The Land of Water had been incomparably chaotic ever since the Warring States Period.
Back when the Sage of Six Paths unified the Ninja World and ushered in the era of the Shinobi Sect, he brought a brief peace to the war-ravaged world—until his two sons turned against each other once more, marking the beginning of chaos.
With the deaths of Indra and Asura, the Warring States Period truly arrived and lasted for a thousand years.
Originally, the Land of Water had not had many inhabitants. But during the thousand-year Warring States Period, countless ordinary people and shinobi, unable to bear the suffering of war, sailed across the sea to this nation far from the mainland.
As time passed, more and more people went to the Land of Water. There were defeated great clans, fleeing shinobi, noble forces unable to endure the chaos—everything one could imagine.
Yet once the population reached a certain point, conflict became inevitable. The islands had only so many resources. You wanted to survive, and so did everyone else. Thus, war broke out in this place that had originally served as a refuge, all for the scarce resources.
After who knew how many years of development, the great clans took shape and occupied several of the largest islands. They were the major Kekkei Genkai clans of the Land of Water today.
When Senju Hashirama joined forces with the Uchiha to found Konoha, it seemed like a choice made by history itself. Talents of extraordinary caliber emerged in every major nation, establishing their own villages through personal charisma and overwhelming strength.
It was not as though there had never been shinobi of such outstanding talent before. They might not have reached Senju Hashirama's heights, but history had not necessarily lacked people with the Super-Kage Level strength possessed