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[Cherry-Bloss93]

Whoa, I just thought of something! What if Sasuke sucks Naruto into that same place where Kakashi and Obito are (forgot what it was called) and he is able to tnj them? Sakura would be upset as well, of course... maybe then we can see her true feelings

[Torxe]

Decent chapter I loved the Naruto - Sasuke combo that flashback fitted in really well,

 

Minato's name for the jutsu was a real TL;DR moment but I pulled through ^^.

 

I also think Sakura's tears are out of nostalgia, but I don't think that Sasuke is going to burn down the seals, on one panel you can clearly see that the flames aren't that close to the seals and didn't Naruto help with aiming?

 

 

lol'd at Naruto's reaction at Gamakichi's size, he had the same reaction as most of us ^^.

[六道仙人]

possibly... I just hope that final page wouldn't be some hint pro SS or even anti SS... I just hope that, if sasuke'll really betray, it's just a anti-T7 hint...

[tricksie]

I thought the bit with Sai whispering "shhh" to the slug was interesting. Makes me wonder if the Sai on the battlefield is not just an ink clone. And like the rest of Team 7, maybe the real Sai has something impressive up his sleeve too.

 

The last page was beautifully illustrated. In fact, the whole chapter was. None of it felt like it was "phoned in."

 

Loved that Shizune complimented Sakura's skill. Love that she and her skills are back in the limelight and that Naruto fans are finally starting to appreciate her again. 

 

I think the tear was of happiness. It was on the page with Rookie 9 responses. So Sakura's was the crowning response to Naruto and Sasuke's teamwork. I think the smiling/tearing was a reflection of that. Interesting too what Chatte said about the tear on the right side. 

 

Interesting that Sakura sees something to be concerned about with Sasuke, just like she did in the old days. It's telling that she looks at his back and it's cloaked in shadow, very dark looking, just like the illustration of his face. Juugo, Sai and Sakura can all tell, from their different perspectives, that something's not right about Sasuke. That he has another purpose. And it's not a good one.

[Inferno180]

It really is at a cliffhanger to make us wonder, this is chapter 7 of volume 67, aka the climax is next week or two weeks later.

 

Sasuke's motives can be seen as something obviously, this will bring some impact on Sakura, many of us are speculating this could possibly be the end of SS, because she has already had 2 actions with him, confessed back when he first ran away, tried to end him herself but she could not do it, now after he returned, those words from Sai have given her a sense of uncertainty. Sakura was happy to see team 7 back together, but with the common enemy, the jubbi down, just what is Sasuke going to do now? His sword will go pointing at the jubbi to pointing at Naruto. Given how Sakura first reacted when Sasuke came back, she acted cautious given how he almost killed her in the land of iron. She acted mature back in the recent 631, I expect her to act again, rational and mature when this Sasuke deal comes up to the light.

 

Also one other major thing I forgot to mention, Is the jubbi really defeated already? I mean its the source of all chakra and an ancient demon that only the sage of the six paths took down. Sasuke may be burning it, wouldn't it still be able to just be reborn like any tailed beast? I mean as the primary soruce of all chakra, it should logically become its own never ending rebirth pool. Not to mention if we are never going to see the true form of the ten tails. I mean yeah Sasuke is burning the thing to the ground, but can't anything counter the fusion of the other 7 tailed beasts? Theres a lot left over, I mean we know Sasuke is going to pull some funny junk for sure, but is this really the end of the ten tails fight?

Edited by Inferno180, 12 June 2013 - 01:00 PM.

[Otaru]

 

Something I found out

 

Sakura's tear originated in her right eye.

Generally, according to observations, tears starting in the right eye mean happiness, while tears in the left mean sadness.

So she was happy about something, mates. (Let’s hope, anyways…)

 

I think it obvious that she's crying because of NaruSasu team work =)

[Strangelove]

This chapter kind of let me hanging...The Juubi defeated?!? really...after all that it is defeated by such a weak thing.

[Torxe]

I doubt that it's the end of the fight Naruto and Sasuke (along with their summons) are still shown surrounded by those larger Juubi clones.

 

I also noticed that Sakura said to Katsuyu that she had to attach herself to all alliance shinobi doesn't that mean that her healing jutsu has already surpassed Tsunade?

Tsunade was able to heal Konoha (so about 1/5th of the alliance's shinobi + the villagers of Konoha) and she lost consciousness  afterwards (granted that pain attack couldn't have been easy on her, but still)

[tricksie]

It really is at a cliffhanger to make us wonder, this is chapter 7 of volume 67, aka the climax is next week or two weeks later.

