As expected, it is a suicide technique that will cost Nagato's life but this time, instead of meaningless death, the technique is actually to revive the people that he had killed not long time ago.
Once again, we see that Naruto has changed another person from bad to good just as what he did to Gaara.
Now, Konan decides to go back to Amagakure and helps the village of Konoha but I doubt her safety. It is definitely that she won't go back to Akatsuki but since she has decided to help Naruto, what will the rest of the Akatsuki remaining members think. In my opinion, they will kill Konan but I do believe that Konan is going to be the last survivor of the three students that Jiraiya trained long time ago.
So, the technique is not about transferring power to Naruto or whatsoever but revival of the villagers. Now, Naruto has bigger role to play of. Almost everyone puts their dreams on him and bet that he will soon find the answer to peace one day.
Before the chapter ends, we see that Sasuke has finally started to move and is heading to Konoha now. So, it is likely that the next battle will be between Naruto and Sasuke. However, I do not think that the result of the battle will matter. Something else is going to happen in the middle of the battle and probably Akatsuki will use this opportunity to take over the Konoha as the Konoha is the last obstacle that hinder their plans.
This chapter is mainly about the Naruto explaining the book that Jiraiya wrote about his dream of achieving a peace in the world.
Now, after finishing the chapter 448, we see that Nagato is about to use some secret technique in response to Naruto dream of finding a peace in the Ninja world.
I personally don't think that will be an attack technique. What I feel is that Nagato is probably going to transfer some of his power to Naruto. I know this sounds awesome but illogical but that's what I think of.
There is a reason why Nagato will probably do that. He trusts Naruto and maybe he knows that he is not going to live longer or unable to find the answer of peace, that's why he entrusts his dream to Naruto. Yes, another person who believe in Naruto other than Jiraiya and 4th Hokage.
So, if this is really going to happen, what will happen to Konan and what happen if Nagato really transfers some of his powers to Naruto? I don't know whether Nagato will live on but I think Konan will. She probably will serves as right hand person for Tsunade. But of course the people in the village will go against this but Tsunade trusts Naruto (Naruto is promise to Nagato that he will ensure Konan lives on her life).
Another thing is I do have a feeling that Naruto will leave the village because he is disappointed by the reactions of the villagers. Then, at the same time, Danzo is rebelling to take over Hokage place and Naruto saves the day. Tsunade at her current level of chakra won't be able to defend herself.
So the conclusion is that I don't think Nagato is going to use any attack techniques on Naruto now but to help Naruto to ensure that he will find the answer of peace on his behalf.
This chapter is mainly about Nagato's second source of pain which I had expected to be the death of Yahiko.
However, one thing that I didn't expect was the way Yahiko died. Of course, it was Yahiko's decision to sacrifice himself for his friends.
I can tell that facing the fact that Nagato's best friends and the one of the only two friends he had died in his hand is truly unbearable.
The next chapter will be about Nagato awakening his rinnegan. Now, I see another reason why Paine killed Hanzo.
By the way, why the names so similar, the Hanzo and Danzo? So does this mean Danzo is a bad guy who want to be Hokage no matter what it takes? If this is true, then after this battle, surely another battle will occurs within Konoha, between Tsunade's people and the Danzo's people.
It has shown that Paine unveiled the mystery of his story.
This will go as expected in the next chapter where I believe Yahiko is the next person close to him died and because of that, Nagato angered and seek to be God to rule the world.
Nagato can't be blamed for his desire to rule the world and use the Akatsuki to attack other Jinchuuriki. He has undergone bad history and life has becomes miserable for him.
So, how will Naruto reacts to his story? Will he be able to convince Paine that peace can be found wihtin the system?
Well, before the chapter 441 ended, the title of the next chapter which is 442 is about a surprising conclusion. So, what will this means?
In my opinion and based on what I said in my last few posts, I would say that Pain indeed didn't die in the hand of Naruto.
First, Pain might be killed by Madara who are waiting for the real source of Pain body or Madara kills Pain so that Pain will not reveal the secret of the Akatsuki association.
Second, Nagato dies by himself that he run out of chakra or he will die eventually even if he won the battle. But before that, Naruto managed to talk him down and make Pain realizes how foolish he was. The answer that Pain seeking for about pain will be answered by Naruto in the end where forgiveness is the peace. That's why Pain who is expecting Naruto to finish him off is going to be surprised that Naruto didn't finish him off but instead spare his life because he believes that's how peace can be achieved and ninja system shouldn't exist at all.
Third, Sasuke might interferes in the battle and somehow Pain trying to save Naruto and die on Naruto's behalf. Or it can be Madara as well.
So, my conclusion is that Pain or Nagato finally realized that he had done something wrong and terrible and become good guy but it is too late.
Ok it seems that the battle is going to end soon and probably in the next chapter.
