There once was a fisherman's daughter, struggling to survive in the turbulent time of Warring States. When her brothers left to fight in the many wars, she was left as the last child to care for her bedridden father.

The most beautiful maiden in the land, her siren song was so soothing that all the creatures of the earth succumbed to her voice. The waves would grow still, the spirits calm, the fish she was to catch leaping up into her boat just to hear her voice.

One day, the kami of storms, Susano-o, was soaring through the skies when he too fell to the daughter's song. Immediately, his heart became heavy with true love. Transforming into a Water Dragon, the kami found the girl fishing out at sea.

Deciding to test the girl, the kami created a mighty hurricane, thrusting the daughter into a perilous fight for her life! Pretending to be a drowning man, Susano-o was rescued by the girl, who risked her life to pull him aboard despite danger to life and limb. Upon offering the stranger all of her clothes to stay warm, the storm kami revealed himself in all of his glory before the meek fisherman's daughter.

Petrified in place, the daughter at first spurned the kami's advances, but ultimately fell for him and his words of love. Upon that boat, the two sired a child, imbued with part of the primal chakra that the kami wielded. Wishing to take the daughter to wife, Susano-o asked for her to wait five days and five nights without saying to any mortal who the father of their child was. On the final night, he would return for her and carry her to his palace in the sky to live amongst the kami.

Returning home, pregnant and alone, the daughter was reprimanded by her father for not bringing any fish home, bemoaning that they would all starve. All day and night, the father demanded to know who the unborn child's father was, yet, remembering Susano-o's words, the daughter did not say.

With the second day, the first brother came home from war, demanding to know who it was that had forced themselves upon his sister. Again, she would not say, remembering her promise. With the third day, the second brother returned. He was kind and gentle, using familial love to try and learn who the daughter's love was. Again, she would not say. With the fourth day, the final brother returned. He was cunning and devious, attempting to charm and beguile the daughter into saying the man's name. Again, she would not say.

Outraged, and demanding to discover the truth, the men of the family plotted on the final night. As the daughter went to sleep, her brothers placed her into a powerful genjutsu, showing her her lover returning to her. Unknowing that she was caught in an illusion, and that the real Susano-o was on his way, she ran to meet the imposter, "Oh, my beloved, I have waited so long for you. Your seed quickens within me, and I shall forever be yours, Susano-o of the storms".

With these words, a terrible thundercloud immediately appeared high above the house. With a calamitous flash, a bolt of divine lightning descended from the sky, crashing into the fishing shack below, destroying it instantly.

When the genjutsu faded, and the daughter realized what had happened, she was consumed by despair. She had failed the promise she had made to her beloved, and now would be separated from him for all time. She was doomed to wander the earth as a mortal. With her home completely gone, she set out into the wilderness.

Yet not all was lost.

Upon giving birth to her daughter, the fisherwoman was amazed to see the brilliant chakra she bore. A rainstorm appeared overhead with the child's wailing, thunderclaps echoing across the land. Realizing the gift that Susano-o had bestowed upon her bloodline, the daughter resolved to live on and raise her child as a kunoichi of the storms. With this matrilineal line beginning here, the first of the Zencho tribe, Haru, was born into this world...

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Origins and The Three Queens of Heaven

The true origins of the Zencho clan remain a mystery. Whilst their primary origin myth is listed above, more practical histories of their line are difficult to maintain. It is understood that the first of their kin appeared sometime before the Warring States period with the semi-legendary figure of Haru Zencho. Haru is known to have arrived on the Western continent from the Eastern one, possibly having origins in the Land of the Sky.

With the Arashinome, the 'Eye of Storm', the kunoichi quickly carved her name into legend with her feats of power and control over the weather. Calling down mighty lightningbolts from the heavens, flooding armies with monsoons of rain, clearing entire forests with her gales of wind- the many tales of her powerful and promiscuous deeds are plentiful. The historicity of her existence though is dubious, as while it is certain she did exist as the first known Arashinome user, the extent of her power remains the subject of much scholarly debate.

