[center][h2]Ren Matsuoko - The Immovable Tsuchikage[/h2][/center]

The Tsuchikage stood at the bottom of a canyon looking at the three floating rocks in front of him at varying distances and heights. Between his hands rested a glowing sphere of light with a bright core that slowly grew until it rested easily in his two hands. All of a sudden, he held both hands forward palms out sending the orb of light forward aiming for the farthest rock in the trio. When the sphere made contact it expanded to envelope the large boulder destroying the object on the cellular level and reducing it to dust.  

Ren launched another two spheres at the remaining rocks reducing both of them to nothing before making a few quick hand seals and slowly rising into the air. As he rose out of the canyon, he checked the position of the sun to see that it was direction above his location meaning that it was near midday now and he should probably be getting back to the village. The Tsuchikage pulled his Kage hat from its spot hanging from his back and placed it securely on his head to block out the glare of the sun as he slowly floated through the air back to Iwagakure.

It took a half hour to make it back to the village from his own personal training ground and was instantly greeting with a mountain of paperwork as he entered his office. This paperwork had been the reason why Ren had left in the first place to try and escape it but that didn’t seem to have fixed the problem. It took a large amount of self control to not just destroy the papers in the first place, but he calmed himself down with the mantra that it was for the good of Iwagakure. He repeated that phrase continuously as he sat down at his desk to look over the work that needed to be done. 

It was a busy week for the village as just five days away was the celebration for the founding of Iwagakure. This was a bright time as everyone was in a pleasant mood with each passing day leading up to a large festival that invited all the small villages in the Land of Earth to come and enjoy a good time. Even the Daimyo made an appearance every few years.

Ren ran his hands over his face and through his hair as the weight of his position was hitting him. Why did he even accept the spot of Kage if he felt he couldn’t handle the position. Than he remembered why he had taken up the mantel. He owed Iwagakure and the former Tsuchikage for everything he had and he felt that he needed to everything in his power to protect the village as a thank you for what he had. He enjoyed Iwagakure’s habit of isolation from the other villages, but also felt that it may be time to make some changes in some of their policies for the better. He had already instituted the system of a Shinobi Academy to train the younger generations instead of just allowing anyone with promise to become a genin.

That was when an interesting thought popped into the Kage’s head. Perhaps he should extend an invitation to the other villages to come enjoy the festival. Though he would have to limit the amount that would be allowed to attend as well as heighten the security more so than he already did during the festival.  With this thought in mind he proceeded to start writing up official invitations to each village starting the limit of attendees to five per village.