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=== This is a list of Wild Mass Guesses which are still possibly true. [[Just for Fun]] and silly guesses go on the [[Naruto (Manga)/WMG/Silly/WMG|silly page]]. If a WMG is [[Jossed]], please move it to the [[Naruto (Manga)/WMG/Jossed/WMG|jossed page]], if it is Confirmed, please move it to the [[Naruto (Manga)/WMG/Confirmed/WMG|confirmed page.]] ===
 
''Please add new entries to the bottom of the page.''
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* However, if you look on the last page of chapter 481, you'll see the tree isn't there at all. Probably because jutsu have [[No Ontological Inertia]] and {{spoiler|Danzo died}}. Or maybe it left on its own.
** Tree is at the far end of the bridge. You can see the roots by the pillars.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100415145216/http://mangahelpers.com/downloads/read-online/72174/12 Those aren't roots], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100417070952/http://mangahelpers.com/downloads/read-online/72174/17 they're cracks in the ground.] You can see on [https://web.archive.org/web/20100418112501/http://mangahelpers.com/downloads/read-online/72174/3 this page] that the tree was sticking out partially in front of the pillars, so it should have been visible from the other two pages (especially since the pillars in front has a huge gap in it).
**** Tree's back in the latest issue!
 
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== If Naruto and Hinata wind up together, Konohamaru will develop a crush on Hanabi instantly. ==
Konohamaru copies ''everything'' that Naruto does, so Konohamaru would be inclined to develop a crush on Hanabi just based on knowing: Naruto is in a relationship with Hinata, and Hinata has a little sister. What becomes of Konohamaru because of this is as open ended as [[OC Stand -In|who Hanabi is.]]
* I've read some fanfics with this as a running subplot. It kinda makes sense...
 
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== Sasuke's influence over Naruto and Sakura, and women in general, is due to him having some of{{spoiler|the Ten-Tailed Beast's power}} ==
As seen in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100729005206/http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/467/14/ this picture,] the {{spoiler|the Ten-Tailed Beast's}} eye was similar to the Sharingan. And chapter 462 reveals that the {{spoiler|Rikudo Sage named a successor from two brothers after he sealed the Ten-Tails into his body, who was the ancestor of the Senju clan, while the other one who wasn't named was the ancestor of the Uchiha. Since Sasuke would likely have some of this power, it explains how Uchiha can control the Tailed-Beasts. This means that Naruto's devotion to Sasuke is because the Kyuubi is drawn to the similar chakra and is, in turn, indirectly influencing Naruto. Whereas the near constantly positive reaction he gets from women is possibly due to them being influenced by Sasuke's latent powers in an attempt to attract a mate to continue that power's existence.}}
 
== Madara is basically a self-animated zombie ==
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* I don't really see much that Sasuke has done which is truly beyond redemption. Now, his stated goals are pretty bad and I'll admit, {{spoiler|putting that blade through Karin to get at Danzo was pretty evil}}, but other than that he's done what? He kicked Naruto's ass, then time skip, then kicked Naruto's ass again, and then he's killed Danzo while potentially being misled by Madara. Really, all he's done is demonstrate a willingness to abandon his teammates {{spoiler|plus the Karin thing}}, which, while reprehensible, [[Complete Monster|doesn't quite put him into the realm of being completely gone]]. I don't think Sasuke's going to go this route since he's probably going to be crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] soon, but I don't think he's there yet.
** Oh, sure you can join my Team Evil, Sakura. Now, just to make sure you're evil enough to be my medic, [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten|kill the othe-]] BACKSTAB! (Cares for nobody but himself and his revenge)
** [[You Have Failed Me...]] for the last time. Now die. [applied to ''his entire base'', not just teammates who disagreed but allies who would do anything for him] (Not even the people loyal to him matter, even if their continued living would be kinda useful with regards to the whole completing his revenge thing. Both irrational and supervillianesque. To abandon one's comrades because of philosophical reasons is horrible, but forgivable. To abandon them because their death is more convenient at the moment than life is utterly unforgivable)
** [[Laughing Mad|Hahahahaha]][[Evil Laugh|hahahahaha!]] (off the deep end entirely. Once somebody does this, the only forgiveness that is any kind of believable is life in prison or the electric chair)
** A small group of spymasters in Konoha went too far in quashing a rebellion. ''The entire city must perish in flames''. (further evidence of his mental and emotional disconnect from others He shows every sign of psycopathy, not being able to empathize with others, as well as the evil madness neccesary to make having the many die for the sins of the few believable. If he was at all redeemable, he would at least ''consider'' ceasing now that Danzo was dead. It didn't even so much as occur to the bastard).
*** The thing is, all of these are so laughably [[Kick the Dog|puppy kickingly evil]] that it's impossible to take the seriously. Sasuke is messed up in the head. He's not a tragic figure, or an evil figure, or even a sick puppy. He's turned into a flanderized version of himself. It's not a 'Fallen/Redeemed Hero' Paradigm anymore. He's just manipulation-bait. Even if Naruto manages to flip him again, it'll really just be more 'Sasuke gets manipulated to do things, just by the goodguys this time'. I'm sure he'll end up a minion for whoever replaces Madara as the evil figure in the inevitable continuation. And then by the next [[Big Bad]]. And the next. He's the [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Knuckles]] of Naruto.
**** Knuckles was a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] when he was manipulated. The fact that Sasuke has displayed ''insane evil laughter'' and had a [[You Have Failed Me...]] moment all his own indicate that while he's being manipulated, there ''is'' evil intent and feeling all his own beyond his manipulator's instructions.
***** Or possibly Sasuke can be redeemed ''because'' he is so obviously crazy. Once he has/if he does snap out of his epic [[Freak-Out]], he'll realize what he's done is completely stupid. Sasuke toes the line mightily, as the fact is he hasn't actually managed to do permanent [[Moral Event Horizon]] crossing damage. Sure, the intent was there, but the execution was lacking.
***** To the original post I completely agree about what Kishimoto is trying to pull of and how upping the ante isn't working but besides the Draco in leather pants crowd whose continued support of Sasuke drives the author to prove that Sasuke has fallen and needs to be redeemed,there is also a faction who declared him fallen beyond redemption since he first left Kohona and that he should have been killed on the spot so ultimately whatever stance Kishi would have taken somebody would have complained.
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****** Actually... I think this is probably true. Especially if you look at the Arcs. I was wrong in comparing Sasuke to Knuckles. He's [[Dragonlance|Raistlin]]. He'll die, but he won't do it "for the world" or "for naruto" or whatever. He'll do it, because it'll be the thing that spites Madara the most thereby finally satisfying his revenge. And, inevitably, he'll end up coming back just like Raistlin, because [[Fan Favorite]] 's never go away, no matter how much half the fanbase hates them. Give it ten-twelve years and we'll have cheesetastic powermetal songs about Sasuke too.
******* [[Galeros|I]] was actually thinking about how similar Raistlin and Sasuke are. I mean, yeah, their plots with Caramon and Naruto respectively is just the basic [[Cain and Abel]] story, but there are lots of other similarities. Both run into their "mentor" figure who they will later betray during a test, Raistlin meets Fistandantilus(well, his ghost) during the test of High Sorcery, and Sasuke during the Chunin exams. Both get marked during their tests, Raistlin with his golden skin(and hourglass eyes, but those are given to him by Par-Salian) and Sasuke with the curse mark. Both have a person who wants to bring them back to the side of good, Naruto considers Sasuke like a brother, and of course Caramon actually is Raistlin's brother. Both Raistlin and Sasuke are also considered geniuses, and both are prone to jealousy. Sasuke with when he realized Naruto was advancing faster than him pre-timeskip and Raistlin was jealous of Caramon during most of his life( {{spoiler|especially during his test when the fake Caramon revealed he could cast spells even better than Raistlin, and Raistlin stabbed and killed him for it}}). Fistandantilus and Orochimaru are A LOT alike as well. They both use [[Grand Theft Me]] to make themselves immortal, and both try to absorb their apprentices, but get tricked into getting absorbed instead. It was also revealed in ''Dragons of the Hourglass Mage'' that {{spoiler|Fistandantilus hung out "inside" of Raistlin and could talk to him, like how Orochimaru could talk to Sasuke.}}
******** This troper would not be surprised that, if Kishimoto wants to draw the story out even more, we see a very-similar-to-Dragonlance time travel arc, probably back to either post-Juubi or the First Hokage's time, to discover Madara's weakness. Especially if they manage to redeem Sasuke in the upcoming fight.
 