 

Sasuke's motives can be seen as something obviously, this will bring some impact on Sakura, many of us are speculating this could possibly be the end of SS, because she has already had 2 actions with him, confessed back when he first ran away, tried to end him herself but she could not do it, now after he returned, those words from Sai have given her a sense of uncertainty. Sakura was happy to see team 7 back together, but with the common enemy, the jubbi down, just what is Sasuke going to do now? His sword will go pointing at the jubbi to pointing at Naruto. Given how Sakura first reacted when Sasuke came back, she acted cautious given how he almost killed her in the land of iron. She acted mature back in the recent 631, I expect her to act again, rational and mature when this Sasuke deal comes up to the light.

 

Also one other major thing I forgot to mention, Is the jubbi really defeated already? I mean its the source of all chakra and an ancient demon that only the sage of the six paths took down. Sasuke may be burning it, wouldn't it still be able to just be reborn like any tailed beast? I mean as the primary soruce of all chakra, it should logically become its own never ending rebirth pool. Not to mention if we are never going to see the true form of the ten tails. I mean yeah Sasuke is burning the thing to the ground, but can't anything counter the fusion of the other 7 tailed beasts? Theres a lot left over, I mean we know Sasuke is going to pull some funny junk for sure, but is this really the end of the ten tails fight?

I've wondered about the juubi as well. It seems too easy that one blow will kill it. I wonder if Sasuke's goal isn't to control it, thinking that he will do it for good where Madara wanted to do it for evil. 

 

The bijuus have to be controlled, right? They have to be broken into pieces and re-sealed now. Naruto hasn't really dealt with this (out loud) just focused on stopping it. But now maybe the real power struggle begins: who controls the pieces or the sum of its parts?

 

Lol - So Game of Thrones....

[ladyannelise]

hmmm... i have mixed feelings on this chapter.

Sakura summoned Katsuyu and i think it must be a set up so we can finally see what happened to the Kages..
Naruto & Sasuke's combo attack was really good.. it has been too long since these two worked together and i am just so happy that we get to see their teamwork, once again.
and Sakura's tears.. i do agree that it must be because of happiness seeing the two boys working together or about Tsunade.. however, that panel was all about Sasuke, i hate to admit it, but when i first saw that page, i thought her tears were for Sasuke..which is unclear since we only get to see her eye.
then, we see another panel of her, right after juugo and sai,. Sakura is smart, so she maybe thinking that Sasuke may have hidden agenda after all..
lastly, Sasuke is the most unpredictable character in this series.. however, i doubt that he'll ruin Konoha as he wants to protect it in place of his brother., plus, he just annouced that he'll be the hokage.. it's just hard to grasp what he's really thinking..

oh well, guess we have to wait a few weeks more to find out, since it seems that we'll be going back to what happened to other characters...

[Otaru]

I doubt that it's the end of the fight Naruto and Sasuke (along with their summons) are still shown surrounded by those larger Juubi clones.

 

I also noticed that Sakura said to Katsuyu that she had to attach herself to all alliance shinobi doesn't that mean that her healing jutsu has already surpassed Tsunade?

Tsunade was able to heal Konoha (so about 1/5th of the alliance's shinobi + the villagers of Konoha) and she lost consciousness  afterwards (granted that pain attack couldn't have been easy on her, but still)

This

 

I think the same

 

BUT people keep hating everywhere

They say Sakura is not useful again.

She IS useful !

and i'm sure taht Kishi will not make her just heal, but fight !

[Inferno180]

I've wondered about the juubi as well. It seems too easy that one blow will kill it. I wonder if Sasuke's goal isn't to control it, thinking that he will do it for good where Madara wanted to do it for evil. 

 

The bijuus have to be controlled, right? They have to be broken into pieces and re-sealed now. Naruto hasn't really dealt with this (out loud) just focused on stopping it. But now maybe the real power struggle begins: who controls the pieces or the sum of its parts?

 

Lol - So Game of Thrones....

 

The only logic I can see in the Jubbi being down for now is this:

 

1. After it made that huge tailed beast bomb, it had to expend a lot of energy, while it has unlimited chakra, there is still a cooldown and recharge time for it, as Madara said, it was impatient a few chapters ago, then Minato came in and removed the beast bomb to the sea.

2. After expending so much energy, it was left immobile, this let the edo hokages place the gates upon it to seal it and hold it down, all we could expect at this time is that those gates would suppress the chakra, given Hashirama could control tailed beast chakra and suppress it, given Minato's own nine tails chakra mode as well, with both of them being edo hokages having no limit to their own chakra either, they could specultively have held the ten tails at the perfect moment, making it so it could not move or continue to grow to its final stage.

