bliz

Not my idea originally or nor do i take credit for it. It brings up a important question of where is Naruto's grandparents.

Here is the original post that i found on another forum while i was searching to see if there was any spoiler out.

The link:http://www.forums.endless-naruto.com...ummaries-6814/

Some quotaion-

To be honest its a thoughtful question since it brings up many question and answers.

Like who are indeed Narutos Grandparents from mothers and fathers side. Its astonishing that no one brought that up. Narutos mother might be dead and father dead confirmed but where are his grandparents.

Fourth Hokage died young said best so his parents must be around about 40ish minus and plus 3 years. Because i can guess but Minato is around about 20 years old. Now Minato's parents and Narutos mother's parents would be later 50's. Why did they not be there for Naruto?

So to me Tsunade kind of fills the role since as the person said:

-Tsunade had Minato, "baby", and left him for adption so why he doesn't have the family name, although Tsunade doesn't carry the Senju clan name in the first place.
-Minatos father could be Dan, as Tsunade greatly cares and loves him and we don't really know what colour his hair his, or i think that is. We see it in the anime but anime could have twisted it because even they did not know what colour it was since Kishi doesn't work really closely with the animators i guess like Tite-Bleach creater does.
-Minato could have been adopted by Namikaze familly, and Tsunade left the villiage although time to time visited or be labelled as missing-nin.
-So, does Minato know about his parents? If so, why did he not leave his child to their care before death if he had time to make a request that Naruto should be seen as a hero?
-Lets not have deaths again that they died early, as well as Narutos mothers parents.
-I can also guess that when Minato died, Tsunade and not even Jiraiya was present in the village and also she was so shocked of his news of death she never returned to the village or somthing like that. Also Naruto was kept a secret in the first place so she might have not even known until Jiraiya informed her at which some else was looking after him when Naruto was a baby like a foster mother thing.

Points for the thoery:
-Minato has a massive chakra pool, to pull of S-class Jutsu's like that and only Senju clan members were said to have massive chakra pool.
-It was said Hokage line runs through the Senju clan by your truly Madara who we know has been alive since the first hokage, so Minato is one as well.
-This link:http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/367/11/
Its like Jiraiya said: "if he have been my kid, i would have bragged about him always". So we can take it as he knows Minatos parents and also they are alive yet they don't brag about him. You can't brag if your not alive and since Jiraiya sounds like Minatos parent (who ever they are) should be very proud, they are indicated to be alive or one of the parents at least. Since Tsunade is the only one present and who is never known to brag, then why do we get the feel its her. She looks down (sad) with her head down at the moment and unhappy soon as Minato got mentioned.

Does she feel responsible for Minato anyways? Why be sad about Minato who she might have never known closely since she has not been in the village for a long time after Dan's death. Why is she lost in her thoughts if you look at her face in:http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/367/10/. I don't see Jiraiya making the sad expression and what Jiraiya said afterward in the next page sounds like he is trying to cheer Tsunade up.

I mean Minato could be blood related only and so on but its strange thou.

The only thing that goes against this theory is:

A) Orochimaru did not offer to Tsunade, that he would bring back Minato alive which means:
-Tsunade does not care for him, and how could for a son she never known on a personal level
-Orochimaru hated Minato too much because he took his Hokage position
-Orochimaru doesn't know, which is likely since he was more or less mad with Immortality to have noticed who gets born or not.

B) Tsunade never calls Minato on a personal level. Calls him either Fourth Hokage same as her grandfather "first hokage" or full name Namikaze Minato. A mother never does that but is it because she feels detached and guilt for not being there for him? Afterall she even explains when you become hokage you have to call them properly and no first names. Her own words after she took the role of 5th hokage.

Who knows and who cares if Minato is indeed son of Tsunade and Dan beause in the end question remains:

Narutos parents might be dead but where were his grandparents who are never mentioned and did not even bother to look after him from such troubled childhood?

The Madness

tl;dr

Plenty of 'evidence' to support that Minato is Tsunade's son.

Mystik

You do make a lot of pointless threads which i have stopped reading fully. Yep Minato must be Tsunades son because they have the same hair color. OMG OMG OMG can i say it again OMG your so right. I will be damned your right the same hair color is a dead give away. So Tsunade really is granny.

