Why am I naked? Ugh, I have the worst headache.
As the 7th Pain, Nagato has reset powers. I guess someone didn’t bother counting the number of rings correctly. All Gedo Rinne Tensei no jutsu does is summon the King of Hell again to revive everyone that recently died. Damn this technique reuse! This interrupts Kakashi’s chat with his dad, but Kakashi at least gets to forgive/thank his father before having his soul thrown back into his body.
OMG Chouji, why are you trying to steal my wallet?!
Although it’s not explicitly shown, it looks like Nagato’s toast (since Kakashi was on the verge of death after losing all his chakra). Kanon puts Nagato into a paper mache body bag, and hands Naruto some paper flowers. No harm no foul, right?
These flowers better be made out of $100 bills
Meanwhile, Sasuke wisely sat out of all the crappy Nagato flashbacks. Now that the reset king is out of the picture (maybe), it’s time for Sasuke to return to Konoha and show that Emo > Pain.
How awesome is Hozuki Suigetsu's beanbag chair?!
Back at Konoha, everyone is homeless but happy. If only this had happened to the Village of Sand, it would have been no problem filling in the crater. Naruto’s just happy that everyone doesn’t hate him anymore. It makes me feel like Gaara was the Barack Obama of the Naruto universe.
Whatever, fairweather fans
On the Akatsuki side of things, no one is that disturbed about losing Nagato. Madara steps right in and orders Kisame to go secure Killer Bee (all of him this time…) and mentions they need some more members in order to sync with the huge Gedo Mazo statue. What happened to pretending to be a retard named Tobi? No one even seems to notice the switch; Madara just starts handing out orders. WTF?
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BTW, doesn’t anyone think it’s unfair that Kumogakure has had two Jinchuriki (Nii Yugito and Killer Bee)? Anyway, Killer Bee’s apprentices, Team Samui, arrive at Konoha as part of their mission to take care of Sasuke and Akatsuki. Omoi keeps fantasizing about getting mobbed by hotties and wonders how he’ll be able to give them the slip without breaking their hearts. Karui foolishly gets sucked into an argument, and then wonders if she can do some golddigging. Samui ignores both of them and looks for someone to report to.
Does Konoha have a basketball team or something?
Unfortunately, in an eerily Dogma-esque turn of events, Tsunade fell into a coma from chakra over-use. Since she didn’t technically die yet, she didn’t get revived by Nagato. Personally, I think she’s awake and waiting to gather up enough chakra to look young again before miraculously making a comeback. D-d-d-diva is a female version of a hustla!
She's fine, just slather on some anti-aging wrinkle cream
Finally, Tsunade’s been in a coma for like… 15 minutes, and the board of directors is getting anxious. Shikaku is called to the emergency meeting and tries to nominate Kakashi as the 6th Hokage, but Danzo steps in with a real hardline stance about screwing over other nations and keeping Konoha strong. This is ironic, considering how much he tried to work with Hanzo in order to get made Hokage, but maybe the way that deal fell through made Hanzo bitter about working with other countries.
Soon to be X-Hokage
I’m just glad Nagato is out of the picture. This is an interesting turn of events, even though I think Danzo should simply be interim-Hokage until Tsunade dies. I’ve no doubt that Danzo will make an attempt on Tsunade’s life if she wakes up, but in the meantime, I really really want to see the fallout from Hinata’s confession. How will she fend off all the skanks that try to get with Naruto now that he’s a super-popular hero? Also, if Konan is no longer part of Akatsuki, does that mean she’ll lose the bulky cloak and get a hot new outfit?
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Change is coming to Konoha!
And Tsugumi banner is too adorable.
What really gets me is how Danzo goes on a mad tirade, and rather than people saying, “Hey, how about you calm down in front of your feudal lord” they just go, “Let’s ignore all the great reasons we listed for Kakashi, and make this mentally unbalanced guy Hokage instead!’”
I just realized why Kakashi didn’t win. Here’s what really happened:
I guess that settles the whole pirate-ninja debate.
Someone shoot Danzo, he’s probably more responsible for Pain than Jiraiya was, thanks to him collaborating with Hanzo.
But I think the real reason why the Feudal Lord chose Danzo over Kakashi is because he thinks Shishio Makoto > Jack Sparrow
Did that one frog they stabbed in the back revive? Because I’d think he’d have something to say about all this.
To be fair, most white-haired guys in anime end up being evil, so perhaps they didn’t want to take the risk.
… or does it? The conversation settles that real pirates are better than pretend pirates, but doesn’t say whether or not pirates are better or worse than ninjas since both Kakashi and Danzo are ninjas.
Back to the chapter, I think Naruto might (purposely) forget about Hinata’s confession because everything else that’s going on. Shounen heroes like Naruto usually don’t like to deal with love (just look at Ichigo and Luffy).
I think he’s still dead, cause Danzo stabbed him. Nagato brought back the people he killed.
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