The end of the Tenouzan/Lightning War, soon to be commonly referenced to now as the War of Hubris, came with such a strange and jarring stop that it left a strange taste in the mouths of people everywhere. Both sides had expected one or the other to go out with a bang, (in fact Tenouza had planned to do just that originally), and instead it was flattened into a whimper of defeat for Kumogakure’s opponents - yet it wasn’t entirely a win in their favor.
The Shogun Palace had been cratered into a sheet of second dimensional life as well and the ruling seat of many generations was completely removed. Following right along with that, a few noble families, both lesser and great, had met their ends at the hands of the early Tenouzan strike and again in secret by agents that had slipped into their houses after the Shogun’s assassination. Politically, the land was turned to turmoil as leadership had been completely erased from the lands below the shinobi’s mountain.
Then a second problem rose up from the ashes of the Hubris War. The devices the Tenouzans had found, because the thought of them having actually crafted them seemed just ludicrous, and used as bombs were the very things that absorbed chakra from the land all throughout. After the news of the bombs had been released to the public, a local scientist put forth that it may had been the cause of chakra levels lacking throughout their land when their neighbors in Fire didn’t lack for anyone using the mystical energy. Not even a week after that theory started to catch wind did the first problems involving bandits with wildly uncontrollable chakra abilities attacking surviving settlements started to circulate as well. Before the month was out entirely people all over the country started to show chakra potential both weak and strong. It lead to a strange phenomenon of people willingly going to Kumogakure to seek both training and fortune as a new generation of shinobi.
With the rise of chakra levels within the populace coupled with Lightning’s advanced state of civilization due to previously lacking such powers, some of the remaining major nobles decided the time was ripe for control. They started to gather their forces and begin a civil war among themselves for the right to take over the Shogun’s ruling seat. Others, terrified that such a war right after Tenouza’s assault on their lands would likely send their country back into the Stone Age decided instead to seek help in leadership from Kumogakure. An argument was set forth that since they had controlled those with chakra far longer, it only made sense to allow Kumogakure be the new seat of leadership; an idea that was readily acted on.
On the morning of what was supposed to be the first battle between three major noble clans, the Raikage Shinrya Kitsune appeared in the middle of the field with her three Sennins out of thin air. With a booming voice she called the leaders of each noble house fools for wishing more bloodshed between each other and then declared that her Village would be more than happy to take the reigns that was left open. She knew that these warmongering fools wouldn’t be ones to kindly listen to diplomacy.
As predicted, the noble houses did not take kindly to that announcement.
So all three clans suddenly decided to a truce to strike down the four women in the middle of a battlefield claiming to take control of the country and sent their gathered armies forward. Of the some three-hundred soldiers that had been gathered that day, only a handful were left without injury while a great many of them perished at their leader’s foolish desire for power through combat with the Sennin. It barely took an hour in total. The leaders, left alive so they could remember their folly, quickly bent knee to Kumogakure with the many other nobles throughout Kumogakure following suit; or, at least they did on paper.
With the leadership decided the country quickly began to staunch the bleeding of the wounds inflicted by Tenouza. Five towers were raised in Kumogakure, called "The Legation", to house nobles, politicians, and the shinobi leadership’s three major branches leaders as they began to closely work together out of a necessity for a little over a year before the ANBU’s leadership decided she wanted to start keep operations closer to her heart in order to keep corruption to a minimal. Miro and her assassins returned to their Sileo Tempestas and their shadows once more becoming the terror that struck out against those who would plot against the new nation. The tower she left behind was turned a High Court where the Kumogakure Council now resided permanently to dictate matters the Lower Courts could not.
Midori Futotta, a woman of extraordinary size, came to love her office in one of the five towers that specifically handled the political side of medicine across the country, but also found herself more often in the hospital where she continued to astound and terrify patients new and old with her presence and uncanny ability to heal; you know, for a vampire. She still kept a firm eye on the political going-ons that shifted in and out of her tower, somehow, but it became a rare sight to see her there except in concern to something big.
