Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26773508-20150905054531/@comment-26773508-20150905141845

@Thekillman: That's the most sensible answer so far. Thanks :) That has cleared my initial set of questions. However, a new question just popped into my mind. Like I said above, Obito was easily able to infiltrate Konoha. Since Minato fought Obito himself, he knew that Obito could infiltrate Konoha again in the future and abduct Naruto. If I was Minato, the first thing in my mind would be to find ways to prevent Obito from doing that. Warning Hiruzen and others seems to be the default option. Or he could find some other creative ways. Either way, Minato didn't seem to have made contingency plans in case Obito went after child Naruto. Instead of spending 5 long minutes talking to a baby Naruto (who couldn't understand human language anyway) while being impaled by Kurama's claw, Minato could have set up some contingency plans, like a cryptic message on the ground that only Hiruzen and the Elders could understand. Instead, his best contingency plan was to seal his and Kushina's chakra into Naruto, somehow hoping that Naruto would make it to adulthood and try to control the Kyuubi. But like I said, the most important thing to ensure Naruto's survival was to keep him away from Obito's possible attacks in the future. Yet Minato didn't seem to have taken those steps. That doesn't make much sense, but I suppose it was necessary for Plot. Kishi could have planned the plot in such a way that Naruto's story would progress with Hiruzen and the higher-ups still knowing some little truths about the actual events that led to Minato's death. The plot could have progress almost identically, if Hiruzen decided to keep the existence of Obito as a secret.

But Naruto ran for 15 years, so I can't really complain. Plot holes are inevitable. And the only part of the manga that sucked was the War arc (with Edo Madara bringing much-needed respite from the overall crappiness of that Arc. Too bad Kaguya happened at the end). Everything before the War was gold. So I suppose I shouldn't be complaining that much.

@GreatestSin: Kushina got impaled while Minato was trying to seal Kurama into Naruto. My original question was why didn't Minato try to reseal Kurama into Kushina, which would have perhaps prevented the impaling. Either way, Hagoromo and Sakura were key to Naruto's survival, as Thekillman pointed out. So there is indeed a vast difference between Naruto's and Kushina's situations.