This was a nice chapter, good to see a well thought out plan, and do well, with a good end result. As most of you've been saying I hope Kakazu is dead, or at the very most be able to trap Kakashi's hand so that Hidan may attack him, or something else, but I really hope that he doesn't survive something like that.

Naruto seems to have created a massive crator with his jutsu, it seems it's just about complete. Now, is Naruto going to start using water based techniques so he can counter Sasuke?