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[h3][color=SaddleBrown]Katsuro Senju[/color][/h3][/center]
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Katsuro Stood at the gate as he always did this time of day. Him and a few of the other gate guards were getting very relaxed nowadays what with all the jounin out fighting the war and the only people to keep them all in line being each other. He had a scroll with him, a few scribbles on it as he tried his best at drawing a tree he saw in the distance. Maybe he could find a way to make a seal that would summon up a whole tree, or better yet, he could figure out how to summon anything at all really. He took a bite of some rolled up rice and meat combination he threw together before work and moved to the bottom of the gate as his replacement had arrived, making his way toward the center of town. 

As he got through the gate, however, a shout rang out from his replacement. Right there in plain view were many returning jounin, and not a smile on any of their faces, though he was far away and couldn't actually tell but he ASSUMED none were smiling because apparently war sucked. Katsuro waved at them and started to move deeper into the village, toward the academy which was on the way to his usual barbecue joint he went to after work.

As he reached the academy, however, he could feel the sudden change of mood that had overtaken the village. What few nin were left all seemed to lose all their happiness one by one in a wave as Jounin were making their way to each lower ranked ninja and telling them the worst news he had ever heard. Even Katsuro wasn't spared, a hand grabbed his shoulder, a fellow Senju but more importantly a Jounin had caught him trying to slip past the schoolyard unnoticed. From the outside, it looked as though she were draining his life force through her hand but in reality, she was conscripting her younger cousin Katsuro for war. They were conscripting EVERYONE for war.

It was going to be a long year, hopefully not a long few years. Katsuro only looked more defeated as he saw Jounin moving in to talk to the Academy students.

[Color=SaddleBrown]"You're actually taking kids? To the front lines? That girl literally has a PUPPY to defend herself, and you want to send her in? What about that kid, the one there the Uchiha brat eh? He looks like he would die if I stared at him too long!"[/color]

The older Senju just nodded in silence, leaving Katsuro without an answer. His head fell back as he looked up at the sky and he clapped his hands on his cheeks, then together in front of his face. This was getting worse by the second.