Naruto’s powerful fuuton rasengan!!

When Itachi met Naruto back when the Konoha team (Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Kakashi, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Yamato) was searching for Akatsuki lead as well as hunting for Sasuke, Itachi had given Naruto a piece of his own powers. His intention is clear now, as to stop Sasuke, if Naruto had to, knowing what his brother Sasuke would do once Sasuke knows "the truth".

So with a bit of Itachi’s power, Kyuubi’s power, fuuton Rasengan, and now the sage/toads power, will Naruto be able to defeat Sasuke? To remind you, Sasuke now not only has the sharingan, he has the mangekyou sharingan which Itachi had planted into his eyes, along with the special jutsu’s that come along with it, like Amaterasu, Tsukyomi, and others (Sasuke is probably bound to create one his own too). Other than that, not to forget that Sasuke has learned all the snake techniques from Orochimaru (thank God Mando the summoning snake has died, so he cannot summon that anymore!). So will Naruto be able to defeat Sasuke now? Naruto has progressed fast, but at the same time, too bad that Itachi planted the Mangekyou Sharingan into Sasuke’s eyes without Sasuke had to develop that himself.

The fuuton rasengan, though it is very powerful, it practically hurts Naruto just as much as it does to his opponet, and if Naruto were to use it, the damage to his chakra nerves would be irreversable. I think it all comes down to what Naruto wants the most, besides, even if he could use the fuuton rasengan without any harm to himself, what would come of Sasuke? Of course Naruto doesn’t wan to kill Sasuke. He wants to bring him back!! With all these deadly techniques at his hand, Naruto is gonna have to be careful with how he fights, and that could change the outcome darastically.

Naruto Shippuuden, the anime

May us take a break from Naruto manga scene, and jump into the anime bandwagon for a little bit. The Naruto Shippuuden anime, we mean.

If you are a Naruto die-hard fan who other than reading the manga chapter every week, also watch the anime episode every week, then you would have realized that Naruto Shippuuden anime started off very, very draggy, with a lot of "filler scenes". I said filler "scenes", not filler arc! The saving Gaara arc was too draggy that we saw Kakashi and Naruto running and jumping from trees to trees to catch up with Deidara for more than 10 episodes, for God’s sake! Did you remember? Yeah, exactly.

It was a disaster to us Naruto fans, yeah, but after the recent filler arc, which made to introduce the concept of Twelve Ninja Guardians, the Fire Temple monks, and more screentime for Asuma (you know why), the anime now seems like it’s back on its track! Seems like they’ve eliminated useless and draggy filler scenes, and instead replaced them with filler scenes which actually made the story going!

Now that’s the way to go, and I think I’m more excited to watch Naruto every week now!

Jiraiya look-alike. Interesting, eh?

It’s that time again! Recap of past deaths in Naruto manga! This time it’s Jiraiya, the J-man!

So how did Jiraiya die?

Jiraiya was fighting with pein and he was doing pretty well being a sannin, and he "killed" like three of pein’s bodies. Though, he didn’t realize that they can’t be killed because they’re like zombies. So these bodies of Pein got up and took one of his arms off so you can tell he was in serious trouble. Anyway he then ran away and they fought with genjutsus and frog powers, but jiraiya just couldn’t handle all the six bodies of pein coming at him at once so he got overwhelmed and died. Before he died he realized the secret behind Pein’s technique at the last minute and sent that information back to Konoha with his summoned frog.

It was actually when Jiraiya was left there to die, and Jaraiya momentarily passed out, he recalled the day the Fourth Hokage and Kushina had told him they were going to name their son after the main character in Jaraiya’s book, which was "Naruto". He brought himself back with willpower, and used his final breath sending a message on the back of a toad to Konoha and to Tsunade.

He then died sinking into the water of the Hidden Rain Village.

Naruto, training the Rasengan technique

Throughout Naruto series and manga, we have seen Naruto trained by Jiraiya, Kakashi, and the sage toad at Myobokuzan.

The first Naruto training we saw was the training he had with Jiraiya, before the big Chuunin exam showdown, and after that. Jiraiya trained Naruto to master the Rasengan technique, a high-class technique that was developed by the Yondaime Hokage. Only Naruto, Jiraiya, and the Yondaime Hokage are able to use this technique, since it is so difficult to master.

The second training we saw was Naruto’s training with Kakashi. Kakashi trained Naruto to master wind-element technique, with the help of Yamato Taicho.

Kakashi taught Naruto a new training method that involves his shadow clone technique. Naruto would be making a technique that is unique to him. The shadow clones jutsu was used to speed up the progress of the training. If Naruto made a thousand clones he could then master the kind of training that would normally take years in just a week .

