Naruto, Kyuubi And Yondaime by Raizu

Blond hair, blue eyes, stubborn attitude, a summoning of the toads, mastery of the Rasengan and a shared blood type of B put Naruto and Yondaime too close to each other similarity wise to completely deny the theory of them being, at the very least, genetically related. I just finished reading an article about all the theories surrounding Uzumaki Naruto and Yondaime Hokage. And I must say, I really REALLY think that you people are just thinking way too hard. Too complexly. Please don’t take offense because I don’t mean anything personal to anyone who believes certain theories. I just mean that as a whole, the theories surrounding the boys are lacking the basics. Here comes the answers to your questions, my friends. From the biggest Yondaime fan of all. Please take them into consideration.

“Is Naruto the Yondaime’s son?” Ah yes, the biggest question of all. Formerly second only to how the hell Kakashi got a sharingan.

Well that certainly seems to be a yes. Well if he is, you ask, why isn’t he treated like a prince? Easy. Same reason we’ve been told from the start. THERE’S A DEMON IN THERE! Does being the son of somebody really important make you any less likely to be possessed? No, no it doesn’t. Gaara’s status of being the Kazekage’s son certainly didn’t make Shukaku want to sink into a hole and die, now did it? No. >_> Whether the villagers know he’s Yondaime’s son or not DOESN’T MATTER. To them, they are thinking something along the lines of “There’s something big and fuzzy and ugly and hella b**chy inside the brat's tummy. If it comes out, lordy lordy the bloodshed! Egads!” Would I want to go near somebody who I though would rip me up if I so much as blinked at him funny? No! Oh gods no! I don’t care who he is or who his family is, I’d leave him the heck alone! If I ignore him, he’ll ignore me. Right?

This should have been obvious guys... There’s a universal little rule that most of us follow when it comes to things we’re really uneasy about. It’s called “being better safe than sorry.” That’s all! That’s all the villagers are doing. If a person has business with Naruto, they take care of it then go back to pretending he doesn’t exist. Simple. THAT is why Naruto isn’t treated like the hero Yondaime thought he should be. Because the villagers know for certain that there’s a demon in there, they have no way of knowing how much control its container has over it. The man who put it in there is not around to TELL them how much control the container has, and they’d rather simply stay away from the kid instead of tempting fate by poking at him to see if his eyes will turn red. Hokage’s son or not. There’s a lot of danger present. To them, approaching the boy is not worth the risk. Life sucks, yeah? Tough. Get over it. That’s the way things work.

“But the villagers are wrong? Aren’t they?”

Not necessarily. That’s a question that merits a “Yes” and a “No.” Now, before you bite my head off for saying that, let me explain. It is VERY common knowledge that when Naruto is highly emotional or feels his life is in dire danger, the kyuubi pushes chakra into his system for him to use. The first time it’s pretty much safe to say Naruto went nuts. And it is often hard to tell at first if Naruto is actually possessed or not. It becomes clear when he starts talking to his enemy that he’s still in control of himself, kinda. Even normal people will SEEM possessed if they get angry enough. Naruto just happens to have something fuzzy and red inside him that makes him look the part with much more conviction. Naruto doesn’t NEED Kyuubi to make him go apes**t. He’s perfectly capable of doing that on his own. However, Naruto IS just as possessable as the next Jinchuuriki.

Let’s take Gaara into the picture for a moment. He wasn’t COMPLETELY nuts before. Close. But not completely. People seem to overlook the fact that Gaara wasn’t aware of his demon either until Yashamaru explained it to him. He thought his sand was his mother's ‘loving’ spirit protecting him. I mean, c’mon. If Gaara was completely possessed at the time, why would he bring medicine to the little girl he had hurt? Shukaku certainly didn’t tell him to do it. Gaara still had some hope in him. Until his uncle attacked. At that point, Gaara whole-heartedly gave up on everything in favor of the realization that he was alone. And then his demon DID possess him.

This COULD happen to Naruto too. Well if that’s the case, why isn’t he possessed like Gaara then? Two major differences, I will tell you. First, Gaara gave up, and his demon took it as his opportunity to take control. Naruto never gives up. Kyuubi gets all the action he can while Naruto is pissed off, then goes back to sleep. Second, the type of seal that was used. Naruto can’t be possessed because Yondaime double sealed the fuzzy f***er! The Shiki Fūjin, or Dead Demon Seal to stick it in his body, and the Hakke no Fūin Shiki, or Eight Trigrams Sealing Style, which was used in conjunction with the first seal to “protect” Naruto as Jiraiya said, from a Kyuubi chakra overdose or from being possessed completely when the chakra is in use.

“So then, if Yondaime cared SO much about Naruto as to want to protect him, why seal the demon in the poor boy at all?”

Another good question. And most people won’t like the answer. Because it is unfair, and to a degree, even cruel. But that’s the life of a shinobi I’m afraid. Firstly, if Naruto IS his son, why would he go out of his way to find another eligible kid when he has his own to use? Perhaps this is part of why Tsunade called being Hokage sh***y. You have to give everything to protect your village, and unfortunately if it’s more than your own life you need to give, you have to sacrifice those most precious to you as well. It sucks. It REALLY sucks. But that’s life. That’s the shinobi. If he wasn’t whole-heartedly willing to do anything for his village, he wouldn’t have taken the job. Secondly, if I were making a sacrifice, I’d make the most of it. Ready for the answer we’ve all been led towards from the start? For why Yondaime didn’t simply seal it inside of himself like Sarutobi did to Orochimaru’s arms?

