Naruto 132-134

[cerusee]

132:

1) Naruto chibi flashback angst makes me cry. Always.
2) OMFG.
3) Kakashi, you suck! So much!

133:

1) OMFG! OMFG!
2) Did...uh...did he break his neck?
2) Who knew Kyuubi was a flying fox?
3) Stage Two does not look good on Sasuke. It looks butt-ugly.

134:

1) HOLY SHIT.
2) ::cries like a baby::
3) Okay, I hate Sasuke somewhat less. Not trying to kill Naruto is a good step. He still needs to get off the revenge kick, and he's still an ass for what he's doing, but I appreciate that he's chosen not to murder his best friend in the process.
4) Kakashi, you still suck. But at least you have the grace to realize it.

Next up--everybody angsts like whoa. I'd like to state for the record that if Sakura spends more time wangsting about Sasuke than about Naruto getting the shit beaten out of him--not to mention everybody else getting injured/killed--I will strangle her with her own forehead protector.

Does anybody know where I'd need to start in the manga to pick up after 134?

Comments

[ex-res-judic324.livejournal.com]

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~rmazores/naruto/

Manga. <3333 Is also different than the anime in certain areas. (Tea Country arc? What?)

In the manga she doesn't wangst about Sasuke. She wangsts about her own weakness and the fact that Naruto got the crap kicked out him and she wasn't there. I think that drives her more nuts than anything. The fact that she got left behind because she was too weak, and people were fighting her battles for her. She definitely gets an attitude change afterwards.

[snogs]

[chibipoe.livejournal.com]

Start with 235. That picks up directly after 134's end.

[chibipoe.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to say that Naruto's Magical Beatdown in this? I think he held back the WHOLE TIME. Even when he was super-charged with the Kyuubi's power, his heart wasn't into the level of violence he'd have needed to carry through his threat from 133's end. And the conclusion? Level 2 Curse Seal and freakish handwings does NOT trump Kyuubi power. I think he deliberately dispersed the Rasengan at the end and just Didn't Carry Through. (a glancing, weak-ass blow from his hand put that scratch in the hitai-ite, so what would have that Demon!Chakra Rasengan have done if he'd really had his heart in it?)

So, my theory remains Naruto could have handily beaten Sasuke's ass there, but he just wasn't really into it. It's his FRIEND, after all.

[chibipoe.livejournal.com]

Me again, with more comments.

133:

1) OMFG! OMFG!
2) Did...uh...did he break his neck?
2) Who knew Kyuubi was a flying fox?
3) Stage Two does not look good on Sasuke. It looks butt-ugly.

To answer:

1. I'll take it that either refers to the Bad!Animated Beatdown or to the third Sharingan wheel.
2. I think he did. That wasn't in the manga, either, as I recall. IMO, I think it's implying that Sasuke DID kill him there. But... it didn't take. Kyuubi's dialogue makes me think that, mostly. Shinobi or not, that would BREAK YOUR NECK and you're dead. Unless you have a Kitsune in your tummy.
3. Sasuke just sucks. Period.
4. Kakashi... yeah. Kakashi pisses me off. Wait until 3 Years Later and we have the Bell Training again. Naruto utilises the SMRTest way of taking Kakashi down. (though, after 2 1/2 years with Jiraiya? I bet Naruto could take Kakashi)

[who-shot-kr.livejournal.com]

This is sorta pathetic, but why when I watch these episodes does Bridge Over Troubled Water keep hitting me over the head? I mean, really, that's like Naruto's freaking theme song given his character and actions and all, but I feel like one of the omgnarutosmyboyfriend!!!!!1onetwothree fangirls by pointing it out. -_-#

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

I'm not coherent enough to say something intelligent, but the time skip starts at chapter 245, and the Kakashi Gaiden starts somewhere around 240. So before that would be the end of THIS arc.

*squees over the finger-locking*