I know we're not supposed to double post...But this kind of just hit me hard...
CT: You know...I think it finally just hit me that Naruto is over...I remember being 7 years old, REFUSING to read it in Shonen Jump because I thought Naruto looked like a rip off of my hero, Goku. I remember being 11 years old and watching the Naruto vs. Neji fight as part of Toonami's Naruto Years Eve New Years special with my best friend Patrick
Patrick. Or when I was twelve and me, my dad, and my sister
Riely were watching the Hokage's funeral episode, and it was storming so the DirecTV cut out and my sister kicked the TV, temporarily breaking it, making for a very upset father...I remember being 13 and watching the Naruto Hundo (whole Friday and Saturday of the first 99 episodes of Naruto, with the last episode being the new 100th episode) with
Clay. I remember being 15 and finding out that Shippuden would be premiering on Disney XD and we were so excited, then I was disappointed in how edited it was...And now I am 20, and it's all over...I'm sad...I have all the seasons of the original. Several seasons of Shippuden. Action figures and video games galore. But at the end of the day, those are all relics of the past now. I have grown up with Naruto...Hell...with my age, I have grown ALONGSIDE Naruto...and there really is a tear in my eye as I type this...thank you Misashi Kishimoto. Thank you for Naruto, Rock Lee, Kakashi, and the rest. Thank you for conversation starters with people who would be my friends several years later, all because I wore a Naruto shirt to school. And most of all, thank you for keeping alive in me, what Goku instilled first, and that's the guts to never give up.