Yondaime sealed it in Naruto to give his village a powerful tool.

No one wants to think that’s the case. That’s why no one ever brings it up. But unfortunately, again, this is how shinobi life works. Shinobi are tools of war. It ROYALLY sucks. But that’s the case. Life wouldn’t be life if it didn’t have flaws, and I’m afraid this is one unfortunate part of life that has been thrown into the mix. Chiyo-baa said herself that the shinobi countries competed for the Bijuu’s *tailed demons* power. If everyone else has a demon ready to seal into a child, Konoha is in serious trouble of invasion if they don’t have that kind of power on their side as well.

So, Yondaime killed two birds with one stone, in a sense. He protected his village, and left them with his legacy. Legacy can mean many things, but we don’t need to limit Naruto to being only one of them. Yondaime has left his village with a tool to protect the village. The very demon which tried to destroy them is now being forced to protect them through the use of a boy. Naruto is stuck between a rock and a hard place no?

“So where’s his mother?”

More good questions. One that I, for once, don’t have an answer to. Keep your theories on her if you have them. I really can’t argue with any of them unless you are one of those people who think Naruto was “made” rather than born.

“So if he IS Yondaime’s son, why doesn’t anyone know?”

Who says they don’t know? Maybe they do, but only because Naruto looks so similar to the man that they just put two and two together and figured it out. There’s just one tiny problem though. One… little thing… that everyone keeps overlooking. THE VILLAGE WAS UNDER ATTACK!!! Where the hell would Yondaime find the time to tell anyone that he has a whelp?! He has a village to protect and his people are dying faster than lightbulbs in a texas prison! He has to get a move on! Lest more people die! The only people who should know for sure that Naruto is his child is the midwife and anyone else who happened to be in the delivery room. And anyone who looks at Naruto’s birth certificate. Provided they had time to write even that, which it’s possible that they didn’t. Sandaime would have to write one up after everything is done and over with.

Meaning what, ladies and gentleman? Indeed, there is no legal proof that Naruto is the Hokage’s son. He probably has a fake name, because there was no time to write up his real one. Not to protect him from people who admire the Hokage, or from those who hate the Hokage, but because there was simply no time to write up the proof. Word of mouth perhaps? Maybe. It’s possible the midwife would have remembered the boy's name being shouted at her as the Hokage raced out the door. But somehow I find it unlikely. Yondaime was probably in a biiiig hurry to start saving lives. He wouldn’t have had time to go out and say “Look guys here’s what I’m gunna do. See the squirmy stranger here? I’m gunna seal the demon into him and he’s gunna be a hero so treat him right, his name is_____.” No no no! Stop talking about it and go do it Yondy! Gawd! He doesn’t have time to give a speech, he doesn’t have time to write a goodbye letter to his son *and wife as the case may have been* and he DEFINITELY did NOT have time to write up a list of secret family jutsu's for the boy, as so many fanfic writers like to make him do. Nope. The boy would just have to adapt and learn to live without. Because THAT’S LIFE sometimes. Boohoo!

“Alright fine... but say people DID know about Naruto’s parents. Why wouldn’t they tell him? Why doesn’t Naruto know too? He has a right to know his heritage!”

True, but he also has a right to NOT know if that’s what he wanted. It strikes me with awe that someone like me, who like Naruto is the loser of her class, could be the first person who’s ever realized this. Has it ever hit any of you that the reason why certain people know Naruto’s heritage and Naruto doesn’t is because he simply doesn’t want to know?! It’s so simple! The realization came to mind and I’d wanted to hit my head on a rock for not thinking of it sooner! Naruto doesn’t want to know about his parents! He doesn’t HAVE to care, so he doesn’t! He’s got other things he needs to be worrying about.

The common theory is that everyone is keeping secrets from Naruto. Understand, Sandaime made the law to stop people from talking about kyuubi to protect Naruto when he realized that they didn’t love him the way Yondaime thought they should. No one has ever said anything about there being a law forbidding Naruto to know his heritage. Who says the information hasn’t been OFFERED to Naruto before? And he hasn’t simply said “No thank you, I have no interest in who my family is.”? Certainly the boy would long to be held by a parent, to know what it’s like to have a family, but the people aren’t here for him and it’s always been that way. Why should he care about who they were?

There are a lot of orphans out there who have no interest in knowing their true heritage. They prefer to live with the life that has been given to them in the form of a new family or bachelor life. They just want to be who they’ve always known themselves to be under the name they’ve been given, whether it’s their real name or not. People live hard and complicated lives. That goes double for orphans. Why complicate it further by sulking over what COULD HAVE BEEN?

Naruto is well known to not care about things that don’t involve the ‘here and now’. He has dreams to achieve, a Hokage to become. People from whom he needs to earn respect. How is knowing his heritage going to help him? It won’t. Especially since any villager who DOES know about his heritage obviously doesn’t give a damn anyways. Naruto has only himself to help him, with a few friends and guardians to back him up when there’s trouble. He doesn’t have time to wonder about what could have been if he’d had parents, henceforth, he doesn’t care. And anyone who’s asked him why has probably gotten a response of “As much as I’d like to know, all I lost were a couple of idiots who would abandon their own child. I don’t want to know that what I lost were a couple of loving parents, either. That’d just make me too sad. And I don’t have time to worry about it.”

Perhaps someday, when Naruto is grown up, Hokage and respected, he will find the time or interest in discovering his heritage. Until then, we the viewers will just have to wait and watch. And keep coming up with crazy theories! Cuz it’s fun to imagine all the possibilities =P And this concludes my article. I bid you all adieu!

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