Post by Wani Ryuze on Aug 24, 2013 8:34:25 GMT -5
This is a detailed account of Amegakure's history from the end of the 4th Shinobi War to this point. Please read before registering a shinobi from Amegakure, so there is consistency and fluidity among the characters.
The shinobi alliance had been a success. Obito was subdued, and the Ten-Tails was split back into the individual Bijuu. Peace would settle over the world once more, but for at least one village, the problems they had before the start of the war would rear up to bite them once more.
Amegakure was still left without a leader. After the deaths of Pain and Konan at the hands of Konohagakure, the Akatsuki and Tobi, respectively, the village was thrust into depression and turmoil. Without an organized council or other form of hierarchy, the people were unable to manage themselves and the land quickly transitioned into a Wild-West style free-for-all. The Daimyo refused to even approach the gates of Amegakure during these times, and the village began to implode on its own chaos.
A particularly strong clan took it upon themselves to reign in the village and appointed themselves the "kings" of Amegakure. Ruling through fear, strength and sheer numbers, there were few courageous enough to confront this Mafia of sorts, and those who tried were made swift work of.
This clan put in a course of action that over the next sixty years or so would completely cripple Amegakure, seemingly beyond repair. They more or less sealed off the village to the outside world. No importing or exporting of goods was allowed. Anyone attempting to contact the village was intercepted, and visitors were turned away. Missions that came from the Daimyo were taken and executed by the members of the clan, and they pocketed the bulk of the mission payouts, only trickling small amounts back to the village for basic needs, which poisoned Amegakure's economy. The shinobi of the village were not taking missions, were not generating income, and so resources began to falter.
Infighting began over what resources were left. Families were slaughtered over food, water, weapons, and out of pure desperation and madness. Children were left without parents, parents without children as a civil war punctuated by violent bursts of skirmishes began and would persist for decades. Families that had been friends since the conception of the shinobi village thought little of stealing from one another, and harming one another.
The change would come around sixty-one years after the end of the Shinobi War, and it would come in an unlikely form. The Wani clan, to this point had been quiet. Fully capable of defending themselves, the other villagers left them alone. They had enough resources for themselves, being self-sustaining and felt if they stayed out of the fracas, that it would stay away from them. But six teenagers from that clan will have decided they had enough, and were going to take back their village, hell or high water. They were tired of having to pick opportune times to go out and hunt or gather or scout, to avoid the risk of getting attacked. They were tired of digging graves for the friends they had grown up with. And they feared for the world many of them would have liked to have raised children of their own in. They wanted to see the villages from their grandparents' stories, who all gathered together to save the world. And most of all, they wanted to be heroes, too.
Led by Wani Ryuze, a kunoichi of no particular fame, this group of renegades waged war on their captors. They ambushed, harassed, separated and psychologically tormented the members of this clan over the course of about four years, slowly whittling their numbers down. The men were either driven from the village or the stronger ones, felt to be more of a threat, were outright killed. This lit a spark in the people of Amegakure, seeing what was happening. Some of the older ones were reminded of Pain and Konan, and inspired by what they saw as a blessing from their angels, they assisted in the effort of rebuilding Amegakure. The up and coming Genin of the village, in particular, were enamored by the notion that more than sixty years of oppression was ended by six kids, not much older than themselves. No one had ever heard of them before, they were not super soldiers, and had not failed to suffer their own casualties. They were simply people who decided they were not going to sit around anymore.
Over the next six years, the Wani would assist the people of Amegakure in rebuilding their village. They organized a shinobi council that would put the power back into the hands of the people. Taking the role of mediator with the Daimyo, they began distributing missions back to the shinobi, attempting to bolster the economy. With the limited resources and money coming in, they were funneled to the most important endeavors, like repairing schools and medical centers. Amegakure is by no means in good shape, to this day. Much of the village is still decimated by the damage from the sixty years of neglect and fighting, as well as the damage wrought even from the battles of Pain and Konan. The economy is still feeble and new.
But things are much better than they were.
As their first act as a free people, the village of Amegakure decided to strip decisive power from the council, and return the village to the monarchy that it had originally been through way of a democratic vote. The first in Amegakure history. Wani Ryuze was elected Lady of the Amegakure ten years after it was reclaimed, and she continues to work to improve the lives of those in her homeland.