The Prelude to War

"Sunagakure itself was an infertile land in the middle of the desert. If we wanted to develop, relying solely on cultivating already barren land instead of taking what we needed was simply impossible!" At that, Temari thought of her father's weary figure, mining for ore and panning for gold all day to subsidize the village. "Sis, that airheaded guy... he's the brat who tied for second place with the Uchiha Clan's second young master in the first exam—Naruto Namikaze, son of the Hokage Assistant, the Yellow Flash!