"Goddamn it, what the hell is wrong with this village?"... I loved that line... If I were in the naru-verse, this would PROBABLY be my continuous mantra while in the Leaf. It has a lot of very serious issues, seems to overlook the most OBVIOUS things and really stresses on completely the WRONG things. There is dumb, there is backward, and then there is the Leaf sitting at the pinnacle of that particular pile. It's not just one or two characters either... It's wide spread... Everyone in the Leaf seems to think of naruto as an idiot, but his intelligence seems to be kinda AVERAGE for everyone around him. (in canon). I think in a lot of these stories.. If you have a "smart Naruto", you'll have everyone being utterly terrified of him, you don't even need a BRILLIANT naruto... Just one that has an I.Q. larger then his SHOE SIZE and he'll mentally run circles around 90% of everyone in Konoha.

"It was an order from the last Hokage, no one is stupid enough to go against their superior's word"...? Except, of course, almost the ENTIRE village.. Like EVERYBODY! Regularly, with almost clockwork precision.. Civilians, clans, teachers, hospital staff, his old council, danzo, Y. Except apparently Jiraiya, when he knew it was a BONE HEADED idea. (why did the toads think this was a good idea?.. Also if Jiraiya had to hide what he did from the toads.. Then doesn't that kinda tell him, this is a bad idea?)

I'm still not real sure about this whole... "naruto isn't in shape enough to use stuff"... For the previous reasons of a seal being on him the entire time... But the BIGGEST strange thing with this is: If he could use it before?.. Shouldn't he be MUCH better at it now? Before he was like 8... He was a kid.. .At least now he's in puberty and SHOULD be a lot BETTER prepared to use this stuff. Just seems weird that he would be BETTER at something as a small child then he would as a teen!

The next mission, is really important to him personally? Somehow I don't think the Uchiha retrieval mission is very important to naruto IN CANON... It's even LESS important to him here. I never understood why it's such a BIG THING with almost ALL authors (doesn't seem to matter the story, you very RARELY ever get a author to "skip it", even when it SHOULD be fairly easy to skip... Just have naruto do training, or be out on a mission and not make it back until he's gone)... I always thought it was a FAIRLY large "plot hole" that in order to bring back a traitor... The hokage sends 2 clan heirs.. Naruto, kiba (another high up "clan kid") and Negji... So basically to bring back ONE idiot, they send out 3 clan heirs (so potentially almost ALL their government in the future), and two others that WILL have high standing in the village... HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? Why would you potentially risk the lives of ALL these nins for someone that has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING since they became a nin? Hasn't even won a fight! That's "diminishing returns".

I've never thought naruto should be promoted to chunnin... Simply because Mizuki was a chunnin... MIZUKI... Like the weakest idiot in the world, somehow made it to chunin... And the two gate guards... The BUTTS of ALL JOKES also somehow made it to chunin.. So no, it's NOT a fitting station... It should just go straight to jounin... Its the only title that FITS. He should have gone STRAIGHT to that after beating a frickin' TAILED BEAST single handed. Afterwards even in canon, he stands up and fights.. Orochi, Kabuto, Itachi and Kisame... For crying out loud... THAT'S A JOUNIN. I mean, ALL his opponents are S-RANKED... That's JOUNIN!

Wait, naruto had a gravity seal on him for 4 years now? Shouldn't he be MASSIVELY stronger and faster then he was before, now? I don't understand how this works.. If naruto has been doing all the jumping around and pranks and stuff, WITH a major gravity seal on this entire time... Shouldn't he be REALLY powerful now that the seal is gone? His muscles atrophied? HOW? He REGENERATES... Plus he's had a gravity seal weighing him down all these years (WHILE STILL TRAINING)... I could see if you put him into a COMA or something for 4 years... But he's been training, he's been pranking, he's been outrunning ANBU... Etc... WITH the resistance of the seals on him.

You really wanna crush Jiraiya? Have naruto tell him that KNEW about the invasion, he could have TOLD THEM and prevented everything... Every life lost, every family broken... They are all the FAULT of Jiraiya and the third... Even the third dying... It was all his OWN fault!

So how did naruto lose all this "speed"? He's been physically active THE ENTIRE TIME... I don't really get how his speed went to shit... Because he's BEEN physically trained. In fact the ONLY thing he excelled at was physical stuff... Plus, he REGENERATES for heaven's sake... He never "lost kyuubi" or his uzumaki genes... So even if his mind was sealed, he should still be exactly as he was now.

"but all the attacks I could launch from here can kill him"..? Then why hasn't he been USING those "attacks"?... Are u saying he's just been "playing" with garaa? Why? What's the purpose of that?

Already off to a shitty start, this reads and feels like it was written by a mentally retarded six year old with Alzheimer’s. Congratulations you have some how failed to write a naruto fanfic.

I dunno. With each new chapter, the story gets less and less interesting.

loved this fiction, but there's no goddamm sasori would destroy uzushiogakure with his puppets no way . Things like this can turn a good fiction to shit.

"MY NAME IS LEONARD J. CHURCH, AND YOU WILL FEAR MY LASER FACE!"

Lord, Naruto is a savage lol!

Dude, awesome story is to tier stuff

I still reread this story every once in a while, it’s definitely my top 3 of all stories i have read. Kudos to you and hooe you are doing well. THANK YOU!

good work and interesting ending

so you powerup naruto and then make all of akatsuki near pain level just because the mc was getting strong and then you somehow make him stay as he was atleast 2 years back? and now everyone is stronger than naruto coz he's going around being anbu's fucktoy... he's trains so much and still is piss poor... what pray tell did him being previously trained root killer change from canon except him becoming a pussy, coz he sure as hell doesn't seem stronger