[OOC] An Alternate Universe Naruto Story

[anothered]

N A R U T O

Alternate Universe

In an alternate universe, a parallel Konohagakure stands tall, but the familiar faces of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura are replaced by new, original characters. The Hidden Leaf Village remains a bustling hub of shinobi activity, with a Hokage at its helm; while a fresh narrative unfolds against the backdrop of iconic landmarks and landscapes.

The ninja academies teem with aspiring students, each with their own unique talents and dreams. The absence of canon characters allows for a different set of rivalries, alliances, and friendships to develop among the next generation of ninja. The Chunin Exams become a stage where these budding shinobi will showcase their skills.

While the Akatsuki may not be the looming threat, the absence of the original characters opens the door for unforeseen heroes and villains to rise, with their backstories and motivations shaping the destiny of this alternate Naruto world.

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The story begins in the village of Konohagakure, within the sacred halls of the ninja academy. A fresh cohort of students, on the edge of graduation, prepare to step into the shinobi world. As the sun dips below the horizon, casting the village in a warm twilight glow, these young students find themselves at the crossroads of destiny. Unbeknownst to them, this story holds unforeseen challenges and opportunities. The looming prospect of life beyond the academy gates beckons them - a tale where alliances will be tested, friendships forged, and the legacy of a new generation of ninja is written.

C H A R A C T E R S H E E T
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[b]N A M E[/b]

[b]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/b]

[b]B A C K S T O R Y[/b]

[b]C H A K R A[/b]

[b]A B I L I T I E S[/b]

[b]E Q U I P M E N T[/b]

[Letter Bee]

Hmm... Might make an Uzumaki.

[anothered]

Okey dokey, looking forward to reading your sheet!

[Letter Bee]

A P P E A R A N C E

N A M E
Uzumaki Ren.

P E R S O N A L I T Y
Ren is a courageous and compassionate soul, quick to try diplomacy first but also just as quick to resolve things with violence. He despises war yet knows that the best way to deter conflict is to have an edge over one's enemies, or alternatively, convert them to friends by defeating them and being magnanimous in victory to those who would accept it. Generous to everyone with his time and resources, Ren is nevertheless torn between the humble goal of serving Konoha with his friends (and maybe a boyfriend or girlfriend), or pursuing what he sees as a noble goal: Peace between the Hidden Villages and the various countries of the world.

Or should he just retire once he was old and had enough savings and take up farming?

B A C K S T O R Y
Born to refugees from Uzu, Ren was destined for the Ninja life from an early age. His parents loved him, but also placed expectations on him, expectations he mistook for what he himself wanted. But as he joined the Academy, Ren felt something empty inside him, something that could not be filled with food, training, and even books - Both fiction and nonfiction. All he knew was that despite his generosity winning him friends, his willingness to protect people from bullies giving him a place in classroom politics, that there was just a void inside him that was just on the verge of being filled, but was not.

Then one day, he realized that he liked another boy from his class. Then twenty-four hours later, that boy was tricked into helping a would-be defector steal a scroll from Konoha to start another war, and vanished; he would later learn that the other kid was dead, tortured and summarily executed as he begged for his life. But Ren didn't blame Konohagure for this; not yet. No, what he blamed was the power-hunger of the other villages and some of Konoha's own people. Even then, he believed that the Will of Fire was the best way of life for himself. Even then, he didn't dare dream for a shortcut to peace.

What he did dream of, however, was finding friends and another boy (or girl) and having as quiet a life as a shinobi can have...

C H A K R A
Wind and Water.

A B I L I T I E S

Crane Summoning Jutsu - When given the chance to choose a Summoned Beast to contract, Ren chose the elegant and graceful crane birds as his contractors; with his blood and a scroll, Ren can summon up to a half-dozen Cranes that can fly, use medical jutsu, and taijutsu, allowing him a versatile range of skillsets.

Fuinjutsu/Sealing Techniques - Ren is good at the family trade of Sealing; able to create seals, modify and repair them, and even break them. He is proficient enough that if political circumstances permit it, he can undo the Hyuga Family's 'Caged Bird Seal' with minimal effort.

