Naruto fandom, I require your assistance!
I’m writing a story set in the Warring Clans Era, and I’m wondering: at which age an Uchiha would’ve learned their signature Fireball jutsu?
My idea is pretty fuckin’ young, but I have contrasting reasoning about exactly when:
Sasuke, in ‘peaceful times’ and after the creation of Konoha (when basically they started of thinking of kids as kids and not as cannon fodder, so I guess training was more relaxed), learns it at 7
It’s implied (by Fugaku comparing them) that Itachi learned it at the same age; if a genius learns it by 7 is that the minimum age one is able to learn it?
Kawarama dies at 7 in a battle. Mind you, not an easy mission where he got unlucky, but a fullfledged battle (to my understanding). I assume he had been training a few years before then (irrealistic, but 1. ninjas, 2. he is known as ‘of talent’, how the hell would’ve that been if not)
As the Senju and the Uchiha are mirrors to each other, I guess a 7 years old Uchiha could be found in a battlefield (maybe a strong one more than a mediocre/weak one, but hell, y’all know we speakin’ protagonist, and they ain’t weak)
Learning the Fireball Jutsu is considered in Konoha’s times a coming of age rite; logic makes me think Fireball -> you’re an adult -> as every other adult you now need to pull your weight -> battlefield. So, chronologically, the Jutsu should be learned before you’re fighting
Conclusion: it could be possible, if not even common, for a Uchiha child to have learned the Fireball jutsu at 6?
My main problem with this is that it seems a bit advanced for a beginner to not only use elemental jutsus, but one that is consdered among the strongest. But hell, Naruto does learn it incredibly late, and with difficulties, at 13, but he starts with the fucking rasengan. Also wasn’t Kakashi throwing earth jutsus around during his academy years despite being lightining-affine? So I suppose in times where not only genius but all are forced to be precocious it may be possible.
(Please do respond to me, I would’ve put a poll for us all introverts’ comfort, but I still haven’t got it, sigh)
