Hello everyone !
Keimei here, hope you're doing well ! This is my first 'official' Fanfic ever, not my first one I've been writing for fun for ... 10 years if not way WAY more but that's not why you're here. Maybe you're confused by the title, or even the main guy on the cover and idk maybe, just maybe the summary was enough to peek your interest, so first of all thank you for giving me a little bit of your time to explain.
EDIT : It's a pretty long note, I'm sorry but bear with me please !
I know I talk a lot but I promise it'll be short, just so you're not asking where Naruto and Sasuke at at the third parapragh of the prologue. Plus, I mean ... There's a damn prologue, it gotta be useful for something !
I decided to watch Boruto recently and ... I didn't like it very much ? I don't hate it you know since I wrote this lol but every episode I was like 'Huh ... No wonder OCs get OP af outta no where just in their descriptions on Pinterest, canon does already' – if I wasn't confused by the worldbuilding like how do you get video games and ninja robotics in 15 years without war but moving on, friends – so I decided to give it a try ! To write a good Boruto fanfic I mean lol
I think it's the best moment to remind people if it wasn't clear : I'm NO PROFESSIONAL WRITER AND NARUTO DOESN'T BELONG TO ME BUT HIS AUTHOR MASASHI KISHIMOTO.
I just like to write anime fanfics when I'm bored, especially work on their world buildings.
Hope you'll like it anyways and just for record, I don't hate Boruto, if you like Boruto that's totally fine by me, just do what you enjoy ! Just don't try to argue cause I'll most likely spam 'Yeah but OG Naruto better' With that said, let's go !
The Eastern World, the countries and villages that you know and love, the people stay pretty much the same. Neji's still dead, even though he's one of my favorite, I don't bring back dead bodies unless it's necessary or for an exception.
With that said Kurama is NOT DEAD, but I'm not planning on using him for the story that much. Naruto is still Naruto, Sasuke is still Sasuke, Sakura is still usele– I mean Sakura lmao, and the mess that their friendship caused is pretty much intact. BUT FOR THE BORUTO PART GET READY FOR I'm just playing I'll almost leave it be, nothing too crazy, we'll start at when he 'cheated' during the exams.
You won't see Naruto and his friends as much as some would want to but I mean it's called The World Beyond Suna y'know lol we'll still see them but I think we'll see more Sasuke since he's the one who travels the most.
Ngl the Otsutsuki won't be that much present either even though they're mentioned, they're like the thing that I wanna fix real quick and move on because Good God did they shatter the franchise for me.
I'll develop why the East and the West didn't communicate until recently (you'll actually get a snippet in the prologue) in details in the story but it's basically a Themiscyra situation, like The West Alliance voted to not intervene in The East and vice versa.
Let's address the elephants in the room : The 'West World' and the hidden village of Black Gold.
West World
It always saddened me a bit that the Canon Map was always limited even if it showed multiple times that it wasn't ending at what we saw, that's why I decided to expand a little further over there, but how can we do that ?
First of all, we're not using the canon Map. We're using the World Map made by Michael-Madlock on Deviantart. I won't post it here because yeah I paid for it and it's his work so go check it out but for those who don't wanna pay (I kinda understand ngl) and have good eyes, we're gonna focus (no pun intended) on the area located West of the Land of Sand.
Every ninja western village leader won't be called Kages but rather Buchōs, the way their names are made remains the same.
For those who just don't wanna ruin their eyes, there's a CLUSTER of countries, the Land of Claws, the Land of Ruins, the Land of Diamonds, the Flower country ... So much possibilities with just this chunk of map. To visualise, take the Land of Sand, and put 20 to 30 little countries in it. And it inspired me way more than intended.
In our story, it is nicknamed the Smiling Lake Region and is a subject of much contention between the territories for one reason ...
The Hidden Village of Black Gold
The Hidden Village of Black Gold also known as Kurogane (黒金) is as appreciated that it is feared by the neighbor countries : nicknamed 'the strategists' village', it is located in one of the small countries of the region, they have their hands on it for centuries, even when it's founder was still an assassin with a cursed eye during the Archaic Wars period as the western people call it ...
Mix with that their business partnerships and alliances with the bigger countries overtime, the fact that they made an even more refined oil than the Oil Kingdom using ninjutsu, and it became one of the richest countries of the Lake ... If only that was their only strengths ...
The Kurogane village is lead by the Kurobuchō which is a shorter version of the formal/ceremonial name "Kurogane No Buchō (黒金の部長)" which means basically "Black Gold Head Chief". known for their military forces before anything else, disposing of the sad notoriety of instigators of what people call the western wars for it's composed of powerful clans that have marked history and perfected their techniques for decades, they never stop evolving their arts to face their enemy since the beginning, the Otsutsuki Clan.
There has been 4 big wars in total, but the village has lead many more.
Their least incredible feat ? They've never lost the wars, even when they were close to loose them. Their more incredible feat ? Some say it was during the first war when a man lead 500 mens to conquer 2 countries, others say it was during the 3rd western war when they had a second generation of 9 15-YO Sannins who took the Ghost Country and the Land of Caves in one night, a decisive victory against the alliance of countries at the time.
(You'll get more details about those events throughout the story of course)
They're also feared because of the dōjutsu that they have, the Chiheigan, a powerful eye still considered cursed until this day that very few people know about even in the village. It's a scarce resource present in 3 clans only, and every holder is considered a potential threat or ransom outside ...
That's the eye of our protagonist.
His name is Yoite and he's 13 years old. Recently promoted chūnin, he's a young ninjutsu and taijutsu prodigy, respected by many, but not so much with people of his age. Part of Team 1 of the village with his friends Akoya Hidekita et Hayato Ishida, their daily life with the weight of heirs of powerful clans won't be easy, but they're ready to make history. Little did they know that history is just around the corner ...
I won't say much because you already know prologue and ish but if you read this far thank you very much ! I've got some editing to do on it now, it's like 8k words which I split in two parts so, the first part will be dropped right after this note, after that chapters will drop on Fridays.
Thank you again for reading all this, there's more to come and I hope you'll enjoy what I present to you !
