Chapter 245 RAW

[Ryllharu]

Originally posted by: Elessar
Well, I hope for Naruto to simply not rush into the battle like a moron and having developed at least some little taijutsu skills. Sakura shouldn't already be at a point where she can use your medical jutsus on offense.

In the chapter where Naruto left, Tsunade commented that Sakura had made tremendous progress in 3 months. Come on, she revived a dead fish! Now its been 30 months and she's been learning the entire time. I wouldn't be suprised if she had some REALLY impressive medical skills.

CmDr_RavEn: Konohamaru did look a little taller, he didn't change in appearance, but he seemed to be the same size proportionally to Naruto, who Sakura said was now taller than her. (Naruto used to be pretty short.)

[SK]

man this is friggin awesome, great start for a new saga. i think naruto will summon a medium sized frog then do a duplication and send 1000 narutos and 1000 frogs on kakashi at once (but kakashi will still whip him)

[Doc]

Originally posted by: Mut@t@
if kakashi get whooped, i'm gonna be thoroughly pissed. there should be NO WAY naruto and sakura should be able to take down kakashi. oh my god, i'm already angry.

Hell I'll pissed if they cant take him down. Naruto has been training for 3 years with one of the strongest Ninjas to be able to defend himself against the Akatsuki. If he cant take down Kakashi with the help of Sakura he has no chance when Akatsuki come for him.

[Mr.X]

kakashi's a jounin, plus he should have been training those 2 years too.

[Munsu]

training?.... reading porn i bet...

[drcitan]

Kakashi is gonna get owned by the two of them(jk). Look how close Sasuke got to getting a bell from him( I know Kakashi was underestimating him but still) I def think Sakura and Naruto will be Jounin level material as far as tactics and fighting ability. And if anyone thinks I'm giving them 2 much credit then o well. Look at who they were trained by for 2 1/2 years. Sakura learned how to revive a dead fish in three months and look how much naruto improved in 1 month training under Jiraiya. Sasuke was already chunnin level material strenght wise in Genma's eyes so imagine all of them 3 years later.

[Saffire]

I'm not sure why, but I couldn't help laughing at the results of the poll. Probably because it's the first time I've seen a title character get 2nd place.

Sakura slamming Naruto into the ground was classic. Seems Tsunade's been teaching her a bit more than healing techniques.

Teams are usually teams of 4 aren't they? Wonder if they'll pick up a 4th member.

[basey44]

whos the 3rd member, kakashi isnt part of their team anymore, he wouldve been assigned a different genin team, maybe even konohamarus team, but that would either be a coincidence or someone rigged it.

and sasuke didnt really get close to getting the bell, if u think back kakashi was reading his book while fighting sasuke

[Psyke]

Originally posted by: basey_69
whos the 3rd member, kakashi isnt part of their team anymore, he wouldve been assigned a different genin team, maybe even konohamarus team, but that would either be a coincidence or someone rigged it.

and sasuke didnt really get close to getting the bell, if u think back kakashi was reading his book while fighting sasuke

If I can recall Kakashi was saying Sasuke was different from the rest and that he didn't even have time to read his book.

[basey44]

my bad then, its been ages since i saw the early eps and i just remember kakashi reading his porn while fighting, also sasuke touched the bells didnt he?

[Psyke]

Originally posted by: basey_69
my bad then, its been ages since i saw the early eps and i just remember kakashi reading his porn while fighting, also sasuke touched the bells didnt he?

And it's not porn..... it's an erotic novel : )

[Saffire]

Originally posted by: basey_69
whos the 3rd member, kakashi isnt part of their team anymore, he wouldve been assigned a different genin team, maybe even konohamarus team, but that would either be a coincidence or someone rigged it.

Kakashi said that he's now part of their team, and that's it's as a partner, not an instructor.

[Elessar]

Yeah, who will be the 4th team member?
We have two fighters and one medical. Means, we're one fighter short.