Wind Release Jutsu - Can create and control gale-force gusts of wind.

Water Release Jutsu - Can act as his own water cannon by creating sprays and globes of water, as well as control existing water sources.

Normal Ninja Package - Every basic Ninja ability that Ren should know, including kunai throwing, basic taijutsu, basic first aid and medical jutsu, substitution techniques and transformation jutsu, is included here.

E Q U I P M E N T

- Several Kunai.
- Two Shuriken.
- Earplugs.
- Summoning Contract Papers.
- Ration Bars and Water Packs.
- Poison needle just in case quick suicide is needed.

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@anothered, asking for review.

[anothered]

@anothered, asking for review.

@Letter Bee

I'm gonna accept everyone, I'm not so serious, it's just a bit of fun!

[Soldat Elf]

Imagine making Sekiro

[Lewascan2]

My own kunai on this dart board.

A P P E A R A N C E

N A M E
Kasumi Haruno

P E R S O N A L I T Y
Kasumi is a study in contradiction. Rational and tactical, yet possessed of an occasionally volcanic temper brewing under the surface. Closed off and introverted, yet silver tongued and friendly when the mood suits her. As often as she underestimates herself and overestimates her opposition, she remains willing to display outward confidence to lure others into underestimating her in turn. Within the Hidden Leaf Village, she has managed to fly largely under the radar in her generation of shinobi graduates, not making much of an effort to make friends and making a rather inverse effort to avoid making enemies. Beneath the surface, however, Kasumi is incredibly power-hungry, intently seeking security and confidence in the arms of constant growth and accrued knowledge. She is ruthlessly intelligent, able to turn even the simplest jutsu into something far more dangerous with exploitation. In essence, she prefers to show others the face that is most useful to her, and nearly everything she does is for the sake of attaining her dream of a secure, peaceful... and eternal life.

B A C K S T O R Y
Born into the Haruno civilian family that has been long considered fairly unremarkable aside from their genetic predisposition to vibrantly pink hair, Kasumi is a diamond in the rough of unexpected talent. Raised by a single mother, Kasumi has been persistently denied the truth of her unknown father's heritage for fear of what could happen to them both if someone of her father's genetics were discovered outside wedlock. The truth is that Kasumi is the result of a one-night stand with an Uchiha, but her physical traits taking after her mother have safely concealed this part of her heritage, as has the lack of awakening a Sharingan and -in fact- the death of her father in the line of duty, leaving no-one left alive who might be able to speculate on the truth. As far as anyone is concerned, she's just a bastard child, conceived out of wedlock, which has earned her something of a level of scorn and dismissal from the more prejudiced against such things. Outside that, she has remained startlingly unremarkable in the public eye, having made some effort to conceal the true extent of her skill and hunger for knowledge and power. Though ignorant of the truth, Kasumi is rightfully concerned by her mother's adamantly tight lips, and she seeks solace from this concern in the accruement of more and more personal power to stand on her own feet in this bloody, dangerous world.

