Kirigakure was fortunate during this period.
Especially the major shinobi clans, which had a chance to continue their bloodlines.
In the original timeline, Obito had sought revenge for Rin while also weakening Kirigakure in preparation for seizing the Tailed Beasts in the future. After the Third Shinobi World War ended, he had immediately launched a frenzied purge against Kirigakure.
The first to suffer were the major Bloodline Limit clans. Under Obito's madness, Kirigakure's Bloody Mist Policy had reached its peak. Backstabbing, conspiracies, and rebellions had unfolded one after another, and ancient clans with legacies spanning centuries or even millennia had been wiped out in succession.
The Kaguya, Hōzuki, and Yuki clans—these prominent great clans had all been destroyed.
Only scattered survivors had escaped by sheer luck. Orochimaru had taken Kimimaro away when the Kaguya Clan rebelled; after Zabuza Momochi's rebellion failed, he had found Haku eating garbage on the streets; the Hōzuki Clan had been reduced to Suigetsu alone, and Orochimaru had abducted him as an experimental subject.
But now, the heads of these clans had no idea that their clans' fates had already changed. They merely sat in the conference room, throwing their weight around and displaying their power and authority.
The Bloody Mist Policy was indeed insane, but it could almost be said that the countless civilian shinobi had borne the full brunt of it.
For example, Ninja Academy graduates had to kill a fellow student to graduate successfully. They either killed someone else or were killed themselves.
Those killed were almost always civilian shinobi.
Clan-born shinobi had received harsh training since childhood. Their strength was simply beyond anything civilian shinobi could match. Once they were forced to kill one another at graduation, the ones who died would inevitably be the civilian shinobi.
The wails of the common