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[runespoor]

I'm taking the opportunity that I have five free minutes to put my Theories into words, so that when they don't get utterly Jossed I'll be able to dance and obnoxiously sing "I TOLD YOU SO / SO CALLED IT."

1. Tsunade = dead Hokage

Tsunade is gonna diiiiiiiie. ;_; She's gonna bite it, get the ax, suffer the Flashback o' Doom treatment.

Every single chapter that's coming in shows Tsunade going "I'M THE HOKAGE AND HAVE A DUTY TOWARD MY VILLAGE O:<" and kicking ass and having Faith in Naruto and spouting things such as "we need to trust the new generation, it's their job to protect Konoha now", all of which is diminishing her chances of survival by dreadful amounts.

On the one hand it's sad, 'cause I love Tsunade, on the other hand I'd be really happy is Kishi kills a female on the side of good, for once.

And also, the other two Sannin are dead, and Sasuke and Naruto each grew past the shadow of their mentor, and Tsunade dying would give Kishi an opportunity to focus more on Sakura.

I hope it'll be kickass.


2. Sasuke = is right

Kishi is preemptively justifying Sasuke going after, and maybe even effectively killing, the elders.

That's one of the reasons he got Danzou to kill the toad messenger to get Naruto back (the other reasons are that it allows him to delay Naruto's return, and of course milking the Tsunade/Danzou tension for all it's worth).

Because I think it's telling that the elders suddenly stopped kicking a fuss in the face of Tsunade's determination to get Naruto back, and that after everyone left the room Danzou appears and kills the messenger.

It seems probable, if not obvious, that the elders were the ones who went and warned Danzou.

So the elders are in the same bag as Danzou, and if Tsunade and/or other people die because of that interference of theirs, then taking action against them is the right thing. They're traitors.

Sasuke may not be after them for the "right reasons", but he's in the right.


3. Team Seven = 0T3 Forever

This ain't a theory, just a reminder of what I'm rooting for. Also, FACT.

Comments

[thursday-kat.livejournal.com]

*nods* yep, yep, I think so too :D and I will be very sad if Tsunade does die! But I can see where it might be an important event etc etc. At the very least, I imagine her death will spur Naruto on even more.

And I'd love more Sakura actually :D

For the first time in awhile, I've been pretty excited for the new chapters - can't wait to see what happens next

(though a little team gai wouldn't go amiss!

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, apparently Kishimoto promised back in January that this would be a Kakashi and Sakura(?) centric year. (I thought he'd said 'Kakashi and Sasuke', but everyone remembers him saying Sakura, so...) This fan of Sakura is waiting. It'd be nice if he could remember Team Seven isn't just Naruto and Sasuke and their issues.

I wish I could say the same. But frankly, I find Pain boring, so the perspective of what, six fights against his bodies is... I hope that means other characters will get to kick ass.

I want to knooooow what they're doing.

[outlawpoet.livejournal.com]

in fic, Kakashi occasionally gets tapped as Hokage, does anybody know if anything like that has been hinted at? Could be we're going to lose Tsunade and Kakashi in succession to prepare Naruto for being top dog.

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Well, there was the chapter where Jiraiya and Tsunade reminisced about Naruto's parents, and one of them (I think it was Tsunade) said that Kakashi would make a good Hokage if something happened to her.

:/

[outlawpoet.livejournal.com]

oh man, oh man, that's no good. I'm sorry I said anything.

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

There's that, isn't it.