Post Author: Silver_Uchiha
Words are weapons -like shurikens, katanas, or jutsus- can hurt, save, or kill. A skilled shinobi in the arts of words can seduce, manipulate, coerce or induce, in order to lead others to any action, even to unleash war.
Some ninjas can be called the most dangerous because they are not only skilled fighters, but champions in the art of words. They use words with: intentionality, psychological strategy, and effectiveness. They are smart, take account of other peoples emotions and circumstances, and calculate before they speak in order to obtain a specific result (good or evil). They are persuasive in their art of words.
Oroshimaru: A smart champion of this contest. He gained the life-time loyalty of many talented ninjas, and the love and admiration of others. He used kind words to lead them to wicked purposes.
Kimimaru Kaguya, and Zaku’s memories teaches us how skilled Oroshimaru was in the arts of vocal seduction. He kindly offered a home, a purpose of life to Kimimaru, who was a lonely uneducated child. Also to Zaku, a mistreated and hunger street’s orphan, he offered power, food and company. And we all know what he offered to Sasuke, the chance to avenge his family and revive his clan. Kabuto apparently gained somebody to admire, love, follow… like a father.
Oroshimaru targeted and victomized children which is why he is represented as a pedophile. We could only assume that he was once like those children he took advantage of, in this case an orphan- sad lonely boy… Initially he only sought knowledge, not a bad thing. But his philosophy of gaining “at any cost†(no morality) made him evil.
Madara and Danzou
There is a good deal of mystery surrounding these two characters. But we have seen close to perfect effectiveness in their words. About Madara - It is enough to say that he controlled many wild ninjas in the Akatsuki organization with his words. The quality of Madara’s manipulative speech is obvious every time he addresses to Sasuke; he takes into account his feelings, past, desires and personality, and therefore carefully choose what to say in order to use him.
Danzou was able to manipulate Itachi to kill his clan, compelling him to prevent a coup d’état, and possibly a war. He won over Sandaime Hokage who wanted to solve the problem by a truce, possibly a better route that would have saved more lives. Both of these guys are a master of words.
Shikamaru has shown potential to manipulate people at short rate. He deceived Hidan and other enemies to do exactly what he wanted in order to defeat them. He had persuaded Choji to do certain things that were out of the norms. For example, in chapter 174, Shikamaru helped Choji to regain confidence “I would’ve probably given up if it was you I was fighting against†Choji answered, “But sensei just told me that I always eat and never improve†Shika’s reply, “Didn’t I just tell you that I am me and you are you. How can we compare ourselves to each other? That’s just stupidâ€. More recently Shikamaru helped Naruto get lifted and keep up after Jiraya’s death.
Kakashi is also a champion of seduction. He choses carefully his words to persuade people to do what he wants. This was obvious when he mentioned Sasuke’s name to push Naruto to success in training. Kakashi used at times acid terms to teach values and induce to teamwork. One of my favorites is in chapter 7, there Kakashi told Sasuke “you’re already heads above the others… an exposed nail should be hammered in…†Likewise he made Yamato pay a bill by flattering his ego. Kakashi only failed to stop Sasuke from leaving Konoha, thanks to the Sound Four Invitation (designed by Oroshimaru). A good sensei and a candidate for Hokage must be capable to encourage, persuade and dissuade.
Zabuza Momoshi seduced Haku more or less like Oroshimaru did to his preys. Haku was an orphan living in the streets; and Zabuza offered him company, a reason to go on, a dream and a path. Zabuza also used words to induce fear in his enemies. Just remember that memorable first battle against team seven, Sasuke was shaking.
Raiga (anime only) manipulated Ranmaru almost in the same way. But what he offered was looked like “freedom†a chance to get out of his hut and see the world.
The most powerful shinobies, like highly ranked military, must master the art of words. For example Neji, Gaara and Shino used the cold truth to induce suffering or fear; Ibiki with a few well selected words obtains what he wants being an interrogator. Kabuto and Itachi also manages the art of words like all spies do. Particularly Itachi succeeded long over Sasuke will, and negotiated with Madara. And many may disagree, but I think Sasuke is among the most seductive and manipulative; otherwise he couldn’t have control over Taka, taken over Oroshimaru, or deal with Madara. Other ninjas used the art of words in Naruverse, like Jiraya; and in a lesser level even Anko and Iruka, but having kids as their objective.
