Mikasa Hagaromo
Jōnin Strategist 🧠
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...it's about the shinobi world and its hatred and how it has impacted the lives of shinobi, including Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi. That's why none of the major villains were evil for evil's sake.
Zabuza wanted to invade the Mist out of contempt for it having stripped him of humanity and reduced him to a tool for killing.
Haku was shunned and his mother was killed out of the fear and hatred the shinobi world bred for ppl with kekkei genkai. Zabuza was the only person who accepted him, even if it was just as a tool.
Orochimaru--though we don't yet know his exact reason for taking the dark path--clearly came to fear the weakness of mortality and sought immortality to learn every jutsu to attain power. I bet when Kishi finally reveals Oro's reason for choosing the dark path it will be something along the lines of power being everything in the shinobi world and the only way to achieve peace is by achieving absolute power. Oro sought immortality to live long enough to learn every jutsu in existence to achieve absolute power.
Itachi had to shed the blood of his brethren as a result of the hatred and distrust of the shinobi world.
Pein los his family, best friend, and sanity to the shinobi world.
Kisame devoted himself to the Akasuki to escape the lies of the shinobi world by living in a lie which was less brutal that the lies and brutality of the shinobi world.
Naruto and Sasuke represent the two paths one can thread in response to the brutality of the shinobi world. Choose the peaceful cooperative route like Naruto is trying to or perpetuate hatred and exact vengeance against the shinobi world that took everything from you like Sasuke originally intended to.
And of course I don't need to mention Mads and Obito.
That's what makes Black Zetsu's statements about having written the 'story' of shinobi so important. Kishi's intention was never to simply tell the story of Naruto. It was the story of the shinobi world and Naruto finding his place in it.
Just a random thought that came to me while re-waching the Sasori vs Sakura/Chiyo fight. IDK if I'm slow and everyone else realized this, but Sasori's back story kind of gave me a 'aha' moment.
Thoughts?
Zabuza wanted to invade the Mist out of contempt for it having stripped him of humanity and reduced him to a tool for killing.
Haku was shunned and his mother was killed out of the fear and hatred the shinobi world bred for ppl with kekkei genkai. Zabuza was the only person who accepted him, even if it was just as a tool.
Orochimaru--though we don't yet know his exact reason for taking the dark path--clearly came to fear the weakness of mortality and sought immortality to learn every jutsu to attain power. I bet when Kishi finally reveals Oro's reason for choosing the dark path it will be something along the lines of power being everything in the shinobi world and the only way to achieve peace is by achieving absolute power. Oro sought immortality to live long enough to learn every jutsu in existence to achieve absolute power.
Itachi had to shed the blood of his brethren as a result of the hatred and distrust of the shinobi world.
Pein los his family, best friend, and sanity to the shinobi world.
Kisame devoted himself to the Akasuki to escape the lies of the shinobi world by living in a lie which was less brutal that the lies and brutality of the shinobi world.
Naruto and Sasuke represent the two paths one can thread in response to the brutality of the shinobi world. Choose the peaceful cooperative route like Naruto is trying to or perpetuate hatred and exact vengeance against the shinobi world that took everything from you like Sasuke originally intended to.
And of course I don't need to mention Mads and Obito.
That's what makes Black Zetsu's statements about having written the 'story' of shinobi so important. Kishi's intention was never to simply tell the story of Naruto. It was the story of the shinobi world and Naruto finding his place in it.
Just a random thought that came to me while re-waching the Sasori vs Sakura/Chiyo fight. IDK if I'm slow and everyone else realized this, but Sasori's back story kind of gave me a 'aha' moment.
Thoughts?
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