Ms. Ryuu was the only Sennin who took to their quarters whole heartedly and turned the building she had direct control over into a center for the Main Branch. The bottom half of the tower catered to its original purpose - to oversee and review new laws being submitted as well as functioning as a Lower Court for minor legal matters. The upper half, which contained Rei’s office/deluxe apartment, was reserved for her own hand-picked creme of the crop of about ten shinobi who each had their own office, apartment, and a steady pay that wasn’t mission based. It quickly became a seat of envy within her Branch and sparked competition between each other to find a way to impress the Sennin’s ever shrinking ability to be amazed.
The Raikage’s tower was moved to the central tower of the five, and her old tower, the Torre Celeste, was remodeled into a museum for the new country. Kitsune carried on as she did before with the exception of now dodging assassination attempts at least once a month; an up from her yearlies. Ruling a nation that had once been happy to be divided by status’ of social and economical wealth was not easy in the least, but with her hand came changes the country needed. She created a basic learning system to educate the masses that also doubled as a way of recruitment for those willing. It allowed her to be the first Raikage in generations to finally lay down the necessary evil that had been the dreaded Chakra Potential team to rest; bringing some peace of mind to the general populace.
She then turned her attention to the area that had formally been the home of the late Shogun. A team of specialists gathered together to break away and remove the image of the palace from the ground and store it away to be examined by “top men”. The hole left behind was filled and eventually a residential district sprung up in the city, and around the same time she turned her eye to the Chronopolis. With the advanced funds being received from a new unhindered trade market, she turned it into a low-income housing district that reflected the architecture of the Legation. It still had its problems, as it probably forever would, but now at the very least there wasn’t a new serial killer popping up every other week to torment the populace. People no longer went missing, there, and the trade of illicit goods were all but destroyed.
One year since the Tenouza Conflict has passed. The country has moved on, in general, for the better having broken their Federalist chains, but new problems of a country full of shinobi, instead of a single militant village, quickly began to rear their head. A new era of technology and ninjutsu had come to Lightning as well, and the growing hubris of mixing those two things together rose as an ever increase challenge for Shinobi both old and new. Only time would tell if these raising problems would strengthen the new formed bonds that created this new country, or would eventually shatter them back further than where they started.
The Shogun Palace had been cratered into a sheet of second dimensional life as well and the ruling seat of many generations was completely removed. Following right along with that, a few noble families, both lesser and great, had met their ends at the hands of the early Tenouzan strike and again in secret by agents that had slipped into their houses after the Shogun’s assassination. Politically, the land was turned to turmoil as leadership had been completely erased from the lands below the shinobi’s mountain.
Then a second problem rose up from the ashes of the Hubris War. The devices the Tenouzans had found, because the thought of them having actually crafted them seemed just ludicrous, and used as bombs were the very things that absorbed chakra from the land all throughout. After the news of the bombs had been released to the public, a local scientist put forth that it may had been the cause of chakra levels lacking throughout their land when their neighbors in Fire didn’t lack for anyone using the mystical energy. Not even a week after that theory started to catch wind did the first problems involving bandits with wildly uncontrollable chakra abilities attacking surviving settlements started to circulate as well. Before the month was out entirely people all over the country started to show chakra potential both weak and strong. It lead to a strange phenomenon of people willingly going to Kumogakure to seek both training and fortune as a new generation of shinobi.
With the rise of chakra levels within the populace coupled with Lightning’s advanced state of civilization due to previously lacking such powers, some of the remaining major nobles decided the time was ripe for control. They started to gather their forces and begin a civil war among themselves for the right to take over the Shogun’s ruling seat. Others, terrified that such a war right after Tenouza’s assault on their lands would likely send their country back into the Stone Age decided instead to seek help in leadership from Kumogakure. An argument was set forth that since they had controlled those with chakra far longer, it only made sense to allow Kumogakure be the new seat of leadership; an idea that was readily acted on.
