Man, this Naruto putting his foot in his mouth "If he'd been the fifth, he would never have sent you on that mission." Doesn't even begin to know how fucked up a thing that is to say. :-(. Very sad chapter indeed, but looks like Naruto's not going to spend three chapters sulking, which I would have actually granted him this time around. That's a good thing. Also, it looks like with the deciphering of the code, we'll be jumping right into another action packed arc.

1) The leaf's action will be to find out what Pein is up to
2) The leaf will have to react to Naruto being a now active target of Akatsuki.

Sasuke taking on the leaf is going to have to wait till this Jinchuruki stuff is done.

:-(. Jiraiya and Itachi in so short a time span :-(.