Part 1 of Naruto training was shaping his chakra which he already learned in his Rasengan training and part:2 of this training involved altering the nature of his chakra, the training used for the (chidori). Before they start the training they used special cards that tell you what element your chakra is. Naruto then developed a new powerful technique involving wind element!

The next Naruto training that we saw, actually, it’s the current training that Naruto is having at Myobokuzan with the toads, in current manga chapters! So, we’ll be seeing something much more powerful from Naruto soon!

Sasuke, forming the new bonds?

Remember the Naruto manga chapter 414 last week? If you remember, Sasuke "strangely" had some kind of flashback of the old Team 7, or to be exact, Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi. I said "strangely" because if you have been knowing Sasuke since his "Konoha days", you know how blunt, mean, and ungrateful type of person he is.

Knowing Sasuke, we never saw him showing his gratefulness of what he has. Even to say "thank you" is something so difficult for him to do. While the other Genins addressed Kakashi by the name ‘Kakashi-sensei", he hardly called Kakashi, the same person who taught him his powerful chidori technique, by the name "sensei". Sasuke always does things for himself and himself only. He takes the others to join along with him just for his own advantage.

So when Sasuke thanked Karin for saving him (letting him suck on Karin’s chakra actually) when he got beaten pretty hard by the Hachibi jinchuuriki, I was thinking, is it possible that once he knew things about Itachi, the truth about Itachi I mean, he then tries to form the bond with his teammates (Karin, Juugo, Suigetsu) now??

Will this make Sasuke change his mind from crushing Konoha with Madara to saving his old friends and village? Or is Kishimoto just playing with us?? What do you think?

Naruto, trying to draw his sage chakra

Nothing much that we see this week from Naruto manga chapter 414.

No one from Team Falcon or the Mr. Killerbee (the Eight Tails jinchuuriki) has shown any special move, other than the Eight Tails jinchuuriki that has already transferred to the giant eight-tailed bull since previous manga chapter last week. If there is something quite special this week, it’s probably be the chakra ball let out by the transformed Mr. Killerbee. Much like what Naruto had as an attack against Orochimaru when he transformed into 4th tailed mini Kyuubi!

Team Falcon pretty much are in the disadvantage in the battle currently. Suigetsu has tried to buy Mr. Killerbee some time with his water jutsu’s, but failed.

One interesting thing in this chapter though, is how Sasuke suddenly reminded of Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi, aka Team 7, when he thought of Karin, Juugo, and Suigetsu who tried to save him in that battle. He had the vision of the old Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi for a moment, at least. And at the end of the chapter, it says "looking back, he wasn’t alone.. Sasuke’s emotional Amaterasu." I think this shows that in some ways Sasuke still thought of Team 7. Man I had thought he had turned into a stone since he left Konoha.

Oh, and Naruto’s training is progressing fast. It seems that he’s doing the training in a faster rate than Jiraiya!

So, until next chapter!! (Note: We’ll see Sasuke using his new Amaterasu next week! Yay!)

Akatsuki’s special pose

Since Naruto manga chapter 414 isn’t out yet, now we’re going to have a look at the mysterious organization filled with kawaii dudes, Akatsuki .

Akatsuki was founded by Uchiha Madara, that’s for sure. Let’s see what’s the meaning of "Akatsuki" in Japanese. The word "Akatsuki" means "Dawn", "Red Cloud" or "Red Moon". If separated, "aka" would mean red and "tsuki" means moon.

So who is the strongest member of Akatsuki, and who’s the weakest of all the members of Akatsuki? Currently as we can see in the manga, Tobi, alias Uchiha Madara would be the strongest one in Akatsuki, and I think the second strongest would be Pein, the second leader. Probably how strong Pein is shows why he is being trusted so much by Uchiha Madara. We don’t know Konan’s true strength yet, since her ability shown so far isn’t elaborated.

Itachi probably also one of the strongest, since Zetsu also praising Itachi when he witnessed the battles between Itachi and Sasuke.

So that makes Tobi/Uchiha Madara, Pein, and Itachi the strongest three in Akatsuki.

And how about the weakest? My vote would go for.. as much as I hate to say it, I think it’s Deidara. I’m one of Deidara’s biggest fans, I adore him, but since Kisame is a "master" of swords, Kakuzu had 100 years experience of battle and had more than one lives, Hidan couldn’t be killed easily because he used to be a living cursed, Sasori had a high skills in using puppets in combats, that all makes Deidara left far behind.

