Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32864768-20180916164445/@comment-30323490-20180916174657

The prophecy would've still happened someway. Naruto in a way or another would've brought the bijuu and the ninja world together regardless if he would've went to the land of waves or not. Sure, land of waves had a lot of symbolic moments : Naruto witnessing the first real confrontation between 2 powerful ninja (Kakashi and Zabuza), him witnessing the "death" of Sasuke and their brotherhood sort of took off from that, him using the kyuubi chakra for the first time ETC. But in the end, the prophecy would've reached its conclusion somehow. Kind of funny how Naruto lectured Neji about destiny, yet his destiny was determined 1000 years before he was even around.