askerian | naruto 489

1. Toad things! I couldn't care less, BUT, the colors are really pretty.
Though, they're talking about Naruto learning and failing to control Kyuubi, so... YAY! Reemergence of the "Naruto and Kyuubi get to know each other better~~" plot thread!!!!!! omgsoexcited.

Watch as Kishi turns this into another training arc where Naruto only learns to use his red chakra better. Instead of a training arc where Naruto and Kyuubi develop something like the awesome snarktastic partnership Killerbee and Hachibi have, which would make me, honestly, cream my pants. I can't wait.

~~(yet, once again, kishi steals my thunder. XD Man. Maaan. I better start writing fast.)~~

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color spread! Mostly the random secondary characters who follow the Kages around. Meh. I don't really like any of them. Though -- the Sai clone with the Rock headband... Is it a boy or a girl? I can never tell. D:

Yamanaka Danzou-follower is a redhead, so weird! He should be blond. *nod nod* ... is that Iruka smirking behind him? There's the scar and the pineapple hair... Huh. And who's that guy with a konoha headband and weirdass line-scars looping on his face? SO CURIOUS.

Oh, the Mizukage's shota boy has powdery, light blue hair. I like! Also, I approve of more people getting unnatural hair colors. So far there were just sakura's pink and all those blood-reds. Oh, and I guess Konan had dark blue... Still, yay for pale blue! Now let's see a green-haired one. was there any? >___>

3.

Karin : T____T *s-sob* And orochimaru forced me to do such horrible work... then sasuke took over and forced me, a defenseless girl, to follow his orders... and in the end he threw me over like a piece of trash! Wahh, i'm a victim just as much as anyone!

Question guy : I see... you endued so much *rubs eyes*

Ibiki : I don't give a shit about your history. I asked for information on Sasuke and Kabuto. (and YOU should know better than to fall for sap stories.)

Question Guy : *teary-eyed* I-I'm sorry.

Karin : û__û BAH! But I have conditions.

Ibiki : WHAT ?

Karin : e_____e Number one, i'm starving. Give me some Katsudon, and we'll talk.

Oh god karin I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. XD SOOOOO MUCH.
a new OTP is born!

4. Tsunade: *eating a horse! not literally* Feed me or i'll get old again! >(((
(sopretty with her hair down* :333)
Shizune: ahah ummm there's more coming but right now, umm...
Tsunade: >______> *considering eating a pig, apparently*

pffft. ♥

5. Shizune: DDDDD: NO YOU CANT.

Kakashi: Yo! Glad you're up, they were about to make me hokage, can you believe that shit. Seriously, friggin' *hokage*. ... oh by the way madara's alive. Yeah. >__>;;

6. Whoa, they already built back ichiraku! XD XD XD ♥

Sakura: *arrives panting at the ramen stand* wheeze... wheeze*
Naruto: Seriously? Tsunade's awake? :DDDDDDDD AWESOME
Sakura: *CUTEST SMILE OF YAY SHE IIIIIIIIS EVER*
Naruto: *cross-culturally inappropriate gesture of glee*
~~sakura: ... w-what. here? on the countertop?~~

n'awwwwwwww.

7. Teuchi: yay! to celebrate, free ramen! you too, Sakura?
Naruto: *even happier than he was for Tsunade, haha*
Sakura: Thanks but I have to run and warn other people too! :DD
~~Naruto: ah well more for me.~~ I'm gonna eat like a horse!!!

It's interesting that suddenly there is no more embarrassment between Naruto and Sakura due to the failed confession. Which would be really strange if it was serious, but if Naruto thought Sakura trying to defend him to Sasuke and the other genins was her apology for it and then since he saved her ass and she didn't keep lying about her feelings then they both kind of silently agreed to pretend it hadn't happened, I guess it works. I'd have liked an actual frank, open discussion about it, but a boy and a girl talking about their feelings in a shounen manga? When it isn't a romantic confession? yeah, I'm not gonna try hoping any harder. Mergh.

Ooh, the konoha gate sign.

8. War planning session! (haha, yamato must have been hard at work. hugeass room and hardwood floods!)
Blahblah list the injured and plan the teams!
Shika: man it's really war huh.
shikadaddy: yep. now shush and observe because you're still a newb.
Shika: *SERIOUS FACE* got it memorized.

9. naruto: *about to eat yummy free ramen!!!! (the BEST kind of ramen)*
toads: oh hey how about summoning naruto.

