Super Dark Naruto Theory Will Change How You See Boruto
Naruto and Boruto are very different shows, but one dark Shippuden theory explains why. As was expected, Naruto’s ending was followed by the beginning of a brand new series, Boruto. Initially, the characters and the world of Boruto were introduced in Boruto: Naruto the Movie, one of the two canon Naruto films. Boruto takes place 15 years after the end of Naruto Shippuden’s Fourth Great Ninja War, in a peaceful world where neither the Akatsuki nor the tailed beasts are a problem.
After several encounters with the Akatsuki members, Naruto Shippuden culminated in one final arc, the Fourth Great Ninja War. That was when all of the five nations, plus the Samurai, joined efforts to create the first-ever Shinobi Alliance. Their mission was to protect Naruto and Killer Bee, the only remaining Tailed Beast’s jinchuuriki, from being captured by the Akatsuki.
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The Fourth Great Ninja War could not have been more exhausting. Tobi, who claimed to be Madara but was actually Obito, had an army of thousands of Zetsus at his disposal – not to mention dozens of resurrected ninjas, such as all of the dead Akatsuki members. The fight became even more difficult when the real Madara Uchiha was resurrected and brought into the battlefield. Towards the end of the war, Madara was actually close to winning, as he managed to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi. In fact, there have been many fan theories since the end of Naruto Shippuden suggesting that Madara’s Infinite Tsukuyomi was never “turned off” and that everything audiences see in Boruto is nothing but Naruto’s dream of what a perfect world looks like.
The Tsukuyomi was introduced relatively early in the series when Itachi Uchiha returned to the
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