Naruto2Talk

Kishi has made a statement that 3^rd and 4^th Hokage are the stongest among the Hokages, but did he mean among all ninjas or just among the Konoha ninjas?

It has caught my attention when Itachi’s true identity was revealed in previous chapters of Naruto manga. We know that Itachi is stronger than Orochimaru, who is praised as one of the legendary Sannins. Now, who is the strongest among the Sannins? Orochimaru? Jiraiya? Or Tsunade?

The status of one ninja is defined by their skills and mental capability in devising strategy. Therefore, being Hokage means the person must has the defined values. As we know Itachi is stronger than Orochimaru and he is genius as well, so that means he is qualified as Hokage as well. It is really sad Itachi has to betray his own clan for the peace of ninja world. Madara also seems to be afraid of Itachi when he said he is relieved with the death of Itachi, where nobody can stop him from attacking Konoha.

From my point of view, Jiraiya also seems to be stronger than Orochimaru when he fought with Paine, the Akatsuki’s leader. The Sage technique looks like very impressive and with its ability to use the nature’s power, it’s surely a powerful jutsu.

Even thought Paine taking order from Madara, but I do believe Paine is still stronger than Madara. Maybe Madara isn’t ranked lower than Paine as well despite Paine being the leader. Both of them probably devising or plan movements for Akatsuki for certain purpose, but I think Madara is using or fooling Paine to do the job for him where his real intention is something else that hasn’t been discovered yet.

Now, Sasuke has becomes so powerful that even ranked not less than Madara. Even supposing he is still weaker than Madara, but I believe it won’t be far behind. One thing that makes Sasuke is still visible to Naruto is the power that Itachi gave to Naruto. We don’t know what is it but we do believe in Itachi. Madara may seem to have everything under his control or things went as his plan, but Itachi has his own plan as well.

Is Kyuubi existence important in the later story of Naruto? Will the Sage technique be completed within time? How much Naruto will improve from his training this time? Will he becomes more mature or gains more powers? I still believe even supposing Naruto becomes more mature and gains more powers, he is still powerless against Paine. The only way to beat Paine is the crack the code left by Jiraiya and know Paine’s secret. Paine mentioned before if Jiraiya had known his secret earlier, Jiraiya could beat him. So the code is apparently deadly to Paine.

Is 9-tailed beast existence means anything in the story? For some reason, I don’t think so. He could just be a part of the story to show how powerful Sasuke is. We still haven’t known the new power that Sasuke got from Itachi. So we might probably see this in the later chapters when the battle between the 8-tailed beast and Sasuke begins.

I have been thinking whether it is wise for Jiraiya to pass a code that is so hard to be decoded. Initially, I thought Tsunade or anyone is capable of decoding the code without much problem but obviously I was wrong. What if there isn't anyone who can break the code? Then, will it be a vain death for Jiraiya that the secret he passed cannot be revealed or understand by anyone. Of course, I know it is in order to prevent the code from being discovered by Pain.

So what we get to know is just how much powerful this Pain and how deadly is the code. This prove me again that Pain is more powerful than Madara despite Madara is the leader. The reason I can think of about Madara as a leader is because he is the founder of Akatsuki and he is the one who leads and plans the organization. Even Pain mentioned before that Jiraiya could possibly beats him if he knows about Pain's secret and that's why Jiraiya needs to sacrifice himself in order to dig out the secret. So basically, Jiraiya accomplished his mission but died in battle.
Anyway, since there is so many people trying to figure out the code is. As I said in my previous post, it is a bit hard since we aren't exposed to any clues and we are Shikimaru too. Hehe. However, it's not entirely that we can think of any possibility it might be. Honestly, I think it could be story book that Jiraiya wrote. I don't have much evidence to back up my theory except for some photos that might related. In my opinion, if Kishi is going to make the process of decoding interesting, then I will say that the combination codes are not absolute answer for the secret. They are connected to different things as clues, just like 'National Treasure". Well, I am not Ben Gates, so I can't figure out the secret. Some more, there isn't much clues either. What I am aware of, is the secret is unpredictable and it's something we aren't aware of.

Still I don't really think there is a spy of Jiraiya in the Akatsuki. It could be from the frog. Well, if there's truly a spy within the members of the Akatsuki, it would be so obvious that Itachi is the person. The reason why I think the spy is the frog is Itachi has forced to use Amaterasu when he was trying to escape from the frog's stomach (Jiraiya's jutsu). Jiraiya has no idea about the jutsu at all while Kakashi seems to know it when he saw the black fire.

Or, there is possibility that Jiraiya had analysed the fire and told Kakashi about it which lead me to an assumption that Kakashi developed his new sharingan from it. He probably can also use the jutsu. Who know. Kakashi seems to be quite strong with jutsu too.