Chapter 25: The Effects of Gato

Disclaimer: Naruto is the work of Kishimoto

Two more days passed and Sakura had proven how small her Chakra Reserves were mastering Tree-Climbing almost immediately. Naruto couldn't help but to roll his eyes at Kakashi sending her off to 'Guard' Tazuna to be lazy in not training her.

Not that he disagree with it at all but…

He had to send Shadow Clones to reassure Tazuna of his protection at least. And seeing that his rant apparently was more effective in proving how useless Sakura was to Tazuna, Shadow Clones wasn't going to cut it and he had to protect Tazuna muting the point that Sakura had to protect him leaving Naruto being on guard duty while Sakura slacks off and swoons at Sasuke.

Not that he needed it, since Naruto took Sasuke aside he was already starting on Tree-Climbing and was decently there already with some of Naruto's tips and hints. A bit more and Sasuke could actually be pretty good at Chakra Compression by the end of the week.

But currently Naruto needed to guard Tazuna…which meant putting up with his talking.

"So we're going to buy some grocery for my super-family. Make sure to protect the super-me" Tazuna said.

"Yep."

"The country is super-poor thanks to Gato and his goons stealing everything they like" Tazuna continued.

"Yeah."

"Plus they are super-violent and beat people up all the super-time."

"Good for them."

"So make sure that you super-brat don't go all hero like since Gato will send an army down on everyone if you do."

"Okay."

"But you have to make super-sure that I'm protected and if you super-want I can look away as you defend the innocent."

"Might as well."

Right now the original Naruto was quite bored since he had a good two dozen Shadow Clones scouting out the area around him.

He already knew where to guide Tazuna so he wouldn't meet any of Gato's men; not that he did in the first loop here. There were a total of 8 mercenaries that were terrorising the town which was a surprisingly low numbered compared to what Naruto expected.

He had already sent Shadow Clones to follow them to where Gato's base was. If he managed to take out Gato, then there would be a lot less headaches later on.

Plus right now he had little intentions of having a conversation with Tazuna on how badly Gato screwed them all over since Sakura did that last time and from what he saw, Tazuna was actually the most well off person in Wave after Gato…aside from the emotional damage he caused the family of course.

That would explain why the man would want to build a bridge for his country since he was the only one who had money to do so and he had that money since Gato made an example of his family already.

It was at that moment that Naruto felt someone trying to grab one of his pouches and scrolls that were hanging behind him.

'Too obvious and you did this to Sakura as well which means you really suck a lot in thieving' Naruto thought summoning a Shadow Clone quickly behind the man who was about to steal from him.

"Too slow" the Shadow Clone commented with a Kunai to the next of the perpetrator.

Both the original Naruto and the shocked Tazuna turned to the highly frightened man who froze at the risk of death.

"Wah…how…what?" the man stuttered out. It looked like he wasn't familiar with ninjas…like most of the civilians.

Basically rule number one for civilians in regarding ninjas. Don't piss them off or try to threaten them. Right now, Naruto was quite pissed that a person like this homeless guy tried to rob him and was considering killing him…

Except he was a civilian.

Ninjas don't kill civilians unless they had to. It was one of the laws that most Shinobi followed, except for the rule-breakers and bloodthirsty ones. Because of this he couldn't actually threaten the man with death…though he didn't need to know that.

Naruto despite being next to Tazuna heard the words his Shadow Clone whispered using his Chakra Enhancement on his ears.

"Never try to rob a ninja…you will not make a racket about this or tell Gato…not that you would anyway" the Shadow Clone whispered.

Naruto knew that this was a bit too harsh for a man who just wanted someone to eat by the end of the day…or week judging by his appearance.

As such, the man was literally let off with a light slap unlike with Sakura who injured the man intentionally when she thought he was groping her.

Well Naruto was a lot more understanding than Sakura. A man needed to eat after all, he knew what it felt like to starve…literally.

And without another word, Naruto guarded Tazuna who was still freaked out on how easily Naruto could kill a man if he wished.

