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In the five great villages, power is handed down. Each one guards a Great Seal, carried by its Kage and passed from parent to firstborn, as the Pact signed after the Shinobi War demands. Bloodlines decide who rises.
You were born with none of that. Your parents were refugees who died in the Winter Fever before anyone learned your name, and the Fire Village raised you, every neighbor at once. No clan, no surname, no master chosen by blood.
Just one method, learned from the village blacksmith: a sword isn’t made in a day. It’s made with one more blow every morning. Kaizen.