Somehow Naruto still managed to maintain in his Sage mode. With Pain exhausted from chakra, this battle will be in Naruto’s favor.
There isn’t much explained in this chapter except the fact that Naruto managed to trace Pain’s source chakra which is where the real Pain or Nagato is.
However, for some reason, Pain indeed not a very good fighter and Naruto can easily kicked him away. Not sure why I do feel that Naruto is bullying Pain now. Hahaha
Anyway, what is interesting is that Pain will be in trouble fighting Naruto and to some extent, Pain will probably lost in this battle and how will it ended. Continue to read the post for next chapter prediction.
This post is about what I predicted that are going to happen in the story later.
I am very sure that Naruto will win the battle between the Pain but he won't kill Pain as this hatred of killing each other is not the answer that he is seeking for. After being defeated by Naruto, Pain feels miserable and asks Naruto to finish him off but Naruto denies.
A conversation will occur between Naruto and Pain that finally wakes Pain up about his mistake but eventually Pain will die as well, but I am not sure how. I think he will probably die in the hand of Madara and I think Madara knows that secret of the invinsibility of Nagato and he found the real body controlling the other six bodies. Somehow, Kanon will die as well. If she doesn't, I think she will join the Konoha team.
Sasuke can be another person who will kill the Pain as well if it isn't going to be Madara. After the deadly battle between Naruto and Pain, Sasuke shows up. With exhausted Naruto, he has to continue fighting the Sasuke group.
The other interesting thing that I predicted will happen is that the 8-tailed beast and his brother will join the Konoha group. The reason why I said this is because there are still many powerful enemies out there which include Sasuke, Madara and some Akatsuki members. Meanwhile, the only persons from the Konoha that can go equal against them are Naruto and Tsunade provided that Kakashi really is dead. Now, I know that some people will think that Gai might be strong too, but I not sure how strong he is compared to the Akatsuki. Therefore, 8-tailed beast and his brother need to join the Konoha, otherwise the power will be inbalance.
I am sorry for the Hinata's fan but I don't think there will be any mourning period for her. This is because more intense battle will happen soon. I can't think of what one of the elderly of the Konoha is doing while Tsunade is depleted of her chakra.
Finally, will Naruto be able to use the kyuubi power again? Yes, he has too even though the chakra isn't his. This is because Naruto will need the help from the fox to fight against the upcoming enemy. For some reasons, I think Sasuke will turned into good guy and fight alongside with Naruto against Madara. The reason Madara want to keep Sasuke is because he wants to use him to achieve his ambition. Maybe because Nagato has disease that he is going to die any soon so Madara needs someone to replace Pain.
First of all, I couldn't believe that Kishi would made the 8-tailed fox to appear at all. This is a little bit way earlier than I would thought initially.
So, what is this Pain's forbidden technique called Chibaku Tensei? To me, it seems to be some sort of gravity absorption that attract anything towards it and form whatever it might forms to be. Honestly, I don't really feel that it is any powerful technique.
However, what really surprise me is to see the 8th tail came out. I was a bit surprise to see the 6th tail in previous episode, not to mention 8th tail.
I don't know what Pain meant by the dialogue above. ?????
It seems that the 9th tail (full tails) almost came out but was stopped by the 4th Hokage. For the first time, I see that Naruto was in confused and couldn't find the answer which he used to be able to. At first, I thought Naruto was really going to tear off the seal and release the kyuubi. I wonder what will the story be if kyuubi was happened to be released from the seal?
And finally, Naruto will learn that 4th Hokage is in fact his father. What kind of reaction will Naruto has? In my opinion, it won't be easy for 4th Hokage to talk down to Naruto as I think Naruto might question the 4th why he sealed the kyuubi in his own son. Probably, 4th will tell the truth behind the secret of the sealing of kyuubi into Naruto.
Before I go further, I wonder whether Kakashi really did die in the battle with Pain. I thought he is just extreme exhausted and used up all his chakra. I am aware that he is in serious wound but I thought he is not going to die. Hmmm….
So back to the volume. It is indeed that Naruto is no longer the Naruto we used to know before. Seeing him to confront Pain with calm and steady has clearly shows how much he has improved and changed. Before this, Naruto was always rushing to the enemy without thinking much and did all the stupid things. But this time, it is totally different.
So we all wonder whether Naruto can really beat Pain. Right now, Pain the God realm seems to be weak for a moment as he had used out quite a chakra. As a result, he is unable to sortie at the moment and rely on the other bodies to protect him. Will this bring advantage to Naruto that might lead to Naruto’s victory? Even so, I still believe somehow the God realm will recover and be the last body to fight one on one against Naruto.
Before we see the chapter closed, Naruto mentioned to show his new move to finish the fight quickly. What could this mean? Is it fusion of him with the ‘frogs’ or something else we never seen.
Naruto has finally surpassed his mentor, Jiraiya and completed his sage training to obtain the sage mode.
