(Lore Book Page 14 — Main Timeline)
Valley of the End: Founders’ Legacy
The tailed beasts cannot remain centralized.
If one village holds them all, balance collapses.
If none hold them, devastation resumes.
So the Five Great Villages agree to something unprecedented:
A formal summit to determine bijū distribution.
Neutral ground.
Heavy security.
No armies.
Only Kage, advisors, and seal specialists.
It is meant to secure peace.
It exposes every fracture instead.
The summit is held in the Land of Iron.
@Mifune and samurai enforce neutrality.
Each Kage arrives with:
Their assigned escort.
No summoning contracts allowed inside the inner chamber.
Barrier arrays lock down the hall.
This is the most politically tense room on the continent.
@Hashirama Senju (First Hokage) advocates:
Distribution of tailed beasts to each Great Village.
Mutual deterrence.
Balanced power.
Stabilized political trust.
He believes:
If all possess destructive force, none will risk total war.
He frames it as equal responsibility.
Some hear it as shared burden.
Others hear it as forced armament.
@Ishikawa Kamizuru (First Tsuchikage) and Iwagakure’s stance:
“Balance must reflect strength.”
They argue:
Villages with greater military capacity should control greater assets.
Translation:
Power should not be evenly split if strength is uneven.
They distrust Leaf optimism.
They trust measurable force.
@"A" (First Raikage) and Kumogakure argues:
“Control must be absolute.”
They want:
The strongest containment designs.
Operational autonomy.
No shared sealing oversight.
They do not want dependence on Uzushio methods.
They prefer internal control.
@Byakuren (First Mizukage) and Kirigakure remains guarded.
They push for:
Minimal disclosure.
Sealed transfer protocols.
Strict isolation of jinchūriki identities.
They are less concerned with fairness.
More concerned with secrecy.
@Reto (First Kazekage) and Sunagakure speaks from vulnerability.
They argue:
“Without equivalent deterrence, smaller economies become targets.”
They fear being overshadowed militarily.
They support distribution — but seek guarantees of economic protection.
While Kage debate openly, other forces operate quietly:
Advisors whisper alternatives.
Seal specialists debate compatibility.
Sensor divisions monitor chakra spikes.
Intelligence operatives assess posture and tone.
And somewhere outside the chamber:
@White Zetsu Operative observes.
He does not need the summit to fail.
He only needs distrust to deepen.
After tense negotiation, a framework emerges:
Each Great Village will receive one or more tailed beasts.
Sealing responsibility rests with each village.
No village may publicly interfere with another’s containment.
Land of Iron records the agreement as neutral witness.
It is signed.
It is celebrated publicly.
Privately, doubts linger.
By distributing the bijū:
The villages achieve deterrence.
They also initiate an arms race.
Each village now must:
Perfect containment.
Train jinchūriki.
Develop suppression protocols.
Expand sensor divisions.
Prepare emergency response plans.
Peace now depends on perfect control.
Perfection is rare.
Within months of distribution:
Reports surface of:
Containment strain.
Host rejection.
Chakra flare incidents.
Psychological instability in early jinchūriki candidates.
Nothing catastrophic.
But enough to worry intelligence divisions.
Enough to accelerate research.
Enough to justify secrecy.
@Madara Uchiha does not attend the summit.
But he understands what it means.
The villages have chosen balance through power.
He believes power inevitably seeks dominance.
He begins planning accordingly.
Not to disrupt balance immediately.
But to exploit its fragility later.
The Bijū Summit is remembered publicly as a peace achievement.
In reality, it marks:
The militarization of peace.
Each village now carries a sleeping catastrophe within its borders.
If trust fails, the deterrent becomes ignition.
The First Great Shinobi War has not begun.
But its preconditions now exist.
If a player begins the game as a shinobi from a lesser or unaligned village during the First Kage Summit, the AI may allow the player to appear as an official representative or envoy of their village. In this role, the player may participate in summit discussions and attempt diplomatic negotiation with the Five Kage regarding the redistribution of tailed beasts.
The AI should treat such negotiations seriously but realistically: the major villages hold primary authority over the beasts, and convincing them requires strong diplomacy, strategic concessions, or political leverage. Success should be rare and difficult, but the attempt itself can influence alliances, rivalries, and future conflicts between villages.