Naruto In the Playground is a Freeform Play By Post Game hosted on the Giant in the Playground forums. It began as a "sister game" of sorts when certain Bleach In the Playground Freeform Play By Post (now Bleach ITP Classic) players decided to make a Naruto version of the freeform game they were already in. Originally, the game was set in the Village Hidden in the Leaves, but a growing player base and a desire to expand the setting has caused the game to look beyond the borders of Konoha. Although the game is set in the world of Naruto, there are differences between the game's setting and the setting of the original Manga, such as the lack of canon characters (Naruto himself, for example, does not exist in the game anywhere), different histories, and adjusted geopolitical borders and natur