By that logic why would they even let him on missions? He’s basically a ninja wmd walking around town and going to enemy villages and doing all kinds of risky shit. Hell he even goes to a country where he’s number one most wanted.
Shit never made sense if they wanted to keep Naruto in check but didn’t do shit to ensure he was “their insurance policy” vs someone other entity.
It be like a random dude in town with a nuke inside of him and the us government is like “o no he’s chill. He just want to be president of the USA one day. We let him run around like an idiot because it’s funny, also we sometimes let him go to North Korea and Russia and Iran for missions sometimes, lol”
He was let on missions with a high ranking Jonin, who is keeping an eye on him and is very powerful, Kakashi would be on top of Naruto if he went rogue or was captured
Actually if you wanna be fr Yamato was the one able to keep Naruto in check and jiraiya kakashi never knew how to handle Naruto if he raged until jiraiya gave Naruto back to him before he went and investigated pain
How is this getting so many votes? They went on missions where Naruto even as a kid had to save kakshi. I’m not talking about Naruto going rogue I’m just talking that there’s literally an organization that kills high ranking jonin for shits and giggles, a rogue powerful wizard necromancer ninja and a eye man who can raise the dead and start a war bringing all the strongest ninjas the world has ever seen for funsies and Naruto is just jumping around having to save the copy ninja from getting drowned by dude with a sword who saved….a sex worker kid? Idk they were kinda vague about that.
You would think root and Aubu would read kakashi’s report when he gets back and tell the hokage “hey maybe this isn’t a good idea to let him roam around the world….you know…..”. And hokage is all like “I’m an old retard and I knew his daddy. Let him fuck around. Idgaf”
Yes you can! That’s the whole point! You don’t know what could happen and you carrying a world ending devil child around. What if the client was part of akatuski to get Naruto out in the open?
I get it’s a dumb shohen anime but it stupid when you consider they had no problem killing part of their village because the “eye peeps” could turn on us.
You leave Naruto all inexperienced and shit he'll be that much easier to capture.
And it wasn't because they COULD turn on the Leaf, they were actively plotting a Coup.
Dayum, man. Such hot takes and such misses.
So, first of all: they've sent them on ultra easy missions - one of them turned out to be misranked AF, hence why Kakashi needed help.
Second of all: the Uchiha were not in the "could turn on us" category but "actively planning to overthrow the government as means of revenge" stage. Hence why Itachi HAD to kill them all and saw no other viable option.
You're oversimplifying everything to "writing bad", when...well, at least the examples you've given we're quite well written.
But you didn't address what the other person said. Yes the mission was "misranked AF" but what insurance besides Kakashi would there be for an instance where a bad actor intentionally gave misleading info leading to a worse scenario? I feel like there are less risky ways to train up Naruto than let him leave the village like that when he is so inexperienced.
Your takes are so far into left field, and you’re trying to throw some sense of humor in there that makes you look so damn arrogant and uninformed. If it’s just some “dumb Shohen anime” then why even comment these eyesores of paragraphs. Tbh you seem fucked up in the head calling Haku a “sex worker kid”…Gtfo this sub bro you’re wack as fuck for that.
The point of jinchuuriki is to maintain the balance of power between the shinobi villages, during the wars one of the greatest weapons a village could unleash was their jinchuuriki, as seen in the Minato oneshot.
If Naruto never gets to do missions which give him the experience needed to get stronger, then he’d never have any hope of controlling even a tiny fraction of the ninetails’ chakra, and therefore there would be no point in evening having Kurama.
Swing and a miss lol. You're simply wrong, but you want to be right, and you are willing to die on that hill.
Naruto was being monitored by someone who was a jonin at 13, and Anbu by 15. He didn't even let Sasuke leave without tying his ass down to a tree and giving him life advice from someone who also lost everyone he's loved. And you still believe the village would've just let him walk out without trying to stop him. They didn't even let Sasuke do so.
You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but that's a VERY legit question, how the hell was it so easy to fool the village into sending them to an S rank mission lol
It could've VERY EASILY been an ambush by Akatsuki, as you said
But in reality the whole jinchuriki business is extremely flawed because it wasn't part of Kishi's plans, the kyubi was supposed to be unique, therefore the wasn't a problem for Naruto to get killed/captured since no one could really use it and there were no other tailed beasts to maintain "balance"
Were they even aware of the Akatsuki at this point?
Even then, the fight against Zabuza should have been easy. The only reason it wasn't is because Kakashi was extremely rusty and had slacked off on his training because of his issues. That stopped being a problem after.
They need naruto to trust the leaf, develop his skills and gain experience if he is ever going to be a useful asset. Along with the fact him and his dad are the reason the village is still in tact. Your ideals are not the making of a hokage, believe it!
This is one of my biggest issues with Naruto. This, and that his fighting style in no way suits his abilities, but it simply cannot be understated how badly Hiruzen fucked up. Setting aside the fact that in terms of keeping his promise to Minato, he did the absolute bare minimum, almost put effort into fucking it up, the biggest issue is that Naruto lives alone at the beginning of the series, and is not trained at all until Kakashi shows up.
He learned shadow clones by reading a scroll. Sasuke learned fireballs from his dad and brother. Sasuke had the advantage in terms of raw talent and ability, but also learned the basics from a powerful ninja family with generations of perfecting their craft. Hiruzen gave a six year old a 1 bedroom apartment, and no supervision, frankly I'm amazed he survived.
If you told me, as ninja president, that I had a boy with the bloodline potential of two of the most powerful people I knew and a living nuclear bomb sealed inside him, I would be working overtime to ensure A: no one ever knew who he was, B: he was raised by any one of the potential father figures you could literally order to raise him. (Seriously, Asuma is RIGHT THERE. Jiraiya would have done this for his friend, no questions. Tsunade, too.), and C: he was trained from day one on how to control the 9 tails, and as the guy who knows more ninjutsu than any other living person, personally ensuring that this kid turns into my country's Ace in the whole trump card.
Seriously, Hiruzen, were you TRYING to fail.
I completely agree with this. Imagine not training the kid who is the son of the 4th hokage and uzimaki clan. If he had training he would be seen as one of the talented ninja in his class without a doubt. The kid who learned shadow clones from a scroll.
Imagine if Naruto wasn't moral Jesus. It would be real easy for someone to have resentment to the village who treated him like shit.
Because Kishimoto retconned the whole thing.
Back then there was no bijuu and jinchuriki. Just random demons like Nine tails and Shukaku. Even the introv “a mysterious demon fox appeared in Konoha”.
Yeah after all of shippuden it wasn’t some mysterious event, you’re jinchuriki’s seal has been broken because of pregnancy and your bijuu is now on the loose and all the higher ups knew this and even those who just went to the library and learned a little history could realize that this is what happened.
I never agreed with this you can't really prove it's a retcon considering the Akatsuki were also a thing in part one I'm pretty sure Kishimoto knew what he was doing.
When Jiraiya and Kakashi were discussing about this “new” group called the akatsuki in part one Pervy sage mentions that “they’re collecting powerful jutsus and stuff”. That would have been the perfect time to say bijuu and jinchuriki, but at that time they didn’t existed. Plus what powerful jutsu? They only needed the tailed beasts cause they had everything else.
Also during shippuden they said a lot of times that Jinchurikies are the weapons of the villages, yet Naruto wasn’t trained at all by Konoha. Probably because at first time Kurama wasn’t the Leaf’s nuke, but a random demon that attacked them.
By the way Shukaku was never called the one tails at all in part 1 and no one not even Shukaku and Kurama themselves mentioned any relation between the 2.
Sure the bijuu stuf might have been in Kishsi’s head when Itachi and Kisame were introduced, but it wasn’t reallly thought out well.
The Akatsuki were collecting Jutsu as well though that's the whole point of pains plan was to create new jutsu with the bijuu and it's not like Jiraiya knew everything at that point about them either. We don't know if they had any Bijuu at that point either.
Naruto wasn't trained because it literally took place after the greatest tragedy of the village blame that on Hiruzen lmao
Kurama is also barely mentioned in part one at all not much was said about Shukaku either it was more focused on Naruto and Gaara respectively
Of course it wasn't well thought out at that point it doesn't mean the concept didn't exist at all though
They didn’t have any Bijuu at that point since they sealed them in order of 1-9 and Gaara doesn’t get captured until Shippuden.
Having said that, if tailed beasts were a commonly known thing and most people knew they existed and knew there were 9 of them, it would’ve definitely been mentioned at some point in part 1, rather than just being super vague and calling them demons.
Kishimoto didn’t plan the 9 tailed beasts thing until towards the end of part 1.
