User:Hawkeye2701

Decided I might as well fill this blank spot on my page with some data I find marginally interesting. My current problem, I have nothing interesting to say. If I do say anything on here about Naruto, please take it as theory or speculation unless confirmed on other pages of this wiki or in the manga or anime.

Obito's Sharingan!
Woohoo! My first interesting note to add here. Anyway, while I was reading Obito's page, I came across this bit of trivia. "In a brief flashback that occurs during Kakashi's near-death experience at the time of Pain's invasion of Konoha, Obito's left Sharingan eye is erroneously depicted as having three tomoe instead of two." The key phrase here is erroneously, implying that this was in error. But it occurs to me that why was it only the left eye?

Well my theory is that this tiny bit of animation may be a nod to the fact that Kakashi is the current wielder of said eye and he promised to see the future for Obito (If I'm remembering correctly) Essentially this tiny note may in fact be in reference to Kakashi and Obito's connection through that eye and the idea that Kakashi is still carrying his friend with him, seeing things through his eye.

Kumo Ninja
Okay, my latest note here is on the Kumo ninja. It seems to me that every guy in Kumo has something tattooed on their shoulders, usually a kanji of some sort. The only exceptions to this being C who doesn't seem to have any tattoos and A who has shuriken on his shoulders. This being said every tattoo seems to harbour some meaning as apparently Darui's left tattoo reading "lightning" denotes him as inheritor of the Third Raikage's techniques. That being said, Atsui's tattoo read "Heat" Hot being his favourite word and his techniques being fire based points to its connotations with his personality.

Now that the premise has been established, my theory is basically this, those Kumo ninja with tattoos bear them as a form of proof of heritage. Thus we have characters generally bearing their elements or personalities on their shoulders, but of particular note is that A, despite being the Third's son only has Shuriken, a symbol of shinobi, as opposed to lightning, which Darui inherited. Similarly Killer Bee having the tattoo for 'Iron' possibly being Kumo's means of denoting its Jinchūriki as it is the Iron Armour seal that contains the Eight-Tailed Giant Ox inside him. While I am sure this very simple idea hasn't really escaped notice, I figured I would take note of it for two important reasons. For one, we have yet to see if a single female Kumo ninja has any of these defining tattoos, which may note it as particularly a guy thing or it may point to women in Kumo being ineligible to be the primary inheritor of techniques/position/etc. Course given the exceedingly short list of Kumo ninja thus far, a gender based criteria is unlikely. Secondly, it may point to the idea that there is no two people in Kumo at the same time with the same tattoos based on this odd form of branding as proof of inheritence.

Rōran
Having recently watched the fourth Shippuden movie, questions began to arise in my mind about the nature of this previously unheard of country (As it would) and of the driving motivation of the primary antagonist of the film, a puppet user named Mukade.

First of all, Rōran was around 20 years prior to the current time, which means it existed roughly four years before Naruto's birth, but no longer exists as a nation. It was mentioned to have fallen in the war, from this one can rationally assume this was the Third Great Shinobi War from which Minato gained his fame and that with Rōran's destruction it's territories would have likely been integrated into its conquering nation. As a result I would assume that Rōran was a buffer nation like the Land of Rain in which battles were fought by larger nations. From here we look at what we know of Rōran and it's ruins in the modern era of Naruto. It's surrounded by deserts and while approaching it Minato's team exited a green leafy area. While this is no solid indication, with the vast expanse of desert one would be lead to believe it is somewhere near the Land of Wind and given the inclusion of the Leaf Ninja and the green area from which the exited, the Land of Fire may be Rōran's other bordering nation. Thus placing Rōran as a small country between the Lands of Wind and Fire.

Now that a probable geographic location has been established, let's try to conclude what happened to Rōran's territories after its destruction. The Land of Wind is a relatively weak nation, at least among the five great nations. The Land of Fire on the other hand is considered one of the "Winning" sides we can assume it came off well from these conflicts. This leads me to my next point which requires something of an exploration into the characters.

Mukade is a puppet master and a very strong one at that, even managing to control one puppet over extreme distance when Naruto and Sakura were tracking him down. This skill in particular being coveted by Suna might lead one to believe that Mukade was a missing-nin from Suna. This begs the question as to why Konoha ninja were tracking him down. My theory on this one is that while tracking him originally, Suna lost him when he crossed into Konoha, leaving their allies in Konoha to hunt him down. Of course this is just a theory, but it would explain why Konoha ninja would be hunting a missing-nin and would, by deductive reasoning leave Rōran at the edge of the Land of Fire.