Even after looking at it for a second time, the situation in wave was quite bad. Gato did a very good job in breaking the country into pieces from what it used to be in mere years. Before Gato, the Country of Wave seemed to be a small but balanced country with good trade for the larger countries.

Now, it was a broken place with a broken economic, broken people and broken land.

You see, due to the fact that Mizu is still in civil war, most water trade routes were damaged and made mote to be. With two major Nations, Fire and Lightning as well as the Lands of River and Frost cutting off any and all contact with the bloodied Nation; Mizu had no reason to trade with them.

Especially when many of their people wanted out and they didn't want to let go.

As such most of the water trade routes to that side of the world was cut off rather quickly resulting in one Country of Wave taking claim to some of the benefits.

Whatever was left of the water trade route was sucked up into the Wave Country making it wealthy but at the same time the Country unfortunately didn't have a military.

It was surprising to Naruto on that how the country wasn't placed under the control of another before Gato.

Need to be, Gato was the first to notice this with his own organisation specialising in water trade routes and he quickly took over the country using violence, death and choking the economy into countless pieces. No, that wasn't all that Gato did to the country.

Gato made Wave his centre of power. The centre of his new Empire.

To some parts of the Country, Gato had stored away many supplies, supplies that Naruto's clones eventually found out about. Lots and lots of different supplies from common to rare to outright illegal to own.

Of course Gato took the farmlands that Wave had and slowly continued to build up his Empire's food supply before he had his big move. Next Gato modified and created many other different types of farms…the types that grow illegal plants that would sell a LOT of money in the right places.

But as a result, the flumes and waste that came with processing such illegal materials made part of the water in the Wave Country to be poisonous else had certain effects similar to taking the drug itself over a long period of time. Most of the Wave Country was actually suffering from withdrawals thanks to this.

Yeah, that was one unintentional way Gato managed to screw over Wave.

Gato of course making this country his main base moved his headquarters here as well. It was a small fortress on the opposite side of the country away from the town and not only housed his men but also his ships as well.

There were easily three dozen small boats, a dozen medium ships and three large ships for all kinds of transport and cargo.

Despite everything, Gato actually knew how to manage his empire and made it so he was the sole powerhouse in Water Trading and the fact that he now held the monopoly of that in Wave meant he kept the people of Wave from ever escaping…until now.

Then there were the many mercenaries that Gato hired in order to keep his empire stable…as stable as you could with most of your employees the lowest scum most people have seen.

Naruto had to admit that Gato was pretty ingenious to manage to hire several groups that were on bad terms to each other and made them keep an eye out for traitors in the other camp.

Plus it did help Gato a fair bit that said mercenaries would often terrorise the town on their own even without his orders. That kept the spirits of the people down a lot, though it didn't ever pummel more than that Kaizo guy was executed in front of everyone for standing up for himself and others.

Because of all of this, Gato was a major powerhouse in Wave with enough minions from mercenaries to missing-nin that would take more than a few Jonins to get rid of his operations, the people of Wave were kicked down and depressed through various reasons including being beaten, robbed and even suffering from withdrawals due to Gato and finally because their lives sucked and they suffered a lot even without trying.

Gods know what Gato does for those who actually dare oppose him.

There was a good reason that Tazuna hired a team to protect him despite having to lie about it due to the high costs that he could not cover. If he didn't, Tazuna was a dead man along with his family and the rest of Wave.

Naruto groaned at the metaphorical and literal pitfall that Tazuna was in right now. Even if he did complete the bridge, with Gato still alive and working against him, said bridge would eventually be destroyed and things would be even worse for Wave.

Gato really needed to die.

Unfortunately Kakashi was needed against Zabuza and both he and Haku would be in that headquarters that Gato set up with the former recovering.

That meant that in order to end this before said battle between two A-rank elite Ninjas battle it out, he needed to sneak into what seemed to be a fortress guarded by many people including some missing-nin up to the strength of Zabuza and kill a man that was smart enough to nearly break a country and reforge it into his empire.

Yeah, that task was practically impossible for Naruto right now.

