[Last words to Naruto] War inflicts death, injury, and pain to everyone. The truth is, the more precious someone is to us, the harder it is to accept that they might die. Sometimes you actually convince yourself there's no way they could never die. This naivete can't be helped, especially with a generation like yours, a generation that does not know war. You may try to find meaning in war, but all there is is loss and unbearable pain. All that senseless death, it unleashes a cycle of violence and hatred that never ends. War creates only more war. And those are the things you will face in the coming days, Naruto. The parallels between you and that book, it almost feels like someone set it all up, like it was all the work of an actual God. Seems this is it for me. Naruto, I believe you of all people... can.
[After Pain dies, Konan wraps the bodies of Yahiko and Nagato]
No I'm leaving the Akatsuki. Yahiko and Nagato meant everything to me. Yahiko's dream, and then Nagato's dream. Both of their dreams had been entrusted to you. You now embody those dreams. Nagato chose to put his faith in you, so now I will do the same. And we of the Hidden Rain Village will continue to pursue our dreams together with you.
Naruto
[remembers Jiraiya and Pain] The name Naruto, the guts to never give up, and now more Pain. They're the things I've inherited from my master and from my sibling student!
After the Akatsuki's assault on our village, Shinobi of the Leaf can't support Sasuke, not when he's an Akatsuki too. Sakura isn't a fool. Or a child who doesn't understand the circumstances or the situation. That's why she came all the way here to try to tell you that in person.
Naruto, no matter what you say to me, I'm not changing. I'm still going to kill each and every person in the Hidden Leaf, including you! I'll get revenge for the Uchiha clan.
If you attack the Hidden Leaf, I'll have no choice. I will fight you, don't doubt that. Until that day, save your hatred. Then you can throw all of it right at me. I'm the only one who can handle all that hate! Do you understand? I'm the only one who can fulfill that duty, so I'll bear the burden of your hatred, and I'll die with you!
So what that you've come up with some autograph!? What a joke! Everyone in the village is just falling over themselves to deceive you. They've been lying to us since we were kids, inventing stupid rules and making us outcasts. Don't you remember that?! It was always so hard, and so painful too. I'm the only one who will ever understand you. You can't trust any of those villagers!
Naruto
Maybe. The villagers are important, but there's someone else that I have to trust more first. What I need to do right now is believe in myself. I need to trust the me that all the villagers believe in.
[Last words] Naruto. Don't be a picky eater, just eat a lot so you grow big and strong! And make sure that you bathe everyday and that you stay warm too. Also don't stay up too late. Make sure you get plenty of sleep. Don't forget to make friends as well. You don't need a ton of them okay? just a few is fine as long as they're ones that you can really trust. And your mom wasn't very good at this, make sure you study hard and learn your ninjutsu. Always remember everyone is good at some things and not so good at others. So even if something doesn't go well don't get depressed, okay? When you're at the academy respect your teachers and your upperclassmen. Oh and this is important. Regarding the Three Prohibitions of the shinobi, be extra careful about loaning and borrowing money, take your pay, put it into a savings account. No alcohol, not until you're of age. Too much sake is bad for you so practice moderation. And another prohibition is women. Remember I am one so I don't know much about it. Keep in mind that this world is made up of men and women and so at some point you'll notice girls, and that's normal. Just be careful, don't fall for the bad ones. Just go out there and find someone who's like me. Oh and that reminds me. Speaking of the Three Prohibitions, you should be wary of Jiraiya-sensei you know. Naruto I'm sorry to say there will be plenty of hardships and painful times ahead. Just be true to yourself! Make sure to have dreams and the confidence to make those dreams come true! [Crying] Oh Naruto there's so much... oh so much more. There are so many things I want to pass on to you, so much more I want to tell you. I wish I could stay with you longer. I love you. Minato I'm sorry. I used up your time.
I'm sorry for making you the Nine Tails' vessel, Naruto. For making you bear what should have been our burden to carry. For not being able to stand by your side.
