Naruto Uchiha: the Last Sage of the Six Paths

by JH17

A young, six year old Naruto arrives at the scene of the Uchiha Massacre as a mob finally corners him. After years of torment at their hands, coupled with seeing Uchiha dead everywhere, he snaps. On that day Naruto changes from an energetic, loving, smiling boy. From that day forth, Naruto Uzumaki died, and Naruto Uchiha was born. Dark/gray and eventual god-like Naruto.

19. Not-So-Chapter 19: Rewrite Incoming!

Naruto Uchiha: the Last Sage of the Six Paths: Rebooted!

Hello everyone! After many years of being away, I have decided to rewrite this story from the ground-up! I first started writing this when I was in high school and my writing has certainly improved a bit since then, so I'd like to give this story another try! Some of you might be wondering what spurred this decision, so I'll just name my primary reasons to give some meaningful context:

Naruto became far too powerful too fast, despite my insistence that his growth would be slow! With his current skillset, the only two ways for me to make things more challenging for him are: no Kyuubi chakra and/or rapid progression of blindness in the Mangekyou. He's just too powerful! I don't want to produce my own Madara problem before the timeskip, so I'm going to be nerfing Naruto's starting point this time around (not starting with 3 tomoe, (probably) not giving him Mangekyou in Land of Waves arc, forcing him to be more secretive, etc).

The dialogue is sometimes too cheesy and shonen-y for me. There's a good handful of moments where I cringe at my own dialogue! There's also a lot to be desired from character interactions (Kakashi is far too aloof and disengaged from the situations, mostly. If it were post-timeskip, I could see Naruto taking the lead in missions but there should be a noticeable lack of practical battle experience in the Land of Waves arc that Naruto simply doesn't have. He's too much of a one-man-army and a Gary Stu! The characters in general desperately need more depth).

Formatting of the story is rough at times. It desperately needs a line-break in dialogue (rereading it these past few days, I think the dialogue being one sentence after the other without a proper line-break in between makes conversations feel rushed).

Boruto exists now! While I think the story is an absolute travesty more often than not, I remain a Naruto fanboy until I die (apparently), and thus I'd like to work some elements of Boruto into my story. Boruto might come to exist in this story, in some capacity, but I'm not making any promises.

I'm sure there will be a few people upset by this decision, but I felt it was better to do this than attempt to rebalance Naruto and the story as a whole with subsequent chapters. A proper rewrite from the start seems like a better solution for me and I've decided to take that route as a result. I'm putting this Author's Notes chapter into the original and the rewrite so anyone following the original can know where the story is going (if anyone is still interested, anyway) and any newcomers can peek back to see how it originally started! I'll be creating the new story and uploading the first chapter tonight! I hope you all enjoy it!