== Naruto is going to succeed where Danzo failed. ==
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[[Creator's Pet|That is]], Kishimoto hates Sasuke. It would go a long way to explain <s> some</s> <s> most</s> practically ''all'' of the crap Sasuke's been through since, well at ''least'' since the start of Shippuuden/part 2.
* The flaw here is that Sasuke is [[Word of God|cited]] as being Kishimoto's favorite character to draw.
** To ''draw'', yes. He said nothing about his personality. One can appreciate a character's looks (or find them easier to draw than any other character--givencharacter—given how many pages Kishimoto puts out on a regular basis, I wouldn't put it past him to like drawing Sasuke simply because it takes less time and effort to do so) and still despise them as a character.
*** Though he did say it was in spite of him being very difficult to draw.
 
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** Itachi was anything but insane. The whole time, he was acting a part. He did everything he could to make his own grand master plan (which was not convoluted, just complicated) succeed, but Madara's sheer skill with [[More Than Mind Control]] prevented it from going [[Memetic Mutation|just as planned]].
*** Was it? Or was that only what Itachi thought at the end? Because let's be honest here, for a brilliant shinobi, that was one of the stupider plans over all. "Oh, I shall kill my family except my Brother so that he can live a good life and then kill me." is, in my mind, up there with "I know! I'LL TURN THE MOON INTO A GIANT SHARINGAN AND MINDCONTROL THE WORLD!" He may have been acting a part and playing out his own plan, but that plan wasn't any saner than Madara's.
** Maybe he found out that the Juubi was influnceing him and his fight with Sasuke was an attempt at [[Dying Asas Yourself|ending the Juubi's control over him]] and setting up Sasuke to take out Madara. The crow in Naruto was to deal with Sasuke if he fell under the Juubi's control.
 
== Sasuke is [[Asexual]]. ==
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== Madara's current body is made from Zetsu's spores, or maybe the other way around. ==
When Madara broke his arm off the inside of it was ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100406012741/http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/475-10/12 white]''. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20100507051110/http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/486-70/9 the scene] where {{spoiler|he's shown with a regrown arm (which looks to be "fresh" judging by the liquid on it)}} there appears to be a large mass of Zetsu's spores/body parts. The same chapter also showed that white Zetsu {{spoiler|can have the parts flat-out move autonomously, instead of just growing on whoever}}.
 
== The 'Forbidden Jutsu' from the current filler arc is really not that powerful. ==
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== Sasuke doesn't want to destroy Naruto, Naruto's spirit, and Konoha ==
At the very least, that's not ''all'' he has planned. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20100507044702/http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/487-75/9 This line (Link's dead)] sounds a bit like a [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]] ("I am absolutely not planning, or have planned, anything other then the hate-fueled destruction of my village and stupid friend, nosireebob"), and I wouldn't put it past Kishimoto to reveal that Madara has been manipulating Sasuke and Naruto's lives since before they were born, [[Inuyasha|Naraku-style]] and that Sasuke has long since figured both that and Madara's [[Instrumentality]] plot.
* Seems increasingly likely, though given how often Sasuke's character seems to change, who really knows.
 
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b) As above, except Madara actually did {{spoiler|remove Sasuke's eyes; he just didn't put Itachi's in}}. Why? Because even he thinks that Sasuke is being a whiny bitch, and wants to take him down a notch or ten.
 
c) Madara {{spoiler|replaced Sasuke's eyes with Itachi's}}, but there was a flaw in the process -- Iprocess—I don't know, maybe his Tobi personality took over in the middle of it, or he just isn't all he thinks he is -- andis—and it went wrong to a greater ({{spoiler|eyes completely useless for any and all purposes aside for filling in eyelids}}) or lesser ({{spoiler|can't use all those l33t jutsus}}) degree.
 
d) Everything went as planned, except {{spoiler|Itachi's visual impairment carried over to Sasuke}}. Think you can find yet another brother? (Madara: "Damn, I really should have thought of that.")
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* Or perhaps {{spoiler|Itachi booby-trapped his eyes somehow. Maybe Sasuke will be in the middle of his fight with Naruto, and then suddenly something will go wrong with his eyes.}}
* A seems the most likely to me, with a healthy dash of Sasuke's [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] being the catalyst for Madara to reveal it.
* This WMG is like a mini-[[Wish Fulfillment Fic]], [[Dissimile|only it's a WMG and not a Fanfic]]. Sasuke is the patron saint of [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]], and with Sasuke having overused his Mangekyo, him having Itachi's eyes would actually [[Xanatos Speed Chess|''benefit'']] Madara.
 
== During an important, epic future battle: ==
 
Naruto will be backed into a corner. Everything and everyone is all serious. Naruto then thinks to himself: 'No choice. I guess I'll have to use ''that'' Jutsu. I know Kakashi-sensei said I really shouldn't use it on anyone... and I ''really'' don't wanna subject anybody to ''that'', but I'm up against the wall here. I gotta do it'. Naruto then pulls off an epic Shadow Clone combo, gets behind his opponent, and: {{spoiler|"''Ultimate Secret Leaf Village Jutsu''! '''[[Ass Shove|THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH]]!!!'''. It would be a ''great'' surprise, and you all can't tell me you wouldn't enjoy seeing [[The Comically Serious|Sasuke]] flying through the air, propelled skyward by Naruto's "attack" while clutching the seat of his pants.}}
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** ...Does that make the Rasengan concentrated Spiral Energy?! [[So Cool Its Awesome|DUDE]]!!
*** Nope, its just chakra... that can be substituteded with Spiral Energy for a bigger attack. The ''Raikage'', though, is concentrated Spiral Energy.
* Alternatively, the Naruto world is stuck at the tail end of the [[Warhammer 40 K,000|Age of Strife]]. Chakra is actually a precurser to [[Psychic Powers|psykers]], but humanity's evolution isn't quite there, yet. Furthermore, everyone's at war, and Naruto has yet to face the true horrors of the rest of the world and unite everyone as the [[God-Emperor]] [[The Messiah|of Mankind]]. Or the [[God-Emperor]] of Mankind will show up (perhaps after the Sixth Hokage's [[Despair Event Horizon|death]]) and, unfortunately, [[Foregone Conclusion|kick everyone's asses]].
** Conversely, the Naruto world is a colonized planet lost to the Age of Strife, where psykers are accepted as ninja, because the Imperial Truth has been lost to time as the legend of the Sage of the Six Paths. Again, this explains the ramshackle technology and alternative geography we see in canon.
 
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* Isn't is probably the Rasen Shuriken?
** He's already mastered that.
* I thought it was the Tailed Beast Rasengan. Y'know, the Rasengan he's learning to use in his new controlled Nine-Tails Mode?
 
== Madara has no faith in Sasuke winning his fight against Naruto ==
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*** For Minato, would he really get such a response out of Madara? No denying he is powerful, but enough for Madara to consider it mad to summon him? As for how Madara knows what the Sage looks like. Well, the Rinnegan would probably be a dead givaway. And remember, it isn't the actual body of the person that the Ressurection revives, it's merely a vessel created for it.
**** Don't you need the original body too? I was under the impression that's why the bodies Kabuto shows off are all somewhat... rotted looking
**** The Impure World Ressurection is a pretty weird technique. I'm pretty sure you only need to know what they look like and their name, not their actual body. And the bodies always start off in a minor state of decay, until a fuda tag is placed to completely restore them. It's sort of like a [[Death Note (Manga)|Life Note]]
**** You don't need the original body, but you need part of their body. At least, that's what Kabuto says to Madara when he asks the specifics of the jutsu- Kabuto also adds that Orochimaru had a pretty nice collection of dead people dnas, which he probably meant to use for experimenting and/or this technique.
*** As far as Minato goes, Madara already fought him once and walked away. Plus Orochimaru already tried it. There's no reason for Madara to react with shock.
{{quote| Two things for this: Not only did Orochimaru's summon not manifest, but Madara doesn't have the Kyuubi on his side. Plus, what better fight for Naruto would there be? The personal opponent would also call back to Orochimaru's summoning Sarutobi's senseis.}}
*** I suspect a Minato that intends to kill you but now is immortal would be a radically different fight from their prior battle. The Sage of Six Paths really is the most likely of the people we are currently aware of, nothing else SHOULD be a credible threat to Madara.
 
