Naruto - Current Manga in Japan

[Sledgstone]

Lets use this topic to discuss the manga. *is still behind*

[Eppy]

after i gave you what was uptodate at the time when i was over...im dissappointed

[Ladywriter]

I've read it :meh: He's terrible at keeping up with reading that isn't portable :p

[Ladywriter]

Naruto vs Orochimaru :holyhell:

[Godgrave]

Holy Crap !! All by himself or with help from a team or that certain pervert hermit ^_^

[Ladywriter]

Naruto is fighting Orochimaru on his own. Sakura is still on his team and this asshole kid Sai is filling Sasuke's place. The team on this mission is being led by an ANBU guy.

[Sledgstone]

I finally finished reading all the Naruto manga up to the latest chapters. Poor Asuma sensei. :(

Shikamaru is using those chakra blades pretty damn good. I wasn't expecting to see him cast independent shadow bind jutsus like that! O_O who else thinks Kurenai is going to show up to finish those two akatski bastards off?

[gokuDX7]

poor Kurenai she looked sad and lonly at the end :( .

I like how Naruto trains now xD why didnt someone think about him using his shadow clones like that at the start? :/

[Sledgstone]

Well considering his lack of control, if someone told him to train like that in the early days of his inexperience he'd have probably turned into 9 tails and destroyed the village. :p

[gokuDX7]

I dont know, the only reason hes loosing control over it now is becuse he used the nine tails powers so much over the years and the seals loosing its power.

I think if he trained like he is now back then for a year he would have been fine. Although I could be wrong and he could turn into a fox demon that wants to kill everyone XD.

[Sledgstone]

ah, thats right, the seal has been weakening too. *shrugs* you never know.

btw, I was a bit disappointed in the Naruto vs. Orochimaru fight. All he did was go kyubi and loose complete control. I was hoping to see Naruto bust out all these new amazing jutsus Jiyra would teach him, but it looks like all he did was kyubi train for 3 years. :|

[gokuDX7]

ya I was too. To be honest I dont think he got to lern to many new things since the kyubi keeps comming out. Jiyra was probably like oh shit we better stop before things get to out of hand, after all Jiyra only had that chakra patch to stop Naruto.

[Sledgstone]

Chapter 333, oh shit. Shikamaru's plan was starting to break down, but it looks like Kakashi has already killed kakuzu. O_O I wonder if theres more to that guy or if Kakashi really did get the complete jump on him to finish him off. Good chapter. Do you think Naruto's new jutsu is just a big bang attack ala Vegeta or do you think Naruto will be able to actually harness his new rasengan/nature manipulation move into something more useful than just a finishing move?

[gokuDX7]

ya that was a good chapter. I dont think kakuzu is dead yet. Something tells me theres gonna be a big fight to display why Kakashi's element is better :P.

As for Naruto's attack, It looks like a final move type deal since the size of the crater he made was huuuuuuugggge and it takes him more then one clone to make and use, from the looks of the manga cover. Im guessing once he lerned more about the elements he will come up with some new crazzy usfull moves. Untill then it just looks like a finish move. Although I bet Naruto can now do two rasengan's at the same time. That would be intresting to see. Have him make like one big rasengan then split it with his hands and use them as shields / mini bombs.

On a side note, I wonder what Naruto's second element will be. Got any clues?

[Ladywriter]

man... this shit moves at a snails pace -_-; It has since the rescue Gaara arc -_-;

[Sledgstone]

Wow, its like Kakuzu can summon hallows. :p I wonder how these guys can actually die. Maybe after all of Kakuzu's hallow masks have been destroyed, he'll drop dead.. but Hidan seems pretty nervous when he doesn't have his curse jutsu going on.. but then again, its probably all a ploy. Kakuzu even said before that Hidan just doesn't die.. so maybe he really is immortal. O_o I bet if they're both incinerated into ash, they'll both die tho. :p

[Ladywriter]

I have faith in Kakashi :p

[gokuDX7]

Kakuzu has 5 hearts or so they say. Something tells me he has 6 including his own and they wont find out till later lol. But anyway if they kill all the hallows like you said each one is a shinobi's heart from previase shinobi Kakuzu has killed.

As for Hidan, I have no idea. It's probably something weird they all have to do to kill him. Watch kakashi pull some sealing technique out of his ass at the last min to stop Hidan lol.

[Sledgstone]

Oh Shikamaru is one smart bastard. I bet Hidan actually finished off Kakuzu with that move. O_O

*merged posts*

what a pointless chapter 340 was.. all that lead up to Naruto's move just for him to fuck it up and then say he'll try again. O_o

[gokuDX7]

OH SHIZZLE the latest manga kicks ass. Sasuke is going to fight.

[Ladywriter]

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Vincent]

hahaha, I love the new chapater and Konohamaru's new sexy jutsu X'D i love the boy on boy and Sakura's reaction!! lol, almost too much to handle

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

*Appears randomly*

I'm not sure I like Sasuke making some kind of avenger team. I thought the whole point was to be this emo loner till he could kill Itachi.

[gokuDX7]

I think thats what hes doing. I think the team is only to help him kill the other members of the group Itachi is in. If you think about it theres no way he could take them all on at the same time. Although he keeps saying these guys have something he needs...so who knows what hes really planning. That new girls got the hots for him though :P

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

I don't know. I'm sure if he just shows up to where Itachi and Kisame were, Itachi would fight him one on one.

I think its more likely that Kishimoto's setting up a Sasuke's team vs team 7 fight.

Oh, and Sasuke's buddy, Suigetsu, is so Sai's brother.

[gokuDX7]

why would Sasuke want to fight team seven in the first place? He has no grudge against them. But I agree on the Itachi comment you made. I think though after the fight if Sasuke did win Itachi's team mates would attack him.

Either way this should be interesting to see what happens with this new team of his.

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

Plot-no-jutsu is a mighty and terrible thing. It could be that the two teams just bump into eachother and Naruto tells Sasuke to come back to the village and voila - instant melee a la Valley of the End.(its not as if many things in the manga make sense reciently, anyway).

[Sledgstone]

I've been disappointed with the outcomes of things so far.. As for Sasuke's avenger team, my only guess is that hes recruiting a four man cell to take out a four man akatsuki team. If an akatsuki team died in konoha on a mission to get Naruto's kyubi, then I'm guessing akatsuki will send double forces back to konoha. Sasuke and his team will lie in wait near Naruto and/or team 7 and we'll end up with a possible 3 way battle going on..

BTW, is it just me or does it seem pretty clear that Sasuke recruited that water guy, that uses Zabuza's sword, for the sole purpose of fighting Kisame? They are both from the hidden village of the mist, they both have one of those 7 swords of the village, and they both have messed up teeth. I thought that his goal in getting that guy was to keep Kisame busy while he fought Itachi because they're teammates.. but then he had to recruit two more people.. which doesn't make sense unless hes expecting two more akatsuki? :|

[Ladywriter]

Plot-no-jutsu
X'D oh yeah

[Sledgstone]

Ah, at least the manga revealed something interesting this time. The origin of the cursed seal. Sounds like its maybe a bloodline ability of Jungo.. and Orochimaru was able to extract its powers and bestow it to others. Maybe Orochimaru even used it on himself, hence why he was able to transform his body to that of a snake monster when he fought Sasuke? er.. actually all his containers had that mark, so I guess when Oro takes over a new body he'll always be able to transform..

[wavedashsolar]

I can't stand filler episodes. I'm sure the fillers don't waste as much of my time in mangas as in the TV show.

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

I need to come back to this thread and ask one thing...


What is up with the crazy cat lady? I mean, did that come out of left field or what?

And one thing I don't get about her. That whole complex is supposed to be some kind of secret place for the Uchihas, right? Then that means the CCL (crazy cat lady) and her (undeniably hot) granddaughter are just chillin there, by themselves, for ten years on the off chance that Sasuke might stop by?!


Can someone explain it to me...please!?

[gokuDX7]

Ya I feel the same way when I read this chapter. I was like.....where the fuck did this city come from and who the hell is the weird cat women and how does Sasuke somehow know her. I suppose theres allot we where never told about when Sasuke was with Orc~.

Anyway, I'm happy that theres actually some progress now. I can wait to see the up coming fights.

[Ladywriter]

eh..........
mmmmmmmm..............


*is disappointed*

[Sledgstone]

I just hope the fights are as intense as the ones with hidan.

I need to come back to this thread and ask one thing...


What is up with the crazy cat lady? I mean, did that come out of left field or what?

And one thing I don't get about her. That whole complex is supposed to be some kind of secret place for the Uchihas, right? Then that means the CCL (crazy cat lady) and her (undeniably hot) granddaughter are just chillin there, by themselves, for ten years on the off chance that Sasuke might stop by?!


Can someone explain it to me...please!?

I thought it might have been a translation error, because that made no sense to me at all.. If it was a storehouse for Uchihas.. then why would he have to pay the cat woman for goods that already belonged to him? and he couldn't think of anything better to do than to get black coats minus the red clouds for his group? :rolleyes: I bet they'll never show the cat woman again just like that turtle summon of Gai-sensei's from the chunin exam.

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

One thing I just caught: I was rereading the last chapter and, its raining pretty hard at this point. Sasuke's team Hebi and Naruto's teams are all standing outside, in the rain. Each and every one of them have a hood on their cloaks. And the only one sensable enough to put the hood on is Shino ( though he always wears it)...

[Sledgstone]

They had to look fashionable tho! X'D but yeah, talking about clothing.. they like to occassionally mention their wireless gear, but how often do you see a bluetooth headset on Naruto? but thats ok, kakashi's ninja dogs are more reliable than just talking in real time to your teammates.

