Danzou, Sai and Yamato

[Assertn]

Originally posted by: Winged Dancer
Yamato... if that's his real name... (I know it isn't)
I kinda like him. He's got potential - first, they wouldn't give Team 7 to anyone incapable of controlling Naruto when he goes into the Kyubi form, so he's got to be at least equal to Kakashi.
He seems to be laid-back and friendly, but who knows if that's just another act? And we haven't seen him fight, or get serious at all. Except when he's making creepy/stupid faces.
Besdies, he's like the only ninja right now who can use the Moku-ton (Wood-based) jutsu, which makes it all a little bit better. Remember someone said he looked like the Second Hokage come to life - I can see Kishimoto tracing genealogies already....

Sai's real name probably isn't Sai either. Especially considering Danzou first says to him "For this mission, your name will be Sai." Must be an ANBU thing.

I'm surprised nobody really commented on this, but if you check the last frame of the previous chapter, Yamato seems to have the same ANBU mask as Sai's sensei. Pretty bad news in itself, but I wonder if Sai even knows this...

And wasn't Yamato supposed to be resembling the 1st Hokage, not the 2nd?


EDIT: actually......now that I think about it......
If both Yamato and Sai end up allied with Danzou, I wonder if this chapter hints that Sai will eventually side with Naruto and Sakura, which would bring up a conflict between Sai and Yamato. That could be cool, although quite possibly on the cliche end.

[Winged Dancer]

Well, Naruto is kinda about cliches anyway.

And yes, I had forgotten that Sai's name ain't Sai. Wonder if we'll end up hearing their names? Guess we will...

I don't know whether to read too much into the mask thing or not. It culd be just a mistake by Kishimoto - Konoha Anbu have animal masks but how many anbu and how many animals? The masks I always see are Cat, Fox, Dog and not much more.

And Tsunade wouldn't have been so stupid as to put an anbu loyal to Danzo if she wanted to keep an eye on Sai, right?

[Assertn]

I dunno.....that whole last page seemed like it was implying something suspicious....
Danzou even came to tsunade later and asked if she picked out a good anbu to lead the mission, then said "good, good" and walked away. Danzou seems to have alot more planned than we'd expect.

Also, I'm sure a few anbus are sneaky enough that they can switch sides without the hokage noticing. It helps that all they have to distinguish them is their mask. Yamato probably has 2.