All the kages in Naruverse, like politicians and diplomatist of the modern world, master the art of words and strategy, in order to attain victory in the elections, negotiations and diary events. They even lie, take advantage of other people feelings and necessities and use them to attain their goal (war, peace, power…).
Quote: I call them disciples of Maquiavelo, Goebbels and Sun Tsu. Maquiavelo was the Italian who wrote “The Princeâ€, and justifies the use of any measure to attain a goal. Goebbels was Hitler’s propagandist, and father of modern publicity and propaganda, he said more or less “lie, lie, lie; and something will take rootâ€. Sun Tsu was the chinese general which wrote “The Art of war†masterpiece in military strategy, that includes advise about what to said [sic] or not, to allies and subordinates.
Note: Few people in this world are clear as water and speak always from their hearts, like Naruto. That is a good reason to hear my granddad’s advice: think in all possible consequences at short and long rate, before act, chose or react. We are not animals to follow any person blindly, or act by mere impulse. Furthermore even if we had fallen, we can open our eyes and stand again.
And you: Are you a hunter or prey in the game of words?
25 responses so far ↓
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Lady Hinata62 (Newbie)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 11:30 amvery cool blog also very true
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Futodoki (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 11:42 amI wish I were good with words…sadly I’m not…xD Short simple and to the point~!!
I like this post~! Very smart sounding!
(Not saying that you’re not smart or anything…O_o”)
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eighthHokage (Jonin)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 11:53 amThis is really Great blog,SU but I don’t have time now to give you clever respond which this blog certainly deserve.
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Chaos (ANBU Elite)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:19 pmI like how you induced Machiavelli, Goebbels an Sun Tzu in this “art of deception” blog…
…but Goebbels was indoctrinated himself, so he wasn’t the root of it all… but i don’t want to talk about this in this blog…
Actually, every ninja must have the ability of deceipt… you notice the constant “fooling around” in every blog… a ninja must be one step ahead to win a battle…
ex: Ninja 1: No, you caught me !!
Ninja 2: Mwahaha, ph34r mah 1337
*Ninja 1 was just a shadow clone*
Ninja 2: OMG NOES !!!
Ninja 1: Pwnt
Really bad example… but i’m bad at explaning things…
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Chaos (ANBU Elite)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:22 pmin every “blog”…
what i meant was…
in every “battle”…
KEYBOARD… will suffer…
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WhiteFangofkonaha (ANBU Agent)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:41 pmgj su shinobies do seduce alot tssunade would pwn in seduction
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Sothe (J's little uke)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:43 pmLOL at the example, srs pwnage there
Anyway, SU your blogs always rule, theres just nothing to say….I learn alot reading your posts!
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ingelund (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:53 pmThis was a very intresting post. But I’m wondering about one thing. Is madara danzou, because danzou has his right eye under the bandages and madara/tobi has the sharingan at the right eye :S
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ingelund (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:54 pmBtw, GJ Silver_uchila
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ingelund (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 12:54 pmuchiha*
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Iruka (#16 Hockey Dude)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 1:33 pmThe power of words can change a person.Sadly I suck at manipulating people. A person must be extremely intelligent and mean spiritted to manipulate someone. What is sad is that alot of people can be taken in by a gesture or kind words. One must be careful
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Shadow Ninja (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 1:37 pmI can speak for every one when i say this was a great post.^_^ To have the power of seduction, you must be very smart and know how ppl think. It would be cool to have the power of seduction to make ppl crumble at your feet.^_^
BTW i have not seen SU in a while.
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L (Newbie)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 4:28 pmlmao i like the part with the pic about the sanin trainin team 7 to early,this blog was funny wat the hell zabza seducing haku lol
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L (Newbie)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 4:42 pmim not that good with words to but ……sometimes i am,well most of the time acually.
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RiVaL DeaThWiSh (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 8:33 pmOmG!.. Im so.. Far Away… T-T… slept Early SkooL week!… Rawr..!
Excellent Blog SU…!
