His mother and father were both gentle people...
Faced with a child like this, they couldn't simply kill him. Perhaps letting him die quietly was the best choice.
Don't come to the Shinobi World in your next life.
Be born into a better life.
Gua silently offered those words in his heart.
There was nothing they could do. People died every day in the Shinobi World, and countless others lived in misery.
The Land of Grass had it bad enough, right?
But next door was the Land of Rain, which had it even worse.
The Land of Grass only lay between two countries. The Land of Rain lay between three...
Even a little friction between the great nations meant the sky was falling for the Land of Rain.
Apparently, it rained there all year round, too...
Gua had no idea how the people there managed to survive.
Of course, these were all things he had heard while traveling through the Land of Grass.
Defecting did have its benefits. It broadened your horizons...
The corner of Gua's mouth twitched. They had already emerged from the woods, and from where they stood, they could see towering mountains clustered in the distance.
That was the Land of Earth.
They were finally about to arrive.
Gua figured things had to be better in a great nation than in a small one. Uchiha Oyama thought so too, or they wouldn't have chosen the Land of Earth.
But when they stepped out of the woods, they realized... the Land of Earth... wasn't all that fucking great either!
Gua scratched his head as he surveyed the barren land around them.
As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but yellow earth, without so much as a green shoot...
The only different sight was a winding