Naruto: A History

Present Day = Part 1 of Naruto (Episode 1)

1) The Formation of Konoha

Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju join their clans with some others and decide to form the Leaf Village in their search for peace.

2) The First Hokage Is Named

1 year after the formation of the Leaf Village, once infrastructure and rules are in place, they need a leader and so Hashirama is chosen to take that seat as the first-ever Kage and the first-ever Hokage.

3) Madara vs Hashirama

Hashirama defeats Madara in the Valley of the End when they fail to agree on what they believe are the right decisions for an era of peace and prosperity. When Madara leaves, Hashirama is too injured to continue fighting as a ninja or act as protector to the Leaf and retires as from his duties as Hokage and decides to live the rest of his life out with his family.

Tsunade Senju is born when Hashirama is 50 years old, and he spends a lot of time with his granddaughter, gambling and spoiling her.

4) The Second Hokage Is Named

Tobirama becomes the Second Hokage at the age of 45 and forms the Uchiha Police Force. He moves the Uchiha district to the farthest corner of the village and the isolation and discrimination that would stem from this would cumulate over the years to become the reason for the Uchiha Massacre

5) The First Great Shinobi War

It began 10 years after the formation of the Leaf Village and only 1 year after the formation of all the villages of the 5 nations. During the war, the Second Hokage died acting as a decoy to save his team, before his death, he names Hiruzen Sarutobi as the next Hokage.

Near the end of the First Ninja War, Hashirama Senju conducts peace talks with the other Kage's of the 5 great nations, during which he splits the tailed-beasts between them for a balance of power as a preventive measure against future wars.

6) The Third Hokage Is Named

Hiruzen Sarutobi is named Hokage in the middle of the 1st Ninja War, after the death of his teacher, the previous Hokage, Tobirama Senju.

Hashirama Senju appoints Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado and Danzo Shimura as members of the Konoha Council to help advise Hiruzen during his reign as Hokage.

It is assumed that sometime after the appointment of the Third Hokage, Hashirama Senju dies, the specifics of his death are not known, however, he does not seem to be alive during the Third Hokage's reign.

Danzo most likely created the Root - a division of ANBU - during this time; before the Second Great Ninja War and after the death of Hashirama Senju.

7) The Second Great Shinobi War

20 Years after the First Great Ninja War, the Second Great Ninja War takes place. Not much is known about the politics of this era and most of it seems to have been between the 5 Great Shinobi Nations over the expansion of territories due to their dire economic state - a consequence of the First Great Shinobi War.

Most of the fighting took place in smaller countries such as The Land of Rain and Nagato referred to this war as the war that Konoha started.

During this war, The Legendary Sanin were established; Tsunade Senju, Jiraiya and Orochimaru were given the name after being the only ninja who could fight against Hanzo the Salamander, the leader of Amegakure, on an equal level. Jiraiya also found and trained orphans he found in the Land of Rain; Nagato, Konan, Yahiko who would eventually go on to form the Akatsuki.

Tsunade was said to have made a vital contribution to Konoha's victory through her medical prowess and becomes known as the greatest medical ninja in the world. Tsunade's lover Dan Kato lost his life during this war, along with Sasori's parents, who were killed by Sakumo Hatake.

It is also likely that it was during this war that Sakumo Hatake failed a vital mission to save his comrades lives and became hated and ostracised by Konoha which lead to his later taking his own life.

8) The Third Great Shinobi War

15 Year prior to the present day, the Third Great Ninja War occurs when small countries create alliances and rise up against the 5 Great Shinobi Nations. In the anime, it is shown that Danzo is a huge factor in sparking this war as he had ROOT ninja transform into Iwagakure ninja and frame the village to create conflict.

It is during this war that Obito is assumed to have died by the rest of the world and Kakashi is given his Sharingan and later become known as 'The Copy Ninja'.

Kirigakure abducted Rin Nohara and made her the Jinchuriki of the Three-Tailed Beast and she chose to impale herself on Kakashi's Chidori than destroy her own village. Unknown to the rest of the world, Obito, who had survived and had been taken in by Madara Uchiha, witnessed Rin's death and killed the Kirigakure ninja in a blind rage.

