[OP changed the post title to “# Naruto Tales’s novel has been adapted into a movie, let’s discuss the amazing content of the novel!
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[1L: Wow!
OP, this marketing strategy is brilliant.
Tell me, how much were you paid?]
[OP: I wish I got paid!
Everyone, please @ the movie production team and make them pay up!]
[2L: Received!]
[3L: Understood!]
[OP: Anyway, I’m really looking forward to this adaptation!
It’s written so well!]
[4L: Naruto Tales is the GOAT!]
[5L: “White Fang: Death is Resistance” is about the story of the White Fang of the Leaf, Sakumo Hatake, right?]
[6L: Yes, it’s mainly about the significance of the White Fang’s death.]
[7L: It’s a real tear-jerker.
I suggest keeping tissues handy when reading.]
[8L: Before this book came out, I didn’t even know that the Sixth Hokage’s father was the famous White Fang of the Leaf.]
[9L: I didn’t know that at first either.]
[10L: Plus one to the user above.
It seems like when the Ninja Forum first opened, someone brought up the Sixth Hokage’s strength, background, and qualifications, saying he wasn’t fit to be Hokage.
Then people on the forum started digging into his background.]
[11L: How is his strength not good enough?
He’s clearly a Hero of the Fourth Great Ninja War!]
[12L: His qualifications are also amazing!
He spent ten years in the ANBU!]
[13L: And he was a reliable right-hand man to the Sandaime, Fourth Hokage, and Fifth Hokage!]
[14L: So yeah, since they couldn’t make an issue out of those two points, they attacked his background.]
[OP: I was paying attention to that situation at the time, too.
Some people just have an inexplicable worship for the descendants of big clans.]
[15L: Exactly.
I think it’s fine for a commoner to be Hokage, and the Sixth Hokage is part of the Hokage faction anyway—he was the Fourth Hokage’s student.]
[16L: Anyway, when they couldn’t smear anything else, they went for his background.]
[17L: It turned out that as they dug, they found out his father was actually the White Fang of the Leaf.
The opposition was completely dumbfounded.
It was ridiculous.]
“White Fang of the Leaf?”
Naruto scratched his cheek.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t recall the name.
He turned his head to ask Sasuke, “Do you know him?”
Sasuke frowned in thought, then shook his head.
“No impression.”
“Who is the White Fang of the Leaf?” Rock Lee also asked curiously to Guy-sensei.
But he noticed Guy-sensei’s expression was very strange.
His eyes, usually filled with nothing but youth, flashed with a sort of hard-to-understand, obscure emotion.
“White Fang, ah…
He was a hero.”
Guy recalled the white-haired man who used to smile gently and encourage him, and he was filled with deep emotion.
In the Hokage’s office.
Second Hokage Senju Tobirama noticed that Kakashi’s mood was off and considerately left him some personal space.
“Who is the White Fang of the Leaf?”
The Council of Elders’ expressions turned sour upon hearing the Second Hokage’s question.
They didn’t expect that someone who had been dead for so long could still stir up such a storm.
Back then, they had also fanned the flames during the White Fang incident.
Receiving no response, Tobirama’s brows furrowed tightly.
He looked up and saw the guilty expressions on Homura Mitokado and the other elder.
Damn it!
Could it be another miscarriage of justice that needs to be overturned, just like with the Uchiha?
These students of his…
Tobirama really didn’t know what to say.
“What about Hiruzen, what does he have to say?”
He shifted his gaze toward Hiruzen.
Hiruzen took a few puffs of his pipe, his eyes clouded.
“White Fang, ah…”
His thoughts drifted back more than twenty years.
[18L: Is the White Fang of the Leaf very strong?]
[19L: The user above is ignorant.
The White Fang of the Leaf, a hero of the Second Shinobi World War.
His reputation once surpassed the Sannin and the Hokage, and he was even bestowed with a Hokage half-cloak.]
[20L: A man who had one foot on the Hokage’s throne.]
[21L: When the Second Shinobi World War ended, he was the most likely candidate to become the Fourth Hokage.]
[22L: Ah, then why don’t we seem to hear his name much now?]
[23L: Because he committed suicide, and it was suicide due to a failed mission, so his name isn’t in the history textbooks.]
[24L: But that was in the past.
I reckon the new version of the textbooks will have it.]
[25L: Is it because he is the Sixth Hokage’s dad?]
[26L: You are dead wrong!]
[27L: It is indeed because of the Sixth Hokage that the White Fang of the Leaf death incident was brought up again.]
[28L: But the reason he can be written into the textbooks isn’t because his son is Hokage.]
[OP: It’s just like what Naruto Tales wrote—his death was an act of resistance!]
“Death…
is it resistance?”
Kakashi returned to his empty apartment, hanging his head low in a daze.
If one looked closely, they could see his fingertips trembling slightly.
Memories from many years ago attacked his mind.
The image of his father dying on a stormy night, the blood winding its way down.
Obito’s resolute back as he left.
“In the world of ninja, those who break the rules are called trash, but those who don’t cherish their companions are even worse than trash!”
Obito’s resonant voice, and the giant rock that came crashing down.
So that’s it.
From the very beginning, this was what you wanted to convey, Father.
It’s exactly the same as what Obito said.
All along, Obito was right.
If he hadn’t been so stubborn back then, would the later events have happened?
He failed many people’s expectations.