 
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== Kabuto's sixth coffin contains the person who was in the third coffin Orochimaru was bringing out ==
This could suggest that Madara's surprised that Kabuto is able to summon this person, and finally show who was in the coffin before while revealing why this was kept secret until now. If it's the Fourth Hokage, who seems most likely given the Third Hokage's desperation to stop him it's possible that the summoning failed before partly because the Fourth Hokage's soul was still inside Naruto, but now that the Fourth Hokage used his one-time seal restoration, his soul is available to be summoned
** No, the coffin contains [https://web.archive.org/web/20100808040023/http://kiteiii.deviantart.com/art/Naruto-Chapter-490-Parody-160413739 this].
*** Another parody suggests that it's the Third Hokage's wife. {{spoiler|Since Madara seemingly killed her, she can be summoned}}.
 
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** You are aware of the Transformation technique that allows one to become a perfect duplicate of someone (or most notably, an inatimate object), right? This really isn't that silly.
 
== Naruto and Killerbee will be [[Put Onon a Bus]] for the next 20 or so chapters ==
Naruto being stuck with a fellow Jinchuuriki who can actually control his Bijuu smacks of a training montage, but in order to generate shock value of his new abilities, most of this training will take place off-screen. Meanwhile, we'll be treated to a series of chapters of how the war is going for the rest of the cast. When [[Big Damn Heroes|Naruto and Killerbee finally reappear]], expect a very super-powered Naruto showing off his "Kyuubi mode"!
* Seems likely, but I'd guess Naruto will (as he seems to be doing now) have to go through multiple hoops to get KB to train him.
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* Almost certianly true, but I'm going to bet whoever the Real Final Boss is will end up getting instagibbed by a returned Orochimaru who will be the ''real'' [[Real Final Boss]].
** ...You ''did'' see the spoilered text, right? And my further above WMG about the parentage of a pair of characters? {{supersecretspoiler| S}}HE might just be [[The Dragon]].
*** I did. Doesn't mean I agree with it though.
 
== The Uchiha bloodline has a total of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|17/18 abilities...]] ==
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In the case of transplants, this may influence what ones are inherited. It's possible that Danzo took Shisui's eye for the power it had, but Izanagi could have derived from his strong desire for self-preservation (fleeing the Kage summit, taking Karin hostage, being hesitant to sacrifice himself as a diversion). Kakashi may have also wanted the ability to predict his enemy's movements so that he could use Lightning Blade, and the copying ability may have been based on his desire to expand his repertoire of jutsus.
 
== Much like Enchu of [[Muhyo and Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation]], Sasuke will {{spoiler|make a [[Heel Face Turn]] and then go to prison for life}}. ==
There are many parallels between Naruto's quest to bring Sasuke back and Muhyo's quest to bring Enchu back; both of them were part of a group of three close friends, the person who left was jealous of the main character (althogh Enchu is the hard-working one while Muhyo is the genius), Sasuke and Enchu were [[Face Heel Turn|turned]] [[Love Makes You Evil|evil]] by the death of a family member while being manipulated by the [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|who shared some responsibility for the loved one's death}} ({{spoiler|Teeki killed Enchu's mother while Madara participated in the Uchiha massacre, and most likely summoned the Nine-Tailed Fox to attack Konoha, leading to the massacre}}, both main characters are determined to bring back their friends or die with them, and both Sasuke and Enchu are obsessed with causing pain to the respective main characters (although it took Sasuke until his confrontation with Naruto to move on to this motive). Enchu starts out about as evil as Sasuke is after hearing the truth about the massacre, it stands to reason that {{spoiler|if he does get redeemed and doesn't get [[Redemption Equals Death]], he'll be imprisoned or subject to some other punishment, since his actions are too severe to be ignored and heroes rarely hand down the death penalty, but will acknowledge his friendship with Naruto and Sakura before they part ways.}}
 
== Shikamaru is behind everything. ==
Shikamaru is basically acknowledged as the most intelligent character in the series and while he is lazy he's lazy like Yoh from Shaman King. He's been secretly plotting behind the scenes and intends to help Madara acheive his goal but once that's done he's going to take control of that ultimate genjutsu and then make the entire world his. That way he can be as lazy as he wants for the rest of his life cause he can make it so that no one will ever bother him again.
* So the laziest character has been pulling strings so he can be lazy? sounds like a pretty stupid thing for a genius to do.
 
== Inuzuka Jutsu Theories ==
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Naruto is picking up new abilities and power boosts like mad recently. It makes sense he'd have to use all of them against Madara.
* Sounds likely. Plus, given that he still can't do the basic Bushin, I bet that'll be the key to beating him.
** Apparently, [[Word of God]] says that his final battle will be against {{spoiler|Sasuke}}. This still is fairly likely to happen, and it could give the [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]] that Yamato mentioned a chance to come into play, with {{spoiler|Sasuke countering Naruto's Rasen Shuriken with a Fire jutsu or even Amaterasu, and Naruto having to find some way to deal with Sasuke's fire jutsus without water jutsus}}.
 
== One or more Hyuuga clan members will teach Naruto how to fight with his eyes closed. ==
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== Uzu no Kuni, the Land of Whirlpools, is at least partially underwater. ==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100729005830/http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/500/02/ It has been shown] that Uzu no Kuni is right next to Hi no Kuni. In the water. Since this is a current map, I submit that Uzushiogakure sank underwater. Thus, Uzushiogakure is Atlantis.
 
== Uzumaki, not Senju are the true descendants of the Rikudo Sennin. ==
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Theres a lot there which seems related, but I'm not quite sure how to form a unifying theory out of it.
 
* Maybe Madara needs Sasuke to take Itachi's eyes so they get the upgrade, he then steals the eternal Sharingan because he has lost both of his due to overuse of Izanagi.
 
== The Uzumaki Clan was allies with the Hyuga Clan, and crafted the Caged Bird Seal ==
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== Fugaku Uchiha (Sasuke's father) is the Masked Man/Flashback Tobi ==
He was the leader of the Uchiha clan, and the only person outside of the ANBU, the 3rd, his wife, Minato, and Kushina who knew about the birth was Mikoto Uchiha. It wouldn't be such a strech to assume she told her husband about it and he attacked the group, looking to free the Kyuubi. His reason for wanting to do this is unknown at the moment. Aside from the fact the Masked Man wears a mask (Which is different from Tobi's) that reveals one Sharingan and Tobi claimed to have not been involved with the Kyuubi's rampage (At least, that's what he told Sasuke), it was never stated this new person was Tobi/Madara. Also, the Masked Man's hood is pulled up so you can't see his hair, but Tobi never worries about that...in addition, Tobi wears gloves, while the Masked Man does not. (Masked Man's hands look oddly feminine...personally.)
* But Tobi DID wear that mask....[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Madara.PNG in a flashback where he helped Itachi massacre the Uchiha.]{{Dead link}} Also, Madara was probably the only Uchiha powerful enough to rip the bijuu right out of it jiinchuriki.
** Also its an ANBU mask, which would've helped disguise his identity.
 
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== One of the above WMG's is true, but Madara will not be the [[Big Bad]]. ==
The Juubi is [[Evil Is Not a Toy|too powerful]] for Madara to control, and it will [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|kill him as soon as he releases it,]] and then go on a rampage. Remember that Pain was confident he could harness the Juubi's power into a weapon that could wipe out an entire country in a single blow, so fighting it would be insanely difficult, unless Naruto found a way [[Chekhov's Gun|to absorb it into himself,]] or [[Book Ends|seal it into Kurenai's baby]] [[Generation Xerox|(or depending on the timeline, perhaps his own child).]]
 
