Funeral

Hello and welcome to the Nest!

A new manga chapter has finally been released. I was starting to get a little pissed off at Kishimoto, I must say. I love his story so much that I can't stand to go more than a week without a new installment.

*~*Chapter 330 Spoilers*~*

The villagers learned of Asuma's fate. Kurenai was understandably heart-broken. It turns out that Asuma told Shikamaru to tell her something. What that is, only Kishi knows...

It has been confirmed that Asuma is Konohamaru's uncle. Geez, all this time and we never saw a second's worth of interaction between the two of them. Once again Konohamaru cried at the funeral. Poor little guy, his family has really been falling apart of late, ne? First his grandpa and now his uncle, one killed by Orochimaru and the other by Akatsuki.

How old does Naruto look in this? He's like an adult!

Shikamaru, who appears to be making a habit of smoking, took up Asuma's blades and learned how to use them with an element of chakra. He, Ino and Chouji now appear to be ready to set off on a new mission. Probably one of revenge against Hidan and Kakuzu.

Things have taken an interesting twist. Just as we expect Team Ten's importance to be over, Kishimoto appears to be stating that this is only the beginning. As usual, I'm really looking forward to the next chapter.

This chapter also provided our first peek at Naruto's Kaze Rasengan. It looks pretty much how I imagined it to be: the Rasengan with tongues of wind slashing out of it erratically. The end product will undoubtedly be a whole lot more impressive.

Ah, the sweet KakaNaru scene. Quite possibly Kakashi's most outward display of love toward Naruto yet. "Next week: Kakashi's Proposal!!!"

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Predictions for next week? I have no bloody clue. Hopefully something totally awesome and unexpected will happen. I'm hoping we learn what Asuma told Shikamaru.

*~*End of Spoilers*~*

Just yesterday I remembered about a brilliant website I'd visited before but lost the link to. Thankfully, I remembered some keywords and Googled them to find the site again. The site is called Dan-Da-Man Anime and it has a massive downloads section, including every episode of Naruto. There are a ton of other anime series available for download, so it's definitely worth checking out.

I'll be back next Thursday, as per usual, with an update about the next week's chapter.