A/N: My new story. I hope you like it. It's the story behind my OC, Kaori Kiuno. She's in the other story, Shinobi Magic, as well. I figured that I should give the whole background on her and stuff. Besides, I've always wanted to make this a story.
Also, if you read this story, I would like you PM me – or just put it in your review – with the name of a jutsu and what they do. Not obvious ones, of course. I want ideas for jutsu that I can use in this story. Thanks!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Period – End of story.
A long time ago, there was a huge shinobi war raging between all of the countries. (This was back when there were more ninja villages than there are today. They disappeared slowly over the years following this war.) As the end of the war came near, The Light Village allied with the Leaf Village.
The Light Village was a very powerful village just like the Leaf Village. The shinobi's trademark light blue or white hair and color-changing eyes made them easy to recognize, however, the most skilled shinobi could change their hair color back to light brown (if their hair was light blue) or black (if their hair was white), making them masters of disguise. Yes, they were a very powerful village indeed, with many secrets that were kept under tight protection and many amazing techniques that no other village could even imagine performing.
The Leaf Village was also a strong nation. Though they did not have the secrets and amazing techniques that the Light village did, they did have the most ninja out of any of the other villages, and many of those ninja were truly skilled in battle.
Not only that, but none of the other village had made allies since no one could be trusted, or so it seemed, so this gave the Leaf and Light Villages yet another advantage aside from their extreme power and compatibility.
Other people realized this, and became afraid. Seeing how powerful the two allies had become, villages started allying with each other. The Leaf and Light Villages saw how powerful everyone else was becoming. The only village that hadn't allied anyone was the Sand Village, so the two allies attacked. Unfortunately, almost all of the other ninja villages had decided to attack that village as well, and on the same day. Everyone ignored whatever peace treaties they had made and just attacked. This battle, the last one, became to be known the Battle of Light. Why? Well, that's mostly because of Kakuzai Kiuno.
Kakuzai was from the Light Village. His amazing skill and long, straight, stark white hair proved that. He was a very powerful ninja and the favored man to lead the Light Ninja into battle. He refused to lead,in the end, but he did fight.
The Battle of Light wasn't long. In fact, it only lasted for 3 days. On the third day, Kakuzai ran into the middle of the battlefield, almost dead, and let out an attack so powerful, the battle ended right then and there (Golden Light - Sky Shot). The Light ninja were thrilled. They had won the war! But as Kakuzai lay on the ground, dying, he made a famous speech.
"If I had the choice, I would have not let this war happen. In fact, not too long ago, I didn't even want to be a ninja. But I did not have a choice whether the war happened or not, as I was born into it. Curse those who let themselves be angered enough to rage into a war over their personal problems, over something much less than two little kids fighting for a toy. As for being a ninja, I've learned to love what I do.
"War is pointless. People die for nothing. We teach our kids to be nice to each other and solve our problems logically. But war should never be a choice. No one ever wins, even if they think they have. Therefore, I believe that no one has won this war. Don't start complaining, my friends, because you know it's true. We've all lost more than we ever will in the future of our villages.
"I am not done yet. I also have something else to say." There was a long silence. "Every 1000 years, there will be another battle like this last battle, but in it all of the ninja villages will work together to fight against all evil. Ten battles will be fought over the course of ten thousand years. Ten battles. And ten chances for all of you ninja to restore your honor. The one who will lead you will be from my clan, the Kiuno clan, for I will be sure to pass down my knowledge of love, hope, truth, unity, and strength. I would hope that my children will do the same. I will handpick the ninja from my clan that I want to lead you. Now, if you win just one battle, you will have restored your honor and I will recognize you as true ninja, even in my afterlife. No more battles. But if you lose all ten. . .well, what happens after that will be for you to find out if you so choose to do so. Rest assured, it won't be good.
"Goodbye, my fellow ninja. May we meet again someday."
And with that, he died.
His prophecy was known as The Kiu Prophecy. (In the Light Village, the word 'kiu', short for Kiuno, came to mean 'great'.) The ninja that he would handpick every thousand years was known as the Kiu Shinobi.
No one took the prophecy to seriously at first. Besides, what could a dead man do to them? However, when the first predicted battle actually came, people became a little tenser. He really was watching them, and he really was right. From then on, they began to prepare for these battles. They were sure they would win. How hard could it be?
8 battles later, they weren't so sure. In each of the nine battles they had fought, they had been easily defeated. The Kiu Shinobi always tried his hardest, but the villages could never get along.
During the next thousand years, the villages started getting along better, and they began preparing for the last battle. They were more hopeful this time. Everything seemed to be going just fine.
Suddenly, the Light Village disappeared. It was rumored that Kakuzai had taken them away, outraged by how badly the villages were doing. (By now, most of the small villages had been destroyed). What really happened though, which the people figured out later, was that evil ninja had destroyed the Light Village and everyone in it.
The people tried to convince themselves that they could do it without the Light ninja and even without the Kiu Shinobi. Unfortunately, things started falling apart between villages and everyone lost all hope of winning.
Little did they know, Shitzu Kiuno, 13 years old at the time, had escaped the attack on his village and ran away to the Leaf Village, disguised as Shitzu Yukimura. He changed his normally light blue spiky hair back to light brown, and then told the current Hokage about what had happened, revealing himself to the Hokage.
Since then, only the Hokages knew about this predicament, and swore to keep it a secret for the sake of the village, the Kiuno clan, and every ninja village alive.
About fifty years later, well, that's where this story comes in.
A/N: Just an introduction. It's almost the same introduction used in my other story, because it talks about the same things. Almost.
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