Sorry for the delay. I was busy doing... research. Yes, research.
So, on this chapter I finish with the prologue. Next one will be longer. Eventually I plan to put this prologue in one chapter, but that is not today. Today I write.
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Rokudaime Hokage Diary.
Day 1
I've began this diary to put on paper everything that I've did in my reign as Hokage, as well as any important event that has happened while I was reigning as Hokage, and I hope my successors also take up on this practice.
The objective of this diary is to take the first steps towards a better future. With this the next Hokages will be able to begin where I left, to understand my reasons, to have knowledge of everything that I know and did as Hokage.
Therefore, I begin telling about the aftermatch.
It has been one week since we defeated Uchiha Madara, and things couldn't have been better. The Shinobi Alliance seems to be showing signs of succeeding already. I really hope that it does. It was one of Naruto's dream, to bring peace to the world of Shinobi, to break the circle of hatred. I hope to accomplish this, and if not, to take the first steps, allowing someone that succeeds this ambition shared by us to achieve it.
We are still in the process of 'cleaning up', as Sai said, but we are already planning treaties. A union of all the Kages, along with the daimios, to establish peace across the continent. This union has the objective of establishing law and ruling, as well as international police, hunting and imprisoning the remaining missing nin that remains, as well as regulate trade. The first job shall be given to the Kages, and the second by the daimios. I appointed Shikamaru as my representative, I am confident he'll do a good job, if he can be bothered to wake up.
We lost many good Shinobi on the War, and that is one of the reasons I'm one week late on my coronation. We just finished bury all the Leaf shinobi, as well as find their scattered parts. Many Hyuuga, including Neji, died, so protecting our kekkei genkai is an important job to do.
So with this I finish the first entry of this diary.
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Day 30
There seems to be agitation on the smaller countries. They are claiming that they must be heard on the Council of Nations. We invited them last week, and they are already making claims, asking for land, business, and punishing against major and/or smaller nations. I am beginning to think Oonoki was right, we shouldn't have invited them to participate. They didn't lend any shinobi, didn't participate in the War, and many had direct connections to the Akatsuki and/or Orochimaru. The daimio of Rice country, for example, is demanding that the Leaf pay for what Orochimaru did to their country. As if that was our fault.
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Month 3, day 7
The first signs of aggression against one of the non-shinobi nations member of the Council has been done. The shinobi of Sound attacked the land of Hot Water, and their official reason was to vanquish all kinds of Jashinism of the world. Bullshit. Hidan was the last jashinist in the world; their entire religion has been vanquished more than 10 years ago. They just want the land for themselves.
We unfortunately are going to have to take measures against Rice country; I pray that just the economic sanctions can work against this.
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Year, month and day 1
It has been more than one year since this Alliance was formed, and we passed by some tense moments. In the name of peace we had to completely destroy Rice country military, and that made a new number of dangerous and vicious missing nin to rise. It is no akatsuki, but we shall tread carefully.
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Year 3, month 10, day 5
I have been mistaken, and I have failed. One year ago, we received Intel that a missing nin from Sound was gathering member for an organization powerful enough to challenge the Council. We Kages discredited this, but still sent some people to deal with them. Our team was defeated. There were some spies on our midst, and now they have joined the enemy. We are dealing with an organization as powerful and big as ours. I'm just glad the bijuu are not here anymore. We will face them in War soon enough, a war that might be even more bloody than the last.
Won't this ever end?
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Year 3, month 11, day 26
We won against the Shinobi Empire, as that organization called itself, but not without cost. The leader of that faction, called Shou, used what was discovered in the Fourth Great Ninja War, that all chakra paths are connected to poison everyone with a suicide jutsu in a last attempt at revenge against everyone else.
We are dying; everyone from the Elemental Nations is dying. We shinobi are too far-gone, since we rely so heavily on chakra (who would have thought that our biggest asset could be turned against us this way?), but maybe we can save the civilians. I don't know the after effects, but maybe if we get them far away, we can save them. We will use all the boats available on the continent to get them all away.
I pray that this works.
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Year 4, month 3, day 30
I can feel it; I am going to die today. Most of the Shinobi Nations is going too. However, we took a final decision. We are going to make sure that no one is ever going to misuse the knowledge of chakra and jutsu ever again. I can't say we are going to bring peace, but the bloodshed will be reduced. As for how we are going to do this, we are going to use a modification of Kamui, the Hiraishin, and ironically enough, Madara's jutsu, along with the fact that it was Konohamaru who did the ultimate breakthrough, to 'vanish' with the land. The huge amounts of chakra required to do this will be insane, be we have nothing to lose. Nothing at all.
We also are going to place all the chakra knowledge we have on Konoha's vault. After all, we did use it to create the ultimate jutsu, and we have no time to waste. That was Shikamaru's idea, by the way.
However, I am not naïve. I know that this solution can last for a long time, but it doesn't means it will last forever. I know that with time someone will discover or stumble upon this place. And that I will be powerless to act against it.
So I ask of you. Please, whoever you are, do not use this knowledge for selfish purposes, for that will only lead to pain. That is my warning to you.
Be wise on how you use your power, and be afraid of it. That is the only way they will not consume you. That is a hard-learned lesson that took my entire life to learn.
Signed, Sasuke Uchiha, Rokudaime Hokage.
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Naruto closed the diary. It has been one day since he arrived on the ruins of Konoha, and he had reached rock bottom. What could he do from now on? His purpose, everyone he loved, his friends, his not-so-much friends, his acquaintances, all gone. He wasn't there to protect and help them. What was he to do? The world was over…
'The world!' Naruto thought. If he could somehow leave this continent, he would be able to find the people that left the land, and maybe bring them back. After all, as Sasuke said, some crazy dude released a disease upon chakra users, but he wasn't affected by that. Maybe it has passed already. The Elemental Nations were safe yet again.
With a goal in mind, Naruto took a decision. He would have to leave this place, to find a way to bring back the Elemental Nations, and he alongside it, and to try to rebuild it.
Now, he had to find a way to dispel the jutsu that has been placed upon the land. And that required something he was never good at: studying. So taking a deep breath, Naruto headed inside the Hokage library, the place where he knew he would pass the next few years on.
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So, finished with the prologue. Next episode may be longer.
Hope you liked. Bye.