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During the flashback some people have and or Kakashi, we find out that
Namikaze Minato, Naruto's dad, was Kakashi's teacher, and that Kakashi had a
big respect for him. Also, Uchiha Obito and Nohara Rin were his teammates. We
also find out that in one of the flashbacks Kakashi has, it shows that when he
was in the ANBU Minato buts him to guard and protect his wife, Kushina until
she had about nine months of being pregnant. After Minato let Kakashi free for
a couple of days, he went to visit Rin's grave and then Obito's engraved name
to tell them that their sensei was having a child. I think a couple of days
after that Naruto was born, and Kyuubi rampaged around the village. Minato
risked his life to seal away Kyuubi inside Naruto to protect him and the
village.

Minato and Kushina died and left Naruto all alone, so why didn't Kakashi take
care of Naruto. I mean I know the Third gave Naruto money every month or so,
but why didn't Kakashi at least watch Naruto from the shadows like he did with
Kushina. Was it because he was too busy with his ANBU work, did he just forget
his sensei had a child or was he too young to be taking care of kids. I mean
he was just what 14 or something, he could have still managed to look at him
or something. Or did he just feel it was wrong to get close to Naruto?

One of my cousins and me were talking about this a couple of days ago and it
got me wondering. I didn't know how to respond to my cousin, so I just decided
to ask you all.


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Why didn't Kakashi take care of Naruto?


Being Anbu and a guardian to Naruto doesn't seems like a great idea. And
Naruto was in the care of the Third, so it might not seem necessary. It is
also to be noted that, Kakashi has a hard time connecting to someone
emotionally too. And as per his past, he wouldn't want to get attached to
anyone and wanted to be only an Anbu. It was the Third who removed him from
the Anbu and assigned him with various teams as tests, as shown in the anime
filler, and in the end assigned with Team 7.


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As other people have said, he was doing his own thing. Also, when children are
orphaned, they are cared for by the village in its entirety, so there is no
need for one specific person to care for a child. Furthermore, the fact that
he was close to Minato is a much bigger reason for him not to get close to
Naruto, as they were keeping the fact that he was Minato's son a secret,
probably for his own protection.


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Because everyone of the adult leaf village are terrible people. Both Kakashi
and Hiruzen knew that Minato sacrificed himself and the future of his baby boy
to protect the village and yet left Naruto to fend for himself both
emotionally and materially.

In Shippunden Ep 480 Naruto meets Hiruzen for the FIRST TIME while gathering
wild mushrooms and fishing to supplement his diet, he didn't have enough money
to buy ramen. At the time Naruto seems to be about 5-6 and he didn't know what
THE SUN was! There was obviously a serious lack of support and education up
until then.

And Kakashi didn't do ANYTHING, as far as we can tell he just avoided Naruto
like the plague. Sure he had no formal relationship with Naruto but you
couldn't help out an orphan? Much less the orphan of your beloved student?!?!?

Naruto was being neglected by the entire village so obviously he needed
someone to step in and help him out. That someone ended up being Iruka sensei,
someone without any connection to Naruto.

If i was Minato's ghost I would be rolling in my grave if i knew how Kakashi
and Hiruzen just left my orphaned child to suffer the abuse of the ignorant
villagers, loneliness of having no family, and lack of financial support (the
poor kid was hungry and had to scavenge for food) after I died to save the
village.

The writers wanted to isolate Naruto and portray his growth by having him
establish relationships with everyone so he couldn't have any support at the
beginning. But the set up was just too unrealistic. Ninja welfare services
would have been called years ago.


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