Naruto Manga chapter 381 – His True Identity
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Post Author: Bob
This chapter continues with the Jiraiya vs. the Six Peins battle but starts off already part ways in to the fighting. Jiraiya lies wounded in a sanctuary/dimension he created. The body of Pein which resembles Deidara has injured him with the black belt we’ve glimpsed at earlier. However, this Pein has fallen into Jiraiya’s “barrier trap†in the process of carrying out his attack and has been cut in half – likely when Jiraiya closed the barrier to his dimension. The black belt has a secondary effect of messing up Jiraiya’s chakra moulding ability (possibly an effect of the Rinnegan) and Pa toad has to remove it for Jiraiya. Also note that when Pa moves to reach the belt, he elongates his body and it looks like he (and Ma) could be melded into Jiraiya’s body and not just perched on his shoulders a previously thought.

Jiraiya thinks back to when Nagato asked him how he can grow up and after comparing it to when Pein said that other peoples’ pain helped him grow up, he admits that the person in front of him must be Nagato. But then the body’s head protector falls off, revealing a deep scar on the forehead, and Jiraiya sudden realizes that he ha fought this person before. After being toad the Toad Sage’s prophecy, Jiraiya began travelling the world as it was foretold. But during the journey he was ambushed by a member of the Fuuma Clan. Jiraiya managed to injure the shinobi with a cut to his forehead – that shinobi is the one and same as the body in front him right now.

Jiraiya thinks back to the prophecy and believes he must try to figure out who Pein really is. Knowing that his chances of survival are pretty low if he goes back through the barrier, he asks Ma and Pa toad to return home. Of course, the toads think that’s a very bad idea especially with Jiraiya already badly injured. But Jiraiya is determined because he believes this must be the tough decision he as meant to make. He asks that the severed body of Pein’s to be brought back to Tsunade for study, but Pa insists that only Ma go and for himself to remain behind to backup Jiraiya.

Jiraiya and Pa exit their barrier dimension from another weird looking toad. Note that the markings on Jiraiya’s face have again gone down a level to what they looked like near the beginning of this encounter with Pein – Jiraiya is continuously getting weaker. A sneak shuriken attack is easily dodged and the other Pein bodies are immediately alerted to Jiraiya’s presence. Jiraiya takes a closer look at all the faces of his enemies again and realizes that they are all people they have met before. Everything suddenly begin to come together and Jiraiya finally figures out Pein’s true identity. But before he can make a move, one of the Peins attacks him by emerging from below the water’s surface. Jiraiya spits out blood as his throat is being crushed. At that same moment, the other four remaining Peins plough into Jiraiya each with their black belt weapons aimed at his back.

Oh great, another really suspenseful cliffhanger. Is Jiraiya dead? What is the true identity of Pein? Who were these other ninjas that Jiraiya has met in his past and how did they become Pein’s bodies? I also wish they’d showed us the beginning of the battle between Jiraiya and the Six Peins. Though I guess this kind of picture narrative does create some more tension and leaves it to our imagination as to what happened after the end of last chapter.

We also hear of the Fuuma Clan again, just who are they? I know a Fuuma clan appears in the Naruto anime, but that was filler material and I don’t consider it to be canon. Looking at the six faces Jiraiya matched to Pein’s bodies, most appear to hail from different villages. The skinny taijutsu guy’s from Takigakure: Hidden Village in the Waterfall, the chiselled chin guy could possibly be from Sand because of that type of cloak collar shown (but this is conjecture only), the fat guy’s from Grass, the guy with no neck – I have no idea, the Deidara lookalike was said to be from Fuuma clan, and Yahiko was from Rain. The only link between them seems to be that they met Jiraiya sometime in his past. And based on the time difference (several years) between Jiraiya’s meeting with the Deidara guy and when he met Yahiko, all these characters are spread out through time and probably never met each other before. Obviously, someone else is pulling the strings here but why bring these six strangers together just because they met Jiraiya before?
My prediction for the next scene in this fight is that Pa toad would block the attacks on Jiraiya but likely sacrifices himself to do it. Jiraiya then would have two courses of action: 1) go berserk and attempt to take down as many Peins with him as possible using a suicidal jutsu 2) realizes he needs to survive to at least get the true identity of Pein out and manages to send off a messenger; whether he survives after this is still hard to say mainly because I don’t what poor Jiraiya to die.









Why does the old dude have girly lashes? ._.
Could Pein have felt abandoned when Jiraiya left and went around harvesting all of Jiraiya’s victims. Or Yahiko and the others couldhave found out that Jiraiya was one of the warring Sannins and gotten really pissed about it. o-o
NO IM SECOND!!!!!!!!!
Woo! Victory! Love the avatar, by the way! ^_^
sorry for my laungauge GOD DAMMIT!!! IM SECOND!!!!! also im wondering how could pein transfer him self to (possibly) dead ninja? i noticed, every pein is from a different village. i cant wait till the next chapter!
What’s wrong with you guys! I just made this post ten minutes ago! LoL
this is getting so good!!!!
oh thanks! i like it my avatar alot. the guy with the evil smile whats up with his neck? and what jutsu was that, that the peins used against jariaya?
whats wrong bob? its a little compition who gets the first comment.
So it turns out that there is more to Jiraiya’s globe trotting than peeping on girls and writing his books!
I agree, there’s too much coincidence that Jiraiya has previously met all 6 Pein bodies. Someone has set this up. Maybe Mandara is the one who gave those bodies to Nagato so he could do his soul transfer into them? If the TOM theory is right, that could explain why Pein takes orders from TOM; as payback for the bodies.
This chapter was AMAZING, poor old j-sama =(
I hope he survives at least to say what is pein’s true identity… maybe it isn’t nagato, then why does he have the rin’negan, or what happened to nagato?
