Shirogetsu

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Punxx

Someone want to summarize the newest chapter on Naruto for News on Naruto2?

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Jehuty

Eh, I guess I'll do it again.

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The chapter opens in media res with a blonde familiar-looking shinobi battling against an enemy of an unknown village. The blonde shinobi is apparently cornered by this enemy and uses various ninja tools to attempt to turn the tide. The enemy tells the blonde shinobi to give up. The blonde shinobi refuses, revealing his kagebunshin-based tactics to gain the upper hand and handily defeat the enemy.

As the enemy crumples to the ground, he sneers, telling the blonde shinobi that shinobi are all cursed with a lack of peace. The blonde rejects his statement, resolutely stating that he'll change the world and that he will nevergive up.

As the blonde is about to give his name, the scene shifts to Naruto at Mount Myoboku, reading Jiraiya's story, "The Legend of the Gutsy Ninja." Naruto was apparently reading the aforementioned scene. As Naruto finds Jiraiya's picture at the end of the book, he remembers...

FLASHBACK

Naruto, training with Jiraiya, vents to his teacher about the suffering he'd endured with Sasuke in their final battle, specifically how Sasuke had told Naruto that he couldn't understand Sasuke's feelings. Naruto inquires about Jiraiya and Orochimaru's friendship and why Orochimaru would betray Konoha. Jiraiya sorrowfully tells Naruto that Orochimaru's motives were jumpstarted by his desire to see his dead parents once more or perhaps revenge on Konoha for their deaths, and thus he became obsessed with forbidden techniques. Jiraiya makes the parallel between his and Naruto's situation, noting that Jiraiya too was told that he didn't understand anything about his friend's feelings.

Jiraiya muses aloud that hatred is spreading and that he wants to put an end to it. He's not sure how, but he has faith that humans will understand each other eventually. Naruto remarks that it seems difficult. Jiraiya declares that should he not find the solution, the task would fall to Naruto, who joyously accepts. Jiraiya laughs, to Naruto's confusion, stating that he feels Naruto's smile is his salvation, and moreover that he's very glad he took Naruto as his apprentice. Naruto is visibly touched.

Just then, Jiraiya confidently asserts that he'll change the world with his books, to which Naruto skeptically notes that no one buys those books. Jiraiya maintains that the books will be tremendously successful, that Naruto will be begging for an autograph. Naruto remarks that he wouldn't want that, and as the flashback ends, he thinks to himself that, after all, he has something more important.

Meanwhile, the exhausted Sasuke brings the defeated Killerbee to Madara, with Juugo, carrying the inert Suigetsu and Karin, in tow. Madara congratulates him on a task well completed. As Sasuke walks away, Madara asks where he's going. Sasuke answers that first they will heal their wounds, after which they will go to Konoha. Madara remembers...

FLASHBACK

In a private meeting between Sasuke and Madara, Madara asks of Sasuke's intentions, wondering whether Sasuke will follow with Itachi's purpose of protecting Konoha. Sasuke states that Itachi's death was more significant than Konoha, that as Itachi considered Sasuke the most precious, so does Sasuke for Itachi. He says that despite what he said in front of his team, his goal is to completely crush Konoha, not just the elders, denouncing the village as vile. Sasuke tells Madara that though he may be seen as a child ruled by his emotions, Sasuke will continue regardless, that if he kills all those precious to those who get in his way, maybe they'll understand... his hatred.

END FLASHBACK

Madara, watching Sasuke's back, thinks that love has the risk of begetting hatred.

Meanwhile, in the Hidden Cloud village, Cloud shinobi alert their leader, the Raikage, that his brother, Killerbee, has been captured by Akatsuki, one of which was of Konoha's Uchiha clan. The Raikage, enraged, declares that he will not let Akatsuki go unpunished.

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Island of 1,000 Condiments

Someone should submit a weekly debate.

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Zer0

Hm, "Dissent in the Uchiha Clan: The Path Not Taken" or "Madara vs. Hashirama: The Better Hokage?"

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Punxx

Get a thread open about it, put the description in there and I'll get it up on the website. Those topics both sound good though.

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Zer0

Well, I don't have a description, yet. I just have brief ideas of "The Uchiha Clan surrendering to the Senju Clan, was it the best course of action?", "Who would have been a better Hokage based off of Konoha now and Madara's intentions?", or "Who is the best Hokage". Not exactly debate ready.

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Island of 1,000 Condiments

Uchiha didn't surrender. They just agreed to stop fighting. Like a ceasefire.

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JAIF

Didn't they work together to build Konoha? And when the time came to elect the leaders, Madara got the military and Hariyama / Hiroshima / whateverhisnamewas got the politics and the title of Hokage.

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Jehuty

Well, there was a dispute. To make the Uchiha feel... not discriminated against/watched, they gave them the military police, while Hashirama took Hokage, as a way for the Senju to keep a look out for any Uchiha dispute.

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Zer0

Surrender, ceasefire, tomato, tomahto the point I was trying to bring to debate was they were against Madara, their leader's decisions. There were other suggestions too...

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Island of 1,000 Condiments

Lol, wut? When an individual or collective surrenders, they give throw themselves to the mercy of the victor. In a ceasefire, an individual or collective agrees to stop fighting for a period of time. They don't lose anything.

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Punxx

Jehuty, Zer0 and MF, we need a chapter summary and a new debate topic for this week. Please read the new thread in POTK about the news and ask me if you have any questions. Will need this asap.

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Amerowolf

Ya'll still doing this. I spy that it's been three chapters since you updated. If you need some help keeping up, I could start doing some of it?

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