Early summer, Konoha Year 51, Kirigakure, the Kaguya clan grounds and the Mizukage Building
Summer in Kirigakure was shrouded in a heavy, damp stillness, like the calm before a mountain storm. A month had passed since Narong proposed the education reforms and the "Kirigakure United Trading Company" plan that Mizukage Yagura had strongly pushed forward. The reforms had met unprecedented resistance, especially from die-hard conservatives led by the Kaguya Clan, whose opposition was the fiercest. Cutting military spending, opening schools that did not teach ninjutsu, even letting ninja take part in commerce... In the eyes of these Kaguya clansmen, who took pride in battle and believed in the "Blood Mist" policy, it was nothing short of a betrayal of Kirigakure's traditions. After their clan head, Kaguya Kenichiro, stormed out of the last high-level meeting, he had begun openly linking up with others and, in private, spared no effort in slandering the policies of the Mizukage and Genji.
At that moment, the atmosphere in the Kaguya Clan's grounds was feverish and murderous. More than a hundred Kaguya ninja had gathered there, men and women, old and young alike—from gray-haired elders still brimming with fighting spirit to newly graduated youths whose eyes were filled with zeal and immaturity. They wore light armor suited for combat, gripping kunai, bone blades, or savage bone spikes condensed from their own skeletons. Every face was written with a hunger for battle, contempt for weak policies, and an almost pathological fanaticism to devote themselves to the glory of the clan.
Kaguya Kenichiro stood atop the high platform. He had not activated the final form of the "Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Seedling Fern" as in the original work, but at this moment his muscles bulged, chakra surged, and sharp bone spikes pierced through the skin of his shoulder