Samurai Rising

Samurai Rising is a planned four-part fanfiction series that covers the Second Great Samurai War, give the background to the current samurai world, and become a foundation to a planned mainstream story. Consequently, the Samurai Rising series is something of a prequel. The four-part series of Samurai Rising will follow four different samurai during the war, and will thus have four different points of view.

Main Cast
The four samurai presented in the series will be the following:


 * Hazai Kugosashi, an "redeemed" Seieibushi ronin of the Land of Storms who was drafted into the war effort with the promise of freedom.
 * Kazashi Akumuno, a young and recently promoted Chukanbushi from the Land of Volcanoes, who is forced to quickly adapt to the extreme hardships and demands of the war's dire need of samurai.
 * Yugara Yamamoto, an ambitious and prestigious Kodenbushi of the Land of Blizzards who seeks to use the chaotic war as a catalyst to seize power from the Fubukishogun.
 * Futami Shouko, a young Seieibushi from the Land of Spirits who was the lone survivor of her task force's assault in the Land of Echoes, though became trapped and cut off in enemy territory, and must cross the land's boarder back to the Land of Spirits.

Chapters

 * Chapter I&mdash;Samurai Rising: Crescent Moon ~ Hazai Kugosashi
 * Chapter II&mdash;Samurai Rising: Red Dawn ~ Kasashi Akumuno
 * Chapter III&mdash;Samurai Rising: Dragon's Reign ~ Yugara Yamamoto
 * Chapter IV&mdash;Samurai Rising: Last Phantom ~ Futami Shouko

Behind the scenes
The Samurai Rising series was written to give some backstory on the samurai, to establish why the samurai concentrated their power and close their borders, thus giving rise to the dominant choice of the shinobi as a military force, and to explain why the samurai have become a virtually unknown force in the modern shinobi world.