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Naruto 449
-Naruto AND Nagato are the child of prophecy? You know, I think I like that. That Naruto would have the resolve and Nagato the power. Of course Nagato's gonna kick it anyway but I liked the notion.
-Kakashi and his dad = ♥♥♥ ... Also I'm so HAPPY that someone actually mentioned someone's mother and gave her a little importance. *stares at Yondy* >__> yay for Kakashi getting some closure! and -- shit, his dad still hadn't moved on? D: Whoa.
-I now officially ship Kakashi/Chouji. Kakashi almost ended his life to save Chouji... Now he wakes up on his lap... Yep yep, shipping it.
... I keep imagining Chouza threatening Kakashi with a sawn off shotgun if he breaks his baby boy's heart.
-Konan giving Naruto flowers = .. BWAHAHAH. I know it was supposed to be symbolic and moving but AHAHAHA. XD
-Also happy about Konan showing some emotional attachment to Yahiko's body. Yesh.
-SASUKE OMG. SASUKESASUKESASUKE. SOON, MY PRECIOUS. reunion omg team seven reunion yes please please please. *happyflail*
Also team taka lounging = socute. it's too bad the scan is horrible qhality and kishi doesn't seem to have detailed them too much anyway. it looks like they're wearing different clothes than usual? I'm interested. XD
I think my only problem with the chapter is that... I read over the whole arc recently, and when you read it all in one go it was very obvious that Kakashi wasn't dead. Not enough buildup, not enough of a sense of closure -- the daddy issue was one thing, but he has teammate and student issues too and they weren't adressed, and being held in limbo as he talked only made it more obvious that meant he wasn't going toward death either, and then there was the refusal of anyone to CONFIRM he was dead, to say the words -- Tsunade, Chouza... and Kishi too. When sidebars say stuff like "Naruto blahblah Jiraiya's death and Kakashi's (disappearance or some othr euphemism)", it becomes kind of obvious that Kakashi's status is different from Jiraiya's. So it would make a lot of sense that he's on the brink of death, but he somehow pulls through or someone notices and saves him.
And since lots of people were killed when their souls were torn out, it also makes sense that there's a jutsu to give the souls back!
The problem is that Kakashi wasn't "killed" via his soul being torn out. He was crushed with a rock and then used way too much chakra in order to save Chouji's life. So it doesn't make sense that Pain's jutsu would also fix him somehow.
Basically... I don't have a huge problem with characters cheating death in this arc. I just have a problem with the fact that it would be a lot more believable if it were either one type of dead (de-souled) who come back, or another (Kakashi) -- not both.
I understand how Pain's jutsu would give people their souls back, but what about the guys who were chomped by summons or crushed by falling debris? There must have been some, right? I understand he's supposed to have more chakra than a lot of people out here and that his Rinnegan is legendary for a reason, and there's a precedent to reviving people with Chiyo, but resouling hundreds of people + fixing their bodies so they don't just croak again...
Wait, it's a kids' story, we're not supposed to imagine people trapped like reverse zombies in bodies that refuse to kick it even though they really should. Too bad, it would be kinda cool. >D
I suppose I should have assumed instead that all the ninjas ninja'd out of the way of the chomping teeth and falling buildings and only got to die via Pain capturing. But damn, there were only six Pain bodies; they must have been hella fast with the grabbing and scanning. *... has totally stupid random idea about cashier!Pain* *cough* ahem.
... if he could bring back to life even people he hasn't killed himself, why is Yahiko still dead?
But anyway. I know some people will be all OMG CHEATIIINGGGGG but... Shounen story. Aimed at 13 year olds. It wasn't too surprising that the death toll would be much lower than it seems somehow. I'm still kinda bothered by how fast nagato went over to the side of light but... whatev.
i dun care so long as we get team seven reunionnnnnnn~
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As for Yahiko, his soul passed on before Pain learned Stuff Souls Back In no Justu?
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Huh. problem is that no one else seems to know that jutsu, which means its prolly instinctive... hm. I guess the only instinctive jutsu he really knew was the one with the rods and shit, or at most it took nagato only two-three days to figure out, otherwise his body would have started rotting. >___> maybe once he was Pain'd there was no way to grab his soul and stuff it back in. XD
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Someone needs to write the Kakashi/Chouji crack pairing.
Maybe it doesn't work if the person sacrifices himself like Yahiko did?
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Low expectations leads to less disappointment.
(I'm hoping we get more info about Naruto's mama eventually. I have a crack theory, but we won't get into that. XD)
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oooh crack theory tell me tell me tell me. *grabby hands*
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I like to imagine the other half of Kyuubi's chakra isn't sealed in Naruto out of his reach, but is actually sealed in his mama. Then she had to leave because 1) no one would trust her either and as an adult, more so. And 2) it's too dangerous for them to be in one place together. The Kyuubi wants to be whole again.
Theory might be a strong word, because I don't believe it, but I like the idea? |D
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I don't think it's gonna be true either XD but it needs to be a fic. It would be awesome. *___*
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write iiiiit.
