I'm thinking its a deconstruction. This is how a person in a endless loop acts eventually. Like a complete jerk. All in all this Naruto switched ninja theories completely early on. He went from chaos fly by the seat of your pants and ride the fallout, to extremely methodical, to the point of ridiculiousness, change one detail and study the results of the little changes method. That is a major change.
To put it another way, Naruto went from Chaotic Good to Lawful Evil. Which is why he does things like trade techs... even though he knows the other person gets it for all of a day at most. He technically IS giving them a fair deal in the context of the soon to end splinter timeline. Its technically not his fault they don't remember things that happened in previous/simotanious splinter timelines, he did technically honour their deal and give a fair trade. Technically.
In truth Naruto accomplishes more, long term, by doing random acts of stupid than the slow methodical method. It is also is making him get bery, very rigid in his thought paterns. I mean he spent how long trying to kill Pedosnake? He is rather like a horse with blinders on in this respect. He methodically tries to accomplish the hardest goal (Main quest) first and ignores all the sidequests he is logically suppose to use as stepping stones.
For instance, when he could have aimed for lesser goals like killing off Kabuto. In the long term this means that Pedosnake will die outside of combat. Pathetically. As will the bone bloodline guy. Not that Naruto actually knows about that. Another goal is to dispose/corrupt of the sound ninja team. This would make Pedosnake have to pick other, more combat valuable pieces from his army, to get the sacrofices to take down the Hokage. Again not that he knows this.
He could try sicking Gaara on the Snake Sennin. Which would screw up his plans badly. As would exposing the death of the kazekage. As would taking out any of pedosnakes support structure for the invasion... like stopping the Sound ninjas from summoning the giant snakes with a clone wave, lanched in the forest right in the begining of the exam. Stealth kill a few of those groups and stop the giant summons that can break the village walls... and the largest part of the invasion into the heart of the village fails. Naruto could take out the bulk of the Sound forces with the skills he had before removing the seal.
No, this Naruto is currently made of failure. He is seeing everything as a duel with Pedosnake and ignoring the rest of Leaf as useless poorly programmed NPCs. The kind that blindly spend most of the battle running into a single wall. For a guy who wants to rule an army of ninja he is just blind to the fact they exist, most of the time. Its those blinders. He keeps playing this like a chess player that only moves his queen around and wonders what happened? I mean how did the rest of his board get so empty? And why is his king in checkmate? He was moving his queen around to kill off that other queen.
Even his relationship with his person loyal pet, Hinata, is that of a PC with a stupid, but amusing, animal side kick. Basically, they shot his dog. Rather than explain the situation he literally turns his teammates into lugage instead of getting them to help him in his goals. He is missing the point of being a chunin, he is trying to solo a party quest. He is concentrating a peon and wondering where the peasant mob came from, or at least where all these pitch fork perferating him came from and why his hair is on fire.
The Author of this tale is rather clever in his deconstruction. He writes it like a normal uber-X in a timelines story... and makes their Uberness out of total fail. This Naruto doesn't need more power.... he need a surgical procedure known as cranial rectal deinsertion.
Also, I think this time loop is actually an answer to and age old question: What happens when an irresistable force meets and immovable object... Time implodes in protest.
To put it another way, Naruto went from Chaotic Good to Lawful Evil. Which is why he does things like trade techs... even though he knows the other person gets it for all of a day at most. He technically IS giving them a fair deal in the context of the soon to end splinter timeline. Its technically not his fault they don't remember things that happened in previous/simotanious splinter timelines, he did technically honour their deal and give a fair trade. Technically.
In truth Naruto accomplishes more, long term, by doing random acts of stupid than the slow methodical method. It is also is making him get bery, very rigid in his thought paterns. I mean he spent how long trying to kill Pedosnake? He is rather like a horse with blinders on in this respect. He methodically tries to accomplish the hardest goal (Main quest) first and ignores all the sidequests he is logically suppose to use as stepping stones.
For instance, when he could have aimed for lesser goals like killing off Kabuto. In the long term this means that Pedosnake will die outside of combat. Pathetically. As will the bone bloodline guy. Not that Naruto actually knows about that. Another goal is to dispose/corrupt of the sound ninja team. This would make Pedosnake have to pick other, more combat valuable pieces from his army, to get the sacrofices to take down the Hokage. Again not that he knows this.
He could try sicking Gaara on the Snake Sennin. Which would screw up his plans badly. As would exposing the death of the kazekage. As would taking out any of pedosnakes support structure for the invasion... like stopping the Sound ninjas from summoning the giant snakes with a clone wave, lanched in the forest right in the begining of the exam. Stealth kill a few of those groups and stop the giant summons that can break the village walls... and the largest part of the invasion into the heart of the village fails. Naruto could take out the bulk of the Sound forces with the skills he had before removing the seal.
No, this Naruto is currently made of failure. He is seeing everything as a duel with Pedosnake and ignoring the rest of Leaf as useless poorly programmed NPCs. The kind that blindly spend most of the battle running into a single wall. For a guy who wants to rule an army of ninja he is just blind to the fact they exist, most of the time. Its those blinders. He keeps playing this like a chess player that only moves his queen around and wonders what happened? I mean how did the rest of his board get so empty? And why is his king in checkmate? He was moving his queen around to kill off that other queen.
Even his relationship with his person loyal pet, Hinata, is that of a PC with a stupid, but amusing, animal side kick. Basically, they shot his dog. Rather than explain the situation he literally turns his teammates into lugage instead of getting them to help him in his goals. He is missing the point of being a chunin, he is trying to solo a party quest. He is concentrating a peon and wondering where the peasant mob came from, or at least where all these pitch fork perferating him came from and why his hair is on fire.
The Author of this tale is rather clever in his deconstruction. He writes it like a normal uber-X in a timelines story... and makes their Uberness out of total fail. This Naruto doesn't need more power.... he need a surgical procedure known as cranial rectal deinsertion.
Also, I think this time loop is actually an answer to and age old question: What happens when an irresistable force meets and immovable object... Time implodes in protest.