Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-26956327-20160621154400/@comment-5311048-20160815141453

Ravenlot 27 wrote: Rinne tskuyomi wrote: Naruto so far isn't dead. He is alive. Kawaki saying that he shall send Boruto to meet Naruto doesn't mean that Naruto is dead. Even if it could mean that Naruto is dead then how? The problem is that we don't know for sure. But Kawaki's words imply on that. He said he'll send Boruto to the same place as the Seventh, and then continued the fight against Boruto, which most likely means that Naruto is really no longer alive, otherwise Kawaki's threat just doesn't make sense. Yeah, it's hard to believe that someone managed to take down Naruto, technically the strongest Hokage ever, but it's still unknown what really happened, although such a thing is possible anyway - Hashirama was reputed as a "God of Shinobi" during his livetime and was considered the strongest shinobi alive, but still somehow died and surely not the natural way. Remember most of the time a threat like that is given without knowledge if the person is really dead or not. Take Madara for example. He stated that he had dealt with the Kages, thinking they are dead, so did Naruto. But this was proven wrong as Tsunade was healing the other kages before they died. Another fact is Orochimaru, who everyone thought was dead completely. Until Sasuke proved that he isn't. Kawaki might think Naruto is dead, but isn't. Naruto is far more powerful than Hashirama. But like every powerful person, if you threaten the lives of those they care about, they would sacrifice themselves to protect them. Of course this means getting injured enough to appear dead.

The problem is that people take the idea of Kawaki's threat to serious, and believe this is true when we haven't seen what really happened. This is why I don't run into speculation.