Sunagakure

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**Sunagakure no Sato** (砂隠れの里, *Village Hidden within the Sand*) is the capital city-state and chief hidden village of the Land of Wind.

It's also 1 of the Five Greater Shinobi Villages; as such, its village head bears the title of Kage. More specifically, its village head bears the title of Kazekage.

## ***Climate and Geography***

The Land of Wind is an impact crater created by the arrival of both the Yang and Yin Sages and their Ten-Tails. Its borders consist of both the mountains in the North and the West and the sea in the East and the South.

The mountain that borders the Land of Wind is both high enough to suffocate and as steep as any wall, while the Land of Wind's coast is a cliff as high and steep as the aforementioned mountain. As such, the Land of Wind is difficult to enter and exit. So difficult that most entrances and exits occur by air or tunnel rather than by land or sea.

The Land of Wind's inlands are hilly and sandy, though among the dunes are plateaus which are rocky rather than sandy. Despite its high and or mountainous surroundings, its air is not still but rather windy. Unfortunately, its breezes are dry gales which originate inland rather than from sea. Consequently, despite the fact that its breezes are constant, it's arid to the extreme.

The cause of its gales is the fact that it's dotted with groundwater-based oases. As the oases cool air conflict with the hot air around them, and the conflict between the cool air and hot air produces wind! Because of how large and numerous the oases are, the climate of the Land of Wind as a whole is affected and windy.

Unfortunately, most of the Land of Wind's oases are poisonous from either the creatures that inhabit them or the vegetation that grow around or even within them. Consequently, most of the Land of Wind's water is poisonous enough to be undrinkable. Even worse, the air around those oases are dangerous to breathe due to being humid with poison!

Regardless, there are habitable oasis in the Land of Water. But most of the Land of Wind are gorges of stone, hills and plains of sand, and plateaus of rock. Despite its element and name, the Land of Wind is better known for its depths than its heights. Though there are areas of it so deep that groundwater evaporates into a fog-like steam to form a cloudy landscape.

## ***History***

The Land of Wind was colonized by humanity under the leadership of the Yang and Yin Sages.

For 5000 years, from 0 ASA to 5000 ASA, the Land of Wind was paradise due to the Yang and Yin Sages' leadership and terraforming. But after the Yang and Yin Sages' deaths, half of the Land of Winds' people departed to the Moon to live with the Yang and Yin Sages' souls. The other half either immigrated out of the Land of Wind or remained to survive in the Land of Wind without the Yang and Yin Sages' guidance and help.

For more than a millennium, the Land of Wind was inhabited by hermits in its depths and heights and nomads in its plains. But eventually, as ninjutsu began to replace ninshū, it began to be settled by ninja from other lands. These ninja married into and taught ninjutsu to the nomadic tribes. As a result, the first of the ninja tribes was born.

At the beginning of the era of ninja villages, each of the Land of Wind's ninja tribes established and operate its own ninja village. As a result, despite the fact that there was little demand for ninja villages, the Land of Wind had the most ninja villages of all! Of course, because there were a little demand for ninja yet a lot of ninja, there was a lot of competition between the Land of Wind's ninja. Inevitably, that competition escalated into rivalry and that rivalry escalated into war! Consequently, the Land of Wind entered and fought each other in a Warring States Period!

By the end of the Warring States Period, in 1321 AF, all but **1** of the ninja tribes — the **Sand Tribe** (砂族, *Sunazoku*) — had either been driven out of the Land of Wind or exterminated in the genocide. As such, the Land of Wind was deprived of its diversity of genetics and left as the country with the fewest Kekkei Genkai-users. But in exchange, the Land of Wind became the first and only country to unify all of its denizens under the governance of 1 ninja state!

To commemorate the Land of Wind's unification, the Sand Tribe converted the chakra of the ryūmyaku into the fertile and water-rich oasis. Afterward, the Sand Tribe constructed capital city-state of the Land of Wind — Sunagakure no Sato — around that oasis and then moved the Ryūmyaku Throne from Rōran to Sunagakure.