[gokuDX7]

HOLY SHIZZLE!!
what the hell, Orochimaru is in Kabuto! I think I just spilled my milk duds.

[Sledgstone]

That was the best chapter they've had in a long time, but the I thought Kabuto was going to do something more grand than show off some freakish eye. Now if he can bust out some Orochimaru moves, then that could be sweet. I still don't get it tho.. If Orochimaru's soul/essense is trapped inside Sasuke, then Kabuto must have grabbed some of Oro's dna or scraps parts from his corpse and surgically modified himself.. but seeing as Oro has changed bodies multiple times and its his soul/chakra that he keeps transfering and uses to munipulate the look of the body he is currently in.. then wouldn't Kabuto have the eye of Oro's most recently controlled body in him? and wouldn't that eye eventually break down like all of Oro's hosted bodies? (hence why he had to change bodies every 3ish years).. unless Kabuto actually has Oro's original body's eye in him, I don't understand the logic in it. :\

It wouldn't surprise me if Kabuto kept Oro's original body in some glass jar tho. they were a bunch of freaks.

[gokuDX7]

Didn't Sasuke ask Kabuto to "come here for a sec" after the transformation? Maybe Sasuke somehow switched Oro's soul into Kabutos. On the other hand theres probably some weird story that we find out later :P.

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

Did he? I'll have to take a look at that again. But why would Sasuke do that? I thought he wanted Oro dead...

On the topic of Sasuke, I'm not at all liking that he's smacking an atasuki (sp?) around with no effort at all. I thought they were supposed to be sume uber powerful team, but Sasuke isn't even trying here. Its making me lose all respect for all the members of Aka.

[gokuDX7]

never mind I was wrong. He just took replaced his arm with Oro's thus letting Oro take over his body.

[Sledgstone]

and that brings me back to my previous post. it makes no sense to me how Orochimaru could be taking over Kabuto when it showed Sasuke sealing him away in his mind. And even if Sasuke sealed Oro in Oro's body, Kabuto never grabbed part of Oro's brain... I can only guess we're to assume Oro is like Braniac from DC comics, and every bit of Oro's being can be stored in a single cell of his body? :|

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

I can only guess we're to assume Oro is like Braniac from DC comics, and every bit of Oro's being can be stored in a single cell of his body? :|

Or *shutters* Cell from DBZ.

[gokuDX7]

I think only some degree of Orc's power is carryed over + the curse from the 3rd but not any way of using the power since Orc's knowledge is with Sasuke. That may be why Kabuto is "searching". either way I hope they kill the bastard. I've had just about enough of him and Orc already.

[Vincent]

yeah, i really don't know where this series is going anymore...

[Sledgstone]

I was hoping to see Deidera actually fight or show off some ninjutsu powers, but it looks like hes just going to keep sitting back dropping bombs.. which makes me annoyed at Sasuke.. hes so quick to go to stage 2 for such an opponent, but even with stage two the most he can do for a long distance attack is the 'extend a chakra blade' and throw some over sized shurikens? umm.. he must have learned hundreds if not thousands of jutsus from Orochimaru, but hes acting like Naruto doing the same couple moves again and again. :\ I still thinks its pretty funny that he has an entire team now, but they are no where near him to help in any way. X'D

btw, based on how we've seen Sasuke handle himself in this fight, how do you think he'd manage if his team were to all turn on him? do you think he'd stand a chance?

[gokuDX7]

I was hoping to see Deidera actually fight or show off some ninjutsu powers, but it looks like hes just going to keep sitting back dropping bombs.. which makes me annoyed at Sasuke.. hes so quick to go to stage 2 for such an opponent, but even with stage two the most he can do for a long distance attack is the 'extend a chakra blade' and throw some over sized shurikens? umm.. he must have learned hundreds if not thousands of jutsus from Orochimaru, but hes acting like Naruto doing the same couple moves again and again. :\ I still thinks its pretty funny that he has an entire team now, but they are no where near him to help in any way. X'D

btw, based on how we've seen Sasuke handle himself in this fight, how do you think he'd manage if his team were to all turn on him? do you think he'd stand a chance?

I think he would beat his team mates if it came down to him fighting them all. However at his current strength....I don't see him beating his brother. Well unless his brother's eyes die from using the sharing~ to much.

[Ladywriter]

?
if enuff of these akatski guys get killed will the group left have enuff power to do the tech to sucks suck the 9tails outta Naruto? Will they just replace their dead dudes?

[Sledgstone]

I'm guessing if it comes down to that they'll probably grab some other ninja and sacrifice them for the chakra needed to suck out the kyubi. and then, once they're done with that they can slowly start their diabolical 20 year plan to monopolize the ninja industry. -_-;

[gokuDX7]

for god sakes will this clay guy finally die now. Hes like the worst fighter in the whole show yet they drag the SOB fighting for so many chapters and make Sasuke look like a weakling. I'm beginning to get depressed at where this manga is going.

[Sledgstone]

Looks like hes finally dead. :clap: but yeah, Sasuke does seem pretty weak now. You'd think after learning everything Orochimaru had to teach him, he'd be pretty bad ass and able to do kage level battling, forbiddin jutsus, long range battling, instant transportation moves.. but in the end all they did was use his fight to re-emphasize the importance of elemental type chakra and how it fits into battle strategies. I'd have rather seen Sasuke kick this guys ass without having to rely on "Stage 2" or even breaking a sweat. eh. I'm just glad Deidera finally exploded himself and is out of the series. Even during his fight with Kakashi/Naruto he could only do long range explosion crap. His best fight was with Gaara but even then he just got lucky. :\ I hope the other members of akatsuki have better fighting styles.

After seeing the Hidan and Kakuzu fights, Deidera was a serious disappointment.

[gokuDX7]

and the plot thickens!!! I'm liking the latest manga now. Now there are 3 uchiha.

[Sledgstone]

Daha! finally, the manga seems to have something going for it. ^_^

hmmm... unless his a ninja with an uchiha eye like kakashi.. I have a feeling its an actual uchiha tho. and they even said that all their goals will be realized soon.. I knew that 3-20 year 'akatsuki plan' had to be all bs. :D

[gokuDX7]

YES! Sasuke and his bro are finally gonna talk/fight! I wonder why he wanted to talk to Naruto.....

[Ladywriter]

bout damn time!
first time in a loooooong time I'm actually looking forward to the next chapter

[gokuDX7]

holy shit!!!!!!!!!!! The fight has started and we learn who Narutos parents where! *cough* no surprise there, but still kick ass! The manga just answered and suggested allot of things fans have been wanting to know since the start. I can't believe they tossed in so much info in this chapter.

Don't read the spoiler unless you really want to know.
It's suggested that the 5th likes perverted hermit! But not as much as her former lover that died (Dan).
Naruto's Dad was Namikaze Minato (4th Hokage) and his mother was Uzumaki Kushina from the former whirlpool country.

[Ladywriter]

I'll guess the conversation between Jira n Tsunade took place cuz he's gonna kill J off -_-

[Sledgstone]

I wasn't expecting such a revelation of info.. but considering how casually he said all that info, I wonder why they've been beating around the bush about revealing all that since the beginning. O_o unless like chelle just said, they'll kill off jiyra... :(

I always assumed Jiyra has been tapping that. ;) but it probably works in reverse, she probably calls him for booty calls. X'D

btw, chelle made a good guess about Tobi.. after reading that chapter she basically told me:

"Its obvious its Obito, its another sharingun user and they only showed his right eye. And hes the only other sharingun user that could have any other significant impact on the series by revealing hes still alive and is evil now. and then they'll tie Kakashi back into the story deeper."

[gokuDX7]

lol booty calls by the 5th haha. I hope Jiyra doesn't die. I know the last chapter really did make it seem like he was going to, but I still hope he lives some how.

PS. Why would Obito be evil? It's possible it's him but I wonder how he would have become evil...if that is the case I bet it has something to do with Rin and Kakashi. Maybe Kakashi didn't follow his promise of protecting her and she died or something.

PS. anyone else thing Itachi was manipulated in the past by this other guy? He seems like he really wants to talk to Naruto and Sasuke but they're both obsessed with killing him so he cant manage to say anything.

[Sledgstone]

Oh... maybe Itachi killed off all the Uchiha to save the world from the awakening of Mandara uchiha or whatever its name is. O_o and then joined ataksuki to get to the last remaining uchiha (other than sasuke) to kill him off... but that would make itachi sound like the evil/good guy. Maybe instead, Itachi killed off all the uchiha so he'd be the only container left for the rebirth of that dark demonic evil, and then itachi would rule all! :evil:

[Ladywriter]

That aint what i said but nevermind. Guess Sledge was watching tv while I was speaking -_-;

and yes, I think J will die otherwise that convrersation was pointless or she coulda had it with somebody else

[Sledgstone]

oh.. my bad. :sweat: but still, an obito theory could be feasible.

[gokuDX7]

pretty good chapter, not much happened but at least it's progressing better then Bleach. Every new character is starting to look more and more like Naruto though lol. I can only Imagen that one of these coming chapters we find out there all brothers XD.

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

pretty good chapter, not much happened but at least it's progressing better then Bleach. Every new character is starting to look more and more like Naruto though lol. I can only Imagen that one of these coming chapters we find out there all brothers XD.

I do think that Pein = Naruto's half brother.

[gokuDX7]

I do think that Pein = Naruto's half brother.

I wonder why he would attack him though? Jealousy because the 4th put the fox in Naruto or something?

[Ladywriter]

wow :sleep: I see this going real far real fast
-_-; *sigh*

[gokuDX7]

hmm this chapter was interesting. I wonder why all the bad guys where in those tube like things. Where they plugging into the matrix or something lol.