== The power Itachi gave Naruto will negate Sasuke's control over the Kyubi and/or negate or restrict the use of Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan on Naruto, making their eventual fight a fair one. ==
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== Itachi had a child. ==
A throwaway line from Madara mentioned Itachi killing his lover. If he had a lover, it's possible he had a child, and everything he did (including all the things that don't seem to make any sense) were about protecting that child. The massacre of an entire clan by a genjutsu master while all the focus is on the one surviving witness would make it likely someone would fail to notice a baby untimely ripped from its mother's womb, especially if several women, both pregnant and not had had their wombs cut open. The baby was handed over to Hiruzen with specific instructions to give it to a civilian family to raise, and that the child must never become a shinobi nor be informed of being an Uchiha. His entire plan for Sasuke was simply a distraction, and it's actually quite possible he fully intended for Sasuke to die fighting Madara. If that happened, no living soul would know the Uchiha clan lives on, and that child would live out a peaceful life as a civilian never knowing the horrific circumstances of its birth.
* Itachi was thirteen when he massacred the clan, so this sounds a bit improbable.
** I don't know about the lover, but he supposed to Kill someone very close to him to gain Mangekyo, maybe Madara was reffering to his friend being also his lover? Which would mean that Itachi is...
** It's best friend, lover or something equal emotion-wise, Itachi killed his friend and encouraged Sasuke to kill Naruto.
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Everybody else seems to be doing so.
* Seems like a possible explanation for Itachi's gift to Naruto, except that it will also allow Itachi to communicate with Sasuke during their inevitable fight.
* Or the Edo Tensei will do the same thing.
 
== The Sharingan is powered by despair ==
The Sharingan is awakened by despair of being in a life or death situation. The Mangekyou is awakened by despair gained by killing your best friend. The Eternal Mangekyou is obtained by being so desperate that you'll take the eyes of your sibling.
** "[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei|I'm in despair! Having to do evil things for the council has left me in despair!]]"
 
== Mangekyou Sharingan abilities are passed down within the immediate family. ==
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* Wrong Manga-ka.
 
== Sakura is based on a girl (or possibly several), [[Writer Onon Board|that Kishimoto had a crush on, but at best saw him as a good friend, and at worst never gave him the time of day, at least until he got rich and famous.]] ==
He's on the record saying that he thinks women are actually like Sakura, so it's natural to conclude this is the result of bad experiences. Thus, while the unlearned may attribute Sakura's traits to bad writing, this is no accident. Look at the list: [[Deconstruction]] of [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]], highly suspect [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo]], intended to invoke [[This Loser Is You]], [[Faux Action Girl]], the [[Inverted Trope|Veronica]] to an [[Ojou]] in a [[Betty and Veronica]] [[Love Triangle]] despite not being from a major clan and thus not being rich like the [[Rich Bitch|character type normally calls for]]- all this points to serious [[Writer Onon Board]] either lashing out at former unrequited loves or gloating at their [[Green-Eyed Epiphany]].
 
 
== Despite the differences in interaction times, Hinata actually knows Naruto better than Sakura does. ==
Following the adage, "It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that ain't so," Sakura doesn't have a clue about who Naruto really is, despite spending so much time with him on missions and in training. There's lots of stuff she thinks she knows about Naruto that are just plain wrong, which is the reason she was shocked that Naruto responded to her "love confession" by giving her a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speach. Hinata, by contrast, knows details that Sakura doesn't, like the fact that Naruto is a [[Stepford Smiler]].
* There's also the fact that her powers include the ability to pay great attention, so combined with her crush in him means that she could have been was a sorta-stalker.
* In Naruto's fight with Kiba, Hinata realizes based on observing Naruto from a distance how lonely he was in his childhood, how hard he had to fight to overcome it and how significant it is that he's fighting in front of many of his peers who looked down on him. It takes Sakura a few months of being on the same team with Naruto and fighting alongside him to understand that he really is a [[Determinator]].
 
== Kisame does not have lungs. == Specifically, he does not have HUMAN lungs. The gills on his face are fully operational, and he uses them to breathe. If he hasn't removed his own lungs--probablylungs—probably asked Orochimaru or Sasori to do it--thenit—then these gills are a sort of lung bypass, an integrated SCUBA, if you will. If he was in a fight and someone slashed his gills, Kisame could suffocate, bleed to death, choke on his own blood, or all three. This also means that he's a mouth breather.
 
== Itachi's Crow was {{spoiler|a dormant Izanagi}} ==
 
Saw this on another site (http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=659397{{Dead link}}), and it makes the best damn sense when it comes to what it could be. Edited to avoid spoilers:
 
In his current state of mind, I have no doubt Sasuke would do almost anything for a victory against Naruto, and it would make sense that the greatest battle of their era features {{spoiler|all}} the sharingan jutsu. And think about it, Naruto did foreshadow that they would both die, and he did ask Sasuke "you saw it too?", implying Sasuke is also aware that if they clash at full power, they both will be killed (along with everything in a 8 miles radius ).
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== Naruto will go into the final battle with Sasuke with every intention of either converting Sasuke or fighting to a mutual kill, but he will survive. ==
Sasuke will come at him full force, and Naruto will counter creating a [[Fantastic Nuke|nuclear-scale explosion]] (if Izanagi is involved, this will go through multiple rounds). In the end, however, Sasuke just isn't that strong in comparison, and so Sasuke [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|gets vaporized]] while Naruto [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke|walks away,]] albeit battered and bloody, resigning himself to the fact that the only one responsible for Sasuke's death is Sasuke himself, and that in the end, Sasuke wasn't strong enough morally, mentally or physically to go along with his plans.
* PLEASE let this one come true.
 
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* Will the giant worm be [[Gears of War|sinking cities]]?
 
== Kabuto's attempts at using Zetsu to make a new Deidara/Manda is going to [[Spanner in Thethe Works|cause major problems]] ==
Firstly, it's clear Deidara isn't particularly pleased with not being able to control himself, and also that he has no idea what the situation is. Further, he's not quite the same as he was. Similarly, Manda 2.0 now has legs, despite being a snake. It's pretty clear that Kabuto doesn't really know what he's doing when it comes to using Zetsu to do stuff, and everything is going to [[Gone Horribly Right|go horr]][[Gone Horribly Wrong|ibly wrong.]]
* I don't know about Manda, but Deidara is just the result of an Impure Resurrection Summoning. He's given some free will unless the Hokages Orochimaru summoned, but he is still dust and ashes bound by his soul covering a sacrifice. No Zetsu involved.
** Then why does he look so different?
*** Because some/all the zombies have weird eyes because of the Resurrection technique.
 
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== The Basis of the Sharingan's Power... ==
... is combining both Experiential and Analytical thinking. Users of even the most basic form of the Sharingan are able to perceive things happening much more slowly than normal (as in Experiential thinking) while retaining the ability to see patterns and formulate plans (as with Analytical thinking). The overall effect of this is that, when active, the Sharingan puts the brain in overdrive, speeding it up to where it can keep up with the user's sight (a good illustration of what would happen without this would be Sasuke's first fight with Lee, where he could mostly see the boy's movements but was unable to do anything about it because his body simply couldn't keep up -- exceptup—except affecting his brain and not his body). The Sharingan's growth (excluding those fancy-shmancy [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands|upgrades]]) simply further combines the two.
 
However, as the human brain is not designed to use Experiential and Analytical thinking simultaneously, overuse of the Sharingan can be extremely taxing on the user's neural pathways, and in cases of severe overuse it can cause neurons to effectively fry themselves ''en masse''. Symptoms-slash-effects of this can vary from reduced mental faculties due to a drastically reduced brain-cell count, drastic changes in personality due to loss of behavioral inhibitors and/or empathy, amnesia, retrograde amnesia, increased susceptibility to suggestion, sudden development of mental illnesses like paranoid schizophrenia or bipolar manic depression, and rarely even outright degenerative psychosis.
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** Er, arent Impure World Ressurection Zombies indestructable? I thought that was why the 3rd had to seal them away.
*** You're right, this means probably that Sasuke will fight Kabuto with a Susanoo possesing the Totsuka Sword, considering that the Totsuka Sword can also seal souls.
*** Now that Suigetsu and Juugo have gotten out of jail,this troper believes that a Kimimaro vs Juugo is in order(It seems too late for a Suigetsu vs Zabuza at this point).
*** Ten-ten vs. Madara and she wins.
 
