Why Naruto Never Became A Chunin

Naruto never became a chunin. The main character of the Naruto series was never promoted beyon the genin rank, even though his goal since chapter 1 of the Naruto manga or episode 1 of the Naruto anime was to become Hokage. He obviously surpassed the power of a genin, fighting Akatsuki members like Kakuzu, Itachi, Pain, and being the great hero of the 4th Great Ninja War.

The Only Chunin Exams Naruto took were interrupted by Orochimaru and Naruto only had the Naruto vs Orochimaru fight in the Arena where he could be evalutated. The only genin promoted to Chunin was Shikamaru, and then Naruto left the Leaf Village for 3 years. So he couldn't take the exams like the other members of the Konoha 12. Even Sakura, Choji, Kiba, and Tenten became Chunins. So there's much more to just Naruto not taking the Chunin Exams again. Tsunade could definitely have promoted him without him passing the Chunin Exams. So let's find out why Tsunade, or Hokage Kakashi never made him a Chunin.

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[TheChiog]

Tsunade never promoted Naruto because then she'd have to pay him more money for completed missions

[Andrewwwwwww]

Imagine getting paid as a genin for jounin level tasks. companies are getting away with everything these days smh

[theodoresherman]

After saving Gaara he DEFINITELY should've gotten a battlefield promotion, Or after Kakuzu, or Pain

[AnnHiroCh]

Remember a Genin fought Aliens on the Moon

[Grayson-Winchester]

That was one of the biggest pet peeve’s. Naruto not having the ceremony announcing him lord 7th.

[vicentecardona]

“killing children that are genin level that’s a little more acceptable” 😭 like what 14:26

[young_raymond]

That filler episode where Naruto retook the exam was so dumb. The chunin exams are a display of your abilities, battle iq, and adaptability as a ninja. If you have to ban an ability from a participant, they should be getting promoted automatically, not that Sage Mode should even be banned. It's not a contest with one concrete winner being sought. It's meant to see who is worthy of chunin rank, which Naruto clearly demonstrated.

[robinsarchiz]

Naruto being a genin forever fits in with his declaration to Jiraya that if giving up on his ninja way is what it takes to be wise, then he's gonna be a fool for the rest of his life. He manages to convert Gaara, Nagato and eventually Sasuke, not because he can out-logic them, but because his resolve to his ninja way is so strong that they are inspired.

[SpammytheHedgehog]

Pain killed Jiraiya, Kakashi, destroyed the Leaf Village but lost to a Ramen loving Genin. Lol

[nousername]

He reached Chunin and Jonin level in combat abilities quickly, but his leadership qualities were suspect

[adrian_veidt]

Naruto beating Gaara should've been already enough for him to get promoted. He risked his life to save the village and his teammates.

He's the one who convinced Tsunade and mastered Rasengan. Come on. Someone like Mizuki can get promoted why not our boi naruto 😂😂

[yharnamiyhill]

Naruto is that 45 year old Private First Class. He doesn't want to lead, just shoot. 😅

[kagekun]

Personally one of the missed opportunities in Naruto skipping ranks is that we never see Naruto becoming a jonin that takes on students or even an apprentice. Even the three sannins have taken on an apprentice at some point. I know it would be more work for Kishimoto but I wonder how Naruto would be like as a teacher?

[rdtv]

Naruto not graduating is kinda dumb hes op

[treytison]

The fight counts, sexy jutsu is literally what defeated kaguya. It was foreshadowing. Naruto was kage level in chapter 1.

[bentencho]

Naruto wouldn't have been promoted to Chuunin after the exam. It was mentioned that both Neji and him wouldn't have been, regardless of who won. Neji made it personal and stated he will kill Naruto, a fellow Konoha shinobi, meaning he was unable to control his emotions. As both literally went all-out to try to defeat each other, that made them fail. Winning an encounter is meaningless if your squad gets killed or you are compromised.... neither were willing to cut losses, thus aren't fit to lead. Shikamaru gave up because he knew he didn't have the chakra to secure a complete victory, thus was more than willing to give up to save himself. A leader knows when to retreat.... Neji and Naruto didn't.

[ivanbluecool]

Naruto should have been promoted to chunnin right before the time skip by tsunade as a way to say he's ready for the next step

Jounin when he defeats kakazu or pain since the speed of his growth is beyond jounin at that point already.

Then by the end of series he's perfect for hokage. Naruto knew how messed up the ninja world is and was thinking like a hokage as itachi was in seeing this was not how the world should be.

[tommyeliassen]

I think part of why he was never promoted is simply because the writer (maybe) thought it was kinda funny for him to make the "official" jump from lowest to highest.

As much as I hate Boruto, there was one funny moment in an episode where Naruto was being interviewed and he explained how technically he's still a genin. Although ultimately it's pretty dumb that he was never promoted.

[ivanbluecool]

Next question. Why didn't jiraya teach Naruto ANYTHING in the time skip and kept wasting time on controlling kurama?

Where was the sage mode training which would have been way more useful and safer to learn due to the Akatsuki not being able to touch Naruto in the toad mountain area.

Where was Naruto learning his Elemental type? Jiraya couldn't take a single second to try the chakra paper trick?

Sage mode would have been an all around better use of time. Sage mode would block the itachi genjutsu thing easier by closing his eyes. Stronger bases and when it did come time to try and get kurama in control sage mode can be used forever and imagine both minato and kushina giving him a pep talk instead of just one?

Though i get it's probably just kishi didn't think about it but no narrative makes sense of not trying anything to give Naruto a more well rounded skill set.

[Kaido]

Can you make a video of why konoha didn't help the Uzumaki clan to fight against the 4 major villages.