Chapt.25- Exploration

(Shigure's P.O.V)

(Flashback of Mission/ Shigure's journal)

I completed my conquest in about 13 months, and let me tell you it was a mix of good and bad. On a positive note it was mostly tropical areas and jungles that I explored, and the booze were amazing. To fuck everything up on my travels most the places I stayed in smelt weird, the people were rude and had something against bathing, and it rained a fucking ton. I guess it could be worse.

The first few weeks were probably the most boring; since I had to go find countries and villages that were currently unknown to Konoha, talk about confusing as hell. After a month I still hadn't found another village except for resorts and small farming towns, but not a single country/ military force.

I was really staring to get irritated that absolutely nothing was in the southeast area of the known world, until I stumbled upon an island nation. I went to go meet them, and at first everything was smooth. They called themselves the village hidden in the peninsula and were in Island Country. I gathered what mapping information I could from that and added it to my own, so I had a start.

Things went sour when I met their leader. I know I was told not to cause trouble, but this guy was a royal asshole, literally. They were led by a monarchy, and I had King Asshole himself scoffing at me. I was chased out of there once I chopped his head off, but at least I got the map of the general area.

About a week later I fetched a bout and took off on a 2-month voyage of the far southeastern sea that was somewhere quite south of Suna. When I docked I landed in a simple port and a small continent encased in jungle. Just terrific. It week me another week of bumbling through the goddam jungle to meet the village, or should I say aborigines.

These people were highly religious, primitive, and simple. I first meet them when they attacked me, and when I began to eat one of my victims they actually applauded me. Now that was the last reaction I had expected. From what I could understand from them is that cannibalism was a trait of their mighty gods. I was getting worshipped like nobodies business and settled down for about a month to enjoy myself and attempt to gather information.

Once I decided to leave they happily accepted the alliance with Konoha, since they wouldn't disappoint one of their "gods". I decided to call them the village hidden within the jungle, and use the mapping materials I got from them to get to the other side if the small island continent.

After about another month of travel I had made it to the coast. I only was able to find one actual military force in the whole area, which was quite weird; maybe I wasn't searching hard enough. I quickly got onto a ship and kept going east.

This time it only took about a month of sea travel and I arrived somewhere probably on the other side of the world since it was very foreign in almost every aspect. From what I had gathered from the people at the port is there were 6 ninja villages within the vast region. I actually got a map from one guy, and I had my work cut out for me. I created a path I would take from each village and estimated if I hurried I would be done in 5 months. First country on my list (or the one I was currently in) was Hill Country. I found the capital in about 4 days and met up with their military head (basically their kage). He seemed quite nice and we hit it off pretty well. We exchanged information and I was out in about 3 days with some good information that Tsunade would like.

Back on the round I continued to walk through forests, plains, and mountainous terrain before I reached my next destination. It was called Skull Country and it was definitely really ominous, it reminded me of Iwa. After venturing into the country there was very little attractive about the place so I didn't even bother to find the capital.

After wasting 2 weeks in Skull Country and a month to get there, next I entered Volcano Country. I saw two huge active volcanoes within the country assuming that's where it got its name. I was officially in the middle of the continent as I found the capital about a week later. I got some weird looks because of my Konoha hi-ate, but besides that it was ok. The best thing about this country probably was the booze, since I stuck around an extra week having fun. Once I got out of my slump I had the treaty signed and headed directly south to Blue Country.

I thought it was a strange name until I saw most the fields and land was covered in some sort of blue weed like flower. I never did find the hidden village in the location, just a few farming towns in 3 weeks of searching.

My last stop was Thorn Country, and I didn't feel like going to the other place since the leader from Hill country told me the last country, Hurricane country was currently in civil war.

Thorn Country was basically like Fire country, but slightly more over grown with more thorny bushes and poisonous animals. I found the capital at this place too in about a week and it was run by a democracy. They basically did away with 1 military leader and had a board of experienced ninja to make decisions. I talked with the board, and got voted down to having an alliance since it wasn't in their best interests. I was fine with it and got out of there the next day.

About 2 days later thorn ninja tried to ambush me and get information from the other villages I had gathered. I pretty much kicked ass and ate them on the spot, but I did make sure to send 1 lucky soul to go tell the tale to his superiors. I now had a small militia after me and I got to the border/ coast the next day and got on a ship. I knew trouble when I saw it, and fighting 80 ninja wasn't on my to do list.

I spent about 5 months on the vast ocean (with tiny island stops along the way for supplies) and reached the far west part of the neighboring nation of Island country. This country was defiled with corruption and in the midst of a power struggle so I told my self I would head back to Konoha. I made it through what I learned to be Tropic Country, and enjoyed the local bars while traveling across the wide country. I probably took too much time with about 2 weeks to get through the entire place.

Just North of me was Tea Country so I decided I would be back in Konoha in about a month if I didn't take any detours. I mad it quickly through the familiar territory and landed in Fire Country a month later, and about a week from Konoha. I didn't run into any leaf shinobi to talk to along the way to ask what's going on, but I assumed Tsunade would probably be whom I needed to talk to first.

This summary brings us to now, as I'm standing outside the front gates of Konoha at sunset preparing to enter a village I hadn't seen in a year, and wonder if anything had changed? I also wondered if Naruto had been back since training Jiraiya since they were supposed to be gone for a year as well. I guess I'll just have to go and find out.

Just a recap of Shigure's journey. This isn't very exciting I know, but this information will be a referenced back to later on and hold some weight in later chapters.