Unlike back in Konoha, this would be a LOT more difficult if he even tried. First point was that Naruto did not know the exact layout of the fortress Gato was living in, second point was that he did not know the strength of the enemy and third was that the enemy would rather go out and kill him rather than capture which admittedly made escaping ANBU a lot easier since they specialise more in killing than capturing.

All of this means there is a low chance of actually taking out Gato and Naruto did not want to exploit his Loops to find out if he could. It was much easier to just draw Gato out than to come to him to assassinate him.

And to do that, he would need to master those moves Kakashi taught him in the First Loop at Wave.

Breathing in and out, Naruto concentrated on processing the memories from his Shadow Clones.

He had found that to most effectively gain the experience from them, he should fully concentrate on recalling the memory and feeling that came with it.

However even with this, it didn't compare to first-hand experience.

Naruto had a good gasp with Chakra Compression now and was moving onto Chakra Cycling. However even with Shadow Clones, Naruto wasn't making that much process.

And then he realised that his actually body hadn't experienced the effects of Chakra Cycling at all making any Shadow Clones he made to have that same disadvantage making it a cycle of no progress.

It was like building up a muscle with Shadow Clones. He might experience the pain and hardships but there would still be no effect in the end on his body. His Chakra Coils needed to be used to being used in that way though strangely enough it was both a physical and mental thing.

He would more research on the reason why that is later.

But right now, back to concentrating on sorting through the memories of a hundred Shadow Clones using and screwing up Chakra Cycling. That wasn't a painless experience to 'die' in that manner even for Naruto.

It was only due to Naruto actively using Chakra Compression properly without his Chakra screwing up that badly with the needed Chakra Control that he made progress even when going back in the Loop.

Therefore, Naruto was very carefully using the Shadow Clone memories to guide him to slowly get used to the effects of Chakra Cycling. And by using those memories, Naruto would experiment on his particular technique and what effects it has and how to minimise the potential damage on his person.

He didn't even want to touch Chakra Folding until he mastered Chakra Compression and Chakra Cycling. That was a recipe of disaster to be waiting there; for him to amplify his Jutsus was overkill even when he only folded it one using a Shadow Clone as a test dummy.

The explosion was quite large.

Rustle.

"What is it Sasuke?" Naruto sighed.

It was currently the fourth day of training on the Loop. There was still another three more days until the battle with Zabuza and Naruto found it strange that Sasuke was not training.

"I've mastered Tree-Climbing" he declared with a smirk.

Naruto widened his eyes slightly to this, last time it took him 5 days not 4. Perhaps the motivation that Naruto was the one teaching him of all people helped encourage him to train faster.

"That means you wish to learn more about Chakra Compression at least? Why don't you ask Kakashi-sensei at least? He knows more than me" Naruto replied while Sasuke scoffed.

"Kakashi-sensei is a lazy ass teacher and we both know it."

Naruto quirked his eye, "Maybe you're not asking the right questions…nor you have the references you need to know what he talked about back in Konoha. It took me waaay too long to even try to learn the Body Flicker Jutsu under him."

Naruto made sure to tell Kakashi that he already knew the Earth Style: Underground Projection Fish Jutsu and Earth Style: Double Suicide Decapitation Jutsu and was still starting off with the Body Flicker Jutsu and needed some tips.

Said tips involved a stupidly large number of Shadow Clones to learn how to use it better. Never-mind that Naruto's problem was using too much Chakra and was thus speeding up too much to even tell where he was moving.

However the mass amount of Shadow Clones did help Naruto refine the Body Flicker Jutsu in record time that he was passable in its use. He was never going to use it in battle for a while until he had much much better control but it was good enough for slow travel (For Ninjas anyway).

Sasuke scowled and added, "He told me that Chakra Compression was something out of my league right now."

Naruto raised an eyebrow to this. Sure Kakashi only started to teach them near the end of the training but did actually asking him to teach it result in no training for that area?

He was sure Kakashi knew of his training in Chakra Compression at least…though it was more likely that Sasuke's attitude put Kakashi off any thoughts on actually teaching him.

