14 IMPERIAL DECREE

Hi no Kuni, capital city Kobe, Haru Uchiha pov

The land of Fire is one of the largest and most powerful countries on Shinobi continent. It's government leader is the Fire Daimyo. The Land of Fire was the first country to adopt a ninja village, Konohagakure, a custom other countries soon adopted. The Land of Fire is appropriately oriented towards the element of fire, typically having very bright and warm weather. While not the physically largest country, it has the largest hidden village. The Land of Fire had been involved in wars with the Land of Lightning, The Land of Earth and the Land of Wind. In the quiet years that followed, the Land of Fire slowly recovered and became accustomed to peace. This was seen by other countries, who had been working to increase their military power, as a weakness and is one of the factors that brought about the Konoha seige by all the hidden villages at the moment.

In the center of the capital city, is a palace of the current Fire Daimyo Tora Madoka. When he took the throne, as a young ruler, he was hard working and swift in decision making. But in the recent years, he became a bit muddled and depended on his advisors a lot. I came to this capital city 12 years ago, to become a member of the Guardians, the elite bodyguards of Fire daimyo. During all these times, i lost count of how many times i saved His Highness, from assassinations and so called unexpected "accidents". Because of my services, soon i became the leader of the Guardians and a trusted member of my lord. At the moment i am moving towards My Lord office, on a errand from my little Niece Ichika Uchiha. From the weekly reports sent by my son Shisui, there is nothing but praises and admiration for this little girl. I received a huge storage scroll, a small jade medicine jar with pills in it and a Letter addressed to Fire Daimyo. I was instructed to pass the medicine pills secretly for 3 days in a row to My lord, The pills are a cure to rid his mind of mental illness caused by the traitors. I tested the pills before, when i deemed them safe, i started to administer the pills to My lord. The results are very good, It's like My Lord has became a Dragon waking up after a long time of sleep. The moment My Lord came to complete consciousness, he ordered for my presence. I admitted that i gave him medicine secretly to cure him, at first he was angry, but when i told him the state of the country and why i have to do all this, he soon calmed down. After that i gave the Letter from my Niece to my Lord.

"My Lord. It is my niece, who found out that you were given a mind controlling drug by the traitors in the palace. She also addressed a personal letter to you my lord" - Haru

With that i passed the letter to my lord. My lord started reading the letter and with every moment passing by, his expression kept on getting darker. When he finished the letter, he asked for me to open the large storage scroll. I did as i ordered, what the scroll contained is Hundreds of files with names on them. I passed a single file at a time for him to go through and after a long day of reading, he smashed his fists against the arm rests almost shattering them. When he calmed down, he slowly turned towards me.

" Haru, do you know what these files contain? All these files contain information on various corrupt officials, magistrates, ministers, my sons, my concubines with each and every detail on how they harmed me and are now using their position to weaken my country. It also has a list of how they misused the tax money and diverted it to their secret accounts, investments etc.

My ancestors shed their blood and sweat to protect this country, but now my own family used mind controlling drugs on me in their lust for power. If it is not for your Niece, we would have committed a grave sin towards our ancestors and unable to show them our face in death. She did such a huge favor and service to me and the country, that is easily equal to a sss mission. But in return for her services, she only asked for a single favor in return. " - Tora Madoka(Daimyo)

" My Lord, She is still just a child, she don't know that we shinobi exist to protect My Lord and the country. It is our honour to sacrifice our lives for the country and we don't demand any favors for our services. Please forgive her My Lord, i will take any punishment in her place." - Haru

" No need to fret Haru, She is as much a shinobi as you are. Her favor is nothing personal, it is to protect the country and strengthen it. She wants my permission to help her clean the Konoha of it's scum. If it were before, i would have denied it, but after seeing her work on my own, i decided to place my faith in her. My ancestors agreed with Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha to build a proper Militaristic village. But now it is corrupted by council members. With just my permission it is still not enough to give her strength in the council, She need more than that. " - Tora Madoka

With that My Lord started to write a letter and stamped it with his imperial seal.

