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Hmm.... That is a good idea. To start in one place and expand from there. The only thing is making sure we're all in that one place without limiting people's character choices. Perhaps the start is a meeting of clans, and all of our characters are to go there. This would be if the idea of the RP starting a bit before the warring clans era. 
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Clans is definitely an idea, another is that we are all students and at one point we all had one teacher. My knowledge of Naruto history really early on is sketchy, but isn't there some sort of Sage character who basically was the first "naruto-type ninja" that sounds like a foil that a GM/Storyteller could use as a means to send us off to deal with things, or dispense plot, or a resource. He doesn't necessarily have to do much, as the game would be our story, not necessarily his. It also provides a good point of divergence from Naruto canon, same world and laws, different history.