A Naruto Compendium

This blog is dedicated to the collection of Role Play and Writing head-canons for Naruto. The creator of this blog welcomes outside contributions.

[hatakekakashilovesdogs]

“Oooh Kakashi is so badass and damaged and dark and angst omg the angsttttt”

I’ve been seeing a lot of this and yeah he is all that but listen

His ‘secret attack’ against his student was poking the kid in the butt hard enough to launch said student through the air

He reads books (explicit romance novels mind you), naps, and juggles kitchen utensils while fighting and training other ninja

He delivered vegetables to his student because he knew the kid wasn’t eating a balanced diet and it Concerned Him

He spent a whole day wearing a second face mask under his regular one JUST in case the opportunity arose to further fuck with his students who were trying to unmask him (which he knew about. and let them spend hours trying their half-baked schemes to do so JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES)

He literally giggles out loud to himself while reading his porny melodrama dime store rags

He tricks his subordinate into footing the bill for food on the regular, like he can pay for that shit he just does it for the sheer pleasure of yanking this guy’s chain

He was only defeated by his students in battle when they took advantage of what a huge fucking fangirl he is

He will sass absolutely anyone, at every opportunity. His students, his peers, his boss, his mortal enemies even as they are raining fatal blows down on his head and he has one foot in the grave he will still deliver snarky sarcasm with his last breath

He has a wealth of varied, elaborate and deadly attacks that have earned him fame across all the ninja lands, but his weapons of choice are lightning… And dogs. Actual puppy dogs. That he dresses up in little matching ninja costumes

[jennymstead-deactivated20181224]

And people accused me of writing him OOC…. this post screams my reasonings

[cherubbie-blog]

one of his dogs is named biscuit

its this one:

that’s biscuit the ninja dog

[owlfowlfa]

so I had the horrible misfortune to be watching Naruto with my love when I was re-introduced, tipsy and in full critic mode, to motherfucking zabuza momochi

look at this fucking disaster of a man, look

like, this is just the torso and walk through this with me

first thing you see is this dude’s weird ass neck strap–goes around his neck, buckles mid chest and? goes into his pants? conclusion: dude’s holding up his jock strap with a neck strap. hate it. thanks. keep on going, it gets worse. what the fuck are the arm warmers for? who does that help? no one? im thinking no one. but they’re cow patterned for maximum fashion. if that’s not bad enough, let’s keep fucking going!

look at this face bandage. look at it. do you see how it goes up, under his headband? doesn’t make sense. if it’s being held up there, which would make sense physics wise, there is NOTHING holding it to his head with enough tension to keep it there. his headband isn’t tied. he just laid the fabric in a loose ass side knot, so that’s not holding it up. its not wrapped across the top of his head. can’t see it on the other side and his hair isnt pushed down by the tension of the bandage. conclusion? hes either duct taped it to his face OR, my personal favorite postulation, dude has a fucking wig that his bandage is stuck under. dude’s rocking a wig. dude’s rocking his neck-held jock strap. dude’s rocking his cow arm warmers. 

BUT WAIT

THERES MORE

what the fuck are these pants? what are these? why are you wearing pinstripe parachute pants with FOUR buttons? I have questions, zabuza?

not only are these pinstripe parachute pants, theyre TUCKED IN to??? these look like legwarmers, but look. look closer. there isn’t a seam, there’s no fabric hanging over toward the toes, the same amount of fabric to sandal-material ratio going on. plus, if you look in the back, you can see where the sole goes up over the fabric, holding the soles in place. CONCLUSION. these are boots. these are GODDAMN OPEN TOED SANDAL BOOTS with MATCHING cow pattern to his ARM WARMERS

im so mAD

[ashinobiworld]

So Umino Iruka is one of my favorite characters and I love playing with theories about/for him.  One of my favorite headcanons is that he’s related to Uzushiogakure ninja (either his parents escaped the destruction of Uzushiogakure themselves or they were diplomats to Konoha up until the destruction of their home village) and knows what he’s doing with seals.  I usually don’t consider him a seal master (because I feel like it’d be hard to be certified a seal master especially when the village who probably used to certify people as seal masters is wiped off the face of the earth) but he’s definitely highly skilled. He also doesn’t consider himself a seal master, but he’s the kind of person who could & would develop a whole new seal to solve a problem so people around him might consider