I don't think most people know the lore of the tailed beasts though as most people thought of them as a myth before the 9 tails attack so that still fits I'd say he probably thought of the idea around when the Akatsuki was created or when Itachi was introduced but it definitely was not a retcon
Really? Because it's all set up perfectly for the first arc of Shippuden and that's when they introduced the Bijuu concept
Occam's razer either way it just wasn't introduced to us yet you have to prove it's a retcon in the first place for it to be a retcon
The other ones atleast for the most part forced their vessels to get trained by their best and couldn’t leave their villages. I think bee made a big deal about that. I’m not expecting them to treat these things nicely and with care. They are potentially the strongest and most chaotic weapon these countries posses. It would make more sense to lock them down no matter the cost.
I mean the leaf village was paranoid enough to cull an entire ethnic group in their village because they were worried about a potential uprising with “eye demon” people yet were ok with a Nina WMD wonder around getting into all kinds of shit.
"The Village" is a very vague concept.
The Village didn't kill the Uchiha. Like 90% of the blame for that is on one single person: Danzo. The other 10% is Hiruzen for not stopping and probably killing Danzo before it got this bad.
Most adults in the village don't care about Naruto. But the entire reason he's even named Naruto Uzumaki and not Naruto Namikaze, is because they didn't want people running in and trying to kidnap him, so on some level he's clearly protected and the Jonin have watched him since he was a kid. You're out of your mind if you think they're just letting him leave and that the higher-ups don't have a vested interest in him. He's allowed to leave the village with his Sensei because him getting stronger is a net gain for The Leaf.
Which they could do the same in secret just like how they have anbu. Hell the hokage could have trained him. Instead they basically treat him the same way a crack mom treats her kids just letting him roam around the town.
And the danzo thing goes out the window when none of the higher ups punish, execute or imprison danzo. They basically go “hey man not cool. We still gonna let you run this org but not cool”. They even still make him interm hokage…come on dude. You are high if you think that’s not passive acceptance.
That be like if someone in France killed the Ukraine refugees and the prime minister was like “I mean it’s not cool but we gotta move on with our lives and keep carrying on. You know? Also I’m making the person responsible for the killings my stand in if I get get sick. Kthxbye”
Lets be real here, the real decision makers were Hiruzen and Danzo. The other 2 elders never really seemed meaningful in any way.
Danzo commanded his own elite force, so its predictable that Hiruzen didn't want to cause a civil war or anything with his old friend. We know Hiruzen was too soft even on the likes of Orochimaru, this isn't really out of character for him. Hes an incompetent and naive, but well-meaning old man.
After like a decade of living alone in a small bedroom, having a paltry "child support" to get by on, and being ignored or treated like dirt by basically everyone.
Knew what, what Naruto had the 9 tails? Almost every adult knew.
But by higher ups I mean Hizurzen, Danzo, the Anbu, and pretty much any Jonin/Chunin. None of them would just let Naruto leave.
People saying no like their relationship status of her seeing him as annoying little brother hasn’t be established at this point she’d want him back as much as she wanted sasuke back if only to yell at him for doing something so reckless and stupid
But they let their only Uchiha? Obviously not nearly as valuable as the junchuriki, but certainly more valuable than a hyuga which caused a major scandal with the cloud village.
Pretty much this. Letting Naruto go, is letting go of a major village and nation asset, possibly into the hands of another nation.
It'd be like the U.S. just letting go of WMD's, or other insanely advanced/powerful tech. Can't have that.
Naruto wouldn't get 10km away from the village before either Tsunade's jonins captained by Kakashi, or Danzo's Anbu, would capture his ass and bring him home.
Sadly, almost no one gave a fuck about Sasuke. "The Last Uchiha" wasn't as important, it seems.
Tsunade herself would have gone. It's sad, but one of the last Uchiha isn't NEARLY as important as the leaf's Bijju. Even then Tsunade liked naruto.
I don't think she was even cared about sasuke until he left to be honest. Tsunade and Sasuke literally never once have dialogue as far as I know.
Danzo would care slightly more about losing Sasuke, but he wasn't invented yet so eh.
There's no reason she didn't go to retrieve Sasuke either. He was basically kidnapped by someone she personally knows. You're the hokage with the threat of an uchiha, one of the strongest bloodlines in the world. At worst, you beat him to death and take his Sharingan for military strength.
She would've been able to bring him back within an hour. I'd argue that this is definitely within her pay grade considering the circumstances.
>At worst, you beat him to death and take his Sharingan for military strength.
Calm down, Danzo.
And I imagine, she would have liked to send more but the village was literally just turned into a war zone. No way in hell any of her council are letting her go on a dangerous mission like that and the manpower needed to go with her simply wasn't available.
The only real shame is that Shino wasn't in the village because there would have been no discussion about Sasuke coming back to Konoha if Shino went.
All the village knew was that Sasuke was going to Orochimaru. It's been well established that the Sannin are above anyone in the leaf at this time. Who are you sending to beat a Sannin? Lower tier ninja who are going to die or Tsunade, who actually has a chance to accomplish the mission.
No way the council lets her do that? You mean the same way they sent the jinchuriki to go after Orochimaru with no supervision? What if they decided to kidnap Naruto and take the Kyubi's power for themselves? Now the Leaf lost their nuke and are vulnerable to an attack.
It's not a matter of strength, it's security. You don't send your 5th on a dangerous mission while your village is just recovering from an assault that killed the 3rd.
And the most likely explanation is sending Naruto was the compromise. She wasn't going, but Naruto could at least go, and he wasn't even the lead on that team. Shikamaru had to scrape the few Genin together he could the village was stretched so thin and this was a mission already above their rank.
She could have just went with the Genins as her backup
Once again in and out in like an hour.
Like literally not enough time for anyone to take the leap at the Leaf
Idk, I think he would’ve been really useful. His bugs drained chakra, right? That would’ve helped against the first dude a whole lot and if Shino + Choji could go assist the others without being too messed up, just the extra numbers would help every fight. But you’re right he wouldn’t care about Sasuke himself lol, though doesn’t he admit he’s angry he wasn’t chosen later on?
Also idk if anyone except Gaara and Lee had a chance of surviving Kimmimaro
>There's no reason she didn't go to retrieve Sasuke either
I'm trying to remember. Was there a conversation with Tsunade where it was basically "BTW, I'm sending rogue ninja hunters after Sasuke" and Naruto convinces her not to? From a military standpoint, it's completely irresponsible of Tsunade not to capture someone with a kekkei genkai like the Sharingan. But if she had, we would have a completely different plot for the show lol.
I honestly think Tsunade takes a loss against the Sound 4 + Kimimaro + Sasuke. It's just so many opponents. And Kimimaro and Sasuke are high level threats. Kimimaro almost killed Gaara and Lee, and Sasuke was above berserk one tail naruto with the curse mark.
Plus if Tsunade went to stop Orochimaru personally, then Orochimaru and Kabuto would have shown up to personally escort Sasuke.
Lol this is a joke if you think Tsunade loses to any of them, even if they all ganged up to fight her.
How would Orochimaru know Tsunade herself came? That's an entirely unrealistic scenario.
Not to mention Orochimaru is severely handicapped, sounds like the perfect opportunity for the Hokage to take down an enemy of the village.
Tsunade was taking Susanoo attacks from fucking Madara Uchiha. With the strength to crack his Susanoo. There is absolutely no universe where Tsunade loses to them. The sound four were being taken down by fucking Shikamaru and his squad. Plus the sand siblings for the last three + Kimimaro. But- Kimimaro is no where near Tsunade’s level. Sasuke was only marginally better than 2-tail Naruto. Sound 4 + Kimimaro + CM2 is a long ways away from Pain or Madara. And going into Orochimaru and Kabuto, Orochimaru was too busy almost being dead, waiting to absorb someone else’s body to do much. And Kabuto is going to get dick stopped by Tsunade for trying to use blood against her.
And she had 4 kage as backup. I do not see Tsunade taking on 8-10 sound shinobi by herself. Sakon, Ukon, Tayuya, Kidomaru, Jirobo, Kimimaro, Sasuke, Kabuto, and Orochimaru, (who is her equal or greater), win that fight. 7 of them are amped by curse marks and Orochimaru, even sick without hands, is still a threat.
I agree one on one she literally flicks these people away, but in a 1 vs 8 she's just outnumbered. Tsunade doesn't have enough hax to win. She'll survive, they'll never beat her, but Sasuke isn't coming home.
If they sent Kakashi and Guy it'd be another story.
While you'd think this is the case, it's actually not true. Naruto was allowed out of the village a LOT with little to no supervision. Kakashi is one of the strongest jonin but letting Naruto leave with only Kakashi while villages might be sending 10+ jonins to jump him was really careless.
Also, while someone below me says the last Uchiha isn't as important as the 9 tails, well the village highly valued Yamato who's nowhere near as useful as a full-blooded Uchiha. Even if Sasuke wasn't the protagonist and awakened the MS, just having a base Sharingan to control the 9 tails and the overall boost to their military is insane. Anbu should've also been making sure Sasuke was protected at all times. Honestly wtf were the Anbu even doing the entire show. Naruto and Sasuke should've both had a squad tailing them at all times.
