Even the relatively easy C-rank and D-rank mission requests had decreased in exactly the same way.
Shikamaru had heard of this matter relatively quickly,
since he had a place at the Shinobi Union’s Headquarters as well.
But it wasn’t like there was something they could do to solve the sudden decrease of missions.
The Union had said it was a brief change brought along by the times, and closed the matter.
However, there was a man who said he could put an end to the problem of the declining missions, as well as one other problem that had popped up since the end of the war.
That man was Kakashi.
The other problem Kakashi was intent on solving: the cases of missing nin within the Five Great Shinobi Countries that had been going on for a year.
Since about a year ago, every village had been losing one Shinobi per month. That made 12 missing-nin for every village up to now. The Five Hidden Villages had had 60 shinobi disappear in total. Furthermore, they were all young, single, male Shinobi.