So diary and whoever is reading this... I am here again.. Recently, the 'Butcher' has blocked us off from Land of Rice. The conflict has not yet escalated and while the teams that are being sent only die horribly, it doesn't really matter much in the Grand scheme of things. The war has been going on since 5 years. Although no major battles have yet occured, I expect a very major conflict in the middle of next year. While we have ration stocked for about 3 years, it is the amount that is consumed in peace times. The war requires ninjas to be fit as fuck and the upcoming talents to take care of the health so while our stockpiled food is estimated to last for 3 years, it will most likely not last for more than one and a half year.

The reasons we have not been sent more than three high chunin outside the mountain range are as follows:

We still do not know about any capabilities of this 'Butcher'. The name has been coined due to his tendency of brutally murdering our shinobi. It's not that there haven't been sadists on the battlefield before. God knows Madara, Tobirama and our Kage Onoki-sama are sadists but the point is that they only displayed sadism in major battles and no other shinobi who have this much skill and were torturers have made a name in recent history.

Although from the clean but torturous deaths of the Chunnins and High Chunnins, it is clear that the opponent is at least a high level Jonin,we aren't sure of his affiliation and motives. Sure there have been speculations that this is the same blonde brat who was 'reported' to have killed two Jonin when he was 13 during the seige of Uzushio, I believe it to be horseshit. Konoha's tactics of 'scare all' are famous among all the nations. It must have been Jiraiya the Toad fucker who killed them and attributed the name of his protege for the kills. While I don't believe that any protege of one of the Sannins will be weak, a 13 year old killing two Jonins is so far off that it is a laughable attempt to build up the brat's intimidation. 13 is the age most brats try to get that High Chunnin rank. Let alone Jonin, if that brat had killed two Special Jonin, it would have been an amazing accomplishment but the news of death of 2 Jonin is too farfetched.

Iwa is in talks with Kumo. While we are obviously not going to have an alliance, we are trying to get a ceasefire with Kumo as we don't want a three way fuck fest between Konoha, us and Kumo in the land of Rice. While Kumo isn't as connected with the land of Rice as Konoha and us due to their self sufficient economy, they wouldn't want a major power like us to have one less chink in our Armor. Also while Kumo and us are openly hostile to each other, it is because of ethnic reasons. While this may sound dumb, Kumo and us don't have any meaningful relationship with each other. The only reason our cannon fodder (genins and chunnins) clash so frequently is that our ninja arts are a direct counter to each other.

We are trying to bait the enemy villages into thinking that we don't want much war with others and are willing to not try to capture Land of Rice for quite some time. Obviously for this to work, we will have to slowly stop sending fodder to be killed by the Butcher over the span of next year so that we can convince others (at least the not totally paranoid ones) that we will not move out to capture the Land of Rice.

Well let's elaborate on the third and fourth point. Kumo and us have about 3 small hidden villages and two countries between us. The Rice Country and the Snow Country being between us means that both of us can't have any of our heavy hitters fighting each other without Konoha taking advantage of the fact that our Heavy Hitters are not in our Villages.This is the reason Kages don't participate in any conflict normally. Kages are normally monsters who remain in their prime even in old age. The fuckers are beasts that can and will tear through an enemy villages' total Jonin supply of they get the opportunity.That's why you DON'T give a Kage,Hanzo and experienced Jinchūriki that opportunity.

What are Jinchūriki? Jinchūriki are shinobi have a tailed Beast stored in them. Yes, we know that the beasts are sapient, we just don't care. Although Han and Roshi, this generation's Iwa Jinchūriki have a pretty good relationship with their Biju apparently. It's just a shame that the bastard Tobirama made it impossible for any shinobi under the rank of Special Jonin to not be terrified when interacting with Jinchūriki. Come to think of it, the only reason the Ninja Wars started was because of that prick.

We will come around to that in a moment. The reason most of Kumo and our cannon fodder fight is of dumb ethnic reasons and sometimes 'revenge' plots.The story of Kumo shinobi killed dad.. I will kill Kumo Shinobi and the cycle continues.

We also don't have the same tension between us like we have with the fucking tree huggers. Don't get me wrong. I don't see the world in black and white and I don't blame the tree huggers for everything but Tobirama was a sly bastard till the end. The arrangements made by him make it impossible for Konoha to not be hated by all the other villages. The only reason Suna isn't their permanent enemy like us is because Suna's economy heavily depends on the tree huggers. It is the reason why there are so many 'Suna Missing nins' in the land of Rice. Suna wants some form of independence from Konoha.

