5) ohyay, sage fighting style. Maybe then he'll be able to match sasuke's prettypretty taijutsu and we can have some fun time watching them have prettypretty choreographed mating rituals. I mean fights. Pretty ones. Yes. That's totally what I meant.
Heheheheheheheheheeeeee! *totally agrees*

OMG is that upcoming action I sense? O.O It couldn't be. No, I don't believe it. That would actually require moving the plot along seriously Kishi make something happen already! *froths at the mouth*

Ahem. Yes. I'm alright now. Totally calm. u.u

Wait. That wasn't Pain body that woke up? I thought it was... *goes to read again* Also, you realize that Pain being the first of the Akatsuki to attack Konoha means Naruto gets to use his spiffy new sage powers to avenge Jiraiya right off the bat, right? I'm not sure if I like that or not. I mean, on the one hand, we can move on from Kishimoto's apparent need to parallel absolutely everything that happens to Sasuke and Naruto (the whole "I lost someone and need to avenge them and now I can understand Sasuke's paaaaaaaaain. Please ignore the irony of who I'm gonna fight..." thing was kind of lame, if in a slightly cool-if-you-squint kind of way), but on the other hand, Naruto gets to avenge his precious person in a handful of chapters while Sasuke had to wait nearly an entire manga. Not fair.

Overall, though, I actually enjoyed this chapter better than the last one. I'm excited for the upcoming fight. ^_^