A 100 years after its foundation, in 1421 AF, Sunagakure allied with Iwagakure, Kirigakure, Konohagakure, and Kumogakure to invade Uzushiogakure! Together; Iwa, Kiri, Konoha, Kumo, and Suna razed Uzushio to the ground and stole all of Uzushio's fūinjutsu. In addition, they committed genocide on the Uzumaki and massacred the other people of Uzushio as well.

After the destruction and sack of Uzushiogakure, Sunagakure applied Uzushio's fūinjutsu to capture Shukaku and then seal Shukaku within their village head! As a result, both the first jinchūriki of Shukaku and the first Kazekage were born! With the power of Shukaku at their disposal and the threat of Shukaku gone, Sunagakure was able to hasten their construction of infrastructure and terraforming of the Land of Wind. As such, Sunagakure was able to ascend into being 1 of the Five Great Shinobi Villages!

But a decade later, in 1431 AF, Sunagakure discovered that Konoha broke Iwa, Kiri, Konoha, Kumo, and its deal to hunt and kill all of Uzushiogakure's survivors. As instead of hunting and killing the survivors, Konoha was either abducting or recruiting those survivors. This caused Suna to begin distrusting both Konoha and the other Great Shinobi Villages as well.

Not long after, a shinobi defected from Konoha to Takigakure and that shinobi is discovered to have been a second jinchūriki of Konohagakure! The discovery causes Sunagakure to become afriad of having less bijū and thus less firepower than the other Great Shinobi Villages. Consequently, Sunagakure entered an arms race to capture the bijū and create jinchūriki from them. Unfortunately, that arms race would escalate into the First Shinobi World War! Because of how costly and distracting an external war had been for Sunagakure, after the First Shinobi World War, Sunagakure agreed to not capture anymore bijū or create anymore jinchūriki.

Without the distraction and expenses of war to hinder it, Sunagakure was able to begin establishing a relationship between the citizenry of the Land of Wind and the military of the Land of War. Sunagakure was also able to improve and streamlining both its taxation of the Land of Wind's population and its tariffs on the Land of Wind's exports and imports. Ultimately, Sunagakure was able to consolidate the Land of Wind's unification and normalize interactions between Sunagakure and the rest of the Land of Wind.

During the First Shinobi World War, Sunagakure had defeated and subjugated the eastern half of the Land of Rain and the southern coast of the Land of Rivers. As such, during the Second Shinobi World War, Sunagakure had to fight rebellions in both the Land of Rain and the Land of Rivers as well. In addition, Sunagakure had to fight Iwagakure and Konohagakure over the Land of Rain. And Sunagakure had to fight Kirigakure, Kumogakure, and Konohagakure over the Land of Rivers. To make matters worse, Sunagakure also had to fight Kusagakure over the Land of Rains and Yugakure over the Land of Rivers!

Needless to say, the Second Shinobi World War was difficult and expensive for Sunagakure to fight. So difficult and so expensive, that at the end of the Second Shinobi World War, Sunagakure was happy to allow independence to the Land of Rain and Land of Rivers on the condition that both continued to pay an annual tribute Sunagakure. However, Sunagakure did not expect the Land of Rain and Land of Rivers to pay in submission forever. So Sunagakure began to experiment with and invent jutsu. Among the jutsu to be invented after the Second Shinobi World War as the Puppet Technique!

Decades later, when Amegakure and Tanigakure missed and then refused to pay tribute to Sunagakure, Sunagakure kickstarted the Third Shinobi World War by invading both the Land of Rain and the Land of Rivers.

Ultimately, while Sunagakure would fail to bully Amegakure and Tanigakure into continuing to pay tribute, it would bolster its genetics and populations with captives from across the continent.

## ***Culture and Politics***

Sunagakure does not have any clans or even factions; instead, it has the **Sand Tribe** (砂族, *Sunazoku*).

