Chapter is titled Naruto the Sage. Kill me.
Anyway, Naruto has apparently managed to keep all 38 of his attention span disorders in check and mastered the Sage Chakra. According to Fukusaku, he's even surpassed Jiraya and avoided any hint of frog transformation in the process.
Except, you know, the slit eyes.
Anyway, a bird decides to land on Naruto's shoulder, thus ruining the balance of his stone tile and sending the boy toppling from his perch. Somehow, Kishi has legitimately managed to make me chuckle with a gag he intended to create. I hope this doesn't keep up, I may be out of a job.
Naruto lands practically unscathed. This is because he's in Sage Mode. Fukusaku declares that it's time to move on to the final training: Frog-fu, a fighting style using the Sage chakra. Apparently it's not a Rasengan upgrade. This chapter is starting to look decent. It's scaring me. Make it stop.
Ah, that's better. We're returning to Team Suck. A bunch of Cloud nins are launching an attack on their temporary base. They find their comrade who was captured last chapter lying on the wall, probably dead.
And now we see Naruto training. Apparently we skipped most of it. I'm a little disappointed, but it's still not enough to complain about the chapter. Skip back to Konoha, where Generic Girl, Generic Nerdy Girl and Shikamaru (see, he's cool enough for me to refer to him by name) are still trying to figure out what the crap is going on with that coded message.
They're also dissecting Deidara-Pein, by the way. And they'd better hurry up, because Pein is about three feet from the main gate and ready to screw up their crap. All seven of him, including this one who looks like a 13 year old girl with her hair tied in a knot on top.
The end.
Wow, that was a decent chapter. My discomfort level is currently high. I suspect Kishi is plotting something. Probably trying to lull me into a false sense of security.
