Recently there have been talks of a yellow haired Butcher on the boundary of Earth country. Any teams sent over to scout outside the mountain range were killed brutally. At least no one was raped. Although shredding of most of the upper cells of a body is a next grade torture. Whoever is killing the teams have a grudge or they are plain sadists. The second possibility is actually quite low. Sadists mostly originate from Kiri due to their brutal tendencies while the sadists in each village are mostly given T I work due to the nature of sadists to prolong the battles. It is done so because there was a high death rate of sadist chunnins during the Second Ninja War.
Rapists are frowned everywhere in the Elemental Nations for the simple facts that are that rape horrifies most kunoichi who have a 30% enlistment rate in the Military and that rape leads to increasing escalation of violence that was prevalent in the warring states. This leads to starvation and short life expectancy, well shorter than the average for us until the conflict deescalates. We have breading programs to get bloodlines via breeding but they are mostly redundant as capturing a direct lineage kunoichi/shinobi of a bloodline is incredibly difficult. Most clan heirs or important clan members have suicide pills with them in case of capture. Civilians detest rapists and the last country to openly allow rapist shinobi to roam around ( Water Country to be exact) was faced with many internal rebellions during the First Ninja War. No other country has faced so many rebellions as the Water Country.
To be perfectly honest, this is because their Daimyo is in the pockets of Kirigakure Shinobi due to how wimpy the Daimyo of Water Country generally are and how little pull they have. See, the reason Daimyo exist when one could argue that the whole countries should be ran by shinobi is the fact that the Daimyo control the civilians. No one wants starvation and mass genocides in their country. And assassinations of Daimyos does that. Civilians riot. Farmers try to move past the borders. Trades are blocked and overall everything gets fucked.
The overall situation of Elemental Nations is that every major power has something rigged to destroy others should they perish. Mutually assured destruction you might say. Daimyos therefore get heavily protected. Secondly, the Daimyos have there own Ninja clans backing them. See the warring states era didn't just gave rise to very low life expectancy and brutal amoral ninjas but also to Daimyos. The Daimyo system has preceded the Shinobi villages in there formation. It has been active for more than 200 years and still going strong. So obviously something is right with the system. People shouldn't interfere with things that are going right.
Daimyos have had some clans loyal to them since 200 years. Most of these clans didn't join the ninja villages as Hashirama and Madara expected. Instead each Daimyo(except the water Daimyo) retained 2-3 loyal clans with them. Obviously against the military of shinobi villages, it isn't much. But the point is that if the hidden village of the Country moves against the Daimyo, there will be a civilian rebellion. A small scale Civil war- Hidden village vs Daimyo Loyal clans which will destabilize there country too much. This then leads to a war by another country. This whole system is rigged to explode if any major power moves against another. In other words, the Daimyos are the government and the Shinobi villages are the military.
The Shinobi villages CAN take over the country but it will lead to anarchy which could possibly lead to another warring states era which no one wants. The horror stories told to the children inside Shinobi villages consist mostly of the First Ninja War and the Warring states era, especially the Warring states era.
Last time I wrote that most villages don't have more than 15 Jonins at a time, my subordinate and lover Rengo reminded me than it sounded nonsensical. So I will try to give an explanation of why I wrote that. While it could be argued that Shinobi villages typically have 30-35 Jonin in their service. It is just to be build up number scare. See, most Jonin got there promotion either in the First Great War or the Second one except a few. This will show you the actual age gap. I myself was promoted during the ongoing Third Ninja War. So most Jonin fight for peace so when they actually get peace, they either become missing nin which is a low rate, get dull to cope up with the fact that there is no more need for them (which actually means that they have to TEACH students which is a detestable task for most Jonins) or become too paranoid and preside over some type of war council whose job is mostly to get enough agression built up to launch an actual war again. This shows that the Jonin from the previous generation are mostly non effective except Monsters like the Sannin, Kages, seven blades of Kiri or Hanzo.
I also wrote that most Jonin find a way to cope with the death and destruction. Well my method of coping is that I am a pansexual hedonist. Most of the boys and gals in the squad have been my sex partners. Two of the boys and 1 girl have been my permanent lovers since 3 years. While this is obviously embarrassing for whoever is gonna read it, it is an excellent advice. As far as I can tell, the only two productive ways to cope as a Jonin is engaging in sex regularly or find extreme enjoyment in training. Because any other way is very likely to become dull and killed.
When you become a Jonin, most of the time you start to see the conditioning done to you since childhood but that rarely matters. When you become a Jonin, you have most likely experienced cynicism, existential crisis and general apathy. At this point, knowing that your Village has been conditioning you since childhood and that whatever hogwash philosophy they taught at the academy was full of shit doesn't change anything. You know that you are a soldier and that you have to remain a soldier lest you be killed by your Village. Also I would like to note that most Jonin by this point have their own philosophy for doing what they do. Even if it is clearly delusional, you shouldn't question a Jonin's philosophy because most Jonin are delusional and they don't like to acknowledge it.
I know I am delusional and am self aware to the fact but admitting to that my whole life was a lie still hurts.