Sand Tribals are categorized into families which are defined by the jobs of its members. Whenever a Sand Tribal acquires a or changes their job, the Sand Tribal will change their family as well. Adolescents are encouraged to enter a field that is different from their parents, because they are expected to eventually depart from their family and join another family. As this allows the Sand Tribe's families to become connected to and mix with each other.

Because of the emphasis on adoption rather than blood, with the exception of parents and siblings, family is not as cherished as friends. Everyone is your family in the Sand Tribe, but only a few Sand Tribals are your friends. Consequently, the Curse of Hatred is rampant in the Sand Tribe. As the death of a friend is never forgotten or forgiven. **Ever**. It's for this reason that the Uchiha Clan were accepted into and revered by the Sand Tribe, as the awakening of the Sharingan was regarded not as a sign of failure or insanity but rather a sign of friendship and passion.

Entertainment in the Sand Tribe revolves around dance, feasts, music, and storytelling. Dancing is used for duels as well as fun, because dancing requires endurance. In a dance duel, the first to become exhausted and faint is the loser. Depending on what the duel is over, the loser may be executed or punished in another way. Though if the duel was not serious, or if the victor is merciful, the embarrassment of the loss may be the only punishment. Drink and food are cherished in the Land of Wind, so feasts are a big deal and rare as well. But when there is a feast, the feast is extravagant and public. Notably, all holidays are celebrated with feasts where both the citizenry and the military are invited. Music and storytelling tend to accompany the dancing and feasts, but they are enjoyed by themselves as well.

Sand Tribals are polygamists through and through. Sand Tribals divide their spouses between concubinage and marriage. Concubinage is for spouses whom are not Sand Tribals, while marriage is for spouses whom are Sand Tribals. It's common and even expected for Sand Tribals to acquire and either conceive or sire children through concubinage rather than marriage. As concubinage allows the Sand Tribe to add the genetics of outsiders and bolster its population. Notably, both female and and male Sand Tribals are allowed to engage in both concubinage and marriage. However, to lessen competition for concubines, only the Sand Tribe are allowed to practice concubinage and polygamy in the Land of Wind. While citizens of the Land of Wind are restricted to marriage and monogamy.

In fact, because concubinage and polygamy are so important to the Sand Tribe's proliferation, the Land of Wind's settlements are able to chose between either paying taxes or providing the Sand Tribe with concubines! Though it's common for those provided to be rejected as concubines and subjected to servitude instead.

In general, the Sand Tribe are regarded as archaic and barbaric. However, the Sand Tribe allows dissent so long as that dissent does not escalate into insubordination or violence, In addition, the Sand Tribe allows its settlements to enact and enforce their own laws so long as the settlement continues to pay taxes or provide concubines. Because of this the Land of Wind is considered to be the capital of free speech and self-governance.

Lastly, the position of Kazekage is always inherited by the head of the Kazekage Family. As the Kazekage Family, a dynasty within the Sand Tribe, are considered to be royals among the nobility that is the Sand Tribe.

## ***Military***

Sunagakure's army is composed of certain families in the Sand Tribe. More specifically, there are families in the Sand Tribe with the job of being in the military. These families are:

* Families with the job of being the military's fūinjutsu specialists.
* Families with the job of being the military's gas weapons specialists.
* Families with the job of being the military's puppeteers.
* Families with the job of being the military's shurikenjutsu specialists.
* Families with the job of being the military's Wind Release specialists.
* Families with the job of producing and supplying armor and weapons.
* Families with the job of producing and supplying both medicine and poison.
* Families with the job of nurturing and training the hawks used as messengers.
* And more.

Genin do not enlist into the military so much as they are claimed by a family in an official report. Anyone can be claimed as a genin, but to become a chūnin, they have to pass the Chūnin Exams.