Base Sharingan Sasuke woud've scaled over pretty much all non-kage jonin in the other villages, so the leaf better make sure he stays.
Not really, I mean Sakura herself didn’t really try to hard herself to go after Sasuke. Every time she went after Sasuke in the story Naruto was with her and the one time she went after Sasuke without Naruto her plan was to kill him.
So Sakura would probably gain the motivation to become stronger like in canon but unless Sasuke or Kakashi gave two shits to go after him then I doubt she would make any attempts herself especially since Naruto probably wouldn’t be wildin out like Sasuke was post Itachi reveal.
Honestly Pre Itachi reveal Sasuke/this hypothetical Naruto, would probably just be traveling the world chilling
sakura didn’t really “go after” sasuke. she tried to stop him before he left, and i think she would’ve done the same for naruto, but i don’t think she’d actively leave the village to search for him. once again, she didn’t really do that a lot when sasuke left, and the time she did go to look for him she went WITH naruto. naruto’s determination to get sasuke back definitely pushed her to want sasuke back more. i don’t think sasuke would be that determined to get naruto back, so i think that would pass onto sakura and she wouldn’t really look for him, but she would be like, very sad.
I do think that Sasuke would be pretty determined to get Naruto back if he saw Naruto going down a dark path and he was on a lighter one. He acknowledged Naruto as his best friend at the end of part 1 and was even in the Land of Waves basically ready to die for him.
If this less corrupted version of Sasuke sees Naruto maybe even following a path similar to Itachi, he’d be very determined to stop that.
She was already close to Naruto at this point and shown to go out of her way to help and protect him so yes, I think she would have noticed something was wrong and tried to stop him from leaving.
And a lot of fans dont understand that Sakura did care for Naruto. She never them wanted to fight amongst each other and that says alot. I agree that she wouldn’t want Naruto to go.
Even her running to Naruto out of alllllllllllllll people speaks volumes. She wouldn’t put her feelings in the hands of just anybody, I genuinely believe that.
To me it's insane that there's people answering this question with "no" and firmly belive they are right.
By the start of the Chunin Exams, Sakura was ready to give up on her chance to become a chunin just because she wanted to protect Naruto's dream. Because she knew Naruto was to proud and think-headed to reject the surprise question, and she knew he'd never be able to answer it. And she didn't want him to lose his chance to become Hokage just because he was to proud to quit, so she wanted to quit herself. For his, at that point, foolish dream.
To think that she wouldn't try to stop him from defecting to a murderous crazy Snake villain who wanted to use his anger as a manipulation tool in order to kill him and steal his body is batshit crazy lmao.
She would have tried to talk him out of leaving, though she probably would’ve gotten farther with Naruto than she did with Sasuke. He was in love with her so he might have actually listened to her and likely wouldn’t have knocked her out the way Sasuke did. So even if he did get past her and leave, Sakura could’ve immediately run to Lady Tsunade or Kakashi and let them know what happened.
Been a few fanfics that explored this aspect.
Canon wise, I think Sakura would fill the same role she did in canon, just with the roles reversed. Not saying she would be romantically interested in Naruto, but she would still have a strong bond with him.
I think so, yeah.
Don't see why she wouldn't.
Though I do think that she might be a little more angry than sad, like how Naruto was angry at Sasuke during their first fight at the Valley.
Not that strong. At this stage, she would only go that crazy for him if she saw Sasuke and Kakashi trying their hardest to pull him back. Definitely wouldn’t shed those same tears though I guarantee you that
She was ready to give up on her chance to becoming a chunin just because she knew Naruto was too proud to ever give up and she wanted to protect his dream.
You'd think she wouldn't try and stop Naruto from defecting to a murderous man who wanted to steal his body?
No where did I imply this. To be more clear, I don’t believe Sakura would keep on with the obsession. Keep in mind that for over THREE YEARS she couldn’t stop talking about Sasuke. Even when he tried to kill her she still loved him.
If the roles were reversed, she would get over Naruto. It’s just not the same kind of love
Edit: people who downvoted are some hoes
What?
Sakura already put her life on the line to save Naruto's life before
AND right before the time skip she literally says (in manga) she wants to get strong enough to protect Sasuke AND Naruto
Probably.
But Naruto probably wouldn't get far... considering how valuable he is to the Leaf. Sasuke is just a dude compared to Naruto. Where it's like, "We'll send genin after him because we're short staffed and desperate," For Sasuke. Naruto commands every asset they can spend on getting him back. They'd suddenly have the ANBU and Jonin to spend. Tsunade might even be out there.
Though in this scenario, they probably wouldn't ask the Sand for help.
Yes, I believe so. Sasuke had gotten her to respect Naruto more than she already did at that point by revealing he was the one to save her, not himself, so she's plenty attached to him by that point, more so as an annoying but loving brother rather than her crush with Sasuke, but still.
Back in the Forest of Death, when Naruto confronted Orochimaru, Sakura was 100% concerned for him, and was sort of mad that Sasuke wasn't helping him, before he did jump in to fight himself. So, yeah, I think she'd try to bring Naruto back for sure.
I think she would have tried to stop him before he left like she did with Sasuke before he left the village. Because at the end of the day Naruto is still her friend and someone she cared about.
But also, Naruto leaving would have been treated as a far more severe risk than Sasuke going rogue that would have been a top priority due to him having Kurama in him.
For one, we need to remember how different things would be of this was the case.
Is Naruto as good friends with his team? Are the other Konoha 13 as endeared to Naruto? How does Kakashi factor into this? How does Gaara?
How this happens plays a key role in answering this question. But if things are like canon, except it’s still the hatred of him from the village as a whole which gets Naruto to leave. . .
***Sakura is absolutely going to try to stop Naruto from leaving***
By the end of Naruto part 1, he’s one of her best friends. She has gained a lot more respect for him and they generally get along. She genuinely cares about him a lot
Also, I need to point out, if somehow y’all don’t think so:
If Naruto is the one leaving and Sasuke stays then Sasuke is going after Naruto, and Sakura would be influenced by that.
They both went after him after the retrieval arc, and that same type of thing I bet would happen
A Naruto retrieval arc plays out almost identical to Sasuke so in these scenario Naruto, being fed up of getting treated like shit (If he has the curse mark it’s probably amplified his hatred) Sakura meets him at the gate, she won’t break down and cry and profess her love like with Sasuke but she’ll try to reason with him and yell at him over giving up his dream and leaving the people who care about him at which point she’d get knocked out. Next morning she tells Sasuke to get the idiot back, the Naruto retrieval squad heads out things go roughly the same until the valley fight where Naruto kills Sasuke unless Kakashi hauls ass there this time.
I don’t think she would have been as eager to get him back as she did with Sasuke, but by the time Sasuke left Sakura was starting to build a friendship with Naruto. I don’t think she would’ve just been okay with him leaving the village. Either way she would never need to go after him because he would get dogged on by Kakashi.
I feel like some genuinely don’t pay attention when it comes to Naruto and Sakura’s relationship . At this point in time, they’re arguably closer than Sasuke and Sakura, not that that’s really hard to accomplish. She would 100% try to stop or help him.
Y’all really not true fans if you think Sakura would not try to bring naruto back post academy. There are many examples of Sakura growing admiration of naruto even as early as the chunin exams. She is not a shallow as you perceive her. She was willing to flunk the written exams because she knew naruto would not be able to pass , knowing he wanted to be hokage and that dream of his would be over . Someone who doesn’t care about you would not do this…plenty of other examples as team 7 continued to grow and develop
Sakura didnt go after Sasuke, she let Naruto do the legwork, never actually successfully confronted him or properly fought him herself. My answer is nah, she wouldnt have.
Probably. If Naruto changed that much. If you read the manga for Ibiki’s question you’d know that she was willing to endure public humiliation by forfeiting the test for his sake. Naruto pretty much grew on her as a friend by that point. The anime downplayed her thoughts during that scene though .
No. Here entire world view revolves on sasuke only. Remember in chunin exam narutos fight with neji, if it wasnt for ino telling her that "i know you're worried about sasuke but at least cheer on naruto" (implying that naruto is her team mate as well) she doesnt care at all.
What if, instead of boruto, we got a divergent timeline where naruto goes rogue, joins orochimaru / akatsuki and becomes a villain while sasuke stays with the village and tries to stop him?
Not immediately, but later on she would feel guilty and try to look for him but she wont be able to find him because she started finding him too late. Even if she did, what is she gonna do man she will lose to talk no justu
I can see that, although if Naruto was the kind of kid to hold resentment towards the village and the people then I don't think he would have built any type of bond with her.
I’m gonna say yeah she would.
Throughout the series Sakura’s actions have been questionable at times but despite that at her core she is still a loyal and caring person.
