Kanazaru Uprising

The Kanazaru Uprising was an insurrection in Kanazaru Prefecture, Mogyerország, launched by Geredde Kanazaru against the Kaori Tribe. The revolt was marked by great violence on both sides, and the brutal suppression at the hands of the Kaori and their Uchiha allies severely reduced the Kanazaru population. The events of this conflict irreversibly shifted the demographics of the region, making the Kaori the dominant group in the struggle for dominance following the Republic's fall.
== Conflict Background ==
Following the collapse of the Republic, arguably the first global organization that preceded the Coalition and the Realm by 5-6 years, there were many groups in the Clan World that vied to fill this vacuum. There was the weakened, but still operating Republican forces (backed by most member states that also endorsed a form of democratic government), the insatiable Tsuyoi who were making inroads into every corner of the Clan World, and the Kaori who were on the rise as well.
Although the Kanazaru had, at this point, been part of the Kaori Tribe for several months--they had chafed at the lack of reforms and what they perceived to be broken promises from the leadership to give them political power. With independence being the word of the day, Geredde took it upon himself to declare his people free from Kaori rule and independent. It is speculated that Geredde was emboldened to make this unprecedented move because of the support that he was pledged by long-standing adversaries of the Kaori: The Avengers and the Jedi.
However, this period of semi-independence would be very short lived for the Kanazaru. As the leader of the Kaori, Kiseki, was determined to consolidate power and return his people to the forefront of the Clan World, he and his second-in-command (Fear Sonne) would offer no quarter to traitors and those that openly defied them.
== Geredde's Uprising ==
After coming to power in the Republic, through an admittedly dubious election, Kiseki made it his personal goal to bring the full might of his office down on the Kanazaru. That's when tensions between the two groups grew dramatically. Geredde emphasized to the wider community that the Kanazaru were being persecuted without mercy, beseeching help. But very little help came, except from the Avengers and the Jedi--the latter of which was only able to muster a token force of 5 warriors.
And much to everyone's surprise, the Akatsuki who it was widely believed would end up siding with the Kanazaru--actually ended up backing the Kaori in this conflict. Madara's (leader of the Akatsuki) reasoning, to this day, remains unclear. However, it was widely suspected at the time by contemporaries that Madara thought the Kanazaru to be too much of a liability; he may have felt more confident that he could rein in the Kaori's worst impulses. A mistake that would end up costing him and the Clan World dearly in mere months.
There would only be a few direct encounters between the Kaori and the Kanazaru, the first being an indecisive one. However, that first skirmish was enough to persuade Geredde that his best chance of securing his countrymen's freedom would be to organize a campaign of guerrilla warfare against an experienced and better drilled army. Unfortunately for him, he would never get the time or the opportunity to carry out this strategy. With each passing day, many within the Kanazaru ranks grew disillusioned with Geredde's leadership and his constant withdrawals. One of these men wound up defecting and providing valuable intelligence to the Kaori in exchange for a pardon.
After discovering the whereabouts of Geredde and the other Kanazaru, Kiseki and Fear pounced. The Kanazaru camp was surrounded and the members inside slain almost to a man. There were but a handful of survivors that managed to escape. The ringleaders of the revolt were beheaded and their heads crowned with a diadem, to make a mockery of their failed attempt to break away.
By late July 2012, the rebellion had largely been quelled. The Kanazaru death toll exceeded more than 30 (including volunteer soldiers from the Avengers and the Jedi), whereas the Kaori had only suffered 5-10 casualties. Those few Kanazaru that were spared or that had surrendered, would later be drafted into Global Clan War IV by the Kaori, often deployed into the fiercest front to prove their loyalty.
== Aftermath ==
Geredde would be the only leader of the rebellion to escape relatively unscathed. Jason FireFlame was taken captive and would be held within the imperial city of Mogyerország for the duration of 2012-13, eventually dying in the defense of Nightside from the Akatsuki a year later. The Kanazaru population dwindled from a respectable 30-40 members to a mere 4-5 within a month's time.
The Kanazaru Uprising would be first and only attempt to overthrow the Kaori from within, all other attacks would come from the outside. Despite the brutal treatment the survivors endured in this violent episode, they would go on to heroically fight for and defend the Kaori banner in the coming war, never harboring any ill will toward those that took up the sword against them.
Geredde would remain in hiding for the remainder of the year, only re-emerging at the tail end of Global Clan War IV, with another survivor of the conflict: Hanako. Together they would go on to found a variation of the Kanazaru known as Organization XIII; a story for another time.