Historical
LIES LIES LIES!
Yondaime is Naruto's father.
Proven.
You need someone that knows kanji though to know that.
In the very beginning when Naruto signed the toad summoning scroll there were 2 other names there. Jiraiya of course and a man by the name of Arashi Uzumaki; now we all know that Yondaime had the toad summon and seeing as how there were only 3 names on the list it has to be him.
ero-senine: Naruto's mom died giving birth to him.
confused
No offense to you, but this fact is actually not proven.
I've taken about 4 nine week classes of japanese. Granted, I don't know all the kanji in the world, but I know some. And the kanji that everyone claimed said was "arashi uzumaki" looked like nothing but sloppy, quickly scribbled lines that masashi kishimoto put in there just to make it look like a name was written there.
kinda like when people draw squiggly lines over a piece of paper to make it look like writting is there, when in reality it's nonsense.
I mean seriously. I don't think it says anything. It couldn't even be considered cursive kanji! It's completely illegible. Seriously, I'll dig up the picture if you don't believe me, but I'm am completely and utterly convinced that its just illegible scribbles.
and just for the record, I'm not trying to piss you off or throw your theories out the window.
sweatdrop I respect you and your opinions.