#sanitize fic

character aesthetics: Yui 

"Healer, you share all this information so easily," said the still-nameless ninja, his lips twitching with what appeared to be amusement. "Aren't you afraid of people stealing it and making their own?"

"No." She gave him a dubious glance as she began cleaning up.

"Why not?"

So, yeah, I wanted to include this scene in the main chapter, but I decided that it was bloated and had no place. It occurs almost directly after the first scene of Chapter Four. And so... here's the snippet.

Here’s yet another rambling post about the fanfic Sanitize.

So, you might be wondering, what’s the technology level in this world? On one hand, there’s crossbows, but there’s also printing presses and ink pens. From what we see with Kishimoto’s work, the technology in that world has not progressed at the same rate in the same areas. No cars/guns, but perhaps trains... yet electricity, TVs, cameras and mass-produced items.

Thus, I’ve taken some liberties. I’m probably not going to include anything after the 1920s, but everything before that is fair game. So, yes, that means there’s technology like electricity and bound books. But, the time period is still feudal-ish; societal structure is definitely that way. Not only that, the technology level is disparate across the elemental nations and within it. Fire, Iron and Lightning might be well-off thanks to their resources, but Sand isn’t. And within Fire, the peasants sure as heck don’t have electricity and fancy things. That’s just for the big cities.

An interesting thing to consider is that travel takes a long time. They go by horse or foot (unless you’re a ninja and travel slightly faster by foot), so even if one area makes a lot of advances, it won’t diffuse and spread to other areas as quickly. I'm going to hold-off a little bit on the telegraph; at the very least, it isn’t going to reach Yui/be relevant to her for some time.

So. I have a new-ish fic titled Sanitize which I recently updated. It’s about OC-Insert in the Warring Clan era, one who I made some choices which I feel I should elaborate on.

Crossbows: Yeah, I ended up doing a fair amount of research about this. Canonwise, Kishimoto explicitly excluded guns but was silent about crossbows, so... I took some liberties. They were used extensively in China and were invented there around 4th century BCE. Though crossbows didn’t get much traction in Japan, I’ve based Naruto-verse on a variety of different cultures. Story-wise, I’ve made crossbows somewhat common in Lightning and Earth but rare in Fire. They’ll play a small role in the story, but it won’t be like they’ll go around shooting ninja, haha.

Stethoscopes: The first stethoscope was invented by a doctor in the 1800s because he was uncomfortable with putting his ear on female patient’s chests. Yup. So he used a rolled-up tube of paper, which worked pretty well, and things spiraled from there. Hence Yui using a thin, carved wooden tube as a makeshift one.

Bandits and Rounin: I know it’s a trope for bandit attacks, but it’s one that has a fair amount of grounding in history, haha. They’re a pretty documented phenomenon, though it’s not just the “attack-and-rob town” kind but also the “illegitimate toll” kind. The bandits in this one are also rounin, aka rogue samurai, so they have been trained in chakra-use. It makes preying on trade-routes to be even easier. Ninja may be the boogeymen, but rounin are reviled (even if they have good reasons).