Oh yeah, I know what I'm going to do for a while now! Your update will require a "small" reread before I can start with the new chapter... Welcome back Desaix, this is long awaited!
Now that Orochimaru too has found an "heir" to his beliefs (all he said about wanting to see what the winds someone else create, do and Sasuke shown). I'm really curious to see what Tsunade, as the last of the Sannin to pass along her beliefs, will forward to Sakura. For this I'm very curious.
I find myself to be along the lines of many, that Sakura responded to Sai what she felt she should think. But the fake smile was used to show that she really couldn't believe that herself and she knows Sasuke is going to literally stab Naruto in his back soon, maybe even before this battle is over. And Naruto starts to know this too.
I predict that when Sasuke is going for the kill, Sakura will try to take the shot, only to be restrained by Sai who's going to get killed in her stead...
I.Don't.Believe.This! Welcome back! I need to make some time to reread the whole story, Koorikage included, just to get on the line again.
What is it now a days, that many of my old and seemingly long forgotten FF.net favourites are rising from the ashes! Have the recent increase of solar activity brought that much of a muse back to old stories?