That said, every single member of Akatsuki is very strong and no ordinary ninja’s. But you still see Deidara running away from Kakashi, even lost his arm, and sacrificed himself (actually that’s suicide!) in the battle with Sasuke.

Time again for Naruto manga spoiler! OK, chapter 414 isn’t going to be released till tomorrow. So in the meantime here’s the spoiler for those of you who just can’t wait for it (or those of you who just love to be spoiled, lol).

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Source: stoptazmo

Suigetsu is forming himself back togther.
Juugo is fusing his skin with Sasuke, he tells Karin that even tho he’s giving Sasuke some of his skin and chakra they should retreat because taking on the Hachibi in there state is to risky.
The Hachibi can hear everything there saying and tells them that trying to retreat at this point would be foolish and even if they did how far do they really think they could get.
(there’s a little bit more about Sasuke)

Konan is telling Pein that even if they get to Konoha getting Naruto isn’t going to be that easy.
Pein tells her thats the reason he’s not going to hold back (there’s a panel of all the bodies and then one of the female body)
Konan looks at Pein with a worried look on her face, he tells her that our goal has been set and that it will be accomplished without fail, the time of the 9th Jinchuuriki is closing fast.

Naruto is sitting near the pool of oil and the clones are turing into toads Pa hits them and says that there transforming much fast because of his little dive into the pool.
Naruto says that he thought it was a good idea at the time and Pa says you were actually thinking when you did that (he has a funny look on his face)
Gamakichi ask Pa if there’s a faster way for Naruto to learn sage arts, Pa shouts and says no there’s not he’s already using the oil and clones it can’t go any faster then this.

Sasuke tries to use his sharingan but it fails, Juugo tells him that he doesn’t have the chakra to keep the sharingan active (there not in the same place they were at the beginning of the chapter)
Suigetsu tries to run but is hit with one of the tails of the Hachibi, Karin ask why he’s trying to run off and leave them be hind, Suigetsu states that he was trying to see how fast the Hachibi is in that form, Karin asked well.
Suigetsu looks at her and says well im still standing here, even in that big form his tails move too fast for him to dodge, but his body doesn’t seem to move as fast.(there’s more about Sasuke and Juugo)

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OK, last week’s spoiler turned out to be fake. But this one is pretty much confirmed by the source. I can’t be sure though. We’ll see when the chapter’s released tomorrow!

SASUKE/SAKURA ROMANCE

It kinda lights up some sparks lately about the "romance" between Sasuke and Karin amongst Naruto fans, especially Sasuke/Sakura fans, to be exact.

It seems that the romance isn’t welcomed by Sasuke/Sakura fans, but at the same time also create new group of fans who like to see the romance blooms between Sasuke and Karin (cough).

SASUKE/KARIN ROMANCE

To me, look-wise, I would prefer Sakura. Ok, ok, other than looks, Karin just isn’t pleasant to the eye, and more annoying than Sakura. Sakura started off in the early Naruto manga as "very, very" annoying, but through time, she has matured and becomes much less annoying. But for Karin, she’s just complete nuisance in my eyes. She’s with Team Falcon in the first place was just to "be with Sasuke". That is lame for crying out loud.

If I were to choose, I would probably go with Sakura/Sasuke rather than Karin/Sasuke. Maybe because I just detest Team Falcon, that’s why.

Anyway, this is Sakura vs. Karin wallpaper for you !
(credit goes to Anime-Wallpapers.com )

Orochimaru appears as "white snake" in a battle with Sasuke

It popped in my head suddenly the other day; does Orochimaru have anything to do with the eight tails jinchuuriki that is shown on the manga currently (some called him "Mr. Host", and some called him "Mr. Killerbee") or the eight tails beast itself in any mean?

Well, for those of you who don’t know, "Orochi" in Japanese mythology is an eight-headed serpent beast. Well, we all know that Naruto is the host for the nine-tails beast. Orochimaru used to reside inside Sasuke before he was killed off by Itachi. And right about now, the only two beasts that haven’t been captured by Madara/Akatsuki are the Nine-Tails and the Eight-Tails.

According to the original folktale which the Legendary Sannins (Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Tsunade) are based on, Orochimaru is the one who mastered snake magic. He was consumed by his snake magic. "Orochi" is the name of a giant 8-headed snake in Japanese mythology. So does this mean Kishimoto (the mangaka!) is plotting something that we are not aware of? I mean, sure, it’s already shown that the Eight Tails indeed has a different jinchuuriki, which obviously isn’t Orochimaru (Orochimaru’s dead), but Orochimaru is also still "alive" inside Kabuto.

So what do you guys think?