>>30512>I guess we are gonnna forget that prodigies can exist. Kakashi was already advanced by age ten. Boruto isn't a prodigy. Kakashi is shown training hard and became a Genin at 6 at the tail end of the 2nd War. He was raised on blood, having lost his mother early and his father soon after to suicide due to dishonor. Not to mention that until he got the Sharingan he wasn't as powerful, and even after getting the Sharingan he wouldn't have been able to kill Momoshiki even with help.
Hell, his jonin promotion was as much due to the loss of life in the war as it was his skill, hence why things slowed down after the war.
Itachi is the same situation, having witnessed the bloodshed of the 3rd War first hand and also having a dojutsu that basically does a majority of the heavy lifting (copying any technique is OP, and its what let Kakashi as a kid go from skilled to legendary).
Jiraiya worked his ass off training with the toads and under the Hokage himself, as did Orochimaru and Tsunade. They didn't arrive as genin capable of throwing multiple lightning jutsu, water jutsu and shadow clones.
We don't see enough about Minato, but its presumable the same thing, he worked to his position. He didn't get handed special powers. The closest we get is Kushina's Adamantine chains, but noteably Naruto doesn't inherit these.
Sasuke literally gets his body modified by Orochimaru and trains relentlessly, this is explicitly stated and a major point of frustration for him before then, as he gets bodied by Itachi.
Boruto achieves a nature-transformation with a rasengan in a shorter amount of time than it took Naruto by a country mile. Naruto learning the Rasengan in a week or so was already considered amazing because it took Jiraiya months to figure it out, but Jiraiya also taught him the steps of it first. For the Fuuton Rasengan and Rasenshuriken, Naruto had to first MASTER wind using thousands of clones for at least a week and then more time applying it to the Rasengan, essentially using shadow clones to compress years of training into days and suffering immense backlash for it. His arm gets shredded by his own technique until sage mode provides the protection and method of throwing it.
With a couple clones Boruto in less time does the same thing BY ACCIDENT and without sage mode learns to throw it. That's not pr
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