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The story of the Founders of Konoha goes like this: that a Senju woman created life out of chakra, and an Uchiha man brought with him only death.

No one knows much about them; few documents exist about that time. After their children were grown, it is said Uchiha Madara was struck with a roving wanderlust. He desired to reach the end of the world, and to keep him in check, Senju Hashirama followed him.

"They disappeared," the Uchiha captain says, who has lived an unnaturally long life and who is one of the few people said to have met them.

It is a story about a ghost, about a specter haunting the village.

"No," the Uchiha captain says. His milky eyes lift upward.

"This is a story about love."