Alright, so we all know the gist of how Naruto Uzumaki spent the first few years of his life: he had the Nine Tails sealed inside him, so the villagers of the Hidden Leaf treated him like crap, he was alone, yadda yadda yadda.
However, I started thinking about this, and I came upon something I didn't undestand. Watching Road to Ninja helped me wonder about this too...
So, Naruto, in his childhood, had trouble finding friends; we've seen that he's been able to have interaction with guys like Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji before, only to get pulled away by their parents...
Hold on a second.
Okay, let me get this straight: I think the ninja of the village, the high ranking ones and parents to some of the Hidden Leaf Eleven, like Shukaku, Inoichi, Tsume, Choza, possibly Mebuki and Kizashi in a sense... they were just as big of jerks to Naruto as the civilians were.
Listen, no one cut Naruto any slack back in the day. No one. We've seen in the first few episodes of the Konoha History Arc, the ones that show the beginning relationship of Naruto and Iruka Umino, that people like the ones I described before obviously bought into the whole "Naruto is a demon" bandwagon, like the rest of the ignorant villagers, even though, supposedly, Hiruzen told them the truth about what happened on the night Obito came and unleashed the Nine Tails. We could probably group in guys like Gai, Asuma, and Kurenai in a sense, here too... not Kakashi, of course, because he knew that Naruto was Minato's kid.
So... what the fudge? What I'm getting here is that these ninja had the same mentality as the civilians and thought Naruto was a demon and a bad influence... that's messed up, don't you think? Really? As if he wasn't already one sided enough.
Obviously, we would see that kind of mentality erode over time with Naruto showing his worth as a ninja and stopping Pain and all that... still, you would think that the Jounin would have some more common courtesy and sense.
However, I started thinking about this, and I came upon something I didn't undestand. Watching Road to Ninja helped me wonder about this too...
So, Naruto, in his childhood, had trouble finding friends; we've seen that he's been able to have interaction with guys like Kiba, Shikamaru, and Choji before, only to get pulled away by their parents...
Hold on a second.
Okay, let me get this straight: I think the ninja of the village, the high ranking ones and parents to some of the Hidden Leaf Eleven, like Shukaku, Inoichi, Tsume, Choza, possibly Mebuki and Kizashi in a sense... they were just as big of jerks to Naruto as the civilians were.
Listen, no one cut Naruto any slack back in the day. No one. We've seen in the first few episodes of the Konoha History Arc, the ones that show the beginning relationship of Naruto and Iruka Umino, that people like the ones I described before obviously bought into the whole "Naruto is a demon" bandwagon, like the rest of the ignorant villagers, even though, supposedly, Hiruzen told them the truth about what happened on the night Obito came and unleashed the Nine Tails. We could probably group in guys like Gai, Asuma, and Kurenai in a sense, here too... not Kakashi, of course, because he knew that Naruto was Minato's kid.
So... what the fudge? What I'm getting here is that these ninja had the same mentality as the civilians and thought Naruto was a demon and a bad influence... that's messed up, don't you think? Really? As if he wasn't already one sided enough.
Obviously, we would see that kind of mentality erode over time with Naruto showing his worth as a ninja and stopping Pain and all that... still, you would think that the Jounin would have some more common courtesy and sense.
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