[Sledgstone]

That was a good chapter.. I like how they explained were the name "Sanin" came from. A salamander badass. X'D

It kind of looked like Pain went into that room, closed his eyes and then controlled one of them like an avatar. Maybe thats how he fights? Never putting his own life in danger? The next chapter should be interesting.

[gokuDX7]

That was a good chapter.. I like how they explained were the name "Sanin" came from. A salamander badass. X'D

It kind of looked like Pain went into that room, closed his eyes and then controlled one of them like an avatar. Maybe thats how he fights? Never putting his own life in danger? The next chapter should be interesting.

good call. Maybe we haven't even seen Pains true body yet. Like You said, maybe he controls different body's for different things.

[gokuDX7]

well looks like more info on Naruto's past. Pretty interesting but it looks more and more like The J man is gonna die :(

[Sledgstone]

I still think they should have released more of this info slowly during the entire manga instead of all at once like this. Poor soon-to-be-dead Jiyra. :( But if they kill off jiyra, I hope to all hell they finally show Naruto, or Kakashi, or anyone else from Konoha doing more than just their one or two trade mark jutsus. I always like Jiyra so much because you could never guess what the hell he would do next.

[Ladywriter]

anyone who actually has something substantial to add to the plot must die!!!!!!!!!!
*sigh*

I guess we'll be back to weeks of nothing but Rasengan! -_-;

[Sledgstone]

I dunno, I'm half expecting a 3 week explanation about yin and yang chakra now. :| It felt like it took months for him to explain elemental chakra..

[Ladywriter]

e gads you're probably right >.<

[Vincent]

you'd think this is the kind of stuff they'd teach them in Ninja Academy. What are they teaching in there anyways?

[gokuDX7]

you'd think this is the kind of stuff they'd teach them in Ninja Academy. What are they teaching in there anyways?

How to do sexy jitsu :P and dress.

[gokuDX7]

Wow this chapter was interesting. Apparently Pain and the women are Jiraiya's old students. No wonder he expects to die (or at least we all seem to think so).

Sasuke and Naruto are about to finally meet up, but it seems they're gonna just fight like dumb asses.

[Sledgstone]

yeah. I'm sure it'll lead to some sort of "Battle Sasuke's group" story arc. They have enough people in there little group to start a bunch of one on one type battles. I want to see Sakura fight that Sasuke lover girl. :p mainly because it'll probably be interesting. We all know the Naruto/Sasuke fight will just be the same old same old just with more powerful versions of the exact same jutsu's they've been using since the beginning.

I think Kiba and Hinata were in Naruto's group tho? we'll finally see them fight again for the first time in about a year or so. lol.

[gokuDX7]

haha ya I missed Hinata.

Somehow I have a feeling this whole story has really nothing to do with taking over the world and has more to do with something with ninja from hidden leaf village. I mean almost all the enemy's so far are some how linked to the village, the nine tailed fox, and that huge battle that took place years ago. I think thats why where being told all this info that we've been wanting to know about for years now. There probably trying to pave the way for something big that relates to all this info. At least thats what I think.

PS. I wonder if they will ever explain who Kakashi's father was lol.

[Ladywriter]

I'm more interisted in the Jirya fight then Naruto/Sasuke. We have yet to see the sannin fight at full force

[gokuDX7]

well this chapter just verifys what we already thought. Although there was a bit of a surprises on which boy was the real Pain. Should be interesting to find out what Pain's real power is.

[Sledgstone]

In the flashback, it looks like Jiyra recognized something about his eyes. I wonder if its a bloodline thing.

[gokuDX7]

Or he's a Bijuu monster for his village or has one inside like Naruto. That would explain why he has so many body's and why he want's to collect the other monsters. Trying to think of a monster that has eyes like that is hard though. If it is one then it has to have something to do with rain since Pain can control the rain. It could be the Sanbi no Isonade, takes the form of a fish in Japanese mythology. Although didn't they already catch this Nijuu? hmmm, so maybe he isn't this one.

[gokuDX7]

damn it sledg your always either right or your super close to the answer.

This chapter kind of blew ass. Supposedly this is a super rare eye bloodline thing. The ancient that had it basically gave birth to all ninjitsu and ninjas and no one was ever seen with these type of eyes ever again. So this means, in theory, Pain could probably use any technique he wanted (but so far we only see him using the wind element). Not to mention he can jump from his friggen body.

This was one of those wtf moments in naruto where they try and squeeze out more content to keep Naruto going for another year.

[Sledgstone]

his concept of making a country killing jutsu with all the bijuu monsters makes more sense then that initial explanation he gave to all of akatsuki way back when. but still, isn't he just following that masked/sharingans orders in the end? O_o maybe that isn't even the true overall goal either.

something came to mind tho.. hes now done two summons.. They've never shown someone summon more than one huge creature before.. maybe pain is full blown summoner and could possibly even summon the bijuus hes already collected? jiyra wouldn't stand a chance against that if that was the case. Imagine if he summoned gaara's sand bijuu? O_O

[gokuDX7]

his concept of making a country killing jutsu with all the bijuu monsters makes more sense then that initial explanation he gave to all of akatsuki way back when. but still, isn't he just following that masked/sharingans orders in the end? O_o maybe that isn't even the true overall goal either.

something came to mind tho.. hes now done two summons.. They've never shown someone summon more than one huge creature before.. maybe pain is full blown summoner and could possibly even summon the bijuus hes already collected? jiyra wouldn't stand a chance against that if that was the case. Imagine if he summoned gaara's sand bijuu? O_O

That would be interesting. I hope he does something new.

[Ladywriter]

so does Jirya have multiple personalities or whats goin on here X'D

[Sledgstone]

Looks like his twin summon is like a dbz fusion technique. :p

[gokuDX7]

I agree with Sledg, I think he summoned some frogs and fused with them. I have no idea why he would do that though.

[gokuDX7]

wow another flash back that sheds some light on the whole Pain story.
I have a theory that when the wise toad sage said "They will finaly bring peace to the word or utterly destroy it". It wasn't meant to refer to just one person (even though it's proper English to type it that way when talking like he did). I think it may also mean that Jiraiya would teach two potential "chosen ones" Pain and Naruto. One would choose the revolution as a means for destruction (Pain) and the other would obviously fight against it (Naruto). I could be totally wrong though but it would be cool if it was true. Out of nowhere we see Naruto, Sasuke and his bro come barging in and start helping J and then 5 or 6 chapters explaining that they join forces lol.

[Sledgstone]

That would definitely be different. ^_^ It also kinda sounded like his eyes represented the fact that he has all elemental jutsus instead of some specific uber power. Theres got to be more to it than that tho. btw, do you think he just summoned more of those bodies of his from that room, or do you think they may actually be new akatsuki members?

[gokuDX7]

6 circles in his eyes, 6 body's in that room, 6 elements....it's the sign of the devil! haha. Do we know what the last element is? I have a feeling it's heaven/hell and the body's are actually his spirit splitting up to control them and he has the power to use/summon the dead. It would be interesting considering most people think Tobi is obito but Tobi calls himself Mandara. So maybe Pain brought back the original Mandara and sealed his soul in the body of the real Obito after the war was over. That would also explain why Itachi killed off the rest of his clan. He may have been trying to prevent Mandara from coming back but failed in the end. Itachi could be a good guy, but we just don't know it yet ;).

@sledge - I hope there not new Akatsuki members.

[Sledgstone]

They make it sound like Pain could cause the destruction of the world, but didn't it look like Tobi was telling him what to do all those chapters ago? O_o

Good call on the bodies, that probably is the case. and yeah, they've done enough akatsuki members, I bet if you took every chapter of every akatsuki fight done in the series and combined it all, it'd be over a years worth of the manga.

[Ladywriter]

water earth air fire lightning and holy/dark
if yer up on yer video games :p

[gokuDX7]

bla this chapter was pretty boring also. J used "Ultimate Rasengan" lol. Basically a smaller version of spirit bomb from dbz XD. Now why cant Naruto learn things like this.

[Sledgstone]

Seriously! To think Jiyra could just bust out that ultimate rasengan that fast.. if thats the case, hes technically capable of throwing out massive power hits left and right, while also having a diversity of moves. why didn't he teach any of this shit to Naruto!? I want to see Naruto do a hair needle blast or spit out some oil. :p

[Ladywriter]

think way back to Sandime hokage vs Orochimaru fight....old man used 2 clones of himself, different from normal clones, to fight the 1st and 2nd Oro summoned.
This Jiarya fight is givin me flashbacks to that one. :look:

Sad to think the fate of the world might be up to Naruto it takes the kid fifteen chapters to learn a new move. In short everyone is doomed X'D

[gokuDX7]

Sad to think the fate of the world might be up to Naruto it takes the kid fifteen chapters to learn a new move. In short everyone is doomed X'D

lol, but the real question is, will he save the world this year or will we have to wait another year?

[Ladywriter]

it will take another 1567895 chapters just to finish this fight X'D

[gokuDX7]

bla, this chapter seemed like a filler.

[Samara]

This may have nothing to do with the manga, but there is a movie coming out for the Hurricane Chronicles . . .

I hate to say this, but in my opinion Jaraiya is going to die . . .

[gokuDX7]

it's already out :) and the story was so so. BTW we have a thread where you can discuss it here ( http://forums.ancientclan.com/showthread.php?t=6817 )

Ya, its not looking good for Jaraiya. If he cant pull something off fast hes gonna be a dead frog.

