Lore ID: MASTER-100
Category: Absolute Campaign-State Authority
Timeline: DAY 0 — LIVING SHINOBI WORLD
Priority: HIGHEST STATIC LORE PRIORITY
This page establishes the exact starting state for Living Shinobi World.
If an earlier lore page contains ambiguity about the campaign starting state, PAGE 100 overrides it.
After gameplay begins, actual campaign events override PAGE 100.
The campaign begins at the beginning of the Naruto Shippuden era.
Naruto Uzumaki has just returned to Konohagakure after approximately two and a half years traveling and training with Jiraiya.
The world is technically at peace.
The Fourth Shinobi World War has not happened.
Pain has not attacked Konoha.
The Five Kage Summit has not happened.
Sasuke has not killed Orochimaru.
Itachi has not fought Sasuke for the final time.
Jiraiya has not infiltrated Amegakure.
Gaara has not been captured.
Asuma is alive.
Chiriku is alive.
Sasori is alive.
Deidara is alive.
All major Akatsuki members expected in early Shippuden are active.
This is Day 0.
Classification: CAMPAIGN EXPANSION / TIMELINE NORMALIZATION
Core manga presentation implies Akatsuki had already sealed two unidentified Tailed Beasts before Shukaku.
The exact identities of those two initial captures are not cleanly established, while anime-expanded capture chronology introduces additional incompatibilities.
Living Shinobi World resolves this by establishing:
This allows all named jinchūriki to exist simultaneously as active world characters.
Akatsuki's capture program is active and entering its major operational phase.
This is a deliberate campaign normalization rather than a claim about strict manga chronology.
From Day 0 onward, capture success or failure depends on campaign events.
Hokage: Tsunade
Status: Stable / rebuilding / alert
Major concerns:
Akatsuki.
Orochimaru.
Sasuke.
Naruto's jinchūriki security.
Root.
Foreign intelligence.
Kazekage: Gaara
Status: Stable and allied with Konoha
Major concerns:
Economic security.
Village defense.
Gaara's safety.
Akatsuki threat not yet fully understood.
Mizukage: Mei Terumī
Status: Reforming after Bloody Mist era
Major concerns:
Missing-nin.
Political stabilization.
Bloodline legacy.
Foreign legitimacy.
Old-regime remnants.
Raikage: A
Status: Powerful and independent
Major concerns:
Protecting Killer B and Yugito.
Military readiness.
Foreign intelligence.
Strategic deterrence.
Tsuchikage: Ōnoki
Status: Powerful, cautious, historically distrustful
Major concerns:
Strategic balance.
Jinchūriki.
Foreign villages.
Missing-nin including Deidara.
Old rivalries.
Relationship: Formal Allies
The Konoha Crush has been resolved politically.
Orochimaru's deception is known.
Gaara's leadership supports improved relations.
Military cooperation is plausible.
Relationship: Peaceful but cautious
No active war.
Historical Hyūga Affair remains relevant.
No deep alliance.
Relationship: Peaceful / historical rivals
Older Iwa shinobi remember the Third War and Minato.
Cooperation is possible but trust is limited.
Relationship: Normalizing / neutral
Mei's reforms create opportunities for improved diplomacy.
No automatic alliance exists.
There is no permanent Five Kage Alliance.
All five powers continue intelligence collection against one another.
Peace does not eliminate espionage.
Naruto Uzumaki:
Alive.
Recently returned.
Genin.
Nine-Tails jinchūriki.
Does not know parents.
Does not know Sage Mode.
Sakura Haruno:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Tsunade's apprentice.
Highly developed medical ability.
Kakashi Hatake:
Alive.
Jōnin.
Former Team 7 sensei.
Believes Obito dead.
Tsunade:
Alive.
Fifth Hokage.
Jiraiya:
Alive.
Active intelligence operative and Naruto's teacher.
Shikamaru:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Ino:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Chōji:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Hinata:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Has not confessed romantic love to Naruto.
Kiba:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Shino:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Neji:
Alive.
Jōnin.
Lee:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Tenten:
Alive.
Chūnin.
Asuma:
Alive.
Active jōnin.
Kurenai:
Alive.
Active jōnin.
Guy:
Alive.
Active jōnin.
Iruka:
Alive.
Academy instructor.
Konohamaru:
Alive.
Young Konoha shinobi.
Shizune:
Alive.
Tsunade's assistant.
Anko:
Alive.
Ibiki:
Alive.
Danzō:
Alive.
Secret Root commander.
Sai:
Alive.
Root operative.
Has not joined Naruto's replacement team.
Yamato:
Alive.
ANBU operative.
Has not yet become Naruto's captain.
Gaara:
Alive.
Fifth Kazekage.
Shukaku jinchūriki.
Temari:
Alive.
Active.
Kankurō:
Alive.
Active puppet master.
Chiyo:
Alive.
Retired.
Ebizō:
Alive.
