The Shopkeeper of Konoha

5 months had passed since Hiruzen had come and proposed the idea of a medical school and true to his words, Konoha started construction to this new school.  Aoto was quite pleased to find that the school's construction had reached the halfway point in less than five months. Probably because the Hokage himself was endorsing for the school and that Danzo didn't speak a word about it.

Hiruzen did find it weird when he came to know that Shikuro ha joined the bakery. When an Anbu informed him of the situation, he became enraged and immediately confronted Danzoin.

"Danzo, like I previously stated. You are not allowed to touch even a small hair of Aoto." Hiruzen shouted at the office after calling him there. Danzo was currently a little weak because he had recently lost a lot of blood as well as his eye. After hearing Hiruzen's comments, Danzo took a long, thoughtful glance into his eyes.

'You think I will let someone like Shikuro look over that monster. He was taken away by him. Why don't you try to discuss it with him? It is good that he is only interested in business and is loyal to Konoha, or else I would love to wage war against this kid alone.'

"Hiruzen, you are overthinking. Shikuro was no longer employed with the Roots." Danzo spoke in a collected manner.

"Who are you trying to fool? Once a person joins your Anbu, they are unable to leave. Bring Shikuro back." Hiruzen urged.

"Hiruzen, I have told you that he is no longer a member of the Roots. He disregarded the Root's most crucial tenet. He has fathered a child and grew feelings for someone else. Konoha's best guards can't allow that to happen, but since he has been on my side most of his life, I gave him the freedom to walk away. You can check if he has the seal or not." Danzo spoke before beginning to walk away. He had provided all the necessary explanation and didn't want to continue. He was worn out.

Hiruzen didn't attempt to halt his friend; he simply watched him leave. He would send someone to verify the entire notion, of course.

"If Shikuro is really hired by Aoto then he can stay there. That's weird, he just a great asset from Aburame clan, why didn't he ask for another member from that clan?" Since Hiruzen had known Danzo for virtually his entire life, he was familiar with the way his friend thought. He had the impression that Danzo was concealing something.

There was now even more justification to watch out for Aoto and Shikuro. He summoned an Anbu right away and requested him to watch over Shikuro and report back to him frequently.

"Maybe I should go to the restaurant today. I miss his fired chicken." Hiruzen pondered.

Aoto, meantime, didn't do nothing over the past five months. He had been operating normally and was content with his present state. Even though his books hadn't yet been sold, the newly appointed principal had already gotten in touch with Aoto and mentioned buying his volumes and cataloging all of Konoha's knowledge of medical procedures.

Konoha wasn't a big city, therefore the school doesn't have to be as big and ornate as the Hospital and can even be smaller than the current Academy. The Academy and other school have begun looking for pupils in order to select the best ones for the institution.

Of course this could only be done for this year and couldn't be repeated every year and a proper exam needed to be established for get into the school. Aoto had pitched in his idea of exams that would span for a year evaluating the students if they were mentally capable of handling the journey to be a doctor.

In a world of shinobi where the continents were far larger than the Earth he came from, where the medical facilities required to be top notch in order to cope with the problem, he knew firsthand that being a doctor wasn't simple. Obviously, if Aoto wanted to have an impact on the medical profession, this would be a very long-term effort that would take a lot of time.

The medical school wasn't the only thing that Aoto was taking care at the moment. After he got the old version of Windows 98 he understood that there was a problem with the hardware. This world didn't have a dedicated keyboard and a mouse to start with and the processors the current computing machines had wasn't very good to begin with .

Aoto was lucky that he was an IT worker and that too in core studies of computer. Despite having a background in software programming, he had some knowledge of hardware and could provide a very approximate estimate of the processors and other components that would be required to construct a decent PC.

So in order to finish that he had showed up on the doorstep of the cryptology department. He met the Department's chief after receiving the Hokage's suggestion.

Yamanaka, Inoichi.

The father of Ino. He read through the letter of Aoto and looked at him from top to bottom.

"Hokage has a lot of faith in you. So tell me, what can you offer to the team." Inoichi looked at him with skepticism and wanted to know what had this come up with in order to make the Hokage recommend him.

"I am glad you asked, I am Aoto Yamazaki. Here is my strategy and my vision for the future regarding what I want to establish." Aoto remarked as he pulled out many pages and began demonstrating how he would want to construct a PC and how it would be beneficial in their work.

He spoke with Inoichi for more than an hour, starting from the communication among these PCs to be able to compute huge problems. Inoichi, who initially had a stoic look, began to see how important this thing might be if it were properly developed.