I want a whole rain of blood, soon if possible!
First, as specific characters: Sakura and Madara.
Also: A lot of people. I don't care for the individuals, but I'ld like to see a huge amount of introduced and partially familiar characters which have been in the series for along time dying, to enhance the thought of what war actually means. I'ld like to see Kurotsuchi and Hinata surviving.
I want Madara and the biggest part of the "good" ones erased, alltogether with the village of Konoha. Only leaving a few survivors to form a small party of maybe Naruto, Kakashi, Karin, Hinata. Also a few of the known shinobi alliance fighters, like Raikage, Gaara and Temari (Kankuro might die, I don't care for him but this would bring a bunch of fresh air into the character of Gaara!) and Tsuchikage's guards (but not Tsuchikage).
Kabuto might end up hurt badly, roaming around in the country looking for possibilities to regain his powers.

I'ld love such an extreme stylistic clash starting right now. I want something unexpected like this to happen and introduce a whole new level of shock to Naruto this way when he beholds the carnage the war causes.
Under these circumstances, I would celebrate Kishimoto. Such extreme breaks are rarely to be seen in any long story at such a late point. Yet, personally I always lose interest if a story remains on one style for too long. This is the time perfectly suitable to blow up everything we know. It's been a stylistic break anyways by suddenly introducing loads of new allies and enemies at once at a rate that hasn't been there before, but the current course it takes just appears boring to me.
Totally renewing the concept would be brave and great right now, and killing almost anyone would be a perfect move. There still are enough things which could happen - Sasuke searching for new allies, Kabuto splitting from Sasuke if he can't take him by force, Naruto searching for his Uzumaki clansmen.

A full restart, the characters would just face the oblivion which happened and had to make up their minds for something totally different. Sasuke's revenge would be almost finished already, Naruto would have lost Konoha, the ninja alliance would've won and lost at the same time and had to rebuild, war might start as some villages might've been struck harder than others.

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You have a point but I think that kind of a change would be too drastic for a simple shonen manga. Of course that would allow Kishi to make amends for the blunder he made in the Pain arc. I'm referring to Pain resurrecting everyone who died.
Then again Naruto being an idealist like he is, if too many people died that are close to Naruto, I don't think he would take it very well because he would be blaming himself for that. It just doesn't look like Kishi would want to thread down that path.

But just for argument's sake it would be interesting to see Kakashi or Sakura dieing because that would make a huge impact on Naruto, just like when Jiraya died. Even better if they die in front of his eyes. Disclaimer: I actually like all of these characters so I definitely wouldn't like that to happen, but it would be interesting nevertheless.

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His smile saved her

Yes, that's the issue with all of my dreaming here: It will never happen. If it would, I'ld fly over to Japan just to hug Kishimoto for great courage and creating an extraordinarily cool storyline.

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I agree that there needs to be some death during the war. Whenever their are flashbacks to war time or people talk about it death is always the main theme. I don't think everyone should die but if the ninja alliance has more then 70% or their total forces by the end of the manga while madara and his army are down to 0 I'll be kinda upset. I wouldn't mind one or two more villages being destroyed to the extent that konoha was, after all if naruto is going to change the ninja world the first thing to do would be to tear down the walls between villages. At least thats my opinion.

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Sakura ASAP. She gets into my nerves...

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Haruno Sakura,
i hate her and she gets on my nerves
i hate when she say 'Sasuke-kun!' (she don't know anything else without this

The anisakurarism is quite extreme it seems

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I don't have a problem with sakura personally. She is a great medical ninja, one of the best. It would be a big loss for konoha if she died.

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For Konoha, maybe... but for the story? I don't think so. I'm very certain that the apocalypse version I posted in the opening post would be the coolest possibility

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When you are against 100,000 Zetsus, Kabuto, Madara and 7 bijuus, do you think there would be any time for treating the injured ?

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Of course there is. That's a full scaled war, and such a war does not end in a few minutes. And even if everything was to decided in a full scaled battle, such would usually last some hours or days. The huge dimensions make medical ninjas much more important than in the usual three to four man teams as battles are over rather quickly in such combinations and there really isn't much time to treat anyone.

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I agree there, she isn't much of a story developer. But at the same time when considering the outcome of the final battle, which very much has to do with plot, she does have the potential of playing a very vital role. She may be useless now, but I expect some very impressive feats from her in the medical department in order to help turn the tides of battle.