I hate cliffhangers =’(
“What’s wrong with you guys! I just made this post ten minutes ago! LoL” It’s like FOOD! Can’t live without it. ;D Is it a bad thing?
the fuuma clan is from the episodes where jariaya,naruto and sakura went to orchimarus hideout to find sasuke
so in the anime why didnt they talk about the rinnegan?
no I think that was just a coincidence, the producers just made up a name. At the time, I doubt Kishi even revealed his plans for the manga up to this point.
yo,why would toad sacrifice and block the attacks? I bet Jiraiya takes the attacks, tells who he thinks Pein is and then the toad is unsummoned to go back to Tsunade. Its tricky with Pein bodies – maybe they would be different for different opponent? Maybe Rinnegan brings up whatever is in opponents mind and materializes into a body? I bet its a wicked way Pein sees everything – he is even fighting with people who had ben injured and felt pain by the opponent, in this case J-sama.
so r u trying to say that the six piens are trying to kill jariaya just like he did to them?
that’s a good theory elerium. But I don’t know about Yahiko’s case. I doubt Jiraiya ever physically caused pain to him. So it have been emotional pain from seeing Jiraiya leave them. But it’s not like Jiraiya just suddenly abandoned them one night. He trained them for Three years and said his farewells too. Yahiko must have know Jiraiya wasn’t gonna hold his hand for the rest of his life right?
Nowhere did it say Jiraiya killed any of them, certainly he didn’t kill Yahiko.
well, the most i could assume is that this is a way Pein treats his enemies – shapes them in a form resembling people his enemies hurt in the past. But who knows – one of the bodies was the same to everyone. and he did mention that he has a body for each different task.. it could also be, as someone said, that yahiko or nagato went back through the steps of J-sama and found all the people relating to him – however, Pein didn’t remember ho J-sama was when he confronted him several chapters ago – so if everything is a planned-out set up, it would be very strange for Pein not to recognize a person this set up is dedicated to.. So i guess its happening naturally to him…
im just saying maybe because it makes me wonder when jariaya said iv met them before? what happened when he met them?
hey am back! it’s been a Loooooooong time since my last comment.
just a crazy wild guess…maybe Yahiko is Jiraiya’s LOVE CHILD! haha!
and when Yahiko found out about Jiraiya being his father, he went far enough to stalk on Jiraiya. hahaah!
Hey Mr. Elerium…nice idea, maybe Pein can summon bodies of the hardest opponents Jiraiya fought(or of whom Jiraiya is afraid to fight off)?
yup, i second Ms. Nef…”It’s like food..can’t live without it.” hehee…and besides, just like what I’ve said Mr. Bob…I’m your number 1 fan!
keep it up!
I’ll be back in the holidays, and read what I’ve missed between….three more school paper to finish….awww gawwwd.
Thanks!
does anybody know what type of jutsus the six peins have?
Going back and finding (and maybe killing) all these people must have taken a lot of time – all of it just to defeat Jiraiya? What could have warped Nagato so much to make him hate Jiraiya this much?
yeah bob, you’re probably right…
bob – this is exactly my problem – he didn’t do this for Jiraiya, or at least it seems so. He was doing his plan to capture the beasts and thats it.. so its either someone else gave him the bodies or they are shaped as i mentioned before.. hell knows at this point..
Hey, welcome back somersault
Forget your papers, just copy and paste some of the blog entries here and make up appropriate titles – that’s all the teachers ever read anyways
“maybe Pein can summon bodies of the hardest opponents Jiraiya fought(or of whom Jiraiya is afraid to fight off)?”
Yeah, definitely more plausible, perhaps another Rinnegan ability?
“yeah bob, you’re probably right”
Lol, don’t ever say I’m right. My bullsh*ting is about as “right” as anybody else’s, hehe. My spelling is just a little better, maybe.
if your saying that bob, how did pein know who he fought in the past? or maybe pein(nagato) was there to witness the fight.
“so its either someone else gave him the bodies or they are shaped as i mentioned before.”
definitely more plausible given that Pein already has demonstrated his shapeshift ability.
“does anybody know what type of jutsus the six peins have?”
Your guess is as good as mine, but maybe it can be guessed based on the village they came from. Like the fat guy from grass, being able to absorb and meld things seems to be a common theme for ppl from that village.
“maybe pein(nagato) was there to witness the fight”
Nagato couldn’t have. In that flash back pic, Jiraiya looked like he did when he first met the Toad Sage, Nagato must have been either a baby or wasn’t even born at the time.
But another possibility could be that Nagato is really older than he appears.. even when he first met Jiraiya. Who knows what abilities the Rinnegan has.
In the beginning, the six Peins’ where in those photos and now Jiraiya is included in this photo. What if he will be turned into to the next Pein? Apparently these other fighters who became Pein where great fighters from there villages. Just like Kakuzu would take the hearts of warriors when he would lose one, Pein might replace Jiraiya with the other Pein. Just a thought.
Hopefully, Jiraiya is ok but it seems in most movies the teacher dies and the student takes revenge.
shit it would be damn sad to see naruto fighting with pein and one of peins being Jiraiya. half of that country would go in fox flames..
thats just so wierd that jariaya meets those ninja again. pein is so mysterious. another way that pein knows about these other mysterious ninja is that the rinnegan has a power that he goes into jariayas mind and torture him the way (possibly) he killed them.
that would be such a good twist! I don’t know what Naruto would do if he had to “kill” his sensei.
hey the unknown, that is a good therie pein might kill jariaya and take his body in replace of the (deidara) pein.
I also think Tsunade may join this fight very soon. She told Jiraiya that if their is a problem send a frog to me and I will come. Knowing Jiraiya would be in life or death, Tsunade would use them to teleport to join this fight. Just a thought
All of the sudden they are using their belts. Besides loss of controled chakara, that may be away to help with the transfer or bind him to complete the transfer. Pein also seems to recieve the abilities and they only use their main talent in battle. If you notice, they don’t use elemental jutsus’, it may be because these are blooline or forbidden jutsu created by the the “previous tenants” of their bodies.
tsunade might get so mad and unleash her dangerous side but then she might not be strong enough and die too then naruto might get 6 tails!
I think that is the last of what we will see of jiraiya for now everyone will think he’s dead but really either be imprisoned by pain or made one of pains bodies or just killed. Even though i don’t want him to die i wish they go back to naruto and sasuke.
COME ON JIRAIYA YOU CAN DO IT ADD A LOT OF POWER TO IT!!! .. sorry that used to help us in softball back in elementary school
??? that was random. somebodyCOMMENT! ITS BEEN LIKE AN HOUR ONLY TWO COMMENTS??!!
damn..i hope jiraiya stays alive..he still has so many things to teach to nartuo..i hope tsunade knows some kind of time/space jutsu so that she can teleport hereelf to where jiraiya is right now and heal him..
A while ago i said that tsunade might join this fight and get killed as well, and everybody discarded my theory… now as the story continues i get more(?) convinced (i don’t know if i spelled this right xD, english is not my mother language) that what i was right. I don’t think tsunade could be stay in konoha doing nothing if ma toad tells her what’s happening.