[gokuDX7]

things are really starting to heat up. Looks like if Jiarya makes it out of this, hes gonna be getting some endless punanny from the 5th lol. Sasuke's group is now facing off with the other sword fighter from Akusuka(sp?) wile Sasuke finaly meets his brother, who insistently seems to have taken off his left arm (at least thats how it looked in the manga). Naruto and the leaf crew are facing off with Tobi (aka. Madara Uchiha).

[Sledgstone]

Jiayra getting hot sex with the ever hot tsunade... yeah, that forshadowing right there proves hes gonna die. :p but maybe he won't, Jiayra has frog/hermit powers so maybe he can regenerate his lost arm and pull a win still.

[gokuDX7]

Well this weeks chapter was kind of bla. We learn that everyone Jiayra is currently fighting right now, he already fought in the past. We didn't get to see anyone related to the other fights going on which kind of made me sad.

[Sledgstone]

Hopefully it'll be an interesting plot twist with Pain, if Jiyra survives long enough to say it out loud.

[gokuDX7]

Hands down, Jiyra is the man. This chapter finally introduces us to Naruto's Mother and Father. The way they did it was a bit confusing but it was interesting none the less. It sounds like Jiyra is gonna go out with a big bang pretty soon. Also after his whole flash back thing, I think its pretty clear now that Naruto is gonna be the "chosen one" at least I hope so.

[Sledgstone]

I looked like jiyra wrote something on the frogs back and then dropped dead. poor jiyra. :( I wonder if they're going to have another funeral or if they'll wait until they get his body back.

[gokuDX7]

I looked like jiyra wrote something on the frogs back and then dropped dead. poor jiyra. :( I wonder if they're going to have another funeral or if they'll wait until they get his body back.

He wrote Pain(Pein)'s real name on the frog. I'm not sure he died yet since he wanted to go out with a "bang". I have a feeling hes gonna do one more thing before he finally "dies". I could be wrong though.

[Eppy]

it looked more like he put memories into him via chakara...didnt think he wrote anything jsut a transfer of memories i bet

[Samara]

That's what it looked like to me too, those flashbacks he had actually explained a lot considering what the toad sage said about some book and all. But the fact that Jaraiya is Naruto's godfather, man that explains a lot too. Hopefully Naruto already knows or he might have another breakdown and start killing people, fox demon and all.

[gokuDX7]

it looked more like he put memories into him via chakara...didnt think he wrote anything jsut a transfer of memories i bet

ahh ok that makes sense too.

[Vincent]

man, i bet he got the idea from Harry Potter X'D

[Samara]

Don't even start mentioning Harry Potter I am still pissed at J.K. for leaving so many holes in the story.

Anyway the memories make more sense and would bring attention to Jaraiya's knowledge that Naruto is indeed the destined one.

[gokuDX7]

Looks like he did physically write stuff on the frog (ie. secret numbers) to prevent the enemy from finding out the message. So I'm guessing when the 5th gets the frog she will find out what J wanted to say via his own face in the water (they show his face reflection in the water when the frog showed up in Leaf Village).

This chapter was damn good. Lets hope it stays this interesting.

[Sledgstone]

I bet that code he wrote on the back of the frog was a book cipher. The message he has to send was already wrote in his book and the numbers correspond to the paragraph/sentance/word of the message. and thus the significance of his "you will write a book" prophecy will be complete. :p

[Samara]

That's even more probable, considering most on your predictions turn out to be right. Hopefully Jaraiya will have a decent funeral at least, he's such an awesome ninja. But Naruto's reaction is going to hell if Tsuanade does decipher everthing in the book and all and manages to tell him since nobody else apperantly has yet.

[Ladywriter]

I hope Sauke's question and Itachi's answer will fill in some plot holes :p
I bet the fight will look real good animated

[Sledgstone]

I hope that Itachi/Sasuke fight isn't over yet. They've been building up that fight for years upon years and for it to be over that fast... nooo! they must have a sharigan battle, jutsu after jutsu after jutsu! And the winner will have learned all the moves of the fight and emerge 100xs stronger!

[Ladywriter]

one would expect the fight that kills one of them off to be all kage style

[gokuDX7]

I refuse to read the latest chapter yet since it wasn't supposed to be out a week early! lol

*edit* ahh screw it, I ended up reading it.

It doesn't seem like that's really Itachi. If it is then he's probably almost blind. But I have a feeling that its not him. Theres no way they would end it in one chapter.

[Mibu_Kyoshiro]

I guarantee at least 5 more chapters of Sasuke stabbing doujunshi Itachi.

[Sledgstone]

Maybe while Itachi is dieing he'll give Sasuke a 5 chapter lecture on the differences of ying/yang chakra.

[dark_templer_102]

I dunno, it seems unlikely Itachi would die so easily, it seems he might have used the Mangekyo Sharingan on Sasuke...

It would be nice to see Tobi use the Mangekyo Sharingan and surprise Kakashi and the others.

[gokuDX7]

as expected, both of them are just standing in the room using their eyes to battle lol XD. This chapter was a bit boarding but I guess it was needed since Sasuke doesn't know about Mandara yet.

[Samara]

The fight scene between them is still under rated. Sasuke, after two years of 'training' with Orichimaru, a Sannin, who he managed to seal in his mind and then Itachi who killed his entire clan and is a member of the Akatsuki. The fight cannot be over yet, they need to step it up it is very disappointing right now.

Not to mention, a sharigan fight, come on now, they have to know more than just that. Itachi could be blind and still kick Sasuke's ass. He was always so much stronger than Sasuke anyway. And Sasuke was able to out do Orichimaru and all, but Orichimaru admited that Itachi was stronger than him so Itachi should still be able to kill Sasuke unless he pulls something out of nowhere . . .

It is infuriating how the fight is going right now and I will be quite disappointed if that is the end of the fight.

[gokuDX7]

The fight scene between them is still under rated. Sasuke, after two years of 'training' with Orichimaru, a Sannin, who he managed to seal in his mind and then Itachi who killed his entire clan and is a member of the Akatsuki. The fight cannot be over yet, they need to step it up it is very disappointing right now.

Not to mention, a sharigan fight, come on now, they have to know more than just that. Itachi could be blind and still kick Sasuke's ass. He was always so much stronger than Sasuke anyway. And Sasuke was able to out do Orichimaru and all, but Orichimaru admited that Itachi was stronger than him so Itachi should still be able to kill Sasuke unless he pulls something out of nowhere . . .

It is infuriating how the fight is going right now and I will be quite disappointed if that is the end of the fight.

I think this really isn't going to continue as a fight but more as a time for Sasuke to learn more about his heritage. Itachi still has to meet with Naruto and talk to him about god knows what.

[Samara]

If Itachi wants to talk with Naruto so badly then it is more likely that the Itachi Sasuke is fighting is just a clone, like the first one he 'killed' Itachi is old enough to know about a lot and maybe, if we are lucky he will enlighten Naruto of who his parents are and all that jazz.

Itachi is very intelligent and all, I hope he will enlighten Sasuke about his heritage and then Sasuke will get over his emo issues and grow up. I wouldn't be all that pissy if someone killed my entire clan as Sasuke is, but he was sheltered back then so . . . Itachi man, I root for him anyway because he's cool, but he still has some serious issues.

We can hope that maybe Itachi will be able to enlighten us on what is going on . . . No offense to Kishimoto Sensei, but the story is pretty vague right now, even after what Jaraiya had to say.

[gokuDX7]

If Itachi wants to talk with Naruto so badly then it is more likely that the Itachi Sasuke is fighting is just a clone, like the first one he 'killed' Itachi is old enough to know about a lot and maybe, if we are lucky he will enlighten Naruto of who his parents are and all that jazz.

Itachi is very intelligent and all, I hope he will enlighten Sasuke about his heritage and then Sasuke will get over his emo issues and grow up. I wouldn't be all that pissy if someone killed my entire clan as Sasuke is, but he was sheltered back then so . . . Itachi man, I root for him anyway because he's cool, but he still has some serious issues.

We can hope that maybe Itachi will be able to enlighten us on what is going on . . . No offense to Kishimoto Sensei, but the story is pretty vague right now, even after what Jaraiya had to say.

No I don't think thats what Itachi is aiming for. It seems more like he wants both Naruto and Sasuke in the same place at the same time to either talk to them, make them fight each other, or for him to easily attack them both. Who knows what the real reason is but it should be interesting to see when the time comes.

[Samara]

Yeah it should be interesting. Itachi is twisted so his intentions are never what they seem. I am looking forward to what he may end up doing.

[gokuDX7]

wow, now the fight really starts. That's kind of stupid how the eyes can get even more powerful though. O well, at least we learned some new stuff about Mandara and the clan. I'm beginning to wonder if Tobi is Mandara or not. Mandara technically should have two eyes yet tobi only shows one. So I'm still theorizing that Tobi's body is really Obito's possessed by Mandara or maybe it is just Obito claiming to be Mandara.

[Ladywriter]

Finally the plot moves forward!

[Sledgstone]

Finally! That felt like the best chapter of Naruto in a long time.

wow, now the fight really starts. That's kind of stupid how the eyes can get even more powerful though. O well, at least we learned some new stuff about Mandara and the clan. I'm beginning to wonder if Tobi is Mandara or not. Mandara technically should have two eyes yet tobi only shows one. So I'm still theorizing that Tobi's body is really Obito's possessed by Mandara or maybe it is just Obito claiming to be Mandara.

I've been thinking about that too. Itachi never said what that other sharingan technique Madara discovered.. and what all the sacrifices were for. Maybe its a possession technique kind of like Orochimaru's. *shrugs* Because I just don't see how having more powerful eyes can prevent your body from aging or dieing.

