Chapter 212

[Strider]

Near ending .. ? At the route the battles were going, the entire Konoha squad [and Lee] were going to die. The remaining Sound would have congregated to Sasuke's location, or Orochimaru. Naruto probably would have been ganged up on. Possibly killed, or angered to the point of the Kyuubi killing everyone. .. Not quite the ending to the story arc I would have been looking for.

Ninja vanish.

[Destroyor]

Well, almost everyone show up, could Itachi be far away? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

Ok it looks like Kishimoto just want to tie all the loose ends up all at once regretless how abrupt and awkward it would be.

Not that I don't enjoy watching Lee fight and looking forward to the upcoming sand+leaf genin fight.

All flash and no plot .... Naruto.

[MemnochTheCaT]

Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean there's no plot. There is obviously motive for the actions of the characters currently engaged .. even if it is self-serving by Kishimoto's possible effort to conclude this arc or perhaps the entire series.

[Gods_Son]

Hopefully the sand people will help give the fights a quicker ending, instead of making them even longer.

[Neji-Aniki-sama]

Came to think Gaara turning good actually sucks.
I loved him when he was a bad guy. Darn, he really scared me...totally unpredictable...as in when he almost killed Kiba and co, for no good reason at all. Gawds... I felt like *I* was there watching and waiting to be killed. No freaking way out.
Now, he can't kill everybody as he usually did. Moral restrains suck.
Bad guys are far more interesting than the good ones, since they can do as they please. In this case, though Oro is too boring, Kisame is too disgusting, Itachi is too much of a psycho, Kabuto is too much of a jerk and Sasuke is too annoying.
Gaara was the only decent villain. He had no hidden purpose behind his actions, or was obsessed with reaching a goal. He was already there, and whas happy with what he was.
He was a well-balanced character, where all the qualities were in their right amounts, almost attaining a state of perfect evil. There was beauty when he lost his self and gave himself whole to evil. Evil for evil's sake... Evil in his supreme irrationality. Now, he has to learn to control his inner demon.
And that's just boring.

[SDShamshel]

Oh, Gaara will be killing people all right.

He's a NINJA.

Neji didn't have issues causing internal damage to Kidoumaru and then leaving him for dead.

Chouji didn't have issues with SUPAAA PUNCHing Jiroubou.

He'll just be crushing people's spines FOR GOOD!

[Cryogen476]

how many puppets does Kakuro have? it looks like he has 2 [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

[EpoC]

I think he only have one. He is always carrying one on his back.
BUt who knows he maybe got a vodoo doll hidden somwhere.

Great chapter and Bakafish did it well, although I missed the colored pages that inane always had.