Retired.
Baki:
Alive.
Active.
Rasa:
Dead.
Third Kazekage:
Dead.
True fate secret.
Sasori:
Responsible for Third Kazekage's death.
Orochimaru:
Alive.
Operating from secret distributed bases.
Sasuke:
Alive.
Training under Orochimaru.
Primary goal remains killing Itachi.
Has not learned truth of massacre.
Kabuto:
Alive.
Orochimaru's principal assistant.
Karin:
Alive.
Within Orochimaru network.
Suigetsu:
Alive.
Not yet Sasuke's teammate.
Jūgo:
Alive.
Contained/managed within Orochimaru's network.
Kimimaro:
Dead.
Sound Four:
Dead.
Hebi:
Does not exist.
Taka:
Does not exist.
Sasuke has not yet turned against Orochimaru in the campaign baseline.
Pain/Nagato:
Alive.
Secret ruler of Amegakure.
Apparent Akatsuki leader.
Konan:
Alive.
Amegakure / Akatsuki.
Itachi:
Alive.
Paired with Kisame.
Seriously ill secretly.
Kisame:
Alive.
Paired with Itachi.
Sasori:
Alive.
Paired with Deidara.
Deidara:
Alive.
Paired with Sasori.
Hidan:
Alive.
Paired with Kakuzu.
Kakuzu:
Alive.
Paired with Hidan.
Zetsu:
Active.
Tobi/Obito:
Alive.
True identity secret.
Operating behind the organization.
Black Zetsu:
Active secretly.
True objective unknown to other factions.
Madara Uchiha:
Physically dead.
Akatsuki is gathering intelligence on jinchūriki and preparing capture operations.
Sasori and Deidara may logically be preparing operations involving Sunagakure and Gaara.
However:
They have not automatically attacked yet.
Franz should allow world events, intelligence leaks, player actions, weather, political changes, or failed reconnaissance to alter the operation.
Host:
Gaara.
Location:
Sunagakure / Kazekage duties.
Status:
Sealed.
Host alive.
Host:
Yugito Nii.
Association:
Kumogakure.
Status:
Host alive.
Exact current mission/location:
Not public.
Host:
None.
Status:
Wild/free after Yagura.
Exact location:
Unknown except through future intelligence or campaign discovery.
Host:
Rōshi.
Association:
Iwagakure.
Status:
Alive.
Rōshi may travel independently.
Host:
Han.
Association:
Iwagakure.
Status:
Alive.
Host:
Utakata.
Former affiliation:
Kirigakure.
Status:
Alive.
Utakata is not necessarily under direct Kiri control.
Host:
Fū.
Association:
Takigakure.
Status:
Alive.
Host:
Killer B.
Association:
Kumogakure.
Status:
Alive.
Highly cooperative host–Bijū relationship.
Host:
Naruto Uzumaki.
Association:
Konohagakure.
Status:
Alive and sealed.
Relationship:
Hostile/distrustful.
Naruto has not learned Kurama's personal name.
Mei:
Alive.
Fifth Mizukage.
Ao:
Alive.
Chōjūrō:
Alive.
Yagura:
Dead.
Zabuza:
Dead.
Haku:
Dead.
Kisame:
Missing-nin / Akatsuki.
Utakata:
Alive baseline.
Kirigakure is reforming.
Bloody Mist trauma remains socially relevant.
A:
Alive.
Fourth Raikage.
Killer B:
Alive.
Yugito:
Alive.
Darui:
Alive.
C:
Alive.
Samui:
Alive.
Omoi:
Alive.
Karui:
Alive.
Kumo has not yet joined any international shinobi alliance.
Ōnoki:
Alive.
Third Tsuchikage.
Kurotsuchi:
Alive.
Akatsuchi:
Alive.
Rōshi:
Alive baseline.
Han:
Alive baseline.
Deidara:
Missing-nin / Akatsuki.
Iwa remains historically suspicious of Konoha.
Fū:
Alive.
Takigakure.
Shibuki:
Alive under expanded continuity.
Mifune:
Alive.
Land of Iron.
Chiriku:
Alive.
Fire Temple.
Hanzō:
Dead secretly.
Pain:
Controls Ame.
Yahiko:
Dead.
Amegakure's true government remains obscured internationally.
Hashirama Senju.
Tobirama Senju.
Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Minato Namikaze.
Kushina Uzumaki.
Rin Nohara.
Shisui Uchiha.
Fugaku Uchiha.
Mikoto Uchiha.
Rasa.
Third Kazekage.
Zabuza Momochi.
Haku.
Kimimaro.
Sound Four.
Yahiko.
Hanzō.
Sakumo Hatake.
Mito Uzumaki.
Madara Uchiha — physically dead at Day 0.
Dead characters must not appear alive without a legitimate supernatural mechanism such as Edo Tensei, resurrection, illusion, impostor, memory, recording, or explicit campaign alteration.