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**** I highly doubt Hizashi Hyuuga or Dan were, either.
** Haku/Zabuza are a useful tool to throw Naruto off his game emotionally. Or to offer to Naruto as an olive branch (like Dan and Nawaki were to Tsunade). Kabuto's covering all his bases and we STILL don't know what he really wants.
** Haku and Zabuza are [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Ensemble Darkhorses]]s. Kabuto is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and he realizes their [[Popularity Power]] potential.
* I think Kabutomaru resurected people like Dan to give the emotional trouble of fighting them.
 
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* Yugito Nii for Killer Bee (He respected her)
* Haku, Zabuza, {{spoiler|and possibly Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya and Hiruzen for Naruto. He resurrected the previous Jinchuuriki and Kages, so why not the previous Jinchuuriki of the strongest tailed beast, two very powerful Hokage and one Sannin?}}
** Because the Hokage's can't be resurrected, he is too lazy to get Jiraiya and Kushina might be too hard to obtain her DNA.
* Hizashi against Neji/Hinata
** {{spoiler|Hiashi vs. Hizashi}}
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== Tobi/Madara is an Edo Tensei zombie ==
Somebody summoned Madara with Edo Tensei and he died before he could finish the jutsu. Even when the summoner is dead, the summon will continue to roam the world. Madara needed to use Izanagi in order to prepare his body to receive the Rinnegan. The mysterious person in Kabuto's coffin is the person who summoned Madara, the only person who could send him to the "Pure World" again.
 
== As an alternative to the above, Kishimoto [[Sure Why Not|canonizes]] the [[OTOne 3True Threesome|Clan]] [[Tenchi Solution|Restoration Act]]. ==
Which will backfire spectacularly because as much as the harem fans would be happy, everyone else would regard it as an [[Ass Pull]].
* Alternatively, he canonizes it, but makes it far from pleasant. Wives chosen on a genetic rather than romantic basis, not allowed to go on dangerous missions until kids are born, what have you.
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== Naruto is Nearing Power-up Critical Mass ==
Think of all the jutsu power-ups and new [[Super Mode|super modes]] he has been acquiring lately: Sage Mode, Demon Fox Sage Mode, Neo Tailed Beast/Ninjassiah Mode, Rasenshuriken, Giant Rasengan, Rasenrengan, and now the Tailed Beast Bomb (which is everything the Rasengan is, only kicked [[Up to Eleven|up to eleven]] and given a [[Badass|badass]] make-over). Awesome, right? Well, consider this: the Tailed Beast Bomb is essentially the Rasengan, only with an arbitrarily wonky yin-yang chakra ratio. As far as we know thus far, ''there is nothing to keep Naruto from eventually applying all the boosts and variations he has added to the vanilla Rasengan to the Tailed Beast Bomb itself''. Heck, all he really needs to do to unlock his full arsenal for use in his Neo Tailed Beast Mode is become friends with the Nine Tailed Demon Fox. Think about that for a second: all that Naruto Uzumaki, originator of [[Fan Nickname|Therapy no Jutsu]], whose greatest skill has been stated to be his [[Friend to All Living Things|uncanny charisma]] and [[The Messiah|outgoing personality]], needs to do to achieve an unparalelled level of raw, unlimited power is befriend the demon sealed in his stomach -- astomach—a feat that others have managed to do just fine. [[Forgone Conclusion|The outcome is obvious]].
 
Once Naruto does this (and we all know that he ''will''), I for one would not be the least bit surprised to see him [[Curb Stomp Battle|handily defeat the final boss]] with a single [[Word Salad Title|Super Giant Tailed Beast]] [[Calling Your Attacks|Storm Shuriken Bullet Barrage]].
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== Kabuto has limited omniscience ==
How else would Kabuto know about Madara's whereabouts and identity. Not to mention that Kabuto was able to get his hands on the remains of every important Shinobi.
He was able to find remains of Deidara, who transformed his own body into a bomb. He was able to find remains of Itachi, who was kept by Madara, he was able to find remains of Kakuzu, who was capured by Kohona. He was able to find remains of Nagato, who was guarded by Konan. Evem if Kabuto could use the dead to gain information, there are still things which he shouldn't know, like Nagato's location..
* Not necessarily. He needs their DNA but there's no (stated) reason it needs to come from a corpse. It's likely for starters that much of his collection of DNA came from Oorochimaru's collection. We've already seen enough to know they have hospitals in this world. So you disguise yourself walk right in draw blood from anybody who looks remotely interesting keep it labeled some place and keep an eye on the local obituaries. Alternately he could visit the sights of well recent battles and seach for kunai.
 
== Sooner or later, someone ''will'' open all Eight Chakra Gates ==
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== Background of the Uchiha Massacre/Danzo and Madara ==
The way I interpreted things, Danzo somehow witnessed that Madara was behind the Kyuubi attack on Konoha which claimed the life of the Fourth and got it sealed into Naruto. Madara knew Danzo witnessed it, leading to their meeting, mentioned before Sasuke v Danzo. Danzo agreed to sell out the Uchihas who had betrayed Konoha if Madara gave him carte blanche access to the aftermath and some information regarding the Kyuubi. Lacking a man on the inside, Madara agreed. Danzo started spreading rumors that the Uchiha were behind the Kyuubi attack, which was plausible to the general population for two reasons: first, Madara had fought the First Hokage and had used the Kyuubi; second, the Uchiha had to be defeated by the Senju (read: Madara had to be defeated by Hashirama) in order for Konoha to be fully stabilized. The Second Hokage clearly had a dual intention in making them the police force; they played a major role in village security and order given their powers, and thus, ordinary citizens would learn to trust them. But their visible role would let him keep an eye on them, especially considering he came from that same war-torn era as the First and Madara. Anywho, the villagers started outwardly discriminating against the Uchiha, who had already been moved to the outskirts of town (right? I think that happened before the Kyuubi attack). The Uchiha got pissed and noted that the Third wasn't doing much (even if that was due to a lack of ability given the circumstances), and started actually plotting a coup. Really a giant [[Plan]] by Danzo. He pointed to this coup, and the two elders, already being hardliners, jumped in and agreed. The Third tried negotiations, but was trapped between a rock and a hard place: on the one hand, war with the Uchihas would cause a Fourth Ninja World War as Konoha would be weakened and others would try to take the Land of Fire; on the other, the villagers and Uchihas were completely suspicious of each other and could generally find no reason to overcome that mistrust. Things came to a head eventually when negotiations broke down. Danzo, in the meantime, used the ace in his sleeve: Itachi, the prodigy of the Uchihas, who was a mentally unstable pacifist who wanted (almost like Pain) peace at all costs due to his witnessing of the Third World War. Using what he learned from Madara, he told Itachi (who was in the ANBU, and, therefore, probably under Danzo's influence) to seek the tablet (or just told him how to acquire the Mangyeko Sharingan). He sics him on Shisui, who has the same relationship with Itachi as Itachi does with Sasuke (or so I figure). Itachi slays Shisui, whose murder further alienates Itachi and lets Danzo swoop in and acquire his right arm and right eye. Madara, watching from afar, approaches Itachi. Itachi figures out the truth (Madara wants revenge on Konoha as a whole, not just the Uchihas), but decides to work with Madara for the fateful night to eliminate the clan, since they have the same objective regarding the clan, if different reasons. Boom!~Uchihas massacred; Itachi goes with Madara after ensuring the Third protects Sasuke to prevent any further action against Konoha; Danzo gets his eyes and his Sharingan powers (50% of what he needs to tame the beast and use its powers), and the coup, civil war, and world war is prevented.
 
It makes sense in my head at least...
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It would be because the whole time, Madara didn't give Sasuke Itachi's eyes, but just an ordinary set of eyes (maybe from a previous Akatsuki member). It was all a trick so he could get his hands on Sasuke's eyes. Once Sasuke finds out he got dicked by Madara, he decides to team up with Naruto. After defeating Madara, Sasuke still doesn't return to Konoha because of his previous crimes. Unable to face his home after all he's done, he wanders around the world. Just so Sasuke won't be alone, either Sakura or Karin (depending on who you ship), upon seeing that he really has changed, come with him, but not before giving Naruto one last kiss before leaving.
 
== Samehada and Zetsu have a related origin ==
Both can absorb Chakra and are [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s.
 