3. The ten tails was trapped, it resorted to making the fission clones so it could attempt to break out and continue.

4. The surprising thing is madara has the patience to not interfere though if he did, it would be an end of the world deal ruining his eye of the moon plan.

5. Some suspect Sasuke's amterasu will burn those gates dropped on the ten tails, but something still has to be done with the tailed beasts, basically remove the jubbi from existence again, something to break it apart back into the other 7. The problem is the juubi still, it cannot just sit there, its like "hey ninja villages we have a source of ultimate world ending power just lying here (literally) why not someone abuse this and start the crisis again? The point is removing the problem, aka the Jubbi, its down but I would be surprised and a bit disappointed if this occurs. I mean its the biggest bad thing in the Naruto universe, taken down by a chance attack kinda ruins the epic scale of the fight. I mean like me, tons of us and many others were suspecting some crisis where the ten tails awakened to full form, then Naruto and Sasuke would use their max power to pummel the thing into submission and while in its true form it would get weaker for a moment causing something to break it down from within, (aka the 7 indivudal essences of the other tailed beasts fighting it from within), many speculated that when Naruto learned their names, it would go along with a folkloric thing in japan if I'm correct, there was some deal with if you know the name of a demon, you would have power over it, if this folklore is correct, then Naruto having the names of the tailed beasts would let him do something to the ten tails.

 

Still it is very interesting right now, is this the end of the ten tails? Madara is still there, plus next chapter we finally see Tsunade and something will happen, I'm guessing Orochimaru causes the reveal of Sasuke's intentions.

[Paptala]

So between Sasuke’s expression and Juugo and Sai’s explanation, I’m pretty sure that this chapter confirmed that Sasuke hasn’t really turned good.

 

Tsunade definitely still seems to be alive, given from what Katsuyu and Orochimaru said, though she certainly sounds to be on the brink.  Whatever it is they’re planning with her, I highly doubt it’s to force her to name Sasuke her successor.  First off, I think Tsunade would rather die than name Sasuke her successor, especially when she already seemed resigned to dying before, and she has a whole slew of people she trusts to take over where she left off.  Secondly, the Jounins also have to approve before a new Hokage becomes official – it’s not just on the previous Hokage’s say alone.  So even if they did manage to somehow force her to name Sasuke her successor, it wouldn’t really be worth much.  Sasuke would end up having to take the title by force in the end regardless.

 

The fact that Karin accompanied that group could suggest that Orochimaru is planning to have Karin heal her, but as another poster previously pointed out, Tsunade screwed him over and caused him an enormous amount of pain before by not healing his arms.  What benefit could he possibly get from healing her?    It will be really interesting to see what happens with that.

 

Sakura’s initial tears are definitely related to Naruto and Sasuke, seemingly out of finally seeing them being a team again given the context and preceding panels.  Her final expression on the last page seems to suggest that Sakura will be facing down Sasuke once again, and this time, hopefully with Naruto. 

 

And yes, Kishi yes, I want a neo-Sannin battle!  It’s funny, the prelude to that battle already sort of happened.   That fight began with Tsunade getting Jiraiya out of the way and facing Orochimaru on her own initially.  That failed, since he took advantage of her emotional weakness.  Recall that at the summit, Sakura likewise tried to ensure that Naruto wouldn’t be involved in her battle against Sasuke.  She went to face Sasuke alone initially, and failed because of her emotional weakness.  Now Sakura seems to have overcome that emotional weakness, just as Tsunade was able to overcome hers.

 

I would love to see a Sakura and Naruto versus Sasuke, especially given what Kakashi implied about their teamwork early on in the second bell test.  We’ve seen Naruto and Sasuke work together, now I want to see Naruto and Sakura bring down Sasuke together as well!

 

As for Sakura’s role in this chapter, I wasn’t all that disappointed.  Sure, I would have loved for her action to continue, but the soldiers really needed to be healed.   It put Sakura’s abilities in the spotlight again in her being able to do something like that so young.  It may not have been offensive, but given the fact that she healed pretty much the entire alliance in one move, it’s damn impressive nonetheless.  Note also that Naruto wouldn’t be “killing the Juubi and saving the world,” with Sasuke if it weren’t for Sakura healing him – she is an essential component for her healing ability.  The fact that she has such impressive offensive feats as well (and they are impressive, considering her one punch killed more Juubi clones than the rookies combined) just makes her that much more amazing.