This is also one of the reasons Konoha allows Suna 'Missing nins' in the Land of Rice. If Suna wasn't allowed that much independence, the same scenario as the last war will happen. It's actually only technically a different war we are fighting. Although the alliances did change. The last war was a three way slugfest between Suna, Iwa and Konoha though the main highlight of the war was the raid on Uzushio. See the bullshit reason told by Konoha is that the world was afraid of Uzumaki seals that is the reason why they were killed. No the correct reason was that the world was fearful of the Uzukage and his fucking terrifying seals. The madman that was the last Uzukage was an absolute prodigy in seals and he was considered Tobirama's equal in being a combat genius which our Kage isn't even thought of as in Iwa.

The problem with that is that the Madman wanted to ...you know conquer Kirigakure, the Land of Waves and Kumo. The main problem with that is that he might have succeeded. See, the Uzumaki in themselves aren't that terrifying. They are pretty normal clan with bullshit abilities which are most clans just that there abilities were a little more bullshit than others.

The problem with their sealing talent is that even if the Uzukage would have perished in this conquest of his, he had several proteges who could and would inherit his legacy. We had all seen Uzumaki Mito and Uzumaki Hiren on the field and didn't wish more like them on the field. Uzumaki Hiren had himself claimed the life of the previous Raikage and Tsuchikage during the seige. This would have lead us to another warring states era which was terrifying to think about. While no one had any problems with Uzushio's conquest of Kiri cause you know they are Bloodthirsty maniacs, everyone had a problem with their Kumo expansion.

While Kumo isn't so weak that they would fall in a year or two, it was a known fact that Kumo would eventually fall due to Kumo lacking heavy hitters. The only Kage level ninjas in their pockets were the Second Raikage and the current Raikage whose son A ,I might add is fucking terrifying. The guy is a Kage level Ninja at the age of 28. He just needs to mature a little more in the war and I am sure he will be the next Raikage. Anyways, there were only 2 heavy hitters available to them while Uzushio at that time possessed 4 Kage level fighters. Uzumaki Hiren, his sons Uzumaki Kiko and Uzumaki Saru and his brother Uzumaki Shina.

While the reason those madmen tried to conquer so much was never confirmed, the general gist attained from our spies at that time was internal conflict. The Uzumaki being extremely long lived had a population control problem since some time. There were storms of internal conflict blowing in Uzushio and if new land was not conquered fast, an internal rebellion was bound to happen. Due to the whole clan ruling the area without any Daimyos, they could be considered Royalty per se. So, those madmen started to conquer. As the Land of Waves did not have a ruling Daimyo, it was mostly under the rule of Uzumakis. The conquering was just to make it official. Then the Kiri invasion started and apparently the land was not enough for them. Then the Kumo invasion started and everything went to shit for them. I really don't know if this intelligence is bullcrap but generally everyone agrees upon this reason for the mad conquest by Uzumaki Hiren.

The island was then raided by the combined forces of Kiri, Kumo and Iwa. While Konoha did send forces to help Uzu, it was clearly just an attempt to not let any other villages pillage the Land of Fire which actually some dumbass Jonins tried only to be killed by Jiraiya even if some rumours say that Jiraiya was in Ame at this point. Tsunade was not seen in this conflict as well. Only Orochimaru and the White Fang were seen in this conflict. This clearly shows that even Konoha didn't want Uzushio to live.

While the madmen did take the lives of the Nibi Jinchūriki of Kumo ,the last generation of the five tails(Iwa Jinchūriki), the previous Raikage,Tsuchikage and Mizukage; it was considered an acceptable loss as the previous Raikage and Tsuchikage were losing their sharpness and while the Nibi Jinchūriki was clearly insane, the Five tails Jinchūriki of Iwa was quite old. As for Kiri, no one cares. Let them have there internal rebellion. This time aggravated by Uzushio's invasion.

... Writing the records of the war in this journal does help with the stress. I just hope that the big seigeused his signature attack from the top of the valley and said his infamous line," I have the high ground." next year is successful and that my squad returns out of this safe. They are my family after all..