I didn't like the latest chapter.

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I was just starting to really respect Sakura. I've been a NaruSaku fan for a while now, and I always thought that she was starting to genuinly love Naruto. Remember when she thought about him on a shooting star? Or spent hours watching him while he trained? When she put so much effort into that medician for him? When she hugged him in front of the entire country? The pained ex
pression on her face when Hinata confessed to him? 

So I don't get why she looked as though she really were forcing herself to confess to Naruto, as though she really didn't think she could ever love him and forget about Sasuke. I feel like I've really missed something here. I though Sakura was falling in love with him genuinly, but her ex
pression says everything otherwise. And Naruot caught on - because only girls are allowed to be stupid in this manga.

Not to mention, what she did was horrible. Like I said, I respected her. I thought she was intelligent. But not only did she hurt Narutoby playing with his heart and lying to him, but she also insulted him by thinking he would be stupid enough to buy it. And she did it all without even thinking that it might happen. Sakura used to be really intelligent. Had a boy been in her place, he would have realized that it was a bad idea and not done it. But because Sakura is a girl, and because Kishimoto is sexist, she has to be stupid too.

In my opinion, it was all very unrealistic and even out of character, and read like bad fanfic I hope it was really important to the plot.Apparently Kishimoto took a week off to research for it, so I wonder if he was on fanfiction.net trying to decide which pairing would be the most fun to troll.

/rant

I liked the art, though. Some of the characters looked more shouju than shounen in this chapter.

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Ahh. Fanfic trolling. :p Epic.

I agree completely with that. It did seem extremely out of character for all of them. And it was so...stiff. o_o I don't think that was the best he could have done.

I also hope that has something very important to the plot. o_o Cause I've lost a lot of interest in reading it now if it isn't.

I hope that doesn't set a precedent in quality for the next ones. D;

New spoiler! Only one quote because I'm a complete yaoi fangirl and this quote made me squee. 

Although it's not confirmed, so it's probably fake ]=

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Naruto: I will bring Sasuke back alive and fulfil the promise I made to him and to myself. None of you understand the bond Sasuke and I have [not sure about this part following, if he's atlking about Sakura and his bond, or Sakura and Sasuke's] or the bond you may have had until you lost it.

Sasuke is the the only person that means that much to me. 

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Kyaa~

Yaoi fangirl here too. :p That would be epic.

My thoughts about this week's chapter:

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Honestly, it wasn't as bad as the last chapter but it was still kind of out of character. Now I'm kind of confused about Sakura? Are her feelings real or did I misenterpret something? I was readng kind of fast so I could read the next chapter of another manga I'd been waiting for so it's possible. :p  

How long will they stick around there? It's so...un dramatic. o3o And I like my manga to be DRAMATIC. >_> I hope the storyline picks up again soon. I'm losing interest. ;-; I wish Sakura never ever ever EVER sonfessed or pretended to confess anything. It killed it for me. ;-; That's like when Kakashi died, I completely lost interest in the story. Anyways, I hope Sakura finds Sasuke and he kills her. That would be some epic win, but we all know nobody ever dies. -_-

I wonder if this'll become a yaoi-lovers delight in the next few chapters. It certainly feels that way. :p

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So how is everyone? I'm overloaded with work. -_- Barely had time to get on the computer at all recently.

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I'm totally confused about Sakura too. Does she love Naruto, or Sasuke? Is she going after Sasuke to kill him, talk to him, or try and convert him back to The Good Guys? But I'm confused in a good way - this chapter made it clear that she knows what she's doing, and she may not be so stupid as we were lead to believe in chapter 469.

I felt so sorry for Naruto when he watched them leave, though. What would be really awesome would be if they ended up having to fight each other - Naruto defending Sasuke, Kiba and Sakura defending Konoha. After all, Naruto pretty much said in this chapter that he's all for Sasuke's Anti-Konoha plan. Maybe Naruto will join team Sasuke and go evil too. haha. I wish =3

 And why is Sai acting so suspicious?

PS; when Sakura stood on Kiba's toe and left with him, I suddenly became a KibaSaku shipper. I'm terrible.

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I've got tonnes of work on my plate too with exams. Can't wait till they're over! 

XDD

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That would be pretty epic if sakura killed sasuke. I don't think it's possible though, even if she really IS over him, I don't she she has the guts to kill anything. o_o

In some ways, I wish Sasuke would die, and in others I wish he would come back to the "good guys". Though I don't think that's possible, either. I think the Kage's would say, " Hes a missing nin, and almost killed us all blahblahbla" and wouldn't let him. But then I suppose naruto would come in and do his thing and magically everyone is on his side lol. 

As for Sai, I wonder. Could he possibly be triple crossing? Either way, I'd love to find that out next chapter.

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Hope you get those exams cleared away soon. :) I've got a ton of work too, but I taking a break since it's my birthday tomorrow. xD

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I was like "I'm confiscating this."

"Dad: Good! Get that thing outta here."

 "...Hur. -puts it on one of the employees-"

Ohyes.

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