No one knows anything about the yondaime hokage other than basic stuff. You may have seen scans of him as the akatsuki leader on the internet as well as "spoilers" for the entire show but its all fake and the pic is photshoped. For me the only things that make sense would be that the 4th was related to Naruto (dad imo) or that Naruto is the 4th and he some how managed to survive the sealing technique. I mean jesus christ they look exactly the same. When I first seen pictures of him I thought it was just some fanart of an older Naruto.
ya know the whole being able to change ya age thing isnt that far fitch look at the 5th tsunade she changes her appearance could she have learned that and the 4th also knew of this i mean u gotta figure what ever the 4 sanin do the 4th can do better its just a logic and we realy dont know what he does how he talks i do think somthing is strange on that cause also with making the anime they left out kakashi's past why cause it had so much of the 4th in so saying that if they showed how the 4th was and we all know naruto it would be WAY to obvious hummm. thinker and ya need a forum to talk on how everything is playing out gosh....... everyone is all over the leader but what about 2nd in command no mention of that *****
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he says something like, he had to stop the 3rd coffin or he would be in big trouble. I cant remember his exact words
And the whole thing with the resurection, Oro could have done it with the fourth. he used corpses not souls. That added to what Magee and myself have said also the number on the coffin (4), it was deffinately the fourth.
you people wit the 4th father i dont think they would do such a noticeable thing but what would of somthing and i just thought of it well go to the akuts thread since im gonna post it there
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That coffin was empty. It was used as a trap to make Sandaime focus on it and allow the other two to fully emerge. Only two of the sacrifices were shown, Kin and Dosu, so there may have been no third body to begin with, but its just speculation.
Maybe it was Kakashi's father. Because didn't Sarutobi use the Shinigami so the Hokages wouldn't ever be used like that again? Or was that just because he assumed Oro was going to be sucked in also?
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It was obviously the fourth he was trying to summon. Since the coffin was labled "four" and all.
With the revelation that Yondaime left little ghost-fragments of himself around, I don't think it's unlikely edo tensei could have latched on to one of these fragments.
I can't find it ever even showing the third coffin in the manga. Unless somehow I'm skipping over it within the three or so page span that Oro summons them, and the 2 Hokages emerge.
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Actually in the manga, it doesn't even say Sarutobi stopped it. Sarutobi says he'd try to stop it, and then he just says "looks like it didn't work" and the coffin doesn't appear. So perhaps, Oro tried to use edo tensei on the fourth, and with his soul absent the technique simply aborted.