#and yes I do have a *very* self indulgent childhood friends AU for kakairu but it doubles as a 'sakumo lives' AU too so uhhh anyways

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Someone in my notes just reminded me of this but it is kind of funny how often Kishimoto fudged around with people's ages. The Part 1 to Shippuden timeskip is supposed to be 2 years so Naruto goes from age 13-15 but then Iruka goes from 23-26 and Teuchi from 43-47 all in the same timeskip

And this is because of their ages being changed in the databooks. For instance: Kakashi and Iruka were only 1 year apart in the first databook but then databook 2/3 made it a 4 year difference instead and you can find out when certain fics or doujin were made by what their age gap is

Which makes trying to figure out the actual timeline of this series a fucking nightmare because ages are inconsistent across the board and you end up having to fuck around with some of them yourself [one thing I do is age Hiruzen up to his 70's and put the sannin in their 60's because it's just. So hard trying to use their canon ages (69 and mid-late 50's respectively) when you have to fit them around Hashirama]

Basically what I'm saying is: sometimes you can just have fun with it. I like making the shippuden skip an even 4 years so our rookie 9 are all around 17-18, and I always flip-flop between what age gap I wanna give KakaIru depending on the vibe I wanna go for with them. If it's childhood friends, then the gap is only gonna be 1-2 years but if I want them meeting when they're older I go with the 4 year gap instead

If Kishimoto's allowed to fudge around with people's canon ages all the time then why not do the same if it fits our own timelines and purposes yanno