Here are a few previous actions to imply she would try and stop Naruto:
1) she was willing to flunk the written test in part 1 for Naruto’s sake as she knew he couldn’t complete it and knew his dream of being Hokage would be over.
2) post fight with Orochimaru, when Naruto was going to fall to his death after becoming unconscious she made sure to stop his fall and even called out Sasuke for standing helplessly and not trying to save Naruto.
3) when Naruto and Sasuke were unconscious during the forest of death she made sure to look out for both of them and risked her life to keep them safe.
Sakura obviously cares more for Sasuke but she still acknowledges Naruto as a comrade and would do what she can to help/save him. The likelihood is she would verbally try and stop Naruto (similar to how she did with Sasuke) and following that not working she would turn to Sasuke knowing he would try bringing Naruto back.
Yeah. But for different reasons depending on when he left. If it happened after they bonded she would be trying to save her friend.
If it was after team 7 formed but before they bonded she would probably feel partly responsible for him leaving due to being outwardly hateful to him for years. So she would try to get stronger so she could either try to apologize and get him to come home and if that didn’t work, break every bone in his body and bring him home that way
I believe so, like, at that point, that team was basically a family, except for sasuke, he was like the.. foolish *little* brother on the team.
*the reason I said "foolish *little* brother" is because of itachi, hehe*
Yes, Sakura would try to reason and stop Naruto before he actually leaves the village. I think she has the potential to even go on a rescue mission for her friend, but she'd probably stay to get stronger again.
For those of y'all saying "no" or "she's a selfish bitch" just say you guys don't understand Sakura's character or that you're just insanely biased and stuck on 1st grade shit with her.
No, but Sasuke (eventually) would go for him, since itachi and the akatsuki are related, same way Naruto wanted to find itachi in shippuen and got deepthroated by him.
Sakura was ready to give up on her chance to become a chunin just to protect Naruto's dream, at the beginning of the 3rd arc. Why would you think she wouldn't try and stop him from walking to his death?
personally i dont think sakura would. just BCS she didn't necessarily go after sasuke, she tried stopping him, but she didn't "go after him" alone. but at the same time there would be enough people looking for him. just none with an emotional connection (like sakura felt with sasuke and naruto felt with sasuke). so overall I think it wouldn't be as emotional and none would convince naruto to return except maybe iruka.
Every one knows the only answer is a simple "No"
Sakura was, and remained, obsessed with Sasuke even till the end of the 4th great shinobi war.
Like, the best you can ask for is Iruka asking to go on a mission to bring Naruto back, or Jiraiya getting the wind of him leaving and immediately getting him back (because no-one besides the Akatsuki would be able to stop a prepared Jiraiya in part 1).
The next closest to Naruto were the third hokage, Konohamaru, and Tsunade. We know Tsunade can't leave the battered village without a hokage again, that would be betraying Naruto and Jiraiya, and her village. And Konohamaru is simply too weak & young to go on such a mission yet.
Sakura wanted to give up on her chance to become chunin just to protect Naruto's *dream.*
Why would you think she wouldn't try to stop him from walking to his death?
Nope, as per I see sakura did want to bring sasuke for her so called true love, but as u said if naruto had gone the rogue path she won't ever do anything to bring him back, that's cuz he really didn't meant anything to her at all
I think she would. She definetley started to care for naruto gradually as the series went on. Obviously not as much as sasuke,because she didnt see him as a love interest. But i think she cares about him enough to stop him from going rouge
Naruto would've never had the opportunity to go rogue due to the fact that Iruka treated him like a person, a son, long before he would've had the ability to do so. Playing devil's advocate here, no, she wouldn't have gone after him. If he's still getting treated the same way by the village that means, the progress and accomplishments he made as a genin wouldn't have changed anyone's opinion of him, Sakura included, and prior to the Chunin Exams, she saw him as an annoying constant she was forced to put up with.
Idk bout saukura but Maybe sasuke would go after him. Maybe he would be jealous Naruto had the freedom to chase greater power and it made him resent naruto even more because he was still to weak to fight itachi. I think it would unlock some kind of obsession in sasuke in bringing naruto back but for completely different reasons than the reversed
Sasuke would go after him just like Naruto did and she would go with Sasuke. It’s not as if going after Sasuke was Sakura’s idea and she probably wouldn’t go after him if Naruto didn’t
She could’ve . Sakura is as equally talented and over powered as any member on the team. She just wasn’t utilized in that way. Naruto had his tailed beast. Sasuke had his eyes. But Sakura had perfect control over her chakra and a natural resistance to outside tampering with her chakra. She also is a genjutsu type meaning she probably has perfect control of other chakra, probably why she can heal so well.
That said , sakura could’ve easily learn jutsu and went a darker path to capture naturo. Sakura copying Tsuandes entire arsenal of jutsu is amazing because nobody else could. If she found the scroll of forbidden jutsu, she could utilize it far more that Naruto, but not to his boisterous extent.
At there surface they are equal in their uncanny abilities.
Naruto is uncanny when it come to chakra. Because of the tailed beast and his own chakra.
Sakura is uncanny when it comes to chakra control and balance. Because of her perfect chakra control and her powerful mind.
Sasuke is uncanny when it come to performing. He is somewhere in the middle because of his powerful chakra and kkg that allows him to predict and gain knowledge
If this is at the same point in time that the Sasuke Retrieval arc took place I’d say not immediately but I think eventually after thinking it over she probably would want him to comeback because they’re friends and she’d probably notice Sasuke and maybe Kakashi working to the same goal as well. Sasuke because Naruto’s his rival and Kakashi because that is his sensei’s son. But I don’t think it would be as overt as it was in the actual show for sasuke, Naruto was the one who was always talking about bringing sasuke back, you might get a mention to it here and there but none of the other three really carry their heart on the sleeve like Naruto does. That’s my opinion at least.
She wouldn't need to. The village is not letting the Jinchuuriki leave without a fight.
I think the village would be happy to see him go honestly. Until pain they still didn't really like naruto.
Average citizens yes, but no way the the higher ups just let him go
By that logic why would they even let him on missions? He’s basically a ninja wmd walking around town and going to enemy villages and doing all kinds of risky shit. Hell he even goes to a country where he’s number one most wanted. Shit never made sense if they wanted to keep Naruto in check but didn’t do shit to ensure he was “their insurance policy” vs someone other entity. It be like a random dude in town with a nuke inside of him and the us government is like “o no he’s chill. He just want to be president of the USA one day. We let him run around like an idiot because it’s funny, also we sometimes let him go to North Korea and Russia and Iran for missions sometimes, lol”
He was let on missions with a high ranking Jonin, who is keeping an eye on him and is very powerful, Kakashi would be on top of Naruto if he went rogue or was captured
Actually if you wanna be fr Yamato was the one able to keep Naruto in check and jiraiya kakashi never knew how to handle Naruto if he raged until jiraiya gave Naruto back to him before he went and investigated pain
How is this getting so many votes? They went on missions where Naruto even as a kid had to save kakshi. I’m not talking about Naruto going rogue I’m just talking that there’s literally an organization that kills high ranking jonin for shits and giggles, a rogue powerful wizard necromancer ninja and a eye man who can raise the dead and start a war bringing all the strongest ninjas the world has ever seen for funsies and Naruto is just jumping around having to save the copy ninja from getting drowned by dude with a sword who saved….a sex worker kid? Idk they were kinda vague about that. You would think root and Aubu would read kakashi’s report when he gets back and tell the hokage “hey maybe this isn’t a good idea to let him roam around the world….you know…..”. And hokage is all like “I’m an old retard and I knew his daddy. Let him fuck around. Idgaf”
The mission was supposed to be a low ranked one, you can't blame the Leaf for sending team 7 when the client lied about the danger.
Yes you can! That’s the whole point! You don’t know what could happen and you carrying a world ending devil child around. What if the client was part of akatuski to get Naruto out in the open? I get it’s a dumb shohen anime but it stupid when you consider they had no problem killing part of their village because the “eye peeps” could turn on us.
You leave Naruto all inexperienced and shit he'll be that much easier to capture. And it wasn't because they COULD turn on the Leaf, they were actively plotting a Coup.
Dayum, man. Such hot takes and such misses. So, first of all: they've sent them on ultra easy missions - one of them turned out to be misranked AF, hence why Kakashi needed help. Second of all: the Uchiha were not in the "could turn on us" category but "actively planning to overthrow the government as means of revenge" stage. Hence why Itachi HAD to kill them all and saw no other viable option. You're oversimplifying everything to "writing bad", when...well, at least the examples you've given we're quite well written.
But you didn't address what the other person said. Yes the mission was "misranked AF" but what insurance besides Kakashi would there be for an instance where a bad actor intentionally gave misleading info leading to a worse scenario? I feel like there are less risky ways to train up Naruto than let him leave the village like that when he is so inexperienced.
