WARNING: SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL CHAPTER OF NARUTO

Summary

Naruto and Sasuke's final battle showcased their most powerful techniques and highlighted their deep understanding of each other's pain. Naruto and Sasuke's final battle highlights the series' complex character writing, marked by emotional dialogue. Sasuke's psychological attack on Naruto emphasizes the loneliness that the Shadow Clone Technique symbolizes, showing their complex bond and character development.

The final battle between Naruto And Sasuke has seen some of the series' most powerful attacks, but none as devastating as a line of dialogue that proves how well the pair understand each other. After 15 years of publication, Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga finally ends with an incredibly satisfying and poignant battle between the series' main characters. While the battle featured many iconic techniques, including Naruto's Shadow Clone, Sasuke's dissection of their significance shook readers and Naruto himself.

As Naruto and Sasuke's final battle continued to escalate, so did Sasuke's frustration. Both sides decided to stop holding back and unleash their most powerful moves in chapter #696. To do so, Sasuke absorbed the chakra of the imprisoned Tailed Beasts into his Susanoo, and Naruto created a Shadow Clone in his ultimate Nine-Tails Chakra form.

Naruto chapter #696 by Masashi Kishimoto and Shonen Jump

As Sasuke continued to try to physically harm Naruto, he eventually resorted to psychological tactics. After the Shadow Clone user created three giant copies of himself, the empowered boy of the Sasuke clan smirked and said: “That jutsu is a symbol of your weakness. It's a technique that covers up your loneliness.” A statement that shook Naruto and even him proved how well he understood his orphan friend's pain.

Lonely ninja is never alone

The Naruto manga is written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto

The Shadow Clone Technique is the protagonist's first major technique that works on multiple narrative levels. As fans know, the Nine-Tails jinchuriki was raised in Konoha, where the village's residents resented him and were not allowed to discuss why. That thing The lack of comfort and years of unexplained hatred left Naruto feeling extremely lonely. it would be an understandable origin story for a villain. Instead, it helped Naruto better appreciate the connections he would make later. But everything changed the day he stole a powerful forbidden scroll.

The beginning of Naruto's story had elements that were better and worse than some fans remembered. One of the features associated with the series is Shadow Clone Jutsu. It allows Naruto to effectively create hundreds of physical copies of himself that disappear when hit. A character forced to live a heartbreaking seclusion suddenly has the ability to create clones of himself. This skill can threaten enemies with sheer numbers, but as Sasuke pointed out, This technique cannot cure the loneliness of the once orphaned child.

The Shadow Clone Technique (also known as Shadow Clone Art) divides the user's chakra into a number of physical copies. Naruto has used this technique with remarkable effectiveness to accomplish things he could not do as a person, such as tricking enemies with brilliantly misdirected strikes or pulling off devastating combos. violent. However, it is a jutsu that helps Naruto help others but does not help him gain more friends.

Naruto's final opponent understood him better than the rest

Sasuke was introduced in chapter #3, but he formed a relationship with Naruto before the series began.

Naruto Fanart illustrated by @BrentonsArt

Sasuke is one of the most stubborn characters in the series as he completely accepts Naruto's companionship. While the Uchi clan believes that they must abolish the current base and Naruto to force the world into peace With his new overwhelming power, Naruto believes that forming bonds and helping each other is the best thing. That belief has helped bind the Shinobi Alliance together to achieve miracles. Sasuke wants to get rid of connections that he believes are holding him back, while Naruto tries to build and maintain connections that are important to him.

Sasuke finally realizes the importance of their relationship, but his dialogue proves that he understands his brother-in-law. After being taken away from his family as a child, he believed that Naruto could not understand how he felt because unlike Sasuke, Naruto never had a family. The two bonded during their younger years at the ninja academy through that shared loneliness. As a result, the Sharingan user has the unique perspective of being an opponent who knows where Naruto comes from, making his statement about Shadow Clone technology about hiding his loneliness sting even more.

Carefully plan each attack of Naruto and Sasuke

A brotherhood that goes beyond blood

Naruto's reaction upon hearing his iconic jutsu being broken was one of shock as if he had never considered the symbolism of his Shadow Clone technique. Episode #477 of the Shippuden anime features a beautiful moment before the strongest Susanoo in the series quickly appears behind the Shadow Clones and brutally overwhelms the superior numbers. Nearly every attack in the two shinobi's arsenal had some spiritual significance. in the story, especially when Sasuke decided to confront Naruto and his clones alone.

Lonely Sasuke has also learned and grown a lot as a character throughout the series. He took Spider-Man's iconic line about “with great power comes great responsibility” to the extreme by pledging to use his godlike powers to impose the idea of ​​peace. integrating his world into the shinobi world. He even expressed that there was some way to achieve immortality to stay in power forever, a similar goal to Madara Madara. Luckily, Naruto was tired of letting his best friend take on so much work by himself.

Naruto's words still had a greater impact

The story of Naruto and Sasuke took 15 years and 700 chapters to tell

Naruto chapter #698 by Masashi Kishimoto and Shōnen Jump

Naruto's ending is considered one of the most satisfying endings of the novel to a series thanks to the complex emotions and carefully considered clash between Naruto and Sasuke. After exhausting each other and even destroying the hands used for their signature attacks, they both lay next to each other, unable to move. However, the confrontation that has been building for years will end with some profound quotes from Naruto.

As the two lay in the rubble of the battle, the villain again asked Naruto why he was so diligent in not giving up on him and what friendship meant to him. “When I see you taking things over and making a mess, I feel so much pain in my heart, I can't leave it alone,” is Naruto's words finally reached Sasuke's ears. Now, the lonely Sasuke finally admitted that he treasured his relationship with Naruto and that together they could achieve more than either of them could do alone, even even with the Shadow Clone.

Although the two characters share an understandable rivalry on a surface level, their conflicting ideals have helped make their relationship one of anime's most iconic bonds. Some series have adapted the rival group effectively. However, the dynamic between the two main characters made their final battle and Sasuke's harsh commentary much more effective. Masashi Kishimoto and his editors did a great job building up the two characters throughout the manga's 15 years of publication to bring a satisfying ending to the series. Naruto series.