Ishigakure

Ishigakure (石隠れの里, Ishigakure no Sato; Literally meaning "Village Hidden in Stones") is the hidden village of the country located at the Land of Gravels. The village has a big influence of Sunagakure and Iwagakure, as the Land of Gravels is located between the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth, and Ishigakure need, sometimes, economic and military aid.

Founding
The Land of Gravels was practically inhabited by shinobi's villages for decades because its land and its geography didn't allow the ninja clans to settle, since it didn't have enough technology to carry their food, weapons and goods by rude stones lands and by mountains quite unreliable. However, some years before the First Shinobi World War, some members of clans slaughtered in poor countries have migrated to that country in order to rebuild his life. But, being the Land of Gravels a target area by the First Kazekage and the First Tsuchikage (as a way to expand their domains and generate new training camps for the ninja villages that were forming), the new population suffered with constant attacks and theft by Sunagakure and Iwagakure's shinobi. So, Daitan Futekina, former leader of the Futekina clan, decided to found a village ninja to defend the people of the Land of Gravels.

Second Shinobi World War
During Second Shinobi World War, Ishigakure allied to Konohagakure and Kirigakure as a way to protect themselves from constant attacks of Iwagakure and Kumogakure. As proof of alliance, Konoha shinobi traveled to the Land of Gravels to protect the border with the Land of Earth as ninjas from Ishigakure served as support for Konoha during the destruction of the Land of Sky.

Clans
Ishigakure is also known for harboring renegade ninjas Stone and Sand and also poor, bankrupt or on the brink of clans extinction. Likewise it is also common ex-Watari ninjas move to the village hoping to get a solid career as a shinobi. The most famous clans in Ishigakure are:
 * Uemon clan
 * Shrika clan
 * Kuriharu clan