Despite her promiscuity, it became clear that her children were not favored equally by Arashinome. Specifically, only women were able to inherit the ability to manipulate weather. This genetic peculiarity is not fully understood, but it resulted in a strong matrilineal line amongst the young clan. It was apparent to all that the Zencho were a powerful clan of even more powerful women. Commending her offspring to go out and 'become the arbiters of justice', Haru, the 'Queen of Thunder', died as the first Matriarch of her clan, who had come to inhabit the coastal lands of Eastern Konohagakure.

The rise of the Uchiha and Senju, the main fighters in the Warring States period, brought a time of great turbulence to the Zencho. Their core creed had been to help the meek, to be protectors. This war between clans was a fight they yearned to avoid, and yet, war came regardless.

Generations pass. Enter Akari Zencho, 'Queen of the Tempest'. A woman in troubled times, with all the wit and guile to keep a steady head. She steered the middle path, aiming to keep her kin out of any possible mercenary work. A pragmatist at her core, she feared that the fires of the Senju and Uchiha would reach her lands. With her speciality in creating mighty gales and winds with her Arashinome, she excelled in preserving and maintaining the solidarity of her clan. Yet, the cracks began to show. Younger generations wished to join the fray, to turn their might fully against one of the larger clans despite their greater size and number.

This crisis came to a head one night as a contingent of Zencho kunoichi sought to leave their lands and join one of the warring clans. Standing before them to block their departure, Akari asked them to reconsider, to think of what their clan would become if they allowed themselves to become mercenaries. Her pleas for peace fell upon deaf ears.

Distraught, but determined to not let her sisters belittle their control of the sky with destruction, the matriarch activated her own, unleashing the full power of the wind upon her kin, sending them flying off the cliffs to crash upon the rocky crags. This downfall would become known as 'The Night of Red Rain' due to the blood dripping down along the stoney cliffs to the sea below. With this deed done, a full generation of kunoichi wiped out, Akari retreated to her home to mourn and grieve, eventually dying of a broken heart.

As the decades turned to centuries, the Zencho clan dramatically decreased in size, either through less childbearing or other factors. In the end, the last known Matriarch, Fujiko Zencho, the 'Queen of Silent Rain', was left as the last female of the clan. Filled to the teeth with grit, a merciless hand, and a disdain for men, her deeds are the most well documented of the many matriarchs. Her control over the suiton aspect of the Arashinome was unmatched by her forebears, allowing her to flood the deepest of vallies, command the rain to come down like kunai upon the earth, or bend the very fabric of the sky to her will. She was many things, responsible being least among them. When the Second Great Shinobi War arose, she fought as a mercenary on behalf of Amegakure.

Posessing more balls than most men, a recklesness unmatched, Fujiko clashed and brought ruin to those turned before her, even as the war continued to turn decisived against her favor. As the noose began to tighten around the coalition led by Hanzo, Fujiko began to realize how far she had fallen, and how distant the tales of Haru's commandments were. Despite being a contentious figure amongst scholars of the Second War, her final act is one that remained praised by all sides. Cornered between a village of Amegakure and the oncoming forces of Konoha, Fujiko used the remained of her life force to create and impenetrable wall of rain, allowing the villagers to flee to safety even as she was cut down. According to legend, her final words were thus, "It is done".

With that, the Zencho clan, the Arashinome, were declared extinct.

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The Recent Past

And yet, the wheel of fate continued to turn... For just as the Will of Fire continues to burn, historians forgot the Zencho creed, 'The storm still rages'. Centuries following the death of Fujiko, the descendants of the Zencho still remain in Konoha, the blood of Susano-o still flowing through their hearts and minds. As the world grows dangerous once again, those who would have otherwise not inherited the will of Haru now have. Something within them has awoken, something alien but familiar, as if it has been a part of their very being all along.

Yoshihiro, one of the few remaining direct descendants of Fujiko, awoke the Arashinome. What was once considered impossible, a male wielder, has become a reality at long last. In this event, the rebirth of the Zencho clan was accomplished. Yoshihiro would not be the only descendant to inherit the will of the storm, for, as if all awakening from a great slumber, others have begun to awaken their Arashinome, scattered across the lands. Male or female, as rare as one can be, they have come to inherit the legacy of Susano-o, called by the storm within their hearts to step out into the world and rebuild a long dead clan.

After centuries of life in the wilderness, the Zencho had returned.. The Eye of the Storm Lives Again.