#I have a much larger in depth hc about my made up 'router' war role but we won't get into all that

[teatitty]

My two biggest Iruka hc's are that 1) he also took part in the third shinobi war, first as a messenger because kids are harder to keep track of and can easily slip in and out of sight during chaos, and then he became a router, which is when you infiltrate the enemy to get information to 'route' their advance and/or lead them into traps and ambushes because again: Kids Are Better At Sneaking Into Places

And 2) He lost absolutely everything during the Kyuubi attack. Not just parents but his home all the things they owned, any heirlooms, clothes, furniture, pictures, just gone. Completely. The only things he managed to salvage were a badly damaged hunting book of his dad's that detailed various traps which Iruka has spent years trying to restore to varying success and a few singed sealing scrolls of his mother's that he used to further his own studies in secret