History WhatAnIdiot / Naruto

'''Instead:''' [[BlatantLies He says that she is]]. Sakura [[ArmorPiercingSlap reacts violently]] on both occasions. Even if she wasn't in earshot, lying about your purely platonic friendship with someone is generally not a good idea.

Given the fact that the mangaka doesn't like smart characters, it shouldn't be too surprising that Naruto has its own page here.

'''You'd Expect:''' Since one of Sakura's most noted traits, before being TheLoad and then ActionGirl, was being the [[SmartGuy Smart Girl]], that she would think that something's up with Sasuke and at least not show her back to him.\\

'''Result:''' Naruto gets seriously wounded and [[NotGoodWithRejection his heart gets broken]] thinking that Hinata betrayed him and stopped loving him. He then goes into a four-day HeroicBSOD giving up on everything. Meanwhile, Hinata gets caught red-handed by the BigBad trying to destroy his WeaponOfMassDestruction, and [[HypnotizeThePrincess she gets turned into one of his puppets.]] And THEN it turns out that [[DidntThinkThisThrough her power alone is not enough to destroy the Tenseigan anyway]]. Really, it was only because of a bit of ContrivedCoincidence that the world didn't get destroyed.

'''Instead:''' He does everything he could just to prevent Naruto from dying despite the fact that it wouldn't help him one bit.\\
** In Kurama's defense here, it is stated that dying is still, y'know, painful. Even for a Tailed Beast. And it did turn out well in the end.

'''You'd Expect''': That Hiashi would explain to Neji that his father offered himself voluntarily, in order to protect his brother, his clan, and his.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' When it comes to the heroic Shinobi who are unwilling to fight their own men, Kabuto would erase their personalities in order to prevent them invoking ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy and gaining emotional closure because as shown what he did with Zabuza and the Third Raikage, as they can easily steamroll the opposition thanks to their unlimited Chakra and HealingFactor, while keeping the personalities of the ones more willing to fight the allied forces, such as the Gold and Silver Brothers and Deidara, to reduce micromanagement and allow them to use their creativity to perform better in war.\\

'''Instead:''' Jiraiya doesn't even associate with Naruto until he's nearly a teenager, Sarutobi hangs in the background without taking necessary measures, and Kakashi says nothing. Konoha is very lucky that Iruka is around to take care of Naruto otherwise he would have become a psychotic killer like Sasuke of Gaara.

* At some point after Yahiko's death, Nagato discovered that he could [[BackFromTheDead resurrect anybody using his Rinne Tensei technique at the]] [[EquivalentExchange cost of his own life]].\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That immediately after realizing this, [[HeroicSacrifice he uses it to revive Yahiko back]] ensuring that both Konan and Yahiko will have a happy life together while mourning for Nagato's death hereafter.\\
'''Instead:''' [[ForgotAboutHisPowers He never considered doing this]], thus dooming both him and Konan to an eternally broken life especially the latter.
** In his defense, when Nagato brings back the Leaf citizens who died during his invasion, he says that he ''barely'' had enough time to revive everyone, implying that there's a certain window of time. If the implication is taken at face value, then it's likely that when he did learn about the technique, it was too late to revive him. Alternatively, because this technique is vital to Madara's endgame, he learned about this from [[TheStarscream Obito]], who told the Uzumaki not to waste the technique and instead use it should something happens to the Uchiha.

* Initially, when the Jinchuuriki dies, the Tailed-beast itself would die too. However, this is later retconed when the Bijuus revive after they die, including Kurama himself and he knows it.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Kurama simply just leaves Naruto to his death so that he will be free once again to rampage the countries.\\

** In his defense, when Nagato brings back the Leaf citizens who died during his invasion, he says that he ''barely'' had enough time to revive everyone, implying that there's a certain window of time. If the implication is taken at face value, then it's likely that when he did learn about the technique, it was too late to revive him. Alternatively, if he learned about this from Obito, then it's likely that the Uchiha lied to him for the sake of the Eye of the Moon Plan.

** In his defense, when Nagato brings back the Leaf citizens who died during his invasion, he says that he ''barely'' had enough time to revive everyone, implying that there's a certain window of time. If the implication is taken at face value, then it's likely that when he did learn about the technique, it was too late to revive him. Alternatively, if he learned about this from Obito, then it's likely that the Uchiha lied to him.