C H A K R A
Wind and Fire

A B I L I T I E S

• Foundation:
  Kasumi has truly prodigal awareness and control of her chakra, enough to even give her some capacity as a sensor. While that is because she once had rather weak reserves and thus had better awareness of what little she did have, it is something she has been working to remedy through rigorously physically honing her body, even as she continues to refine her chakra control. Kasumi did not stop at the techniques taught by the academy and made an effort to go above and beyond in her training. Because of this, she is quite capable in the surface-walking technique, to the degree of even being able to walk on water, and she has even used it to develop a twisted mirror of the Hyuga's Gentle Fist. She has a basic capacity in nature transformation, but she has yet to find the time to actually learn any elemental jutsu, when mastering and twisting her basics is much more critical for her present style. Her fine awareness and control of her chakra also allows her to suppress her chakra signature, even from sensors, making her extra stealthy when needs must.
• Rupture Fist:
  Kasumi's unique fighting style. Using the Gentle Fist as inspiration and the Surface Walking technique as a base, Kasumi deliberately injects too much chakra into a target after making physical contact. The result is a "rupture" around the impact site, causing the target to violently explode, just as what happens to any surface one uses too much chakra trying to walk on with Surface Walking. By coating her limbs in "sheathes" of chakra, she can also rather specifically counter the Gentle Fist by constantly maintaining an effective shield of chakra that prevents her tenketsu from being sealed. Both offensively and defensively, this fighting style built around using the Surface Walking technique to stick to and detonate targets is extremely effective in its brutal simplicity.
• E-Rank Mastery:
  Kasumi displays an aggressively fine finesse with the basic academy techniques, able to use them all without hand-seals. Where others see weak, everyday jutsu that quickly go overlooked for flashier and more destructive techniques, Kasumi appreciates and exploits these techniques, seeing potential for more. In particular, Kasumi has devoted much time to mastering the Replacement technique, allowing her to use it practically at-will to swap herself with nearly anything or anyone she is aware of the location of. Of course, the chakra cost tends to increase based on the size difference and range between herself and the target, but it has nonetheless become the central staple of her intended fighting style. Alongside that, she sees the potential of the Transformation technique for a truly underrated amount of situations. Of the Academy Three, the Clone technique is the one she sees as the genuine weakest, but even that she uses in melee to obfuscate her own actions with the illusions.
• Medic:
  Kasumi has been studying medical knowledge in preparation to hopefully become a medical ninja, and while she has yet to find the time to properly learn any medical jutsu, she largely has her foundational knowledge completed. This makes her a fair hand at mundane surgery or -at the least- field surgery, certainly more than the average practitioner of first aid.
• Fuinjutsu:
  Kasumi has some mediocre capacity in the art of seals. She can recognize a few, but mostly, she uses it in the pursuit of storage, explosive and medical seals. Her use of fuinjutsu largely tends towards copy/pasting preexisting works of others, but she has had the independent idea to draw seals on her skin to turn different parts of her own body into a form of "storage scroll", allowing her to easily hide things on her person.

E Q U I P M E N T
-Weapon Pouches: Loaded with kunai, shuriken and senbon needles.
-Rolls of ninja wire.
-Explosive tags (many pre-wrapped around the hilts of kunai).
-Rations and water.
-Medical kit (contains bandages, gauze, flexible splints, disinfectant, needles and thread).
-Bingo Book.
-Storage scroll (items) and storage scroll (bounties).
-Fuinjutsu supplies (basic chakra ink, paper, brush, etc).

[anothered]

Imagine making Sekiro

@Louise Ironside

If you like, haha!

Edit: I adjusted my character sheet's abilities to make him way less experienced, haha.

@Lewascan2 looks good to me!

[Bright_Ops]

Just a question before I sit down and put the idea I have in my brain onto metaphysical paper: Are we allowed to establish a bit of custom history via custom clans to the setting?

[Danyel]

A P P E A R A N C E

N A M E
Uchiha Shana

P E R S O N A L I T Y
Shana upholds a calm yet assertive behavior which often would tick people based on her choice of words. To her, such inconvenience matters not, people must hear the facts no matter how much it stings, believing that embracing hard facts earlier on would fasten progress. She's competitive to a fault & petty against even the simplest competition, feeling that might controls everything & that without strength, she won't be able to protect what's dear, let alone herself. Though, Shana has a kind and loyal side, she will honor those who she's indebted to.

B A C K S T O R Y
Shana stands subjected to the Uchiha's cause, at least whatever can be salvaged from its former glory. As one whose light shines upon the buried light, Shana wrestles between her burning desire of reclaiming the honored name of the Uchiha through becoming Hokage as an act of justice served silent vengeance while remaining in control to not lose sight of herself in the pathos she's chosen. Whatever the strained relationship that became the undoing between the Uchiha & Konoha, it's evident that Shana felt alone as the solitude is the only way to ascertain the flame that should fan destiny, chasing time.