Sometime during the war, Madara Uchiha would pass away, but he would leave his plans with Obito Uchiha who would one day come to resurrect him. A peace treaty was formed between Tsuchigakure and Konohagakure after Minato Namikaze single-handedly stopped an invasion on 1000 Tsuchi ninja.

It was during this war, where a 5-year-old Itachi would become so traumatised by the horrors of war, that he becomes a pacifist who will do anything to prevent another war from breaking out - this trauma would later spark the Uchiha Massacre.

9) The Fourth Hokage Is Named

After the Third Great Ninja War, Sarutobi Hiruzen is hailed as the God of Ninja and retires in glory after naming Minato Namikaze as the Fourth Hokage. During this time, Minato has already married Kushina Uzumaki.

He became Hokage, beating out the other candidate, Orochimaru, who was recommended by Danzo Shimura. Minato wasn't able to accomplish much during his reign as Hokage as he died not long after being appointed.

10) Nine-Tails Attack on Konoha

14 years prior to the present day.

Kushina Uzumaki became pregnant with Naruto Uzumaki. Biwako Sarutobi (wife of Hiruzen Sarutobi) acted as a midwife to her and the birth occurred underground, away from the main village of Konoha because childbirth is when the Jinchuriki seal is at it's weakest.

Minato Namikaze made to strengthen the seal immediately after childbirth however a masked man arrived and killed Biwako and the other midwife, taking Naruto and threatening Minato. In his attempt to get the newborn Naruto to safety, Kushina was taken by the masked man. He left Naruto in a safe place and arrived to save Kushina from being killed by the Nine-Tailed-Beast which had been extracted from her by the masked man.

There was a huge fight, and eventually, they managed to restrain the nine-tailed beast with Kushina's skills. Knowing that she was going to die, Kushina offered to have the beast sealed back inside her, so it would die with her, however Minato, knowing that this power would one day become necessary to the world, sealed half of the nine-tails chakra inside Naruto and half of it inside himself.

Both Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze died that day, along with countless ninja from Konoha (including Iruka Umino's parents).

11) The Third Hokage Takes Over Again

12 years prior to the present day.

Due to the sudden death of the Fourth Hokage, a new Hokage hadn't been chosen by him. So Hiruzen Sarutobi took over once again until his death.

During this time he would often watch over Naruto Uzumaki though he wouldn't directly interfere in his life.

12) The Uchiha Massacre

4 years prior to the present day.

Konoha's leaders began to suspect that the attack of the nine-tailed-beast was the doing of a member of the Uchiha clan due to the Sharingan's advanced ability to control the tailed-beasts and from that point on all Uchiha were placed under close surveillance.

This only intensified the brewing resentment the Uchiha Clan felt at the systematic oppression faced in Konoha which lead to even more conflict occurring on the streets as members of the Uchiha Police Force began to take their frustrations and exert power over civilians.

This lead to civilians having a bad impression of the Uchiha, which allowed malicious rumours to spread easier. Eventually, this escalated until a resistance organisation was formed with Fugaku Uchiha as its leader and they planted their own into the Konoha's chain of command with Itachi Uchiha as an ANBU - an organisation directly below the Hokage.

However, Itachi was a pacifist who believed that the Uchiha revolting could lead to the Fourth War - A civil war - and so he acted as a double agent, eventually being manipulated by Konoha's leaders into killing every single member of the Uchiha Clan.

Itachi killed everyone except his brother, Sasuke Uchiha. He then threatened the Konoha leaders - he would reveal their secrets to the world if they didn't protect Sasuke.

The Konoha leaders concocted a story that made Itachi the villain in all of this, saving both Konoha's and the Uchiha Clan's reputations, and he left the village to eventually join ANBU as a double agent, feeding information about them back to Konoha through Shimura Danzo.

And that brings us to the present day - Season 1, Episode 1.