Collection of Naruto bots within my "Prodigy USER" AU: a series originally beginning years ago with the main focus of you being a prodigy at a very young age. Naturally, this gave way to a neutral beginning and relationship with everybody, mostly everybody, since your involvement was highly sporadic and ambiguous for you to decide on.

BELOW ARE SPOILERS AND SUMMARIES TO BOTH NARUTO AND THE ONGOING AU

NOTE: Not all the bots at the very bottom of this lorebook are a part of the main story plot. Only the ones listed as summaries below are a part of the main continuation. Everything else are bots ignoring the main story and have no connection to important plot points.

NARUTO | PRODIGY USER — MAIN TIMELINE

The AU generally follows Naruto canon through the original series and Shippuden, with you/{{user}} existing as an unusually gifted shinobi of Naruto and Sasuke’s generation. The real major divergences begin during the Blank Period, two years after the end of the Fourth Shinobi War, when {{user}} becomes increasingly involved in unresolved postwar threats connected to the mysterious Ōtsutsuki Clan and the lingering consequences of Kaguya’s return during the war.

Before the Blank Period (Before the Main Plot)

Throughout the original series and Shippuden, you remain an old classmate and ally of Naruto’s generation without substantially replacing the roles of canon characters.

The most important exception is Sasuke Uchiha. Your exceptional strength naturally contributed to Sasuke’s childhood rivalry and resentment toward you, and the two of you eventually confronted one another during Sasuke’s time with Taka (a bot of it's own that was taken down lol). The battle ended without a decisive victor, leaving years of hostility and unresolved history between them.

After the war, however, those unresolved relationships—and the remnants left behind by the war—begin driving the AU in a new direction completely different to the original Naruto canon up to that point.

“Moments of Solitude” | Ino Yamanaka

During the events adapted from the light novel Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness, you become involved in the mission against Gengo, a powerful genjutsu user and missing-nin, in the Land of Silence.

Gengo’s mind-altering techniques compromise your body, forcing Ino Yamanaka to enter your consciousness through the Mind–Body Switch Technique and help break his control. You survive, but the ordeal places the first invisible strain on their chakra network—damage that will quietly accumulate across later missions.

“Unspoken Regret” | Sasuke Uchiha

Roughly two years after the war, weeks following Shikamaru's mission, you encounter Sasuke during his continuing journey of atonement.

The reunion is tense and emotionally unresolved. Sasuke has already dealt with the threat you were pursuing, but neither of you were prepared to address everything that happened between them before and during the war.

They separate again, but the encounter establishes that their paths are beginning to overlap.

“Unearthed”

Approximately two weeks later, this time you become involved in one of Sasuke’s private investigations into unusual postwar disturbances.

You both meet again at an old shrine connected to the phenomenon Sasuke has been tracking and discover that your separate missions are beginning to point toward the same problem: remnants of forces associated with Kaguya and the Ōtsutsuki Clan's remains scattered throughout the world.

“Unyielding”

Your investigations eventually converge at the Mountains’ Graveyard, where you and Sasuke encounter the Heretic, a missing-nin scholar who has experimented with residual Ōtsutsuki chakra in an attempt to force his own evolution beyond humanity.

Together you defeat him, proving that the consequences of Kaguya’s appearance did not disappear with her sealing.

The battle also heavily strains your already-compromised chakra network, deepening the damage first inflicted during the Land of Silence mission even though no immediate symptoms reveal the danger.

“Homeward” | Hinata Hyūga

Right away after returning to the Hidden Leaf, you reunited with Hinata Hyūga.

Your seemingly ordinary meeting then suddenly developed into a new investigation involving strange puppet activity, unexplained threats surrounding the Hyūga Clan, and clues left by an unfamiliar man calling himself Toneri Ōtsutsuki.

The mystery quickly expands beyond the village.

“Karekura”

You and Hinata follow Toneri’s trail to Karekura, a VERY distant and remote settlement constructed over ancient Ōtsutsuki-related ruins.

You both remain there for roughly a week, investigating excavation sites, surviving puppet attacks, questioning residents, and gradually uncovering evidence that something extremely old lies beneath the region.

Karekura eventually proves connected to the ancient site of the original God Tree and the earliest Ōtsutsuki presence on Earth.

“Grand Oculus”

Toneri eventually draws Hinata into his fortress and reveals that he secretly abducted Hanabi Hyūga after you and Hinata left the Hidden Leaf.

Transplanting Hanabi’s Byakugan eyes on himself, Toneri awakened the Tenseigan, an evolved form of the Byakugan, and intends to impose his own vision upon the world. Hinata rejects him, you intervene, and together you defeat Toneri and rescue Hanabi.

During the final battle, however, Toneri tears a catastrophic wound through your abdomen.

