An Analysis of the Timeline

(At this time, this is just my personal reasoning, and it might be different from everyone else's understanding. Especially for the First and Second Shinobi World Wars, there are significant discrepancies. However, the story I'm writing is set at the end of the Third Shinobi World War, so please don't dwell too much on my statements about the First and Second Wars.)

Some people like to say Konoha is X years old, but I personally don't really like to bring that up.

After all, that's something compiled by netizens; it's not official data, and I always feel it's not accurate enough.

Naruto's story runs through the entire Fire Shadow, so I chose Naruto's age as the baseline to calculate the timeline.

Therefore, its accuracy should be very high. No one should doubt the accuracy of this timeline, right?

First Shinobi World War: It seems there isn't a fixed battle. Some say it refers to the war where Hashirama and Madara pacified the chaotic era. I personally think that's not very accurate. This should refer to all the war years before Konoha was founded.

Second Shinobi World War: This war has many iconic events; one is that the Second Hokage and Second Raikage were ambushed and killed by Kinkaku and Ginkaku and their men.

Although the anime shows the Second Hokage looking very young before his death, chronologically speaking, he was already quite old at that point.

After all, from pacifying the chaotic era to the founding of Konoha, the Second must have been at least forty years old.

From that time to the Second Shinobi World War, there should be at least a ten-year buffer, right? Keep in mind that the Third Hokage also grew up during this time.

So, when the Second Shinobi World War broke out, the Second was already old, and it's not hard to understand that he died at the hands of Kinkaku and Ginkaku.

As for the Impure World Reincarnation looking so young, that's the fault of the animation. After all, they don't consider the age details of minor characters too much.

Otherwise, with the Second in his prime, he shouldn't have died so ignominiously.

Another landmark battle of the Second Shinobi World War was when the Second Tsuchikage, Mu, and the Second Mizukage, Gengetsu Hozuki, died together.

This also leads to a very interesting deduction: Madara's disappearance and Hashirama's death occurred not long before the Second Shinobi World War.

First, we know that Onoki and Mu went to Konoha together to request an alliance, but Madara refused.

At this time, Mu was not yet dead, which means the Second Shinobi War had not yet broken out.

Also, the Second Hokage took office after the First Hokage's death, and Tobirama died as Hokage in the Second Shinobi War, so the First died before the Second War.

And before the First, Hashirama, fought a great battle with Madara. Madara took his flesh and blood and faked his death, waiting for the Rinnegan to awaken.

Therefore, Madara and Hashirama disappeared before the Second War.

The Third Shinobi World War is also the war most closely related to the plot of Fire Shadow.

The Sannin, Shisui, Kakashi, Sakumo, and Minato all became famous during the Third War.

Some say the Sannin became famous in the Second War, which is actually incorrect. Although the Sannin are older than Minato, they truly became famous in the Third War.

The cause of the Third War was the disappearance of the Third Kazekage (assassinated by Sasori), which threw Sunagakure into chaos. Konoha and Iwagakure saw an opportunity and launched a war.

Initially, Konoha and Iwa were targeting Suna, but Konoha's location was in the middle of the Great Nations, and no one wanted it to expand. So, when Konoha sent troops, Kirigakure stabbed them in the back from the side.

By the way, at that time, Kirigakure and Iwagakure were allies.

Iwagakure wanted to take advantage of Sunagakure but also didn't want Konoha to grow too strong, so the three villages used the Land of Grass and the Land of Rain as battlefields and fought fiercely.

This was the main battlefield where Kakashi became famous, Minato's Golden Flash (Yellow Flash sounds bad, I changed it to Golden, I hope no one minds?), and the Sannin's fame were all established here.

Who gave the Sannin their title?

It was Hanzō. The Land of Rain, where Hanzō was located, bordered the three countries, so the battles there were even more brutal than in the Land of Grass.

After battling the Sannin, Hanzō bestowed the title of Sannin upon them. Yahiko and his companions happened to witness this scene, so they chased after him, wanting to become his disciples.

Then, after Jiraiya left, Yahiko died, Nagato changed his mind, and that's how the later story unfolded.

Therefore, the Sannin became famous during the Third War.

This was the western front, and there was also the eastern front.

There isn't much content on the eastern front, and many things can only be deduced.

Kirigakure's Byakugan killer, Ao, is older than Mei Terumi, and Mei Terumi is the same age as Kakashi.

Kakashi was active at the end of the Third War, while Ao, who was older than him, was in his prime, belonging to the same era as Shisui and Minato.

His Byakugan was a spoil of war. Chronologically, it could only be a product of the Third Shinobi World War.

The Hyuga Byakugan can only be taken from the Main Family; the Branch Family cannot. If removed, it becomes useless.

In Naruto's generation, the Hyuga Main Family head is Hiashi, who appears to be about the same age as Ao, and his eyes are intact. Therefore, Ao's Byakugan could only have been taken from the previous generation's Main Family head, Hiashi's father.

On the eastern front, the Hyuga and Uchiha families were the main forces against Kirigakure, which further confirms my speculation.

Ao acquired the Byakugan during this war.

According to research, Kakashi was twenty-six years old when Naruto first appeared at twelve.

