All I can say is, Kishimoto has mastered the art of keeping a character in limbo indefinitely. I seriously thought it couldn’t go another week without revealing whether Kakashi is dead or not, but nope I was wrong! Well I hope so anyway. This week it seems that Kakashi is passing over…with the requisite and ceremonious “flashback to promises made” and then black out frames with a few sollemn, sad words…and then we see Kakashi meeting his father in the afterlife…or so it seems…but is this the final chapter on Kakashi? I really hope not, he’s such a popular and important character, is this for real??!? There’s always the possibility that in the middle of talking with his father in the “afterlife” he gets pulled back out of it and saved by someone…*hint hint* Naruto get your butt back to Konoha!!