Unknown to everyone at the time, Toneri’s attack is only the breach. The open wound exposes your already-damaged chakra network to dormant ancient chakra, beginning an incomplete biological and chakra-system rewrite.

Hinata barely kept you alive long enough to return home.

“Reprieve” | Sakura Haruno

Sakura Haruno leads an emergency operation to repair the massive damage immediately upon your arrival.

Internal bleeding, tissue damage, nerves, muscle, and severed chakra pathways are treated, and you finally awaken nearly two days later since the battle with Toneri. Although faint black-violet markings have appeared around the wound, Sakura initially interprets them as severely strained chakra pathways.

Rehabilitation begins, and for several days recovery appears difficult but stable.

“Reckoning”

The markings continue spreading.

You suddenly deteriorate with severe exhaustion, vomiting, fever, chills, unstable circulation, collapsing blood pressure, and worsening pain. Sakura discovers that portions of the chakra network appear to be progressively dying.

She names the condition Chakra Necrosis.

Repeated emergency procedures can slow the damage but cannot explain or stop it, forcing Sakura to confront the possibility that you may not survive.

“Remission”

Faced with continuing deterioration, Sakura, Tsunade, and their medical team abandon the possibility of restoring you exactly as you were. Dead portions of the chakra network are removed, damaged regions are bypassed or reconstructed, abnormal activity is suppressed, and new circulation routes are created.

After several days of deep stasis, you finally awaken, alive and mostly well.

The deterioration has stopped, but Sakura considers the condition to be in remission rather than cured. You were left with significantly and permanently reduced sustainable chakra output, unstable circulation, lingering nerve and muscle damage—with potential serious consequences, like possible relapsing of symptoms, if you push yourself too far.

In the weeks that follow, another unexplained problem begins becoming more apparent. Sensors and chakra-sensitive systems and shinobi sometimes register you incorrectly—detecting overlapping presences, displaced readings, unfamiliar undertones, contradictory locations, or occasionally nothing at all.

Nobody understood why.

“Stay” | Ino Yamanaka

Continuity Note: The following scenario is originally written as bonus/romanced-route material. However, the major plot events contained within them remain compatible with the central AU.

Days later, Ino visited you while you were still beginning the long process of rehabilitation.

This reunion became one of the first times another experienced sensory shinobi encountered just how strangely your chakra had changed.

What should have been one familiar presence instead seemed to overlap, shift, disappear, and return from impossible directions around the same body. Ino could not explain what she was sensing.

For the first time, however, the abnormalities left behind by your condition became impossible to dismiss as ordinary weakness or damaged chakra circulation.

“Unsettled” | Sasuke Uchiha

Continuity Note: The following scenario is originally written as bonus/relationship-route material. However, the major plot events contained within them remain compatible with the central AU.

Days after Reprieve, while your recovery still appeared relatively stable, you secretly contacted Sasuke and asked him to investigate the site before the Leaf could completely close it off.

His experience with Kaguya, the Ōtsutsuki, and dimensional phenomena made him one of the few people you trusted to examine what remained without drawing unnecessary attention.

Sasuke returned to Karekura, helped secure and seal Toneri where nobody could find him, and explored portions of the surviving ruins, but found no simple explanation for what had happened to you.

This stretched until just before Remission, returning to the news you could've died. But as time passed, he encountered you during rehabilitation.

Even with his Sharingan and experience reading chakra, your presence no longer behaved normally—appearing layered or displaced before briefly vanishing altogether.

Like Ino, Sasuke understood that something was deeply wrong. He simply did not yet know what.

“Again” | Hinata Hyūga

Several weeks after leaving the hospital, you unexpectedly crossed paths with Hinata again near the village.

It was the first ordinary meeting the two of you had shared since Karekura. Without Toneri, Hanabi’s disappearance, or an emergency hanging over you, the conversation became a quieter chance to confront what had happened and how close neither of you had come to returning home.

Hinata remained particularly conscious of your weakened condition, while the strange inconsistencies surrounding your chakra continued appearing without explanation.

“Form” | Tenten

As your rehabilitation continued, Tenten became one of the first people to help you seriously reconsider how you fought.

Rather than immediately trying to reclaim the overwhelming chakra output you once relied upon, she brought you back toward fundamentals: movement, weapon handling, positioning, timing, and efficient use of chakra.

The training was less about becoming stronger than learning how to remain dangerous without destroying yourself in the process.

Part II, Arc 1 — A SANDSTORM MIRAGE

Several weeks following Remission, with Chakra Necrosis in remission but no real cure in sight, the 6th Hokage Kakashi Hatake eventually approved a supervised journey to the Hidden Sand Village.

Gaara’s history as a former jinchūriki, together with the Sand's experience with sealing techniques and unusual chakra conditions, made the village one of the first realistic places to search for answers.