All I can Say That Being a Master Of Words Can Truly Make What One Desires To do..
Even Though Deceiving Is A Bad Thing, But It Must Be Done In order To Get Important Details And To Say it The Most Vicious Way, When Interrogating And Asking Questions That others Won’t Answer…
Choosing Words Can Be Very Important For Your Influence To Others.. *Ive Learned This The Hard Way..* Saying What You Really Want To Say Is Hard But Sometimes We Need To Choose Our Words Specifically In order For Us Be Understandable….
this serves as a good lesson.. and one should know this.. after all … ALL PEOPLE LIE!.. There’s No Exception!..
And To Those Who Are easily deceived.. Don’t Worry You’ll Learn in Time..
*its Fun to Deceive People..* hehehe…
*to taunt.. Or To Be Diplomatic..* im good At That.. hehehe…
and recently Ive Learned That Being ALWAYS diplomatic… can be troublesome.. Have a good equation of being naughty, scary and peaceful.. and everything should be in control!..
oh and.. feelings matter too..*be Like Sai.. * (although he’s crazy, funny and weird..)
Thats All ThankYou..
Have A nice Day..
RiVaL DeathWish Signing Out!.. Rawr!
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lady hinata (Chunin)
// Aug 25, 2008 at 10:16 pmYou did it again, SU!
My co-workers and I were often told to take notice of the commonality among all the leaders in our company. Most of them, if not all, have charisma and the gift of gab. What better way to exude charisma than articulating it into hard truths or sugarcoated lies.
Words are powerful weapons. They can pierce deeper than the sharpest swords and create hollowness inside one’s soul. Conversely, words are also great ego-soothers and can create illusions of greatness. Depending on the user, words can either create heaven or hell here on earth.
In the Naruverse, I think the master of the art of words is Itachi. His kind words had given comfort to young Sasuke during their younger days. However, it was his parting words in the night of the Uchiha massacre which planted the seed of angst into Sasuke’s heart. Lastly, Itachi’s last words communicated his greater love towards his brother.
P.S. I personally disagree with Machiavellian methods. The end does not and will not justify the means.
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ians091 (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 26, 2008 at 2:40 amcOoL!!!absoluTely keWl Blog sU!!!
w0w Good foR u!!u add mORe AboUT mY kNowledge aboUt thiS TwISt around nARuverse…
i agRee with lady h itachi is master of the Art of words…good u’ve discovered it…
this is the point…..we all know that to be a ninja is not easy….a ninja must think after they will do something stealthy!!!am i right???!
but i think i ddnt found ninja who are stupid…
sometimes they are like fools like MR.BEaN??know him but not all that time they are stupid..in my observation i thnk there s no ninja or character in this movie who has 1 mind attitude or thinking….i got one that pet of itachi???itachi’y bunny in Fun wiTh akatsuki vids??*nonsense*sorry bout that!!!
LOL!!!
ANWAYS GJSU!!!
Ian is alWays a Good BOY!!!rEWR!!!
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tailedfox (Jonin)
// Aug 26, 2008 at 5:30 amvery nice blog S.U.
Enjoyed reading it, very good bro.
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DeOn (Genin)
// Aug 26, 2008 at 7:27 am>>>Hey guys u know this cool blog reflects on how .. a person deliver his words… a lot of times when i talked to people and they always believed in me and follow me even though sometimes it’s a lie…..or fraud… and said to myself are they stupid or something??! why they keep on following me even I’m wrong it’s soo weird because of this i can see how words can be so powerful… even if you do it for GooD or Evil… it doesn’t matter it only matters on how u deliver your words because word come first than aCtion…. lets just say it this way,,, plan is made first before executing it… ^^
REally nice Blog dude!.. good job :Silver_Uchiha
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L (Newbie)
// Aug 26, 2008 at 4:26 pmnice work SU
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Tenkage (Chunin Squad Leader)
// Aug 26, 2008 at 8:24 pmAwesome blog as usual SU, but I have a question. I believe you said before but you don’t primarily speak English … I think you said you spoke Spanish?
