GenocideHeart said:
Because anyone who has a katana is a samurai.
Except, y'know, not.
<_<
And you once said I'm the one generalizing.
Uh huh, you're right... I'm generalizing... :sisi: Oh, waitaminute... no, I'm not! :blink:
Issue 18.
The guys Naruto took down are the same guys that were with Gatou when he visited Zabuza and Haku, and they were introduced as
Gatou's samurai bodyguards. The guy in the coat/hat in that scene, with the 'Crow-like' markings on his eyes? Same guy that killed Inari's dad.
When they're outright said to be samurai, it's a statement of fact... pure and simple. <_<
Amberion said:
Me bad, I automaticly thought of countries with Ninjas in them.
May have been. Wasn't said. :huh.:
Amberion said:
I doubt people still would come to the conclusion that it is Sasuke. First of he is supposed to be dead, second he doesn't look like an Uchiha.
How do you figure? Even if they gave him a new haircut,
somehow changed his eyecolor, and dyed his hair... his face isn't going to change. I know plenty of people who dye their hair (most right around the time they get a haircut, no less), and two of those wear glasses most of the time. Even when they switch hair colors, get a haircut, drop or add the glasses... I can still tell who they are, almost instantly. And I only actually know
one of them beyond having seen them in some of my classes in high school, so it isn't because I know them well.
:huh.:
Amberion said:
Eye color could be changed by something simple as contacts.
Which we have no clue if ninjas even have. The only ninja we've seen with bad eyes wore glasses (Kabuto, can't really think of anyone else at the moment). If anyone else has bad eyes... they haven't made any mention of contacts that I know of, let alone colored ones. If they have contacts, why wouldn't a
ninja wear them? Especially the son of a medic nin. :huh.:
You could say it was because he needed to be unassuming, but what about
after he was found to be a spy?
Amberion said:
Also, atleast ht eimpression I have from Sasuke is that he spent most of his time in the Uchiha district. So not sure people outside of the Uchihas know him vell enough to know his manners.
Maybe, maybe not... dunno. But he seemed like a fairly well-adjusted kid before the massacre, so it's presumable that he had some people he associated with during school. :huh.:
Amberion said:
Meh, guess it is a diffirence of oppinion. To me a child has a right to know who his or her parents are.
I can understand it if he was adopted and they kept it from him since they wanted him to really think they are his parents.
Naruto has a right to know, even if knowing could put his life, and
possibly the village, in danger if it gets out? One kid's 'rights' aren't more important than the safety of an entire village. It's cold, but... if I gotta choose between a kid knowing who his parents are and the
potential safety of a village... that kid is gonna think he grew out of a rock. :huh.:
Amberion said:
Speculation true, but fairly easy to come to. The Uchiha are the police force, they are the ones who keep other ninjas in line. So I doubt they aren't atleast all above average ninjas once they have the Sharingan.
And unless they stayed home during the war they would have alot of enemies.
Seems unlikely, at least to me, that the
police force would be sent to fight battles in a war. Some of them might, but all of them? I doubt it. May just be me, though.
Amberion said:
Not really, remember he is just a kid. And what a kid thinks is something that would help getting him noticed doesn't need to be that impressive.
Maybe, maybe not... the perspective of a child can be massively skewed. Clapping can seem greatly entertaining to one child, while to another full scale
explosions are nothing to even blink at.
Amberion said:
Why would yondaime in the first place hide the fact that he was going to have a child? It's not that he knew that the Kyuubi would attack and he would die.
Two words. Iwagakura, Kumogakure.
A pregnant woman is an easy target... keep it secret until after the birth, and things are a
lot safer for your mate and your child. That's my initial thoughts, anyway. I could probably come up with a number of other reasons, but that would be my main one. Then Naruto is born, they put a demon in his stomach, and voila... everything goes to hell.
Amberion said:
And remember, this would be during peace time. No threats around, or him out on long missions where he wouldn't be able to protect his wife/girlfriend. So people would know he had a child.
It was? Did they say when the war with Iwa ended? I know the conflict that required an 'alliance' with Kumo had been ongoing for 'many years,' according to Neji, at the time Hinata just turned three... if 'many' is more than three, then it would have been ongoing before Naruto was born. I would certainly think 'many' would be more than three, but that could just be me. :huh.:
Amberion said:
And also, as you think people would think the new guy is Sasuke just because of his mannerism, wouldn't people know Naruto is Yondaimes son because.. well.. he is almost a clone of him?
Certain people keep saying Naruto is 'a clone of the Yondaime,' and a few add 'almost.' I'm looking at pictures of them side by side, and while they do have some
similarities, Naruto is
not a 'clone' of the Yondaime. Even saying he is 'almost a clone' is grossly overstating the case... if they were standing side by side it likely wouldn't be hard to come to the conclusion that they were related, but that's about as far as I'd be willing to give on that point.
Then again, it likely wouldn't be too hard to come to the same conclusion with Naruto standing beside
Ino.
The biggest similarities between Naruto and the Yondaime are their hairstyle (something easily changed), and their hair and eye color (there are two blonde Yamanaka, and one for sure has blue eyes). They have
similar but different eye shapes (Naruto's eyes are bigger and more 'rounded'), and Naruto's nose is shaped differently than the Yondaime's. Their faces are also somewhat similar, but not the same. It's not like you could see a picture of one or the other and get them mixed up, or even come close to getting them mixed up.
