Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-12509038-20140830021423/@comment-25349026-20140908153123

Mrlmm0605 wrote: Yes. Everything you said about Jiraiya being a hero, a great trainer of men, and a savior to the village is correct. Doesn't change the fact that a godfather's job is to fill in for parental responsibilities in leiu of the presence of actual parents.

This precisely. It is the role of godparents to fufill the duties of parents if said parents die. Also, where is the Konoha orphanage system for Naruto and Sasuke? It was obviously around for Kabuto. Or did it disintegrate when that chick who was running it died and literally no one else in the village could be bothered to run it or offer to foster another child. Would have been really nice for one of Sasuke's Hyuuga cousins to have stepped up and offered to take him in (Kakashi was too young and active in missions to be saddled with a kid). And Hiruzen, yeah he was Hokage and had a village to run, but it was his duty also to make sure that kid was taken care of. Its the village jinchuriki for god sake!

So many people dropped the ball