" Haru, as of effect from this second, With power bestowed in my capacity as Fire Daimyo of this country, I appoint your Niece, Ichika Uchiha as a Honorary Royal Princess from this day forward. She will be my representative in Konoha. Her word is my word. Anyone who disagree or behave disrespectful towards her, will be sentenced to capital punishment. Also as Princess, she is appointed the Governor of the Naha state near Konoha. I will give her 2 years time and see what she is capable of in governance. Hand this Imperial Decree to Hokage in Person.

Also i am appointing you as my Royal Inspector, to clean all the corrupt officials in the country with all the evidences provided by your niece. Prepare a team of trusted officials and start cleaning up from lower officials first. Since we are already at war, we don't want any unnecessary panic from the civilians. We will deal with Big Fish after the war." - Tora Madoka.

I was happy for my Niece and i believe it is time to rid KONOHA of it's corruption. Also i will make sure not a single "fly" on these files, will escape from my hands. With that i bowed to My Lord once more, took the Imperial Decree and left the Imperial office.

Fugaku Uchiha P.O.V

5 years. over 5 years i have been at this borders fighting day in and out. It is only during the last 2 years me and my soldiers had some time to breath. Thanks to sunagakure, the pressure on our shoulders lifted a lot and we were able to send timely reinforcements to other borders. For the past few months, it looked like the situation calmed down here, so i sent a letter to my family, to send for potential kids to be brought here. Of course, that included my Sweet Daughter and Handsome Son. From the weekly letters i receive from my wife, i was able to learn about their progress. I was happy, they were working hard and improving a lot. What surprised me is that Old Hag Naori, took special interest in my daughter training. People only know her as a Jonin and Medical ninja, but as a clan Head , i know her true status. She is the famous "Devil" Instructor of the ANBU corps. Easily one of the Kage level fighters in Konoha. I received news that, they will arrive here in 2 days time. It is in these 2 days time, all hell broke loose.

We received news from one of our accidental Scouting of how Sunagakure betrayed us and is marching together with Iwagakure to take over the borders. When the soldiers received the news, they were almost heartbroken and lost all the hope of surviving. We only have 78000 soldiers here. It is then we decided with the initial plan of destroying both the bridges. Minato will lead a regiment towards Kannabi Bridge. While i will lead one towards Tenchi Bridge. To be on the safe side, we split majority of forces towards Kannabi Bridge, as we expected majority of warfare to be there. Oh, how wrong i was, the moment we arrived at the Tenchi Bridge, we came across 500000 enemy soldiers including the shorty Tsuchikage, Onoki and the broody eyed Kazekage, Rasa. The ravine below the bridge looked like a abyss to swallow us whole anytime now.

I knew the resistance was futile and further fighting will only lead to unnecessary loss of life. So i want to save as many of them as possible, to fight for another day and ordered most of the soldiers who are the only sons in the family, married without any heir to leave the battlefield and join team Minato. But these bastards are as stubborn as me and decided to stay and fight with me to the last end, determining to take down as many enemy forces as they can with them to death. God, i can't ask for better comrades at this moment.

At first i tried to Negotiate with Onoki and Rasa to allow my soldiers to safely retreat, while they can occupy the borders, But Onoki was hell bent on annihilating us. So we have no choice but to return the favor. We all are determined, equipping all kinds of weapons, which accompanied us throughout our life and looking towards the enemy running towards us. It is at this moment, it happened. A scene either me or my soldiers will forget for the rest of our lives. Followed by a large screech of a bird, Hundred thousands of arrows rained down on the running coalition forces of Iwa and Suna, without missing a single target. It not only shocked us, but our enemies too. When the arrow rain ended, a gigantic bird dropped between us and the people mounting on top of it.

First to come down was my family bodyguards, then Old Hag Naori, my Wife Mikoto, my nephew Shisui, Son Itachi, 3 other children and lastly my daughter Ichika. The moment she landed on the ground, she gave me a look of assurance before moving towards Onoki and Rasa.