Whatever preconception in notion, Shana set herself ablaze among others & focus on her singular goal each day. In the academy, she was an honor student & class representative, befitting of her envisioned future as Hokage & although cold, Shana draws people with her commanding presence, valuing her classmates welfare though whether or not it's a means to an end, she prefer less dead weights to affect her business. Everything in her day to day is a struggle to overcome, even advances that may seem romantic, Shana knew well that as a the young heiress of the Uchiha, many would like to exploit her Clan's resources. She remains vigilant & expressive even with her peers.

I will become Hokage & my definition of Hokage is someone who fan their own flame.

C H A K R A
Fire & Lightning

A B I L I T I E S
Uchiha Common Fire Jutsu — From Fireball to Phoenix Flower & Dragon Flame, befitting of the Uchiha's heiress.

Marksmanship — Shana can change the trajectory of her projectiles, in this case, she prefer Summoned Swords instead of the standard Shuriken & kunai.

Kenjutsu — Shana wields the standard Uchiha Blade, a katana that she often lit with lightning.

Chakra Potency — Shana has potent chakra, allowing her to deliver offensive strikes with lesser chakra drain.

E Q U I P M E N T
— Summoned Sword Scrolls x 9
Each scroll has 9 sealed swords, either she launches them or use them as reserves.

[anothered]

@Bright_OpsSure, yeah!

@Verjil looks cool!

[Danyel]

@Bright_OpsSure, yeah!

@Verjil looks cool!

@anothered

Thanks, question though, what's the state of the Uchiha situation here? Considering Shana takes Sasuke's place instead, so many questions, like relation to Itachi or the clan is fine, do tell...

[anothered]

There's no Itachi, haha. You can be in charge of Uchiha lore in this universe if you like.

[Danyel]

@anotheredSure, I'll do my best!

[Danyel]

I'll get the Uchiha lore asap, it's Xmas Eve here and 1 more hour till Xmas Day.

[Bright_Ops]

WIP

A P P E A R A N C E

N A M E
Kikai Ro

P E R S O N A L I T Y

B A C K S T O R Y

C H A K R A

A B I L I T I E S

E Q U I P M E N T

C L A N H I S T O R Y

The story so far

The Kikai clan has a disturbing reputation around it for its members being more machine then man in both body and mind. There is a vast degree of truth behind the reputation and has been since the early days of the clan.

In the bloodstained pages of history before the foundation of Konohagakure, the clan that would become the Kikai were a minor player who survived largely by taking the low stakes, low paying jobs that the major clans didn't bother to muddy their prestige with. Without the techniques or power to stand their own against power houses like the Uchiha and the Senju, they simply scavenged what living they could while competing against other minor clans.

This changed when the recognized founder of the modern day Kikai, Baraba was treating some of his wounded kin after a bloody clash. A well practiced medical ninja at the time, the struggles of the clan were only worsened with each missing limb or crippling injury and there was very little that standard medical knowledge at the time could do about it... so Baraba started looking into alternative methods of dealing with those problem.

While the Kikai speak of Baraba's efforts to outsiders with a veil of myth, legend and mysticism, the actual truth that is known by the clan is that it was all trial, error and experimentation... through the exact details of what those are is known only by elders of the clan. Regardless, the end result was finding his answers in what the Kikai would become known for; Machinery, and the fusion of it with biological components (IE, the human body).

At first this boon was limited to the replacement of lost body parts or senses, but as his patients went back into the field interesting advantages were discovered. While the physical advantages of having metal body parts were figured out fairly quickly (much harder to damage, didn't deal with aches and pains, poisons attempting to enter via the limb were pointless, the major improvements to Taijutsu, ect) the discovery that changed the course of the clan forever; Those who had sensory parts (Eyes, Ears or Nose) replaced were suddenly immune to genjutsu that targeted the respective sense.

There were two reasons this and why both actually rather complex in understand the how, there are simple explanations for both. The first was that while chakra would passively into the replacement part like a normal limb, the replacement part did something to the chakra to turn it into a different kind of life energy to power the machine parts. When this 'machine life source' cycles back around to the organic, it changes back into chakra. How the Kikai were able to make their machine parts do this is one of the clans most deeply guarded secrets and it isn't above killing allies to keep it.

