The village hidden in the clouds was rightfully named, especially in the thick of the night when the country itself seemed to be the most alive. The Chakra Potential Screening Service was a boon for the village hidden in the clouds, but for the non-shinobi citizens of Kaminari no Kuni, it was one of life’s biggest fears. Most families never consented to having their child taken away from them to fuel the gears of the shinobi machine within the village unless of course the family was either a) too desperate and took whatever the village offered in place of the child, or b) the child’s ability scared the parents enough to want to get rid of him or her.
In this case, it was another girl who was showing signs of chakra control and her chakra was picked up by Kumo sensory type shinobi as they completed their routine scan for chakra signatures within the Heartlands of Kaminari no Zuni. It was unfortunate, having done this routine scan so many times that the number of children found and taken from the Heartlands had seemed to make the Jonin sensory-nins numb to this process. They already knew what was going to happen to children civilians turned shinobi from this part of the country. Without being close to their families, and their homeland pretty much being destroyed the Jonin sensory type shinobi who helped track down these rare finds found that their time in the academy would be harder. Their lives would be darker and their paths would be a bit more cruel because of this traumatic event at such a young age.
It wasn’t exactly how Kumo wanted to raise their next generation of shinobi; however, desperate times called for desperate measures. Their success at recruiting and finding new talent in the previous months was higher than average, so some of the Jonin even felt as though these set-up transactions of giving and taking children away from outer zone towns would cease. Or at least they had hoped…
The target for tonight’s mission was a young girl just over the age of seven years old. Officially, in the writings, the Chakra Potential Screening Services only negotiated children between the age of eight to twelve, yet in reality, they went as low as six years old frequently. The more time they could spend indoctrinating the children into the shinobi life the stronger they felt that generation of shinobi would be. It wasn’t necessarily true, at least not for all of the children they found, yet it was helpful in other ways. Some children wouldn’t even remember their lives before being given away, or taken away. Most children chose to quickly forget their poor lives in the outer village zone in exchange for the middle-classed life and honor given to a shinobi of the Hidden Village.
That too was dependent on how the family treated the child before they came of age to be exchanged. Some families had already started the heartless nurturing of their child who showed signs of a kekki genkai or an ability that seemed only natural for a shinobi, not the life of a farmer, or a hunter-gatherer family. They would be looked upon with contempt, and raised knowing that their lives in the forests of the heartlands would be short-lived.
In this particular instance, that very thing had happened for a young Tsuchimikado who started to realize her place in the world. Even though she had come of age for being sent away, without proper shinobi training, she was able to begin to unlock some of the techniques of her kekki genkai. One night her parents happened to stumble into her room while she was doing some sort of ritual, and that’s when the fear began. Ever since she would carry a talisman that she found, which happened to be nothing more than an owl’s feather that she found on day from working in the forest.
With her spiritual enlightenment, she didn’t know for sure what was bound to happen to her, she only knew that she was not meant to continue living here with her parents…
[WC: (695) 695 / 2000] [PC: 1 / 5]
In this case, it was another girl who was showing signs of chakra control and her chakra was picked up by Kumo sensory type shinobi as they completed their routine scan for chakra signatures within the Heartlands of Kaminari no Zuni. It was unfortunate, having done this routine scan so many times that the number of children found and taken from the Heartlands had seemed to make the Jonin sensory-nins numb to this process. They already knew what was going to happen to children civilians turned shinobi from this part of the country. Without being close to their families, and their homeland pretty much being destroyed the Jonin sensory type shinobi who helped track down these rare finds found that their time in the academy would be harder. Their lives would be darker and their paths would be a bit more cruel because of this traumatic event at such a young age.
It wasn’t exactly how Kumo wanted to raise their next generation of shinobi; however, desperate times called for desperate measures. Their success at recruiting and finding new talent in the previous months was higher than average, so some of the Jonin even felt as though these set-up transactions of giving and taking children away from outer zone towns would cease. Or at least they had hoped…
The target for tonight’s mission was a young girl just over the age of seven years old. Officially, in the writings, the Chakra Potential Screening Services only negotiated children between the age of eight to twelve, yet in reality, they went as low as six years old frequently. The more time they could spend indoctrinating the children into the shinobi life the stronger they felt that generation of shinobi would be. It wasn’t necessarily true, at least not for all of the children they found, yet it was helpful in other ways. Some children wouldn’t even remember their lives before being given away, or taken away. Most children chose to quickly forget their poor lives in the outer village zone in exchange for the middle-classed life and honor given to a shinobi of the Hidden Village.
That too was dependent on how the family treated the child before they came of age to be exchanged. Some families had already started the heartless nurturing of their child who showed signs of a kekki genkai or an ability that seemed only natural for a shinobi, not the life of a farmer, or a hunter-gatherer family. They would be looked upon with contempt, and raised knowing that their lives in the forests of the heartlands would be short-lived.
In this particular instance, that very thing had happened for a young Tsuchimikado who started to realize her place in the world. Even though she had come of age for being sent away, without proper shinobi training, she was able to begin to unlock some of the techniques of her kekki genkai. One night her parents happened to stumble into her room while she was doing some sort of ritual, and that’s when the fear began. Ever since she would carry a talisman that she found, which happened to be nothing more than an owl’s feather that she found on day from working in the forest.
With her spiritual enlightenment, she didn’t know for sure what was bound to happen to her, she only knew that she was not meant to continue living here with her parents…
[WC: (695) 695 / 2000] [PC: 1 / 5]