Naruto's birth coincided with the Nine-Tails' Rampage, when he was zero years old. So, during the Nine-Tails' Rampage, Kakashi was fourteen, and the Third War had already ended.

The battle at Kannabi Bridge was the turning point of the Third War; it was from there that the war gradually ended.

At that battle, Kakashi was exactly twelve years old, just becoming a Jonin, and it was his carelessness that led to Obito's "death."

Therefore, the time between the Nine-Tails' Rampage and the battle at Kannabi Bridge was about two years.

Minato's marriage seems to have occurred after the war. Excluding the ten months of pregnancy and other miscellaneous times, it's about a year.

The Third War ended when Kakashi was around thirteen years old.

Because the western front was fighting with Kirigakure, Rin Nohara was captured, and Kirigakure's plan to use the Three-Tails to disrupt Konoha became logical.

This event happened after Obito's "death" and before the war ended, so it should have occurred when Kakashi was around thirteen years old, near the end of the war.

As for how the Three-Tails later returned to Kirigakure's hands, that's a bit of a plot hole.

Given Obito's love for Rin, he wouldn't have casually discarded her body. I can't figure out how Kirigakure managed to retrieve the Three-Tails and give it back to Yagura.

Yagura had already become a Jinchuriki before Obito controlled him, and he was a perfect Jinchuriki at that.

So, the Three-Tails within him couldn't possibly have been given by Obito.

Furthermore, when Obito later collected the Tailed Beasts, he certainly wouldn't have handed over Rin's body. If he had known the Three-Tails was with him, he wouldn't have given it up either.

Moreover, he didn't learn until the Fourth Shinobi World War that Rin died at Kakashi's hands to prevent Konoha from being destroyed by a Tailed Beast.

Therefore, he had no idea Rin had a Tailed Beast inside her.

There's also the setting Kishimoto initially established: if a Jinchuriki dies, the Tailed Beast dies with them.

This rule has a bug here.

No matter how I try to explain it, I can't make it work.

So, if in my book I mention a person dying and a Tailed Beast escaping, don't blame me for making things up; I just can't reconcile it otherwise.

Then there's the analysis of Kumogakure's restraint during the Third Shinobi World War.

During the Third Shinobi World War, the Third Raikage died.

However, looking at the war overall, Kumogakure didn't seem to participate much. It was only at the very end, when they wanted to make a move, that Killer B and his brother were intercepted by Minato, forcing them to retreat.

I kept wondering if Kumogakure was being too passive.

They didn't act early on, and by the time they wanted to, they found they had missed their chance.

Later, I realized it was because the Third Raikage died, causing internal chaos in Kumogakure, which made them miss the best opportunity to act. It wasn't that they didn't want to fight, but their leader was dead.

From this, we can infer that the Third Raikage died at the very beginning of the Third Shinobi World War.

His death left Kumogakure leaderless, which is why they didn't participate in the war.

If he had died in the middle or at the end of the war, there would have been ample opportunity to send troops to attack Konoha during the preceding period.

Killer B and A appearing later to "play a role" was simply to gain political experience and pave the way for A's ascension.

Also missing (presumed dead) around the same time was the Third Kazekage. It was his death that threw Sunagakure into chaos, giving Konoha and Iwagakure an opportunity, thus igniting the Third Shinobi World War.

Why is there such a difference in the outcomes for Sunagakure and Kumogakure when a Kage died in both cases?

Actually, Sunagakure had no intention of fighting from the start. They were on the defensive from beginning to end.

Looking at the map, the Land of Wind and the Land of Fire, and the Land of Earth are connected by land, making them the easiest targets. The Land of Lightning is in the northeast, a remote location. Only the Land of Fire is relatively close. The Land of Water is across the sea, making it difficult to attack.

Therefore, the Land of Wind was unavoidable.

Furthermore, the disappearance of the Third Kazekage ignited the war first. Konoha, Sunagakure, and Iwagakure began fighting, diverting a significant portion of their energy. With Kirigakure stabbing them in the back, they had no energy left to deal with Kumogakure, which fell into chaos later due to the Third Raikage's death.

This is also why Kumogakure escaped unscathed.

However, there's one thing that puzzles me: the Third Raikage died at the hands of Iwagakure.

The Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth are so far apart. Logically, there shouldn't have been a direct threat to Iwagakure. But what kind of strategy was Onoki pursuing at the time to wear down and kill the Third Raikage?

Was it a strategy thought up with his feet? Hahaha...

Then there's the matter of the Second Tsuchikage and the Second Mizukage dying together during the Second Shinobi World War. The two countries are at opposite ends of the map; how did they even end up fighting? And it escalated to the point where the village leaders killed each other...

I just can't understand it. Didn't they even understand the concept of "form alliances with distant states and attack nearby states"? Hahaha...

Alright, this is my summary of the timeline for the three great Shinobi World Wars.

In my book, Qi Shuang appears at the same time as Zabuza (both are nine years old). Zabuza and Kakashi were the same age when they met in the Land of Waves, so Qi Shuang is the same age as Kakashi.

I previously analyzed that the Third Shinobi World War ended around Kakashi's thirteenth birthday, so only four years remain until the end of the war.

The Third Shinobi World War is currently in its heated phase.