Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3394889-20140714191859

I know it seems like Minato is being eaten alive by myself and some other users but this has bugged me for God knows how long. This notion of him being the fastest literally stems from Ay saying "I am the fastest shinobi alive now that the 4th Hokage is gone." Now it made sense at that point but considering the things we've seen since that saying has made me doubt the validity of that. Also consider the fact that Ay said alive not in history, which is something at one point I tried to bring up. Now to the two shinobi I think can possibly dispute this claim. Naruto with all his power-ups has obviously become one of the if not the strongest shinobi's in history and his speed has dramatically increased. When Kaguya used her instant teleportation move to try to kill him he was able to get out of harms way and even Black Zetsu noted he had impressive reflexes and he was very agile.(683 2-3) He also noted that it was impossible for someone to be able to travel fast enough to enter the portal and it even seemed she was going in super-duper fast.(684 10-11) Naruto also was able to dodge Kaguya's bone attack that was teleported through her instantaneous portal.(684 14) Now onto Tobirama. Tobirama who was already hailed as the fastest shinobi of his time. We saw him react to Obito, who at one point was considered the fastest (by Minato no doubt who is thought to be the fastest).(683 1-3) He got to Minato before he could jump with the black seeking balls as it was exploding (let it be noted he had no seals on anybody other than Obito).(641 1) Minato has even praised his speed.(639 3) Tobirama also was able to get to Naruto within like the half second it took Sasuke and Minato to turn around.(642 12).

Now im just saying its possible that he's not the fastest. In his time he was the fastest no doubt but maybe people took that sentence and turned it into something that possibly isn't true. Now I just want to know what you think because like I said it's been bugging me for such a long time. 