Meet the parents!

[xyrrus]

I'm just saying that it seems(keyword) like most of the strong ninjas don't have any parents(meaning deceased). I base this on the fact that most of the above average to weaker genins we know have parents who are confirmed to be alive e.g Ino, Sakura, Chouji, Shino, Hinata, and so on.

If there was another friendly competition between genins. I'd say the top 5 winners would be Naruto, Gaara, Sasuke, Neji, & Shikamaru of whom the top 4 are parentless or have yet to reveal any.

Yea I'd have to admit having to cover the background of every gennin for Kishimoto is a little too much but it shouldn't be that hard for him to indicate in some way without much effort who has living parents like what he/animation team did with Sakura. We hear Sakura talk to her mother but we actually haven't seen her, something as simple as that puts all doubts aside.

[Yakushi-san]

And we've heard Sakura talk about her parents too, in the early episodes / chapters.

[VMLM3]

I'm guessing most of the adult ninjas don't have parents because ninjas in general don't have very long life expectancy... I mean, the only ninjas we see that are even over thirty are Tsunade, Jiraiya and Sarutobi; Orochimaru doesn't really count because he did his body switch technique a few times so he's more like 15 now. But these are all legendary ninjas! I find it a bit scary that in order to have any chance of surviving past the age of 30 you have to be a legendary ninja.
The one that really gets to me is Rock Lee, this guy is shown alone in most of his childhood flashbacks, we never get any hint of him having parents, and we never see him with his parents, not even when Tsunade is at the hospital seeing if she can cure him. Don't you think it's weird that his parents never come to visit him? Or that the only person in the room when Tsunade is looking at Lee is Gai?? If he has parents, why aren't they supporting him? Heck I'm guessing any mother would pretty much move into the hospital if that's where her son is, where the heck are those selfish bastards?

[musik4lyf]

What Im curious at is Tenten's parents....I don't remeber them saying anything about her family. She's not an important charater but I don't know much about her. If they say in the manga, let me know!

[Ryuujin]

One thing I noticed is that when we've seen only one of a character's parents, it's almost always the father (Kiba's mother being the exception)...

[-KarumA-]

Originally Posted by rukus

Yeah I wonder about this as well, looking at his lazyness - seeing him join up an organization driven mostly by hard work doesn't seem to be up his preverbial alley. So some outside source of motivation has to of taken place somewhere down the road. O_o

Spoiler for not a real spoiler.. nothing about 'it' and heck you shoudl already know about it:

next arc = Kakashi Gaiden meaning his childhood etc. itll prob be revealed then

[DAmer]

If azuma is the 3rd's son then does that mean he's Konohamaru's father?

[Hir0]

nope, potential uncle, but i do think that konohamaru is Asuma's son

Ive been suspecting that for a while now lol

Yeah Rock Lee is an interesting one, no info given bout his family, only him and his hardwork.

[ri0]

Originally Posted by xyrrus

My choice is Kakashi, I wonder if his parents were ninjas,

His father was the great ninja "White Fang" Hatake Sakumo who was respected on the same level as the sannin.... we don't know anything about his mother.

Originally Posted by Hir0

nope,

How do you know?
From what we know he could be father or uncle...

[Shay]

Originally Posted by DAmer

If azuma is the 3rd's son then does that mean he's Konohamaru's father?

But he isn't the 3rds son, so this a null point.

[ri0]

Asuma is the 3rd's son, so you're a null point.

[Mr. Johnny 5]

Hah at first people said: No Asuma and the 3rd arent related as in father and son.

It turns out that he IS his son...and now we say the same about Konohamaru.
Honestly it wouldnt suprise me at all.

I am pretty sure that his name is also "Sarutobi" Konohamaru.

[Rachy]

This isn't a [manga] thread.

[Shay]

Well I'll be...

Originally Posted by ri0

Asuma is the 3rd's son, so you're a null point.

You will rue the day you called me a "null point". Well? Start rueing!

[ri0]

I'm rueing like hell dude... 4 sure.
@Johnny: Might be... but it wasn't said in the manga yet.

[Mr. Johnny 5]

Exactly...his name is unknown just like:
"Sarutobi" || "?" (Hokage)
"Sarutobi" || "Asuma" (Jounin)
"?" || "Konohamaru" (Academy/Student)

"?" || "?" (Yondaime Hokage)
"Uzumaki" || "Naruto" (genin)

"?" || Jiraiya / Tsunade / Orochimaru (their clan name is also unknown)

[Electroguy]

Originally Posted by Yakushi-san

And we've heard Sakura talk about her parents too, in the early episodes / chapters.

We've actually heard sakura's mother speak from downstairs in some episodes as well.

I think the writers use the lack of or death of a parent to be just one factor in shaping a character.

In characters like sasuke it's a big deal because his whole plot development is to kill his brother who killed his parents.

Characters like Naruto never seemed to know their parents and that makes him feel incomplete or like he as something to make up for resulting in his hard work and never say die attitude.

[Malvien]

Must correct...

Originally Posted by Yakushi-san

Oh, it was Inoshin. Thanks :)

Nope, Ino's dad's name is actually Inoichi. People often remember that wrong. Also Shikamaru and Chouji's fathers are sometimes called Shikato and Chomaru but their real names are Shikaku and Chouza. ^^;;

...Please don't kill me if I'm wrong x___X

[Zu Ra]

Firstly kudos to creator of this thread , great idea for the Thread Name . Well the Konoha Ninjas whose parents are not shown but are alive

* Shino

* Sakura

* Ten Ten

Spoiler for manga :

Kakashi's father ' Konoha White Fang ' is shown in Kakashi Gaiden Arc

[Rachy]

Originally Posted by i shinigami

* Shino

You do see Shino's dad a lil after Shino's fight with Kankuro.