Not to mention that people often change quite a bit from childhood to adulthood. As a child, the Yondaime looks kinda... girly, to be honest with you.
Amberion said:
I can understand if Konoha wouldn't think it since they don't want to beleive it. But if Iwa really hates the Yondaime wouldn't they draw that conclusion?
That assumes they even know anything about Naruto in the first place... but keeping the information hidden in the event they come looking for a way at revenge is a good idea.
And consider this... would Konoha trample all over the son of their 'greatest ninja?' Even if Iwa thought it, one look at how Konoha treats Naruto
could be more than enough to make them think otherwise. Keeping Naruto's parentage a secret, if that is what was done, could actually
help protect him doubly so, in that regard. They might think it was a cover, but a little observation would pretty much blow that out of the water.
But like I said, that assumes they even know, in the first place. Because hey, Konoha knew all about Gaara being the jinchuuriki of the Ichibi, right? And they knew all about Kumo's Nibi jinchuuriki, too, right? <_<
Not telling Naruto, or anyone else, seems more like a
preventative measure.
GenocideHeart said:
And if despite his efforts, he let the Kyuubi mess slip, I don't see him capable of keeping Naruto being Yonny's son a secret from enemy ninja spies at all.
That assumes that anyone
knew, other than certain 'key people.' A number of people, apparently, knew about the Kyuubi, because they were present when it happened. This could, however, be an entirely different situation.
GenocideHeart said:
12 years are a long time, and if any sort of proof of Naruto being the 4th's son survives, it'll have been found by now. Secrets never remain secrets for long, life itself taught us that - the harder you try to keep a big secret hidden, the faster it will get out, whether you like it or not.
Maybe, maybe not.
GenocideHeart said:
And no, I don't think he can keep those documents protected. He couldn't stop NARUTO from stealing a forbidden scroll containing some of the most important village secrets, you want me to believe he could keep important documents away from really determined spies?
Naruto hit him with an unexpected 'pervert destroyer' technique. Something that, seemingly, no other ninja has been ingenious enough to come up with anything comparable... and wouldn't be likely to use, if he/she had (how often has Naruto used it in a
serious battle, when he
created it?).
GenocideHeart said:
Not to mention that by hiding any info on Naruto's parentage so thoroughly, he'd just make Iwa MORE suspicious. It means there's something to hide. And watever it is, it's probably worth finding out.
Orphaned in the Kyuubi attack. Mother gave birth at midwife's home (pick random dead woman who could conceivably be claimed to be a midwife), but died during. Father unknown, mother's remains unrecognizable. Midwife died when home was destroyed. Child lucky enough to have survived.
Not all that hard to make it believable, in light of what had just happened.
GenocideHeart said:
At least, that's how a paranoid ninja nation who hates a person who brought untold loss upon them should feel.
Again,
if they even knew. Not telling anyone seems like it would be more of a
preventative measure, than something done in direct result of Iwa finding out. <_<
GenocideHeart said:
(And I won't get on how that reasoning works both ways. You think Iwa nin didn't kill anyone? If there's as much animosity as you imply between the two villages, then Konoha nin would actually KEEP Iwa nin from assassinating Naruto just to rub their noses in it and out of spite.
Between the villages? I pretty much said it was all aimed at the Yondaime, and that was pretty much confirmed in the Kakashi Gaiden... and it's not so much hate as it is hate and
fear. Iwa nin were told to flee from Konoha's Yellow Flash, if they saw him.
Both sides likely have losses, maybe even considerable ones, but Iwa had a
flee on sight order out for the Yondaime. Think about that a minute. If their instructors were telling their nin to
run like hell if you see this guy, then do you think they
don't have a major mad on for him?
GenocideHeart said:
And also because they would what was it Mr. M said? 'Do their job', yeah. If they can do their hob by obeying Hokage's law, they can do their job by keeping assassins from getting him.
It's not their job unless they were ordered to keep him safe. Their job is to protect Konoha and it's citizens, and do as ordered... but if they think Naruto is the demon fox they could potentially justify doing nothing by rationalizing in their minds that the 'demon fox' isn't actually a citizen of Konoha. Add in a lack of orders to keep him safe, and it
isn't their job... at least in their minds.
They could also 'slip' and fail to notice, just like some ninjas 'slipped' and told. There is a big difference between not protecting Naruto when they weren't
told to and committing
treason, by starting a civil war.
GenocideHeart said:
Demon brat he may be, but the way SOMEONE is presenting things, it's as if Iwa and Konoha hate each other more than Konoha hates Kyuubi...? <_<? Yeah, not very believable, is it?)
No, I said Iwa hates/fears the Yondaime. Not that Konoha hates Iwa or vice versa, that's pretty much all your assumption.
But I'm done with this. We're arguing theoreticals of theoreticals here, and getting
nowhere at
light speed.
If Naruto's father is the Yondaime,
would Iwa hate the man enough to try to get at his family?
Would the other ninja protect Naruto?
Would the Yondaime try to keep it a secret?
If he did, who would he tell?
I mean blah... if you make Naruto the Yondaime's son, it wouldn't be
hard to justify either one. It's up to the author to decide, and either scenario isn't hard to justify... I just don't think
not telling Naruto is a horrible storyline. :huh.:
Either way, I'm done.