Now he is going to learn some great sage techniques and from what I can see, Kishi has finally made up his mind to make Naruto into such a powerful and strong character.
Naruto will probably learn some great or secret techniques that even Jiraiya fails to master.
A lot of information has been shown in this chapter as well as the information about the code passed down by Jiraiya.
Finally, Pain has begun his raid on Konoha. This is an interesting part where everyone is waiting for.
Before the chapter went off, the next chapter will be about the sudden attack on Konoha and how Konoha is going to respond to that.
It was also shown a hint about arrival. What could it be? It is referred to Pain or Naruto or someone else.
We are going to see a series of battle and events in the Naruto story soon.
Kishi has made a statement that 3rd and 4th Hokage are the stongest among the Hokages, but did he mean among all ninjas or just among the Konoha ninjas?
It has caught my attention when Itachi’s true identity was revealed in previous chapters of Naruto manga. We know that Itachi is stronger than Orochimaru, who is praised as one of the legendary Sannins. Now, who is the strongest among the Sannins? Orochimaru? Jiraiya? Or Tsunade?
The status of one ninja is defined by their skills and mental capability in devising strategy. Therefore, being Hokage means the person must has the defined values. As we know Itachi is stronger than Orochimaru and he is genius as well, so that means he is qualified as Hokage as well. It is really sad Itachi has to betray his own clan for the peace of ninja world. Madara also seems to be afraid of Itachi when he said he is relieved with the death of Itachi, where nobody can stop him from attacking Konoha.
From my point of view, Jiraiya also seems to be stronger than Orochimaru when he fought with Paine, the Akatsuki’s leader. The Sage technique looks like very impressive and with its ability to use the nature’s power, it’s surely a powerful jutsu.
Even thought Paine taking order from Madara, but I do believe Paine is still stronger than Madara. Maybe Madara isn’t ranked lower than Paine as well despite Paine being the leader. Both of them probably devising or plan movements for Akatsuki for certain purpose, but I think Madara is using or fooling Paine to do the job for him where his real intention is something else that hasn’t been discovered yet.
Now, Sasuke has becomes so powerful that even ranked not less than Madara. Even supposing he is still weaker than Madara, but I believe it won’t be far behind. One thing that makes Sasuke is still visible to Naruto is the power that Itachi gave to Naruto. We don’t know what is it but we do believe in Itachi. Madara may seem to have everything under his control or things went as his plan, but Itachi has his own plan as well.
Is Kyuubi existence important in the later story of Naruto? Will the Sage technique be completed within time? How much Naruto will improve from his training this time? Will he becomes more mature or gains more powers? I still believe even supposing Naruto becomes more mature and gains more powers, he is still powerless against Paine. The only way to beat Paine is the crack the code left by Jiraiya and know Paine’s secret. Paine mentioned before if Jiraiya had known his secret earlier, Jiraiya could beat him. So the code is apparently deadly to Paine.
Is 9-tailed beast existence means anything in the story? For some reason, I don’t think so. He could just be a part of the story to show how powerful Sasuke is. We still haven’t known the new power that Sasuke got from Itachi. So we might probably see this in the later chapters when the battle between the 8-tailed beast and Sasuke begins.
Sasuke definitely will fight Naruto sometime in the future. But right now, Madara is doing his manipulation on Sasuke in order to use him to his advantage. Akatsuki organisation is never being for good. Madara surely has something on his nerve and probably he is waiting for this moment as well. He is waiting for Itachi to die. from what I can see, Paine is probably still stronger than Madara at the moment but he is taking order from Madara not because Madara is stronger but because madara shares the same pain as Paine felt and Madara is the founder of the organisation which allow Paine to carry on his ambition. Instead, Madara is using Paine as well in this case. The final enemy will be madara, not Paine. Paine might not be as evil as we thought of since during the battle between Paine and Jiraiya, we didn’t witness any evidence and reason why Paine becomes bad guy. This is probably due to Madara's manipulation as well.
Btw, what is the code that jiraiya pass to the frog about Paine? I really can’t think of any clue about this. I know a lot of people saying it's probably about Paine having 6 bodies but I dun think so. It shouldn't be something that's so easily discovered by us (fan). It's still not the time for us to discuss about this matter yet.
Therefore, the main theme of this season will be about Sasuke. How will he reacts? What is the true intention of Madara?
It's still hard to decide who the strongest one is. But I think 4th Hokage was quite superior compared to others for being able to become Hokage at young age. I feel that 4th might even be stronger than Jiraiya. It is true that Jiraiya is his mentor but there is possibility that student grow stronger than teacher.
Anyway, I am convinced that Paine or Madara are the two strongest in the series as of now. Naruto can become even stronger since Jiraiya said Naruto is 'the one'. Well, although not quite well understand it, but it certainly did make a bit impression on Naruto.
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