User blog:Silver-Haired Seireitou/The End of Naruto

Well everybody, it's finally over. With today's release of Chapters 699 and 700, the manga Naruto finally comes to a close after fifteen years of serialization. I am writing this short blog simply to give the ending of this manga the farewell it deserves. But not just that. Bear in mind that today, we also celebrate the existence of this dwelling place for us fans of the series to discuss our ideas and exercise our intellect.

For many of us, Naruto was the manga that brought us together. It was thanks to this manga that NF was created by Lavi, and it was because this site was created that I got to meet Ten, a lifelong friend. And Aha (you probably don't know him). I made other friends such as Kuro and Echo, who are no longer present on the site and haven't been for quite some time, but even so, were close friends to me at one time; even though I had my share of arguments and the like with the both of them. Still, I have NF to thank for that. My writing skills matured greatly over the course of six-seven years on this site, and with it, the site itself matured and grew up. Generations came and went, and I am happy to have been there to see it all unfold.

It is a time like this that we must remember that, even though a lot of us get into arguments with one another and hate each other sometimes and even start saying and doing things to one another that are done out of anger, we have to remember that NF is a home of like-minded individuals. If anything else, we all share that common interest. After all, if we did not, we wouldn't be here. So take a moment and be sure to remember that, at the end of the day, no matter how different we are from one another, we are the same in that we are all Naruto fans.

In the spirit of today, I would like to hear from everybody's stories about how you may have possibly changed after reading Naruto and/or having joined this site. --Silver-Haired Seireitou (Dosvidaniya, tovarisch.) 15:17, November 6, 2014 (UTC)