Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24860855-20150514231249/@comment-5936871-20150516192351

I don't agree with this and I'm going to say why. First off, how would Sasuke's goal, to rule the world from the shadows with fear and hatred make things more peaceful? If anything, there would be way more death and violence as everyone would be petrified and fearing for their lives all the time and there wouldn't be much order at all with the Five Kage gone and a psychotic Sasuke ruling everything.

What Hashirama did was different, the Five Great Nations weren't friends at all at the time and they hated each other and he distributed the Tailed Beasts among them to keep the balance of power so that more wars wouldn't start but that obviously failed. This time, the Five Great Nations are friends as they have fought and saved the world together, the Kage are actually friends now, and Naruto is the Jinchuriki of all the Tailed Beast and it's clear to the world that the Tailed Beast aren't just rampaging monsters now to be controlled. They literally have no reason to start war with each other especially with them being able to achieve so much through partnership as seen with the technological innovations. Naruto and Sasuke's status may become mythical, but they always have their descendants around to help maintain things.

Nothing implies that the villages will go back to hating each other. Before they had genuine reason too, they were constantly at war with each other. Now? There isn't any war and things have been rather peaceful. Not to mention they all have young and intelligent Kage who have been raised in decently peaceful times compared to their predecessors many generations ago.

@Rayzur & GreatestSin It isn't a failed story just because the way it ended wasn't the way you wanted it too. What TTF says is true, and even though the ending might have been cliche it doesn't mean it's a failure. The message that Kishimoto tried to portray should have been clear. Naruto has been about bonds and friendship since the beginning and once he introduced the Indra and Asura thing it should have been clear that things would end peacefully this time. It would have been a failed story if it ended up with Sasuke killing Naruto and taking over everything and plunging the world into an era of darkness and hatred. How would that be a better ending/better way of ending things with Indra's Curse of Hatred (That pretty much started a very large amount of problems in the series) succeeding with Sasuke ruling and killing Naruto, the Five Kage, and all the Tailed Beast? Kishi would have built up a story about friendship and bonds only to end it all with Sasuke severing his bond with all of his friends and family and killing a lot of people and making everything end in an era of darkness?