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if the Kyuubi was a usable nuke sure but Kyuubi Jinchuuki's seem to be left to leave secluded lives and only kept around to make the other villages fear him.All the more reason to teat the Nine-Tails' Jinchuuriki well. In potential wartime, you don't just leave your nukes in the street.
Hizuren did care for Naruto like he did every person in the leaf, but that mf had even less time than Naruto who practically had no time at all even when it came to important family events.I mean, yeah, but that's more of a product of bureaucracy. Plus, an guardian who's out working and actually cares about you is better than a corpse.
Shinobi culture is different then ours, people lead lonely lives without anyone supporting them, and they are expected to endure it and any tragedy that befalls them this is why so many of them were depressed, out of touch, or suicidal after the 3rd War.He didn't need someone to raise him, he just needed to have people checking in on him so he knew he wasn't alone.
he wouldn't do it anywaysJiraiya would be a terrible choice, because nobody wants him to raise a child. Naruto would be an even weirder pervert.
I honestly doubt Kakashi would have wanted to talk to him back then.They should have at least been introduced, I think they would have benefitted from talking.
Assuming Asuma wanted to or had the time to, even during Tsunade's era as Hokage, Jounin were leaving the village in a revolving door to complete missions rarely back at all.Asuma is Hiruzen's son. Frankly, I believe in him, he would be a good older brother.
like? even a lot of Chunin and Jounin were afraid or resented him.Just put him with people that aren't cowards.
this hypothetical involves forcing people to hang out with Naruto like they weren't on the verge of war, when there were countless orphans around besides him, with even less of a reason to give him specifically a guardian since most people hated him or were afraid of him.
putting someone who could potentially hate him as a guardian could be even more risky for Naruto's emotional health than just being alone.
honestly, the best thing for him was to surround him with people his age who weren't around during the massacre to have made opinions of him and didn't know he was the nine tails, but even that didn't work until much later on since parents told their kids to be wary of him.
why would he assume he had chains?All the more reason to keep him from losing control. Plus, there is no way Hiruzen knew about Naruto lacking the chains.
plus who was left to teach him how to use them? Uzumaki's were practically non-existent at this point.
also, solitude wasn't going to make him lose control, in the few years he needed to grow, become a shinobi, and gain his own group.
in fact most villages isolated their jinchuuriki to keep their emotions from stirring for that reason.
Tsunade had to send genin to do complicated missions because she was out of jounin all the time, I doubt Hiruzen just had a team.I'm sure he could put together a team.
he was when he was old enough to join the shinobi academy at like 8, not many shinobi are lucky enough to be a part of a clan of people that can personally train you.Even if Kurama wasn't considered useful, Naruto would still have to be trained to protect himself.
in the leaf yes, no one outside of the leaf knew about Naruto but Obito and OrochimaruLiterally everyone knew that he was not only a Jinchuuriki
no one who didn't personally know him knew his heritage, people just called him the nine tails brat for the most part.but also one of the few remaining Uzumaki(and had blonde hair that looked almost exactly like that of Minato)
except he really wasn't except for the Akatsuki, if you added Minato's enemies on top of the he woulda been kidnapped probably.he was already going to be targeted.
that was the plan you know, Fugaku didn't want that + Danzo had Itachi inact the plan first cause he's a piece of shit.Shisui would have handled it if Danzo hadn't screwed everything up, and frankly, the Uchiha Massacre was a highly avoidable tragedy, AND, if Hiruzen had just gone "Hey, Fugaku, can we talk one-on-one? Ok, now that you're here, you know I can kill you, I know about the coup, let's talk things out."
hell no, being unrivaled in an era where there are no villages established.1. Hashirama
having the freedom to kinda just beat up all the Bijuu and distribute them like Pokemon cause he can.
he layed the foundation for everyone else to follow with the only real problem being Madara, who no one believed in.
his era was much less complicated than Hiruzens.
she's tied with Hiruzen but honestly, Hiruzen had it worse in some regards.2. Tsunade during the Akatsuki shit and the War Arc
Tsunade
- Got scrutiny from the elders about how she treated Naruto and the Sasuke situation
- The Pain Invasion
- The Fourth Shinobi World War.
- The Akatsuki
- Danzo being a PoS
Hiruzen
- Second and Third Shinobi World Wars
- Hyuga Incident
- Uchiha Massacre
- Nine-Tailed Attack
- Orochimaru defect and eventual Invasion
- Danzo being a PoS
If anything the Pain event and 4GJW were higher-scaled events than anything Hiruzen dealt with but it also lasted like 3 days with Tsunade largely out of the conflict since she was mostly on standby the Ay's leadership and then gets rolled by Madara.
A lot of what Hiruzen dealt with lasted decades with far more ruthless kage to deal with when bro was supposed to be retired for half of it.
Honorable Mention: Kakashi when the moon was about to crash into the planet and kill everyone.
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