Shadows of Time

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Prologue – Great Treasures

The countries were once united under the leadership of one village, the Shadow village. The village was wealthy beyond belief and had the strongest warriors, however thy were a peace loving people who sought order.

Their leader was the Kage, a man of great power he was a kind and caring leader who wanted nothing more than to look after his people. Under their protection the five countries prospered and the people grew strong and powerful, maybe that was why they sought to be free of the Kage's rule.

It was on one frost bitten night that the five countries turned on the Shadow village, like a tilde wave they flooded over the Shadow lands and slaughtered the servants of the Kage.

When they finale surrounded the Shadow village itself, the Kage was alone in the defense of the village because his entire army of shadow ninja had been assassinated in one night.

Tho his power was great not even the great Kage could stop the tilde wave of enemy ninja, the leaders of the uprising were gloating in there enmity victory when in a blink of an eye the entire shadow village had disappeared.

Some said that the villagers rather than die at the hands of the upstarted preferred to die in a Jutsu that leveled the city. Others said that the Kage somehow teleported the entire village away to safety, all that was apparent was that in the center of the crater left from the villages disappearance, lay the crumpled and broken body of the Kage.

The leaders of the uprising each stole a peace of the Kages many artifacts, a certain crystal necklace amongst them.

Then like all alliances the five countries turn on each other and the land knew only suffering and pain, the people started to regret they decision to destroy the Shadow village. Tho they had been under the rule of a man who was seen as weak and unfit to lead, the Kage had been a good and caring ruler.

It was not for nearly a century that a new leader arose and a new time of peace came for the people of the fire country.

It was under his watchful eyes that a great Shinobi village arose, and the Leaf village took its place in the world.

Tho who would believe that the Kages greatest treasure now hung around the neck of a certain blond ninja.

Naruto alway was a Dobe.