And if pein can beat jiraiya, tsunade should be a piece o’ cake
hey nanduo it might happen but tsunade is so far away! from the rain village! itll take so long to get there!
that’s actually the flaw in my theory xD
i wonder who is going to win sasuke or itachi? hey nanduo how do you make the smily face on your comment?
ooo teacher teacher i have a question!!! so have we decided jiraiya’s decision was to stay and fight the good fight? cause this all important decision he was to make still leaves me uneasy.
i dont get your question. r u talking about jaraiyas descision?
yes his descision. was it him staying there and fighting?
I dont believe the fight will last long. Tobi made a comment “and ponders whether Sasuke will remain to crawl like a snake on ground or soar to the sky like a hawk.” I think Itachi will give reason to why he did what he did. He will probaly share his secrets of the new sharringan with Sasuke and want to join forces(along with Tobi).
Itachi is definitely stronger of the two. His genjutsu, ninjutsu and probably taijutsu all surpass Sasuke’s. But Itachi isn’t there to fight.
I wonder if they can revive the guy who was split in half, well I guess there wouldn’t be much of a point as he would just writher on the ground while screaming in agony anyways. You know.. there really wasn’t much of a point of Jiraiya going out there and confronting the Peins, I mean all he did was look at them and then realized something. I know he was running low on chakra but surely, he could have created a shadow clone to see all of their faces.
NOOOO!! I’m 52nd??! I’m so ashamed!
Sensei is in serious trouble. Vixtory is abolutely out of the question now, but he’s awsome so he’ll survive.
WOW! 53 comments in less than 6 hours! We be bustin’ heads!
I’m wondering about Jiraiya’s book. I don’t think the book he’s supposed to write is a porn book.
lol, I know, and he had plenty of time to look at their faces when Pein was blabbing away. But isn’t this way more heroic? Kishi must intend for Jiraiya to go out with a bang.
52nd J-sama? -__- Hang your head in shame.
Anyways you think that big scroll he carries around all the time is used to record stuff for his book?
Maybe. But I think it’s rather a frog-summoning scroll. (very ashamed)
True, but it seems a bit oversized for just toad summons. Tenten carries a similar sized scroll in part II for weapon summons, but it makes sense because she uses a bazillion of them in a fight. I’m sure Jiraiya has a lot summons, but it can’t be that many.
Don’t forget it’s also a contract for new “recruits”.
i wonder what’s ganna happen between itachi and sasuke
i hope that jiraya survives and that sasuke kil itachi and then help naruto and the others to kil tom but i don’t think that wil happen
Wow, that was one of the best episodes I’ve read!! I agree with elerium’s theory – the jutsu Pein is using somehow shows people you’ve hurt in the past. Maybe you’re fighting their pain.
Did Nagato take Jiraiya literally when he said “knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others”, and somehow merge himself into all the pain that’s ever been felt?
If this is true, he might be acting like some sort of god of vengeance… giving back all the pain you’ve caused to others.
man i am always one of the latest
So, we know Ma and Pa can teleport (or move very quickly). Does that mean Tsunade can save Jiraiya in time? Would she even be able to fight Pein if he transformed into Dan and Nawaki?
Jiraiya needs to survive to tell Konoha what he knows about Pein, otherwise Naruto and the gang will be at the same disadvantage Jiraiya had a few mangas ago.
If Pa gets Jiraiya back to Konoha, I’m sure Tsunade can help him. His wounds are serious, but probably nothing she hasn’t healed before.
I’m a bit suspicious of those belt things. What does it mean to be it by 5 of them at a time? I hope Jiraiya was using his hair shield jutsu.
Hey – I’ve just had a thought. I think the only person who can defeat Pein is someone who has defeated their own personal pain in the past.
Naruto suffered a lot of pain in his childhood, and unlike almost everyone, he turned that pain into kindness, and has helped so many overcome their own pain.
I think he’s the only one who can defeat Pein.
Wow! Great chapter! This chapter hints at Pein not being Nagato… This would mean that someone defeated Nagato and Yahiko and took the Rinnegen and Yakhiko’s body and became friends with Konnan? That doesn’t seem likely to me.
I don’t think that Pein summoned Jiraiya’s enemies or else Jiraiya would have recognized them sooner. I think that Jiraiya knows these ninja because they were all notable ninja and they were known throughout the world of Shinobi. This would mean that Pein is so awesome that he was able to defeat all of them and take control of their bodies.
It would be such a weird twist if he takes Jiraiya’s body and gives it the Rinnegan! That might mean that he might be able to be brought back to life! Wow there has never been this many comments on the first day before!
Oh Yeah… and I also think that Tsunade will come right away. I think that she is secretly in love with Jiraiya and she will tell her subordinates to analyze the bodies while she goes back and helps Jiraiya. Who ever said that Tsunade isn’t as powerful as Jiraiya is wrong. Remember, she almost killed him and she is HOKAGE!!! Maybe she will show her secret jutsu while fighting Pein! But I think that she will just go and rescue Jiraiya and run back and heal his wounds.
I like all the theories, but if Pein/TOM whomever is Bringing these guys back to life, isnt it possible they could use jiraiya’s body when hes dead? just like pein is doing to all the other guys? Just like Orochimaru wants sasuke’s maybe pein wants Jiraiya’s but for alternate means of course =]
Also amazing chapters, im new to commenting on stuffm but im glad to see there so many interested fans (y)
Sorry for all the mistakes by the way =]
o my this is getting really ulgy
YEAH! Awsome banner! I love you, Bob! Deffinately naughty!
Lovething- great. That must have been your womens intuition
. I love your theory about this pain Naruto felt. It is specifically emphasized several times in the manga and anime that Naruto is different from the others because he defeated his pain. Doesn’t matter if it is true that Pein shapes his bodies to resemble people from the past or not – this theory that Naruto is the only one Pein wont be so strong against is fantastic.
I think Pein was trying to enter Jiraiya’s mind when he stuck him with the belt.
Also… I don’t think he’d want Jiraiya considering the guy only has one arm and Kakuzu isn’t around to stitch people back together.
Where’s Konan while all this is happening? I bet she stole the rinnengan from them and killed the boys and now she’s taking her revenge
ALso, Pein recognized Jiraiya as his teacher, so he must either be Yahiko, Nagato, Konan or another former student.
