What was Narutos true goal?

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I think this is something that should be carefully thought about. Naruto, since he was a kid, always talked vehemently about being Hokage someday. Someone as obsessed with this title surely has an idea of what being Homage entails. Mostly it means being the most powerful ninja while protecting and loving those within your own villiage. Cool.

But at the same time, it also became apparent that Naruto hated killing or hated what essentially what a Holage would have to inevitably do whether it's thru orders or by his own hand, protect his villiage by killing if necessary.

This clearly creates a paradox.

It's like if a person wanted to be president of the U.S. but was absolutely against the idea of war or killing others to protect the nation.

So what do you think Narutos true goal actually was? As a child, him wanting to be a ninja already shows that he wishes to kill if necessary, but his actions always revealed that he hated it. To make a comparison, Sasuke became a ninja to kill Itachi, Kakashi knows what a ninjas duties are and Sakura eventually wanted to help wounded ninjas.

But this kid is confused. It's clear Naruto's ideals parallel mostly with those of someone like Ghandi and not Clinton (a man who was loved by people but still commanded an army of killers)

I guess reality doesn't care about your dreams, and that's why Obito and Kabuto told him hes just a kid
 

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He wanted to be Hokage.

Dont read so much into it
 

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He wanted to be Hokage, and after the early events of Part 2 he wanted to personally put an end to the cycle of hatred between the ninja villages and Sasuke Uchiha, all being achieved by the end of the manga.
 

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Wasn't Naruto killing left and right if the opposition threatened to kill the ones he loved? He was even willing to kill Obito at one point, he killed kakuzu with no remorse, destroyed pein with no remorse, I don't think Naruto is all that disturbed with having to kill if it means protecting the ones he loved, if the person he's about to kill is a friend or someone's whose lost and confused than TNJ handles that or the person TNJs themself. Also you don't need to be the strongest ninja to be hokage, just look at kakashi :lmao:
 

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So many characters got better reasons to be Hokage than Naruto. But oh well, the manga is Naruto.
 

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Early Naruto-wanted to be recognized
Later he wanted to change a few things.

By the end I don't really get y he wants to be hokage other than the fact that he cares about the village
 

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Wasn't Naruto killing left and right if the opposition threatened to kill the ones he loved? He was even willing to kill Obito at one point, he killed kakuzu with no remorse, destroyed pein with no remorse, I don't think Naruto is all that disturbed with having to kill if it means protecting the ones he loved, if the person he's about to kill is a friend or someone's whose lost and confused than TNJ handles that or the person TNJs themself. Also you don't need to be the strongest ninja to be hokage, just look at kakashi :lmao:
Kakashi actually killed Kakuzu :hint: And I think he just wanted to acknowledged
 

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Naruto's goal has not changed. His first goal was more about himself than really about the position. He wanted to become hokage to be acknowledged by the people of the village. Later one during his life he realized that the real problem stands with the war nations have. He got everyone's trust, so he fought this time around for peace and not for himself.

Naruto's dream right now is reaching a state when everyone can understand one another, like what he did with Sasuke.
 

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Naruto is secretly raising an army of clones from his dna to conquer the whole world, he needed to become hokage to get proper resources for doing it.
 

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Naruto's goal has not changed. His first goal was more about himself than really about the position. He wanted to become hokage to be acknowledged by the people of the village. Later one during his life he realized that the real problem stands with the war nations have. He got everyone's trust, so he fought this time around for peace and not for himself.

Naruto's dream right now is reaching a state when everyone can understand one another, like what he did with Sasuke.

I don't think Naruto reach a state of understanding with Sasuke. It was more like Sasuke see how far Naruto would for him, so he decided to try his way of working together. If Naruto F up as Hokage, you best to believe that Sasuke gonna end his life!
 

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I don't think Naruto reach a state of understanding with Sasuke. It was more like Sasuke see how far Naruto would for him, so he decided to try his way of working together. If Naruto F up as Hokage, you best to believe that Sasuke gonna end his life!

It's a given that Sasukes version of Hokage > Naruto's by a mile. Damn kishiiiiii this would've expanded the manga for years and created the ultimate twist.

Even though we would've never got Sasukes true feelings towards everything and how he looked up to Naruto. This is why the manga should've ended at 699, it makes no sense for ther to still be threats now that Narutos dream came true. Once his tenure is up, another Hokage is gonna take his place and all that hoopla would've been for nothing
 

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To bring saskue back to the village become hokage and make peace
 

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I don't know.... But whatever it is. It's working.
 

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I think this is something that should be carefully thought about. Naruto, since he was a kid, always talked vehemently about being Hokage someday. Someone as obsessed with this title surely has an idea of what being Homage entails. Mostly it means being the most powerful ninja while protecting and loving those within your own villiage. Cool.

But at the same time, it also became apparent that Naruto hated killing or hated what essentially what a Holage would have to inevitably do whether it's thru orders or by his own hand, protect his villiage by killing if necessary.

This clearly creates a paradox.

It's like if a person wanted to be president of the U.S. but was absolutely against the idea of war or killing others to protect the nation.

So what do you think Narutos true goal actually was? As a child, him wanting to be a ninja already shows that he wishes to kill if necessary, but his actions always revealed that he hated it. To make a comparison, Sasuke became a ninja to kill Itachi, Kakashi knows what a ninjas duties are and Sakura eventually wanted to help wounded ninjas.

But this kid is confused. It's clear Naruto's ideals parallel mostly with those of someone like Ghandi and not Clinton (a man who was loved by people but still commanded an army of killers)

I guess reality doesn't care about your dreams, and that's why Obito and Kabuto told him hes just a kid

He wanted to be acknowledged...and kid Naruto had no problem with killing.
 

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all naruto wanted was to surpass sasuke. unfortunately, he's still chasing that dream of his to this day.
 

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He at first wanted to be Hokage for acknowledgement. Then when he was talking with Jiraiya, he wants to rid of the hatred and bear it with Sasuke. He eventually had everyone working together and acheived world peace. Naruto probably doesn't want to cause more hatred. I don't blame Kakashi and ironically, Obito for calling him childish.
 

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Believe it was like 3-4 overlaping goals of:
Being recognized and accepted by everyone
Being hokage
Stoping hatred or something after his pein thing or dark naruto moment.
Having everyone work together

Seems like all of them could be accomplished as hokage
 
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