liondemon

It never crossed my mind until i read this... http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/122/12/

He would still feel that need to protect the village after Hokage basically being his life since he was a young man. How else would the Monkey know what it looked like? Sarutobi must have fought against Kyuubi, but Minato did the jutsu because he was acting Hokage. I bet Sarutobi was about to do it and Minato said something like, "No, I am Hokage now", "Let me do this".

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uzumaki619

Idk I Think He Was

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Shikamaru2007

Nice Conclusion , liondemon
but didn't u think of that ... sarutobi was off konoha in a mission - does hokage go on missions ???- and minato was there ... *stupid *

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Playa

Yeah i don't think Enma's knowledge of the handseals to use that jutsu necessitates that he was there at the battle. But I can believe Sarutobi & Enma battling the kyuubi at the time as well.
Regarding the use of the jutsu, well it was Minato's jutsu so i don't believe Sarutobi was going to use it. Sarutobi simply learned it afterwards as he learned every jutsu of Konoha

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trondah

Sarutobi wasn't hokage at the time, he was retired. When Minato died he stepped up again.

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Kina

Maybe he was there, but I doubt it. I know it's the 4th deal, but how could he have learned it by looking at it once. I think the 4th taught it to him. If thats that case, then I don't think the 3rd was there or he would have given his life up instead.

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Shikamaru2007

If he had given up his life instead of Minato , we wouldnt have the series

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Panther25

well as to how the 3th learned the jutsu, Minato probably wrote down on a scroll. Isnt there a whole room full of forbidden scrolls??

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/1/naruto_v01_ch001_024/

As to why the 3th didnt fight, heres my idea. The 3rd retired and named Minato the 4th hokage. Perhaps the 3rd didnt fight because he felt that it was past his time. He may have wanted the leaf village to find a way to carry on without him. Its kinda like goku not wanting to defeat fat buu while trunks was looking for the dball radar.

i0ana

He might have been there... Might have even fought with the kyuubi, but I don't know... In the end the one who stopped it was Minato...

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MajkY

most likely it was because of Minatos Teleport, so he could perform the jutsu....

liondemon

O.k. but the monkey god knew the jutsu just by the hand seals before the death god even appeared. We know that Sarutobi never used it before he fought Orochumaru, so the monkey god shouldn't know what the hand seals loo like unless he saw the 4th or a previous Hokage use it. The monkey god doesn't just hang around Konoha to have seen or overheard Sarutobi training Minato. I doubt that he is even summoned unless Sarutobi is in serious trouble. For Enma to know the jutsu, he would have had to have seen it before. Sarutobi must have been there with Enma for Enma to know the jutsu. How many times in Sarutobi's life can u imagine that his genius would have ever needed Enma for help.

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flareofdragon

It wouldn't make sense if he didn't fight Kyuubi. Even if he was retired, he is still a respected ninja and I doubt he would put his own welfare over the safety and wellbeing of Konoha.

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Harrada

thats a hard question, it would've made sense doing so

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Namikaze85

Um nooo lol yondaime taught sarutobi the jutsu it's known to all that yondaime created the death god and only he knows how it works to it's full potenital.

He must have taught it before kyuubi attacked because jiraiya didn't just learn rasengan himself now did he.

Besides sarutobi wouldn't do something stupid like try and use it gainst a demon when he couldn't even seal a human at his age and back then he was already old.


So no sarutobi had no part in killing kyuubi at all besides second strongest ninja in the village would stay and protect them in the village kakashi was also a kid back then but knew what the nine tails chakra felt like because it's that damn sinister.

liondemon

Im not saying that u are wrong, but are us sure that Minato taught Sarutobi the jutsu? I dont remember it being stated in the Manga. It doesnt matter who tauch who because it doesnt change the fact that the Monkey King new the jutsu. If Minato did teach Sarutobi just before the attack, that would just give more proof to the fact that Saurobi fought Kyuubi. Why would the Monkey King be hanging around while Sarutobi is learning a jutsu. Unlss Sarutobi is in a Hokage level battle, he wouldnt need to summon The monkey king. So if Minato taught it to Sruto just before the Kyuubi attack, and the monley king saw it, that would prove that they must have already been facing Kyuubi and Minato just told Sarutobi whatto do and how to do it, as he was doing it himself, but definitely during the battle.

If Jiraiya is wind type, and he saw Minato doing Rasengan, he wouldnt need to be taught. Anyone can see whats happening in the jutsu, even Naruto did his 1st time seeing it. Jiraiya's the Sannin would be able to reproduce the Rasengan after seeing it once. But that doesnt really matter because Naruto learned Kage Bushin in a scroll, and Mizuki said that that scroll was used to seal him up, and there were other jutsu on the scroll. The Death Godjutsu could have been on that scroll before Minato was even born for all we know, unless stted in the Manga that Minato created it. There are many scrolls in Naruto World. Just because one person is the first to have been seen doing a jutsu doesnt mean that they created it from scratch.

Sarutobi would try to use it against a demon if it was his last hope. He was old but he was still talented and strong enough to fight the 1st 2 Hokages and Orochumaru and seal them up 13 years after the Kyuubi attack. If Minato could do it, then Sarutobi could. Why would that be stupid?


Remember that it was said that amny Konoha shinobi lost ther lives fighting off the Kyuubi until Minato came. Clearly Minato was elsewhere for whatever reason when Kyuubi 1st appeared. Sarutobi protecting the village would be by fighting Kyuubi. Huddling up with the villagers and giving them word of encouragement would have been a waste of his talents. How would he protect the village from Kyuubi other than by fighting Kyuubi? I never stated that Sarutobi had a part in killing Kyuubi. I just said that I believe that he and the Monkey King fought Kyuubi before Minato showed up.

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