You could actually drop it into a sufficiently large national forest pretty effectively - and once you did, the only thing you'd really have to worry about
would be things like random curious people with Google Earth. How big is Konoha's footprint from the sky? How much smaller could the village make it once
they realized that it was an avenue of discovery?
Other random thoughts...
- Does it have to by the contiguous 48? There's a *lot* of space to hide out in up in Alaska. Sure, it gets a mite chilly up there, but.... (Actually, I
think it might add something to the experience - show up sometime at the end of May, say, suffer from the cold, and then realize that it's going to get
*worse*.)
- For other random western-ish crossovers - Shanghai Knights.
- Other timespots. If we wanted to have an explanation for the warpage that wasn't entirely arbitrry as far as the characters are concerned... well,
binding the Kyuubi might have had any number of bizarre side-effects. Better still, have it kick in as someone's idea of a highly experimental superdefense
jutsu just as the Sand/Sound invasion is kicking off. Combining that with the Alaska concept, and you suddenly have some *very* unhappy sandies. It also gives
some interesting diplomatic stuff to run with out in the middle of nowhere before people start finding out what's really going on and interacting with the
outside world. You could also get the scene where Orochimaru decides to take over an uptime city - these aren't even *ninja* after all, and after he
conquers one of their villages, he can integrate their new technology and become powerful enough to come back and *really* show Konoha who's boss. So...
the world's introduction to True Ninja is news footage of a guy riding around on a truly enormous snake, laying waste while a small horde of lesser ninja
do impossible things in support. It's actually going pretty well for Orochimaru - until a normal, everyday man, with no more chakra than any other civilian
and only a moderately well-honed killer intent picks up his SWAT-issue sniper rifle and ends the guy. Cue "Wait. Wait. What???" from *both* sides of
the time-divide, and everybody becoming just a little more... tense.
would be things like random curious people with Google Earth. How big is Konoha's footprint from the sky? How much smaller could the village make it once
they realized that it was an avenue of discovery?
Other random thoughts...
- Does it have to by the contiguous 48? There's a *lot* of space to hide out in up in Alaska. Sure, it gets a mite chilly up there, but.... (Actually, I
think it might add something to the experience - show up sometime at the end of May, say, suffer from the cold, and then realize that it's going to get
*worse*.)
- For other random western-ish crossovers - Shanghai Knights.
- Other timespots. If we wanted to have an explanation for the warpage that wasn't entirely arbitrry as far as the characters are concerned... well,
binding the Kyuubi might have had any number of bizarre side-effects. Better still, have it kick in as someone's idea of a highly experimental superdefense
jutsu just as the Sand/Sound invasion is kicking off. Combining that with the Alaska concept, and you suddenly have some *very* unhappy sandies. It also gives
some interesting diplomatic stuff to run with out in the middle of nowhere before people start finding out what's really going on and interacting with the
outside world. You could also get the scene where Orochimaru decides to take over an uptime city - these aren't even *ninja* after all, and after he
conquers one of their villages, he can integrate their new technology and become powerful enough to come back and *really* show Konoha who's boss. So...
the world's introduction to True Ninja is news footage of a guy riding around on a truly enormous snake, laying waste while a small horde of lesser ninja
do impossible things in support. It's actually going pretty well for Orochimaru - until a normal, everyday man, with no more chakra than any other civilian
and only a moderately well-honed killer intent picks up his SWAT-issue sniper rifle and ends the guy. Cue "Wait. Wait. What???" from *both* sides of
the time-divide, and everybody becoming just a little more... tense.