Itachi being depressed during his akatsuki stunt goes to a bar and has a one night stand... Ino meets a strange hot milf kunoichi on her mission... *tempt tempt* Come on, Itachi/Kushina, wouldn't that be epic. Kushina/Ino! Kushina/ANYONE. XD
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onlySon. Something vaguely incestous about that, reminds me of the last question in one of my high school Bio tests... listen to the song "I'm My Own Grandpa", chart the family tree. (Something like the guy's married to the mother of his father's second wife, so his (step)daughter is his (step)mother and his son's his father's brother(-in-law) which makes his son his uncle and the son's mother his grandmother and heeeeee's his ooooooown grandpaaaaaaa. And to make matters worse, his father's second son is his (half-)brother and his (step)daughter's son, which makes his wife his brother's grandma and heeeeee's his oooooown grandpa (again). AND I HAD TO CHART THAT. WAAAAH.)no subject
AND HI SASUKE. I KNOW KONOHA IS ALIVE AGAIN, BUT PLEASE DON'T GO DESTROYING IT AGAIN, K?
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The bodies don't bother me so much. Remember he had that creepy god head thing that apparently regurgitated Pain's corpses whole and hardy no matter how bashed up they'd gotten. And Tsunade did do her omega heal with the forehead crystal and crap. Despite the thermonuclear jutsu, I'm betting a fair number of people were fairly intact after all this...
Danzou is going to be in some serious s**t if that jutsu revives poor little dead frog messenger that was supposed to summon Naruto back. Considering that Naruto did manage to stop that rampaging psychopath on his own, and might have done so without half of Konoha being leveled....yeah. You are so dead, sir. So dead. And this is without Sasuke showing up to tattle on your part in murdering his clan.
Speaking of which, do we have to leap instantly into the next arc? I'd like some freaking down time to catch everyone's breath and address some dangling plot threads (confession of love? Anyone? Hello?) and just generally get some relief from FIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHTFIGHT!!!! after the 1000 years of Pain (I gave this arc a nickname based on the main villain and how long the story felt). Sasuke's great and all, but the timing just makes me groan.
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Ohh, good points, I didn't think of that. Still, even if the manga pretends everything is fine now I'm still gonna add a couple dozen crushed people to my headcanon -- on top of all the old people and young kids dying because of upcoming hunger and exposure to rain and cold and epidemics and whatnot.
I guess Yamato gets to be useful and build a couple dozen instant houses. He should have been called Captain Awfully Convenient, that one. XD
Hee, good point about Danzou, but I don't know if the messenger frog actually saw him, so at least he might still be safe from Tsunade at the moment.
I hope we'll get some downtime and socialization too. We probably will. After such huge events the characters need to relax a bit. Also, Sasuke is still too far away -- if he was close by we'd see him already en route, not just only deciding to get moving while his team still looks like they're recuperating...
... I think I'll adopt your name for this arc, because it's really apt. >__>
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Yamato and Naruto, probably. I can see Naruto going max kagebushin and doing most of the work himself if he can because 1.) It needs to be done; 2.) he probably feels responsible; 3.) Everyone else can focus on the actual people that are hurt/dead in desperate need of food and all that other post-disaster stuff.
...Really want to see him talk to Tsunade and Kakashi all "Oh while Kyuubi was rampaging, I got to see the 4th." Their faces, their FACES.
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I didn't get disappointed by this arc because I stopped expecting to be wow'd by Naruto a long time ago. And I say this as one of the people who actually enjoyed the Itachi reveal. I mean, the writing on this was particularly shittier than usual, but I'm easy and happy that Kakashi-fluffles is still alive so whateves. At least the manga is going towards its end (which will probably last a bazillion chapters considering Kishi's abysmal pacing). And if the end sucks ass at least the massive BAWWWWWWWW of fandom will entertain me.
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And I guess I understand why feeling cheated after a story you enjoy starts sucking because the writing turns really bad. I guess I can't care that much because I stopped being emotionally invested in Naruto so I take everything in stride. I mean, I still read the manga, I still care about what happens to Team 7, and I still read the fanfic and the meta. I even enjoy the batshit fandom. Still, if I was a fan of Pain or Konan I'd probably be pissed.
I mean, I still care about the FMA and I'm still really enjoying the manga and the last few chapters have been really cool. I'm even ejoying the new anime. But I felt really bad at how the old anime ended (and I overall liked it a lot) because Ed and Al ended up separated and that was completely unsatisfying to me. Still, as WTF as that ending was (LOL Squeenix), it doesn't really compare to the kind of wall bangers Kishi pulls.
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...I still find the whole think remarkably cheap.
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to show off that she wasn't some wimpy girl. And then politely gtfo'ing the store, the creepy contact'd unblinking stare starting to unnerve her, however bored the expression was.Once they were safely outside the little shop though, she heaved a sigh.
"Did you see how many piercings that guy had? Holy frogs."
Sasuke just stared at him, eyes finally turning back once more.
"His name tag said 'Pein'."
Sakura couldn't help the gigglesnort.
"He's so emo he's got you beat, Sasuke-kun." She dumped off the bags on Sasuke before he could stomp off to tantrum.
baw I can't write when I first wake up. But LOL cashier!pein I couldn't resist."
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*ded of lols and loev*
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La résurrection de masse m'a donné l'impression d'être dans Narnia, et l'ai trouvé que la fin de l'arc était vraiment trop facile... Il y avait pourtant des éléments sympas (le fait que Naruto ET Nagato soient l'enfant de la prophecie), mais ils ont été extrêmement mal exploités : du point de la mise en page et du rythme de la narration c'était vraiment très mal raconté, avec l'emphase mise sur des moment inintéressant alors que les moments qui bien traités auraient pu vendre le tout aux lecteurs ont été totalement sous exploités.
Et puis les résurrections quoi ! J'aurais encore préféré que Kakashi reste mort. Berk.