Konoha, Year XX.
The first Ninja World War to engulf the entire Shinobi World officially ended when the Tsuchikage and Mizukage perished together. This war had been especially brutal: the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju; the Second Raikage, A; the Second Tsuchikage, Mu; and the Second Mizukage, Hozuki Gengetsu—all four Kage had died.
The entire Shinobi World was immersed in grief. Not only the shinobi, but also the civilians caught up in their wars were plunged into sorrow. Their homes had been destroyed, their loved ones innocently slain. They became refugees, endlessly wandering the Shinobi World, with hunger and cold becoming the nightmares they feared most.
To survive, they could only keep searching for places willing to take them in.
Yet for the true culprits—the ninja villages...
They would not accept strangers without reason. They feared they might be enemy spies. Unless you were an ignorant child or possessed some talent of your own, they would take you in and use their own system of education to make you contribute to their ninja village once you grew up.
As for the elderly and useless...
They could only continue wandering, searching for somewhere they could survive. In the end...
They froze to death or starved to death by the roadside!!
The fifth day after the Land of Whirlpools ended the war.
All the citizens had already grown accustomed to this kind of communal life.
After breakfast in the morning, they followed the shinobi assigned to them and went to work in their respective areas. Three meals a day, with meat at every meal—such a life was simply unbelievable to them. Even in times of peace, they could not afford three meals a day, much less meat.
Only shinobi could live like this!!
The work was a little hard, and the weather was