== Naruto will marry the Seventh Hokage ==
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== Madara is actually the original Demon Sage. ==
 
He didn't die but was defeated by his own son(s). But because he was so powerful he wasn't killed and had a vastly enhaced life span considering he is the ancestor of the Uzumaki. The son(s) took the Demon Sage's rinnegan eyes away.
 
The real Madara was killed by the first but the Demon Sage stole his sharingan. When he tells Pain that he gave the rinnegan to him, what he means is that he is his ancestor.
 
Although the Demon Sage was powerful and though his son(s) inherited his powers they are still distinct entities. Much like the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He needs all three of their traits to be all powerful which is why he retains the sharingan and he sought the power of the Senju.
 
This is how he comes to know so much about the Sage because He IS the Sage.
 
The Demon Sage Madara wants Sasuke to fight Naruto because if they worked together they could be his undoing just like how his previous son(s) beat him.
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* There is, at the very least, evidence that the Bijuu are one of the paths. The statue that Akatsuki uses to seal the Bijuu is called Gedo Mazo, which according to the scanlator, translates to "Demon Statue of the Outer Path." Which would also seem to indicate that it comes numerically last, instead of fifth.
** Additionally, Madara mentions a "Human Path" [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/naruto/v55/c515/10.html here], which is somehow connected to the Rinnegan.
*** Actually, it's likely that the "six paths" in series refers to the unique abilities used by Nagato's Six Paths of Pain: Deva Path (''Tendō'') [can control gravity], Animal Path (''Chikushōdō'') [summons crazy stuff], Preta Path (''Gakidō'') [absorbs chakra and ninjutsu], Human Path (''Ningendō'') [can pull out people's souls to instantly learn everything they know], Asura Path (''Shuradō'') [... is a cyborg...?], Naraka Path (''Jigokudō'') [can summon...] the Outer Path (Gedō) [power over life and death], which is the seventh path. Additionally, the "''rinne''" in "''rinnegan''" is the Japanese term for "''[[wikipedia:Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81raSaṃsāra chr(28)Buddhismchr(29Buddhism)|Samsara]]''" (the Buddhist cycle of reincarnation), and each of the Six Paths of Pain corresponds to a path in the Samsara cycle. So, while nice, this theory is probably not correct.
**** Actually what I meant was that the correspond to one of the paths/realms like Onmyoton for Deva and by ascending these paths look get closer to enlightenment and eventually gain the same power as Rokudo Sennin.
 
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== Sarutobi Hiruzen was stronger than Madara ==
Madara is as powerful as Hashirama, pupils always exceed their masters, so Sarutobi is stronger than Madara. This explains why Madara did not attack Kohona when Sarutobi was Hokage.
* Fascinating theory, but you overlooked something. It was Tobirama, Hashirama's younger brother, that taught Hiruzen.
** Hiruzen was trained by both, albeit mostly by Tobirama.
== As powerful as Konan is, she's only the second strongest Ninja ever. ==
Despite having fire power equal to a small nuclear device, Konan's power is clearly significantly eclipsed by the Raikage's Secretary, Mabui, who is able to move objects ''at the speed of light.'' Nukes have nothing on relativistic weapons, after all. One wonders why she hasn't just flat out killed Madara yet.
* A small nuclear device is nothing compared to Deidara blowing himself up. My back of the envelope calculations estimated that blast at 400 kT of TNT equivalent, or about the size of a typical thermonuclear weapon in the US arsenal.
** That is wrong on several different levels. Konan's explicitly been stated to have over six '''billion''' explosive notes at her disposal. Deidara's most powerful bomb destroys everything within ten kilometers of himself, or roughly six miles. If we assume that's a six-mile radius, that's about 450 square miles destroyed. If you assume that, if each and every one of Konan's explosive notes destroyed a '''''ridiculously''''' undervalued one square foot of real estate, and each one destroyed a separate square foot, then she could potentially wipe out over a '''''million''''' square miles. That's bigger than most countries.
*** If your calculations were accurate, you'd be right, but they are not. 6 billion square feet is 215 square miles. You have to divide by 5280^2, not 5280, to convert square feet into square miles.
* Madara can access alternate dimension, not to mention Susanoo: immovable object meets unstoppable force.
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[[Gratuitous English]] [[In a World]] [[Like Reality Unless Noted|based on ours]] [[Justified Trope|is justified by]] [[Truth in Television]]. Gratuitous English in a world where the entire planet apparently speaks Japanese is not. The English words and phrases must come from ''somewhere''.
* Kumo is the most likely candidate, since several characters are named after Latin(English) letters, and most attacks have English names.
** Yes, I was planning on using Kumo as an example if anyone asked for examples of [[Gratuitous English]]. Besides Kumo having characters whose names are just Roman letters and whose jutsu have English names written with kanji that somewhat match the pronounciation,<ref> for example, Laser Circus is written with kanji that would otherwise be pronounced ''Reiza Sakaso''</ref>, we also have Jiraiya's ''Icha Icha'' Series .<ref> ''Icha Icha Paradaisu'', ''Icha Icha Baiorensu'' and ''Icha Icha Takutikusu''</ref>. Also, Naruto has said "Good morning" in at least one episode, and I'm pretty sure Sakura said "Ok!" at one point. Where do these English words come from?
 
== Pain/Nagato was [[Dragon-in-Chief|stronger than Madara]]. ==
[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].
 
== Naruto Doesn't Remember Hinata's [[Anguished Declaration of Love|Confession]] ==
* Point One: Naruto has previously demonstrated [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|difficulty remembering things that occurred while in]] more advanced stages of his [[Super-Powered Evil Side|tailed beast]] [[Deadly Upgrade|transformations]].
* Point Two: Naruto, after Pain struck down Hinata, rapidly went through, in this order:
** [[Unstoppable Rage|Swiftly transforming all the way up to]] [[Four Is Death|his four tailed form]] and beyond,
** Going through an existential crisis even while being [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|tempted by the Fox]], who offers to [[Deal Withwith the Devil|destroy anything that causes him pain in exchange for being set loose]].
** [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nearly unsealing said homicidal demon]].
** Meeting his father in the center of his mind.
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** Using therapy jutsu on Nagato, causing him to decide to revive those killed in the invasion.
** Being received as a hero by the village.
* Point Three: Since the end of Pain's invasion, Naruto has given no indication of being aware of Hinata's feelings for him.
* Point Four: It's pretty much either this, or Kishimoto just '''really''' doesn't want to even try to write any sort of conclusion to this particular plot thread until he has the rest of the plot out of the way, even if it means making it seem like Naruto is actively avoiding the poor girl because he has no way how to respond to her confession.
** Most likely Point 4, since she told him before he went berserk, and Kishimoto seems to want romance left in the background if it has to be in the story at all, also Naruto is still a fairly silly teenager so figuring out how he feels about Hinata probably doesnt top his list of priorities when he is being hunted by powerful ninjas.
== Karin and Tayuya are/were related by blood ==
Just a hunch.
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Amaterasu is the sun goddess and Hinata and Hyuuga means sunny place and the sun respectively. There's a lot of references about this, even though the two characters haven't talked to/about each other. Also, Hinata looks somewhat like Mikoto. There's alot of [[Irony]] about this couple. It's unknown if Kishi were to ever write this. It's just...Ironic. It may be like the battle with Pain, but with a few changes. Given that [[Jerkass|Sasuke]] has [[Memetic Mutation|now entered true darkness]] and Hinata having [[Purity Sue|the atmosphere to that of an angel's]] (Especially more so in the anime thanks to [[Memetic Mutation|Sailor Hinata]]), along with the fact that she was ''the'' first person of the Konoha 11 to ever acknowledge Naruto for who he is. They're somewhat Opposites of what they stand for despite similar expieriences. She somewhat helped Naruto cure the egos of Neji and Pain (to a lesser degree), so it's to happen with Sasuke, removing him from the darkness.
* If this [https://web.archive.org/web/20090220173845/http://nocturnaltravel.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=138 website.] is anything to by, the theory of Amaterasu, Tsukiyomi, and Susano'o fits the three Uchihas perfectly (Especially Sasuke and Madara, seeing that former's hatred will lead to rage, and the latter revealed his Moon's Eye plan). Kushinada-Hime somewhat makes sense with Hinata, Seeing that Hime literally means "princess" or "Young lady of Noble birth" (and she has a [[Hime Cut]]).
* That would be [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|epic!]] Sasuke, the former heartthrob, winds up falling in love with the only girl who was NEVER interested in him, and who is instead madly in love with Naruto. "Mia Carlotta" comes to mind when I think about this scenario.
 
