Five years before the establishment of Konoha,
The Uchiha clan and the Senju clan signed a peace treaty to end the centuries-long war between the two clans. The Uzumaki clan also signs a non-aggression pact, but backs out of joining hands to establish a village.
Meanwhile, the Hagoromo clan stubbornly refuses to sign any treaty and even backs out of the Land of Fire completely, establishing a small settlement in the Land of Waves.
After the pact between the two clans, the childhood dream of Hashirama and Madara to establish a village with no bloodshed slowly takes shape.
However, in order to establish a village, they need residents. So, the two clans join hands and start to suppress other violent clans within the Land of Fire.
Their first challenge was to subdue the Sarutobi clan, the fifth strongest clan in the Land of Fire after the Uchiha, Senju, Hyuga, and the Aburame clan.
The leader of the Sarutobi clan, Sasuke Sarutobi, refused to cooperate with them. He didn't want to take orders from the Senjus and Uchihas.
Thus, another war broke out between the three sides. However, with the combined might of the Uchiha and the Senju clan, the Sarutobi clan was quickly subdued. Sasuke Sarutobi was forced to sign a peace treaty and become a part of their yet-to-be-found village.
Soon, the Nara clan, the Yamanaka clan, and the Akimichi clan also joined the peace treaty.
Other small clans like the Kurama clan, the Shimura clan, the Iburi clan, the Inuzuka clan, and several other clans were still engaged in battles.
At the border of the Land of Fire, the Aburame clan was engaged in a war with the Kamizuru clan of the Land of Earth. The Kamizuru clan has invaded them to plunder their resources. The Aburame clan offered to join the shinobi settlement on the condition that the Uchiha or the Senju clan help them in their battle against the Kamizuru clan.
Thus, the Uchiha clan joined the battle against the Kamizuru clan. With the Uchiha clan's help, the Aburame clan managed to repel the Kamizuru clan's invasion. The members of the Kamizuru clan were hunted down and forced to flee back to the Land of Earth.
Meanwhile, during this time, a problem occurred at the headquarters of the Senju and the Uzumaki clan. Most of their members began to secretly disappear as they were quelling the unrest in the Land of Fire.
This caught the eye of Tobirama Senju, the younger brother of Hashirama Senju. Tobirama secretly set up an Elite investigation team to investigate the reason behind this disappearance.
His investigation led him to the Land of Waves, the place home to the Hagoromo clan.
Upon deeper investigation with his hidden spies and sleeper cells, he learned of a shocking truth. Tobirama went even as far as to summon Edo Tensei of the dead Hagoromo clan members to dig deeper into their secrets.
With his thorough investigation and versatile means, he unveiled the secret of the Hagoromo clan's Dojutsu. After learning the truth, Tobirama was enraged beyond any boundaries.
Without informing his elder brother, he confronted Madara, the current leader of the Uchiha clan, with all his proofs and evidence.
The situation between the two sides became so tense that a battle broke out between Madara and Tobirama.
Madara had a deep hatred for Tobirama since he was the killer of his younger brother, Izuna. Likewise, Tobirama hated the Uchiha clan, since they were responsible for the deaths of his several siblings.
His hatred elevated to the extreme when he learned that one of his younger siblings was captured by the Hagoromo clan and later tortured to death by them by slowly draining his blood.
Soon, Hashirama found out about the commotion and confronted his brother Tobirama to demand an explanation. Madara was also a part of the confrontation.
Tobirama coldly explained the truth of the Hagoromo clan to his elder brother, Hashirama. Hashirama, who deeply cared for his siblings, was so enraged by the information that he decided to decimate the Hagoromo clan and make them pay for their deeds.
Even Madara was shocked by such information. Never, even in his dreams, did he realize that there was such a sinister intent behind the Hagoromo clan?
In the shinobi world, every shinobi clan has some dark history that should not be revealed to the world. However, these sinister schemes, plots, and practices had a moral boundary. And clearly, the Hagoromo clan had crossed the bottom line.
Madara's dream to create a peaceful settlement for the children of his clan was about to be fulfilled. And yet the actions of his former allies became a cause for the doom of his dreams.
Madara left the meeting dejected. He sighed and gathered a team of elite Uchihas to confront the Hagoromo clan.
However, to his disappointment, the Hagoromo clan refused to budge. The argument between the two sides turned so heated that Madara and his team were ambushed by the higher-ups of the Hagoromo clan.
His group barely made it out of their encirclement and Madara even lost three of his trusted friends and aide in the scuffle.
Disappointed and angered by the Hagoromo clan's retaliation, Madara decided to join hands with Hashirama to bring an end to the evil of the Hagoromo clan.
Thus, the elite shinobis of the Senju clan and the Uzumaki clan attacked the Hagoromo clan settlement in the Land of Waves. As from the Uchiha clan, only Madara joined the operation.
He didn't want to tarnish the reputation of the Uchiha clan and break the foundation of the newly built village. Exposing the dirty secrets of the Hagoromo clan to the world will break the alliance. The Uchiha clan is among the founding members of the new village, and the Hagoromo clan is a former ally of the Uchiha with blood ties.
People will lose trust in the Uchiha clan and thus also lose faith in their loose alliance. Even in the Uchiha clan, except for a few higher-ups of the clan, no other clan member was aware of the truth and the same was true for the Senju and Uzumaki clans.
The assault team had Madara, Hashirama, Tobirama, and elite among elites from the Senju and Uzumaki clans.
This group secretly attacked the Hagoromo clan and quickly wiped out the adult members of the Hagoromo clan. The members of the Hagoromo clan were caught unprepared and most of them were killed.
Madara, Hashirama, and Tobirama dug deeper into the Hagoromo clan and confirmed the truth of Tobirama's claims with their own eyes. The gruesome scene made their heart chill.
Tobirama killed the current leader of the Hagoromo clan and used Edo-Tensei to bring his soul back in front of Hashirama and Madara. Under Tobirama's control, the Edo Tensei revealed the entire truth.
After eradicating the Hagoromo clan, Tobirama started a hunt to kill their remaining members. The news about the extinction of the Hagoromo clan was suppressed by the intelligence network of Tobirama.
With such swift and decisive actions, the unrest in the Land of Fire was culled, and the shinobis of the Land of Fire were unified. Seeing the success of the Senju and the Uchiha clan, the Hyuga clan also offered to join their village.
Thus, after several years of effort, the foundation of the First Hidden Shinobi village was laid. The relocation of the shinobi's clans from different parts of the Land of Fire to the Hidden Village took another two years.
Hashirama, Madara, and Tobirama attended several meetings with the Daimyo of the Land of Fire to raise funds for the smooth development of the village. The establishment of a village wasn't an easy task.
Other than securing funds, they also had to secure food, clothes, people, and several other necessary amenities. The migration of civilians to the Hidden Village took time, as most of them were skeptical of a village found by those violent, bloodthirsty shinobis.
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