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Another two months passed.

I received quite a lot of money from writing books.

There are no wars or major fighting in ninja world for some years. Even the damage from first war was not that great. It was just one man show because Uchiha Madara overpowered the whole ninja world by himself. So, economy is quite good and people's lives have become more prosperous. Number of ninjas are way too much than the previous period. All these could be the major reason for high sales.

Majority of people still don't know who wrote the book because I used pen-name as author. So, many people still thinks that i am poor. I think high elders in village should have my information because after all this is a ninja village. And basics of any ninja is gathering information.

I was sitting as usual on my stall. Although i don't need this small extra money anymore. But It became a habit of mine and also it is great way to relax and socialize with new people. 

I have reduced number of opening hours for business and increased time for meditation. Because after one year, I can feel that my mental power hasn't stopped growing. So, I am anticipating, may be this power could become turning point to make me powerful.

Although I didn't fought with anyone but I am pretty sure that I have become immune to most of the genjutsu(illusion)-users. Even when I fought during my time in academy, I didn't have any problem when other students used illusion during mock battle.

Other thing is, now I can almost predict every action taken by Jiraya during our mock fight. But I still lose because my body don't react as fast.

Nowadays, I can sense inside of my body. It just feels like X-ray or ultrasound. So, I try to see inside my body what changes takes place when I am in meditation. But so far, I couldn't find anything. Maybe I need stronger spiritual power to observe my brain at micro-level.

But this ability to sense my body part is very helpful in exercising. Because I can know when to stop so that I don't damage my body by doing over-exercising. I don't wanna carried away to hospital like last time.

May be this is why all monks and priest do meditation. Because I don't believe that people could pray to god all day when they don't feel tangible benefit.

I have doubt that why this method of meditation is not know to ninja world. But if you think deeper that it is justified. I started meditation at 3 year old and finally I found some improvement in mental power at 8. It took 6 full years for me to just feel very tiny improvement in mental power. So, from ninja perspective, I wasted a lot of time not refining chakra, practicing ninjutsu, taijutsu or doing task.

In a way, there is no significant benefit and time invested is way more. For ninjas it is not worth it. So, may be high level elders of ninja village know that meditation helps but they are reluctant to waste time in it when average life expectancy of ninjas is 15-18 years.

But, for me this meditation is new hope. I who have seen a lot fantasy novel knows that stronger mental power could help you become magician or prevent memory snooping, clairvoyance or may be other weird stuff.

Another ordinary day, I was working on painting of some lady customer. Then i heard a voice "Hey, I hear, You become quite rich".

I looked up, it was Tsunade. I was surprised because neither orochimaru or tsunade ever talked to me on their own. It was the first time ever she made the first conversation.

I was quite pleased that I made breakthrough in our relationship.

But then, after hearing what Tsunade said, I felt a little proud. Although, my expression never changed like a dead fish. I straighten my back a little. At my age, I could simply issue around 20 S-Class ninja mission. So, you could imagine my wealth.

"Have you prepared, your will or guarantor who will inherit it in case something happened to you" she asked again.

I thought i heard it wrong. I don't think our friendship reached the point where we could curse each other or make satirical dialogue. Then, I looked again. From her expression, I felt she was talking very seriously.

"Oh, why?" I asked a little concerned.

"Some people could get benefit after you die. Like your publisher or other people by manipulating you" she snorted. Her expression was like 'how could you still not understand'.

Then i realized. Although now my wealth still not very high but after a year or two, it will only increase when more books are sold. And if i die, publisher don't have to pay me anymore. One more thing, if i die my property could directly be seized by ninja village elders.

Then, I realized that i could very well be assassinated by the village i live in.

She looked up to me. She thought i understood her meaning. She said " think about it" and turned left my stall.

I looked at her back. I realized, people from great families are really different. She is only 7 year old. How high her political vision is at this age. No wonder, she was considered very good hokage by later generation except her gambling habits. Very few people were dissatisfied with her during her hokage period.

To be continued....