Jariaya was supposed to teach him more about sealing, but then Jariaya turned him down as an apprentice so instead Iruka was integrated with an existing chunnin team who was missing a member.  This means Iruka has a below average number of D-ranks and a surprising number of B & A ranks under his belt.  He also ended up the defacto ‘leader’ of his team, despite being the lower rank (I usually HC his team as Itachi & Anko, lead by Ibiki but pretty much any team is a pretty great one).

[mentally-unstable-like-a-fox-de]

Iruka’s Ninjutsu

I was thinking about Iruka’s ninjutsu and what it could be, seeing as Iruka has had little to no opportunity to shine as a shinobi. But I’ve come to the conclusion that Iruka is a Barrier Ninjutsu and Fuinjutsu specialist:

His father wore a large scroll on his back during the Kyubi’s attack. While not exclusively used for sealing, they have been shown to be used for it fairly frequently (Jiraiya sealed Amaterasu into it for example, and sealing objects into scrolls for later use is the foundation of Tenten’s fighting style).

In the anime Iruka uses a barrier ninjutsu to try and trap Mizuki (during the arc where Mizuki breaks out of jail). There’s a lot of overlaps between barrier ninjutsu and fuinjutsu (and also space-time ninjutsu).

Also, when Iruka tries to stop Naruto from leaving the Turtle island he tries to restrain Naruto using String Light Formation which is both a Fuinjutsu and a Barrier Ninjutsu.

Iruka had also picked up his Allied Shinobi Forces forehead protector and had been given his war assignment at the Turtle Island and stayed there throughout the war - the only unit confirmed to be have been stationed there was Allied Shinobi Forces’ Barrier Unit.

Also, for the record I wish they’d make his echolocation jutsu canon, cos that was pretty cool.

[thetoxicstrawberry]

@sufferthesea

[sufferthesea]

I really like this! I feel like Iruka gets overlooked a lot, especially in the fandom. His strength, knowledge, and jutsu are pushed to the side so he can be the “short-tempered Academy teacher” (and most of the fandom looks down on him for teaching at the Academy instead of going out on missions; I assume they believe he’s weak, when he’s shown to be quite strong). 

Iruka seems to be the ninja everyone forgets is a ninja. He went through the same training as everyone else, he passed the chunin exams, and he used to go out on missions but felt he was more useful at the Academy (and quite honestly, better suited there because his kindness on missions was dangerous, but empathy and compassion in a classroom are necessary). 

Iruka isn’t weak!! He isn’t someone to pity! He isn’t someone to look down on! He’s a ninja! He could frikk you up!! He’s so strong!! And brave!! And I love this analysis a LOT because his ninjutsu (*cough cough* he himself, really *cough cough*) never gets ANY attention! 

[flailinginlove]

Iruka is ‘just a weak chuunin teacher’ is one of my biggest pet peeves in the fandom.

The first databook, Rin no Sho, says he is ‘excellent and blessed with talent’ and that he earned the respect of the higher ups by completing multiple A-rank missions. He was listed as doing 11 A-rank missions in that book. For comparison’s sake, Ebisu was listed as doing 1 and he is a tokubetsu jounin. They would not have put Iruka on 11 A-rank missions if he were weak and dragging his team down. He knows his shit.

His stats are also really respectable. In the first databook, he is listed at a total of 24, but he improves in ninjustu, taijutsu, intelligence, and hand seals in the second book, putting him at 26. Anko is at 25, Ebisu is 25, Genma is 27. So as far as levels go, he is right there with those guys. If you want to say Iruka is weak, you need to say all tokubetsu jounin are weak too.

He is also damn smart. His intelligence stat in the 2nd book is 4.5. Geniuses like Kakashi and Shikamaru are 5s.

I really wish more would have been done with him, because there is a bunch of stuff there to explore.

Also, seconding the wish for his echolocation jutsu to be canon so hard.