10. naruto: *DIGS IN -- OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS RAT POISON DOING HERE*
Ma frog: *all happy naruto suddenly likes her delicious worms*

... It was a kiddy joke, but I laughed anyway. XD ♥♥♥

11. blahblah the future-seeing sage wanted to see you... uh, who are you again?
XD

12. "can't we have one meeting without this schtick?" => pfffhahaha. Is it Kishi poking fun through the fourth wall? Awesome. XD)

oldfrog: Naruto, I have seen the future. You will meet... AN OCTOPUS.
Naruto: thefuck?

EEEEEEEEE KILLERBEE AND NARUTO. EEEEEEEEEEE. OPERATION TEACH NARUTO AND KYUUBI PARTNERSHIP IS A GO. *crosses fingers* *crosses toes*

oldfrog: Also you will meet some guy with powerful eyes.

13. Naruto: oh, you mean my boyfriend. Yeah, that's kind of... old news.

I wonder if this is a red herring and Kishimoto is talking about someone else -- perhaps another person with the rinnegan! you'd think since both the sharingan and rinnegan descend from rikudou sennin that Madara would want/need both for his plan... But man, if that the case, every time you're the last owner of something it means invariably there's gonna be another last-of popping up, or likely several.

14.naruto: *key get!* *making HMMMM face* >:/
frogs: Oh yeah you could totally release kyuubi entirely this way! Just saying. u.u

... eee.

15. naruto: *feels up his ~~pregnant~~ belly*

ANKO. And her harem. Is that an older!neji clone I see... X333 blahblah kabutomaru.

16. kabuto: *i haz serpenttail! and wispy hot prettyboy hair! what do you mean i used to be a dork, i was NEVER a dork, i always rocked the boys band hairdo. ... YES WELL SHUT UP MY CLOAK HAS FASHIONABLE SNAKEY EYES. YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID.* blahblah i know both your identities, tobidara. i'm an awesome spy. watch me spying, so discreet in my stylish cloak.

madara: oh yeah... that reminds me before you backstabbed him you used to work for sasori... who worked for me. :DDD *ATTACKS*

17. kabuto: *HAZ BOXES*
madara: OH MY GOD BOXES D:

18&19. kabuto: LOOK AT MY COLLECTION OF DESSICATED CORPSES :DDDDDD oh, i am the baddest edo tensei'er who ever edo tensei'd. I rock it even harder than the guy who, y'know, made it up.

Itachi is one head taller than Sasori = sasori is a chibi! => Deidara is the same size as sasori= ... okay dude maybe Itachi didn't used to be THAT tall. Just saying. D:
Kakuzu is kinda hot with his hair down and his sewed-up face visible.

... why are their akatsuki cloak collars flipped over in sasuke-fashion? they died way earlier than that. Maybe both sasuke and kabuto were influenced by orochimaru's aesthetics... XD;;

sarolynne: Apparently Kabuto uses Orochimaru's raise the dead to fight for me jutsu--to bring back some (all?) of the dead Akatsuki members. Including Itachi.

askerian: O.O

askerian: wait, didn't madara have his body?

askerian: OH GOD WHAT IF HE MANAGED TO MOVE ITACHI'S EYES. IN SASUKES HEAD.

askerian: auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh

sarolynne: So now fandom is bitching that Itachi can't stay dead--missing the fact that he is, in fact, STILL DEAD.

askerian: *snerk*

askerian: but the heartbreak! it's going to be so glorious!

askerian: OH GOD EMPTY EYE SOCKETS

But no, I don't think that would happen upon reflexion -- i mean, shodai and his little bro were already kinda rotted and stuff by then. I think the jutsu must rebuild the bodies's original appearance from slamming the soul into some other convenient fresh corpse -- kinda similar to the way itachi and kisame had possessed two guys and made 'em look like them and get all their jutsu/sharingan/shark powarz in order to fight team seven and gai, but when the guys died they reverted to their real appearances. No empty eye sockets. Sadness.

Kabuto: Look at my sexy runway models. ... WE SHOULD TOTALLY JOIN FORCES.

*starts countdown until kabuto starts plotting to add madara to his collection*
Not sure he'll succeed because they're scarier to the good guys when they're allied and provide a bigger challenge. But I just can't believe Kabuto isn't even thinking about it. XD

All in one, that chapter was rather transitionny, but I kinda like that. It means it wasn't a chapter of nothing but a longass fight that would still stretch another two chapters, at the very least. >__> It had lots of glimpses all over the place. also, character interaction, some worldbuilding, and humor to relax things a little. yay.

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