[Sledgstone]

ohh! Looks like Itachi just plucked out one of Sasuke's eyes! O_O I have a feeling Itachi will only take one of Sasuke's eyes tho. Itachi knows Sasuke doesn't have the Mangeko sharingan, so he'll only take one of his eyes just to preserve his eyesight for now. Because technically, if he took even one of Sasuke's eyes, unless Itachi destroys his own eye after he replaces it, Sasuke could just grab Itachi's eyeball and plop that into his own eyesocket and now possess a mangeko of his own. O_o

[Ladywriter]

...

[gokuDX7]

I wonder if that eye is really for Tobi ;). But this chapter was really blaaa. I just want to see this fight end already and get on with the damn story.

[Sledgstone]

Out of the thousands of jutsus they must both know, they threw shuriken at each other and did slight variations of standard moves. He'll probably try to throw a plot twist in there now.. like Sasuke or one of his dudes stabbed Itachi in the back or something.

[gokuDX7]

wow, this is getting real gay fast. Do some god damn fighting for a change!!!!!! jeez this is annoying as hell.

[Sledgstone]

yes, my sentiments exactly. Highly disappointing. I thought something was finally being accomplished in this series but instead it was all a bunch of BS.

[Ladywriter]

The Uchiha excell at 2 things, genjutsu and fire jutsu and now we've seen both. Victory will be decided by speed, period.
I'm fairly amused, in a story I wrote a while back I had a Sasuke Itachi fight and Sasuke won because of the speed and power of his stage 2; he opened the life gates.(I was sure Oro had taught him all kinds of forbidden teks) Maybe Kishi is trolling ff.net for ideas ne? X'D

[gokuDX7]

I'm still not that amused with the way the fight has been. The fire was a good change but it still seems lacking in terms of suspense. I find my self wanting to see what others are doing more then watching the much anticipated "big battle" between the two.

[Sledgstone]

Thats the main difference between this series and Bleach and why this series is a step below Bleach. In bleach the guy takes his sweet time with the fights just like Naruto, but he flips back and forth between all the different fights good enough that it works out in the anime. Can you imagine when these Naruto chapters make it into the anime, we'll see Jiyra die and then wait 13 episodes to see what happened!? fuck that.

Think of the remaining fights he'll do after he finishes up with Itachi and Sasuke.. Theres at least two still: Naruto/team versus madara uchia and maybe another akatsuki member. Sasuke's water guy versus Kisame. And I think there was another fight too, but none of them have been referred to in over what, 3+ months of the manga? psht. We'll have to wait that entire time just to see what that fucking frog says to Tsunade. Seems to me the guy writing this is still trying to figure out what to have that frog say, so hes stalling for time with these fights.

And damn... why is he making Itachi so weak? His most powerful attack is a rip off of yu yu hakusho's "Dragon of the Darkness Flame"!? Are their more Sasuke fans than Itachi fans? guh, I honestly wanted to see Itachi own Sasuke and take his eyeball. I figure if a character as major as Orochimaru can get killed and discarded so easily, let the same happen to Sasuke too.

[Vincent]

I thought Itachi's Amarasu flame was taken straight out of the 7th Harry Potter book X'D

[gokuDX7]

Thats the main difference between this series and Bleach and why this series is a step below Bleach. In bleach the guy takes his sweet time with the fights just like Naruto, but he flips back and forth between all the different fights good enough that it works out in the anime. Can you imagine when these Naruto chapters make it into the anime, we'll see Jiyra die and then wait 13 episodes to see what happened!? fuck that.

I don't think it will be nearly as many as when Naruto was chasing the clay bastard on his bird. That was just horrible. I think, when the anime catches up, the fight between the two will be at a faster pace then it is now. I think they could easily squeeze in 3 sasuke vs Itachi chapters into one episode lol. Assuming they don't do one episode full of just the two looking at each other doing nothing for 20 mins like the current Naruto vs Orocho fight that just happened a few weeks ago.

Ep 1:
Sasuke: omg i r kill you finally brother!@
Itachi: I don't think so noob
*long 2 min pause to look pretty*
Itachi: haha noob Its a trap! i r trappeded you with my eyes.
Sasuke: oh noez........just kidding! I trappeded you with my eyes now too!
*both eye fuck eachother for 1 min*
*long 5 to 6 min talking between the two that basically summarizes everything they've been saying since the beginning of the fight*

Ep 2:
Zetsu: hoho look at these two noobs *talks to him self for 3 mins*
Sasuke: I r killing you now brother!
Itachi: orely? I think not because I make copy's of my self for no apparent reason other then to piss you off.
Sasuke: damn you noob cakes!
*random talking between the two for 3 to 4 mins*
*random talking between Zetsu and his self for 4 to 5 mins*
*physical battle starts between Sasuke and Itachi*
*flames get blown all over the place*

and there you have it. Two episodes of what seems to be an eternity of chapters. hahaha. Although you may be right, it could be dragged on :(.

[Sledgstone]

oh thats great. X'D

*both eye fuck eachother for 1 min*

:spit:

[Ladywriter]

Its becoming the freeza saga all over again :kame:
5 minutes lasts hella long

[gokuDX7]

hahahahaha damn it! It's still going back and forth.

Itachi: OMG I have the best attack that I plan to use on you!
*uses it*
Sasuke: hahah your all out of juice! Now I will use the best attack that will kill you!

For god sakes show another fight already. This is getting dragged on to long.

[Vincent]

I have no idea what's going on in this fight anymore -_-

[Sledgstone]

eh... its pretty boring. At least Sasuke finally did a move Orochimaru must have taught him.. -_- I'm assuming his finishing move will probably be some forbidden jutsu, or some lame symbol summoning thing like his wrist shuriken storage thing.

[Ladywriter]

I'm hoping for a summon. All he would need is blood to summon, not chakra .....

[Sledgstone]

You need chakra to summon too. Remember when Jiyra was teaching Naruto to summon frogs? Naruto could only summon that little guy because he didn't put enough chakra into it. Thats why when Naruto was fighting Gaara, he tapped into his 9 tales chakra and used that for his summon and that was how he busted out frog boss. I can't think of anything Sasuke could actually summon aside from a single attack. He already summoned and got Manda killed when he fought that exploding clay bastard. And he doesn't have any dead bodies to do forbidden summons.

Nah, he'll bust out some stupid uchiha binding/killing scroll or something that he got from those Uchiha cats. -_-

[Ladywriter]

ancient Uchiha family secret huh? :p

[gokuDX7]

I wonder if it has anything to do with that black curse thing Sasuke has after being bit by Oroc. It would be interesting to seem him turn into a full monster like Naruto.

[Samara]

This fight needs to end already and Kishimoto-san is truly making Itachi look weaker than how he was portrayed in the previous season. Hopefully someone will use a forbidden jutsu or amp up the fight. I am currently in agreeance with gokuDx7 in saying that this fight is too drawn out.

[gokuDX7]

you have got to be fucken kidding me. Wtf is wrong with the creator. End the goddamn battle already and stop giving them new moves for god sakes.

[Sledgstone]

*Itachi does his last move and Sasuke does some move to absorb the energy from it enabling him to do another last move which Itachi then counters himself*

They should just flip a coin already and call it a day.

[gokuDX7]

you know, its at the point where its not even funny anymore. Everyone was looking for this huge epic memorable battle between Sasuke and his brother kind of like the battle with Naruto, the 5th, J, Oroch towards the beginning of the series. This definitely is not anything like past battles. Its to drawn out and feels forced. Not to mention they don't move around or do anything exciting. grrrr it pisses me off. They need to go back to showing us 3 battles at once. No more of this 1 battle then go to the next and then go to another.

[Ladywriter]

Kishi got lazy, uninspired and has fallen short of his original goals. As powerfill as Uchiha Sasuke has become his fight with Itachi should be a kage level battle. Instead Kishi ripped off Oda; Sasuke's lighting attack is just a variation of Nami's thunderbolt tempo -_-;
If Nami could kick Itachi's ass with the climate tact then wtf is next? Naruto fighting with rubber bands and salt? grr wtf

[Sledgstone]

Now that pissed me off more than anything. They finally bring Orochimaru back and just when a plot twist could happen, hes killed off again and any possibility of him ever coming back is pretty much gone. fucking lame.

[Ladywriter]

how is Oro in Sasuke and in Kabuto....did I miss something here?

[Samara]

Beats me, I am lost about that as well. I think it is just another way to forstall the fight for even longer. ARGHH! Someone needs to die, I no longer care who dies but someone needs to. This fight is getting on my last nerve, it is way too drug out and needs to end already.

[gokuDX7]

how is Oro in Sasuke and in Kabuto....did I miss something here?

Oro's "mind" or subconscious was sealed in Sasuke where as only peaces of Oro's body is mixed into Kabuto, "infecting him" therefor giving him some extra power. But as he pointed out before, it's slowly killing him. So basically Kabuto has inherited the curse too.

Either way I found that part really stupid. Oro comes out and dies by some random magic sword lol...I can only guess the next thing to happen will be Naruto magically showing up with or without Tobi and thus some "master plan" starts that none of us saw coming :P.

*huge blast and Naruto shows up*
Naruto: Yo Sasuke~dattebayo
Sasuke: Naruto! Why are you here!
Naruto: I magically appeared~dattebayo
Itachi: hahaha Naruto you have fallen into my trap! Now I can put into motion the Uchiha's secret plan!
*Mandara appears from some random dark place*
Mandara: Good job Itachi. I have killed off the fools from the leaf village!
Naruto: NOOOOOOO *starts to go 9 tail fox mode*~dattebayo

:happy:

[Vincent]

I think....Sasuke basically became another jinchuuriki. At least that's what it seemed like with orochimaru breaking free from sasuke--kinda like how the nine-tailed fox is kept in check by Naruto's own chakra.

