Mut@t@ does make an excellent point...but im not too sure if thats whats going on, although i wont rule it out as a possibility. noonan, what do you mean that we dont know anything about naruto. we know everything that we need to know. hes has noone and has been alone his whole life and we can pretty much assume how his life was like then. the only things that we dont know are things like who is family is, but that doesnt matter for the stories progression.