(shrugs) I don't rmemeber any official information on Gai, but for TXY purposes yeah, he would be a little older - but still a prodigy. He probably made jounin at around 16, at the same time as Kakashi in the finale of the war with Hidden Stone, which would put him at 19 when Rikou was born, a year before Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked. Still young by our standards, but in the middle ages that wiuld ave been waiting a long time to start a family, and with the number of ninja vs. total population seen in ninja villiages, plus the mortality rate for non-plot-immunity ninja, I would expect it to hold true for Naruto - most ninja who survve being genin become chuunin around 16-17, and or pair off and get to raising the next generation, with number of children ranging from (statistically, not literally) 1.7 to five or so - the more famous the clan or valued the bloodline, the more likely a big family and the more likely for one or both parents to have retired from active duty to take care of them. The low bottom end and high attrition means they still have to recruit a fair number of kids from non-ninja families, even though such first-generation nin tend to wind up washing out of the team-tests after graduating from the Academy and end up in the administrative track rather than on field duty, since they don't have the option of training with family or before entering the Academy, only the most talented overcoming that handicap (WITH HARD WORK AND THE BOUNDLESS ENERGY OF YOUTH! YOSH!!) ala Neshan and (changing what I said before, and possibly open to change still) Tenten (who if so would be from a weaponsmith family, and instead of a family technique her Twin Dragons Dance would be something she got from Mr. Seal Master - logically enoguh, since it's a bit of simple chakra manipulation used in an unconventional way and two mass item summoning scrolls.)
Aside from Sakura she's the only one we haven't seen older relatives of, and if having a dual self is a bloodline thing, that lets out Sakura... which begs the question of what benefit such a bloodline provides - maybe the Inner Self can direct to molding of chakra, to allow using techniques without motion or sound, using them while engaged in taijutsu to keep the enemy from having a chance to use theirs, or even two at once. Surely it can't be so common to (smirk) butt heads with the Yamanaka clan, and it certainly doesn't seem to have helped her any with normal genjutsu - she fell for Kakashi's, saw through the one at the beginning of the Chuunin Exam, got stuck runnning in circles during, then cancelled the one at the end - and both times she succeeded against one, so did several others. I suppose it could be a (lack of) training thing, but the point of a ninja clan is to train the children in certain special skills from a young age to give them an advantage as ninja, which would by definition include bloodline skills. I can at least point to her canonical excellent chakra control and say it's because Inner Sakura is doing the techniques in unison with Outer Sakura.
Which has now led to a story change - by the time Team 7 goes wherever I send them instead of to Wave Country, she will have realised that Sasuke values a girl being a strong ninja over traditionally girly behavior, adn instead of trying to show off when Kakashi does the tree-climbing by appearing to have perfect chakra control, will show off by exhibiting only average control on the tree climbing, explaining when Kakashi asks why she's suddenly so bad at it that she's not using her bloodline advantage, and then having Inner Sakura train in control by hovering a leaf on the back of each hand while she continues to try to climb the tree.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Aside from Sakura she's the only one we haven't seen older relatives of, and if having a dual self is a bloodline thing, that lets out Sakura... which begs the question of what benefit such a bloodline provides - maybe the Inner Self can direct to molding of chakra, to allow using techniques without motion or sound, using them while engaged in taijutsu to keep the enemy from having a chance to use theirs, or even two at once. Surely it can't be so common to (smirk) butt heads with the Yamanaka clan, and it certainly doesn't seem to have helped her any with normal genjutsu - she fell for Kakashi's, saw through the one at the beginning of the Chuunin Exam, got stuck runnning in circles during, then cancelled the one at the end - and both times she succeeded against one, so did several others. I suppose it could be a (lack of) training thing, but the point of a ninja clan is to train the children in certain special skills from a young age to give them an advantage as ninja, which would by definition include bloodline skills. I can at least point to her canonical excellent chakra control and say it's because Inner Sakura is doing the techniques in unison with Outer Sakura.
Which has now led to a story change - by the time Team 7 goes wherever I send them instead of to Wave Country, she will have realised that Sasuke values a girl being a strong ninja over traditionally girly behavior, adn instead of trying to show off when Kakashi does the tree-climbing by appearing to have perfect chakra control, will show off by exhibiting only average control on the tree climbing, explaining when Kakashi asks why she's suddenly so bad at it that she's not using her bloodline advantage, and then having Inner Sakura train in control by hovering a leaf on the back of each hand while she continues to try to climb the tree.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows