Naruto Shippuuden

For those who hasn’t been following Naruto episodes or Manga regularly (like me), here is some of recaps of what has been happening in the Naruto World. Just to let you on the same page.

Anime

• Team Kakashi and Team Gai headed on pursuing the location of the Akatsuki.
  Team Gai: Lee, Tenten, Neji and Gai.
  Team Kakashi: Naruto, Chiyo-sama, Sakura and Kakashi.
  The teams faced some sort of illusions which are apparently being controlled by Pein. The Akatsuki leader. The teams managed to escape their illusions.
• Team Kakashi found the Akatsuki hideout. They were too late though, because the Akatsuki has aleady extracted Gaara’s shukaku when they came. And all the members of the Akatsuki has gone except Sasori and Diedara.
• Sakura showed amazing force and fighting skills when she and Chiyo-sama fought with Sasori. She was Chiyo’s human puppet. During the fight, Sasori’s true identity/physical appearance was revealed. He’s now a puppet of himself.
  Sakura and Chiyo survived the fight and left Sasori defeated.
• Naruto and Kakashi were after Diedara. He carries Gaara’s remains and Naruto really wants to have Gaara back, whether or not he can survive. Well, he’ll be revived back to life.
• On the other side, Team Gai fell on to another illusion where they were fighting against themselves. They managed to escape.

Manga

Let’s start from where Sasuke defeated Orochimaru.

• Sasuke managed to catch Orochimaru with his mangekyu sharingan and defeated him so easily. Sasuke has Orochimarus power, somehow.
• Kabuto lent his body to Orochimaru, hardly staying on his own control. I doubt he can overcome Orochimaru in the end. After all, Orochimaru is still alive.
• Sasuke searched for Mizugetsu, Juugu and Karin and formed a group from them. They called their team as “Hebi” or snake.
  Team Hebi & Team Kakashi which is composed of more ninjas including you all time favorite Hinata are after the Akatsuki. There’s a hunting circle going on by the way. Naruto is in search of Sasuke. Sasuke is in search for Itachi. And Itachi is in search of Naruto. Must be a great fight if those three encounter each others at the same time, eh?
• Pein was revealed as the Akatsuki Leader and God according to Rain Ninjas.
• Sasuke and Itachi met each other and likely to start a fight.
• Naruto is the son of The Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki.
• The unnamed Akatsuki member is now named. She’s Konan. More likely the only girl in Akatsuki.

So far, this is all I got. Later.

According to several information that Jiraiya extracts from the rain ninjas, it seems that no one has seen Pein and nobody knows a lot about him. No one really knows what he looks like but the people believe that he exists and watches over them all the time. Well, some people from the village might not agree with this. It also seems that Pein has a personal speaker when he wants something to tell the village.

The ninja said that Pein was being hunted by the former remnants of the village of Amagakure. They took every little chances they got to kill Pein-sama. But of course they failed. Pein sama destroyed the village so easily by himself. The reason why Pein is called a legend. Pein also defeated Hanzou, a former leader of Amagakure. Very powerful. Salamander Hanzou is the one who named the three (Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru), as “The Three Legendary Sannins of Konoha”. As they were strong enough to survive the attack.

Photos of the Akatsuki group. Looted from the rightful owner.

Weeks ago, I received an email from Shelly, one of the readers of this blog, suggesting me to include all the members of the Akatsuki on the poll. The poll on the sidebar is about to be re-polished so I created the Akatsuki Idol poll instead. So start keying in your votes now.

Who’s your Akatsuki Idol

• Itachi (38%, 516 Votes)
• Pein (27%, 366 Votes)
• Tobi (14%, 193 Votes)
• Konan (11%, 149 Votes)
• Deidara (10%, 136 Votes)
• Sasori (8%, 115 Votes)
• Orochimaru (4%, 59 Votes)
• Kisame (4%, 56 Votes)
• Zetsu (3%, 41 Votes)
• Hidan (3%, 38 Votes)
• Kakuzu (1%, 14 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,366

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Among the questions we had before regarding Naruto’s biography, one of the biggest is about his parents. Who are Naruto’s parents?

I suspected before that the Fourth Hokage is his father. Some suspected that Yondaime and Naruto are the same person. But one thing is common on all our hints, they have the same blood. And it has finally been revealed that Yondaime is Naruto’s father. No wonder why Jiraya sees a lot of similarities between the fourth hokage and Naruto. This was confirmed in Manga chapter 367. BTW, the name of the fourth hokage is actually, Namikaze Minato.

But how about Naruto’s mother? If we tried to find Naruto’s father, we certainly asked about her mother too. Naruto’s mother is named, Kushina Uzumaki. One name I just heard from the series. I’m quite sure that this name hasn’t been printed elsewhere before.

One more thing. Manga chapter 367 and 368 are worth reading for.

While Naruto is getting more exciting with each episode, viewers get very interested to know what’s gonna happen next. They tend to explore and learn “who did what?”, “who is who?”, “what is what?”. And when viewers learned a thing about what they want to know, they start to know more and look for spoilers. But spoilers are not reliable until it was happened.
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