Naruto VIII: Longest. Day. EVER!

[Starwulf]

Is the Time Braid fic related to the other Groundhog day fic with Naruto in it? I can't remember the name, I Just remember it became very, VERY involved, eventually Naruto pulls in Temari and Tsunade and Kurenai and Anko and Yugao and several other girls into it, eventually fusing them with the Kyuubis essence and gives them various foxlike attributes. I Just got to the point in Time Braid where Naruto confesses he's been living the same loop time and time again as well, and some of that particular scene resonate quite strongly with the other fic I'm thinking of.

[Douglas]

Chuunin Exam Day, maybe? I only know of it because Time Braid mentions it as inspiration in an author's note on the first chapter, and then states that the two stories have very little in common beyond the time loop concept and being Naruto fanfics.

[Starwulf]

Chuunin Exam Day, maybe? I only know of it because Time Braid mentions it as inspiration in an author's note on the first chapter, and then states that the two stories have very little in common beyond the time loop concept and being Naruto fanfics.

Yep, that's the one. I've realized as I've read further that Time Braid isn't some odd Crossover fic with Chunin Exam day, it just seems that way early on. Interesting fic thus far.

[Traab]

Yep, that's the one. I've realized as I've read further that Time Braid isn't some odd Crossover fic with Chunin Exam day, it just seems that way early on. Interesting fic thus far.

Yeah, at first i thought they were linked, but its a different time looping naruto, (and a badass one too)

[Douglas]

Ok, I've read the first 20 chapters or so of Chuunin Exam Day, and I'm giving up on it. The concept has potential, but the quality of writing is poor and most of the characters are caricatures. Time Braid is a much higher quality story in my opinion.

[Traab]

Ok, I've read the first 20 chapters or so of Chuunin Exam Day, and I'm giving up on it. The concept has potential, but the quality of writing is poor and most of the characters are caricatures. Time Braid is a much higher quality story in my opinion.

Lionheart has issues, his biggest one being his obsession with making a story so overcomplicated that he loses track of it and abandons it. See Partially Kissed Hero as a prime example. Last time I checked, it had ultra competent and evil dumbledoore versus harry hermione and luna. At one point they become fairy creatures, turn the female staff of hogwarts into dryads, and send trawleny back in time to become the empress of cuba, ultra rich and creating a massive space program designed to magically terraform the moon and other planets. Oh, and dumbledoore is using the whole achilles treatment thing to make an army of unstoppable warriors. And there are three of him currently in existence.

Chunin exam day annoys me because he abandoned it right at the moment of resolution. It also has a lot of overcomplicated stuff, but what I DID like about it is the funny stuff like him deciding to master say, tailoring, and he becomes so skilled at it the daimyo finds out and commandeers him to make clothes for his family and friends, thus restarting the loop.

[Merellis]

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SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS.

MY PAIRING IS CANON, MY PAIRING IS CANON.

Plus... Kakashi, you troll, it's episode 101 all over again!

Can you imagine the unveiling with Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto just staring daggers at him?

[Rater202]

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SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS.

MY PAIRING IS CANON, MY PAIRING IS CANON.

Plus... Kakashi, you troll, it's episode 101 all over again!

Can you imagine the unveiling with Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto just staring daggers at him?

What are you talking about? Are you talking about the leeked pictures, becuase those might not be real.

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Kishi was the writer and character designer, so if Anime filler is canon because he wrote it, so is the movie.

[Soras Teva Gee]

Yeah for those that haven't seen it yet and might be confused.... MAJOR FREAKING SPOILER (like an actual one, not your normal weaksauce ones)

There's circumstantial evidence for leak vs. fake too if you know the other major item of the day.

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If you look at this picture then you can see at the top a silhouette of a child at the top of the announcement.

Compare to Naruto's son in the leak photos. Allow for vagaries of posing they are match.

[Rater202]

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My problem is, these pictures of the kids look to be 5 or 6-ish, and the movie is supposed to take place 2 years after the War.

[Merellis]

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My problem is, these pictures of the kids look to be 5 or 6-ish, and the movie is supposed to take place 2 years after the War.

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Kishimoto could be doing the end in the manga and using the movie to dive into the time before it.

Besides, here's the movie trailer.

[ben-zayb]

Oh wow I just died right there. This shall be my reward for sticking out.

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My problem is, these pictures of the kids look to be 5 or 6-ish, and the movie is supposed to take place 2 years after the War.

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We were told the movie will take place 2 years after, but not exactly how long the timespan featured throughout it will be.

[Traab]

Oh wow I just died right there. This shall be my reward for sticking out.

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We were told the movie will take place 2 years after, but not exactly how long the timespan featured throughout it will be.

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Also, there may be a timeskip epilogue for Naruto like they did for harry potter. Just because this will be the last fight of the manga doesnt mean this will be the last day in it.

[Rater202]

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Also, there may be a timeskip epilogue for Naruto like they did for harry potter. Just because this will be the last fight of the manga doesnt mean this will be the last day in it.

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Thye Trailer quite literall said that the movie takes place 2 years after Naruto and Sasuke fought for the last time.

With Sasuke's epiphany in the last chapter, even though he claims he might, it's unlikely that he's going to Fight Naruto again after this.

[Lurkmoar]

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Seeing Gai-sensei in a wheel chair made me sad.

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If those pictures are Kishi cannon, particularly the first ones, that pairing actually makes me happy.

