With the beginning of the persecution of clans that possessed kekkei genkai, members of the Baeru clan withdrew from Kirigakure – and consequently from the main island of the Land of Water, and returned to the Fortress of the Imperial Ice Dragon, to garnish the walls of their ancestors. This isolation only reinforced the internal desire of many of the Baeru clan to break the treaty with Kirigakure and declare the north islands independent from the rest of the Land of Water, while founding the and the . After the appointment of Yagura as the Fourth Mizukage, Kirigakure's troops broke the peace treaty before anyone from the Baeru the clan could do it, thus began the war against the northern island culminating with the almost extinction of the clan. Few survivors managed to escape and those w