It makes absolutely no sense that the village hosting the exam can bar other nation's teams from having their full teams but w/e not really that important.

to be clear, despite my reviews, i do love the vast majority of this story. It's just your Saratobi is a walking talking contradiction, claiming he wants to make up for his past mistakes while literally doing nothing and continuing to make the EXACT SAME mistakes. his threats to the people of Konoha are ALWAYS empty. the threat he gave to the ANBU captain last chapter, is basically the same one he said he gave Kakashi if he was late in chapter 2... and he never followed through with Kakashi's punishment, so at this point I very much doubt he would do anything even if the the ANBU still took Naruto into custody while at the same time giving Hiruzen the finger.

and another perfect example is in this chapter. Naruto tells Tsunade about Kabuto BEFORE the 1st exam starts... it took Hiruzen OVER AN HOUR to get there on an urgent summons, when it is shown that the Hokage Tower is relatively close to the academy.

Oh, what a suprise, Saratobi is a dog shit ineffective leader again, allwing his ANBU to be blatantly biasd against Naruto, make clearly false claims on no evidence (even though he JUST held up a decision to not punish Sasuke because of lack of physical evidence), and what does he do to punish the ANBU for almost causing an international incident that would undoubtedly lead to war? Why, nothing at all of course. In fact, he went as far as to scold Zabuza for calling the ANBU out on their blatant bullshit.

"Oh, We DoN't KnOw WhO sToLe ThE cLaN sCrOlLs" Bullshit... Danzo and the council pushhed to make sure no one was able to claim the scrolls, and then those scrolls just HAPPENED to disappear. no shot that one of the smartest characters cant figure out the obvious...

I realize you are trying to make Hiruzen no a Villan,but it doesnt work when you have him allow all the shit that has happened. he is either a villan, or so hilariously incompetent that he wouldnever have made Hokage in the first place.

No, Saratobi doesnt get to JUST NOW realize that his council are trecherous bastards! its been blatantly obvious for the entire time, he himself even said that they hated Naruto and have lied about MULTIPLE things that would by themselves be considered borderline treason. he was willfully ignoring it, he doesn't get to act like he cares now, when he didnt give a damn for 14 YEARS.

yea, No. Saratobi doesnt deserve any forgiveness for his inaction. like ever. Even if (and i highly doubt this is a realistic possibility, but Ive seen other fanfics try this) it was against his wishes, he still ALLOWED what happened. he is the Hokage, he has ALL the power, his word is law. HE decided to go along with the council. HE decided to send Anko, the only person to give a damn about Naruto, away on a mission during the day he KNEW people attacked Naruto. HE allowed them to suppress Anko AND Naruto's heritage.

He cant claim innocence to any of these, he knew it was wrong, but did it because it was easy. he is scum on the same level as the people who actually attacked Naruto, because he knowingly did NOTHING to stop it, he inly made empty threats and blustered.

called it, Hiruzen didn't actually punish Kakashi at all.

tbh, I really hate how often Kakashi just gets away with shit like this. I understand that he went through some shit (years ago...) but Hiruzen (and the other Hokage, but Hiruzen is especially bad about this) just NEVER punishes him... ever. If I was a client, and my supposedly elite gaurd showed up HOURS LATE... I would NEVER use Konoha Shinobi again, especially if he give some stupid excuse. Ive always wanted a fanfic that actually goes into that, like have some really important clients just straight up cancle their contact with Konoha, sighting Kakashi's general attitude and tardiness, and have the Hokage ACTUALLY punish him for it... Hiruzen straight up threatened Kakashi with a punishment here... and proceeded to do exactly nothing, even going so far as to demand that Anko. not hurt him, when he took twice as long to get there as he was ordered to.

What if they found Naruto in the village and he had died 5 minutes ago. it would be 100% Kakashi's AND Hiruzen's fault he was dead. Kakashi for the obvious reason of if he had gotten there on time for once, they might have made it in time to save him, and Hiruzen because the only reason Kakashi thinks he can get away with this shit is because Hiruzen does NOTHING about it... ever.

and Hiruzen having the gall to say he JUST NOW failed Minato... Hiruzen has BEEM failing Minato.

Moe j'aime bien votre histoire et tout mais va y tu vas me dire qu'elle ne s'est jamais demandé une seconde si son fils était vivant ?nn c'est vraiment n'importe quoi a mon avis et puis franchement elle lui a peut être donné naissance mais clairement c'est Tsunade sa mère c'est clair ...

What was the point of Naruto signing the slug contract if he NEVER uses them? He summoned one near the beginning just to see what it's like and never again. Even during this konoha attack he only uses toads and not any of katsuyas healing slugs when people are hurt

great story hope you continue it

Hell yeah! So far the most interesting Wave Arc I've come across. That includes the source material.

Hopefully the Yamanaka clan comes in this later and we can come back to this. Sasuke needs to die

In theory Tsunade and Naruto are actually related, distant but related in the end, she is his great aunt.

wouldnt the kyuubi tell naruto something wrong since she would sense it was the same guy who stood next to orochi? so anko knows minato her dad?
half siblings hmm was anko mother a one night stand or a girlfriend who died?