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| - Unlike most clans they have met during the last few lifetimes, the Yaseimei clan does not have a single origin point. The various members can trace their heritage to all over the ninja world, having members from every major hidden village village but Kumogakure. This has lead to a large diversity among their members, though they are almost all of light skin. This clan can trace it's origins to a group of around fifteen to twenty ninja and their clients, a group of archaeologists and other science types who were looking to study some ancient ruins out on the edge of the Land of Fire, near the eastern ocean. They were there during when the moon crashed into the earth, the old fortress still being stable enough for them to ride out the impact, as well as tall enough to handle the waves of water that followed. It also gave them a solid defensive position to protect themselves while they took stock of the state of the world. The rations they had brought along were good for months on their own, and with the slaughtering of pack animals, they had a good supply to hold out until the worst of the devastation petered out. Overall at this time, the forerunners of this clan numbered at around forty individuals, fairly evenly split on gender. About a month after the moon's collision, they added several new arrivals to their group, a dozen or so Hozuki had washed ashore after the moon's impact had wiped Kirigakure off the face of the earth. However the Hozuki had a big problem, due to the blotting out of the sun from the dust cloud, the temperature had been dropping for weeks, and showed no signs of abating, they were forced to deactivate their Hydrification technique so they would not freeze solid. This rendered them mostly ineffectual in combat, which did happen from time to time as groups ventured out their way. They generally didn't let any sort of raiding party escape, as their isolation was their greatest protection, though they did let a few individuals from the land of earth join, due to them bringing a significant supply of food and other materials with them. The hozuki though were a big problem with the clan members being unable to pull their weight without turning to water constantly, so several Aburame and expedition members put together a solution. This solution combined the transformation technique with the Hydrification Technique. Utilizing this technique, they Hozuki were able to shapeshift into virtually any form they needed to, provided they knew how to work it properly. Due to the usefulness of this technique in combat and various other activities such as hunting, every member of the expedition who could utilize it was taught how to. The clan actually became fairly prosperous for a while in their rocky abodes, numbering at roughly 90 people by now, having gained some through immigration, and some through reproduction. But things had to come to an end eventually. After twenty years spent in those forlorn ruins, they had hunted and scavenged the surrounding area to extinction, and were forced to travel inland in the hopes of finding more resources. They angled to the south, hoping to find warmer temperatures in the cold world, though their fortune didn't increase much there. They met with several other groups along the way, eventually combining with another fairly large one, composed of land of fire, water, and wind members. They wandered the wastes barely surviving for decades, before the clan was forced to split into smaller groups, numbering at around 210 at the time. It was just too many people to feed at once, so they split into three groups, one heading southwest, one straight west, and one northwest. The southwest one was the first to die off, running into strange creatures that attacked from under the snows of the plains, combined with the lack of scavenge-able food on the plains of Suna themselves, which lead to them being brought down. The western one fared better, but had the horrible luck of being caught in an avalanche, which wiped out the majority of their members, though the shattered remnants managed to hook up with their more northerly brethren. The northwestern group though, numbering at around 90 due to absorbing the remains of the western group, though to this day they don't know the fate of the southern group, eventually came to live around a large shield volcano with some interesting features. It contained a volcanic forest, a forest that had rivers of lava flowing through the lowest channels. These were surface streams that were constantly fed by the volcano mouth itself, and flowed into a large caldera some distance away. There was also a lake that was heated by subsurface streams next to the forest. It was a dangerous land to live in, as all sorts of animals called the volcanic forests home. The extreme heat from the lava and tectonic activity in general had heated up the area enough that life would grow. The plants got their light off the streams, and that was enough for photo synthesis. They settled here, living for years before the next clans arrived, eventually forming a grouping of clans called the Fang tribe, a group of which they are still a member. Three clans working together to survive this world, even after the seasons started to change again. Three clans working together to build a life. Three clans that had survived the devastation, three hundred years ago.
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