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== Madara is the spirit of the Ten Tails ==
Madara gained the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan which let the Ten Tails spirit possess him.
He fought with Hashirama Senju which got him wounded but allowed him to create the Zetsu twins, which he then cloned and fused with it(which is shown here http://www.mangareader.net/93-57473-8/naruto/chapter-510.html), which granted him the ability to regenerate and possess/fuse with other Zetsu clones(http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/536/16), control the Zetsu's and possess Senju DNA which gives him access to Izanagi.
The Rinnegan and Sharingan were passed down from the Sage of six paths through the Senju and Uchiha which makes his claim that he gave Nagato the Rinnegan correct.
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== Every single Hokage is going to pull a [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]] moment at the allied forces' darkest hour. ==
Let's say for the sake of argument that the Death God Seal was invented by the 4th Hokage going forward with this, and the "eternal battle" being fought in its stomach consists of all four dead Hokage, half the Kyuubi, and Orochimaru's arms. Given that the first was there, the half of the Kyuubi got curb-stomped and tamed a while back, but now the 4th's conversation with Naruto has alerted the Kages to the state of affairs outside, and they're combining their powers with the space/time jutsu mastery of the 4th and 2nd to penetrate the walls of the dimension they've been forced into. As Madara seems to reach his hour of triumph, all four Hokage will burst out of the Death God's stomach and subject him to a [[Big Good]] [[Boss Rush]]. After the mother of all [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomp Battles]]s, the Hokages have a [[So Proud of You]] moment with Naruto and the ninja that have fought for the Will Of Fire before they and Orochimaru's arms (but not the rest of him) pass on to rest in peace rather than eternal torment.
 
Before you ask, no, I'm not being serious, but I wouldn't complain if it went down that way.
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== This series is going to end like [[Return of the Jedi]] ==
Naruto fights and defeats Sasuke non-lethally, then Madara swoops in and starts destroying him, followed by Sasuke reviving somewhat and taking down Madara kamikaze-style. Sasuke gets Vader's [[Redemption Equals Death]], Madara sees total destruction a la Palpatine, and the spoils go to Naruto/Luke.
* I doubt that will be the end though; that's too convienent. Something will have to go [[Horribly Wrong]].
 
== Possible identities for the other two kids in Team Jiraiya ==
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== Danzo has Uzumaki heritage ==
The Uzumaki were known for their long lives, that implies that they stay longer younger. Now compare Danzo with Sarutobi and the other Elders, who are the same age as him. Danzo shows less signs of ageing, his walking stick is only for show as he showed against Sasuke. The Uzumaki were also well-known seal-masters. Danzo used a curse-seal to bind the tongues of the ROOT members, a curse-seal to bind Sasuke and a seal to activate upon his death to seal his killer.
* Plausible, he does seem to resemble the oldest male Uzumaki that has been [https://web.archive.org/web/20130430205123/http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Uzumaki_Clan_Leader seen] so far
 
== Madara has just given Kabuto his own set of six path's ==
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Using Bijuu chakra as a stand-in for the actual Bijuu is already in play, so it's plausible.
 
== The rest of the Sound Five has been [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|brought back]] ==
We just haven't seen them yet. I mean, I know Kimimaro was the strongest, but is that any reason to leave out the rest?
 
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== The White Zetsu clones can be killed if Black Zetsu dies ==
It's kind of like with Piccolo in [[DragonballDragon Ball]], where a separate being was made from him, and if the host dies, they die.
* Which makes sense, because only White Zetsu has been cloned.
 
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* The toads will join the war when the old toad sees that Naruto misunderstood the prophecy, since the prophecy was about him fighting Itachi not Sasuke.
== Possible identities for the unnamed Akatsuki members ==
During the first on-screen Akatsuki meeting, some of the holograms were unrecognizable.
* Big!Kakuzu: One noticable hologram was in Kakuzu's shape, but was much larger than his first physical appearance. Until we get a [[Word of God]] confirmation, I assume that he maybe was a previous partner of Kakuzu's from the same village.
== Kabuto will either become the final Big Bad or the one before the real Big Bad ==
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{{spoiler|There are a couple of inconsistencies with Madara's new Paths of Pain technique. This is already obvious given that he's using the remaining six Jinchuriki, most of who's abilities we haven't seen, save for perhaps Utaka in the anime. But then, something seemed odd. Look closely at the picture of of them. There are no chakra receivers implanted in their bodies like with Nagato's version! This seemed to be a somewhat crucial component of the technique, otherwise why would Pain have sent a body to retrieve the receivers Konoha obtained from their examination, rather than simply let them get destroyed when he gravity bombed the village?}}
 
{{spoiler|We also know that Madara now has the Gedo Mazo statue which contains tailed beast Chakra. Now combine that with the fact that one of Pain's very abilities is both ripping your soul out AND resurrecting the dead, (Completely, and not an "artificial" version like Kabuto's).}}
 
{{spoiler|Plus, we don't exactly know what Akatsuki did with the original bodies of the remaining Jinchuuriki. After Shukaku was extracted, why else would Deidara have made an effort to take the body with him, rather than simply leave it (Yes, I know Deidara's an ass who did it to screw with Naruto, but that's beside the point). So in effect, had Gaara's body not been recovered, Gaara might have ended up as one of Madara's new bodies.}}
 
{{spoiler|Of course, a lot of this also depends if the remaining Jinchuuriki still have their tailed beast powers, but again Gedo Mazo. Madara has the beasts, so he could distribute them as he chose, but again . Now if it was simple to place the tailed beasts into dead bodies, then why not add Shukaku? Why focus only six of the seven beasts you have, leaving out one that would further increase your chances at victory?}}
 
{{spoiler|This also throws in a loop with Edo Tensei, as one of its previous users, namely Orochimaru, didn't simply resurrect a dead Uchiha,(Simple for him, this war has proved he had DNA from practically everybody), and steal that body to gain the Sharingan. Unless there's some kind of "dead can't interact with the living clause" which hasn't been fully elaborated on, but it is a possibility given how Edo Tensei zombies heal back into their original state regardless of damage/modifications. So if its the case, then it doesn't explain how Madara was able to implant Rinnegan and Sharingan into the Jinchuuriki... unless they were alive!}}
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== There will be a 3rd part for Naruto ==
And it will focus on [[After the End|the apocalyptic after-effects of the Juubi's chakra after being released from the moon.]] Needless to say, it will be [[Darker and Edgier|more serious]] than ever, to the point Naruto might end up becoming a [[Knight in Sour Armor|broken idealist]] a la [[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight|Archer]]
 
== Madara will extract the Nine Tails chakra from Naruto... ==
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== Orochimaru and Kabuto are two consciousnesses inhabiting the same body, and the reason Kabuto wants Sasuke is not for revenge or to control him via Edo Tensei, but to give Orochimaru a body of his own. ==
We've known all along that Kabuto is the pragmatic type, so revenge isn't his style, and he already has more than enough Edo Tensei puppets. Orochimaru has wanted to take over Sasuke's body for years, and now Sasuke has the Mangekyou Sharingan, so why should he settle for less? Also, Kabuto's claim that he has no particular reason outside of scientific curiosity to exchange such a powerful war force for one person is clearly [[Blatant Lies]]--and—and why wouldn't he just tell Madara if he wanted revenge or to zombify Sasuke? We've also seen that Orochimaru is extremely hard to kill, and almost took over Sasuke before Itachi sealed him away. Kabuto has also changed considerably since absorbing Orochimaru's cells, and not just appearance-wise: he's never shown this level of deviousness or initiative before, so Orochimaru is probably the one pulling the strings.
* A close alternative for that would be that Kabuto knows Orochimaru is taking over their body, so he needs some place (e.g. host body) to dump Orochimaru out, but the latter's will is strong enough that he'll successfully resist any attempt to be dumped into a body he deems insufficient, and thus needs to put Orochimaru in Sasuke to save himself from total possession.
 
