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It began with the murder of Tsuchikage. Konoha denied involvement, but that didn’t matter. The only thing that mattered to the Hidden Stone village was somebody needed to pay for the fallen. The wheels of militarization flared and begun to move from this. The sleeping giant of the Hidden Stone Village had started to wake, and the Hokage knew his choices were narrow. Accept the destruction of his people or declare war. Whether he was guilty or not, it wasn’t in the picture anymore.

War started and now it held to a steady pace. The battle of Recovunx Pass is a startling beginning to warfare. A bloodbath when the armies gathered hoping to bring peace but were blinded by a lie. Bloodshed piled onto the ground and nobody knew who struck first and why. All that is known, is that there were no survivors.
This caused conflict with all the villages and their allies. The Stone and Cloud village was against the trio of Mist, Leaves and Sand. The fear only started a few months ago and now it still marches on. Higher ranked ninjas were slaughtered by equal competitors. Now the few trainers the villages have left are sending their Genin out before maturity hoping they will survive. Or were the trainers hoping the Genin would try and revert to peace over war? Unlike the developed ninjas who were set in their ways?

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Please Read The Rules!!

The Second part of war

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The winds of change started roaring months ago upon the land. Since the falling of the Tsuchikage was declared among the territories. A panic has travel among every single individual of each village not just the ninja’s roaming in the areas but the common people that feared for their families and friends lives. No one wanted to send out their mother, father, sister, brother, or lover out into the field. Everyone in panic caused the warfare to become even more difficult for the ninjas to leave their families. Parents didn’t want to send their children out to protect and scout the areas.
As demanded by the older ninja who argued with many families and ignored most comments. Took the Genin’s and Academy Student’s away to certain locations around the village to protect the Kage if they failed to keep the enemy at lest on stand by on the front line. Now it’s been awhile since the higher ranked ninjas came from the front line, but all were arriving back home. A standing amongst the villages have put them in a week of peace and rest. Truly that never mattered the rules of war have always stand and been put upon everyone but there was always one to try and break these rules.
Higher ranked ninja’s have come back home to inform the one’s who are titled Chuunin or lower they left behind that they will be going to the front lines in about a week if not earlier. Now having to break the news has caused the night to feel pressured and overwhelming not just for the nature but for the Jounin and Chuunin who must inform their companions that they need to prepare for what lies ahead.

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[Everyone please start around the same general area or where you can hear the Jounin/higher ranked ninjas call for you to inform you.]

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Where everyone should try and start out:

Team A
Leaf -
Jounin introduce by coming back from war / informing the lower ranked ninjas.

Chuunin – Academy students start by knowing the Jounin/higher ranked are coming back.

Mist -

Since you have no high ranked ninja start out either with the leaf or sand.

Sand -

Chuunin start by coming back or being informed that all the Jounin have fallen and you are in charge now.

Genin – Academy start by being informed all the higher ranked have fallen or be completely oblivious.

Team B

Cloud -

Jounin start by going to the Stone village.

Stone -

Jounin start by arriving home or informing lower ranked ninjas.

Chuunin – Academy start by being informed that the higher ranked ninjas have come home.

Kenji was in one of the many training fields around the Hidden Sand practicing as he always did. His team didn't have a mission today which gave him some free time to train. Normally he would have been up to hang out with his teammates but he wanted to be alone today to clear his head.

Looking at the practice dummy not far from him that was the poor target of Kenji's frustrations today looked like it had been through hell. Closing his eyes he breathed in deep before exhaling slowly. As the last of his air left his body his chains dropped from their place around his wrist as he began to skillfully twist and turn snapping the blades across the dummy in front of him leaving deep cuts in it. After several moves, Kenji came to a stop as his chains returned to their place on his arm.

“Well it seems you have been practicing a lot.” came a voice from behind him

Snapping around instantly knowing whose voice that belonged to. “Dad!?” he asked shocked at his father's sudden appearance. “What are you doing here. I thought you were all out on the front lines?” Kenji was confused as to why his dad would be here with the war going on. To say the two looked identical would be an understatement. It seemed as if Kenji had made a clone Jutsu slightly taller than normal and put a Jounin jacket on it. holding the same smile and having the same attitude it really did seem as if it were two of the same person standing in front of each other.

With a somber Expression, Kenji's father looked down at his son. “That's just it son. Most of the jounin have returned to the village for a short time. These first few months have been rough on the village and her manpower.” Resting a hand on his son's shoulder he continued “To be blunt Many of the jounin have fallen in battle already in the fighting.”

