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I just think Sakura has realized she's not getting anywhere romantically with Sasuke. She does love him, in a romantic sense, but I think she knows their future isn't the way she imagined it in part 1. I think that's what Kakashi is addressing. 

Sakura still loves Sasuke very deeply but she no longer pursues a romantic relationship with him. why is it so complicated?

Am I the only one thinking that the raws really won't make any differance. I mean if the entire translation was supposed to be about the fact that Sakura's love for Sasuke is now greater than ever.. The overall message of what kakashi was saying would make no sense? He was picturing a girl who dreamed of becoming Sasuke's girlfriend and saying that the way she feels is different now meaning she now wants to be his girlfriend even more?

Because the thought of Sasuke makes drool come out of her mouth, getting all up in his face, and still wanting to support him even when all logic tells us she shouldn't. That doesn't warrant a worshipping tag? Ok, put it this way, she's obsessed over him just as Hinata is obsessed over Naruto. Don't know why you find the term "worshipping" as bashing.

Karin is allowed to be attracted to sasuke all she wants. That panel showed Karin's inner thoughts while on the outside she shows that she still thinks sasuke is an kitten for what he did. Your logic is different than the logic in the naruto universe where everyone is trying to kill eachother. Apparently you don't know what the term worshipping means so next time use it properly. I doubted Karin's feelings for Sasuke but considering her ability to detect lies and what she is doing for him now, I see it much differently.

The joke was her worshipping Sasuke's ground pillow. The not so joke, however, was her actually worshpping him.

I have never seen Karin worship sasuke. Ever. Just stop with all this bashing of Karin because it is in fact OOC.

It's happening.. Naruto, Sakura and Gaara will be alone... Everybody calm down!! It's finally happening!!!!!!!

Guys, what if naruto just gets rid of his biju mode? LOL... Not sure if the plot will allow that but the smart thing to do would be to just dispel kurama's body.

Idk, I have a feeling that if anyone is getting extracted from anyone it will be Bee.. Sadly :(. But I think even that's unlikely because the whole plot is set up so that the biju can show Madara that they are not just his pets to be toyed around with. It wouldn't make sense if he just took them that easily. Btw, anyone rmmbr the narusaku moment James predicted in 660? ;) I sure hope sakura comes to Naruto's rescue but I have a feeling the chain will be broken by sasuke's susanoo arrow or blade.

something interesting i've read on tumblr

The face says it all.

Twenty years he has been struggling to achieve this one goal, this one dream. Twenty years he has resigned himself to an isolated life living as a world-class criminal solely so he could make himself a jinchuuriki capable of bringing about the new world of Tsuki no Mei. And in the span of several hours (I’m guessing that is about the time this part of the war has taken given that in the canon this fight seems to all have been taking during the night time) - his dream has come crumbling down. Quite literally, all of his abilities were ripped forcefully out of him. Imagine if you will, what that must be like. To have worked more than half of your lifetime towards a certain goal. To come so close to it that you could almost see it, almost feel it in the palm of your hand. Now imagine that very goal slipping like water through your fingers - imagine your entire purpose suddenly evaporating into thin air. How do you feel?

 

Say what you will about Naruto, but I am rather unimpressed with his TnJ up to this point mostly because Naruto has centered his discussion by persuading Obito to recall his former self. He sees Obito’s old dream of wanting to become Hokage and interprets that as an inner desire of Obito to maintain connections with the past. What he fails to see, however, is that this dream manifests as one that Obito gave up long ago precisely because of the despairing nature of reality. And Naruto…throughout this entire war he seems to have never been able to recognize Obito’s cause to change reality. He’s only focused on Obito’s lack of friendship, on his desire to reject his own identity. I suppose what I’m trying to say is that Naruto is going about trying to persuade Obito to “become good” in the wrong way. To a certain extent he almost seems manipulative in his manners of persuading Obito. 

 

I mean for goodness sake, he even forcefully took Obito’s hand without even trying to negotiate with him further. Are we ever going to see these two come eye to eye? (That being said I thoroughly enjoyed Obito going for Naruto’s neck and not just crumbling right away to TnJ - through and through he remains stubborn, just like how he was as a chuunin).

So what do I want next chapter? Some recognition for Obito’s efforts, for his cause. For all he has fought for, I wish there would be just the slightest bit of acknowledgement. This is not so much about being Hokage for Obito as it is about eliminating worldwide death and pain. And all I want is for someone to see that because it would certainly add to the tragedy if after twenty years no one (besides Madara) really understood Obito’s cause.

 

You know, I read that but I must say, it was Obito himself who kept bringing up his older self and also imagining himself as hokage. None of that was Naruto. Naruto was just a witness of it when the chakra's were tangled and he used it to his advantage quite well. Obito was a broken man, no matter how hard he tried to achieve his goal and no matter how far he had come, it doesn't change the fact that the entire time he was mentally unstable and broken. When you have someone break down reality to you and show you that you are going to be living in a world where only yourself exists, it would blow your kittening mind and jumble every single one of your thoughts completely. That's why Obito was TNJ's so easily, because honestly, he was already broken for all those 20 years, he just couldn't face it.

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I didn't get that part with psycho Rin though... who was acting like psycho Rin exactly?

 

Hmmmm

Hey look, Naruto held onto Obito's hand. NARUOBITO IS THE TRUE CANON PAIRING!!!!BLARG

Okay, just a little joke. Again, I am not surprised by all of this. I was almost certain Obito would be brought back from the darkness because there was so much potential he would be. He wasn't always a dark person unlike some Uchiha like Madara. Obito has to lose everything and fall hard to be that evil and even then he couldn't just erase it all.

Good chapter. I liked it.

 

James I just said the EXACT same thing as you on tumblr.... undeniably canon.

Something I realized is that kishi has recently been tying up all the loose ends that he has had in the manga in the very early chapters. This could definitely lead to an important narusaku moment that we have all been waiting for. One was when Kurama and naruto became partners tying up the entire conversation between iruka and naruto in chapter one with Kurama not being the monster fox anymore. Now, we got the speech naruto gave to konohamaru in chapter 2 coming back in 653 with the whole "no shortcuts to hokage". Now what's next? I'm hoping tying up the loose end in chapter 3 is the next move kishi plans on doing.