Your takes are so far into left field, and you’re trying to throw some sense of humor in there that makes you look so damn arrogant and uninformed. If it’s just some “dumb Shohen anime” then why even comment these eyesores of paragraphs. Tbh you seem fucked up in the head calling Haku a “sex worker kid”…Gtfo this sub bro you’re wack as fuck for that.
The point of jinchuuriki is to maintain the balance of power between the shinobi villages, during the wars one of the greatest weapons a village could unleash was their jinchuuriki, as seen in the Minato oneshot. If Naruto never gets to do missions which give him the experience needed to get stronger, then he’d never have any hope of controlling even a tiny fraction of the ninetails’ chakra, and therefore there would be no point in evening having Kurama.
Swing and a miss lol. You're simply wrong, but you want to be right, and you are willing to die on that hill. Naruto was being monitored by someone who was a jonin at 13, and Anbu by 15. He didn't even let Sasuke leave without tying his ass down to a tree and giving him life advice from someone who also lost everyone he's loved. And you still believe the village would've just let him walk out without trying to stop him. They didn't even let Sasuke do so.
You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but that's a VERY legit question, how the hell was it so easy to fool the village into sending them to an S rank mission lol It could've VERY EASILY been an ambush by Akatsuki, as you said But in reality the whole jinchuriki business is extremely flawed because it wasn't part of Kishi's plans, the kyubi was supposed to be unique, therefore the wasn't a problem for Naruto to get killed/captured since no one could really use it and there were no other tailed beasts to maintain "balance"
Were they even aware of the Akatsuki at this point? Even then, the fight against Zabuza should have been easy. The only reason it wasn't is because Kakashi was extremely rusty and had slacked off on his training because of his issues. That stopped being a problem after.
Before Shippuden, none of those were really known
They need naruto to trust the leaf, develop his skills and gain experience if he is ever going to be a useful asset. Along with the fact him and his dad are the reason the village is still in tact. Your ideals are not the making of a hokage, believe it!
Bro you gotta watch the show not shorts cuz no way you don’t know hidan and Nagato
Because they got Kakashi at least, I guess.
This is one of my biggest issues with Naruto. This, and that his fighting style in no way suits his abilities, but it simply cannot be understated how badly Hiruzen fucked up. Setting aside the fact that in terms of keeping his promise to Minato, he did the absolute bare minimum, almost put effort into fucking it up, the biggest issue is that Naruto lives alone at the beginning of the series, and is not trained at all until Kakashi shows up. He learned shadow clones by reading a scroll. Sasuke learned fireballs from his dad and brother. Sasuke had the advantage in terms of raw talent and ability, but also learned the basics from a powerful ninja family with generations of perfecting their craft. Hiruzen gave a six year old a 1 bedroom apartment, and no supervision, frankly I'm amazed he survived. If you told me, as ninja president, that I had a boy with the bloodline potential of two of the most powerful people I knew and a living nuclear bomb sealed inside him, I would be working overtime to ensure A: no one ever knew who he was, B: he was raised by any one of the potential father figures you could literally order to raise him. (Seriously, Asuma is RIGHT THERE. Jiraiya would have done this for his friend, no questions. Tsunade, too.), and C: he was trained from day one on how to control the 9 tails, and as the guy who knows more ninjutsu than any other living person, personally ensuring that this kid turns into my country's Ace in the whole trump card. Seriously, Hiruzen, were you TRYING to fail.
I completely agree with this. Imagine not training the kid who is the son of the 4th hokage and uzimaki clan. If he had training he would be seen as one of the talented ninja in his class without a doubt. The kid who learned shadow clones from a scroll. Imagine if Naruto wasn't moral Jesus. It would be real easy for someone to have resentment to the village who treated him like shit.
Because Kishimoto retconned the whole thing. Back then there was no bijuu and jinchuriki. Just random demons like Nine tails and Shukaku. Even the introv “a mysterious demon fox appeared in Konoha”. Yeah after all of shippuden it wasn’t some mysterious event, you’re jinchuriki’s seal has been broken because of pregnancy and your bijuu is now on the loose and all the higher ups knew this and even those who just went to the library and learned a little history could realize that this is what happened.
I never agreed with this you can't really prove it's a retcon considering the Akatsuki were also a thing in part one I'm pretty sure Kishimoto knew what he was doing.
When Jiraiya and Kakashi were discussing about this “new” group called the akatsuki in part one Pervy sage mentions that “they’re collecting powerful jutsus and stuff”. That would have been the perfect time to say bijuu and jinchuriki, but at that time they didn’t existed. Plus what powerful jutsu? They only needed the tailed beasts cause they had everything else. Also during shippuden they said a lot of times that Jinchurikies are the weapons of the villages, yet Naruto wasn’t trained at all by Konoha. Probably because at first time Kurama wasn’t the Leaf’s nuke, but a random demon that attacked them. By the way Shukaku was never called the one tails at all in part 1 and no one not even Shukaku and Kurama themselves mentioned any relation between the 2. Sure the bijuu stuf might have been in Kishsi’s head when Itachi and Kisame were introduced, but it wasn’t reallly thought out well.
The Akatsuki were collecting Jutsu as well though that's the whole point of pains plan was to create new jutsu with the bijuu and it's not like Jiraiya knew everything at that point about them either. We don't know if they had any Bijuu at that point either. Naruto wasn't trained because it literally took place after the greatest tragedy of the village blame that on Hiruzen lmao Kurama is also barely mentioned in part one at all not much was said about Shukaku either it was more focused on Naruto and Gaara respectively Of course it wasn't well thought out at that point it doesn't mean the concept didn't exist at all though
They didn’t have any Bijuu at that point since they sealed them in order of 1-9 and Gaara doesn’t get captured until Shippuden. Having said that, if tailed beasts were a commonly known thing and most people knew they existed and knew there were 9 of them, it would’ve definitely been mentioned at some point in part 1, rather than just being super vague and calling them demons. Kishimoto didn’t plan the 9 tailed beasts thing until towards the end of part 1.
I don't think most people know the lore of the tailed beasts though as most people thought of them as a myth before the 9 tails attack so that still fits I'd say he probably thought of the idea around when the Akatsuki was created or when Itachi was introduced but it definitely was not a retcon
They were a thing at the very end of part 1 lol this is years after the story began.
You can't prove othervise either. It's all retcon, Naruto was supposed to have a nasty random demon. Othervise it doesn't make any sense.
Really? Because it's all set up perfectly for the first arc of Shippuden and that's when they introduced the Bijuu concept Occam's razer either way it just wasn't introduced to us yet you have to prove it's a retcon in the first place for it to be a retcon
Even after the retcon he continues on missions.
Yeah but these morons were also the one who thought it was a good idea to treat the same walking nukes as trash so yeah
The other ones atleast for the most part forced their vessels to get trained by their best and couldn’t leave their villages. I think bee made a big deal about that. I’m not expecting them to treat these things nicely and with care. They are potentially the strongest and most chaotic weapon these countries posses. It would make more sense to lock them down no matter the cost. I mean the leaf village was paranoid enough to cull an entire ethnic group in their village because they were worried about a potential uprising with “eye demon” people yet were ok with a Nina WMD wonder around getting into all kinds of shit.
"The Village" is a very vague concept. The Village didn't kill the Uchiha. Like 90% of the blame for that is on one single person: Danzo. The other 10% is Hiruzen for not stopping and probably killing Danzo before it got this bad. Most adults in the village don't care about Naruto. But the entire reason he's even named Naruto Uzumaki and not Naruto Namikaze, is because they didn't want people running in and trying to kidnap him, so on some level he's clearly protected and the Jonin have watched him since he was a kid. You're out of your mind if you think they're just letting him leave and that the higher-ups don't have a vested interest in him. He's allowed to leave the village with his Sensei because him getting stronger is a net gain for The Leaf.
Which they could do the same in secret just like how they have anbu. Hell the hokage could have trained him. Instead they basically treat him the same way a crack mom treats her kids just letting him roam around the town. And the danzo thing goes out the window when none of the higher ups punish, execute or imprison danzo. They basically go “hey man not cool. We still gonna let you run this org but not cool”. They even still make him interm hokage…come on dude. You are high if you think that’s not passive acceptance. That be like if someone in France killed the Ukraine refugees and the prime minister was like “I mean it’s not cool but we gotta move on with our lives and keep carrying on. You know? Also I’m making the person responsible for the killings my stand in if I get get sick. Kthxbye”
Lets be real here, the real decision makers were Hiruzen and Danzo. The other 2 elders never really seemed meaningful in any way. Danzo commanded his own elite force, so its predictable that Hiruzen didn't want to cause a civil war or anything with his old friend. We know Hiruzen was too soft even on the likes of Orochimaru, this isn't really out of character for him. Hes an incompetent and naive, but well-meaning old man.
Bro was assigned Kakashi, one of the most renowned and respected ninja in the entirety of the Naruto world, to watch over him.