With a sigh, Naruto figured he could guide Sasuke in Chakra Compression at least and from there on, if he looped again, he wouldn't tell Sasuke about it so Kakashi may want to teach him that.

It was on the seventh day that Naruto prepared himself for when Inari ranted.

That is, to make sure he didn't almost kill the poor kid again with pure killing intent coming from his body. It took Kakashi to supress the effects from the rest of the family as well as Inari fainted from fear alone.

Inari naturally avoided him after that which saddened Naruto a bit.

(Though internally he was more than happy to have learnt a way to shut the civilians up back at Konoha at least)

Naruto sighed in annoyance of the need to prepare for battles which he had no idea what was going on most of the time.

The Zabuza and Kakashi fight could go either way and Naruto wasn't as concern about that as the other battle where apparently someone would come to take Tsunami and Inari and possibly kill one or both of them.

Rubbing his forehead back at the woods where his Shadow Clones were doing some last minute maintenance on all the Jutsus he could use, Naruto was searching through his most recently memories and some older ones on what he could do.

On one hand it was easy for him to just charge in like a stupid fool and hope for the best.

But on the other hand he could actually take the time to prepare and plan out what he could and will do.

Thinking about these things were more Shikimaru's area of expertise but Naruto wasn't too bad with his years of pranking backing him up.

But…pranking has nothing to do with plans that involve the lives of others and when failed will result in something worse than death for the Country of Waves.

So far he had lots and lots of traps around Tazuna's home which meant that as long as they stay in there, which they should, it would be difficult for any common ninja to get through.

Not to mention he was started to place together some traps around the bridge as well though that was a work in progress especially since he needed to find a way to make explosive tags work underwater.

At least with Tazuna's home, he knew not many could get through let alone unharmed.

'But if they do…' Naruto grimaced, 'That would mean they were extremely skilled, he lacked the skills or someone ratted them out and backstabbed them.'

He really doubted Tsunami or even Inari would do so and he sure as hell didn't want to think anyone in his team would do so. But…it was good to have back-up after back-up plans just in case.

Those 'Keys' he made for the team and the family were a weakness he could not simply remove and while he was highly tempted to just make them never leave the home until the mission is done, it was likely that the kid Inari would just run out without thinking an get killed.

Because of that, there is a clear weakness in his traps. Naruto could only hope things will not go bad.

The next day on the bridge Naruto stood next to his team which he almost trusted completely.

He had sent at least a dozen Shadow Clones to hide around Tsunami and Inari to protect them which could be overkill in some circumstances but he had the Chakra to spare.

At least he wanted to make sure they live through this.

Cue the fight where Sasuke got rid of Zabuza's Water Clones at once and where Haku and Sasuke were doing a Taijutsu dance against each other.

"I got you!" Sasuke declared with his Kunai pointing at Haku forcing the latter to block with three Sebons in between his knuckles.

Now was at the part where Haku would attack using that Jutsu and Naruto could come into the battle.

Or rather the part where he didn't make a mistake and not charge in to save Sasuke when he was fine.

"Really?" she asked tilting her head, "Right now you are lacking one hand to attack like myself. You cannot use any Jutsus in your current state while I can!"

Haku started to flick through hand-seals with one hand rapidly. All three males in Team 7 widened their eyes rapidly seeing this, even Naruto who saw this before.

Naruto had tried out One Hand-Seals for Jutsu but it was extremely difficult to even try and Naruto never succeeded so far.

"Teme! Get out of there!" Naruto shouted while NOT moving in to attack.

Kakashi was glaring at Zabuza who was doing the same with a smug look since if Kakashi moved, Zabuza did and vis versa which meant that only Naruto get into the fight.

Haku called out, "Water Style: Thousand Flying Needles of Death!" while slamming her foot down on the wet ground.

Water splashed and strangely floated up in the air before a split second later turning into countless needles of death around the two.

Sasuke had already disengaged and moved out a moment before Haku did but the latter was much faster than Sasuke managing to kick him before retreating from the Jutsu's range.