I ask this because I’ve noticed in some of your blogs you use different spelling and I just noticed that it wasn’t misspelling… and here’s my question… do you know if other languages translate names to your language? I know English tries to keep foreign words the same as their home language primarily among names so when you mentioned Maquiavelo I was at first confused because I know him as Machiavelli.
Which brought to mind something else though more realworld than Naruverse. A person proficient in linguistics is a master of words. Most people don’t notice but when you learn to speak another language, most people learn to speak correctly but not the right way. Kind of confusing but it makes sense.
I notice it in the Army alot. What happens is thus: You are a native speaker of a language. Someone else learned that language. You hear them speaking your language only what they say and what it means are wrong. Now, what they said is entirely correct but the way they said it means something else. Essentially, Lost in Translation.
You know, this idea didn’t seem that hard to communicate when I started typing. I wish I some concrete examples.
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ssj sasuke (Team Shannaro!)
// Aug 27, 2008 at 2:32 pmSorry it took so long for me to respond.
SU, this is why you are one of my favorite writers on this site. The emotion, the in-depth knowledge, the research, never overlooking the subtleties, and the awesome graphics, this was one awesome blog.
I agree that Sasuke has the potential to be the most manipulative, but that all depends on what move he makes toward the Tobi situation; just who is in control? I’d like to think Kishi is outdoing even the Itachi illusion with Sasuke, going the extra mile to whipe out any doubt that Sasuke has a secret plan, then, BAM, he springs it on us, even more dramatically than his older brother did.
Orochimaru is a sad soul, I heard in a Kishi interview that there is NO good left in his heart, so his manipulations are all for personal gain, no matter how concerned he really looked, like with Kabuto or Kimmimaru.
Amazing job Silver, keep it up!
-ssj
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silver_uchiha (Tsunami-hime)
// Aug 29, 2008 at 5:38 amThank you all! Wow I have loved all your comments, it was a great reading.
I am SORRY SORRY SORRY!. I came late to my own post. I was convinced that was scheduled for another day.
Never new that it was Machiavelli in English, thank you for teaching me. Maquiavelo is the proper spelling in Spanish. – Goebblels and Sun Tzu, my mistake (new it but messed up) SORRY
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8 CHAOS: Goebbles was indoctrinates in politics, but he created the communication strategy, give him credit.
13 INGELUND: That is a mysteries.
16 - IRUKA: Me to. I can’t seduce neither manipulate, not even to save my life, basically because I can’t lie, loss track of my own words, I am plain, just speack from my heard.
But interrogation is something different; there I can beat Ibiki, in Spanish. Interrogation or interviewing is mostly about catching people on contradictions, and use logic to made conclusions, show the contradictions, and push the person over and over to explain. It’s really easy if you hear every detail, and see the body language, and voice tone variations also. I really fun.
7 SHADOW NINJA “i have not seen SU in a while†- Thanks. You are so sweet to notice it. I had been isolated. EXAMS!
20 RiVaL DeaThWiSh. “everybody lieâ€. NO!. I learned in the bad way like you! But later I meet honest people that made me to regain trust on people.
26 TENKAGE: Thanks. Same famous names have translation to Spanish, others keep the original spelling. I am not sure about other languages. Sorry, my English is no good enough. (just basic knowledge from school).
Quote: Wittgenstein said: we never know if people understand what we are saying. For example when a woman say “we never go outâ€, mean “I love, I miss youâ€, but man understands “you are a failureâ€, said John Gray.
27 SSJ – Thanks! I like your theory; Definitely Sasuke is hiding something.
“Never Give Up†Great SSJ!
AGAIN THANK YOU ALL !!
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Ninja D (Newbie)
// Aug 30, 2008 at 12:30 pmI can speak for every one when i say this was a great post.^_^ To have the power of seduction, you must be very smart and know how ppl think. It would be cool to have the power of seduction to make ppl crumble at your feet.^_^
BTW i have not seen SU in a while.
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georgie (Genin)
// Sep 19, 2008 at 7:05 amhow sad, i did’t read this blog…but it was seductive thoughts here…btw, i’m not good in art of words but in facial expressions i can easily to manipulate others…hehehe…
how interesting taught here…so many lessons can be learned…hahaiz…i’m too late to read this blog…
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