On the morning of what was supposed to be the first battle between three major noble clans, the Raikage Shinrya Kitsune appeared in the middle of the field with her three Sennins out of thin air. With a booming voice she called the leaders of each noble house fools for wishing more bloodshed between each other and then declared that her Village would be more than happy to take the reigns that was left open. She knew that these warmongering fools wouldn’t be ones to kindly listen to diplomacy.
As predicted, the noble houses did not take kindly to that announcement.
So all three clans suddenly decided to a truce to strike down the four women in the middle of a battlefield claiming to take control of the country and sent their gathered armies forward. Of the some three-hundred soldiers that had been gathered that day, only a handful were left without injury while a great many of them perished at their leader’s foolish desire for power through combat with the Sennin. It barely took an hour in total. The leaders, left alive so they could remember their folly, quickly bent knee to Kumogakure with the many other nobles throughout Kumogakure following suit; or, at least they did on paper.
With the leadership decided the country quickly began to staunch the bleeding of the wounds inflicted by Tenouza. Five towers were raised in Kumogakure, called "The Legation", to house nobles, politicians, and the shinobi leadership’s three major branches leaders as they began to closely work together out of a necessity for a little over a year before the ANBU’s leadership decided she wanted to start keep operations closer to her heart in order to keep corruption to a minimal. Miro and her assassins returned to their Sileo Tempestas and their shadows once more becoming the terror that struck out against those who would plot against the new nation. The tower she left behind was turned a High Court where the Kumogakure Council now resided permanently to dictate matters the Lower Courts could not.
Midori Futotta, a woman of extraordinary size, came to love her office in one of the five towers that specifically handled the political side of medicine across the country, but also found herself more often in the hospital where she continued to astound and terrify patients new and old with her presence and uncanny ability to heal; you know, for a vampire. She still kept a firm eye on the political going-ons that shifted in and out of her tower, somehow, but it became a rare sight to see her there except in concern to something big.
Ms. Ryuu was the only Sennin who took to their quarters whole heartedly and turned the building she had direct control over into a center for the Main Branch. The bottom half of the tower catered to its original purpose - to oversee and review new laws being submitted as well as functioning as a Lower Court for minor legal matters. The upper half, which contained Rei’s office/deluxe apartment, was reserved for her own hand-picked creme of the crop of about ten shinobi who each had their own office, apartment, and a steady pay that wasn’t mission based. It quickly became a seat of envy within her Branch and sparked competition between each other to find a way to impress the Sennin’s ever shrinking ability to be amazed.
The Raikage’s tower was moved to the central tower of the five, and her old tower, the Torre Celeste, was remodeled into a museum for the new country. Kitsune carried on as she did before with the exception of now dodging assassination attempts at least once a month; an up from her yearlies. Ruling a nation that had once been happy to be divided by status’ of social and economical wealth was not easy in the least, but with her hand came changes the country needed. She created a basic learning system to educate the masses that also doubled as a way of recruitment for those willing. It allowed her to be the first Raikage in generations to finally lay down the necessary evil that had been the dreaded Chakra Potential team to rest; bringing some peace of mind to the general populace.
She then turned her attention to the area that had formally been the home of the late Shogun. A team of specialists gathered together to break away and remove the image of the palace from the ground and store it away to be examined by “top men”. The hole left behind was filled and eventually a residential district sprung up in the city, and around the same time she turned her eye to the Chronopolis. With the advanced funds being received from a new unhindered trade market, she turned it into a low-income housing district that reflected the architecture of the Legation. It still had its problems, as it probably forever would, but now at the very least there wasn’t a new serial killer popping up every other week to torment the populace. People no longer went missing, there, and the trade of illicit goods were all but destroyed.
One year since the Tenouza Conflict has passed. The country has moved on, in general, for the better having broken their Federalist chains, but new problems of a country full of shinobi, instead of a single militant village, quickly began to rear their head. A new era of technology and ninjutsu had come to Lightning as well, and the growing hubris of mixing those two things together rose as an ever increase challenge for Shinobi both old and new. Only time would tell if these raising problems would strengthen the new formed bonds that created this new country, or would eventually shatter them back further than where they started.