2011-11-03, 08:08 PM
Minato was scarily strong. During that page, neither Itachi, nor Kisame knew about Sage mode. Very few people do, besides the toads, Naruto, Jiraya, and Minato.
Anyways, Minato pretty much single handedly stopped the 9tails when every single other able elite ninja in the village wasn't able to do anything. That's got to say something about how strong he is. Plus, looking at the last chapter, Thunder God must take up a lot of chakra. So that means, for Minato to use it so freely, he had a ton of chakra too. Don't forget that it was Minato who made the rasengan, not Jiraya, as well as the fact that Minato was the only person to hurt Tobi in a straight up fight (I don't count Konan cause she spent years planning that jutsu out).
Plus they chose Minato as the 4th, instead of Orochimaru. If Orochimaru knew he was stronger, he would've just flat out assassinated Minato, after all, he had no problems trying to go out of his way to kill both Jiraya and Tsunade when he lost both of his arms. But the fact that he didn't means that he was genuinely afraid of him, like how he was genuinely afraid of Itachi. If Orochimaru was stronger than Itachi, he would've just tried to steal him away. Instead he went after Sasuke, who he believed was weaker and therefore easier to manipulate (even though, in the end Sasuke managed to overwhelm him as well)
Anyways, Minato pretty much single handedly stopped the 9tails when every single other able elite ninja in the village wasn't able to do anything. That's got to say something about how strong he is. Plus, looking at the last chapter, Thunder God must take up a lot of chakra. So that means, for Minato to use it so freely, he had a ton of chakra too. Don't forget that it was Minato who made the rasengan, not Jiraya, as well as the fact that Minato was the only person to hurt Tobi in a straight up fight (I don't count Konan cause she spent years planning that jutsu out).
Plus they chose Minato as the 4th, instead of Orochimaru. If Orochimaru knew he was stronger, he would've just flat out assassinated Minato, after all, he had no problems trying to go out of his way to kill both Jiraya and Tsunade when he lost both of his arms. But the fact that he didn't means that he was genuinely afraid of him, like how he was genuinely afraid of Itachi. If Orochimaru was stronger than Itachi, he would've just tried to steal him away. Instead he went after Sasuke, who he believed was weaker and therefore easier to manipulate (even though, in the end Sasuke managed to overwhelm him as well)