Dear diary.. I have come here.. again.. on the same day. Apparently, using a new page whenever you stop writing an excerpt is the right way to write a Journal. Who knew? I certainly didn't. Although getting yelled by our resident book lover Mayuri when I tried to write in the same page has gotten the fact through my skull. Though I will definitely fuck that attitude out of her tonight. After all we are the only high rank lesbian couple of Iwa at the moment. Our relationship is used as an example to spread a little awareness. Although shinobi get up to very kinky shit, lesbians and gays are frowned upon along civilians. It is because of some dumb shit about God making a right partner for you or something. Civilians are very weird sometimes.

Gay relationships are frowned upon in the ninja community if you don't donate your semen among shinobi or donate your egg among Kunoichi like me. I don't get why some of the civilian gay couples fear getting found out so much. In the Shinobi community, you just have to donate your reproductive tissues as test tubes babies have been produced since Tobirama's period. Say whatever you want about the fucker, he was an excellent scientist. Shadow clone justu was the stuff of nightmares after it was gifted to the upper brass of Uzumakis in Uzushio.

Anyways some hours ago, I was about to go on a rant about Tobirama but I went on a rant about Uzushio.. Neat. So apparently, I decided that this was the time to go on a rant about the bastard. To be completely honest, without any of the bias surrounding the statements given to the fodders as propaganda, Hashirama was a GOD among Shinobi during the time he was active. The reason why every other village wasn't decimated by him and Madara was because of several very convoluted reasons:

1. Internal conflict. While Hashirama and Madara had succeeded in unifying their village, several clans around that area did NOT want to be included in Konoha. Although Hashirama was a nice guy, Konoha and every other hidden village wasn't made because Hashirama went to them with flowers and trees. No, the hidden villages were formed because hundreds were killed on those flowers and trees. So a constant conflict between the shinobi clans around Konoha and the clans inside Konoha was going on. Now how did this stop Hashirama? This made him vulnerable because he now had children and there were several minor but still powerful clans around Konoha that could at least take out Hashirama's kids out with their own destruction if he went around the world destroying hidden villages. Now, you might be asking what clan was dumb enough to do this sketchy shit. The answer is no one but a shinobi with children is paranoid and this was a reason that appealed to Hashirama's paranoia apparently.

2. Hashirama and Madara's conflict. Now this one is a little unbelievable but in context it makes sense. Now we have heard the tale of Hashirama and Madara's friendship but if you dig a bit deeper, you will find that friends aren't as close as Hashirama and Madara were. They were like brothers or ..lovers. See this is pure conjecture at this point but Hashirama and Madara's relationship was very good until Hashirama married Mito Uzumaki. After that happened, their relationship was deteriorating at a very fast rate. And there are reports of some fortunate or unfortunate witnesses of the fight at the Valley of End that Madara was not trying to kill Hashirama until he called Mito Uzumaki to the fight.

She is also known as the first Jinchūriki. After that, Madara's behaviour was recorded to be as said by a witness 'batshit insane'. He constantly tried to kill Mito Uzumaki as opposed to fighting Hashirama. Hashirama was also trying not to kill Madara but between his wife and his friend apparently he chose his wife. Now what does this give us? Do note that Madara didn't even have a wife while Hashirama had two children by this point. This leads many to the conclusion that Madara was gay for Hashirama while Hashirama was not. This is a popular theory among what civilians call 'Fujoshi' kunoichi. While there shouldn't be such a derogatory name for Yaoi enthusiasts, that isn't the topic. This theory is also popular among the older Kages and their subordinates although Konoha shinobi do everything to ignore this.

I don't know if this is bullcrap but I believe this theory and yes I am a Yaoi enthusiast as well. What can you do?

3. This is the final reason and the one which makes most sense to civilians and the shinobi that haven't really immersed in the Shinobi life. The Land of Fire is the most prosperous place in the Elemental Nations due to Hashirama's trees and a good climate. Only other country with an almost matching economy is the Lightning country. Rest of the country are quite desolate as compared to the Fire Country which is absolutely true. Why do you think Iwa participates in every Ninja War? While we have enough food and infrastructure to get by, we don't have the LUXURY that Konoha shinobi have. This meant that conquering other countries would lead to a net loss and not gain for Konoha. Thank God Hashirama had some brains. If only the bastard Tobirama had them..

Now, let me write down the reason why the bastard Tobirama is not respected for his skill but instead hated by every country other than Fire and even some tree huggers hate the bastard because of his idiotic decisions. They just don't say it.

Now, let's start with some basics. The fucker introduced Shadow clone Justu to Uzushio. While some might argue that Uzumaki didn't use that until the Second War, the problem is that he gave Uzumakis the only other thing that made them so terrifying other than their seals. This is the reason that most people in Iwa, Kumo and Kiri hate him. Most of us had some relative that died in a ditch somewhere in Uzushio because the fucker couldn't keep that weird ass technique in Konoha only. It's like the fucker planned this. Knowing him, he probably did as Hiren was apparently taught by Tobirama for a year or two as he was the younger brother of Mito Uzumaki.

