Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-24937485-20160519152204/@comment-24937485-20160519152529

The unforgiving sun of the Wind’s desert was one that bore no sense of remorse or guilt for the everlasting drought of heat that it radiates down onto the inhabitants of the Land of Wind. The people who grew up in these parts were very well accustomed to the heat as seen in their darker skin tones and special clothing. Both the nomads, and those who inhabit smaller or larger villages, are often seen wearing clothes that protect against the sun; white being the predominant color for everyone who is not a shinobi.

After travelling through the desert for several weeks, having passed by several smaller villages where you could barely stock up on water for completely absurd prices, you finally find yourself standing upon a high dune that allows you to look over a vast ocean of sand with in the distance a great array of light from the ruined city of Sunagakure, a village said to be inhabited by tramps and peasants after the war had happened. You can recall passing a group of Nomads who said they felt sorry for the new Kazekage who had never given up hope. (It was rumored that the Kazekage’s lights have never gone out for a single night since the war had taken place. )



All in all, you can feel a certain urgency of needing to help rushing through your veins as if the desert itself is crying out for your aid in a quest surpassing the boundaries of men and women, a quest that beckons only to the call of destiny.

-A few days pass.-

Just after the sun sank down you finally find yourself approaching the ruined gates of Sunagakure. There’s but a single guard on patrol and he doesn’t look too interested from the way he’s smoking a pipe and leaning against a broken pillar that used to serve as the frame for a huge doorway, as seen by the crooked steel hinges as big as one’s head that sadly serve no more purpose as the very gate itself was nowhere to be seen. You can clearly see it in the face of the guard as he approaches the squad, his face weary as seen in the large bags under his eyes.

“What business have you in Sunagakure? Are you volunteers for the orphanage?”

Upon taking a look at the huge city behind the guard you can see that over 90% of all the buildings are still destroyed, although some are in the process of being rebuilt. In the center of the village, where the Kazekage’s building used to be, now stood a quarter of a fractured tower that was being rebuilt by what seemed, from the current distance, like men using earth release techniques.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">-Upon seeing you look at the construction taking place, the guard will comment: “Iwagakure mercenaries rented to do handy work. That kage sure thinks of some clever ways to avoid the costs of mass labor.”

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">A few seconds pass before you hear a loud scream coming from a few dozen yards away, the sound of someone in great pain. Upon passing through the gate and immediately heading right, you’ll see a couple of sheds around a pool of water where you could also see several camels drinking; hinting that these sheds were used for animals ridden by travelers and village shinobi.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:8.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Again, you hear a scream, high-pitched like that of a female, coming out of one of the four sheds..