Shikamaru? No, the next mission we see from him, will has to have him as a leader, and I can't see how he leads a team with Kakashi in it.
Neji? As much as I like him, unless he has reinvented the byakugan, we won't see much progress from him, so he's a 'no go' too.
Kiba/Akamaru? We already have Kakashi's dog squad, so 'no go' here too.
Chouji? Most likely pulling missions with Shika, and would have to pull his pills again. No.
Hinata? Possibly.
Shino? Shino! I WANT SHINO!

But, with Kakashi as an equal team member, even Genma would be possible.
Well, I guess well see that 248...

[fremeer]

hopefully naruto has below par tai jutsu still otherwise rasengan left and right. rasengan is pretty overpowered if you ask me since requires no hand seals so with enough practice it can be second nature, add in that most ninjas hit by it would die or be seriously hurt.
but i kinda want naruto to be a little more stylish cause in the anime he was a brawler no finesse just adapted to the situation as best as possible.

also as 4th member, jiraiya

[PSJ]

if naruto still has below par taíjutsu he will fight exactly like he did before and that would be boring. so he better have some new cool skills.

[RasenDori]

i think we are all forgeting about the important issue: the mission. what could be the assignment they are going on, will it be something that leads to sasuke? perhaps that akatsuki will interupt? the idea of this mission has me so excited. anyway sakura and naruto arent idiots anymore. to get the bells they will 1) take kakashi seriously and come with the intent to kill and 2) combine and concure. they wont completely own kakashi, but simply getting bells off of him will be an easy task for those that trained under members of the legendary 3

[Winged Dancer]

No one ever said that High-Rank missions had to be done in teams of four, or in teams at all. Imagine someone's sent to assasinate a Lord or whatever - will that person bring an entire team to a mission where they aren't likely to find enemie ninja?

I think the three-students, one teacher strategy works only for genin while they are getting used to ninja life. As they grow old, even if they don't pass the Chuunin exam, their jounin teacher leaves them and they continue doing low rank missions on their own as a team... that would explain all the oldies seen during the Chuunin written test.

Finally, think of Shikamaru's team in the get-barrel-Sasuke... it was one leader and four underlings, and there was no "guiding" jounin. That means that most ninja teams are formed by one (1) captain and a number of variable underlings.

Besides, Kakashi said it - these missions are not gonna be with him as a teacher and Naruto & Sakura as students, they'll be going out as equal Konoha Shinobi.

So maybe it's pretty much safe to assume that they'll be going out as equal-rank ninja (even though I don't think Naruto and Sakura are jounin-level right now) with Kakashi as their commander... kinda like what we saw in the Kakashi Gaiden, before Yondaime left - Kakashi was the commander but other than that he wasn't above anyone in his team, and Yondaime was still there (at the beggining) to get them out of tight spots and keep teaching them through actions.

What I'm surious about is what kind of missions they'll go to. They can't go back to weeding an old witch's garden or walking dogs, but Kishimoto wont send them to assasinate anyone, and they need to
A) Show the rest of the Genin. NEJI AND ROCK LEE, DAMNIT!!
B) Get the plot moving ASAP.




Other than that, Sakura has grown a butt. Does the Boob Theory apply to butts as well? Time will tell.

[PSJ]

yea the mission is kind of interesting. other than that i just want to see naruto show off is new incredible skills. and to see all the other genin wouldnt be bad either.

[Stoopider]

Originally posted by: Mut@t@
if kakashi get whooped, i'm gonna be thoroughly pissed. there should be NO WAY naruto and sakura should be able to take down kakashi. oh my god, i'm already angry.

Dont think they'll beat Kakashi Individually. But combined.. They might get both bells.

[PSJ]

Originally posted by: Stoopider

Originally posted by: Mut@t@
if kakashi get whooped, i'm gonna be thoroughly pissed. there should be NO WAY naruto and sakura should be able to take down kakashi. oh my god, i'm already angry.

Dont think they'll beat Kakashi Individually. But combined.. They might get both bells.

well if naruto are gonna fight akatsuki on his own or even have a chance of survival without jiraiya following him around all the time he needs to be stronger than kakashi the same goes for sasuke if he ever will beat itachi. so they need a serious power boost, in my opinion even stronger than kakashi.