** In his defense, when Nagato brings back the Leaf citizens who died during his invasion, he implies that there's a time frame. If taken at face value, then it's likely that when he did learn about the technique, it was too late to revive him. Alternatively, if he learned about this from Obito, then it's likely that the Uchiha lied to him.

* After the Warring States Period in where ChildSoldiers are the norm, Hashirama and Madara establish the village system to establish peace.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For the duo to raise the shinobi minimum age of entry to at least 17 years of age to prevent the similar tragedies from happening again when forming the system. Secondly, cut down on the glamorisation of the job in general along with the insistence of bloodline purity. People learning and being trained to kill ''before drinking age'' isn't a good indicator of society.\\

'''Even Worse:''' She doing it from the air.\\
'''Result:''' Temari easily defeats Tenten and nearly breaks her back.\\

* [[DragonAscendant Kabuto]] has now managed to capture both [[MessianicArchetype Naruto]] and [[CrazyAwesome Killer Bee]] with the rejuvenated Nagato. \\

'''Instead:''' Nagato's dad is so paranoid about shinobi in general during the war that he takes leave of his senses: he pulls a LeeroyJenkins and bum rushes one of the shinobi, not even so much as speaking to them to make them ease their guard. In fact, he screams angrily. Yeah, like ''that's'' gonna make you look harmless and civilian. The mother says and does nothing to stop him; in fact, had the mother taken the lead and been the one to do the above, in an earnest and maternal voice of protection, the Konoh Shinobi might have been even more inclined and convinced to sympathize and lower their guards and be friendly.\\
'''Result:''' The Leaf shinobi he attacks easily outmaneuvers and slays Nagato's dad, thinking he's an enemy. Then, Nagato's mom is immediately mistaken for a subordinate/partner and slain shielding her son, who neither shinobi could see in the dark. Nagato is orphanized, kills the Konoha Shinobi as well in a fit of anguish, and set onto the spiraling path of becoming a jaded antagonistic figure who will ultimately die himself because he let being a victim define his life. Neither father nor mother nor son knew well enough to play nice and more tolerant and accepting of things and cool-headed when death was on the line. Nope, they just jumped to conclusions, and as such, got their tickets punched prematurely. All in all, five dead, none of whom had to die.

* Building on above, the Masked Man constantly introduces himself to everyone as "Madara Uchiha" after he reveals it to Sasuke.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Not a single soul to believe (Including someone old enough to have fought Madara in the past), that the masked man is Madara, seeing as, again, there is no proof to back up his claims, even the eye could be transplanted, and even then, Madara was so powerful, he could have taken on the Five kages without breaking a sweat, meaning he had no need to "declare war".\\
'''Instead:''' every single person takes "Madara" at his word, no question must be him.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Not a single soul to believe (Including someone old enough to have fought Madara in the past), that the masked man is Madara, seeing as, again, there is no proof to back up his claims, even the eye could be transplanted, and even then, Madara was so powerful, he could have taken on the Five kages without breaking a sweat, meaning he had no need to "declare war".
'''Instead:''' every single person takes "Madara" at his word, no question must be him.

'''Instead:''' They immediately believed him to be "Madara" despite having little proof of his identity (Well, aside from his Sharingan).

'''You'd Expect:''' For Naruto to reveal that there might still be a way to save his brother before Akatsuki successfully extracts the Tailed Beast from him and offer his aid in rescuing Bee before it's too late and in return, he will relent his death sentence for Sasuke and let Konoha deal with him personally. Or Naruto would instead offer to aid his pursuit of Sasuke but on the condition that Konoha would be the one to deal with him after his capture, promising to A that ''will'' be punished for his crimes.\\

** In her defense, as Madara later revealed, Rin didn't really have a choice, as she was being controlled by Madara. Same goes for her pursuers.

