Naruto Chapter 382

[Assassin]

The real question now is, who is going to fight pein? Are we gonna have to wait another 4 years until naruto becomes strong/competent enough to take him on on one, or will there be a collaboration effort from team 7 after the sasuke/itachi deal is done. Or is kishi gonna be a cheap ass and make naruto go SSJ Kyuubi x7 and give us another idiotic "everythign gets destroyed by naruto" fight.

Im hoping for the collaboration effort....it would be nice to see kakashi, naruto and sasuke working together to take down the akatsuki leader.

[DB_Hunter]

That actually seems like a good idea.

I think people like Itachi will play a part in Pein's/Tobi's downfall, but ultimatley the story shall end with Kakashi, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura finishing everything off. The series begand with team 7, and will end with team 7.

I think now that Jiraiya is dying/dead, Tsunade will die soon as well. There is no point keeping only one of the Sanin around. It will probably end with Kakashi becoming Hokage, and Team 7 becoming the new generation of Sanin.

[Abdula]

I think now that Jiraiya is dying/dead, Tsunade will die soon as well. There is no point keeping only one of the Sanin around. It will probably end with Kakashi becoming Hokage, and Team 7 becoming the new generation of Sanin.

Yes there is a point in keeping her around she is the hokage. I don't think Kakashi is ready or would ever want to be the hokae, I think Tsunade will remain the hokage for quite some time. The next one should most likely be Naruto. The third was hokage until he was in his 70s, I think maybe his late sixties either way Tsunade definitely has 10 or 15 more years left in her and by that time Naruto should be ready.He probably only needs 5 more years at most at the rate he is growing. I don't think Kishi would kill off another Hokage, it really wouldn't look good if another hokage was killed three years after the third was and I don't think Tsunade would go after Pein she doesn't seem to be a vengeful person.

There was a point in killing off Jiraiya though. It progressed the story a lot and his purpose was to keep Orochimaru in check. I saw someone ask earlier why Jiraiya had left the village earlier on and why he wasn't there when Naruto was younger and that was because he went after Oro when he left. He said that he was tracking and monitoring him all this time and come to think about it the only reason he returned to the village when he did was because of Oro. So now that Oro is gone and he had already trained Naruto there really wasn't anything else for him to do. He himself said that he was waiting to go out with a bang

[Idealistic]

Im hoping for the collaboration effort....it would be nice to see kakashi, naruto and sasuke working together to take down the akatsuki leader.

What about Sakura?!!?!?!?!??1?1 You forgot her!! She is part of Team 7 too you know!