In general; Sunagakure shinobi are mid- to long-range combatants. They combat with projectiles such as hand-thrown weapons, proxies such as clones or puppets, or jutsu such as Wind Release. And they augment those with poisons and summons whenever possible. So it's a common tactic for them to complement gas weapons with the wind release, allowing them to either cripple or kill their opponents en masse and with both ease and haste. They also contract with and use summons to empower their jutsu and weapons. Ultimately; accuracy, deadliness, and speed are their goal instead of durability, endurance, or power.

There are 3 Kekkei Genkai that Sunagakure is famous for: the Magnet Release, the Sharingan, and the Typhoon Release.

## ***Kazekage***

### *Reto*

The First Kazekage allied Sunagakure with Iwagakure, Kirigakure, Konohagakure, and Kumogakure to invade Uzushiogakure! Her participated; personally; in the demolition, massacres, and thefts that occurred during the Sack of Uzushiogakure. And he devoted Sunagakure to, and organized, the hunting and killing of Uzushiogakure's survivors. As such, he did not abduct or accept any Uzumaki into Sunagakure.

Before the First Shinobi World War, he confronted and defeated Shukaku. Afterward, he became the first jinchūriki of Shukaku by having Shukaku sealed within himself. By the time the First Shinobi World War began, he had already discovered and mastered all the powers of a jinchūriki.

At some point during the First Shinobi World War, he encountered and become involved with an Uchiha refugee. Though it was feared that the Sharingan was abused to seduce him, especially since he allowed the other Uchiha to join the Sand Tribe and migrate to Sunagakure, his eventual marriage with the Uchiha was accepted and eventually even celebrated. Though the elders did make it illegal for a Sand Tribal to marry an outsider in order to prevent anyone else from doing what he did.

At the end of the Second Shinobi World War, he took the peace treaty very seriously. So he forbid any of his fellow Sand Tribals from confronting any of the other Tailed Beasts.

In 1453, at the age of 60, he abdicated his jinchūriki and kazekage positions to his 22-year-old daughter Rasa. Afterward, he died from the extraction of Shukaku.

Reto was born with and mastered the Typhoon Release, which allowed him to access and control the natural energy in air as a means of manipulating and sensing through air without any chakra or hand seals. He could also combine his Wind Release and Typhoon Release into Wind Release Senjutsu! However, he could not enter the Sage Mode. After becoming the jinchūriki of Shukaku, he attained enough chakra to enter the Sage Mode at last. He also attained and eventually mastered the Magnet Release, allowing him to control the charge of the air under his control and thus combine the Magnet Release (Composed of Earth Release and Lightning Release) and Wind Release into the Plasma Release (Solar Wind) Kekkei Tōta. For this he was called the Bloodline-killer and Desert Sun, as he could afflict DNA damage which destroyed Kekkei Genkai and generate and manipulate a sun at-will. Notably, he never applied the Magnet Release's ability to magnetize and manipulate objects like sand. As it did not fit his fighting style.

### *Rasa*

Rasa became the jinchūriki and kazekage at the age of 22 and in 1453. 2 years later, in 1455, the Land of Rain and Land of Rivers rebelled against Sunagakure. In response, she entered Sunagakure into the Second Shinobi World War!

Even during the Second Shinobi World War, she expanded on the buildup of infrastructure that her father started. She applied the Magnet Release as a means of magnetizing and then manipulating objects, recreating and using Shukaku's ability to control sand as her fighting style. In order to fund the quelling of Amegakure and Tanigakure's rebellions, she began the tradition of applying the Magnet Relaese to mine and then sell gold dust.

She later allowed oases to have industrial waste dumped into them if the oases were already poisonous, acquiring even more funds for Sunagakure as she did so. Because of how cheap and easy it was to dispose of industrial waste in the Land of Wind, she was able to attract and keep businesses within the Land of Wand and then fund Sunagakure on the taxes and tarrifs that were collected from those business After she began this, she perfected Sunagakure's system of taxation and tarrifing. Lastly, she established and monopolized trade between Sunagakure and Temujin's continent.