* The deaths of Nagato's parents themselves are very stupid and senseless. Two Konoha shinobi enter their house unannounced looking for essentials and Nagato's dad picks up a weapon to defend himself. The lights are off and no one can see clearly.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Nagato's dad to cautiously turn the lights on or yell something like "Help us, please!" that is definitely not hostile and conducive to a more peaceful and inviting and approachable reaction and tell the shinobi that they have actually not entered an abandoned house but instead entered an occupied house filled with civilians and that he is a dad with a wife and young son and mean them no harm and will provide them food and shelter if they need it and he is willing to peacefully let them be.\\
'''Instead:''' Nagato's dad is so paranoid about shinobi in general during the war that he takes leave of his senses: he pulls a LeeroyJenkins and bum rushes one of the shinobi, not even so much as speaking to them to make them ease their guard. In fact, he screams angrily. Yeah, like ''that's'' gonna make you look harmless and civilian. The mother says and does nothing to stop him; in fact, had the mother taken the lead and been the one to do the above, in an earnest and maternal voice of protection, the Konoh Shinobi might have been even more inclined and convinced to sympathize and lower their guards and be friendly.\\
'''Result:''' The Leaf shinobi he attacks easily outmaneuvers and slays Nagato's dad, thinking he's an enemy. Then, Nagato's mom is immediately mistaken for a subordinate/partner and slain shielding her son, who neither shinobi could see in the dark. Nagato is orphanized, kills the Konoha Shinobi as well in a fit of anguish, and set onto the spiraling path of becoming a jaded antagonistic figure who will ultimately die himself because he let being a victim define his life. Neither father nor mother nor son knew well enough to play nice and more tolerant and accepting of things and cool-headed when death was on the line. Nope, they just jumped to conclusions, and as such, got their tickets punched prematurely. All in all, five dead, none of whom had to die.

* Tobi comes after Konan to retrieve the Rinnegan eyes, as stated above. Because Konan distrusted Tobi anyway, she had done her research on him. She has figured out that his intangibility lasts for 5 minutes, and was ready with explosive paper tags that would explode for 10 minutes. \\
'''You'd Expect:''' Konan would anticipate that her [[ASimplePlan simple plan]] may not work as expected, or that Tobi may have other powers besides the one she had figured out. Hence, she would have a backup plan or a followup attack ready in case the explosions fail to kill Tobi as she intended. Or at the least, she would start the explosions without giving Tobi any warning.\\
'''Instead''': She [[ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy explains in complete detail]] exactly what she has figured out about Tobi's intangibility and how long her explosions would last before starting the explosions. \\
'''Result''': Tobi uses a disposable sharingan to start [[RealityWarper Izanagi]] right away. He escapes from the explosions losing only the disposable eye, which he soon replaces anyway with the Rinnegan that he recovers. \\
'''Additionally''': If Konan hadn't told him how long the explosions would last, Tobi would have likely started evading the explosions using his intangibility rather than Izanagi (because the Izanagi costs the eye using it and drains a lot of chakra). He would be forced to ''switch'' to Izanagi midway through the explosions, during which he would have to materialize, and Konan could have used that opening to attack him. Or she could have even caught him off-guard by saying the explosions would last for 6 minutes (for example), or trigger ''two'' rounds of 5-minute explosions with a brief pause in between. Keeping Tobi guessing would have given many more openings for followup attacks. Even though Konan didn't know about the Izanagi, revealing her entire plan upfront with no backup plan was pretty stupid.

* Upon revealing that the Raikage has issued a death order on Sasuke for kidnapping a Jinchuuriki, Naruto realizes that something needs to be done about this issue.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That he convince the Raikage to either let him deal with Sasuke personally or at least, offer to aid him in the search for his brother in return for relenting his pursuit of Sasuke .\\
'''Instead:''' He pleads the Raikage to stop pursuing Sasuke without offering any alternative solutions.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Orochimaru would retrieve him and his bodyguard's corpse to ensure that they won't know of Orochimaru's deception. Or even better, given his body is right there in front of him, take his blood to resurrect him as another Edo Kage in his arsenal to use against Konoha. With Rasa's Gold dust along with the other Edo Hokages, there likely won't be a way for them to be able to fend off against the combine might of the Kages.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Orochimaru would retrieve him and his bodyguard's corpse to ensure that they won't know of Orochimaru's deception. Or even better, given his body is right there in front of him, take his blood to resurrect him as another Edo Kage in his arsenal to use against Konoha. With Rasa's Gold dust along with the other Edo Hokages, there likely won't be a way for them to be able to fend off against the combine might of the Kages.

* In order to destroy Konoha, Orochimaru allied with the Fourth Kazekage, who is fully willing to aid him if it comes to make his village prosper.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' That he would [[BoringButPractical assassinate the Third Hokage immediately]] and take his blood in order to gain another collection to his Edo Tensei arsenal.\\