[ashinobiworld]

How this Blog Works

Okay everyone, starting from the top? This blog is not about what’s canon. This blog will never be about what’s canon. Yes, it may touch on canon points, might even come very close to seeming canon to the readers in places, but anything here is someone’s headcanon. That means that if it does not line up with whatever you view as canon, that’s just fine because that’s not what this blog is for. 

See?

Headcanons posted here might be contradictory to one another. They might encompass views that highlight certain things that one person believes and another does not. They might touch on things that you disagree with, and that, too, is just fine. 

Please be respectful.

The purpose of this blog is two things. Firstly, it’s for the creator to consolidate all amassed headcanons of her own to one place. Secondly, it’s to make a place where people can take inspiration for their own characters and possibly use headcanons on the blog for their own purposes. 

This means that if you don’t like other people having the same headcanons as you, you should probably not submit any of them here. 

How to get your headcanon posted here!

This, friends, is ridiculously simple. Submit it to the blog. There are multiple ways to do this, and one of them is to simply use the submit option and do it that way.

Another way, if you have a post you only want reblogged here but have linked to your blog is to contact the keeper of this blog and link them to the post with the request it be on the blog. Please note that any linked posts must not be under a Read More. We don’t want posts being unreadable if the original creator decides to leave the community! Because of this, we must decline anything under a read more from the archive.

Acceptable Material

Headcanons you came up with. 

Headcanons that you had a large hand in the forming of. 

Headcanons where your group is all on board with you sharing and they want to show them off. 

An explanation for a canon thing that was never properly explained. 

Theories about things between canon characters.

Theories about alternate methods for how bloodlines came about.

Stories that explain something about the world.

Personal Worldbuilding for the world.

Theories (either serious or ridiculous) about how the villages and clans work. 

Maps!

Alternate Universe theories and worlds (Please indicate it’s meant to be AU! And yes, there will be a category for these if they are popular enough.)

There are likely more, but feel free to try your luck on a Submission.

Material that will Not Be Accepted

Fanart of characters. (While tempting, too much art on the internet ends up reposted without owner credit)

Debates. (For Submissions we’ll only take work from one author, this does not apply to reblogs as such.)

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Things the submitter did not write or does not have permission to share.

One True Canon commentary. (This blog is to explore the imagination of the fandom, not to stifle it. Everyone has things they view as canon and I will not pick and choose what those things are.)

Happy Headcanoning!

[ashinobiworld]

So where exactly is Naruto from?

If you’re asking about the series, then your answer is Japan. If, on the other hand, you’re asking about Naruto the character, he’s from the country of Fire (Hi no Kuni), and the shinobi (ninja) village of Konohagakure, or Konoha, which is also known as the Leaf Village.

If you mean where his parents are from that got him, well, nobody is sure where Minato hails from, but his mom is from a (destroyed when she was a child) village called Whirlpool. 

[ashinobiworld]

World Notes

The Naruto World has lots of flora and fauna, and people always mention how expensive chakra paper is. This is because the paper is made from the plants that chakra flowers grow on along the cliffs of one of the southern islands. Unfortunately, they don’t travel well, and trying to transplant them has never met with success. The flowers themselves, while having similar properties, are distinctly different than the plants they grow upon.

Always a bud until fed chakra, these flowers subtly glow in the dark, and have certain colors matched to certain natures.

An unfiltered chakra touch will simply read your spiritual to physical chakra balance as yin/yang chakra and the flowers will glow somewhere between a deep gold and a vibrant green.

Fire will get you a deep orange.

Water will get you blue.

Earth will get you red.

Wind will get you white.

Lightning will get you black.

Any mixes of these, such as lava release, mokuton, or ice, would simply combine the colors of their base properties instead of forming a proper new color.

[ashinobiworld]

Quick Information

This is a blog that’s dedicated to my collection of headcanons and the like for Naruto, so if that’s what you’re here for, excellent! If it’s not, may you find your best.

This post is mainly so that I can get my blog sorted out and is unlikely to stay long. You’ve been warned. 

Also Link for some stuff. Consider it a preview of the kind of things I’ll be working on. This blog will be perpetually in progress as I slowly amass my collection to here.