[gokuDX7]

I think....Sasuke basically became another jinchuuriki. At least that's what it seemed like with orochimaru breaking free from sasuke--kinda like how the nine-tailed fox is kept in check by Naruto's own chakra.

The only difference being the fox can't escape when Naruto runs out of Chakra because of the seal, Orochimaru can.

[gokuDX7]

Wow looks like Itachi is on the verge of dieing, Oroch is slithering around as a snake, and Sasuke is confused as hell. Lol, how many people think when Itachi said "my eyes" he was literately referring to his own eyes and not Sasuke's soon to be his eyes? I think Itachi was trying to say, take my eyes at the end. In either case I'm happy something different happened. I was getting sick of the fight going back and forth.

[Ladywriter]

gives us some illusion of closure
first ch I've liked in ages

[Samara]

I hope they move on to the fight with Tobi, but seriously the illusion, I hope this time Itachi really is dead. That fight was so drawn out, but it was good chapter none the less.

[Samara]

Last weeks chapter was good, but what the hell is up with this weeks. It's another drag out, Itachi had better be 100% dead.

[gokuDX7]

well at least new people are fighting now. I was getting sick of the last fight.

[Ladywriter]

at least its a step forward

[Sledgstone]

and of course he killed off the only possibility of Orochimaru fully returning to the series. -_-

I bet Shino is going to attack with chakra eating bugs. If they can't do any physical damage to the guy, Shino will attack his chakra supplies.

[Sledgstone]

Space/time jutsus. Before you know it he'll warp back to just before Itachi died, save him and make that entire fight pointless. j/k. :p

BTW, ever notice the name Tobi is only missing an O compared to the spelling of the name Obito. If their names are similar in that sense when translated to english, then maybe the kanji for both of their names is just a reversal of each other or something.

[gokuDX7]

This was a pretty good chapter. I hate all this Space/time crap. This is supposed to be about ninja's fighting not using dbz moves XD.

I still feel that Mandara used Obito's dead body as a container for himself. Meaning when Obito died, Mandara used his body to continue living. But then again, Tobi acts more like Obito so who knows.

[Kuwabara]

I think Kakashi might have figured it out. Notice the Sharingan Sharingan eye contact

[Godgrave]

I'm gonna read this longass manga in for 2-3 hours once mid-April hits.

[gokuDX7]

this chapter was pretty interesting. We got to see half of Tobi's face! Apparently theirs more to Sasukes brother then we know about. I'd crack up laughing if we found out he was or has one of the 9 biju monsters in him XD.

[Godgrave]

O.K.

Spent 5 odd hours reading from where Shipp's at right now till the last chapter of the manga. It's good, it get's gay/ lame/ vague whatever you wanna call it. It's interesting how the 4th who was one of the greatest Hokage's could never surpass the Rasengan technique though Naruto now can? It's interesting how new eye designs have shown up, strong enough to kill Jiraiya? It's interesting how 2 'legendary' Sanin's were defeated, especially the dreaded fierce 'ssshhh do not speak his name' Harry Potter like mad powerful Orochimaru got beaten SO easily because of stupid eye tricks? Mind you, Orochimaru was not weak when he fought against the 4 tailed awakened Naruto, but he was conveniently weak for Sasuke to kill him off in 1 chapter? It's interesting how Itachi's eyes fell for stupid shuriken attacks, I mean at the level of fighting, it was a boring fight compared to Jiraiya's. It's interesting how the outcome of that fight would probably rank up as the 2nd most disappointing one, beaten hands down by Sasuke's Orochimaru corporate merger. Notice how lame the fight got when Orochimaru popped out of a snake only to be sucked in by a sword, I bet the writer did that just to fill up a few pages in the chapter cos the fight was getting nowhere. Treat this as a rant on a hungry stomach!!

[Sledgstone]

Yes, I am completely disappointed that the best villain in the entire series was taken out twice with extreme ease.. Oro's departure was like a bitch slap to the face of the fans that expected much more. Same with the Itachi fight. weak. Its like the writer realized he screwed up Orochimaru's character from the get go by not making him an Uchiha to begin with and is trying to push everything over to Madara Uchiha which nobody really knows much about. So he took the concept of Orochimaru with his containers, quest for power, world domination, immortality, etc. and put all these same attributes into Uchiha Madara. So yeah, if Madara is actually using Obito's body as a container then basically Madara is what Orochimaru should have been to begin with.. but this writer obviously didn't know the true scope of his own creation, fucked up, and its obvious in his later work.

The newest chapter was interesting tho, but it still makes me think the guy is Obito because the other side of his face is covered.. I bet the space/time jutsu crap is going to be his explanation as to how he was able to recover Obito's body. Probably reversed time in that one spot and grabbed Obito's body before it was crushed.. but at the same time, part of Obito's body (the eye kakashi has) is following another corse in time.. so hes probably missing that eye still.. something stupid like that. btw, I'm pretty surprised Madara didn't shout "Instant Transmission" when he blinked in and out of existence over to Sasuke and Itachi. X'D

[Naruto Uzumaki]

Itachi dosen't have a Chance against The Newly Formed Sasuke. ^^

[Samara]

Bassically, everyone is so screwed cause Naruto's all pissed now, geeze. This is an interesting chapter and everything, but why the big deal with Orichimaru for so long and now all the focus is on Madara Uchiha. Sasuke is the center of attention once again by all the big bad guys, wonderful. At least he's alive, though the fight was still very disappointing between him and Itachi, drove me insane.

[Naruto Uzumaki]

Bassically, everyone is so screwed cause Naruto's all pissed now, geeze. This is an interesting chapter and everything, but why the big deal with Orichimaru for so long and now all the focus is on Madara Uchiha. Sasuke is the center of attention once again by all the big bad guys, wonderful. At least he's alive, though the fight was still very disappointing between him and Itachi, drove me insane.

Madara uchiha? I wonder how Obito Survived......... Did u no that Tobi is actually Obito?? O_OO_OO_O

[gokuDX7]

The newest chapter was interesting tho, but it still makes me think the guy is Obito because the other side of his face is covered.. I bet the space/time jutsu crap is going to be his explanation as to how he was able to recover Obito's body. Probably reversed time in that one spot and grabbed Obito's body before it was crushed.. but at the same time, part of Obito's body (the eye kakashi has) is following another corse in time.. so hes probably missing that eye still.. something stupid like that. btw, I'm pretty surprised Madara didn't shout "Instant Transmission" when he blinked in and out of existence over to Sasuke and Itachi. X'D

I was thinking the same exact thing about the space/time crap thats why I was bitching about it a few posts ago. I hate how they toss in some random insane moves now *cough* Pain *cough*.

@Naruto Uzumaki (http://forums.ancientclan.com/member.php?u=1830) we don't know for sure if thats Obito's body yet. Although we can all guess that it is.

[Naruto Uzumaki]

I was thinking the same exact thing about the space/time crap thats why I was bitching about it a few posts ago. I hate how they toss in some random insane moves now *cough* Pain *cough*.

@Naruto Uzumaki (http://forums.ancientclan.com/member.php?u=1830) we don't know for sure if thats Obito's body yet. Although we can all guess that it is.

Well. Check his hair it's the same Spikeyness that Obito has. And Tobi is part of the Uchiha. He uses the mask to hide his Pulverised Face from that Giant Rock

[Naruto Uzumaki]

Sigh* If only They would show the face of the akatsuki Leader. i no who he is. I just wanna see his face.

[Godgrave]

I need to read the Obito part of the story, maybe I'll go back a few chapters before the current Shipp episodes, or start off from the Naruto Sasuke battle.

[Naruto Uzumaki]

I need to read the Obito part of the story, maybe I'll go back a few chapters before the current Shipp episodes, or start off from the Naruto Sasuke battle.

That My friend Is Naruto Vol. 27;)

[Godgrave]

Sigh* If only They would show the face of the akatsuki Leader. i no who he is. I just wanna see his face.If you're current with the manga you'll know who it is, putting it in spoiler tags in case you're not It's Pain

[gokuDX7]

Well. Check his hair it's the same Spikeyness that Obito has. And Tobi is part of the Uchiha. He uses the mask to hide his Pulverised Face from that Giant Rock


yes, we all know and think it's Obito but it hasn't been confirmed yet so we cant wait 100% that it is him.

@Godgrave - read kakashi special chapters if you haven't already. For some reason the anime skipped over them, I'm guessing they plan to make an Ova or movie our of it later.

[Naruto Uzumaki]

I wonder what the Cover of the Japeneise Version looks like. The English Just has the name, the Creator, and the Volume Number.

[gokuDX7]

and the plot thickens! Itachi wanted to save Sasuke and the ninja world?!

haha see I knew he was literally talking about his own eyes when he touched Sasuke and said "My eyes..". Now Sasuke has all Itachi's eye powers.....thats stupid.

[Sledgstone]

I thought Itachi popped him in the forehead like that as a way of making sasuke think of him as his brother and best friend again.. so that when itachi died sasuke would acquire the mangekyou. But instead, Itachi put all his eye jutsus into sasuke and even set him up to auto-amaratsu Madara? :| mmm... I think I'll wait until the next chapter to speculate anymore on this turn of events. Hopefully tobi will reveal some interesting things.

[Godgrave]

What ... are we back in the 70s where everyone's on pot? The writer has serious issues of being consistent. The whole technique transfer thing was childish, and it'll be interesting to see what the Hidden Leaf's next step would be, after the eventual funeral for Jiraiya.