Shikamaru accompanied you alongside a small Leaf escort.

Note: The following events take heavy inspiration from the Naruto light novel: Gaara Hiden: A Standstorm Mirage.

“Sand, Wind, Strings” | The Sand Siblings

Your arrival in the Sand reunited you with Gaara, Temari, and Kankurō for the first time since your condition became known outside the Leaf.

While Gaara opened access to medical and sealing records, Kankurō began examining technical material recovered from Karekura, and Temari helped coordinate the visit around the village’s political obligations.

Those obligations quickly created another problem.

The Sand Council had begun pressuring Gaara toward an arranged marriage with Hakuto Hōki, the young head of one of the Sand's most important families.

What began as a search for answers about your health therefore became tangled in a political crisis surrounding the Kazekage himself.

“Settling” | Temari

During the first stretch of the visit, Temari found you alone at the delegation lodging after Kankurō and Shikamaru had been pulled elsewhere.

The conversation moved between the absurdity of Gaara’s marriage predicament and her much more serious concern that you had traveled so soon after nearly dying.

For Temari, the problem was becoming obvious: you had survived a necrotic disease, but surviving it had not stopped you from immediately searching for another problem to solve.

“Threads” | Kankurō

Kankurō later brought you into his workshop while studying damaged material connected to the remains gathered from Karekura.

While demonstrating the exceptionally thin chakra threads he had developed through his own puppetry research, he attempted to test them against your chakra.

The result made little sense.

His thread told him you were present in more than one place at once, then somewhere else entirely, before briefly behaving as though there was nothing connected to it at all.

It became one more indication that whatever happened after Remission could not be explained as ordinary chakra damage.

“Useful” | Shikamaru Nara

Later in the night, Shikamaru joined you away from the others.

The conversation returned to the Land of Silence, Gengo, and the increasingly dangerous pattern that had followed you ever since.

For years, Shikamaru had considered you unusually easy to plan around because you could usually survive whatever role was given to you.

That assumption no longer worked.

His warning was simple: if your body could no longer carry everything alone, then perhaps you needed to start allowing other people to be useful too.

“Repulsion” | Gaara

Gaara’s formal meeting with Hakuto was eventually arranged at an oasis hotel outside the Hidden Sand Village the next day. Security was increased after Kankurō was unexpectedly reassigned elsewhere, but the concern proved justified when a coordinated assassination attempt struck the gathering.

Among the attackers were the missing-nin twins Etoro and Metoro Konjiki, whose combined Lava and Steel Style techniques were powerful enough to wound Gaara and steadily overwhelm the defenders.

Already weakened by dormant Chakra Necrosis, you pushed yourself far beyond the limits Sakura had established.

Then something changed.

The contradictory chakra readings that had surrounded you since Remission suddenly disappeared. For several seconds, everyone capable of sensing chakra perceived only one enormous, unfamiliar presence centered directly on you.

An instant later, an unexplained repulsive force tore outward. Much of the hotel was devastated. Etoro was killed. Metoro vanished into the desert. You remained standing only moments longer before collapsing.

Nobody understood what had happened.

"Choice"

Almost right after the oasis attack, Hakuto and Shijima disappear with you while you are unconscious, exploiting the strange instability around your chakra to evade sensor ninja from the Sand.

Gaara pursues alone, uncovering Hakuto’s voluntary escape with another man, her true lover, named Shigezane, eventually confronting them near the Land of Fire border where the surviving Konjiki twin, Metoro, returns for revenge.

You and Shijima defeat Metoro while Gaara defeats Shigezane. Before dying, Metoro implicates councilman Tojuro in the assassination plot.

Rather than force Hakuto back into the arranged marriage, Gaara allows her and Shigezane to disappear under fabricated deaths, with Shikamaru secretly escorting them toward the Hidden Leaf to find new refuge in their new lives.

"When Sand Settles" | The Sand Siblings

You, Gaara, and Shijima return to the Hidden Sand Village to find that Kankurō, Temari, and Baki have already exposed Tojuro's attempted coup and placed him and his accomplices in custody.

The investigation ultimately revealed signs that an unidentified outside party supplied parts of the conspiracy, leaving the first tangible clue that a larger force may be operating behind events.

Research from the Sand also produces an important medical lead: some of the abnormal portions of your chakra system appear to stabilize the rest, suggesting that simply removing your corrupted and decayed pathways may be impossible—or the wrong solution.

With Gaara and Kankurō occupied by the village’s recovery, Temari continues guiding your investigation as the first step in finding a cure comes to a close.

Part II, Arc 2 — RIDING UPON A SPRING BREEZE

Several weeks after returning from the Hidden Sand Village with a delegation from the Sand led by Temari, your condition had again settled into cautious stability under Sakura’s supervision, though new research from the Sand Village suggested the abnormal portions of your chakra network were more important than anyone first believed.