'Huh' Naruto looked curiously, 'Haku didn't do that before. Must be because she didn't need to guard against a second person.'

Naruto watched as Sasuke tumbled before rolling back on his feet as he saw Haku dash in.

He flicked through several hand-sealed and shouted out, "Fire Style: Phoenix Fire Jutsu!" shooting out a rapid fire of small fireballs that forced to dodge by flipping back as each fireball hit the ground one after another forcing Haku away.

"You're pretty slow" Sasuke commented behind Haku the moment she stopped and her attention wavered a bit, "From now on, you will only be able to run from my attacks."

Sasuke moved in with two Kunai in hands before striking with his right which Haku blocked but at the next moment he flicked the Kunai at Haku forcing her to duck down to dodge which in turn led to Sasuke kicking her in the face.

Thump!

"Gu…!" Haku let out a grunt while Naruto smirked at Zabuza's expression. He seemed shocked that Sasuke was faster than Haku, at least temporary. Naruto knew that Sasuke was extremely talented in using his Chakra to boost his speed in particular.

"Looks like I have the advantage in speed" Sasuke had a smug look on his face as Sakura cheered aimlessly while everybody ignored her.

Almost lazily even to Naruto's eyes even though he knew it not be true Kakashi stated out, "I can't have you underestimate my team calling them 'brats'. Sasuke is the Leaf's Number 1 Rookie, Sakura is the Brightest of her class and Naruto is the Number 1 most unpredictable Ninja and someone I can trust my back to."

Naruto's mood improved when Kakashi said that.

Not the part where he was the number 1 unpredictable ninja but rather how Kakashi could trust his back to him. That meant he trusted him enough to fight alongside him and also to protect him.

Kakashi …accepted him in that moment from there on and Naruto had no intentions of disappointing him or any other precious people he had.

However things turned out really bad when Zabuza started to laugh out loud and barked out, "Haku! Don't hold back. Since Kakashi says they're good enough, don't hold back and kill them all and this time don't you dare spare them. We won't want some loose ends. At this rate we'll be driven back."

"Yeah…we can't have that" Haku responded in monotone, devoid of all emotions.

There was a slight pause from Haku but in the end he nodded and Chakra seemed to come out of his body like steam…but cold.

Naruto shivered for a before covering his body in Chakra in response not only to get some heat but also to intimidate Haku a bit.

Seeing the sudden seriousness of the battle, Kakashi went to stop any possible attack that would come out of the masked boy as fast as he could.

"I won't let you!" Kakashi dashed at speeds that most Jonin wouldn't be able to keep up with.

However Zabuza was one of those people who could and immediately moved to block Kakashi while taunting him.

Sending out a wave of killing intent, Zabuza declared, "I'm your opponent!"

"Prepare for a hard fight everyone" Sasuke warned them before going back to his stance note even letting his eyes leave Haku.

Sasuke at that moment retreated back to where Naruto and Sakura were and the latter also seemed to notice the seriousness of the battle now and took out a Kunai. Tazuna stood there shivering at the power that was being thrown around.

Naruto on the other hand was gathering Chakra to either use a Jutsu or simple boost his speed and power. He really wished he tested whether the Earth Style: Underground Projection Fish Jutsu worked on the bridge.

Making a single unique Hand-Seal, one Naruto noticed to be the standard Ram Hand-Seal but with the index fingers bent under the middle fingers. And at that moment, faster than any Genin in Team 7 could react, water climbed up and formed a cocoon of mirrors surrounding them on all sides.

"Ice Style: Demonic Ice Mirrors!"

By then, the Jutsu was completed and they were trapped in columns of ice mirrors as Haku seemed to…merge into a mirror before his flat reflection was reflected on every single mirror around them.

"Huh?" Sakura startled looked confused on all of this while Naruto and Sasuke were the same even if they did not express it outwardly.

With all the resources in the Genin section of the Konoha Library, Naruto haven't even heard of an 'Ice Style'.

Naruto suddenly felt like he should've left some Shadow Clones to follow them before heading on the bridge. Yeah, that would've been a good idea to set up an ambush as well.