[Samara]

Okay, okay, that's it, it's official Kishimoto is winging it, where in the hell did this 'Itachi was protecting the ninja world, the hidden leaf village, and especially his younger brother' crap come from? Now I'm not so sure if Itachi was a bad ass anymore, I always thought he was so cool because he appeared power hungry and all. Geeze, that was really childish and shit, oh well . . . I hope Tobi will tell us what's going on next week, and hopefully it isn't so corny b.s.

[Kuwabara]

Itachi lost his badassness when he told Sasuke the story of what really happened that night. Now you want me to believe that he was some kind of savior double agent type? That's PRETTY LAME!!!

On the subject of Orochimaru-sama, words can't describe how pissed off I was when Sasuke defeated him, and multiply that by 100 when he popped up for one chapter and got defeated by a legendary sword he had always been looking for but Itachi had the entire time. But no one ever knew of this blade and it could seal anyone into eternal genjustu for EVA!!! LOLNOOB!

Yeah, Naruto is really going downhill...

[gokuDX7]

Itachi lost his badassness when he told Sasuke the story of what really happened that night. Now you want me to believe that he was some kind of savior double agent type? That's PRETTY LAME!!!

On the subject of Orochimaru-sama, words can't describe how pissed off I was when Sasuke defeated him, and multiply that by 100 when he popped up for one chapter and got defeated by a legendary sword he had always been looking for but Itachi had the entire time. But no one ever knew of this blade and it could seal anyone into eternal genjustu for EVA!!! LOLNOOB!

Yeah, Naruto is really going downhill...

I just started D.Gray Man since Naruto's just getting plain bad now. I have to say D.Gray Man is so much better. Both the anime and manga is nothing but pure win. I suggest everyone start reading to make up for Naruto's suckosity.

[Ladywriter]

I started reading then watchin DGM a bit ago. .. just lost interest when I didn't have the time...at least the plot appeared to be thought out... but a lot of stuff Starts Off Great and ends up like Naruto/Bleach. Once they have an audience they want to keep them as long as they can filling up the story with crap (fighting can go on almost indefenatly) and getting off track thusly degrading the original intended story line/character & character development...
And this is why Odachii rules all X'D

[Ladywriter]

holy crap I sense a plot coming on. :holyhell:

[gokuDX7]

ya, things are starting to get good. I cant wait to learn more about the founding fathers.

[Godgrave]

Let's see what happens next ... even so, it's funny how Madara's the only Uchiha or Ninja who could live a hundred + odd years.

[Vincent]

things are really starting to seem to form a cohesive plot again.....or am i imagining things?

[Naruto Uzumaki]

I thought Itachi Wanted to Kill Sasuke.... If Itachi wanted to save sasuke from something, Why did he Kill His own Family and Pulverised him when the anime first showed them

[Godgrave]

They're saying the killing of the clan was actually an order from Konoha's influential people at that time. Once we know the motives behind that, MAYBE we can figure out why he saved his brother.

[Samara]

It's still ruined Itachi though, but at least there seems to be an actual plot, hopefully it won't be lame

[Sledgstone]

I wonder if they'll have an elaborate funeral for jiyra at some point. O_o

[Sledgstone]

All uchiha were going to rise up against the hokage and take control of everything.. so all Uchiha including all their children (except sasuke) had to be killed? I'm still not buying this story. :|

[Godgrave]

It just got a little interesting ... well, mostly because I've always liked the wood technique and he's storytelling about the 1st Hokage who'as a badass.

[gokuDX7]

All uchiha were going to rise up against the hokage and take control of everything.. so all Uchiha including all their children (except sasuke) had to be killed? I'm still not buying this story. :|

I have a feeling the story is not entirely true for the most part. The current person calming to be Mandara may actually be the real Mandara's brother trying to take revenge. This would explain why Itachi rigged Sasukes eyes to blow his ass away every time he showed his eye. We can also apply the "using obito's dead body to hold a someones soul" theory as well. It's all up in the air now though. The way the stories going theres no telling who or what will happen next. For all we know Danzo and the two elder advisor's could have been the ones that set up the coup d'etat to ensure the village would never be run by an Uchiha in the future. The three still hold a lot of power over the village as well.


@Sledgstone - I'm still hoping that Jiyra didn't actually die. From the way he was "killed" it just didn't seem like he actually died. I wouldn't be surprised if he showed up in one of the future chapters towards the end of the series. But ya, I hate how they just left that part of the story and jumped into all this other shit. I would have liked to see what the 5th did when she got the note and where the pains went...etc

[Sledgstone]

Hopefully we'll get the answers to all this within this year. Seeing as they dropped the Jiyra stuff what, 6 months ago? and we're still wondering what happened there.. I just want solid story telling at this point and an ongoing plot.. but instead Naruto is so fragmented right now with its plot lines. :\

[gokuDX7]

Hopefully we'll get the answers to all this within this year. Seeing as they dropped the Jiyra stuff what, 6 months ago? and we're still wondering what happened there.. I just want solid story telling at this point and an ongoing plot.. but instead Naruto is so fragmented right now with its plot lines. :\

You didnt get the memo? It's no longer called Naruto anymore. It's Sasuke, the curse of the Uchiha :P. j/k

[Godgrave]

It's because of Sas~baka~ke that we had over a year's worth of fillers and now Shippu. I still don't get why Sasuke had to be protected OVER Itachi as being the last or so called last Uchiha.

[Sledgstone]

You didnt get the memo? It's no longer called Naruto anymore. It's Sasuke, the curse of the Uchiha :P. j/k

That does fit better now. X'D

[gokuDX7]

lol wow Sasuke is about to go emo and cut his wrists. It kind of sucks how the manga creator managed to turn a story about Naruto into a story purely about Sasuke and his clan. Makes me wonder why they even named it Naruto to begin with. O well, looking forward to seeing how things turn out.

[Sledgstone]

I still don't see how any of this story connects to most of the dialogue Itachi had with Sasuke in the beginning of the manga. Or even most of Itachi's actions. I mean, wtf, if Itachi was the inside guy of Konoha and took out all the Uchiha, then why did he team up with Akatsuki and help them with their evil doings? Also, Itachi completely disabled Sasuke and Kakashi at one point with his mangeyko technique. If not for Tsunade showing up at one point, the two of them could have been in comas for life? O_o Would Itachi have joined Akatsuki to take them out from the inside for the benefit of Konoha? and for someone who wanted to keep peace for Konoha, why did he kill so many damn people? Not just in his clan, but while he was a part of akatsuki? And knowing he was going to die, why did he put Sasuke through so much shit about killing him and taking his eyeballs? I don't see how any of this story follows any of Itachi's previous behavior in the manga, even if he was a double agent, etc. etc.

[gokuDX7]

ya, I don't know how much we can really trust from Tobi. Every chapter they focus on his eye a few times. I wonder if Sasuke is under the influence of his eye right now.

Btw. wtf happened to Naruto? He was fighting Tobi, then Tobi ran off and Naruto was supposed to catch up to Sasuke.....

[Ladywriter]

we'll know in 26 chapters after a conversation that is full of lies misdirection and half truths, and a few more dragged out peon fights X'D

basically after he gets some good drugs in his system so he can get back to trying to create a cohesive plot X'D

[Godgrave]

Naruto and team reached the fight place which was engulfed in the black flame actually from the Ita vs Sas battle....and they couldn't go any further or lost track of them. As far as the plot goes, it's getting silly ... but interesting in the sense it feels like we're all on a trip, so gullible! In any case, now that you mention his eyes, the eye Sharigan design sorta keeps changing ... or maybe I'm remembering it differently.

[gokuDX7]

Naruto and team reached the fight place which was engulfed in the black flame actually from the Ita vs Sas battle....and they couldn't go any further or lost track of them. As far as the plot goes, it's getting silly ... but interesting in the sense it feels like we're all on a trip, so gullible! In any case, now that you mention his eyes, the eye Sharigan design sorta keeps changing ... or maybe I'm remembering it differently.

Ya, his eyes are not the same as Sasuke. I noticed that too and was wondering if it was another version of the Sharigan or if it was active or something. Sasukes also changed after his brother gave him his eyes. Their a bit different then before but dont look exactly like his brothers.

[Sledgstone]

So, everything was planned by Itachi. All the near deaths of Sasuke and even joining akatsuki to help protect Konoha from the inside of the group. And Sasuke must believe all of this because he is still alive. Poor Sasuke, all his powering up, joining up with Oro to get more power, running away from the shattered life he had in Konoha, all his training for nothing because in the end Itachi let him win. If thats the case then Sasuke sucks. :p

Also, whats the point of him having the group he formed now? None of them actually served any purpose and now Sasuke's goal is accomplished. I'm betting Madara will now give him his new task or goal that should consume Sasuke up until the end of the series.

[Ladywriter]

lame and sad if thats all Sasuke is/ever was

[gokuDX7]

So, everything was planned by Itachi. All the near deaths of Sasuke and even joining akatsuki to help protect Konoha from the inside of the group. And Sasuke must believe all of this because he is still alive. Poor Sasuke, all his powering up, joining up with Oro to get more power, running away from the shattered life he had in Konoha, all his training for nothing because in the end Itachi let him win. If thats the case then Sasuke sucks. :p

Also, whats the point of him having the group he formed now? None of them actually served any purpose and now Sasuke's goal is accomplished. I'm betting Madara will now give him his new task or goal that should consume Sasuke up until the end of the series.

lol I really hope at some point he realizes Mandara is bad. Why else would Itachi make his eyes burn Mandara every time he takes his mask off.

Personally though, as interesting as it is, it just doesn't feel right seeing Itachi as a good guy.