Second reason and arguably the most prevalent one. Human experimentation. Now don't get me wrong. All hidden villages do this but the problem with him was that he mostly captured any shinobi from other villages spotted by him during missions and he went on many many missions. The fucker was a brilliant scientist but was an amoral bastard as well. He didn't even spare genins.

Yes, I know I sound hypocritical when we just sent genins to be slaughtered by the 'Butcher' but the point is that every shinobi goes into combat with the mindset of being already dead but there are very few shinobi that go into combat with the mindset of being tortured in human experimentation. This fact about Tobirama is an open secret among the Elemental Nations. Well everyone knows it but no one mentions it as Konoha shinobi do not take it well. It's not we are scared of Konoha shinobi but the point is that you should NOT engage in combat just because you wanted to lord over a shitty fact over others. Everyone except Konoha shinobi know this. Why? Do I need to remind you that the current Hokage is Tobirama's student? And the council advisors as well as 'definitely-not-spymaster' danzo are Tobirama's students?

Anyways, this shit is the reason everyone hates Tobirama. Many of the clans in various hidden villages have had some of their members experimented by Tobirama. This was the biggest cause behind the First Ninja War. Tobirama won this war even though everyone was against Konoha (not exactly we were all fighting amongst ourselves but the focus was Konoha) due to so many techniques perfected by the fucker learned during those experimentations.

How do you think the infamous Edo Tensei was invented? Out of Tobirama's ass? No he used a WIDE sample of various ninjas in perfectly that bastardly justu. Seeing your loved ones fight you(only done for Jonins and above by Tobirama as he took A-class and above threats actually seriously) and try to kill you is absolutely heart breaking. We are shinobi. We endure everything but this kind of shit breaks anyone. Although the justu was used as a last resort when being cornered, it is still classified by Konoha as Kinjutsu because firstly Konoha doesn't anyone except Jiraiya who can actually use it, secondly that justu will unite every and I mean every nation against Konoha.

This also led to Jonin of that era mostly not having any relationship with other shinobis/kunoichi due to the Edo Tensei shit. The two only satisfying things about that justu were the 2 minute time restriction and that Tobirama wasn't willing to summon Hashirama from the land of the dead.

The last major reason for Tobirama's nation wide hatred is the fact that Tobirama destroyed any hope of agriculture in Iwa and suna by flooding us with water during the war. The flooding water in Iwa's mountains destroyed many perfectly fine agricultural lands. This led to major starvation for about 5 years. As for Suna? Well, when you flood a desert with water, it actually destroys the soil as now the soil doesn't even let the locals grow desert exclusive plants.

This is the reason Suna isn't Konoha's permanent ally and why Suna moved against Konoha during Second War.

The third Kazekage who was placed in the position just 4 years before the Second War had his Father experimented upon by Tobirama. While it may seem like Suna betrayed Konoha because of a simple grudge, it wasn't the case. Yes, the Kazekage took the opportunity to get revenge against Konoha. No, it wasn't only because of that. It was because Suna's agriculture was mostly in the hands of Trade groups from Fire Country. Suna didn't like this dependence on Konoha's production and moved to capture Rice Country which backfired majorly as Iwa tried to do that as well. Konoha meanwhile was in a war with Hanzo and took this as a betrayal and sent a squadron of Jonins which contained the White Fang Hatake Sakumo to investigate the happenings in Rice Country while the current Sannins were sent to Ame.

The Third Kazekage took offence to Konoha asserting authority in Suna's matters. To be honest, it was an almost betrayal due to Rice Country being unofficially under Konoha's banner since the formation of ninja villages. He sent out an elite squadron of ninjas to battle Konoha's forces. During this incident, the late White Fang killed Lady Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law. Chiyo being there on the war council and the Third Kazekage being angry as well led to an all out war between Konoha and Suna and we moved in because we couldn't allow Rice Country to be captured by any of the two.

[A/n: This will be the last Journal of Hiragena chapter until Minato gets to the Uzushio arc. The readers get to know the place from where Danzo gets his inner 'Darkness'. The readers also get the hint that while Hiruzen IS a good guy, he has no reservations about covering up other people's shit. *Cough Orochimaru cough*

Tobirama's reign was a disastrous affair and it took Hiruzen more than 50 years of reign to make people forget about the shit Tobirama got up to and then people saw Orochimaru and got 'Oh shit, if we don't cover up this up! Everyone will be on our asses'. This is the reason for Orochimaru's defection in my fic which might or might not happen because an outside influence that is Si!Minato is there to stir things up.

I also completed the last piece of World building (Suna's relationship with Konoha) I needed to get the Minato section running without anyone going on my ass about shit not being canon/not being described.

The idea for Madara and Hashirama's relationship was taken from another Naruto fic I read. I just don't remember the name right now. Also I enlisted why the fuck didn't Hashirama just thrash every other village if he was the 'God of Shinobi'.

The chapter also explains why nobody in Konoha uses Edo Tensei. While it is morally quite repulsive and most shinobi try to live by a moral code that suits them, it could have been a valuable technique, if only it wasn't made by mass human experimentation*cough cough*

Anyways, do comment if you found anything odd with the chapter.

Goodbye and stay tuned for the next chapter]