The body of Yahiko must have some significance because he’s still wearing the necklace. Kishi shows everyones necks except for guy smiley.
The smiley Pein bothers me because he looks like a villian from Dragon Ball z plus he was really creapy looking as a person as well. As pein, he looks more normal and I think he’s one of the hardest to recornize besides old chiseled guy pein.
If these folks were jiraiya’s greatest opponents I would bet Orochimaru would be amongst them. Pein wasn’t anticipating running into Jiraiya so I doubt that the significance of the bodies was people he hurt. Or else Jiraiya may be fighting of a plethora of girls!
I think it will take a Sasuke Naruto tag team to defeat pein. Because if naruto is helping defend someone he’ll fight to his true potential kinda like when him and sasuke fought Haku towards the beginning of the manga.
“Or else Jiraiya may be fighting of a plethora of girls!” That would’ve been even more horrible! Pein may be evil, but he’s not that evil.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha lol naughty or nice that is so cool. hey siskin, i really dont think that naruto and sasuke will team together because when naruto finally found sasuke, sasuke tryed to kill naruto so why would he want to work with him. and the valley of the end battle sasuke alsotryed to kill him. but maybe itachi might tell sasuke about another way to get the mangekyou sharingan. or itachi might not and sasuke still might use the old way of getting the mangekyou sharingan. and pein is so gunna kill jariaya im sorry but there is no way he can win.
i would like that naruto after this reunions, fightswith sasuke and finally kill him:)))
itl be a tough fight becuase if sasuke gets the mangekyou.
I think Pein considers himself a benevolent god.
naruto is at a complete disadvantage about that… and Sasuke really cares about naruto but he’s just trying to let go of his emotions… notice the team 7 replacements?
Naruto has given up trying to surpass sasuke… he’s trying to become good enough for sasuke to recognize and value him.
so do you think if sasuke kills itachi sasuke will get the mangekyou sharingan. ok if sasuke and naruto become friends again they will fight but not like the i really hate you fight?
Hey, you guys like my new avatar? It’s part of my new campaign – “Let’s make fun of Gaara!”
Dam! This is getting o_O
eh… I think Sasuke has the MS. Because Naruto might as well be dead to him and that’s what he proved when he went to actually kill him when they were reunited.
And if the fought everything is against naruto… he has no ninetails… he wind element actually makes sasuke stronger… sasuke can just put him in a trance or something.
I don’t see that happening, naruto and sasuke having a good ol’time in a play fight.
Ok… but the final battle will be
naruto and sasuke vs. Pein and Tobi…
crazy
“I think Pein considers himself a benevolent god.” That’s kinda’ iffy, since he seems to know that people won’t be all that grateful for having the world destroyed. He’s doing that “I gotta’ do it for their own good” kinda’ thing. . .
And the process of getting the Mangekyou is still very vague. Kakashi has it, but he didn’t KILL Obito. Possibly there’s a differen’t “path(s)” to achieving the Mangekyou?
About tsunade being as strong as jiraiya… i really don’t think so.
so he probably didn’t do too much to defend himself
Yes, she almost killed him, but he was peeking at her
Yes, she is hokage, but jiraiya rejected the offer first, so….
Btw, AWESOME header
E.R nefarious, kakashi made his own ms. like itachi he has the original.
jariaya is so much stronger than tsunade but whats gunna happen with pein how did he get all those bodies?
The bodies came out of some sort of “tank” similar to a cryogenic (however you spell it) freezing thing. There are alternate means of getting the MS, but sasuke may be holding out on us? and like the demon fox says He hasnt seen eyes like that since uchiha madara.. so his eyes are powerful anyway, Not saying they are in comparison to the MS.
The Body’s pein summoned arnt like a ressurection technique, similar to Orochimaru’s becuase they have the piercings, but they dont have their own self-concious minds either Pein does.
Thanks =]
Why did i say summoned lol… the bodies he has
i like the idea that maybe its all a type of genjutsu he may be figting say, 5 shadow clones each only using 1 ability but what he see’s are people he has hurt in some way and their pain….but its a weak theory and there are some points that dont make sense
i think it might be kona who is doing this
the paper girl
i think it has to be Konan because i mean while j man walked away from the dead bodys Konan COULD HAVE DID SOMETHING
that picture of the guy that jiraiya gave the head wound to…
what is behind him? does he have a big shuriken on his back like mizuki?
about tsunade being as strong as jiraiya..
tsunade is only physically stronger than jiraiya.
jiraiya’s ninjutsu are way beyond that of tsunade.
i think that the sage of the six paths was evil
It was mentioned earlier that SAsuke and Naruto fighting together only enhances Sasuke’s abilities, such as the wind/fire combination. But really, Naruto would get the most out of them teaming up since Sasuke can control the Kyuubi from within Naruto. So, in theory (at least in my head), if they were fighting together Naruto could release all the Kyuubi’s chakra within him and Sasuke could supress the Kyuubi’s “personality” (i don’t know what to call it when Naruto goes past two or three tails and loses contiousness). I figure Sasuke can do that not only from when he talked with the Kyuubi in Naruto’s head but also when he controled the “Snake King” summon to survive Diedera’s final attack.
On another note, Lovething, I gotta give you credit for coming up with the Naruto vs. Nagato Pain thing. After i read that I started thinking about it and in the entire Narutoverse, Naruto is really the only character to go through an enormous amount of emotional trauma and not be consumed by hate for everyone, like Nagato.
Also, in the first flashback when Jiriaya first saw Nagato and the Rinnegan he said that it was the Fuuma clan’s eye bloodline ability. And now he tells us that the Pein who stabbed him with the belt is also from the Fuuma Clan… Maybe all of Pein’s bodies are fellow Fuuma Clan members. I personally think we are overthinking the fact that Pein has bodies of people Jiriaya has met before.
Oh yeah, maybe the “Sand Village Pein” is Gaara’s father. If I remember correctly he was killed by Orochimaru before the Chunin exams.
Also he really resembles Jugo as well, like splitting image.
After this week, when all my finals are done, I think I am going to write a blog about the 6 Peins and go through the manga to try and find characters from the same village/or look similar to try and get some hints to who these people are.
