The first chapter of the Naruto manga, drawn by Masashi Kishimoto and published in Weekly Shonen Jump in late 1999, presented the legend of the nine-tailed fox and then the story of Naruto Uzumaki, the young aspiring ninja from Leaf Village.
It took 14 years to publish and showed us that there was a lot more beyond this prologue. In fact, the story unfolds over many years, let’s see how many years go by in the entire story of Naruto’s ninja with a chronology.
Kishimoto never gave exact dates, but we know that a few decades before history there was the battle against Kaguya Otsutsuki and her seal by the sons who then gave birth to long warriors. Then we entered the long time of the fighting clans, going back about 30 years before the village was founded. If you consider that Hiruzen Sarutobi was one of the first generation ninjas of Konoha and died against Orochimaru at almost 70 years of age, we can trace the birth of the village back to about 57 before Naruto was born.
The village flourished despite the wars, leading to the attack by the nine-tailed fox, which resulted in the deaths of Minato and Kushina. The moment of Naruto’s birth it therefore coincided with one of the saddest and darkest moments in the village. 12 years later, the boy officially becomes a genin and will complete his missions along with Team 7 for about another year. Then a 2-year time jump began, which led us to a 15-year-old Naruto, while the war ended with the 16-year-old Naruto, about a year later.
Finally, in chapter 700 of Naruto, we see the Uzumaki now Hokage and thirty years old. Even considering the events of Boruto: Naruto the Next Generations that have occurred so far, the ninja story unravels for itself almost a century since the Leaf Village was foundedwhich adds decades to the indefinite period of Clan Wars.
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