During the Third Shinobi World War, three young Konohagakure shinobi, Inochigake, Chōsen, and Shikashishō, were abandoned and left to roam the countryside. They were eventually found by Shōyō Kawahiru, and brought to his academy to be trained as shinobi. Years later, during the onset of the Land of Mountains Civil War, he and his teammates took Ryun Uchiha's, who had been a fellow student along with them, side, and were made honorary chūnin after the war.