Feeling he Chakra in the air that was slowly being frozen Naruto took a glance at Sasuke and muttered, "Teme, this is really bad."

"I know dobe" Sasuke grunted.

Sakura shivered under the cold.

It was at that moment after Haku took a look at them that she warned them, "Well then, shall I begin?"

'What do these mirrors do? What purpose do they have? Damn! I don't know' Naruto thought rapidly as Haku's next words were utterly terrifying in that they held no emotions, no remorse and no hesitation at all.

"I'll show you my real speed as the last thing you'll see."

Every last image of Haku took a stance inside the mirrors with a long Senbon at hand. It started off with Sasuke's arm being cut…

"Ah!"

"KYAAA!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

And in the end every last one of them were cut, cut, cut by countless strikes they couldn't see, couldn't even respond to as they all cried out in pain. The pain only compounded with more pain as more cuts went into their wounds and made them bigger and cause more pain.

The pain ended as Tazuna died first and Naruto was thrown back to earlier in the loop.

Checkpoint 4: Loop 2 End (Total Loops 60)

A/N:

The second half of the chapter is when Haku actually manages to trap the Genin of Team 7 and Tazuna in his Jutsu. Basically it means the death of Tazuna and maybe Sakura if that ever happened.

It as just luck (Else my hand) that drove Sasuke to retreat at that location. Meh, it gives Naruto a reason to try to find a counter to the Ice Style.

But to something I wanted to talk about for some while.

Economy in the Ninja world.

Even in our world, money is a funny thing since it technically doesn't have any value onto it except to how much we value it and how much the community values it so even if one person says its useless there are countless others that says the opposite.

Currency from different countries makes this even more complicated.

But in the Naruto World, the currency is the Ryo which seems to be standardised which makes things a lot less complicated and a lot more simple to manage for everyone involved with trade.

But did I managed of how fucked up the Economy of the Shinobi World was?

Well it simple is on too many levels.

First thing first are the Daimyos who represent each Nation or Country in the Naruto world.

They are basically the Kings to a Knight Order.

While the Ninjas don't really need to follow the orders of said Daimyos since they're ninjas, have Chakra, can kill people in their sleep dangerous, the Daimyo has more power than Ninjas in one way.

The Daimyo controls the Economy of their own and can cut off fundings and even missions from the Hidden Village.

Look at what happened to Suna with their own Daimyo doing what he wanted and not to be benefit of the Village Hidden in the Sands. The place was so desperate that they went to Orchimaru of all people to get the funding and resources to sustain themselves.

Basically if your Daimyo disagrees than you need to compile no matter what unless you want your village to whither away without support.

However it isn't a simple Daimyo playing this game. 5 Major Daimyos and many smaller ones are playing the same game at the same time. What game is this?

The game of politics.

The game that also spans into war and also the economy as its forefront after words.

Basically when one Daimyo wants to crush another, they tend to use Ninjas to do so. If the other side has Ninjas, and knowing the destruction and time consumption there, they move onto the Economy.

Basically cutting off the other side with certain resources as they can pressuring them into what they want.

If that doesn't work, they go to war over it dragging the Ninjas into it which also makes the Economy even worse in areas affected since you have trained and hidden killers running around killing everything not allied including civilians and traders.

To sum it up, the Daimyo can control the flow of money between countries and have little to no intentions of using it unless it benefits them only.

As you can see, we have a problem here with a dozen at best people controlling the entire economy of the world.

Don't worry, there are actual businesses that keep them in check to a certain extent...and Canon only showed as one example as Gato.

Joy.

As we can see no distinct major business in the Elemental Continents other than Gato who was killed, we can say that most businesses are rather small and only span in one country or nation at best and maybe spread out across one of the larger Nations with a Hidden Village.

While keeping the Economy in each country rather stable, they do nothing to stop the Daimyos that control the flow of money and the Economy on their whim from wrecking it.

But then there are actual traders that travel from place to place and even across borders!