Also, if they are people that Pein has defeated before and Jiraiya has met then one of them most probably if the guy who gave the Sannin their title, I forget his name.
i think that tobi is obito. I mean, think about it. He has a right eye hole, his hair is way too short to be like uchiha madara’s, ad pay attention to his personality. And in chapter 363, In japanese, Tobi isn’t saying, “I am Uchiha Madara,” he’s actually saying, “This is the power of Uchiha Madara.” I think that Masashi Kishimoto put this out to fool us. And, one more thing, look at the lettering. tObi-toBi-tobI-Tobi-tObi=Obito. That would be kool if Kakashi got to see his old teammate again, lol.
Can’t wait till chapter 382 comes out!!
the picture scares me with the 5 of them and then jiraiya.. i would hate to see him become an evil zombie
testing
damnit!
testing again…
one more time…
shikimaru its hanzou i think =]
Yeah. Honzou was the guy that summoned Salamanders and gave J-dude’s unit their title as Sannins. ^-^
Question: Would the sage of the six paths be older than the Kyuubi or the other way around? The Sage’s animal-ish ears makes me think that he(/she?) could have been the mixed spawn of the kyuubi.
I very seriously dout that pein is there fighting Jaraiya but using dead ninjas to fight for him and he’s sitting somewhere else controling them like puppets to do his dirty work. Example was when Pein told kisame that he better be glad that he show him and Itachi how to do a dead soul transfer jutsu that allows the user to give the dead person any percentage of there chakra to judge how strong they was going to be, but both Itachi and Kisame only used 30% when fighting the leaf village ninja’s on there way save Gaara.
Pein could be giving the dead ninja’s 100% each with him using some of the chakra from the bijuu’s that’s already captured. what do u think about that?
but i don’t think pain is strong enough to use the chakra from the bijuu
remmeber? didn’t they say that after they capture all the bijuu they have to figure out a way to use them b/c they are impossible to use
no name pein has to be strong as hell. How else would he be able to conrol all the people underneath him. If they were stronger being the bad guys they are the would kill him in a without thinking to be the leader.
I think this whole pein fight is being thought out by people way to much. Dead ninja fighting like peins been stalking Jiraya this whole time to settle the score of leaving him. I think its all about the Rinnegan and the tricks it has that we dont know about yet. Look at the Sharinguns Doujutsu who the hell knew it could do all it can. Like opening up different dimensions and sucking things in. The Rinnegan beind better than that means its got some sick tricks waiting to be seen. They arnt bloodline traits for nothing people. They are rair and bad ass for a reason.
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I think J-Sama lives. I don’t know what in the world he can possibly do in order to live, but I hope he does. It would be a sad day in Konoha if he passes. This would result in 2 sannin down… 1 to go. Uh oh Tsunade, how’s her luck goin now?
FINALLY SOMEONE AFTER 5 HOURS! well tsunades luck was always bad. naruto will go beserk!
AGAIN? AN HOUR AND A HALF, NO COMMENT?!
Forget that! Why isn’t anybody posting on the other blogs???
i think naruto must use kyuubi chakra it’s his only chance to win against tobi
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i wonder if the kyuubi had a previous jinchuuriki
perhaps the sage of six paths was it.
it would be interesting.
when reading about all the bijuu, it says a few times that all the other bijuu(besides kyuubi) feared the 8 tails. i wonder what manner of being the eight tails is. i thought for a while that it was a snake and that Orochimaru might have been the jinchuuriki, but why would akatsuki allow him to be in their organization without extracting the eight tails. plus hes pretty much dead, or so it seems.
Tobi is going to be harder than what most people think because i think he is being used as a detour for Sasuke and Itachi to have there brotherly love meeting?
TOM is probably fed up with all the time it’s taking to capture Naruto, so he’s gonna’ try and do it himself. It’ll be interesting to see if TOM starts beating the snot out of the Konoha team. And we could be close to finding out TOM’s true identity! ^_^
Why would Tobi go after Naruto now just after telling Pein that it was his job only a couple of mangas ago??
i think tobi knows that pain is fichtning jiraya so he is going in his place or pain planned to go later
Well, Pein’s more that a little bit busy with trying to slaughter J-man and TOM’s already there. So why not do it himself?
you know, it never really says how the bodies of all the uchiha clan members were disposed of.
even though all the evidence points to obito, TOM’s body could be a different uchiha’s body, maybe Shisui
just a thought, but the mask that tobi wears kinda looks to be the color of the nine-tailed fox and resembles a swirl of all the tails combined. nine tails swirled together.
i beleive that the sixth element is space/time, yin-yang, the void, somthing of that nature.
Well, I’ve got some idea about Tobi, that he can be one of those immortal guys, I mean found his way like that one, Kakuzu if I’m not mistaking, who stole people’s hearts, and that he has some business to Naruto, I wander weather it’s only about Kuubi or there’s also something else…
As for Peine, I think it’s gonna be Yahiko, who stole the ability of Rinnegan somehow or both of them in one body to encrease the force or Nagato, who killed Yahiko and put his Rinnegan in his body and is controlling all that from the distance… anyway I dunno.
One more thing, I’m a new one here so could you tell me when the next chapter is coming out?
well the mask he wears is also maybe because of his face but fugakure u could be right to. FINALLY THERE ARE SO MANY COMMENTS
Please please PLEASE tell me when the next chapter is going to be!!!!!!! PLEaSE!!!!!!
god! there were around 256 comments in 2 days in the last blog, look at this one 133 comments in 3 days! wait ER NEfarious when did tobi get to the tom vs jariaya fight?
look crazy girl i really dont when but my guess is thursday or friday, they all come out torwards the end of the week.
Thanks.
just some kinda theory about TOM.
wasn’t obitos favorite colour orange?
(look at his googles)
in comparison tobis mask is orange as well
guys please stop shouting about the frequency and size of the comments – we are here not to achieve numbers but to talk about Naruto, which we like so much.
“And the process of getting the Mangekyou is still very vague. Kakashi has it, but he didn’t KILL Obito. Possibly there’s a differen’t “path(s)†to achieving the Mangekyou?”
I think Kakashi COPIED the MS. I watched the anime and Itachi gave a comment on Kakashis analysis. This analysis can just be given of someone who possesses the MS himself and now Itachis phrase:”Kakashi-san, you couldn’t have…” if you complete it it should end with”…copied it”. this makes sense if you think of Kakashis nickname “Kakashi the copy ninja”
well, couldn’t it just as easily be:
“Kakashi-san, you couldn’t have… achieved it.”?