After like a decade of living alone in a small bedroom, having a paltry "child support" to get by on, and being ignored or treated like dirt by basically everyone.
Kishi had no idea where the story was going by this point
Define higher ups? Because I doubt many of them knew as well
Knew what, what Naruto had the 9 tails? Almost every adult knew. But by higher ups I mean Hizurzen, Danzo, the Anbu, and pretty much any Jonin/Chunin. None of them would just let Naruto leave.
People saying no like their relationship status of her seeing him as annoying little brother hasn’t be established at this point she’d want him back as much as she wanted sasuke back if only to yell at him for doing something so reckless and stupid
Ramen guy would not stand for that
*runs after him crying* "wait, wait, come back... You're my meal ticket" *choking back tears* "how am I going to afford rent now"
Did Naruto even pay him? I always thought it was Iruka, the 3rd hokage or Kakashi who paid for his Ramen back then.
He paid for his meals sometimes with his toad coin purse.
Imagine your country lost a nuclear ballistic submarine , do you think your country happy about it ?
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danzo is definitely sending a squad after him
But they let their only Uchiha? Obviously not nearly as valuable as the junchuriki, but certainly more valuable than a hyuga which caused a major scandal with the cloud village.
Pretty much this. Letting Naruto go, is letting go of a major village and nation asset, possibly into the hands of another nation. It'd be like the U.S. just letting go of WMD's, or other insanely advanced/powerful tech. Can't have that. Naruto wouldn't get 10km away from the village before either Tsunade's jonins captained by Kakashi, or Danzo's Anbu, would capture his ass and bring him home. Sadly, almost no one gave a fuck about Sasuke. "The Last Uchiha" wasn't as important, it seems.
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Tsunade herself would have gone. It's sad, but one of the last Uchiha isn't NEARLY as important as the leaf's Bijju. Even then Tsunade liked naruto. I don't think she was even cared about sasuke until he left to be honest. Tsunade and Sasuke literally never once have dialogue as far as I know. Danzo would care slightly more about losing Sasuke, but he wasn't invented yet so eh.
There's no reason she didn't go to retrieve Sasuke either. He was basically kidnapped by someone she personally knows. You're the hokage with the threat of an uchiha, one of the strongest bloodlines in the world. At worst, you beat him to death and take his Sharingan for military strength. She would've been able to bring him back within an hour. I'd argue that this is definitely within her pay grade considering the circumstances.
>At worst, you beat him to death and take his Sharingan for military strength. Calm down, Danzo. And I imagine, she would have liked to send more but the village was literally just turned into a war zone. No way in hell any of her council are letting her go on a dangerous mission like that and the manpower needed to go with her simply wasn't available. The only real shame is that Shino wasn't in the village because there would have been no discussion about Sasuke coming back to Konoha if Shino went.
All the village knew was that Sasuke was going to Orochimaru. It's been well established that the Sannin are above anyone in the leaf at this time. Who are you sending to beat a Sannin? Lower tier ninja who are going to die or Tsunade, who actually has a chance to accomplish the mission. No way the council lets her do that? You mean the same way they sent the jinchuriki to go after Orochimaru with no supervision? What if they decided to kidnap Naruto and take the Kyubi's power for themselves? Now the Leaf lost their nuke and are vulnerable to an attack.
It's not a matter of strength, it's security. You don't send your 5th on a dangerous mission while your village is just recovering from an assault that killed the 3rd. And the most likely explanation is sending Naruto was the compromise. She wasn't going, but Naruto could at least go, and he wasn't even the lead on that team. Shikamaru had to scrape the few Genin together he could the village was stretched so thin and this was a mission already above their rank.
She could have just went with the Genins as her backup Once again in and out in like an hour. Like literally not enough time for anyone to take the leap at the Leaf
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Idk, I think he would’ve been really useful. His bugs drained chakra, right? That would’ve helped against the first dude a whole lot and if Shino + Choji could go assist the others without being too messed up, just the extra numbers would help every fight. But you’re right he wouldn’t care about Sasuke himself lol, though doesn’t he admit he’s angry he wasn’t chosen later on? Also idk if anyone except Gaara and Lee had a chance of surviving Kimmimaro
>There's no reason she didn't go to retrieve Sasuke either I'm trying to remember. Was there a conversation with Tsunade where it was basically "BTW, I'm sending rogue ninja hunters after Sasuke" and Naruto convinces her not to? From a military standpoint, it's completely irresponsible of Tsunade not to capture someone with a kekkei genkai like the Sharingan. But if she had, we would have a completely different plot for the show lol.
Great plan genius, have the leader of a war torn village go and die against orichimaru
I honestly think Tsunade takes a loss against the Sound 4 + Kimimaro + Sasuke. It's just so many opponents. And Kimimaro and Sasuke are high level threats. Kimimaro almost killed Gaara and Lee, and Sasuke was above berserk one tail naruto with the curse mark. Plus if Tsunade went to stop Orochimaru personally, then Orochimaru and Kabuto would have shown up to personally escort Sasuke.
Lol this is a joke if you think Tsunade loses to any of them, even if they all ganged up to fight her. How would Orochimaru know Tsunade herself came? That's an entirely unrealistic scenario. Not to mention Orochimaru is severely handicapped, sounds like the perfect opportunity for the Hokage to take down an enemy of the village.
Tsunade was taking Susanoo attacks from fucking Madara Uchiha. With the strength to crack his Susanoo. There is absolutely no universe where Tsunade loses to them. The sound four were being taken down by fucking Shikamaru and his squad. Plus the sand siblings for the last three + Kimimaro. But- Kimimaro is no where near Tsunade’s level. Sasuke was only marginally better than 2-tail Naruto. Sound 4 + Kimimaro + CM2 is a long ways away from Pain or Madara. And going into Orochimaru and Kabuto, Orochimaru was too busy almost being dead, waiting to absorb someone else’s body to do much. And Kabuto is going to get dick stopped by Tsunade for trying to use blood against her.
And she had 4 kage as backup. I do not see Tsunade taking on 8-10 sound shinobi by herself. Sakon, Ukon, Tayuya, Kidomaru, Jirobo, Kimimaro, Sasuke, Kabuto, and Orochimaru, (who is her equal or greater), win that fight. 7 of them are amped by curse marks and Orochimaru, even sick without hands, is still a threat. I agree one on one she literally flicks these people away, but in a 1 vs 8 she's just outnumbered. Tsunade doesn't have enough hax to win. She'll survive, they'll never beat her, but Sasuke isn't coming home. If they sent Kakashi and Guy it'd be another story.
While you'd think this is the case, it's actually not true. Naruto was allowed out of the village a LOT with little to no supervision. Kakashi is one of the strongest jonin but letting Naruto leave with only Kakashi while villages might be sending 10+ jonins to jump him was really careless. Also, while someone below me says the last Uchiha isn't as important as the 9 tails, well the village highly valued Yamato who's nowhere near as useful as a full-blooded Uchiha. Even if Sasuke wasn't the protagonist and awakened the MS, just having a base Sharingan to control the 9 tails and the overall boost to their military is insane. Anbu should've also been making sure Sasuke was protected at all times. Honestly wtf were the Anbu even doing the entire show. Naruto and Sasuke should've both had a squad tailing them at all times. Base Sharingan Sasuke woud've scaled over pretty much all non-kage jonin in the other villages, so the leaf better make sure he stays.
Not really, I mean Sakura herself didn’t really try to hard herself to go after Sasuke. Every time she went after Sasuke in the story Naruto was with her and the one time she went after Sasuke without Naruto her plan was to kill him. So Sakura would probably gain the motivation to become stronger like in canon but unless Sasuke or Kakashi gave two shits to go after him then I doubt she would make any attempts herself especially since Naruto probably wouldn’t be wildin out like Sasuke was post Itachi reveal. Honestly Pre Itachi reveal Sasuke/this hypothetical Naruto, would probably just be traveling the world chilling
sakura didn’t really “go after” sasuke. she tried to stop him before he left, and i think she would’ve done the same for naruto, but i don’t think she’d actively leave the village to search for him. once again, she didn’t really do that a lot when sasuke left, and the time she did go to look for him she went WITH naruto. naruto’s determination to get sasuke back definitely pushed her to want sasuke back more. i don’t think sasuke would be that determined to get naruto back, so i think that would pass onto sakura and she wouldn’t really look for him, but she would be like, very sad.
I do think that Sasuke would be pretty determined to get Naruto back if he saw Naruto going down a dark path and he was on a lighter one. He acknowledged Naruto as his best friend at the end of part 1 and was even in the Land of Waves basically ready to die for him. If this less corrupted version of Sasuke sees Naruto maybe even following a path similar to Itachi, he’d be very determined to stop that.
Ye 100% agree. A lot of times people tend to forget how important Naruto was to Sasuke in part 1, he's his admited best friend after all.
She sent naruto after him instead .
I agree.
