Hey Cap, you mentioned in one of your recent post that there are lots of similarities between Itachi & Minato, please share your list to us. I’m curious about your findings. Thanks!
IT ALL STARTED ON THAT DAY...
Whatever Naruto and Sasuke were about to going through... the seeds of their pain (Loneliness) were sown on this fateful day. For Naruto, it's obvious, this is the day his parents died. For Sasuke, it may not be immediate but Kyuubi Attack is what led to the Chain of events that made him lose his parents and eventually Itachi.
RESPONSIBLE ONES WHO MADE NARUTO AND SASUKE INTO WHO THEY ARE...
It's an amazing panel which shows how Minato and Itachi were protecting their extensions of their own... Easily one of the best panel in this series.
(Another anon sent me an Ask which says, Minato was manning up by wearing the Hokage Robe... But Itachi was acting motherly... ***Chef’s Kiss*** I totally agree)
It's funny that instead of giving this 'Protecting their baby' trope to Fugaku or Mikoto... The Writer gave this trope to Itachi... Who more than once acted as Sasuke's father (Be it when giving Piggy back ride or Teaching history or Checking Report Card or Willing to go to Academy on Sasuke's behalf) in the flashback. And here Itachi took the role of a Mother.
PUSHED THEM INTO LONELINESS AND SACRIFICED THEMSELVES FOR THE SAME CAUSE
Itachi massacred his clan, killed his parents and left Sasuke all alone in order to protect Sasuke and the Village.
Minato sealed Kurama into Naruto in order to protect the Village.
They both died as a result of the measures they took to protect the Village.
Both did this, because they had no choice.
I know both of these pictures were taken from the filler episodes (They are not in Manga)... But I want to show the similarity of how Itachi and Kushina left their blood in care of Hiruzen....
STOPPED THE WAR SINGLE-HANDEDLY
Itachi prevented the civil war in Konoha and on top of that, another Shinobi World war by himself at the expense of slaughtering his own clan. Minato put an end to the Third Shinobi World War by killing 50 Iwa Village shinobis (Stone Village) using his Hiraishin no Jutsu.
Both of them want to make these boys into the Hero of Konoha.
WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?
This is Funny and Sad at the same time. Both Sasuke and Naruto are questioning in a much similar tone about, 'Why did you put this burden on me?'
I AM SORRY. I HAVE NO RIGHT TO...
Both Itachi and Minato are apologizing to the boys for putting them on such a lonely path, for not being able be a good Brother and good Father... Especially the word choice, "I have no right to...".
GAVE POWERS TO KILL (FAKE) MADARA
“He equipped you with his own Jutsu as a Last-Ditch effort to kill me”
Itachi passed on his Eye Techniques to Sasuke in order to protect Sasuke from Madara.
Minato sealed Kurama's power in order for Naruto to face Madara in the Future.
Isn’t it very similar how they said their Final Good Bye after breaking their Edo Tensei??? God!! Both of these moments made me bawling like a kid as there will be no next time.
As acknowledged by Hiruzen and Sasuke himself, Itachi was the true Hokage who protected the Village from Shadows...
Minato is the Fourth Hokage who protected the Village and died for it.
And it’s not at all surprising that Naruto became the Hokage just like his Father and Sasuke became the Shadow Hokage (almost like his Brother) by totally embracing the Will of their Father and Brother respectively.
Like I’ve said in many of my posts, I’ve never seen in any media where 2 people were given such an intricate parallels at this micro level. With Itachi and Minato being the ones who put them in such a path out of necessity, 1 or 2 similarities are negligible but not 13 similarities.
And Naruto and Sasuke’s journeys were very similar with each other except that one’s journey was in the Light (Yang) and the other one’s in the Dark (Yin). But both were dependent on each other nonetheless.
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