I absolutely do. In any war there are people on the front lines, strategist in the back, and medical teams in between assisting injured warriors. A great example of how much one great healer can do to a battle is tsunade during the pain fight. Pains sacrifice made her efforts be in vain, but if not for that she would have been the one responsible for konoha still having a future. I think that is within sakura's capabilities as well. After all she is the student of the greatest healer konoha ever produced.

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Also what he said

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Sakura may not have a lot to do with the story atm but I believe that she will have a very important role coming up. That role may be to die in front of naruto which would cause a lot of grief for him, or as one of the best medical ninjas. I'm guessing she's just on the back burner for the moment.

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This is the best post I have seen in a long time! Oh, I am so happy! I was starting to think something was wrong with me, since I started to find Naruto a little boring! If that happened, as you wrote.. - I would love the Naruto series more than ever!
Thank you for getting my hopes high again!

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How can I ever be Hokage, if I can't even save one friend?
Isn't that right Sasuke?

while your ideas are definately somewhat great i do believe that a bunch of the main characters are iminensely too important for what seems to be the finale of the story.
It seems intrigueing but however perfectly impossible for me to see sakura die (all be it untill the final battle where i could even see naruto die).

it also seems impossible for me to see sasuke die, as i predict him playing a vital part in the final battle aswell.


as for me personally i wanna see these people die (not necessarily in that order:

Iruka
Kiba
Tsunade
Raikage
kankurou
Gaara
Ino
Yamato
Hinata

explanations

Iruka: like the rest of you i want to see a person close to naruto die, however i find it perfectly impossible for it to ever be neither sakura nor kakashi (however i do believe kakashi may ultimately end up dead) but iruka poses as the perfect character close (maybe with the exception of sakura the closest) to naruto.

Kiba: war has casualties and while naruto and kiba was never best of friends naruto steel feels strongly about him as they were classmates and ultimately friends.

Tsunade: hopefully she won't die immediately but i foresee her death towards the end aswell. also i kinda hate the character tbh.

Raikage: being presented as currently the most powerful ninja of the ninja alliance he seems like a perfect candidate for a first BIG kill for the akatsuki forces and a way to bring hell to the alliance as for deciding a new leader of the alliance.

kankurou: i want to bring some fury back into gaara and killing off kankurou seems to be the way to go, killing off temari would be another way to go but that would prolly imply killing shikamaru aswell which i dont want to see.

Gaara: this goes back to why i want iruka dead, gaara is maybe the one guy besides sasuke that naruto feels the strongest bond with having been a jincuuriki and all and i want to set some grief into naruto for the sake of the story.

Ino: she's honestly just the most obnoxious character in the storyline ever. also i find scenes like her literally weeping when her friends decided they wanna take out sasuke to be perfectly pointless (some of you girls out there may say i'm heartless but come on the guys been gone for like 7 years ad meanwhile turned into the biggest villain of the world) no way possible she would still care for him.

Yamato: he sorte served his purpose by now imo, and he's someone who could be killed for the sake of making some chaos.

Hinata: on this one i am honestly not sure whether i want her dead or whether i want her alive untill the end. she's obviously the better fit for naruto in comparison to sakura but for some reason she disappeared since the pain incident that almost killed her. however i find it likely that she too will have a big part to play for the true endgame of the series, whether it be as Narutos friend girlfriend or whether she will die a significent death.

Sakura doesn't need to die. She needs to gain some new abilities. Masashi is just leaving her very plain. the Sanin all equipped the students with new abilities like summoning but for some unknown reason he left Sakura out. I think she will be pivotal in the coming ninja war. I want her to survive. I also want Zetsu to make it. He seems relatively harmless and not very violent and too into bloodlust. We have yet to see his true reasons for joining Akatsuki.

Madara and Sasuke have got to go. I am sick of the sharigan and Uchiha getting all the attention when they were just born into power. I also want Kabuto to die. He reminds me too much of Orochimaru and he is pathetic. Although I am glad he brought Deidara back! Tsuchikage also needs to die. He has fallen to far and believe too much in the old ways. I agree that Ino needs to die. Yamato will probably die instead of serving madara. Someone close to Naruto will die. I doubt it will be Sakura and Iruko is a good guess. Kakashi will die towards the end of the series unfortunately.

sasuke sasuke sasuke sasuke sasuke.

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sasuke needs to live alongside naruto (for HyugaPrincess), i agree sakura needs to die, kabuto needs to die, karin needs to die

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We won't be defeated no matter what!!!