Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-11891028-20180429201328

(Apologies if there's an old thread for this already, but I didn't see one in the immediate area) Simply put, if you were in Kishimoto's shoes and got to the scene where Hinata steps in front of Naruto to protect him from the Ten-Tails' (Obito's) wood projectile attack, would you have let Neji sacrifice himself to save Naruto/Hinata, or would you let someone else sacrifice themselves?

The only rules are that it has to be one of the MAIN or SIDE characters, not some random shinobi from the alliance. (personally I'd stick with the Konoha 11, but if you'd rather use one of the other main/side characters then so be it).

Feel free to consider it from more than one angle such as who is potentially closest to Naruto at the time, who would instinctively have risked their lives like that (perhaps not necessarily because Naruto was there), as well as their past and their potential impact on the alliance, rather than who is most useless.

Also, you have to pick someone. If you don't, then no one gets in the way and Hinata dies instead.

Personally, I'd like to have saved Neji because I'm a big fan of him, his abilities/capabilities and his English Voice actor. As such, I'd rather someone like Kiba get in the way because of the Konoha 11 he's the one I'm least interested in, mainly because of his character/nature, though I would have thought that if Kiba sacrificed himself then his reasoning would be something related to wanting to become Hokage, or just his body moving on his own like with Sasuke saving him from Haku. As a shinobi I get that he's useful since he's a great tracker, but as a fighter I don't think he's really that great. Only problem I have with that is leaving Akamaru on his own.

Anyway, your turn. 