Legendary Legacy wrote:
Well, I suppose Shikamaru would be last in the class with Naruto gone.
Though, I always figured that the old InoShikaChou played politics to
get their kids together rather than them just happening to have exactly
the right scores to wind up that way.
Having Shikarmaru being the lowest paired with the highest (Sasuke) was my
reasoning, as well. The OC that I put with Ino and Chouji probably could
have been put on Team 7 instead, but I'd rather keep more focus on the main
characters instead.
Perfectly understandable.
Actually, I'm kind of surprised the Hokage (or Iruka) didn't insist on
assigning the teams with a spot for Naruto.
You mean like making one team with only two genins on the chance that Naruto
came back later? If so, I guess I hadn't even considered that.
It's something I could see them doing, or at least considering. (Under
the circumstances, it might be hard for them to push the idea through.)
It's also something I can see them not doing, though.
Ordinarily in canon, the seal is only visible when Naruto is molding
chakra, IIRC. Intentional that it's permanently visible?
Nope, I just forgot about that being the case. ^_^; I'll have to look back
through my books and see if that's really the way it works.
If I'm remembering correctly, the scene you'd want to look at is
somewhere in where Jiraiya starts training Naruto to summon, and he has
Naruto channel chakra so he can get a look at the seal.