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* I totally would want to see that.
== The Uchiha family were the original jinchuriki for the Kyuubi. ==
* Their chakra and kekkei genkai are pretty much built to control the big evil fuzz ball, they also tend to be more tricksters and using illusions, the hat of kitsune. There does seem to be a genetic or family tie to having the eldritch abomination stuck in the next generation, the Senju were their protectors and the
Uzumaki were the "priests" who completed the binding.
** Alternatively, the sage created both his sons, the senju ancestor as a host due to a long lifespan and the Uchiha to control the tailed beasts if needed.
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This is an alternative theory to him being Sasuke from the future. In the alternate timeline, after killing Itachi, Sasuke never found out about the truth of the Uchiha clan massacre and returned to Konoha. He and an ambiguous lover had a child together and named him Madara in honor of founder of the clan (or Tobi, which would explain where the name came from. Sasuke doesn't find out until he is on his death bed and tells Madara to "set things right." By the time it took place, the Village Elders have already passed on from natural causes, so he resorts to time travel.
 
== 'Madara' is to Madara what [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Vanitas was to Ventus]] ==
Specifically, the darkness and evil of Madara's heart/soul extracted and made manifest as a separate being.
 
== Tobi is the Senju Clan Ancestor who became disillusioned. ==
Tobi is really the Senju Clan Ancestor who lost his idealism. He believes that the only way to obtain peace is through mind control. Tobi used Izanagi which would require Senju DNA. His Izanagi was complete because he didn't use implanted DNA. Not to mention that the Senju Clan Ancestor also has the same [https://web.archive.org/web/20140328225618/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110317173150/naruto/images/thumb/4/4e/Senju_Ancestor_Anime.jpg/300px-Senju_Ancestor_Anime.jpg spiky hair.]
 
== Tobi is made of the dark half of Madara's chakra. ==
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== Filler is about to go [[Off the Rails]] due to [[Shipping Wars]]. ==
The writers have their own opinions about [[One True Pairing]], and they don't agree with each other, let alone know what Kishimoto is thinking. The previews for the next episode include a woman who seems to think she's Naruto's fiancee. Then, there's Shippuden:Bonds- it's like, what's the best way to shoehorn UST into this movie? I know, let's have Naruto go on a mission with Sakura AND Hinata, and throw in a [[Girl of the Week|girl of the movie]] who triggers [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]. The shippers are now [[Running the Asylum]].
** This makes sense, but IMO, it's less shipping disagreements alone and more so about the show painfully, painfully, PAINFULLY lacking cohesive artistic direction. (and IMO, the Bleach and One Piece animes suffer from this too)
 
== At some point, Tobi will try a [[You and What Army?]] on Naruto ==
And then Naruto will answer "This army!" with all the Shinobi from Amegakure. Why? Because it would be awesome. Not to mention what Konan said, that Ame would be loyal to him. And they'll probably be pissed that Nagato was used and had his Rinnegan taken, and that Konan was killed.
 
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== Deidara will get an [[Enemy Mine]] with the Allies... ==
...When he finds out Sasuke's still alive/Tobi was an Uchiha all along. It will entirely be for "kill the guy I should have killed"/"off that laying bastard" purposes and he'll go back to being a criminal the second the war ends. How?
* A) His will to kick Uchiha hide will trully be that strong (he seems the type to become a vengeful spirit if he has to) OR
* B)some random [[Ass Pull]]
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== Orochimaru's scroll contains... ==
 
Place your guesses here.
 
* The method of awakening Rinnegan.
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== Edo-Madara will arise as the final Big Bad and Sasuke will be the responsable. ==
He will be a [[Spanner in Thethe Works]] for Itachi and try to kill Kabuto, eliminating all possibilities of stopping the technique. With Kabuto dead, Madara will be free to reassume the control of the Moon's Eye Plan once Naruto kills Tobi.
 
== Karin is faking her reaction to being bitten by Sasuke. ==
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== If Itachi is God and Naruto is Jesus, does this make Sasuke Satan? ==
Kishi has previously mentioned that Itachi is basically his attempt at writing God as a human, and with Naruto being [[The Messia|The Messiah]]h and whatnot, where does this put Sasuke? As a foil to both of them in some certain aspects, does this make Sasuke Satan? Though the manga has never leaned towards any kind of religion (other than Narutoism), writing God does tend to mean you have to have some kind of opposite, i.e. the Devil. Although Pein mirrored what Naruto could have become if things were different, he was at least [[Heroic Sacrifice|repentant]] in the [[Redemption Equals Death|end]], but we have seen zero remorse from Sasuke about pretty much everything, and he's starting to look more and more [[Complete Monster|completely evil]] as the story progresses. As Naruto's opposite pretty much from day one, this makes Sasuke Satan to Naruto's Jesus.
 
== The reason why Konoha has more variance in jutsu than the other major countries is because... ==
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* Orochimaru was experimenting on Senju DNA to give himself the Rinnegan with Sasuke's body.
* The information on the scroll is the method of doing this, so Sasuke will obtain a Rinnegan.
* Alternatively Sasuke will attempt to force Uzumaki Karin to be the mother of his restored clan (how ironic) to breed the Rinnegan into all of them.
** [[Paranoia Fuel|Considering the potency of Sharingan with genjutsu, manipulating her will would be easy, if necessary at all.]] We know how Tsukuyomi can be used to torture, but it would be just as effective at propaganda. He could convince her that attacking through her to kill Danzo was the only way to save her life.
 
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* Sakura is Vanity. Everything she does is shallow. In Chapter 3, she worries how to attract Sasuke considering that she's so [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|lacking in the T&A department.]] Chapter 469 indicates nothing changed over the [[Time Skip]], given that she was willing to confess so-called love for Naruto in a way that was blatantly shallow ("A woman's heart is as fickle as the autumn sky.") And this was after she had seen that Hinata genuinely loved Naruto, but she expected him to accept her shallow confession (never mind that it was false) over Hinata's self-sacrificial one.
 
[[WMG: The Sage of the six Paths was the offspring of an {{spoiler|Uzumaki}}and a {{spoiler|Hyuga.}}]]
The combination of the bloodlines created the {{spoiler|sharingan which has been revealed to evolve into the rinnengan.}} This would explain why the Uzumaki's and the Senju are related and why it was mentioned that people believe the {{spoiler|sharingan}} was a mutation from the byakugan. This would also explain how Nagato suddenly developed the {{spoiler|rinnengan}}. We never got a good look at his parents did we?
 
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* 2. While Kurama still has a chance to save Naruto, either Kakashi or Tsunade seal the fox in Naruto once again.
** Who says Naruto would die from being separated from Kurama too long? Sure, Nagato thought the extraction would be fatal, but he didn't know about the nature of the Uzumaki clan powers as it applied to Jinchuriki. It's not even clear Nagato knew he was an Uzumaki. Kushina died from being impaled by Kurama's claw, and both plans for defeating Kurama involved [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
*** Right. Kushina was physically exhausted after the extraction, but still alive. She was going to die by taking Kurama with her using her chakra, but she wound up dying to save Naruto from Kurama's attack. Naruto wouldn't die from the extraction unless Tobi gets some [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]], but Naruto dying at all still seems unlikely.
 
== About Tobi's Moon Eye Plan - How to do ==
 
To cast that huge-ass Genjutsu and reflect it in the Moon, he needs to become Juubi so he'll have enough power. How? Being the ultimate Jinchuuriki.
 
1.- He wants a freaking strong body that can take the abuse of malevolent chakra without crashing down (like Naruto's after ?th tail).
 
2.- He wants all the Bijuu to form just Juubi's chakra construct -and then sealing it in the powerful body he created (his body).
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== Itachi will not die ==
Itachi is Sasuke's [[Morality Chain]]. Sasuke was perfectly sane (if a bit angsty) when Itachi was still alive. When Itachi died, Sasuke began to lose it (admittedly, it took a bit of prodding from Tobi). However, with Itachi back on the scene, Sasuke is far more sane than he has been in 100 chapters. Seeing Itachi crumble before his eyes from the released Edo Tensei would...would...[[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|urk!]]
 
== Tobi was one of the kids in Team Jiraiya ==
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