Kenji’s eyes nearly doubled in size at the news of the front and how it was working. He knew all too well that war would be costly but to hear that after only a few months most of the higher ranks that had been sent to ‘End the war quickly’ had been killed was like a gut punch. “What does that mean? What's going to happen now?” he quickly asked trying to wrap his head around the whole decision.

With a somber look in his eyes, his dad continued “you know how much I don't want to see you out there after..” he seemed to trail off a bit while looking off into the distance. Shaking his head a bit he continued. “That's why I'm here. You and the other Chunin and Genin are going to be put on the front to help in the war effort.”

Looking surprised for only a moment Kenji instantly put on a calm face once more. “It's fine dad I know. It will be an honor to fight for the village in the war. And don't worry I knew what I was getting into when I decided I wanted to be a Ninja.”

“That's what scares me,” his father said with a smile and a small laugh. “Well since I'm already here and we have some time left what do you say to a little spar to see if you're ready?”

“Bring on old timer. Don't be surprised if I beat you at your own game.” Kenji replied as he let the Chain Whips drop from his sleeves dropping into his stance.

Mimicking his son his chain whips also dropped down as he began to spin them slowly getting into a rhythm. "Glad to see your self-confidence hasn't faltered one bit in my absence." after finishing the whips stopped suddenly before being shot right at Kenji.

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Katsuro Stood at the gate as he always did this time of day. Him and a few of the other gate guards were getting very relaxed nowadays what with all the jounin out fighting the war and the only people to keep them all in line being each other. He had a scroll with him, a few scribbles on it as he tried his best at drawing a tree he saw in the distance. Maybe he could find a way to make a seal that would summon up a whole tree, or better yet, he could figure out how to summon anything at all really. He took a bite of some rolled up rice and meat combination he threw together before work and moved to the bottom of the gate as his replacement had arrived, making his way toward the center of town.

As he got through the gate, however, a shout rang out from his replacement. Right there in plain view were many returning jounin, and not a smile on any of their faces, though he was far away and couldn't actually tell but he ASSUMED none were smiling because apparently war sucked. Katsuro waved at them and started to move deeper into the village, toward the academy which was on the way to his usual barbecue joint he went to after work.

As he reached the academy, however, he could feel the sudden change of mood that had overtaken the village. What few nin were left all seemed to lose all their happiness one by one in a wave as Jounin were making their way to each lower ranked ninja and telling them the worst news he had ever heard. Even Katsuro wasn't spared, a hand grabbed his shoulder, a fellow Senju but more importantly a Jounin had caught him trying to slip past the schoolyard unnoticed. From the outside, it looked as though she were draining his life force through her hand but in reality, she was conscripting her younger cousin Katsuro for war. They were conscripting EVERYONE for war.

It was going to be a long year, hopefully not a long few years. Katsuro only looked more defeated as he saw Jounin moving in to talk to the Academy students.

"You're actually taking kids? To the front lines? That girl literally has a PUPPY to defend herself, and you want to send her in? What about that kid, the one there the Uchiha brat eh? He looks like he would die if I stared at him too long!"

The older Senju just nodded in silence, leaving Katsuro without an answer. His head fell back as he looked up at the sky and he clapped his hands on his cheeks, then together in front of his face. This was getting worse by the second.

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The midgets were parading through the doors.

Herded like cats, and with arguably even less of an attention span, the academy students straggled from out of their classes. As they did, one head would pop up from among the crowd, briefly appearing amid anxious glances before slipping back down to the ground. Another moment and then his head would pop up again, as the child literally hopped up and down, his head seemingly on a swivel as the boy seemed to be looking desperately for something.

The Jounin had returned to the village? Was it true? Did that mean that the war was over?

Did that mean that Shikato had come back as well?

Try as he might, Naota could not see any indication that his brother was anywhere to be found. Even still, he never stopped looking for him. Anxious and fidgeting as he stood around the school yard, largely oblivious to the snippets of conversation that passed over his head or between his friends. There was talk of the war.

There was always talk of the war.

So what was different now? At last, roused from his own wistful thinking, the raven-haired youth slowly warmed to the realization that something was wrong.

"You're actually taking kids? To the front lines? That girl literally has a PUPPY to defend herself, and you want to send her in? What about that kid, the one there the Uchiha brat eh? He looks like he would die if I stared at him too long!"

Turning his head up, the faun-eyed Naota found himself observing a one-sided exchange between a pair of older ninja. The look on the face of the one who had spoken conveyed volumes more than words alone.