Revolutione ex Machina
Revolution. It's a word that many a person throws around carelessly, without truly knowing the meaning. To some it means rebellion. Others think it means a change in power. Yet still almost everyone seems to think that a revolution necessarily has combat at its core. This is not true. A true revolution is one that tears down the old foundations of one society, so as to build upon it an even stronger net of roots.
However, when those who stage these revolutions pass on, the meaning of their words is corrupted, and the machine they were building begins to rust, and fall apart. The gears begin to dull, and then their grinding together begins to smoothen the notches, making them slippery, waiting for the one day that a gear finally slips up & sends everything crashing down. This is the cycle of human society.
And the shinobi world had most definitely fallen victim to this cycle. The Rokudo-Sennin had created the chakra arts so as to finally bring piece not only to the shinobi clans, but to the samurai, the peasants, the monks, even the foreigners that had just begun to colonize the northern coasts. However, his 4 sons would send the finally unified clans back into war again, each claiming to be the new Sennin, and each taking upon themselves a new moniker. They were the founders of the 4 most influential clans in the world- The Senju, the Uchiha, the Namikaze, and the Uzumaki.
This war would twist the four brothers so much that they would each break into the tomb of their revered father, so as to release the Juubi from its prison, and take control of it with their mutant abilities they had received from their jinchuriki father. These abilities were the first kekkei-genkei. However, as fate would have it, all 4 brothers would arrive at the same time, and they would proceed to battle one another.
The result of this battle would damage the special seals that the sage had placed in the tomb to hold the Juubi after his death. The damaged seals then split its chakra into 10 parts, which would reanimate the corpses of ten animals that had been killed during the brother's combat. These reanimated beasts would mutate and become the legendary beasts of Shinobi lore, the Bijou. The brothers, for once united for a common goal since the death of their father, agreed that their travesty must never be revealed to the world.
Hence, the brothers together came up with a plan. For their crime of daring to soil their father's holy tomb with their petty conflicts, they would bring about the Rokudo Sennin's dream of a unified world. Together with the shogunate-rulers who had recently set themselves up as daimyo, they began manipulating events for another war between the Senju & Uchiha to take place for a century, during which time the Namikaze & Uzumaki would gather up the funds & recourses to form hidden villages in these lawless lands. The daimyo would later give charters to the 4 clans & their allies to set up the shinobi villages.
There would 5 primary villages- Konoha, Suna, Kiri, Iwa, and Kumo. The Uzumaki would then administrate a 6th hidden-village, Yama, which would be based in the land of Iron. Yama would be where all the minor countries would send their ninja to be trained .These countries would all form a large alliance, so as to become an equal power to the Elemental Nations. They would also replace monks, mercenaries, samurai, ninja & the other warrior groups, stealing their techniques, applying chakra to them then restricting the groups into secluded communities, where they would hopefully die off.
This way, shinobi would have total monopoly over the special military-factions that were scattered across the Elemental nations. They would also become more involved in the criminal underworld, replacing ninja & yakuza as the primary influences on the political stage, black market & flow of information amongst the populace. Most importantly, however, the 4 brothers began to have shinobi infiltrate the national archives of the various countries, so that they could rewrite history as they saw fit.
Hence, no one knew of how they had violated the tomb of the Holy Sage of Six Paths, and how they had accidentally created the bijou. However, their conspiracy would work a little too well. Eventually, the brothers lost control of the villages. They were ousted as clan heads by the younger generation, who they had failed to educate on the nature of their plan. Hence, Uchiha-Senju rivalry would continue past the assigned date of when their war would end. The clans would scatter, splitting into different factions & begin mingling with outsiders. With brothers Displaced, the daimyo began to assert authority over the shinobi clans, still forcing them to band together as hidden villages, but also making them subordinate to their feudal lords.
Eventually, Shinobi themselves became corrupted; convincing themselves that they were all powerful, and the shinobi were necessary parts of society for it to survive. Merchant & Shinobi clans began to fill the void left by the Yakuza, building their own criminal empires. Several went rouge & began to become warlords. Those with kekkei-genkei were elevated to a status of being nearly angelic humans. This would spark hate between 'plain' shinobi and their bloodline-using counterparts in many areas, like Kiri. Several Shinobi wars had been sparked, with 3 of them reaching "Great" status for the amount of carnage they left.
With the Senju & Namikaze clans having been cut down to less than a hundred people for each clan, and the Uzumaki clan producing several sterile children after the 2nd war, they began to rally alongside the only "Holy" clan that had remained strong & fertile, the Uchiha. This would bring them to form an enclave in Konoha, which vowed to restore the power of the 4 Holy clans, through harnessing a power their ancestors had failed to do so- the tailed beasts.
And the clans would be successful in their endeavors, using the abilities that their ancestors used so long ago to control the beasts. They would gather them all together. Using the Uzumaki-clans unique ability mesh & mold any form of chakra together, they would recreate a beast only heard of from legends, known as the Juubi.
However, they were not able to contain & control the monster, which would escape and begin to wreak havoc across the Elemental Nations. This event would spark the lightning that would cause a maelstrom, one so powerful, that would be able repower an old machine. A machine known as revolution...
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