1 Call For Forgiveness? A Call To Arms! [All Suna-Nin Requested/Village Plot/No Kill] Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:40 pm
Suzume
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The winds were blowing behind her now as she prepared to step up to the edge and present her speech to the masses. A lot had changed since she had first taken office, yet somehow the village managed to stay the same. One of the few things in her life she could count the village on being a firm foundation for which other parts could shift and bend upon. Suzume, the current Kazekage of the Hidden Sand, had already quite the reputation among her people. A reputation she was not proud of nor willing to let it continue. Today, she would try to set things right, starting with a heart-to-heart with the entire village.
“The people have gathered below, Lady Kazekage.” Kaede, the ever loyal and every worrying secretary stood by the Kazekage’s side. “Whenever you’re ready.”
Suzume took a deep breath. She had gone over what she was going to say, but just how could she even begin to speak to these people who would only see what they had experienced. A Kage that hadn’t been publicly present, a Kage that had been so briefly working domestically that all was seen was an empty chair in the office. Yet there had been so much she had done in her time being absent from the face of the public. If she decided to start with explanations, the speech might go on forever.
First, she had made adjustments with the distribution of the military’s forces. Although such divisions seemed to go unnoticed by the populace, nor did the divisions seem to gather very good response. ‘Messing with a good system,’ some had said. ‘Destroying our tradition,’ said still others. In her eyes, modern times called for modern adjustments. However that was the least of any complaints, whereas most people were welcome to the change she brought. Some were just grateful to have a Kage working within the village again. Yet she had disappeared behind the desk work shortly after and people began to wonder, to doubt if their initial hopes and trust in the new Kage were justified. However, when she did get a chance to appear again, they understood how great change had created administrative work that had filled her to the brim. Never had a Kage spent more time locked up in the office than she had.
Now, she had been absent from public eye for a second time. The people would be obviously upset for such another long disappearance after such a brief spotlight of known activity. There was nothing of administrative work that she could say she had committed. Instead, she had disappeared for safety reasons. This is what she would have to explain today before her people. How she had left her job and her own name to root out a personal evil that was plaguing her and her family, and by extension of her title, the Hidden Sand.
A plague by the name of Seitaro Kumonosu had hit the Koga clan hard. An emissary mission gone wrong, only to report the missing person's report to Suzume days after the group’s initial attack. Suzume had spent her time of ‘absence’ working on finding the leads to her father’s whereabouts personally. Such was the state of the Hidden Sand’s feebleness that she had to hide her own identity while working the case, lest outsiders realize the village had become so weak their own Kazekage had to do menial tasks herself. It had been only her and another trusted compatriot, a fellow shinobi that had served her well in the past. Kazuhiko, the shinobi that had been comprised in his work while in Kirigakure no Sato and been rescued by Suzume and Misako, had become a stronger shinobi since then. More clever to was his actions when the two of them had fallen to an ambush by Seitaro’s men. Her standing here today was because of the man’s actions. She had been able to escape, yet he had not. Instead of turning back for reinforcements, Suzume plunged further to find her father and to honor Kazuhiko’s sacrificial tactics.
However, it had been a gruesome battle of intel to find where Seitaro was hiding, and in the search she had discovered some truths among a minefield of falsehoods. The man had taken her father alive as a captive and bargaining chip to use against her, as a way for Suna to become a mere vassal to the Hidden Rock. Such was the plan stated at first. Yet during her intel gathering, Suzume learned there was a much bigger plot behind it all. The Hidden Rock had nothing to do with Seitaro’s movements. Instead, the real perpetrator was a hushed organization called the Black ANBU. Some secretive division underneath the Hidden Leaf’s own ANBU forces. The real goal of Seitaro’s plan was for the Hidden Sand to instigate a war on the Hidden Rock, which Suzume had nearly done in a moment of rashful and emotional rage at first knowledge that Seitaro was operating as a Hidden Rock ninja. Thankfully, she waited to obtain more information before sending off a fiery pigeon letter back to her village’s council.
Armed with the knowledge of Seitaro’s true allegiances, Suzume had first began to ignite a new plan to save her father. Staking out an area within Iwagakure no Sato that she had suspected Seitaro’s hideout to be, she knocked out any messages that were either flown, delivered, or dropped into the area. After just a couple days of checking random mail as discreetly as possible, Suzume managed to get her hands on a message from the Black ANBU to Seitaro. In this happenstance, the location was narrowed down to a fifty-fifty scenario. By some deductive reasoning and a bit of luck, she decided on the correct location and came to observe not only her father at the hands of Seitaro, but also Kazuhiko locked in a cage as well. Within the bowels of the Hidden Rock, Suzume had to duel it out with Seitaro and his consorts in order to free her father and the tortured Kazuhiko. In the process of this fight, Suzume learned her skills had yet to be tested by such a lopsided fight with Seitaro and his fledglings. It boiled down to another sacrifice, this time by her own father. Through such sacrifice, her and Kazuhiko had managed to break free while Seitaro perished by her father’s dying breath.
Standing at the precipice to speak to her fellow countrymen, a tear would well up in her right eye. The funeral for her father had gone off very quietly, as the clan had wanted it to be. She wouldn’t be able to go into full detail on this subject yet either, as even the last visit to Konoha had opened her eyes further about the organization of the Black ANBU, and that even the Hokage himself was struggling against them. No, she thought, batting the welled up tear away before it had a chance to fall. I know what I must say.
And so Suzume Koga, Kazekage of the Hidden Sand, took a step forward to unfurl her speech, hopefully into the welcoming and forgiving arms of her people.
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