Naruto
You don't have to apologize. Yeah sure in the past I went through a lot as a jinchūriki, but I would never blame you or dad for that. So yeah I never really had parents or felt a parent's love. After all you and dad weren't around. But still I had a feeling, and besides I now know it sure. Because you and dad both sacrificed yourselves just for me, so now I realize there's more than just Nine-Tails inside me. There's your love too! That makes me really happy! Mom and dad, I'm glad I'm your kid!
Minato, did you hear that? Our hopes really did get through to reach our son! Naruto. Thank you for letting me become a mother, and thank you for letting Minato be a father. Thank you for being born to us! [disappears]
Didn't you say you wouldn't let any of your comrades die? Naruto! You said "I'll never let my comrades die". Those were your words. Now look around you and try to say it again! I said try to say those words again! As the bodies of your comrades grow cold in your arms, take in their deaths!
This will just keep happening and all your flippant words and ideals will become lies. This is the end result of ideals and hopes. This is reality. Naruto, what is there for you in this reality? Your mother and father are gone. Your master Jiraiya too. And if you keep standing against us, you'll lose all your friends one by one. This shall become a world where no one that acknowledges you will exist.
[slaps Naruto to snap him out of it] Neji just said that in your hands you hold more than one life. Do you understand what he meant? Do you? "I'll never let my comrades die". Those words and the conviction behind them are not lies! For he stored them in his heart and lived them out til the end. Neji really did. It isn't just you, it's all of us. We all hold those words and feelings in our hearts. They're what bind our lives together and make us comrades. If we were all to give up and just discard those words and feelings, Neji's act will have been for nothing. And that is when your comrades truly die, for you are no longer comrades then. That's how I feel. So please stand up together with me Naruto, because never going back on one's word... That is also my ninja way!
Wrong, you're Obito Uchiha. When I touched your chakra earlier I saw into your past. Our personal histories and our dream of being Hokage are the same, almost exactly the same. Neither of us knew your parents, and we both lost someone precious to us. Which is why you tried to scare me by saying solitude is my worst nightmare. At the start you wanted to be acknowledged and praised by others too. I bet that's why you wanted to become Hokage. I mean if you're the same as me. But look at you now! You've made all shinobi your enemy and spout nonsense that it's for the world's sake when really you're only doing it for yourself! Not one person, not even those precious to you, would ever acknowledge this current dream of yours. You used to have the same dream as me, but now you're the opposite of a Hokage! It's cuz you're just like me that-
No it's because of that. That's why I wanted to see you despair about this world. Or I suppose I wanted to feel again for myself that the path that I've chosen for myself is indeed not a mistake. When I was battling against you, you made me recall myself from my youth. That's why I wanted to test you, to see when you would fall into despair and reject your feelings and past.
Naruto
It's because we're so alike that you really annoy me! Get it?! You're just abandoning everything and running away!
[flashes back to telling Rin his dream of being Hokage] Yes I do. There's no need to voluntarily walk a rugged path whose destination isn't even clear and step over comrades' corpses. So anyone who's sensible would choose a shortcut with a fixed outcome. That's right, the goal a Hokage should seek is to create world peace.
Naruto
You don't know what you're talking about. What I want to know isn't the shortcut or the easy path, but how to navigate the rugged one!
Would you still say the same thing even if both those paths led to?
Naruto
But in the beginning, how can you tell which one is the rugged path? I mean, you never really know until someone starts walking down it. A Hokage is one who walks ahead of everyone else, enduring their own pain! So that's why a Hokage never walks over his comrades' corpses. There's no shortcut to becoming Hokage and no way out for the one who becomes Hokage, correct?
[when Naruto uses the Sexy Reverse Harem Jutsu] That idiot! Using a jutsu like that in this situation?! That might work on me, but there's no way that jutsu would work on such a god-like person! [Naruto punches Kaguya] IT WORKED?! [faints]
Naruto
You may be the progenitor of chakra or whatever, but I'll bet you've never seen a Jutsu like this!
A lot more suffering likely awaits you Naruto. However, just keep forging ahead like always without changing. You once told me that never going back on your word is your ninja way right?