[Godgrave]

Itachi was a super cool badass villian, period. Under-powered purposely by the creators just like Sesshoumaru or Vegeta. This last chapter was like a fairytale ... sugar coated, and double dipped in chocolate!

[gokuDX7]

wtf in hell is Sasuke doing!? Ok, supposedly Itachi killed his own clan to protect the Leaf village and now that Sasuke has had this emotional revelation that his brother is a good guy and really cared about his younger brother, what does he do? He vows to destroy the very thing Itachi protected......it makes no sense at all. I was on the verge of yelling wtf after reading the last page.

Jeez this was getting interesting too. Now its just stupid. Naruto and Sasuke are probably gonna fight again. Naruto will probably shout sweet nothings into Sasuke's ear and hope her turns back to being a emo nice guy....etc. Now Mandara joins up with Sasuke? Wtf, does Sasuke not understand his brother made his eyes burn the SOB for a reason? He's not your friend! lol o well.

[Sledgstone]

Did you notice they just walked out there and Itachi's akatsuki partner' Kisame, who was supposed to be fighting that water guy, is nowhere to be found and there is no sign of any battle? that made me say WTF more than Sasuke wanting to go to war with the Leaf.

I knew he was going to turn everything onto Leaf, I just forgot to post about it. XD Leaf made his brother kill his entire clan and thus ruin Sasuke's life. Sasuke fully believes Madara and if that story is actually true in the plot of the story and not some bs Madara said, then that is even worse. Its so ridiculous. They replaced Orochimaru and the Sound ninja with Madara and Sasuke/Hawk. Sasuke can't survive without a purpose and hes used to being manipulated his entire life, hes just a tool. Without a goal, hes a pointless character with no personality. I was hoping something interesting would have happened instead and maybe hed' start fighting Madara and call him out on his bullshit and maybe evolve as a character, but nope. Instead he gets played into becoming Madara's new 9 tails-like ally to start another war with Leaf.

I bet at the end of the series they'll end with a fight between Naruto and Sasuke and it'll end like Trigun with Vash vs. Knives. And Naruto will feel he saved Sasuke in the same sense that Vash saves Knives.

[Godgrave]

I think they'll fight and realize it at the end that their reasons were wrong or manipulated, and wouldn't be able to do a thing about it. I'm pissed off at this new Sasuke angle, but it was predictable cos he's a crybaby X'D. More than that, what about Jiraiya's death? What about the message he left for Tsunade? What about Naruto and his rescue team so close to where the final battle was? What about Akatsuki's plans of World Domination and capturing all the Buushins or monster chakra ninja's? Naruto and Sasuke's current abilities are not close to match up with the big ninja guns or Pain or their colleagues. I'd like to see more character's come into the picture with progression in their abilities ... not just for filler episodes.

[gokuDX7]

Sledg, I'm hopping for more of a "they both kill each other" ending. You know how in the last opening they both hold their weapons to each other's throats with calm looking expressions. I'm hopping for that. They both realize their not set to live in this world because of their power and or monster inside them and decide to kill each other. This would probably make Naruto the next Hokage too like his dad who died saving the village thus making him a hero.

But I doubt that would happen. It's probably gonna be one of those happy endings where everyone becomes friends and dresses up like care bears. lol

[Ladywriter]

so.... basically Sasuke becomes Orochimaru anyway......


eh

[Godgrave]

Sledg, I'm hopping for more of a "they both kill each other" ending. You know how in the last opening they both hold their weapons to each other's throats with calm looking expressions. I'm hopping for that. They both realize their not set to live in this world because of their power and or monster inside them and decide to kill each other. This would probably make Naruto the next Hokage too like his dad who died saving the village thus making him a hero.Errr ... the 3rd didn't become Hokage because he died or sacrificed his life to control Kyubi. He became Hokage well before that.

[gokuDX7]

Errr ... the 3rd didn't become Hokage because he died or sacrificed his life to control Kyubi. He became Hokage well before that.


You mean the 4th? and are you sure? I cant remember that far back so I cant prove or disprove what your saying lol. I could have sword though that he was given the position on the day he died for saving the village. See if you can find the chapter that says he was given the position way before, please. I'm curious about it since I forgot.

[Godgrave]

Yep, the 4th .... sorry. Read Vol 1, Chapter 1, Page 26.

[gokuDX7]

Yep, the 4th .... sorry. Read Vol 1, Chapter 1, Page 26.

O.o thats the fight with Naruto and the guy with the star.....are you looking at the chapter numbers right lol?

[Godgrave]

O.o thats the fight with Naruto and the guy with the star.....are you looking at the chapter numbers right lol?http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/1/naruto_v01_ch001_026/I'm sure there're other references too, but I just started from the beginning and was lucky to find it so quick for you X'D *phew*

[gokuDX7]

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/1/naruto_v01_ch001_026/I'm sure there're other references too, but I just started from the beginning and was lucky to find it so quick for you X'D *phew*

...I still don't understand....that chapter is now the fight with the 9 tails with no reference to the 4th lol. Godgrave can you save the image and upload it somewhere XD.

[Godgrave]

DUDE! Anyway ... I put that exact same page I posted in the spoiler on Photobucket and am posting it below with my lame looking markings X'D.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/Chhoga/New%20album/goku.jpg

[gokuDX7]

DUDE! Anyway ... I put that exact same page I posted in the spoiler on Photobucket and am posting it below with my lame looking markings X'D.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/Chhoga/New%20album/goku.jpg

ah ic, well I guess he did get it before hand. Thats kind of weird. I thought there was a chapter in the future where the 3rd explained how he got his position as 4th...I'll have to look for it later.

[Godgrave]

Ya know ... I began reading the next few chapters to try and see if it was mentioned ... bored the hell outta me to be honest X'D.

[gokuDX7]

Ya know ... I began reading the next few chapters to try and see if it was mentioned ... bored the hell outta me to be honest X'D.

ya, that's kind of why I asked you for proof before hahah. I didn't wanna go searching through all the endless chapters of blaaaa just to find one page that might or might not be what I thought I saw a year or two ago haha.

In any case, I think if Naruto killed Sasuke and Sasuke killed Naruto, it would have some significance and weight towards Naruto possibly being a Hokage. But I have a feeling by the time that day comes, Naruto will probably already be a Hokage or at least close to Hokage level. I can definitely see this getting dragged on for another year or two with mindless unrelated crap like the whole Pain ark.

[Godgrave]

The Pain ark is somewhat the most interesting one so far ...

[gokuDX7]

The Pain ark is somewhat the most interesting one so far ...

Sure its interesting to hear that theres someone supposedly stronger then everyone in the ninja world but it had nothing to do with the initial story other then to show Pain being J's student in the past. It's kind of like the Uchiha city with the two women in it...it was random. I'm sure once they have a second Pain ark and explain wtf is going on and what role he plays in all this, then it will have something to do with the major story line...but until then it was just something random they added so the J fight would be interesting.

[Godgrave]

The Rinnegan is definitely more powerful than the Sharingan. Having said that, Pain is not a nobody, he's the leader of Akatsuki, and what interests me about him is how he's going to take away Naruto's bushin, and the timing for it. They've taken about 2-3 bushin's so far out of 12 (is it?) ... yeah. Pain is currently on top of the most powerful list, imo ...

[gokuDX7]

I didn't say he was a nobody, I said he has no part in the main Naruto vs Uchiha story RIGHT NOW. They randomly tossed him in to fight J and then tossed him aside. They also make it seem like hes taking orders from Mandara...so I'm sure Pain plays a bigger role but right now he was random.

[Godgrave]

I was only saying he was a pivotal character, especially his role in things to come.

[Ladywriter]

being real here for a minute mistakes have been made in the storyline and then shittily covered up. Seriously its taken all this time for Sasuke to end up as Orochimaru anyway? The whole beating Oro and then drawing him out etc was some lame ass shit. If he wanted to switch the main villain in the story he shoulda at least let Oro go out fighting like a kage instead of the weak ass shit. Does anybody know wtf happened to Kabuto or Sai? Did they just evaporate or what...
Who is left that could beat Pain now that 2 of the 3 sannins are history? (Can we even confirm that?) Tsunade? Doubt it. I don't think there is a single character that could kill him solo its going to take some teamwork. If Sasuke (stillin revenge mode) wants to see Konoha fall he wont give a shit about Naruto getting his ass killed by Akatski. You would think that Konoha would have a memorial service for ero sannin. Still waiting to know what Tsunade knows...whats it been? How many frigin months?
ugh

[gokuDX7]

wow what bullshit. I dont know if the translation was wrong in the older chapters or if the mangaka changed them on purpose in the new chapters, but Itachi definitely said meet me at xxx place, to naruto after their little meet up in the woods. I'm happy Naruto at least got something from Itachi, but like all his other attacks, this is probably a one shot thing that's powerful but will probably kill his own body at the same time. Which makes it stuuuupiiiidddd.

Heres my take on how the story will progress. I think Sasuke's goal is gonna change or at least become more clear later on. He says he wants to "destroy the leaf" but I think in the future chapters he's gonna target the originals that made the plans to kill off the uchiha (aka. Danzo, old man, old women). Of course no one in the Leaf nor his team mates will know this so it will probably be an all our war against Sasuke and his team vs the leaf. When Ssuke says "I'm going to resurrect the Uchiha my own way" thats the impression I got.

As for J (aka. Ero Sannin) I still don't think hes dead. I mean it was left wide open so he may come back at the last minute to fight Pain(s). Or, if he is truly dead, then like you said Tsunade will probably take revenge on them once they come to the Leaf (if they ever do).

Kabuto is on his quest for self enlightenment or some power hungry shit like that lo