Naruto 332

[Winged Dancer]

Wow, awfully good preditcion there! And the Slayers... ah, memories of my first fandom.

And I'm really excited about the next chapter. While Hidan seems to be pretty stupid (yay Hidan!), Kakuzu looks smarter, he's probably the brains of the duo. So I'm hoping he'll be able to counter Shikamaru's plan with a few moves of his own - it'll make the battel more interesting than Kakashi dropping out of nowhere and killing Hidan just to have him come back from the dead again.

And

Edit: One more thing that caught my attention. Why is Deidara warning them about Naruto? He should be warning them about Kakashi, since it was he who used (a version of) mangekyo to "blow off" Deidara's arm. As I recall, Naruto only punched Deidara's clay clone a few times.

I was thinking of that, too. Perhaps he warned them not of Naruto but indirectly warned them of Itachi? There was one panel with Itachi looking serious (not that he has any other face) just after Hidan basically affirms the two of them wouldn't have problems controlling Naruto.
So I dunno, maybe Itachi would get angry if someone else tried to nab his assigned jinchuuriki, and even within the Akatsuki, no one wants to anger Itachi....?

Eh, given Deidara tried to battle Naruto that's not a very good explanation, but why else? Naruto isn't a danger by himself.

Unless the Akatsuki has heard of hos he loses control of the Kyuubi and, by the 5th tail, is pretty much unstoppable.