There are a lot of characters who had heartbreaking childhoods. When this question arises most fans have a few characters in mind. I made multiple polls this week to determine the top 10 saddest backstory’s according to the highest percentage of votes. It’s general consensus some characters had it worse than others, but it’s also all subjective. These characters had the top most votes in the community.
Kakashi
his dad committed suicide when he was young leaving him an orphan, his teammate obito made him realize his dad’s ideology was correct and to never leave a comrade behind. Obito died getting crushed by a rock leaving kakashi very depressed, he made a promise to protect rin and her death left him with PSTD and trauma so much so he wasn’t even a uchiha and awakened the mangekyo sharingan. After his teammates died, his sensei died years later. He had PTSD for years and isolated himself. He went on multiple killing sprees while in the Anbu and build a name for himself as kakashi of the sharingan
2. Nagato
As a child he watched as Leaf Ninja killed his parents. Making him a war orphan, watching as his village was being destroyed by other nations at conflict, he wandered around looking for food and shelter. Eventually almost starving to death and with no one to help him. He eventually met Konan and Yahiko, and they became close friends. They met Jiraiya during the war, who trained them to use ninjutsu jiraiya eventually left them leaving the trio very sad. They created the akatsuki and konan got captured and Yahiko died. This was the moment when Nagato became Pain. His pain was so deep he even left Naruto speechless
3. Gaara
he was ostracized like Naruto and hated and feared he was a jinchuriki. This left him with great pain in his heart, his dad tried to kill him multiple times, and his uncle betrayed him and blamed him for his sisters death and also tried to assassinate him. This left gaara going berserk and becoming evil until he was changed by Naruto
4. Naruto
Naruto’s parents both died the day he was born leaving him an orphan at birth. He had absolutely no one there for him. And spent most of his childhood in isolation. Danzo revealed he was the 9 tails jinchuriki and Naruto was forbidden from visiting stores and buying food in the village, because the shop keepers wanted nothing to do with Naruto after. He was feared and hated and was treated poorly by the villagers. The other kids also didn’t want to play with naruto. Naruto was also beat up by bullies regularly and He lived by himself in a lonely apartment. The ramen guy was the only one to feed Naruto after he seen Naruto out in the cold and rain, starving and gave Naruto ramen.
5. Obito
Obito like others on the list was an orphan. He was crushed by a rock and had “died” he actually was saved by Madara, who used him and put seal on his heart. He had to recover and gain strength again. Before he could see rin and Kakashi again. He seen him die by the hands of kakashi while running from mist ninja. After seeing his crush die he was in such despair and agony he went berserk and killed everyone and awakened the mangekyo sharingan. He seen how cruel the ninja world was and followed madara’s plan. And started the 4th great ninja war.
6. Itachi
Itachi was originally considered a villain who murderer of his own clan, but that’s not the entire story. And turns out that was really his only option. Itachi had to make a decision between his beloved village and his beloved family. Itachi secretly helped the village in getting rid of own clan who had been plotting a coup. Seeing war as a child he never wanted to see it again. To prevent civil war he choose the village to over his clan after all his other options weee out and as a last resort. After clashing ideology’s with his father, his parents allowed him to kill them as final words asking him to take care of Sasuke. He had no choice but to kill the girl he loved. His clansmen and his parants. He became a criminal put in the bingo book and was hated all for the sake of his village. And Sasuke who he loved, hated Itachi for years until he learned the truth.
7. Sasuke
As a child, he came home saw his entire clan get massacred and his big brother Itachi standing over their parent’s bodies. His own brother that he always looked up to and wanted attention from. He was beaten up by his brother and had to watch his parents die thousands of times over. Unlike Naruto, Sasuke knew what it was like to have a caring family and he lost everything. He was too young and didn’t know about his clans coup. Sasuke experienced shock, grief, and anger. After the events of his clan he made it his mission to avenge his family and kill Itachi. When he learned the truth he awakened the mangekyo sharingan and grieved Itachi. he had animosity for what the leaf did to his brother and wanted to find answers or destroy the village
8. Kawaki
Kawaki had a terrible childhood and was raised by by abusive and drunken father who sold by his own abusive father to jigen. He was experimented on and jigen put a karma on him and while dozens of children died he was one of the only survivors. Jigen mistreated him and abused him and put him in danger of dying just to use his body as a vessel and take over his soul. Kawaki knew nothing but pain until he met Naruto.
9. Karin
Karin had a poor life, She seen her mom die right in front of her and had no time to grieve her loss she was used and mistreated and she was almost killed the same way her mom died. She was abused as a kid and was an orphan.
10. Haku
As a kid he had a unique ability that kept a secret in his village His mother kept her ability from her husband, but when he found out, he got a mob to try to kill them both. Haku's mom died and he had to kill his father and the mob that attacked. He was left an orphan, no one helped him, suicide also crossed his mind. And wondered in the cold, had to fight just for food.
Then he meets Zabuza Momochi. Who made him a weapon and used him as a tool.