imagine if naruto were just some random poor baby minato decided to install the nine tailed beast within in order to save his dying wife. naruto not being the child of the hokage is a more reasonable explanation as to why he doesn’t get special treatment for being his only surviving child (with a fuckin uzumaki no less) and why no one ever tells him about minato being his dad throughout his life in the village. it also gives minato some personality outside the stale ‘pretty hokage guy’ who is somehow very nice despite serving a military state utilizing child soldiers well enough he was made hokage at like 23. and the conflict that would have arose between minato and kushina in kushina’s last moments? for condemning a child to the fate of a jinchuuriki like her for most of her life? and then the stupid ass plan backfiring anyway cus they all die when kurama still wreaks havoc on konoha after the jinchuuriki transfer goes wrong. and now the village has no hokage and everyone tiptoes around the unknowing child that somebody decided to put a nuclear weapon in. no bum ass indra vs ashura/senju vs uchiha/good vs evil endgame rivalry shit, just naruto being some guy who’s been thrown into some mess since he was born. a walking casualty of the hidden villages.
naruto keeping true to the underdog message of the earlier manga… minakushi not being a sickeningly perfect couple but one torn apart by morals in their last days… no overdone “special bloodline”/“prophecy child” tropes… NO KAGUYA…
kaguya can stay only if she is mentioned from the very beginning rather than towards the end AND that’s as a mythological figure only; an origin story across the shinobi nations and is invoked only for the sense of antiquity and humanity her name brings, especially among those from dojutsu clans. not as a straight up big boss whose appearance is a total ass-pull in a tired attempt to replace madara’s place as the final antagonist of the story.