@sharingan leader
Cut back on the CAPS, frankly it’s annoying. And it’s the quality, not the quantity of comments that matter.
i think if it was “achieved” Itachi wouldn’t have been that shocked and yet there is only this “friend-killing” thing to achieve it
and earlyer Kakashi mentioned that all people close to him were dead which Itachi surely knew so Kakashi can’t have killed his friend ans so my only logic conclusion is that Kakashi copied it
It’s pretty much subjective though since it’s arguing just ‘how’ surprised Itachi was. And if Kakashi did copy it, why did he gain completely new abilities and eye design?
come on guys, is clear that Kakashi didnt kill anyone, especially any of his friend.s Now, it doesn’t really matter how exactly Kakshi activated his MS – all we know is that he took some time for preparing it. So it definitely has to do with the way molding the chakra correctly etc. What we can state from this fact – there is another way of achieving MS than by killing your friend, i am not sure Sasuke knows that Kakashi has MS – it would be quite interesting for him to understand that – maybe he would not get so sucked up in Itachis games..
Kakashi isn’t that kind of person who would even take in consideration to use such a jutsu plus he could just have copied the basics which led to the new eye design. also Kakashi is considered a genius. maybe he made up his own type of mangekyou sharingan with the informations he got frfom his encounter with Itachi
Aki – this is a guess I am most likely to believe. Its probably not so uber-everything like Itachis or any other Uchihas’..
Kakashi’s mangekyou is nothing like Itachi’s if you’ve noticed. Kakashi just calls it that ’cause he could’n't come up with a better name. Itachi’s MS is a form of genjutsu & Kakashi’s is a time-space-thingy-jutsu. So I don’t think Kakashi copied it.
guess you’re right. that mental torture of tsukiyomi seems just freakin strong. so in comparison Kakashis MS lacks the variety of Itachis.
damn i really liked this copy-theory
The development of a Mangekyou Sharingan is a psychological procedure. I imagine that the jutsu the eye allows you to use either correspond to the conditions under which you gained the eye or the pattern in the eye itself. Itachi’s is a spiraling pinwheel that looks like a hypnotic wheel, so it would be used for mind techniques. Kakashi’s is a sharper, edgier one, so it is suited for attacks. I don’t know what Sasuke’s will look like, although I’ve included my preliminary design in my new avatar.
I believe Kakashi did achieve the MS. Itachi was shocked because it threw him off to see someone that is not of the Uchiha bloodline continue to develop their unique Kekkei Genkai. Kakashi is a genius, but it has been said before that the Sharingan “cannot” copy any Kekkei Genkai.
Think of this… is it possible that since Kakashi has the Sharingan, he is slowly being able to develop the abilities of a true Uchiha? It kinda makes sense that as time goes on, the ability is able to be increased, and his body is able to adjust to “fuse” with the Sharingan.
In that sense alone, Kakashi has been able to make the Sharingan his own.
Yellow Flash, along those lines , I remember Kakashi no Itachi saying that the use of the Sharingan puts a lot of strain on the body and the Uchihas are genetically stronger/tougher/ whatever you want to call it that allows them to use their sharingan without having to endure the fatigue we see Kakashi endue everytime he uses his Sharingan be it three tomed or MS.
sorry bob about the caps, also kakashi figured out that the ms that itachi uses makes your eyesight really bad, if you notice itachi always has his sharingan on, its only once where you dont see him with the sharingan its when itachi is finished using the ms on kakashi in book 16. so i guess the sharingan makes itachis eyesight like a normal eye.
Hey BOB….I read from Wikipedia that Jiraiya was transformed to the sixth Pein body to replace the one he killed and sent to Tsunade! Is this true?!
hold on, what do i type in wikipedia to read that? tell me please
we dont know that for sure yet..
thats what im saying i just want to know where he got that info from.
sharingan leader just do a naruto search there and then scroll and click on jiraiya link.
I just read it today..if you dont believe me check it out yourselves..
i didnt see it hmm… interesting…hmm…
dang…sharingan leader just do a jiraiya search on Wikipedia and look at the PLOT section…at the end it says super pervert was transformed.
hmm……interesting…..hmm……couldnt find it anywhere for some reason. hmm…..
can someone explain to me how the key to the seal works? the one that was left by minato to jiraiya
“I read from Wikipedia that Jiraiya was transformed to the sixth Pein body to replace the one he killed and sent to Tsunade! Is this true?!”
The problem is Anybody can edit a Wikipedia article. Take a moment to think about it… the next chapter won’t come out til next thursday… how could anybody know what’s gonna happen except Kishi – who I doubt spends his spare time editing naruto wiki pages
hold on bob, how do u know the next chapter is coming out thursday?
uh, because that’s usually when it always comes out… unless Kishi takes a break or something
cause its a weekly manga and unless something happens it comes out every week..
opps sorry didnt see u answered that =/.
ok thanks for the answer guys. hmm….interesting…….hmm
so im guessing kishi is the writer for the naruto mangas??
kishi is short for kishimoto as in Masashi Kishimoto, yes, the writer/artist of the Naruto manga
if the theorie of TOM being obito turns out to be true, does that necesarily mean that Kakashi and Tobi will have the same Mangekyou Sharingan?
fugakure, this has nothing to do what we r talking about right now but what avatar is better this new one or the one i had before?
never mind forget that last comment
This is going way back… but Pein has a habit of taking people he/she cares about and making them evil zombies… wait…
Forget you not Jiraiya because you’re not that menacing with only one arm… although I believe he has his right arm so he can still write books but I believe ninja need to be ambedextoruse.
And sixth hokage… wikipedia can be changed to say silly things… stick to the manga.
hey siskin, what do u mean by “but pein has a habit of taking people he/she cares about and making them evil”?
I guess I was thinking of Yahiko as the evil zombie because Pein said Yahiko was dead.
I said “he/she” because God transcends gender in the christian tradition anyway. I mean I’m coming from a Catholic background here… but I have read of for Paul Tillich’s stuff… although don’t ask me because I forget. I had a professor who was a feminist and big into artifical intelligence and the god and stuff… anyway… she wrote a book about frankenstien and the hebrew golem myth and artificial intelligence… LONG story short… god transcends gender and if Pein has become god in the sense of the omnipotent being… ANyway…
that’s why I referred to pein as “he/she” because of transcendance.
also Konan is evil even though she may not be an evil zombie.