Yeah...remember what happens in Ninja conflicts. Lots and LOTS of collateral damage including said Traders most of the time who happened to be on a route to place to place which also is the way most supplies that Ninjas use are transferred.

In a nutshell the Traders are killed not wanting to know whether they are Supply Forces disguised as Traders to the enemy or said Supply Routes are destroyed outright to reduce the enemy's efficiency making it even harder for Traders to travel around.

In conclusion while there are Traders, they are generally rarer than most profession especially during war.

But certainly there is someone else that keep the Economy being whacked?!

Let's talk about the bottom of the totem that represents how much wealth a person has. The bottom that is naturally the common civilian and in other words the farmers and so on that maintain the rest of the world with their work as little gears in the giant machine.

They are frankly poor and rarely does one actually interact with a Ninja except if they're near one of the Hidden Villages.

You can think of them as those who are the ones actually generating the money that everyone else is using to play around with and throw around and in general they are not paid well.

The real ironic thing is that Ninjas actually pay more than other civilians for their product. D-rank missions, hell even C-rank missions are expensive to most civilians but those in Hidden Villages somehow managed to get enough money to once and a while hire green Genin to do their jobs.

Yeah, civilians at the lowest point can't do anything as well.

But then there are NINJAS.

Yep, no.

That's a really bad idea in general.

For starters since Ninjas are literally an armed force being paid to do things. And said things while mean helping out or guarding things or people in the lower and sometimes the higher ranks, there is one problem.

They also get missions the complete opposite to the other missions. One set of Ninjas from one village may be hired to protect a place. Another from another Village may be hired to destroy said place.

Both sides battle it out.

If the defenders win, employer pays Ninjas and its all good except to the attackers who won't be paid and are most likely dead with a pissed off client who wants their money back else another team to complete the mission.

If the attackers win, the employer pays Ninjas and its all good except to the defenders who are most likely dead and the client who is also most likely died and with the place destroyed...and if the client survives than they usually want revenge.

See where this is going?

Both sides keeps on hiring giving Ninjas more money to use with the destruction of said civilian place that produces stuff. Ninjas use this money to buy more supplies...from guess where? Said civilian places that produces stuff for them which means there is less of what they want and need than before and the price increases for their supplies.

That means they need more missions and guess what usually happens. More and more civilian locations are destroyed than what are being created and more and more Ninjas need more money and missions to sustain themselves since the prices are increasing.

And when this happens, Ninjas need more supplies from places which are from civilian places, which means they need more missions and said missions overall was likely to destroy civilian places that in turn increases the price of supplies.

And this keep on rotating and rotating out of control until full out war happens or someone like the Daiymo takes control and sort things out.

Basically adding Ninjas into the mix of the Economy is generally a bad idea unless you can keep it in check.

Especially since using them in such a way would disturb the economy really badly.

So to sum things up here we have the common civilian who are the producer of resources that sustains everyone else. We have business that take these resources and turn into profit for each country/nation. We have traders that travel from country/nation to country/nation to make profit and also stimulate the economy. And finally we have the Daiymos who control things on a national level.

Seems perfectly fine right?

Yeah, then add in Ninjas.

As have Ninjas that both help out civilians in protecting them and destroying them making what used to be reliable resource makers to depend on how well you protect them. We have businesses that can also be literally protected or destroyed thanks to Ninjas as well making it worse.

We have Traders that are also the same situation.

And finally we have Ninjas being under the Daiymo since he also controls their funding as well through what missions they generally get over other villages and other tasks.

And how does said Daimyo makes sure they have the upper hand against other Daiymos and the places they lead? Sabotage their enemies and what they have so they are on top in the end.

Which pretty much goes from either stalemate in the Economy or Recessions quite frequently now that I think about it.

In all, I can easily say that adding Ninjas into the game of Economy is a very bad idea in general.

And that is why the Economy in the Shinobi World is fucked up.

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Also note that it will take a lot longer to post more chapters since I'm still writing them out. This may takes weeks or months since I like to do things like post chapters in sets...else I could be lazy and post when I finish one.