.
Agricultural prosperity triggered secondary explosions in:
• Commerce• Construction
New wide roads built with Earth Release connected every country to Konoha.
Trade points sprang up, supported by policy, and new market towns appeared like mushrooms after rain.
All nations grew—
but Konoha exploded.
Every day, waves of new settlers poured in.
Specialists from every field followed.
Resident population surpassed 700,000.
The old "core/center/outer" zones merged into First Ring, Second Ring, Third Ring districts.
First Ring: Uchiha + Senju clan groundsSecond Ring: Border at the City Management DepartmentThird Ring: The former Konoha main gate
Beyond the Third Ring lay the Outer City, housing over 70% of Konoha's population, expanding outward in a fan shape.
Outer District One, Two already built; a Third Outer District capable of housing 500,000 was under construction.
Konoha's Government Reforms Under Soren
All departments reshaped according to Soren's plan.
Military Affairs Department
Deputy Ministers: Uchiha Shihō, Uzumaki Mito
An internal Strategy Unit was added—Captain: Nara Shikumaru (restored to health), five members total.
Konoha Security Bureau (Police)
Director: Uchiha Jiruri
Deputy Director: Sarutobi Sasuke
Four squads originally intended for the Black Horn Domain were kept in Konoha and expanded.
Two new bureaus were established in Outer Districts One and Two—led respectively by the Hyūga Clan and the Aburame Clan.
Each bureau consisted of four squads.
A third bureau for Outer District Three was planned under the Inuzuka Clan.
City Management Department (Lower Administrative Level)
Main District Chief: Sarutobi Biwako
Expanded from 4 squads → 8 squads
Outer District One & Two — each had 12 squads, led by the Yamanaka and Akimichi clans.
Outer District Three — reserved for the Inuzuka.
Secretariat → Upgraded to the Secretariat Ministry
Minister: Uzumaki Minako
Two bureaus under it:
Finance Bureau — Director: GenkaoriPublic Welfare Bureau — Director: Uzumaki Minako (double role)
The original 10 administrative clerks were absorbed and expanded into 40 staff members.
The Hokage Tower expanded from 3 floors to 6.
Education Ministry
Explosive growth over three years.
The two former "Junior/High Shinobi Schools" were reorganized into High Division Shinobi Academies.A large cohort of elite genin (like Might Dai and Hatake Sakumo) who had never attended were retrained.Junior Shinobi Schools expanded massively—from the Second Ring all the way to Outer City Three.
Only the three High Division schools remained clan-run: Uchiha, Hyūga, Senju.
Former academy head Uchiha Shana was succeeded by Uchiha Hikaru.
The East/West Junior School principals, who worked tirelessly to recruit teachers and form the foundation of the Shinobi Science Academy, were promoted to Minister and Deputy Minister of Education.
Thus, Konoha's full governmental framework formed:
• Hokage (top)• Three Ministries:Military AffairsSecretariatEducation• Bureau level:Security BureauPublic Welfare BureauFinance BureauHigh Shinobi AcademiesScience Academy• Department level:City Management DepartmentJunior Shinobi Schools
"Hokage-sama, current figures…"
Uzumaki Minako stood at Soren's side in the Hokage Office, reporting smoothly.
"There are now 80,000 civil shinobi and 3,000 combat shinobi.
Most combat shinobi are stationed in the Black Horn Domain."
Any genin-level shinobi could become a civil shinobi.
Junior schools loosened graduation rules—adult students who mastered basic life-support ninjutsu graduated early.
Combat shinobi required chūnin-level skill (including medical-nin).
Minako wore a razor-sharp professional suit—
a black open-front blazer over a white shirt tucked into a black pencil skirt; black stockings wrapping her long, toned legs, heels tapping lightly on the floor.
Her radiant red hair spilled down her back, lit by the morning sun. Her blue eyes shimmered with seductive intelligence—
a look that made Soren remember many… activities in this office.
Beside her stood Genkaori, no less stunning after three years of growth.
Delicate, elegant, wearing a white qipao embroidered with pale-blue lotus flowers, high jade hairpins, red earrings, and white stockings peeking from beneath the swinging skirt.
Soren admired her slender waist, long legs, and petite feet in black boots.
The memory of those smooth stockings pressing against him still lingered.
This was only a shadow clone listening.
Soren's real body stood with Jiruri on the Third Ring teleportation platform.
The Teleportation Network
"Energy for the teleportation gate to Moon Shinobi Village's capital—Crescent Island—has fully charged!
All ticket holders, please queue!
Late arrivals must wait for the next charge cycle!"
The station—a structure like a modern railway hub—buzzed with activity.
Soren held Jiruri's hand and stepped onto the boarding platform with the crowd.
Ahead, beneath a large canopy, a glowing blue teleportation array shone—the crescent-shaped sigil marking the destination.
In three years, Konoha had successfully created the artificial tailed beast Zero-Tails.
Stored in the Second Ring Science Academy, it constantly absorbed human negative emotions, converting them into chakra—fueling teleportation arrays across the continent.
But even Zero-Tails wasn't infinite.
True tailed beasts could be drained dry; Zero-Tails was far weaker.
Long-distance teleportation arrays consumed massive chakra and took half a day to recharge.
Domestic teleporters cycled every 30 minutes.
Nine arrays radiated from Konoha like spokes, allowing the village to maintain iron control over its territory—
dispatching combat shinobi instantly to crush troublemakers—
And letting the wealthy travel everywhere, pumping vast streams of money into Konoha's economy, accelerating its growth in an endless cycle of prosperity.
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