Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34277398-20190309153341/@comment-35409024-20190316052743

Quadraticequation wrote: See there is the silver lining. Tsunade only had Shizune, but Hiruzen had Danzo, who actually did all the dirty work for Hiruzen, the elder dudes, and his advisers. Hiruzen did not take care of Naruto to the point that Naruto wasn't alone. However, he certainly did look after him enough to make sure he was okay and was potentially the first bond Naruto had made with a person. That is also in sync with the whole Naruto saying he's becoming more like Hiruzen "thing"(He said this the day of his inauguration). I agree, he wasn't a full-fledged parent to Naruto. He was more like an interactive grandparent who continuously kept tabs on you. I mean he even calls Hiruzen "Grandpa". Again, if you think I'm going to believe Hiruzen was only doing his Hokage duties for about 4 hours and Danzo handled everything such as the Hokage's paper work (which Shizune and Shikamaru were never shown or said to do) and assigning missions to all the Shinobi (which again, the assistants were never shown or said to do), then you need to provide some validation for that claim. Because Naruto literally stated Iruka was the first person to even acknowledge him, which means what you are suggesting conflicts with the series cause Naruto's first bond would of been Hiruzen and the person who first acknowledges him would of been Hiruzen, not Iruka. But the series and Naruto himself, literally go by Iruka being his first bond. Even Hiruzen said Naruto grew up without any parental love