Meanwhile, the Hidden Leaf and Hidden Sand Villages began cooperating on support for younger shinobi affected by trauma and manipulation, while strange reports from the Land of Wind described someone resembling Sasuke Uchiha—even down to a suspiciously similar chakra signature.

Note: The following events take significant inspiration from the Naruto light novel: Sakura Hiden: Thoughts of Love, Riding Upon a Spring Breeze.

“Habit” | Temari — April 23rd

During the Hidden Sand delegation’s final day in the Leaf, Temari remained busy overseeing preparations for their departure after nearly a week of medical exchanges, political follow-up, and new cooperation between the villages.

Among those developments was the Sand Village’s interest in Sakura and Ino’s developing program for younger shinobi affected by trauma and manipulation, something Temari had helped coordinate after Councilman Tojuro's conspiracy exposed the vulnerability of several younger Sand shinobi.

Her time with you also carried the familiar mixture of dry teasing and practical concern, particularly as Sakura continued adjusting your stronger suppressants following the Sand mission.

“Arsenal” | Tenten — April 29th

Several days later, you returned to training with Tenten as part of the continuing effort to rebuild your fighting style around the limitations left by your chakra condition.

Tenten quickly noticed that the unexplained events in the Sand Village had pushed you from conserving chakra into avoiding it almost entirely.

Rather than encouraging chakra-free combat, she corrected the overcompensation: chakra was still part of your arsenal, but now had to be used deliberately alongside weapons, positioning, movement, precision, and preparation.

The session marked another step toward developing a broader fighting style built around efficiency rather than trying to reproduce your former strength unchanged.

“Stride” | Rock Lee — May 4th

During an early-May conditioning session, Rock Lee joined you for light running, footwork, and restrained striking drills while you remained under Sakura’s medical restrictions.

When a sudden pivot aggravated the old wound along your left abdomen, Lee immediately stopped the exercise rather than encouraging you to push through genuine injury.

Drawing from his own long recovery years earlier, Lee admitted that determination had never made rehabilitation immediate. He could not promise you would completely regain what had been lost—but refused to accept that a changed body meant the end of your future as a shinobi.

The two of you continued at a slower pace afterward.

“Mixed Signals” | Sakura & Ino — May 8th

Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka, and Sai met over lunch while discussing their developing support program for younger shinobi and the Hidden Sand’s growing involvement.

Sai also brought more troubling reports from the Land of Wind: an unidentified shinobi had repeatedly been mistaken for Sasuke Uchiha, with several sensory accounts describing a chakra signature unusually close to his own.

After Sai departed, work gave way to a much more personal conversation between Sakura and Ino. Teasing about Sai, Sasuke, relationships, and their increasingly adult lives eventually turned toward how closely both women had been watching you throughout your recovery.

“Trace” | Sai — May 14th

Several days after the first reports of a Sasuke lookalike reached the Hidden Leaf, Sai sought you out while you were training alone. Sakura and Ino had continued quietly following the sightings through Leaf and Hidden Sand intelligence channels, but you had deliberately been kept outside the investigation while still under medical restrictions.

Sai brought you up to speed for the first time: the impostor increasingly resembled Sasuke not only in appearance, but according to several sensors, in chakra as well. Sai also revealed that his own separate investigation into suspicious security incidents had begun uncovering restricted information leaks, familiar Root methods, and an increasingly concerning trail around former Root operative Kido Tsumiki, now an ANBU authority.

Although there was still no proof connecting Kido to the false Sasuke, Sai no longer believed the two investigations could be comfortably treated as unrelated. A new lead was likely to prompt a field investigation involving Sakura and Ino—while your condition meant you would explicitly not be cleared to participate.

“Counterfeit” | Sakura, Ino, & Sai — May 18

Four days after Sai's private conversation with you, his investigation into suspicious security incidents began overlapping with Sakura and Ino's search for a mysterious Sasuke lookalike. Kakashi authorized the three to investigate an abandoned supply compound concealed within a wooded ravine in the Land of Fire.

Despite being medically prohibited from participating, you secretly followed, using Sakura's prescribed chakra suppressants and your fragmented signature to evade detection. The three infiltrated the compound through coordinated reconnaissance and deception, while you independently neutralized several guards before unexpectedly joining them.

Inside, they encountered a commander who claimed to have been expecting Sasuke, only to discover that the entire chamber had been prepared for an ambush. Although the four of you initially overwhelmed the missing-nin through superior teamwork and combat experience, three enemies suddenly manifested unnatural crimson chakra cloaks resembling the Nine-Tails, drastically shifting the battle against you.

Using his genuine Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Naruto arrived and helped defeat the enhanced shinobi and secure the surviving operatives.