Land of Rain.
Located in the central region of the Ninja World's largest continent, it bordered the three great nations of Fire, Wind, and Earth, as well as the three smaller nations of Grass, Birds, and Rivers.
High mountain ranges lay between the Lands of Earth and Wind and the Land of Rain. This meant that two sides of the Land of Rain were shielded by towering mountains, forming a funnel-shaped terrain that blocked the warm, moist ocean currents blowing toward the Lands of Wind and Earth.
The moisture-laden currents were forced upward, where they condensed into vast amounts of orographic rain that fell upon the Land of Rain in concentrated downpours.
It was precisely this extreme terrain that left most of the Lands of Earth and Wind covered in barren rocky ground and deserts, creating a "weeping nation."
At the same time, the abundant rainfall converged into several rushing rivers that flowed like arteries toward the surrounding nations, nourishing the Land of Birds, the Land of Grass, and the Land of Rivers, even granting the Land of Wind its few precious oases...
But the great nations did not thank the Land of Rain.
Situated between the three great nations of Earth, Wind, and Fire, the Land of Rain had become, to varying degrees, a buffer zone and sacrifice for the great nations' slaughter during both the Second Shinobi World War and the Third Shinobi World War. This made the weeping nation even lonelier and more sorrowful.
Drip... drip...
At the tallest tower in all of Amegakure, a figure stood before the window, gazing outside. A Gas Mask covered his indifferent face, while his pale blond hair drifted in the wind behind him.
The rain in the night poured down in torrents, lashing against the glass. Apart from the small