Chapter 8 The Shadow of Power
When the first Hokage pacified the Warring States period, he joined forces with the Uchiha and Senju clans to establish the Hidden Leaf Village. From then on, the organizational model of ninjas began to shift from ninja clans to ninja villages.
It was at that time that the head of the Kusa Sen clan, Kusa Sen Ryufu, chose to move his entire clan to the Land of Grass and join the Hidden Leaf Village. The Hidden Leaf Village was established by the Ura clan, a local ninja clan in the Land of Grass. Ura Itsuki, the then head of the Ura clan, welcomed the Kusa Sen clan, which had come from afar. Later, with the cooperation of the two clans, large and small ninja clans in the Land of Grass also joined the Hidden Leaf Village.
But where there are people, there are disputes. The Ura clan was originally the first clan in the Land of Grass. After the Kusa Sen clan came, their status began to be threatened. The rest of the local ninja clans were also mostly headed by the Ura clan. As an outside ninja clan, the Kusa Sen clan was excluded and suppressed everywhere. Fortunately, the chief of the Ura clan, Ura Itachi, was relatively open-minded, and the Kusa Sen clan itself also had considerable strength. As an outsider ninja clan, the Kusa Sen clan did not have much trouble in the early days.
But as the ninja village organization matured, the rights were clearly divided. Especially with the death of the then chief of the Kusa Sen clan, Kusa Sen Ryufeng, and the chief of the Ura clan, Ura Itachi, the power struggle between the various ninja clans became more obvious. But as an outsider ninja clan, the Kusa Sen clan was obviously excluded and suppressed by the other ninja clans, and the Kusa Sen clan gradually moved away from the power center of the Kusagakure Village. The Kusa Sen clan now only maintains its seat in the joint meeting between the major clans.
At the beginning, it was to escape the generational hatred with the Hyuga clan that they chose to leave the Land of Fire and come to the Land of Grass. Unexpectedly, after escaping the old disputes, they ushered in new disputes. The Hyuga clan, the former feud, ushered in a easing of relations between the two clans under the long-term lack of conflict of interest. This has to be said to be a rather ironic joke.
If that were the case, it would be fine, and the two sides would generally maintain a peace. However, after Kusa Chihana of the Kusa Sen clan was found to have awakened the bloodline of Bamboo Release, this balance began to break. Although the legend of Kusa Chihana, the first generation user of Bamboo Release, has long been covered by the dust of history, the top leaders of the Kusa Hidden Village who are in power at the moment will not allow such an unstable factor in the future to exist.
After graduating from the Ninja School, Kusa Chihana was constantly sent to perform various dangerous tasks. Sometimes you can clearly feel the stumbling blocks of your teammates, and the leading ninja and teammates all run away from the battlefield. For them, letting Kusa Chihana die in the mission is the best choice, or letting the mission fail, and then blaming the failure on Kusa Chihana is also good. However, with the power of Bamboo Release and the cooperation of the family in secret, Kusa Chihana has completed many impossible tasks.
All this made the Kusa Hidden Village top leaders see the power of Bamboo Release, but it also made the top leaders make a decision. This kind of power must not be allowed to the Kusa Sen clan. The power of the Kusa Sen clan is not in the interests of the top leaders.
As an adult, Kusa Chihana was hailed as the most powerful ninja in the history of the Kusa Chihana family, and the entire Kusa Chihana family was proud of Kusa Chihana. During that period, the Kusa Chihana family tried to return to the center of power again.
But Kusa Chihana and her husband Kusa Chiyu were not ambitious people. They just wanted their people to live a better life. Similarly, they also had a special feeling for the village where they lived and did not want the village to suffer losses because of their relationship. They wanted to show goodwill to the top leaders, but the top leaders of Kusagakure Village could not believe in this power that did not belong to them, and the conflict between the two sides was inevitable.
During Kusa Chihana's pregnancy, she was assassinated many times because of her inconvenience in movement and her decline in strength. But the Kusa Chihana family had many members, strong strength, and good at perception. Under the protection of the family, they were safe.
During Kusa Chihana's delivery, the entire Kusa Chihana family made various preparations. For safety, they even let Kusa Chihana enter the ancestral hall space connected by the black stone wall of the family ancestral hall.
But the strongest castle is often broken from the inside. When the patrol of the Kusa Chi clan found the body of a female member who was supposed to help Kusa Chiyuna give birth, it was too late.
After Kusa Chiyu rushed into the space sealed by the black stone wall, he found the bodies of two female members lying on the ground, and Kusa Chiyuna who was talking to Kusa Chiyuna who looked like a baby with her last strength
One of the bodies lying on the ground was exactly the same as the female member found outside. Obviously, the body found outside was the real member of the Kusa Chi clan. Kusa Chiyu could roughly guess that she should have used some irreversible secret technique to become the appearance of that member, and then replaced the original Kusa Chi clan member to enter this ancestral temple space
No one knew what Kusa Chiyuna said to Kusa Chiyu in her dying moments. All he knew was that after he came out, he said with a gloomy face that the wife of the clan leader Kusa Chiyuna died of dystocia. Although quite a few people knew that this was not the truth and could guess a rough idea. But the Kusa Chi clan could only pretend not to know and suppress their hatred.
It was the middle of the Second Shinobi World War. The top leaders were unwilling to have a full-scale conflict with Kusanagi, which would damage the village's strength. The top leaders even came to offer false condolences amid the angry stares of Kusanagi clan members.
It was also after the Kusa Chihana incident that the relationship between the Kusa Chi clan and the top management reached its lowest point ever. The relationship between the Kusa Chi clan and a considerable number of ninja clans also deteriorated sharply. Finally, after negotiations, the top management selected the Kusa Chi clan's ninjas from the ninja group and organized them into a "special guard force". This is what the top management has always wanted to accomplish, because this can better exclude the Kusa Chi clan from the power center, and this is also the best way out for the Kusa Chi clan at present. All this seems to be the same as the Uchiha clan of Konoha. The Uchiha clan of Konoha is bound by the framework of the Konoha Guard Force and cannot touch the power center further. The Kusa Chi clan of Kusagakure is bound in the special guard force and is also excluded from the power center.
"I thought they would be more obedient, but I didn't expect them to take action so soon. If this matter is not handled well, it is likely to evolve into a civil war in Kusagakure Village, and the Kusa Chi clan may also be destroyed." Kusagakure thought worriedly.
Originally, during the war, Kusagakure Village strictly maintained neutrality. Kusagakure Clan took advantage of the fact that the high-level officials of Kusagakure Village were unwilling to have civil strife, which led to others taking advantage of the situation to maintain a short and fragile peace with the high-level officials. But war always ends. The end of the Second Ninja World War made Kusagakure uneasy, fearing the civil strife in Kusagakure Village that followed.
Kusagakure was a little excited when he first heard that the Third Kazekage was missing and the Third Ninja World War would break out soon. But this time, Ura Kumi said that he would participate in the war to seek the greatest benefits for Kusagakure Village depending on the situation, which made Kusagakure smell a hint of conspiracy.
Obviously, he is not interested in power, but he has to pursue power in this position. Originally, he just wanted the family to live a good life, but he didn't know when the fate of the family would be cut off. Originally, he wanted Liu Yu to have a happy childhood, but because of the future of the family she was carrying, she had to start various high-intensity training at a young age.
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