After the Second Shinobi World War, as a 28-year-old, she allowed the Land of Rain and Land of Rivers to become independent in exchange for annual tributes from both. She then applied those annual tributes to military research, becoming responsible for the creation of not only the Puppet Technique but many more jutsu as well. In addition, she arranged a marriage between both a Hoshigaki and herself and a Typhoon Release-user and a Kirigakure shinobi. By doing so, she allowed the Sand Tribe to attain and develop maritime shinobi for their sea trade.

After a 32 more years of rulership, at the age of 60, she abdicated her jinchūriki and kazekage positions to her 18-year-old son Kisame.

Rasa was born with the Magnet Release and the Sharingan. She was a Genjutsu-specialist feared as the Catcus Flower, because of the hallucinogens within the flowers of the Land of Wind's cacti. She could emit a magnetic field from herself and then conduct light from her Sharingan, through the magnetic field, and to her targets. This allowed her to cast Genjutsu: Sharingan onto anyone within her magnetic field's range. She also combined her ability to magnetize and manipulate sand with her Sharingan's ability to predict, allowing her to detect threats with her Sharingan and then shield herself with sand. She could even detect an entity with her magnetic field, analyze the detection with her Sharingan, and then predict and react to the entity even if the entity was never directly seen by her Sharingan. After awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, she was able to channel Tsukuyomi through her Magnet Release's magnetic field. She was able to charge her Amaterasu with her Magnet Release as a means of manipulating the Amaterasu. In addition, her Mangekyo Sharingan was unique in that her Amaterasu burned as fast as convention fire. This allowed her to use her Amaterasu as apart of her ultimate defense. After becoming the jinchūriki of Shukaku, she was able to spam her Mangekyo due to now having a healing factor and monstrous chakra. She was even able to assume an Amaterasu-ignited full-tailed form that could clash fire to fire with Matatabi as an equal.

### *Kisame*

Kisame became the jinchūriki and kazekage at the age of 18 and in 1491.

Before the Third Shinobi World War, he focused his governance on bringing the Sand Tribe closer and improving the average Sand Tribal's standard of living. He also began to expand Sunagakure's infrastructure rather than just the Land of Wind's infrastructure. Most of all, Kisame caught Sunagakure up technology-wise.

In 1523, at the age of 50, he caused the Third Shinobi World War when he decided to invade the Land of Rain and the Land of Rivers in response to Amegakure and Tanigakure not paying their annual tribute to Sunagakure.

At the age of 52, in 1525, the 3rd Raikage and him killed one another by punching one another to death. Though it's believed that he died in a fight with both the 3rd Raikage and 4th Hokage; in actuality, the 3rd Raikage killed the 4th Hokage before the 3rd and him even began to fight. He was the first, and so far only, Kazekage to die in battle and his funeral procession is said to have kept the entire Ninja World awake with the noise.

Regardless, his death caused Shukaku to reincarnate.

Kisame was born with both the fish traits of the Hoshigaki and the Sharingan as well. But he was not born with the Magnet Release or the Typhoon Release. By means of the Sharingan, he was able to copy and develop mastery in the Iwagakure ninjutsu which allow the decreasing and increasing of weight. He combined this with his Hoshigaki strength, as he was able to decrease his strength alongside his weight yet still be strong enough to easily and quickly kill a giant summon wth his bare hands. And he could augment his already monstrous strength by increasing his weight manifold! He could also use the ninjutsu to swim through the air by flight and the ground by making the ground too light and weak to oppose his swimming. This earned him the nickname of "Shark of the Land, Sea, and Sky". After he became a jinchūriki, he was able to decrease his weight enough to become massless and faster than light and increase his weight enough to be able to manhandle a biju with brute strength alone. He also could assume jinchūriki forms in order to become even stronger! He could also summon and transform with sharks, even while he is using a jinchūriki form, in order to become faster and stronger. By summoning and transforming with a sage shark, he can enter a shark sage mode! He also can harden his body with Earth Release, augment himself with a Lightning Release Armor that the copied with his Sharingan, and sharpen his fins and teeth with the Wind Release.