His father’s, Obito’s, Rin Nohara’s, his teacher’s, his teacher’s wife’s.
Having achieved nothing, he was indeed just a piece of trash.
In Kakashi’s ash-grey pupils, the light extinguished inch by inch, leaving only a shocking dead silence.
So that’s why Obito wouldn’t return.
…
“Hey, do you know what that means?”
A ninja who had heard of the White Fang’s reputation asked quietly.
“Why is it said that the White Fang’s death was an act of resistance?
Didn’t he fail a mission and commit suicide to apologize?”
The ninja next to him had a grim expression.
Recalling the reason for the White Fang’s mission failure, he had some guesses in his heart.
“You’ll know when you keep reading.
I have a feeling there will be an analysis above.”
Not far away, Shikaku, who heard these voices, took a deep breath.
“Times have really changed.”
Who could say that they, as ninja, weren’t touched by the White Fang’s death?
These cold rules that prioritize missions over companions.
They should have been wrong from the start.
He began to look forward to the earth-shaking new world of the future.
[29L: That’s right!
He is a hero!]
[30L: What does that mean?
Be more specific!]
[OP: Let me summarize.
Actually, I recommend reading the original work.
Naruto Tales’s writing style is really nice!]
[OP: Regarding the mission that led to the White Fang’s death, the White Fang faced a dilemma: continue to complete the mission and abandon his companions, or save his companions and abandon the mission.]
[OP: Obviously, the White Fang chose the latter.]
[OP: Abandoning the mission caused certain losses to the village.]
[OP: And then the White Fang was pointed at and cursed by the people in the village.]
[OP: They called him trash among ninja and such.]
[OP: Even the companion he saved turned around and blamed him, saying he shouldn’t have saved him.]
[OP: Not long after, the White Fang committed suicide.]
[31L: Holy crap, isn’t that just being an ingrate?]
[32L: Exactly.
Saving someone and then getting cursed for it?
You might as well die then; living is just a waste of food.]
[33L: Those people who cursed the White Fang are also baffling.
When he was fighting for his life on the battlefield, I didn’t see you thanking him.
The moment he made a mistake, you couldn’t wait to trample him into the mud.]
[34L: People are just like that.
They like to drag those unreachable gods into hell and watch those heaven-sent geniuses fall.]
Some ninja who had criticized the White Fang closed their mouths, their cheeks flushed red, wishing they could dig a hole and bury themselves.
There were also some who refused to repent.
“So we can’t even talk about a failed mission?”
And others had completely forgotten this trivial matter and only suddenly remembered it when the White Fang was mentioned on the Sky Screen this time.
But they cast it aside, not taking it to heart.
Anyway, the person is dead.
What’s the use of regretting it?
Besides, the White Fang committed suicide because he couldn’t take the gossip; that’s because he was too fragile.
If you commit suicide after hearing a couple of words, why even be a ninja?
Most people are such ignorant, selfish pieces of trash.
[35L: Truly disgusting.]
[36L: If it were me, I would have just become a rogue ninja.]
[37L: That’s why you couldn’t become the White Fang.]
[OP: Actually, there are many different interpretations of the White Fang’s death.]
[OP: The book written by Naruto Tales is the warmest and most passionate answer.]
[38L: I’ve read the books by Wandering Tomato.
He writes very rationally, yet very darkly, which made me doubt the village.]
[OP: Yes, the most outstanding ones are the books written by these two authors.]
[39L: It’s actually quite funny.
These two authors seem to have a pretty good relationship; they often cue each other at the beginning or end of their books.
But the content and the ideas reflected in their books are almost completely opposite.]
[40L: I like Naruto Tales’s writing style!]
[41L: “The death of the White Fang is essentially a silent act of resistance.
He used his own blood to oppose the cruel rules of the ninja world.”]
[42L: “Mission prioritized over companions?
Wrong!
In the world of ninja, those who break the rules are trash, but those who don’t cherish their companions are even worse than trash!
He didn’t want to be someone worse than trash, so he left.”]
[43L: Crying so hard!]
[44L: You can glimpse the White Fang’s gentleness between the lines.
Such a powerful and gentle ninja, it’s truly a pity.]
“Waaaah…”
Rock Lee bit his sleeve and cried messily.
“White Fang-sama was too gentle, waaaah…”
Guy also shed noodle-like tears.
“Yes, yes, yes, Uncle Sakumo was a super gentle person, waaaah.”
Then he hugged his student and wailed in grief.
Tenten & Neji: “…”
Although it was moving, it wasn’t necessary.
…
“That line, didn’t Kakashi-sensei say that?”
Naruto scratched his head, starlight shimmering in his azure-blue pupils.
“Could that Naruto Tales be Kakashi-sensei?
He actually used my name as a pen name~~”
“It feels a bit disgusting.”
Could it really be like what the forum said, that Kakashi-sensei has a crush on him?!
Watching the Dead Last with his features bunched up, the corners of Sasuke’s mouth twitched slightly.
His bad mood dissipated unknowingly.
“Kakashi doesn’t seem like the type to love showing off.
He’s mysterious as hell.”
Naruto opened his big eyes and looked at him fiercely.
“You’re right.
Then actually, could the person who wrote the book be me?
Waaaah.”
“I didn’t become Hokage in the future, but went off to write books instead?”
His chubby cat face was filled with unhappiness.
Sasuke was slightly stunned.
“Do you think that’s possible?”
“With your Dead Last grades.”