The second was the fact that the connections between the brain and the replacement, artificial sensors were 'tighter' and more direct then their organic counterpart. Since Genjutsu worked by injecting the 'illusion' into the chakra in the gap connecting the sensory organ in question and the brain to feed the latter false information, having what is effectively two different kinds of chakra that change from one to the other and lack the traditional connections for a genjutsu to plant itself anyway basically stops all but the most powerful, brute force genjutsu from having any effect at all, let alone stick for long.

This did come at the price that those with the replacements would find their ability to use ninjutsu waning with each new addition, since the constant flux stopped genjutsu from having an effect also interfered with the ability to channel energy into ninjutsu... however, many deemed it a price worth paying since few of them knew any ninjutsu that outweighed the benefits. Many started implanting weapons or tricks into themselves in order to make up for the lack, in a similar manner to the puppet masters of Suna.

The art of combining metal and flesh in the manner they did would literally remake the Kikai into a major clan worthy of respect. One able to stand toe to toe with many of the other great clans of the era... with two notable exceptions: The Senju and the Aburame. An encounter against the Aburame required a great deal of preparation for a Kikai to survive the encounter, since the Aburame's chakra draining insects did... terrible things to the Kikai. As for the Senju, the fighting styles the Kikai were developing around their strengths and weaknesses were simply at a disadvantage against the wood users.

Rather then fight the two clans that they were at a disadvantage against, Baraba instead opted to ally with both Senju and Aburame instead. This turned out to be a naturally easy alliance to form, as while the Senju were the only true rivals for the Uchiha, the Kikai and Aburame clans were well suited to the task in their own ways and good allies to have during larger scale conflicts where the stronger Senju couldn't be everywhere.

The success of this alliance has often been considered by historians to be a factor in the Senju clans decision to reach out to their long time rivals the Uchiha to found Konohagakure. An invitation to join that the Kikai were happy to accept.

Since those early days, the Kikai clan has evolved for better and worse. While the clan goes to great lengths to appear united to outsiders, the truth is that within the clan are a number of sub-sects and ideological differences. The three major and known sub-sects of the Kikai's that the powers of Konohagakure are aware of are the Balanced, the Biological Purists and the Extremists.

The Balanced as they are labelled are rather moderate in their augmentics. They believe in having the upgrades to themselves they require to be great shinobi, but that there is an ideal balance of metal and flesh to be found.

The Extremists as they are often called have largely decried the weaknesses of flesh and seek to transform themselves fully into living machines; To this end they have a list of organs that cannot be replaced with machinery at this point in time that they strive to make smaller, but the great hurdle towards immortality via replacing those fleshing parts when they wear out they haven't been able to overcome yet is the brain.

The Biological Purists could be called a young sect of the clan, through they do argue that their core ideals have been around since Baraba. The Purists believe that the human body is the greatest machine of all and through medical jutsu, strive to improve it to the point of peak performance and even perfection. To maintain the chakra control they need for their medical jutsu, they do not augment themselves with machinery.

Despite its internal disagreements, only once has the Kikai ever suffered a schism that resulted in bloodshed and violence; During the darkest days of the Third War, when Konohagakure was suffering heavily losses and was being pushed back, a sect of the Kikai with a focus on Humanity being the highest form of life on the planet rolled out powerful, chakra fueled weapons of war and sent them into the most deadly of the battlefronts. These engines of war were incredibly effective, each one able to kill half a dozen squads of enemy shinobi easily before being cut down, a powerful explosion destroying them in defeat to destroy the evidence of how the engines worked while taking down a few more enemies.

They stabilized the front and saved countless lives in the process... but the rest of the Kikai didn't know what this strange sect had done to create these weapons of war and sort to find out with the quiet support of the Hokage. The truth was terrifying.

The Human Supremacists had discovered a means of summoning without a contract; They couldn't control what was summoned, but their method meant they could control around about how strong the random summon was going to be. This unfortunate summon would they be bound via methods both agonizing to the summon and very much against their will to the war engine, where they would serve as fuel until the engine they were bound to was destroyed, in which case they would die with it.

