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Has anyone ever wondered whether Naruto would still have wanted to be Hokage if Danzo The Dick Shimura hadn't basically made him a target board by spreading word of his Jinchuuriki status to everyone in Konoha?
His entire reason for becoming Hokage was to make everyone love and acknowledge him as a human being. Even in the alternate universe made in the genjutsu Madara cast in Shippuden, he most likely wanted to be treated as his own person and not as his father's son. He wanted to be seen as his own person instead some preconceived notion everyone had of him (a demon fox/the Hokage's son).
Would he even have being Hokage as a thought in his mind or would his entire life be set on finding out who his parents are, starting with his last name Uzumaki? Then the entire series would be about Naruto trying to figure out where he got his name and what happened to his clan. Which is still a kind of valid question in general for me.
The Uzumaki were known as insane sealing masters so my biggest question was how enemy armies were even able to step a foot on their island without getting blown up into oblivion or sent to another dimension with some unholy sealing technique. It seems very suspicious that just after Kushina is sent to Konoha, her village gets cornered and eradicated to the point of there being no history of them whatsoever and I'm sure that Naruto would have picked up on how fishy that explanation is, no matter how many villages ganged up on them. His mother was able to subdue a tailed beasts after it was extracted from her and she literally had another human being pushed out of her body so how in the heck did a village of people that strong get wiped out by normies?
I would have loved to see Naruto unravel that mystery for himself while trying to find out about his parents and beginning to question his village in general for the lack of reference to his clan throughout the history lessons he would force himself to attend.
Him asking a teacher about his clan and everyone in class laughing while the teacher tells him there isn't an Uzumaki clan.
Maybe someone like Shikamaru or Sasuke asking their parents about it only for them to get these blank pained looks on their faces while remembering the red haired girl from a island village with an ocean of chakra at her disposal.