So Sai spilled the beans about Naruto's feelings and now she's struck with a difficult decision. Give up on the lost cause that is Sasuke so it won't hurt Naruto as much as it has been, or keep living the pipedream. I'm guessing on Option B.
As far as the rest of the chapter goes, I can't wait to read it on the pages. Gaara's so badass, even though he lost the Shukaku. The Raikage is too fucking hilarious. I wanna see him fight a big time opponent.
I don't know if it'll end up being a mirror of Niraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade. While I think Sasuke went down the 'exile/missing-nin' path as Orochimaru did, he's doing it for a completely different reason. Orochimaru went out to seek power, but Sasuke's seeking revenge that has side effects of getting power.
Naruto doesn't seem like Jiraiya to me. Sure he was a prankster and a big kid at heart, but he's not a huge perv like Jiraiya was most of his life and he's had a crush on a single girl all his life while Jiraiya loved any woman with tits. They are sort of leading up to a Sakura/Naruto sort of thing.. but I'm sure Kishi will fuck it up royally as he does everything else.
Sakura and Tsunade are really mirror images if you talk about their skills, but their lives really aren't too much the same as Sakura really hasn't lost any loved ones like Tsunade did early on, and her path wasn't the same. That and honestly, she's not really strong enough to be considered on Tsunade's level. :/ I'm curious if her reaction to what Sai was saying was one out of just shock and surprise, or along the lines of her thinking the same thing. She has shown signs of tolerating Naruto a lot more lately.
Ah well, I'm rambling. I just hope we don't have some sort of shitty harem ending. We need something concrete so it'll send raging fanboys over a cliff.
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