Marcos Clan

The Marcos Clan are a family of Filipino politicians and heretical shinobi of the Kouga ninja school. They were once the ruling family of the Philippines during the reign of Ferdinand Marcos, who almost converted the republic into a hidden country (shinobidom) to make himself 'Hokage'.

Their current matriarch is a powerful kunoichi named Imelda Marcos. Her son Bongbong is equally famed as a peerless shinobi.

History
The Marcos clan were simply politicians from Northern Ilocos before World War II, but their destiny changed when a young and ambitious Ferdinand Marcos caught sight of a hidden hut in one of the many mountains of Luzon. There, he saw a large family practicing ninjutsu techniques in secret.

He learned that they were the last remnants of the Kouga family, a famed ninja clan that dwindled in number during the Sengoku Jidai. The old man, their father, was the last Kouga Heir, brought to the Philippines in secret by General Yamashita during WWII. The treasure hidden in the Philippines was their bloodline and the hundreds of years of ninjutsu techniques and secrets they carried.

Marcos had a lot of ideas of how to apply Ninjutsu and Shinobi techniques to his own ambitions of power. He offered them status and riches in exchange for training and knowledge. The sons of Koga all agreed and swore to allegiance to this upstart politician. The two clans were bound in blood.

Soon enough, Marcos had become a powerhouse in Philippine politics and ninjutsu, eliminating any rival who stood in his way. His clan, wife and children had all become powerful shinobi. The power of their clan brought to heel the many ruling institutions and conspiracies that held sway over the archipelago. His opposition too weak to resist him, Ferdinand later became president of the Philippines.

Hiroo Onoda, the last remaining active imperial japanese soldier in the Philippines at the time, was actually a shinobi left by General Yamashita to seek out the Kouga heir and to watch over him. Onoda was surprised to see a filipino shinobi, and was appalled that one would rule a country. He left hiding and went to assassinate Marcos. As a Kouga ninja, to rule public office was unthinkable, so he sought to punish the arrogant filipino shinobi. However, he was soundly defeated at the Malacanang palace when he found out that the Kouga remnants had joined up with the Marcoses. Though Marcos wished to kill and silence the lone japanese warrior, the Kouga brothers begged him to be merciful. Hiroo Onoda was pardoned and sent back to Japan.

Marcos used his knowledge of ninjutsu to create the Shinobi Action Force (SAF), an elite unit of filipino shinobi that served the Philippine Government. He trained them to be extremely loyal to the Marcos clan and to be ruthless toward their enemies. He also formed a plan to shift the Philippine Republic into a Hidden Country - a Shinobidom, or a state ruled by Shinobi. He would then cease being a president and become a Hokage. This was when he implemented Martial Law.

However, Ferdinand knew his greatest threat would come from his closest allies. The blood of Kouga was thin, but still very potent. It simultaneously carried the curse and awesome powers of the yamata-no-orochi that had transformed their ancestor Kouga Saburo. He wished to have that blood's powers for himself. The Kouga brothers were unfortunately naive and unaware of the man's all-encompassing ambition. It was too late for them to react when the very SAF they had trained were turned on them to kill or capture them.

Marcos learned of a ritual to turn himself into a vessel for the evil god of Ibuki mountain, by transfusing himself with the blood of Koga Saburo's descendants. He ritually sacrificed one of the Kouga brothers to draw their blood into himself, and awakened the Yamata-no-Orochi. However, the ritual did not take hold as expected; The Orochi rejected him and in its anger laid a curse upon the entirety of the Philippines. The Marcos Clan would be hit hardest with the accumulated misfortune it had unleashed upon the land.

It would soon come to pass that the Illuminati, the Vatican and several supernatural conclaves performed a joint operation to overthrow the Marcos Shinobi rule. The family was captured by the Illuminati and exiled to Hawaii, and were only spared because they surrendered their Kouga Ninja scrolls to the Americans. Ferdinand was deemed too big a threat and was sentenced to be executed, but he resisted and had to be cornered in his underground volcano base at Pinatubo. The Illuminati Killteam could not stop him from detonating the volcano, causing the eruption in 1991 that damaged the nearby american base. Ferdinand is presumed dead, though the cryofrozen body the public know about is just a clone.

Several survivors of the Kouga clan had fled to the mountains with some ninja scrolls in tow. Vowing revenge against the Philippine Government, they created the New People's Akatsuki movement to overthrow it. They continue to fight a war in the shadows up until today, carrying out subversive shinobi activities against the Filipino people. The role of ninjas in Philippine history has been covered up to maintain a facade of public order, but rebel shinobi continue to be a prevalent problem in filipino society.

History remembers the brutality of the Marcos clan, but omits the details of their exact role in it. People remember how a classmate was thrown from a window, but not the Izuna drop technique utilized that day. The only physical proof remaining today of Ferdinand's ambition to become Hokage is the statue of his face erected at Pugo, La Union.

The 1986 Philippine Constitution actually bans the use of ninjutsu and shinobi military units, and condemns any such activities as part of it's human rights prerogatives. As such, the Shinobi Action Force was disbanded and the current SAF (Special Action Force) has no relation to that organization any more.