Chapter 3: Lets play A little game

Sunagakure (Hidden Sand Village)

Feeling the current atmosphere of his village, Rasa felt deep anger and blame. As the kage of the hidden sand, it was his job to make sure his village was prospering in all directions or at least make sure that everyone had enough to get by.

Yet the news that their daimyo would be cutting off their budget by a third in favor of how cheap the hidden leaf service was pained him greatly.

As the weakest major village, the war's impact on them made their already hard conditions even harder.

Though, for now, he had a plan to deal with this, and the plan was to raise the quality of the ninja of the sand.

Quality over quantity was his new motto, and to do that, he had plans for his upcoming son.

"Any news Ebizo?" Rasa questioned his strategist; he was one of the people who helped out on every major decision.

"There has been no news so far from any of the spies. It looks like nobody truly knows anything. I suggest we prepare to defend ourselves from whatever's happening in six days," Ebizo said.

"I also agree." Chiyo chimed in, and the rest of the council soon followed.

"Good for now, focus on increasing our defense and setting up some traps, and also send Pakura to the ninja academy to see if there are any good talents there." Rasa said finishing the meeting.

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Iwagakure ( Hidden Stone Village)

If the sand's atmosphere could be considered somewhat gloomy, the stone village could be considered a desolate place.

In the third great ninja war, they not only came in last but also lost the most people in the war. So many young men and women had died fighting for their village.

Onki looked at his village in which the expression of everyone was ashen. After all knowing that your village came in last and lost the most people wouldn't make anyone happy.

At the same time since so many ninjas died during the war, the village was recruiting anyone still in their prime into a three-month Boot Camp to train them into a ninja before sending them out to complete some missions.

After all ninjas and missions were the lifeblood of any village.

"Well for now we'll just wait and see what happens since no village is reacting strangely to it, and also call back anyone on a mission back." Oni said his back turned to everyone.

He didn't want to see the sadness and disappointment in their eyes.

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Kirigakure (Hidden Mist Village)

Yagura looked at the somewhat quiet village that had a somewhat of a horror feel for most civilians and lower-class ninjas.

After all, how happy would you be if the village superior made the lower-class students kill each other until there was only one left?

At the same time, a sort of distrust was starting with those who had bloodline abilities as their power to cause chaos was magnified to the extreme during the war.

All these problems fell onto Yaguas's head. As the new mizukage, he should be focused on trying to better his village and ease tensions between bloodline users and normal ninjas.

Yet at the same time, he was busy looking for whoever was out to kill him, a new organization had attacked him and almost killed him in the name of wanting his tailed beast.

At the same time there were a bunch of blue screens throughout the whole ninja world with a countdown timer.

Holding his head, Yagura looked at the courtyard full of the dead bodies of the Kaguya clan who suddenly went crazy and wanted to overthrow his rules.

This was a long time coming so this didn't surprise anyone. What did surprise him was a constant feeling of dread that stuck around him as if his life was ending soon.

In a village that was slowly tearing itself and a blue screen that was counting down for an event that made everyone worried.

Walking down to the meeting room, which was full of the village's most important and strongest people, Yagura stood in silence as he looked at the pile of corpses.

"I want the blue screen investigated, and also call back all ninjas currently doing missions," Yagura said.

No one spoke after all. Unlike other villages, Kirigakure was a full dictatorship, with all the power in the hands of the Hokage.

Sure, they could advise him now and then, but in the end, he was the one who made every major decision.

All that power in one person's hand, Surely nothing could go wrong, right?