#ctbmto ask

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So I really love the concept of self-insert OCs becoming authors by retelling the stories from their world in Naruto!verse !!! Vapors is one of my all time favorite Naruto!fanfics and Aiko (oc) does do this!

That being said; Kiyo has been plopped down in an incredibly difficult time in Naruto!verse history. Not necessarily because times are turbulent or she's in immediate danger; but because she's in the early years of "war time" Konoha.

So in the fic summary, I put down that Kiyo was dropped into pre-3rd war Naruto!verse-- but after creating massive diagrams and overlaying MULTIPLE TIMELINES (Kishimoto you BASTARD, WHY !!!); I've actually been writing with the thought in mind that the 2nd Shinobi War is in it's beginning stages in the current time in CTBMTO-- the small battles that wiped out Kiyo's and her family's villages are basically border scrimmages between the Shinobi villages.

To get into the time line I'm going with; the Great Shinobi War and the 2nd Shinobi War were supposed to reflect the same timelines as WW1 and WW2 of our modern history-- so there's supposed to be about 20 years between the first Shinobi War and the 2nd. After that, the timeline for the 3rd Shinobi War gets fucked (kinda like the timeline of Kakashi's childhood smh); but in order for the Sannin's and the 3rd Hokage's ages to match up-- it could only be a handful of years between the 2nd war and the 3rd.

What does this have to do with being an author? Excellent question, I'm glad you asked!

So Konoha is basically a militant state within the Fire Country. It's got a lot of convoluted problems that, if we the readers look closely, cause a lot of plot problems (I actually like that in some ways, the sequel, Boruto, attempts to tackle them-- poorly, but; shounen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). Going with the fact that Konoha is a military force, training child soldiers, killers, and employees, you have to image that during the build up to the 2nd war and leading all the way through to the end of the 3rd war; they're not very "pleasure" minded. America during the world wars is a great example of the mindset of the general population of Konoha during this time (once America got involved, that is).

Food and goods are being rationed for soldiers and the war effort; civilians are encouraged to take up jobs that can benefit the war effort, ie. weapon and armour manufacturing.

There's no time to "waste" on pleasurable pursuits when hands can be used for needed work. For this, we can look to Japan during WW2. Civilians didn't need to be entertained by women playing baseball because all the abled bodied men were at war-- no, it was a sense of pride and duty to focus all efforts into making sure your country was victorious!

Even if Kiyo wrote down all the stories she could remember, AND find someone who would publish them; the population of Konoha would probably see indulging in fictional reading as "lazy" at best.

Not to mention that Kiyo is technically working full time already-- being at the market stall selling produce, maintaining/managing basically a 3 story townhouse with 6 people living in it (they don't have a washer and dryer, or television, at this point), and has been helping take care of baby Gai.