i’m reading the manga rn after having only seen the anime & i just got to the naruto vs. neji fight in the chuunin exams where naruto promises neji that he’ll help the hyuuga branch family once he’s hokage & i was like yeah!! my boy!! kickstart the ninja revolution! and then i remembered boruto😩😩
yeahhhh and ending defenders are like “oh but it was already resolved before the end of the manga 🙂 Hiashi told Hizashi that the branch house and main house now fight alongside each other as equals :)”
Yeah? Talk is cheap.
1. Neji, pre-Talk no Jutsu, told Naruto that his inescapable destiny as a branch house member was to die for the benefit of the main house.
2. Neji died to protect the heiress of the main house.
Some resolution of his storyline. Neji was “free” to “choose death” more or less exactly the way his father Hizashi was “free” to “choose death”.
And then his death was wasted! “Does Uncle Neji like sunflowers?” Let me tell you about your Uncle Neji, Himawari: when he was younger than you are now, he had a painful seal placed on his head that humiliating branded him as property, and his uncle, your grandfather, regularly punished him by activating the seal and causing him intense, seizure-inducing pain. Nobody stopped your grandfather from doing this, and he said sorry that one time so everybody forgave and forgot.
Sounds pretty horrible, right? I mean, God, what kind of horrible Hokage would let someone torture a child and just do nothing?!
Oh yeah, your dad, Naruto! He knows allll about this but he does nothing 🙂 🙂 🙂
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