The identity of Naruto’s father has been the subject of speculation for Naruto fans for a long time. There have been heated debates, even full-blown flaming internet wars, over the mystery that is Naruto’s father.
The Fourth Hokage Theory
Most people believed that Naruto’s father was the yondaime or fourth Hokage. The resemblance between Yondaime and Naruto is striking: they both have blue eyes and yellow hair and even have the same smile. And since Naruto is an orphan and Foundth died fighting the Kyuubi, it all made sense.
Some people even went so far as to believe that the Yondaime, although he was frankly stated to have died fighting the kyuubi, somehow survived and lived to become the leader of the Akatsuki. They believed that everything from the sealing of the Kyuubi within Naruto to the Akatsuki’s hunting of the Jinchuuruki was part of an elaborate plot concocted by the genius mind of the Fourth Hokage. They believed that what was shown about the Yondaime was just a hoax, he was actually evil even though all the people of Konoha loved him and that he was willing to die for them.
However, there were many people who disagreed with these ‘Yondaime is Naruto’s father theory’ believers because they couldn’t understand why a father would seal something like the Kyuubi inside his own son. Some believed that it would just be ‘obvious’ and that Kishimoto can’t write something so obvious: there has to be a twist. Some belief that the yondaime was Naruto’s uncle, or brother, or some other relative, but not his father.
There were even people who believed that the Akatsuki leader (whom they believed was not yondaime) was actually Naruto’s father. And, for some reason, he was hunting his own Son. This theory was further bolstered by the fact that the Akatsuki leader’s shadow seemed to have the same hair as Naruto. And when it was revealed that the face of the Akatsuki leaders also bore a striking resemblance to Naruto, this theory gathered more supporters. And they believed that a scene from Star Wars with the Akatsuki leader saying “Naruto, I’m your father” wasn’t that far of a deal.
There are other theories, some like Farfetch and Random, that you would have to see What the fans smoked to think about it. But all those theories were dispelled once in chapter 367 of the cam manga.
The revelation
CHAPTER 367 IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW THE SIMPLEST ANSWERS ARE ALMOST ALWAYS RIGHT. It turned out that the blatant was actually true and that the fourth Hokage really is Naruto’s father. Jiraiya and Tsunade confirmed everything and even dreamed that the yondaime’s name would be namikaze minato.
But if the fourth is naruto’s father, why is his name uzumaki naruto and not namikaze naruto? Where does uzumaki come from? Turns out, for some reason, Naruto got his mother’s LAST NAME INSTEAD OF HIS FATHER’S. And it’s not really cruel for minato to seal kyuubi inside naruto since after all it was his dying wish that naruto be treated like a hero for having to be content with having a monster inside of him. He died believing that the town sold love to naruto, he had no idea that they would do otherwise. This chapter has yet to become a Naruto episode, but it should soon be a dream in Naruto Shippuden Loanty.
