Saw this in regards to HP and thought it sounded interesting:
What changes would you make to Naruto canon that wouldn't significantly alter the central events?
For instance, I would tweak the amount of time Sasuke spent in the hospital recovering from the Evil Sealing Method. Instead of two whole weeks lying in bed, he's only there for a few days and quickly leaves for his month-long training with Kakashi. That way we have a more believable timeframe, in my opinion, for Sasuke to reach Lee's unweighted speed and skill in the Strong Fist as well as learn the Chidori. And it's more fair to Sasuke who kinda got screwed when he lost half of his training time due to extenuating circumstances.
Then I would make it so that Sasuke leaves Konoha on the same night that the Sound Four make their offer instead of several days later as indicated by the moon. This way he's clearly acting on impulse due to the humiliation he suffered by Itachi, Naruto and the Sound Four. It also means that Lee isn't waiting around after making his decision for surgery, Sakura intuitively realising when Sasuke was planning to leave is more believable and the Sound Four aren't hiding outside of Konoha for days in wait, especially when Orochimaru has a time limit.
Finally Naruto would leave Konoha for his training trip a week or two after the failed retrieval mission instead of three months. That's three months wasted out of the three years they have to rescue Sasuke that we aren't given a reason for, and were apparently forgotten about in in Part 2 anyway.
So what actually happens hasn't changed, it's just been tweaked to make the ride a bit smoother. Now what would you do?
List of Tweaks
What changes would you make to Naruto canon that wouldn't significantly alter the central events?
For instance, I would tweak the amount of time Sasuke spent in the hospital recovering from the Evil Sealing Method. Instead of two whole weeks lying in bed, he's only there for a few days and quickly leaves for his month-long training with Kakashi. That way we have a more believable timeframe, in my opinion, for Sasuke to reach Lee's unweighted speed and skill in the Strong Fist as well as learn the Chidori. And it's more fair to Sasuke who kinda got screwed when he lost half of his training time due to extenuating circumstances.
Then I would make it so that Sasuke leaves Konoha on the same night that the Sound Four make their offer instead of several days later as indicated by the moon. This way he's clearly acting on impulse due to the humiliation he suffered by Itachi, Naruto and the Sound Four. It also means that Lee isn't waiting around after making his decision for surgery, Sakura intuitively realising when Sasuke was planning to leave is more believable and the Sound Four aren't hiding outside of Konoha for days in wait, especially when Orochimaru has a time limit.
Finally Naruto would leave Konoha for his training trip a week or two after the failed retrieval mission instead of three months. That's three months wasted out of the three years they have to rescue Sasuke that we aren't given a reason for, and were apparently forgotten about in in Part 2 anyway.
So what actually happens hasn't changed, it's just been tweaked to make the ride a bit smoother. Now what would you do?
List of Tweaks
- Naruto learns wind nature transformation during the timeskip, spending fewer clones and more time creating the Rasenshuriken.
- Naruto spends months mastering senjutsu.
- The Fourth Great Shinobi War is spread out over more than just two days.
- Tobirama shows more feats with water ninjutsu and/or more focus on death-related jutsu instead of inventing the Shadow Clone Jutsu and Flying Thunder God Jutsu.
- Sasuke vs Deidara doesn't end in the Great Snake Escape.
- Kakashi doesn't call Lee a genius for opening Five Gates.
- Lee is not a natural-born user of the Drunken Fist.
- Lee's role in the Sasuke Retrieval Mission is replaced entirely by Gaara.
- No prophecies or transmigrants.
- Sasuke, Madara and Izuna all have Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi with their Mangekyou. Sasuke doesn't have Kagutsuchi.
- Sasuke learns snake jutsu during the timeskip.
- Sasuke is healed by Karin after the battle with Deidara, not the Power of the White Snake.
- Hidan appears in the war.
- Sasori has actual puppets in the war.
- The Hidden Sound is instead the Hidden Grass.
- Karin replaces Kin on Team Dosu.
- Sasuke vs Gaara is the last fight of the first round.
- Yuugao is one of the dissident before Gaara's speech.
- Shikamaru defeats Temari with his kunai.
- The Edo Tensei are revealed to only be at half strength when fighting Hiruzen.
- Hashirama is introduced as the God of Shinobi and the strongest Hokage.
- Tobirama mentions he invented the Edo Tensei.
- There isn't a third coffin.
- Orochimaru realises he still can't use hand-seals after swapping bodies.
- Sasuke tries and fails to stab Naruto with the Chidori.
- Haku's a girl? Or gay.
- Naruto's shows better fighting ability against Kimimaro.
- The Sound Five's past is shown in the battle against Kimimaro.
- Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 Fight Scenes are canon.
- Naruto learns the Shadow Clone Jutsu after Iruka arrives.
- Genin are shown taking more missions, doing more training together and learning more jutsu.
- Naruto experiences the memory trick in Part 1 which Kakashi/Jiraiya explain to him and he takes advantage of training for the tournament.
- Zabuza sends three genin to kidnap Inari/Tsunami.
- Team 7 learns water walking before the Chuunin Exams.
- Naruto isn't separated from his team in the Forest of Death.
- Naruto beats Kiba without passing wind.
- Naruto can use the Rasengan one-handed after the timeskip and create shadow clones without a hand-seal.
- Kakashi teaches Naruto how to break genjutsu in Part 1.
- Naruto learned meditation during the timeskip which attributed to his mastery of senjutsu.
- Naruto uses the shadow clone training method even after the Akatsuki Suppression Mission.
- The Konoha 12 are teenagers in Part 1.
- The concept of Jinchuuriki is implemented properly in Part 1.
- Kisame reveals that he and Itachi were acting without orders.
- Yamato was taken out by Kabuto during the Chuunin Exams.
- The Treasured Tools can function independently with additional/different abilities.
- The Yasaka Jewel is a spiritual tool instead of a jutsu.
- Karin wields the Adamantime Sealing Chains and fuuinjutsu from the beginning.
- Karui is in the same division as Chouji during the war.
- Hiruzen is revived in his prime.
- Naruto arrives in Konoha early and Tsunade sacrifices herself to protect him.
