In epilogue we're shown Bolt defacing the Hokage's monument, just as Naruto did when he was a kid, then Naruto swooping down on him to stop him. Naruto then proceeds to try to reason with Bolt's percieved anger about being overlooked by his dad, explaining that Naruto is responsible for the whole village. Bolt doesn't appear to accept it, but there's nothing else shown.
I get the feeling that this is supposed to be some sort of light-hearted parallel for Naruto, that he's now paying for his antics when he was a child. Naruto's own behaviors are coming back to haunt him.
But the more I think about it, the more like I feel their relationship dynamic is really wrong.
As a child, Naruto was lowest rung in Konoha. Worse than an orphan or a non-Leaf survivor of a conflict being raised in Konoha, or anything else you can think of, Naruto was abandoned and hated. He is shown alone, eating rotten food, being kicked out of stores (anime), being yelled at by Teuchi, and being openly ostracized by parents and subsequently their children. Kakashi doesn't even get involved in his life until he's 10 or so, and though the Third was around, what little he did clearly wasn't enough.
Yes, Naruto lashed out, played pranks and defaced the monuments to get attention, but really it only made people hate him more. And he knew it. But true to Naruto's character, he just ignored it.
The idea that Bolt is just lashing out in the same way Naruto did diminishes the hell that Naruto lived through as a child. And making this the only snapshot we see of their father-son interactions is just ridiculous and OOC.
If Naruto had grown up with his parents, if Minato and Kushina had lived, there's no reason why he'd be such a trouble-maker. In fact, with his sunny personality, there's every reason to think he'd probably be the most popular kid.
So why isn't Bolt? Why is he resorting to his father's behaviors when his father was a kid...when his father grew up as the most hated person in the village!!!
By all rights, Bolt should be the most popular. If he acts out, people should be go easier on him, coddle him more, because he's the Kage's son. (It isn't shown, but it was implied, by Salad's response, that people think of him the way they did Naruto.) Bolt isn't hate. He isn't alone. He has a family that loves him and someone who cooks him meals and tucks him in at night. And he doesn't seem to have failed a year, like Naruto did.
The dynamic shown between them is all wrong, because it implies that Bolt is going through the same thing Naruto went through when he was little. And he simply isn't.
It also implies that Naruto is making the same mistakes that were made in his childhood when he had an absent father. But that's completely wrong too. Naruto wasn't acting out because he had an absent father. He acted out because he was hated.
Bolt and Naruto's dynamic, though it is set up for Bolt to have another story of his own as the rebooted Naruto, takes away from the really terrible life Naruto had growing up. Bolt is not the way I would expect Naruto's son to be, and their dynamic makes Naruto look like a father I would've never expected him to be. Especially since he didn't have one of his own.
Did anyone else feel this way after reading the ending? That not only was Naruto not the type of Kage he wanted to be, but also, not they type of father you expected him to be either?