 

Plus, I’m pretty certain she’s going to get some more action later on, whether it be against an Edo-Tsunade or against Sasuke himself, so I’m okay with waiting for that, especially since Kishi seems to have really ramped up the speed that events are occurring.

 

As for the Juubi, no way is it defeated already.  We haven’t even gotten to see its final state (which I’m pretty sure we’ll see after all the hype its been given).

[六道仙人]

I've just got a terrible feeling.... Remember the badass colour cover in chapter 616? The one with the trio in samurai clothes? Well, Sasuke was inside of the roll, coloured in purple and looks like his eyes are directed towards Sakura. Like he has something in the mind regarding her.

 

We know that the old toad Sage told to Naruto that she'll fight a boy with a great ocular powers. Could be that Sasuke will kill Sakura and Naruto will must to defeat him? Or just that Sasuke having the intention of being the Juubi's jinchuuriki?

[Inferno180]

I don't expect Sakura to die, especially because the whole point is Naruto succeeding where others lost, obviously the fate of team 7 should be a good outcome as opposed to what happened with the sanin and team Minato.

 

The ten tails being defeated, again an editors note, maybe they think its down but the fight cannot end so soon especially after team 7 reunited this early. Something major is coming up. I do suspect that because of this notion with Sasuke though, the impact on Sakura may make her turn away from him. Its like people at this point would expect her to still look towards Sasuke for a lot of stuff but this may be the time at last she does what she can towards Naruto, putting the focus on him and faith in him to do something about Sasuke.

[T XD]

I've just got a terrible feeling.... Remember the badass colour cover in chapter 616? The one with the trio in samurai clothes? Well, Sasuke was inside of the roll, coloured in purple and looks like his eyes are directed towards Sakura. Like he has something in the mind regarding her.

 

We know that the old toad Sage told to Naruto that she'll fight a boy with a great ocular powers. Could be that Sasuke will kill Sakura and Naruto will must to defeat him? Or just that Sasuke having the intention of being the Juubi's jinchuuriki?

Bolded, I don't think it's going to be one of those two. Sasuke isn't that much interested or concerned in Sakura that way.

 

If the old toad Sage told Naruto this then Sakura probably will fight Sasuke.

 

From what I think, if Sasuke has a part in his plan that includes Sakura in it, I think he's going to try to take advantage of her. Though, I don't think Sakura is a part of his plan.

Edited by T XD, 12 June 2013 - 01:31 PM.

[SkiesEagle]

I've just got a terrible feeling.... Remember the badass colour cover in chapter 616? The one with the trio in samurai clothes? Well, Sasuke was inside of the roll, coloured in purple and looks like his eyes are directed towards Sakura. Like he has something in the mind regarding her.

 

We know that the old toad Sage told to Naruto that she'll fight a boy with a great ocular powers. Could be that Sasuke will kill Sakura and Naruto will must to defeat him? Or just that Sasuke having the intention of being the Juubi's jinchuuriki?

 

Bolded: I can get idea what you said. I thought possibly he might control or use her against Naruto. It just a thought.

[Sakamaki Izayoi]

If Sasuke becomes an enemy again, my hatred will be back to 100%.

It's predictable because everytime Sasuke does something "good" it's followed by some of his evil actions.
he killed off Deidara but later he decide to destroy the village, kill countless of samurais attacks the kages, later kills Danzou but tries to murder Karin and Sakura and treats the village and Naruto, when on the war arc he brings back Orochimaru then helps Naruto and now he's going to do his evil action, along wiht Orochimaru i can say safely if Orochimaru kills Tsunade i can assume with 100% that NS will become the canon pairing in the end.
He pratically killed off NH once and for all on 631/632 and looks like he will also going to kill SS soon once and for all(again).

Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 12 June 2013 - 01:33 PM.

[六道仙人]

Sorry, I meant that Naruto must defeat Sasuke because he would do something bad that Naruto couldn't forgive never him... Well, the point is that Sasuke has something in his mind and neither Juugo nor probably other of team taka are awake of that.

 

There some prospects.

-Sasuke has intention to become the Juubi's jinchuuriki

-Sasuke has intention do sacrifice himself for the sake of the world

-Sasuke has intention to betray Naruto and the Alliance

-Sasuke has intention do kidnapp Sakura in order to get Naruto in troublesome

-Sasuke has intention to talk with Madara

[Strangelove]

While all of this is happening

 

Kakashi and Obito are playing poker to pass the time.