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"Everyone sit down!" Naruto hears Iruka say to everyone before he starts to write something on the blackboard.
"Can anyone tell me what started the war between the Leaf and the Earth?" Iruka sensi asks everyone. Ino answers their teacher.
"Correct. No one knows who was responsible for the kidnapping or why they killed the ambassadors but we all know the results of their actions."
"The people of Earth blamed us for it and while we were stronger than the people of Earth our advantage quickly faded thanks to the advanced weapons of their soldiers."
"The war started after several high-level leaders of Earth were kidnapped and then found dead during a peace treaty." Iruka says to everyone before he opens a book that is on his desk.
"But sensei if we were stronger than them, then why did we have to send people to them? I mean didn't we win?" Naruto asks his teacher, as he looks at the two empty seats where Sakura and Hinata used to sit.
"Because we didn't win." Iruka answers him bluntly, before he takes a deep breath, looks at Naruto, and then looks at everyone else.
"When the war started we were seen as the aggressors and because we weren't able to win before things became even more chaotic the other villages became involved."
"And in response, the Earth called to its allies."
"What you kids need to understand is that while it's true that we killed twenty of their soldiers, for every one of our soldiers that died, that was only during the beginning of the war."
"Waite, what does this have to do with?" Naruto interrupted Iruka.
"I'm getting to it." Iruka answers Nsaruto and while he did feel annoyed by the boy's interruption, he couldn't allow himself to show it.
"Entire bloodlines were erased. One moment they were there fighting at your side, the next moment they were gone, or at least that was what everyone said." Iruka reads a page from the book.
"There is a reason why we call the people of Earth monsters who don't know anything about honor."
"They poisoned everything that they knew we needed, or better said that the civilians needed, just to slow us down."
"Everyone knows that starving people, do stupid things just to survive and before we knew it, every city and major village was full of people begging for food."
Iruka changes the page, he notices that everyone is strangely silent, including Naruto who always snores loudly when he is trying to teach him anything about history.
"None of this was a major problem for us because of our experience in previous wars, but what we weren't prepared for was the Earth's willingness to hire Ninjas regardless of who they were allied to."
'All of a sudden all of the villages were being attacked by ninjas who belonged to another village, it didn't matter if it was a major one or not."
"Imagine all of that chaos, now add the spell casters and how they can attack without chakra."
"Naruto you asked me why the villages sent some of our people to the earth, it's because it was the only way to make those monsters stop."
The silence in the room was so heavy that Iruka could hear the kids breathing. " Good they're listening." he thinks to himself.
"But Iruka Sensei what's going to happen to the people that we sent to them?' Naruto asks him worriedly.
Iruka can't help but look at Naruto before he closes his eyes and lets out a breath filled with regret.
"It's better that you don't consider them your friends anymore, even if the Earth hasn't done anything to them.
They now belong to another village and should be treated like that." Iruka answers Naruto who doesn't say anything and just sits quietly.
iruka wants to tell his students that they will never face anyone from Earth in a fight and for the most part that's true.
As much as he wants those words to feel comforting, the truth is completely different.
He can still remember seeing the bombs falling around him, each one carrying something different that was designed to kill as many people as possible.
He can still feel his nerves being overwritten by the poison, as it began to enter his brain.
Had the Leaf's leaders not forced Tsunade to return so that she could help during the war.
He would either be dead or insane.
That thought alone sent chills down his spine, he had been so close, just a few seconds more and he would have been just one more amongst the many nameless dead.
The truth was that while the larger villages tried to act as if the war hadn't affected them, the sad reality was that everything was out of order.
Because of the toll that the war took on the land and that people there were thousands if not millions of people that didn't have anywhere to live, not to mention the famine that was starting to show up.
Iruka noticed that he had been quiet for too long and his students had noticed, so he turned his attention back to the book and changed the page.
"In the past, we Shinobi would train to fight another shinobi, but with the appearance of the earth and its soldiers, we have to deal with new threats. Meaning that we have to adapt or risk falling behind.' he says to his class before the bell rings.
He doesn't say anything as his students quickly leave the classroom, he briefly looks at the two empty seats and forces himself to forget about the two girls.
It wasn't his place to worry about them, the only thing that he could do was prepare the rest of his students and hope that they were ready when they had to fight those monsters.