Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170415051621/@comment-734582-20170417144433

BlazeRelease wrote: Well I guess he like Itachi in this case. As in the father who Sarada doesn't want but the father Sarada needs. Whether Sasuke is a good person now, and whether the mission justifies his absence etc is IMHO irrelevant. To be a father, you need to actually be present and interact with your kid. Sasuke isn't present to interact with Sarada. How then can someone claim whatever kind of father he was? How does that, in any way and in any context, make him a better father than Naruto?

Dimension Creator wrote: Naruto isn't a bad dad but the idea that he can't spend more time with his family is kinda bull since with shadow clones he could finish a week's worth of work in an hour. His abilities should make him that efficient at least. Well, there's an interesting phenomenon in real life where efficiency is rarely coupled with actual gain. Cars have become far more efficient, but that has been used for more function. Seatbelts made car safer, but people started driving less safely.

To connect that to Naruto: he can be present at a lot of places, but also has gotten proportionally more work.

Also, i think it's clear from the movie that Boruto doesn't consider Shadowclones the real thing. (and whether they are is probably more of a philosophical thing. IE Orochimaru told Sai that it's rude to appear as a clone in front of your superior, and one could argue that if you send a clone, you're implied to be less valuable than wherever his real body is)