The rest of the Kikai were horrified by this discovery and felt that this practiced need to stop, now. With many highly ranked shinobi of Konohagakure with summoning contracts (not least of which was the Hokage themself), it was felt that if the clan didn't act first to stop this vile practice themselves, there would be serious consequences for the entire clan if it seemed like they were tolerating it.

The Supremacist sect disagreed with the verdict of the rest of the clan and when violence broke out, they turned what remaining war engines they had on their kin. The fighting that followed killed a sizable number of Kikai, damaged their compound badly and spilled out into Konohagakure proper where a number of innocent people were killed. The Kikai loyal to Konoha abandoned pursuing their traitorous kin as they fled in order to focus on stopping the rampaging war engines and limiting the destruction and bloodshed. The traitorous Supremacist sect survives to the modern era as rogue shinobi, selling their twisted engines of war to whomever is willing to pay.

While the Kikai have rebuilt since the third war, the incident still lingers in the public memory... and the memory of the clan itself. Enough of the Kikai themselves died in the incident and their heroics to try and limit the damage of their traitor kin served to limit the bad blood such an incident could have caused, but years later there is still lingering anger and sorrow because of it. The Kikai have also fallen in status as well that still hasn't recovered, through they are striving to rebuild their standing once more.

Mostly just sharing for the custom clan history to see if it's okay.

[anothered]

Can you break it down into main points for me please?

[Lewascan2]

@anothered
Lmfao, I just noticed that this is marked as "Jump-in" for join status. In a Naruto RP? This is going to be actual chaos unless there's boundaries on what sort of lore or powers players can just slap down... Unless that wild west chaos is deliberately what you're going for? O.O

[anothered]

Haha, it's ok! Have some faith in your fellow writers.

[Bright_Ops]

@anothered

1. The Kikai clan started out as a nameless bottom feeder clan prior to the Village era until a medic ninja named Baraba started doing some experimentation to deal with the crippling injuries and lost limbs that were hindering the clan. Through trial, error, experimentation and almost certainly some crimes that the clan keeps very quiet, Baraba developed the secret of living metal and fusing machinery and flesh together.

2. This discovery altered the clan heavily from scavengers that were barely surviving to a major clan in the region. Mechanically speaking, the Kikai who opted to undergo the process of being augmented were trading raw chakra and finer chakra control (ie, the ability to use Ninjutsu and Genjutsu) for vastly improved Taijutsu and near immunity to Genjutsu (because of reasons listed in the above clan history). To make up the difference for the loss of ninjutsu, weapons and tricks were installed into their bodies in a manner similar to puppeteers.

3. Rather then compete with the Senju and the Aburame, both of whom the Kikai were weak against, they instead joined them in an alliance against the Uchiha, with the Kikai and Aburame filling in the Senju ranks where their strongest members couldn't be during larger conflicts.

4. When Konoha was formed, the Kikai were invited and they joined.

5. During the third war when Konoha was being pushed back on several fronts, a sub-sect of the Kikai developed chakra powered war engines of highly destructive power to help turn the tide without sharing with the rest of the clan how they did it. When they were investigated, it was revealed that this sub-sect had developed a method of randomly summoning summon creatures without the need for a contract, which they would then forcefully and painfully bind to their war engines to serve as fuel. Horrified by these actions and with fear that Konoha would come down on the whole clan hard if they didn't act (since Konoha had a number of summoners, including the Hokage themself) they tried to end the practice and bring those accountable to justice.

The sub-sect violently disagreed with the rest of the clan, activating and turning their remaining war engines on them in the process. Many Kikai died and the destruction and bloodshed spilled out into Konoha proper. The traitorous sub-sect fled the village in the chaos, with the Kikai loyal to Konoha instead focused on trying to stop the carnage rather then pursuit. Their heroics and the amount of Kikai that died in the incident somewhat shielded them from the legal consequences of the whole mess, but even years later the incident lingers in the minds of many.

6. The traitorous sub-sect still exists as a rogue ninja faction, creating and refining their weapons of war and selling them to the highest bidder.