Naruto Chapter 418

[Uchiha Barles]

No no, the fighting style won't help to counter ninjutsu, like say Sasuke's fire techniques. Not directly anyway. It's mainly for what happens when hand to hand combat is occuring. However, the Sharingan doesn't provide that functionality either. At best it can be used to read the seals and get a general idea of the technique you're about to face. Though, if the sage techniques I'm talking about get implemented, or something similar to it, I can imagine that a sage technique user would be able to sense the chakra being molded as the seals are made, and thus get the same kind of info, if not better, that sharingan seal reading would give.

Also, about the flash bombing a sharingan user's eyes, Naruto also used the principle to his advantage on the rooftop fight. After directly confronting Sasuke in a taijutsu fight and getting owned, he stealthily made his way to the big water container, with the sun behind him, and waited for Sasuke to be blinded by it before he made his attack, which worked. So yeah, the idea's been used a bit actually, but definitely, if you know you're about to fight Sasuke, ffs bring flashbombs.

@abdula: Lol. I just don't have the hate for Naruto that you seem to. I hate Sasuke and Naruto about the same, but for different reasons. Naruto's a badly written character. I liked his development up to and including the Gaara fight, and am hoping with Shippuuden, Kishi takes it back to that quality of development. He's at least fucked up with the pacing though, even if his ideas are ultimately good. We'll see how this goes.

Grrr...Originally tried posting this in quick reply, but I hit something that sent me to the Open Discussions page, and I lost the post :-(

[Uberbaka]

You know what naruto actually needs? A weapon infused with wind. Sasuke is raping him with one and Asuma should have helped ramming it into his brain that it is doable.

But I know in the back of my mind that it will just be a throw able rasenganshuriwhatthefuck.

[animus]

I wanna see a sage-mode + kyuubi mode. It'd be like a fucking awkward toad fox, tox or foad to be creative.

[Tyreal]

So true. Even after obtaining the sage's strength you just know that he still won't be able to even get 1 hit on his enemies. Seriously, stop teaching this kid overpowered jutsu and train his speed so he can actually connect a couple of combos.

I was thinking about the "Frog-Fu" thing that the toad sage mentioned in this chapter and it occurred to me that Naruto might finally get that speed boost he needs in order to be able to use Rasengan in a useful manner and compete with other high level shinobi. Think about it, frogs generally jump to move about by using their legs like springs. Wikipedia says it better

Currently, it is hypothesized that frogs are storing muscular energy by stretching their tendons like springs, then triggering the release all at once, allowing the frog to increase the energy of its jump beyond the limits of muscle-powered acceleration.

If Naruto learnt something like that from "Frog-Fu" he would easily be able to close the gap between himself and his opponent before they could respond and hit them with a Rasengan/Rasenshuriken even if they were attacking from long range.

I wanna see a sage-mode + kyuubi mode. It'd be like a fucking awkward toad fox, tox or foad to be creative.

I wonder if the increased healing abilities of sage mode would offset the damage done to Naruto's body by the Kyuubi chakara? However I doubt he would be able to use both simultaneously since they are almost directly opposite in nature, sage mode requires him to be calm and at peace while kyuubi mode requires him to be in a incredible rage. Not to mention how overpowered he would be (i.e. he would have almost infinite chakara, more so than he already does).

[Abdula]

@abdula: Lol. I just don't have the hate for Naruto that you seem to. I hate Sasuke and Naruto about the same, but for different reasons. Naruto's a badly written character. I liked his development up to and including the Gaara fight, and am hoping with Shippuuden, Kishi takes it back to that quality of development. He's at least fucked up with the pacing though, even if his ideas are ultimately good. We'll see how this goes.(

Its not hate at all. I've just been disappointed so much by Naruto that I've learned not to get my hopes up. I'm loving the enthusiasm you guys have, I'm just not gonna buy into it until something good actually happens.

[Assertn]

one thing that is interesting about the series is that both Naruto and Sasuke are receiving powerups faster than we actually get to SEE the limits of said powerups.

Naruto now has sage mode + itachi crow + key to unlock more tails
Sasuke has MS + key to unlock EMS + possibly CS from Juugo's fusion?

When they get serious, we're going to see a whole ton of new shit.

[Uchiha Barles]

Huh, you know what? I'm hoping that the reason Naruto doesn't want anyone to see his training, is because he's experimenting with the kyuubi chakra. While thinking about why he would need to hide this training from everyone, this is the only thing that made sense, considering the big deal that was made about not using the demon energy. If this was the case, it would actually show that Naruto's done some maturing. Everyone's telling him "no, don't use this, it's no good for you, it's dangerous, it weakens you," but he's going "...uh...that might be kind of true, but ignoring this huge power source in me is kind of extremely stupid."

That's not to say he should or shouldn't be training kyuubi just to become reliant on it once again, but he ought to, at the very least, gain some new level of control, and a new technique with it, in conjunction with his sage techniques. Most of you are probably thinking about how cheesy it would be, but the stupidity of not doing this exceeds the cheese.

Hrrrrm...I think I have an idea for a line in my signature.

[Archangel]

Naruto scanlations get funnier every day

http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/ch...8/page017.html

The pain train has taken a detour through ass kicking ville to fuck you up!!