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This story is set in the world of Escape & Evade, a world in which the village was formed quite differently to cannon.
There are reasons for the differences from cannon in this story and many of them are contained in The World Building of Courting Culture Confusion, but the main difference is that Izuna lives. The only other major change is that Naruto happens in Japan, solely because I didn’t know that wasn’t cannon when I wrote the first story. Everything else is part of the butterfly effect, and the world building necessary to make those things happen.
Frankly, you could start this story completely independently of any of the others, so this is what you need to know if you are:
Izuna lived and married Hikaku, Tōka, and Seto, an original character created by Writingfish (idraax) in their Tobirama aus: Problematic snippet collection.
Tobirama married Madara.
Madara never left the village and shared the Hokage position with Hashirama for almost ten years before Hashirama retired and left Madara to shoulder the Hokage mantle alone.
Everyone had kids.
Zetsu tried to kill Tobirama and convince Madara to activate the Rinnegan by manipulating various people in the Elemental Countries. Its plots were exposed. The First Shinobi World War was the armies of the Elemental Countries versus Zetsu, and Zetsu was killed. In the wake of that, the village was flooded with refugees and people trying to join it, and it expanded dramatically.
Over the course of the next two decades, the west increased pressure on Japan to abandon its policy of isolation. Seeing the gunboat diplomacy employed by the British against China, Japan grew increasingly divided on the topic. Combined with the long term economic problems and several natural disasters, the bakufu of the daimyo began to lose control of the Elemental Countries.
During that time of change, chaos, and upheaval, Izuna’s children come of age and grow into adults.
This is the story of Haruto, second son of Izuna’s line. Or, as his Tōka-chan calls him, “Hikaku Spawn”.
Warnings:
There will be cannon typical violence in this story, in addition to descriptions of gore and raw meat, as well as the feeding of birds.
There will also be original characters.
All the founders had children. The central character of this story is one of those kids. Specifically, the child that Hikaku had with Tōka as his surrogate, and raised with Seto and Izuna.
If OCs are not for you, maybe this isn’t your kind of story.
Please, read with care for yourself and skip the story if any of this is not for you.