Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28559671-20160703214120

Extrapolate any possible course of the series based on the following scenario: the immediate circumstances leading up to the massacre of the Uchiha never took place. Assume they are on more or less civil if not good terms with the rest of the village; Orochimaru is with Akatsuki; Shisui is alive; Itachi is alive, healthy and the current Hokage (for sake of argument, he takes up the mantle as the Fifth from Hiruzen, who retires from his second tenure in peace); with few exceptions, primarily where Itachi is concerned, Tobi manipulates various agents and events as in canon. 