### *Akai*

After Kisame died, Shukaku died alongside Kisame and then reincarnated. Now, Shukaku was supposed to reincarnate into itself at a random location. But instead, the chakra that Shukaku was composed of reincarnated into Akai.

Akai is a descendant of the First Kazekage Reto's younger brother. So Akai was not born with Hoshigake Traits, the Magnet Release, Sharingan, or the Typhoon Release, Instead, Akai was born 'normal'...

...until, in 1525 and when he was 16, Kisame died and Shukaku reincarnated into him as chakra. As such, Akai attained the abilities and chakra of Shukaku. As in, Akai became a humanoid Shukaku rather than a jinchūriki! Regardless, after Kisame's death, the Royal Family of the Sand Tribe began to compete with each other for the position of Kazekage.

For 6 years, from 1525 to 1531, Akai abducted women from all countries except the Land of Water and kept them as concubines. As he did so, he massacred a countless number of civilians and soldiers alike. Consequently, because of how he depopulated towns and villages like a plague, he became a boogeyman known far and wide as "The Red Death". It's said that as many as 10% of the casualties among civilians was caused by him by himself. Even worse, to prevent their mothers from influencing them, he would kill his concubines immediately after they gave birth to a child. As such, all of the women he abducted were eventually killed by him.

While Sunagakure was always derided as barbaric, Akai caused them to be feared as savages. After the Third Shinobi World War, he became the Fourth Kazekage because everyone feared him and realized that he was possessed by Shukaku's chakra. By this point, he was not 16 but rather 22 and had realized how dumb his rampage had been. As he caused the Land of Rain and Land of Rivers to despise the Land of Wind rather than just be too cheap to pay tribute. Consequently, even after the Third Shinobi World War, Amegakure and Tanigakure opposed Sunagakure and refused to pay tribute. This was an absolute loss for Sunagakure, as it made the entire Third Shinobi World War a waste of manpower, resources, time, and wealth.

By 1541, the present, Akai is 32 and ***STILL*** struggling to rebuild the Land of Wind's reputation among other countries.

Because Shukaku's reincarnated into Akai as chakra rather than a chakra monster, Akai exhibits all of Shukkau's abilities and cahkra. Akai is covered in cursed seals-like tattoos that he is able to manifest and manipulate at-will. They allow him to bind any entity, whether it be a creature or object, by spreading them over the entity. He also can apply the cursed seals as a means of transferring chakra from himself to any entity marked with the cursed seals. As such, Akai can mark a creature with his cursed seals and then both bind the creature's body and seal the creature's mind in a genjutsu via transferring of chakra into the creature. Once the body has been bound and the mind seal, the creature cannot oppose or resist Akai in any way. Akai also exhibits the Magnet Release. By applying the Magnet Release to the air and then marking that air with his cursed seals, Akai can seemingly generate and manipulate his cursed seals as if they were an elemental ninjutsu. By coalescing air and the cursed seals, Akai is able to create "The Black Miasma of the Red Death" . Due to his chakra reservoir, he can flood the battlefield with his miasma in to detain all enemies in an instant. Frighteningly, Akai can mark an enemy with his cursed seal without their knowledge and then use Shukaku's power to control the sleeping to manipulate the target in their sleep. As such, he can cause his enemies to massacre each other and instill paranoia in their ranks. His ability to control the sleeping also allows him to puppeteer those affected by his miasma, as he can force them asleep and then manipulate them as puppets with his will alone. To attack and defend himself, he is able to craft Tailed Beast Balls into a suit of armor and any weapon he can imagine. He is not fast, but he is stronger and tougher than most when using his Tailed Beast Ball Armor because he has nuclear bomb-level power and shielding. He can also armor his enslaved foes in Tailed Beast Ball Armor in order to use them as elites that can kill even a Bijū or Kage!

## ***Trivia***

* Sungakure shinobi are considered to be illiterate. As instead of reading or writing with the alphabet that everyone else uses, they apply Quipu as both a numeric system and a writing system as well.