I think that because Pein is a person or a material Being he is more under the catagory of Idol rather than G0d. Or god in the sense of like Zues who was a god while Athena was a female god, i.e. goddess.
hmm……interesting……..hmm…..interesting……..hmm…
there were 3 different kekei genkai techniques in the MS itachi has amaratsu kakashi has that dimension traveler thing and i think tobi has the 3th
i dony know the name of kakashi’s techniqe and the other one
who da hell is pein!!!!?!?!?!?!
(damn these cliffhangers)
I was thinking while reading the other posts, never posted before though, so bare with me. Say TOM really is Obito, that could explain how Kakashi was able to obtain the MS. Instead of Kakashi being the one to trigger the initial activation, Obito could of been the one to meet the requirements, and because Kakashi and Obito have the same eye “set”, Kakashi’s MS was formed from what Obito did. I don’t know if that theory was mentioned at all prior
Does Pien really is one of those guys?… i mean although he really is using the first body which we have seen during J-sama’s infiltration but was that really his body i mean his true body…. after all j-sama didn’t see Pien’s original face… correct me if I’m wrong ok…
i think pain might be the incarnation of yama (go to wikipedia if you want to know who that is), and therefore he would have access to all dead bodies, allowing him to animate anyone he wants. that doesnt explain how all the bodies are of someone that jiraiya has met before though… hmmm.
another thing i found, alot of the animals that pain summoned correlate to the “mounts” or the vahana of the hindu gods. maybe he is a “messiah” or something of that nature.
goin back to the yama thing, yama was said to be the first man, and the sage of six paths was the first ninja… so… maybe…
nice theory Shadow Myst i never toucht about that but it makes sence now wy kakashi has the ms
“Instead of Kakashi being the one to trigger the initial activation, Obito could of been the one to meet the requirements”.
I don’t belief this.Wasn’t Kakashi Obitos best friend? Although they hated each other first it reminds me of the relationship of Sasuke and Naruto who nevertheless were friends.
yama is also the king of hell, maybe that is how pain is able to summon the king of hell statue to absorb tha bijuu
yama is often shown to have piercings, yet another correlation
no one ever agrees with me…
LOL! Ill agree with you Fugakure!!!!
MS again? do we need a blog dedicated to this or is their already one…
I think it’s clear that the MS is something that a few different people have developed… I think when Itachi fought Kakashi (maybe the first time?) he mentioned how Kakashi had made the sharingan his own err… something to that effect.
Kakashi started out with two tomoes and worked his way to three and it only makes sense that he could push it to the MS. The thing about killing your best friend… well… I’m sure Kakashi feels that way about obito because he feels he should have been there for him. BUT, I think it’s the pain equal to loosing your best friend that allows someone to use the MS. It’s kind of a theme kishimoto has going… with Pein and his name and the pain he has to go through to use the rinnengan.
About Yama, I don’t know if I’d believe what was on Wikipedia for that because someone may have just put it on because they were a big naruto fan. but it does sound interesting if it is true because I don’t think Kishi pulled Pein out of thin air…
There have been no comments for hours! Well, I think itachi has that everlasting fire thing, kakashi has that time and space thing, but I am confused about tobi. I wonder what he has.
well… either it could be one of the 6 elements or it’s fire or something to do with space time… because Itachi has the fire and also has a MS move that stops time. I really think Haku was onto something when he said that the sharingan has two abilities… the peircing eye and the hypnotic eye.
Anyway…
I was talking about necklaces a while ago… and I’ve com to the conclusion that Itachi’s necklace has three circles on it while Pein seems to have spikes or something so they can’t be the same necklace.
But I still wonder if Yahiko is wearing the necklace of the Sage… and I wonder if Madara was wearing a necklace and itachi might have it on…
Well i forgot about the two types of eyes Siskin that’s a good reminder i think Yahiko body might be used by Nagato or Pein but either way Yahiko probally got killed by some ninjas trying to prove to Pein he can be as strong as he is. And before Pein could help him out he was killed.
the next manga have to go back to Sasuke and Itachi part and i wouldn’t be surprise to hear something more about Madara or Tobi plans for the both of them to hopefully clear up some missing parts to the reason why Sasuke was left alive.
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just a crazy thought but looking back at the tomos on the wall behind Itachi in manga #380 picture 11 actaully shows 8 tomos not including the two on the chair could that be tied into the 8 tailed beast Orochi by someway and share Orochi same goals to kill kyuubi. Just a thought?
yet another pain=yama incarnation theorie evidence, kishi has mentioned that he was influenced by dragonball, and king yama is a character on dbz. its sorta a stretch… but i like theorizing! its fun!
scrubby, one of the tomoes could be out of sight.. let me see.. yep looks like eight. hmmm… maybe there are two tomoes behind itachis seat.
as big as those tomoes are there isn’t any room for two to be behind the chair.u think?
There are only seven not including the two on the chair.. How did you count eight?
Hey guys … do you think that the Uchiha eye could achieve more than 3 tomoes after the MS i know its hard to imagine because Madara didn’t have anymore tomoes as far as we know and he was the ultimate Uchiha of the sharingan… but yea i could imagine 4 tomoes… and also whenever Itachi uses his MS you dont actually see the MS form but i think u do for Kakashi … but anyway im just spitball’n ideas on the tomoes aspect.
maybe instead of 4 tomoes in each eye, the sharingan state above the ms could be an extra, or third eye, placed somewhere on the forehead. that would then add up to nine tomoes, equal to the tails of the kyuubi. there is some connection between kyuubi and the sharingan, what exactly could it be?
i mean, there a lot of anime and manga charaters that have a third eye, and as far as we’ve seen kishimoto often mimics other manga, and besides kidomaru in his 2nd state, we havent seen a character with a third eye or “mind’s eye” to my knowledge.
the sage of six paths has a necklace that resemble the Yasakani no Magatama, an important imperial artifact
does it ever say in the manga that the rinnegan is a kekkai genkai?
it may just randomly appear.