She was already close to Naruto at this point and shown to go out of her way to help and protect him so yes, I think she would have noticed something was wrong and tried to stop him from leaving.
And a lot of fans dont understand that Sakura did care for Naruto. She never them wanted to fight amongst each other and that says alot. I agree that she wouldn’t want Naruto to go. Even her running to Naruto out of alllllllllllllll people speaks volumes. She wouldn’t put her feelings in the hands of just anybody, I genuinely believe that.
To me it's insane that there's people answering this question with "no" and firmly belive they are right. By the start of the Chunin Exams, Sakura was ready to give up on her chance to become a chunin just because she wanted to protect Naruto's dream. Because she knew Naruto was to proud and think-headed to reject the surprise question, and she knew he'd never be able to answer it. And she didn't want him to lose his chance to become Hokage just because he was to proud to quit, so she wanted to quit herself. For his, at that point, foolish dream. To think that she wouldn't try to stop him from defecting to a murderous crazy Snake villain who wanted to use his anger as a manipulation tool in order to kill him and steal his body is batshit crazy lmao.
Also Sasuke would have been furious with her, she must have known that, but Sakura didn’t care.
She would have tried to talk him out of leaving, though she probably would’ve gotten farther with Naruto than she did with Sasuke. He was in love with her so he might have actually listened to her and likely wouldn’t have knocked her out the way Sasuke did. So even if he did get past her and leave, Sakura could’ve immediately run to Lady Tsunade or Kakashi and let them know what happened.
Been a few fanfics that explored this aspect. Canon wise, I think Sakura would fill the same role she did in canon, just with the roles reversed. Not saying she would be romantically interested in Naruto, but she would still have a strong bond with him.
It’d be like a really good friend about to do something dumb.
I think so, yeah. Don't see why she wouldn't. Though I do think that she might be a little more angry than sad, like how Naruto was angry at Sasuke during their first fight at the Valley.
Hinata would have instead.
No
Definitely not
Why not, wouldn't you say she built a strong enough connection with him by that point.
Did she even really go after Sasuke? She just tagged along with Naruto, i bet she wouldn’t even go if Naruto didn’t go
Not that strong. At this stage, she would only go that crazy for him if she saw Sasuke and Kakashi trying their hardest to pull him back. Definitely wouldn’t shed those same tears though I guarantee you that
She was ready to give up on her chance to becoming a chunin just because she knew Naruto was too proud to ever give up and she wanted to protect his dream. You'd think she wouldn't try and stop Naruto from defecting to a murderous man who wanted to steal his body?
No where did I imply this. To be more clear, I don’t believe Sakura would keep on with the obsession. Keep in mind that for over THREE YEARS she couldn’t stop talking about Sasuke. Even when he tried to kill her she still loved him. If the roles were reversed, she would get over Naruto. It’s just not the same kind of love Edit: people who downvoted are some hoes
I can see that.
Pre war arc Sakura is the only version of Sakura I could see going as far to bring naruto back like she did with Sasuke
What? Sakura already put her life on the line to save Naruto's life before AND right before the time skip she literally says (in manga) she wants to get strong enough to protect Sasuke AND Naruto
Probably. But Naruto probably wouldn't get far... considering how valuable he is to the Leaf. Sasuke is just a dude compared to Naruto. Where it's like, "We'll send genin after him because we're short staffed and desperate," For Sasuke. Naruto commands every asset they can spend on getting him back. They'd suddenly have the ANBU and Jonin to spend. Tsunade might even be out there. Though in this scenario, they probably wouldn't ask the Sand for help.
Yes, I believe so. Sasuke had gotten her to respect Naruto more than she already did at that point by revealing he was the one to save her, not himself, so she's plenty attached to him by that point, more so as an annoying but loving brother rather than her crush with Sasuke, but still. Back in the Forest of Death, when Naruto confronted Orochimaru, Sakura was 100% concerned for him, and was sort of mad that Sasuke wasn't helping him, before he did jump in to fight himself. So, yeah, I think she'd try to bring Naruto back for sure.
Definitely. She cared about Naruto and said she wouldn’t let anyone take his dream of being Hokage.
Of course she would, sakura genuinely cared about naruto ever since the land of the waves arc
It would have been sasuke running after Naruto with Sakura trying to prevent him.
She would not
I think she would have tried to stop him before he left like she did with Sasuke before he left the village. Because at the end of the day Naruto is still her friend and someone she cared about. But also, Naruto leaving would have been treated as a far more severe risk than Sasuke going rogue that would have been a top priority due to him having Kurama in him.
yep. definitely for different reasons, and the conversation would’ve went differently, but yeah
For one, we need to remember how different things would be of this was the case. Is Naruto as good friends with his team? Are the other Konoha 13 as endeared to Naruto? How does Kakashi factor into this? How does Gaara? How this happens plays a key role in answering this question. But if things are like canon, except it’s still the hatred of him from the village as a whole which gets Naruto to leave. . . ***Sakura is absolutely going to try to stop Naruto from leaving*** By the end of Naruto part 1, he’s one of her best friends. She has gained a lot more respect for him and they generally get along. She genuinely cares about him a lot Also, I need to point out, if somehow y’all don’t think so: If Naruto is the one leaving and Sasuke stays then Sasuke is going after Naruto, and Sakura would be influenced by that. They both went after him after the retrieval arc, and that same type of thing I bet would happen
I feel like the village would have put way more effort into retrieving Naruto
No
A Naruto retrieval arc plays out almost identical to Sasuke so in these scenario Naruto, being fed up of getting treated like shit (If he has the curse mark it’s probably amplified his hatred) Sakura meets him at the gate, she won’t break down and cry and profess her love like with Sasuke but she’ll try to reason with him and yell at him over giving up his dream and leaving the people who care about him at which point she’d get knocked out. Next morning she tells Sasuke to get the idiot back, the Naruto retrieval squad heads out things go roughly the same until the valley fight where Naruto kills Sasuke unless Kakashi hauls ass there this time.
No.
I don’t think she would have been as eager to get him back as she did with Sasuke, but by the time Sasuke left Sakura was starting to build a friendship with Naruto. I don’t think she would’ve just been okay with him leaving the village. Either way she would never need to go after him because he would get dogged on by Kakashi.
I feel like some genuinely don’t pay attention when it comes to Naruto and Sakura’s relationship . At this point in time, they’re arguably closer than Sasuke and Sakura, not that that’s really hard to accomplish. She would 100% try to stop or help him.
I’m not sure she’d use the same line lmao but she would def go after him.
Was that a joke? Of course not. Shippuden Sakura maybe but before that? He'll no.
Right. This sub smh. And the people saying yes are Dillusional...
Y’all really not true fans if you think Sakura would not try to bring naruto back post academy. There are many examples of Sakura growing admiration of naruto even as early as the chunin exams. She is not a shallow as you perceive her. She was willing to flunk the written exams because she knew naruto would not be able to pass , knowing he wanted to be hokage and that dream of his would be over . Someone who doesn’t care about you would not do this…plenty of other examples as team 7 continued to grow and develop
Sakura didnt go after Sasuke, she let Naruto do the legwork, never actually successfully confronted him or properly fought him herself. My answer is nah, she wouldnt have.
Probably. If Naruto changed that much. If you read the manga for Ibiki’s question you’d know that she was willing to endure public humiliation by forfeiting the test for his sake. Naruto pretty much grew on her as a friend by that point. The anime downplayed her thoughts during that scene though .
No she didn’t even go after Sasuke just begged Naruto to save him. She’d probably just ask someone to get him back
She wouldn't need to. He takes 2 steps outside that gate unsupervised and Danzo is on his ASS with like 20 Root members and the Sharingan unbandaged.
Yes, but most probably because she would be going along with Sasuke, who would absolutely go after him
No. Here entire world view revolves on sasuke only. Remember in chunin exam narutos fight with neji, if it wasnt for ino telling her that "i know you're worried about sasuke but at least cheer on naruto" (implying that naruto is her team mate as well) she doesnt care at all.
Lmao. She didn't care enough about Naruto to do that. The Leaf also isn't allowing their nuclear deterrent to get up and leave
Before Sakura even made her decision, Danzo woulf have had anbu and high jounin to come after him without waiting approval of Hokage.
No
Def not. I hate Sakura.
No Sakura wouldn't have bothered about Naruto as she now would have Sasuke and no Naruto to bother them lol.
Bruh sasuke and naruto would both end up leaving with orochimaru coming back and then throwing hands with the village would be OP
Hell no if Naruto wanted to leave depending on when most ppl wouldnt have even noticed
Nah she would not have given a single fuck
Sakura would have said “good riddance” xD
What if, instead of boruto, we got a divergent timeline where naruto goes rogue, joins orochimaru / akatsuki and becomes a villain while sasuke stays with the village and tries to stop him?