Grand_Fireball

How was Sarutobi related to the Senju clan?

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The Madness

I am Minato's mother, how can tsunade be.

bliz

I did say its not my theory nor do i care if Minato is or is not son of Tsunade. This post was about where is Naruto's grandparents.

Its Madara saying so: Hokage position has always been conrolled by Senju clan members. He Sarutobi knew the first and trained by the second personally as a genin and at that time Senju clan was still dominant.

Please don't make useless post comments, although it would be nice Naruto universe came real since we would know "PAIN" with constant fighting going on and on.

Tzu Men

Besides all the obvious all I'll state is this.

The timeframe doesn't fit at all. Tsunade would have been knocked up at like 16-20 lol.
Minato died at around 30+, Tsunade is only 50 in Part 1. Dan and Jiraiya might have noticed a kid running around her feet when they were romancing her.

Also before someone suggests it for lulz: teen pregnancies don't happen in Naruto, although if Hinata does a Kunerai after this arc (even if she is dead o_0) I retract my comment.

Grand_Fireball

Bliz- but Sarutobi not being directly related to the Senju clan allows for a big hole in this theory.
As in, Minato isn't actually related to the Senju at all and was trained by Jiraiya, who was trained by Sarutobi, to trained directly under the Senju. In the same way Sarutobi isn't related to Senju. Although, 3/5 is still good odds for Senju's rule.
The theory is interesting, but I don't buy it one bit and think that Madara is just an old, jealous fart.

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bliz

You just proved that Tsunade is indeed Minato mother. 50-30 =20. Why couldn't she have a kid at that time with Dan and Jiraiya was rejected long ago.

I did not say Sarutobi not being directly related. I think and totally confident that:

Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Minato are all Senju. What is the problem with people that every time someone brings this up and it gets squashed. What does people have against Senju clan. Is someone going to say "Senju clan are totally dead forever except Tsunade".

What is Madara's revenge for then if not to wipe all the senju clan off since Uchiha and Senju clan are like fire and water. Madara still feels the pain of approx 100 or so years ago. Exactly what has generated this Naruto story if not this rivalry between Uchiha and Senju clan, and if there were no other Senju clan members then what is the reason for all this blood shed on Madara part. He won and he should be happy since there is no Senju clan blood line left (as Tsunade is too old and has no one else) whereas uchiha blood line is till there.

For Gods sake please someone read the last thing I said.

Narutos parents might be dead but where were his grandparents who are never mentioned and did not even bother to look after him from such troubled childhood?

This is the main point of the post. Is Minato son of Tsunade? is just a side question that intrgued me so i decided to share with you all.

kluang

aaahhhhhh....

If Namikaze Minato is a Senju whe dont called him Senju Minato??? Whats the point putting Namikaze. Who are they afraid of?

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Grand_Fireball

This, in no way, suggests that Sarutobi is directly related to the Senju clan.
You miss my point- if you use this reasoning to describe Sarutobi's connection, then you allow for Minato's connection to be removed also, although now- you are confident that Sarutobi is a Senju. However, he'd have to be a cousin/nephew or some indirectly connection, otherwise, his last name would be Senju. Too bad no real evidence supports any of this.

In response to your complaint that Madara needs reason to wish to destroy Konoha, but in fact, he truly doesn't, and that makes him MORE evil. Like I said, he's just a jealous old fart who seeks nothing but revenge.

And I believe that Tsunade is the only Senju left alive, unless plot reveals a husband, child, or otherwise unnecessary twist.

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Scatmann

I think you got someting there bliz, it might be true but stil, it could be awesome to know about naruto`s grandparents for sure.

moebrown20

I like this theory.
I will have to look more into it.
I wonder after this pain fight, will someone tell him about his parents?

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Hurricane Chronicles

I just realized Naruto's not even human he's one of those kids off of Race to Witch Mountain lol

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Konnaha_yellow_flash

If tsunade is narutos grandmother, that would have to mean tsunade doesnt know minato is her son since tsunades should already know that Naruto is minatos son so??

I can admit that alot of little things can support that maybe Kishi is trying to tell us something about tsunade. however, we wont know anything for sure until Kishi decides to reveal the secrets of narutos past.