Or… whoever is the incarnation of the sage of six paths…
…has the rinnegan
they don’t say the rinnegan is a kekkai genkai because (for as we know) only pain has it
but dojutsu’s are kekkei genkai this confuses me
It could be that madera has tree eyes and with nine tomeos he could summon the kyuubi.
pein is nagato
i know pein is nagato, what im sayin is maybe NAGATO is the reincarnation of the sage of six paths, therefore PEIN is too
the rinnegan could be a recessive gene, like highly recessive, therefore only showing up occasionally
i think now that sasuke wields the kusanagi, he somehow is tied to the 8 tails
the story of orochimaru and sasuke is very similar to the story of how yamata no orochi awaits a genius of the Yagami clan. i think that Orochimaru himself is the bijuu, not the jinchuuriki. He only needs to be awakened to fight the kyuubi again. Since the kyuubi is in naruto and orochimaru is mostly in sasuke, the final battle is probably going to be between sasuke and naruto.
wait a minute.. duh!!!
sasuke kulled orochimaru before he could go in his body so orochimaru cant be in sasuke but i think he is inside kabuto look at manga chapter 356-357
i found a picture of a minato talking to kakashi and naruto. kakashi was suprised
how do u get a picture up here?
SCRUBBY… You’re right!
You can see the eighth tomoe’s tail sticking up from behind the chair!
Take a look at this (i didn’t photoshop the tail in although I did photo shop Tobi and Kakashi face to face)
http://wm19.inbox.com/thumbs/f5_3e36_f476f7_oJ.jpg.thumb
wow… and right above the picture of Itachi are the hills… possibly depicting the location of the sleeping snake?
It makes sense that the eight tails is trying to destroy the kyuubi… And that Sasuke is there to awaken the eight tails to do battle against naruto and the kyuubi again…
also the hill they are on could resemble snake coils.
this manga chapter didnt show sasuke and itachi, i cant wait for the next manga chapter
their will be a one hour special of naruto shippuden episode 40 and 41 on december 20th but the week after that dec 27th their wont be an episode
I think it is not a coincedence that the Diedara looking Pein found Jiraiya, if you remember he is Pein’s body that is meant for “Seek and Destroy.” Not only can it summon from any realm but it can go into any realm like the barrier Jiraiya put himself in.
Two possible outcomes for next chapter:
1) Jiraiya is the new “Seek and Destroy” Pein [which would fit his actual life seeing how one of his specialties is being a spy and finding people/information].
or 2) And I am hoping for this, that Pa-dukes Toad took Jiraiya and peaced outa there the same way that Ma toad did. That would be cool, cause we could move to another story thats going on and Jiraiya would disappear for a while in the Toad-Country to heal up and then reveal the true identity of Pein.
I was just thinking, if Jiraiya is taken over by Pein then does that mean that Pa Toad will also be?? — An interesting battle down the road would be Pein (Jiraiya and Pa Toad body) against Naruto with Ma and lets say Bra Toad. Just a guess, take it or leave it.
Also I wonder how much Naruto has learned about this Toad place that Jiraiya went to to get the prophecy and it is also the place that all the Toad summons live.
It would be a cool move by Kishi to have Naruto go there and disappear for a bit… maybe that will be the second time skip. I’d like to see Naruto go there and us be there with him and he comes back and has to save the world with his old buddies after Akutsuki has made it into some sort of post apocolyptic place.
Hmm it does look like an eighth tomoe.. The tomoes are surrounding the word “fox” though, and they resemble the tails of a fox. So most likely, it’s reference to the Kyuubi and not the Orochi. Also.. I don’t think the tailed beasts need to be “awakened” as they are most likely inside the jinchiriki.
Let me know what y’all think of this:
the black weapon that Jiraiya was stuck with is made out of the same material that all the peircings are made out of. That is how he can inhabit their bodies. Whatever material it is it messes up a person’s chakra to the point where it paralyzes them.
Also, if you look at the picture thats after Pa toad pulls it out of Jiraiya’s shoulder it shows that Pein still has the weapon in his hand.
Now the fact that we have never seen any sort of weapon like this we can conclude that it is something Pein either found/created/summoned and that if it is in your body you can’t control your chakra but you still produce it.
Not only will it then allow for Pein to do a technique kind of like what Itachi and Kisame do, and we kind of see in the fight between Orochimaru and Sarutobi when Orochimaru sacrafices two sound ninja so that he can control the first two hokages.
Another thing it shows us is that it is a material thing and in turn a new element. the 6th element.
Nice! That sounds awesome. And it sounds exactly like something Kishi would do! ^_^
Or it could be the same kind of black chakara that the kyuubi used, only solid like what Sasuke does with the Chidori. It would introduce the sixth element, too.
ShikamaruIsTheMan ur like so freakin figuring this out…ur theories make a whole lotta sense and i agree with everything u’ve said
Siskin i never paid attention to the pictures with mountains in it but u might have a point there that could actaully be the place where Orochi lies, maybe Sasuke is the only one able to release Orochi so Akatsuki need him to release the 8 tail because threw my research the first 7 been captured so far.
Shikamaru that a good theory there about the black weapon used to stab Jaraiya that really make alot of sense good job my manz
I second that, good stuff Shikaman! You get 200 bob points!
Looks like there are probably eight tomoes on the tapestry, but why is the character “fox” instead of “snake” for Orochi?
So has anyone concluded who pain or tobi is? im dying 2 know
I dont think j sama will die at this battle, there are so many way i thought he can escape to such various attacks. one maybe is the clone jutsu, another will be replacement jutsu. it can be that j sama knows how to control a puppet of himself, where he designed it as if you cant identify the true j sama
its really obvious that naruto will be the only one to defeat pein, that’s for sure, as what ive read, the author of this manga already in mind the ending of the story, so what will you expect, of course naruto will turn as victorious in the end, for this the elders will decide and make naruto as the 6th hokage. peace then will reign all over the countries
jiraiya is going to die, hes already losing alot of blood
My theory regarding this, is that j sama will not die yet, here he will discover the true identity of pein, by his most powerful jutsu just like the 3rd and fourth, j sama emerge to survive and escape pein, but maybe this will be kept for a while and at the final battle, j sama will show up and tell everything to naruto all he knew about pein and the akatsuki organization. Also, j sama will be the one to inspire naruto to find discover his true power
do you think j sama will lost with that not so powerful techniques, yes its true he lost a lot of blood, but hermits doesnt die that easy, if j sama die, the story will simply predictable, there maybe a twist to this battle for us to see
I wonder.. If the Kyuubi was summoned, does that mean that the rest of the Bijuu were summoned also? If that were the case.. who summoned them? You think Madara summoned them all?
no wonder sasuke and naruto will help each other after itachi tells everything of what really happened. Maybe sasuke possess a certain identity that very important to awaken the true power of the kyuubi inside naruto, or the other way around to let naruto fully control the nine tailed state without losing his consciousness.