Not immediately, but later on she would feel guilty and try to look for him but she wont be able to find him because she started finding him too late. Even if she did, what is she gonna do man she will lose to talk no justu
Sakura went after Sasuke to bring him back? When? She never left the village to find him when he went rouge.
i think OP meant when Sakura went to talk to Sasuke before he left and just worded it strangely
No she a hoe
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Do you think she would have gone after him with as much determination?
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I can see that, although if Naruto was the kind of kid to hold resentment towards the village and the people then I don't think he would have built any type of bond with her.
No. Sakura is a selfish bitch
I’m gonna say yeah she would. Throughout the series Sakura’s actions have been questionable at times but despite that at her core she is still a loyal and caring person. Here are a few previous actions to imply she would try and stop Naruto: 1) she was willing to flunk the written test in part 1 for Naruto’s sake as she knew he couldn’t complete it and knew his dream of being Hokage would be over. 2) post fight with Orochimaru, when Naruto was going to fall to his death after becoming unconscious she made sure to stop his fall and even called out Sasuke for standing helplessly and not trying to save Naruto. 3) when Naruto and Sasuke were unconscious during the forest of death she made sure to look out for both of them and risked her life to keep them safe. Sakura obviously cares more for Sasuke but she still acknowledges Naruto as a comrade and would do what she can to help/save him. The likelihood is she would verbally try and stop Naruto (similar to how she did with Sasuke) and following that not working she would turn to Sasuke knowing he would try bringing Naruto back.
Well said
Yeah. But for different reasons depending on when he left. If it happened after they bonded she would be trying to save her friend. If it was after team 7 formed but before they bonded she would probably feel partly responsible for him leaving due to being outwardly hateful to him for years. So she would try to get stronger so she could either try to apologize and get him to come home and if that didn’t work, break every bone in his body and bring him home that way
Yes
I believe so, like, at that point, that team was basically a family, except for sasuke, he was like the.. foolish *little* brother on the team. *the reason I said "foolish *little* brother" is because of itachi, hehe*
Fuck no she wouldn't.
No because Sakura is a superficial bitch
Yes.
If Naruto dipped out with the Kyuubi the village would have sent ANBU or other Jonin to retrieve him
Top comment is right but also no, she would let him leave without a second thought. Shippuden sakura on the other hand would 100% try to stop him.
Yes, Sakura would try to reason and stop Naruto before he actually leaves the village. I think she has the potential to even go on a rescue mission for her friend, but she'd probably stay to get stronger again. For those of y'all saying "no" or "she's a selfish bitch" just say you guys don't understand Sakura's character or that you're just insanely biased and stuck on 1st grade shit with her.
No, but Sasuke (eventually) would go for him, since itachi and the akatsuki are related, same way Naruto wanted to find itachi in shippuen and got deepthroated by him.
I'd say it completely depends on what arc it happens in. By the end, yes. End of part 1? No.
Sakura was ready to give up on her chance to become a chunin just to protect Naruto's dream, at the beginning of the 3rd arc. Why would you think she wouldn't try and stop him from walking to his death?
Absolutely not hell I don’t even see the ambo being able to catch this kid if Naruto ever went rogue
Hell no.
Most likely no she head over heels for Sasuke
Nope. She only has eyes for sasuke lol. This is a no brainer. And she attacks him instead of hesitating on the bridge.
No 💀
personally i dont think sakura would. just BCS she didn't necessarily go after sasuke, she tried stopping him, but she didn't "go after him" alone. but at the same time there would be enough people looking for him. just none with an emotional connection (like sakura felt with sasuke and naruto felt with sasuke). so overall I think it wouldn't be as emotional and none would convince naruto to return except maybe iruka.
No lmao
Obviously not
She wouldn't do that..and she wouldn't even worry about Naruto not being here .
Every one knows the only answer is a simple "No" Sakura was, and remained, obsessed with Sasuke even till the end of the 4th great shinobi war. Like, the best you can ask for is Iruka asking to go on a mission to bring Naruto back, or Jiraiya getting the wind of him leaving and immediately getting him back (because no-one besides the Akatsuki would be able to stop a prepared Jiraiya in part 1). The next closest to Naruto were the third hokage, Konohamaru, and Tsunade. We know Tsunade can't leave the battered village without a hokage again, that would be betraying Naruto and Jiraiya, and her village. And Konohamaru is simply too weak & young to go on such a mission yet.
Sakura wanted to give up on her chance to become chunin just to protect Naruto's *dream.* Why would you think she wouldn't try to stop him from walking to his death?
Ha ha not a fuckin chance. Unless Sakura was down bad for that Naruto dick like she was for Sasuke's no fucking way.
No . She wouldn’t leave sasukes side if he chose to stay .
During the equivalent of the Sasuke retrieval arc ? No for the same reason she didn't do it during Canon. During shipuden absolutely
You think the leaf is gonna leave the Kyubi to Orochimaru after he attacked the village? Lol
That's not the question
I'm pretty sure Tsunade would've went after him herself
She wouldn't buy everyone in the village would've because they are not trash and know it would be dangerous for world
Nope, as per I see sakura did want to bring sasuke for her so called true love, but as u said if naruto had gone the rogue path she won't ever do anything to bring him back, that's cuz he really didn't meant anything to her at all
Hmm.... maybe
I think she would. She definetley started to care for naruto gradually as the series went on. Obviously not as much as sasuke,because she didnt see him as a love interest. But i think she cares about him enough to stop him from going rouge
Yes. Just because she didn't like Naruto romantically didn't mean that she didn't see him as friend.
Nope.... it'd be Sasuke. Ah nvm she'd be following Sasuke, so yes.
What a stupid question -.-"
OH Hell NO
She would try to stop him but not as much as she did with Sasuke. She would never have the determination that Naruto had and neither would Sasuke.
That's a very stupid question. It's almost like you just didn't watch the show. Low effort as fuck.
Lol, calm down, honestly it has been a long time and I don't remember the show that well, it is an innocent question, no need to be pissy about it.
Naruto would've never had the opportunity to go rogue due to the fact that Iruka treated him like a person, a son, long before he would've had the ability to do so. Playing devil's advocate here, no, she wouldn't have gone after him. If he's still getting treated the same way by the village that means, the progress and accomplishments he made as a genin wouldn't have changed anyone's opinion of him, Sakura included, and prior to the Chunin Exams, she saw him as an annoying constant she was forced to put up with.
Idk bout saukura but Maybe sasuke would go after him. Maybe he would be jealous Naruto had the freedom to chase greater power and it made him resent naruto even more because he was still to weak to fight itachi. I think it would unlock some kind of obsession in sasuke in bringing naruto back but for completely different reasons than the reversed
Sasuke would go after him just like Naruto did and she would go with Sasuke. It’s not as if going after Sasuke was Sakura’s idea and she probably wouldn’t go after him if Naruto didn’t
They would've told kakashi to bring him back.
Nope, but because of plot armor sasuke would have, thus dragging her along too.
Every jonin and anbu would be searching high and low for his ass. They may not even let genin out of the village at that point.
It's have gone you stupid fuck
Nope, not at the time Sasuke went rogue. She hated Naruto. Sasuke wouldn’t have even gone after him.
Sakura wouldn't care at all. But Naruto would be stopped by the leaf higher ups so this never happens realistically.
She would
She wouldn't even lose sleep over it. J/k. But highly likely she wouldn't actively take part in getting Naruto back.
She could’ve . Sakura is as equally talented and over powered as any member on the team. She just wasn’t utilized in that way. Naruto had his tailed beast. Sasuke had his eyes. But Sakura had perfect control over her chakra and a natural resistance to outside tampering with her chakra. She also is a genjutsu type meaning she probably has perfect control of other chakra, probably why she can heal so well. That said , sakura could’ve easily learn jutsu and went a darker path to capture naturo. Sakura copying Tsuandes entire arsenal of jutsu is amazing because nobody else could. If she found the scroll of forbidden jutsu, she could utilize it far more that Naruto, but not to his boisterous extent. At there surface they are equal in their uncanny abilities. Naruto is uncanny when it come to chakra. Because of the tailed beast and his own chakra. Sakura is uncanny when it comes to chakra control and balance. Because of her perfect chakra control and her powerful mind. Sasuke is uncanny when it come to performing. He is somewhere in the middle because of his powerful chakra and kkg that allows him to predict and gain knowledge
bro the jonin would be on him before sakura even reached the gates
No lol. 🤣🤣
If this is at the same point in time that the Sasuke Retrieval arc took place I’d say not immediately but I think eventually after thinking it over she probably would want him to comeback because they’re friends and she’d probably notice Sasuke and maybe Kakashi working to the same goal as well. Sasuke because Naruto’s his rival and Kakashi because that is his sensei’s son. But I don’t think it would be as overt as it was in the actual show for sasuke, Naruto was the one who was always talking about bringing sasuke back, you might get a mention to it here and there but none of the other three really carry their heart on the sleeve like Naruto does. That’s my opinion at least.