[ben-zayb]

LOL, Kishi is really going to milk this franchise. (potential spoilers for ch700)

Next generation, here we go!

[Ramza00]

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But naruto kinda looks attracted and doable after the time skip with the spoilered pict with different hair.

:(

So does this make me as perverted as Kakashi or Jiraiya?

[ben-zayb]

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But naruto kinda looks attracted and doable after the time skip with the spoilered pict with different hair.

:(

So does this make me as perverted as Kakashi or Jiraiya?

He kinda looks like Omoi, TBH.

[Ramza00]

He kinda looks like Omoi, TBH.

A white skin blonde hair blue eye omoi. If I recall omoi was supposed to have the same personality as naruto except he was more extreme with the thoughts everything will go wrong correct? The other members of his team were like sakura and the aloof I am better than everyone sasuke right?

[ben-zayb]

A white skin blonde hair blue eye omoi. If I recall omoi was supposed to have the same personality as naruto except he was more extreme with the thoughts everything will go wrong correct? The other members of his team were like sakura and the aloof I am better than everyone sasuke right?

Yep, pretty much a gender/palette-swapped version of team 7. Then again, I guess every team template is essentially composed of Red Oni + Blue Oni + Kunoichi.

[Rater202]

Yep, pretty much a gender/palette-swapped version of team 7. Then again, I guess every team template is essentially composed of Red Oni + Blue Oni + Kunoichi.

Like the "The Chick" trope, the kunoichi isn't nessesarily a literal kunoiich

[Ramza00]

So since the series is almost over, looking back why did Tobi get involved with Sasuke again? How did this further Tobi's plan? Was it for the lol hoping Sasuke will fight Naruto someday and Tobi wanted to help?

I ask for almost or so Sasuke and Tobi were hanging around for pretty much no reason besides Tobi promised Sasuke power. I ask for chapters 395 was the end of the Itachi vs Sasuke fight, 553 was when Sasuke killed white Zetsu, 575 is when Sasuke sees Itachi.

Why is Tobi giving Sasuke so much power without keeping him on some form of leash? Unless he has some form of goal for Sasuke why is he doing this?

Is there any "in story reason" Tobi is doing this and not the author doing this just so Sasuke will get stronger and have something to do until the final boss battle scene? How is Sasuke furthering the story again?

[Rater202]

He said as a potential potential replacement for Nagato-someone to synchronize with the Gedo Maze and, if inevitable, sacrifice to rez Madara(Implied)

He also served as a bargaining chip later on-Tobi essentially sold him to Kabuto in exchange for the Edo Tensei army and making the Zetsu stronger.

And there's the simple solution-"This is a kid with the exact same potent and malevolent chakra as my "Boss" and reincarnation is a thing in this universe.

Maybe I should keep an eye on him in case he turns out to be Madara reincarnated or something"

It's not said outright, but Tobi wasn't an idiot and has been known to lie through his teeth so what he said may not be the real reason.

[Ramza00]

But he did not put an eye on him, in him if you want to do the pun but not on him.

Why didn't he not do some fancy cursed seal or something when he had Sasuke unconscious for days to implant his eyes. Literally he had no way to control Sasuke what so ever, he knew Sasuke would kill him at a moment's notice based off Sasuke trying to do so in the forest after Killer B. Sasuke also betrayed Orochimaru.

Tobi also was not trying to revive Madara, he would revive Madara if he had to, if he was unable to remove his curse seal that allowed him to become the ten tails jinchuuriki but Tobi rather be the ten tails jinchuuriki so he could make sure Rin was in the dream world.

If his goal was to sync Sasuke to Gedo Mazo (he told this to Zetsu in the forest where Sasuke tried to kill him) then EMS was not enough. You need an actual rinnegan to summon the Demonic Statue. Thus Tobi need to reacquire Nagato/Madara rinnegan but if he reacquired it he would want it himself. Or he would need to evolve Sasuke's EMS to a rinnegan like Madara did. The problem with that is if Sasuke was such a key player, why the hell was Sasuke allowed to just walk free?

My point is either Tobi did not need Sasuke so why is he bothering, or he needed Sasuke so why is he allow Sasuke so much freedom. If you are unable to square this circle then Tobi seems to be just bothering with Sasuke so Sasuke seems relevant to the story. Or Tobi is just bad at master plans which kind of makes sense for he could kidnap Naruto anytime as a baby.

[Rater202]

Tobi said lots of things.

Tobi is also a dirty liar.

As for Gedo Maze: Did Tobi know that you need Senju traits to evovle Eternal Mangekyo into Rinnegan? He certainly didn't know about the need for indra and Ashura's chakra.

He almost imediatly offered to transplant Itachi's eyes into Sasuke's head-which is how you get eternal mangekyo sharingan.

Personally, I was figuring he wanted him as a back up for something, but it didn't work out.

[Aotrs Commander]

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If that is indeed true, it microscopically restores some of my faith in the series.

Be nicer if we get to see something in-between that shows us it happening, though, at some point.

[ryuplaneswalker]

So since the series is almost over, looking back why did Tobi get involved with Sasuke again? How did this further Tobi's plan? Was it for the lol hoping Sasuke will fight Naruto someday and Tobi wanted to help?

To Keep Sauske Relevant to the plot despite being a pathetic Loser who deserved to be cleaning toilets in the bathrooms of the world?

[Swaoeaeieu]

I don't know if this is still news, but a certain manga spreading panda has the last chapters online...

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[Soras Teva Gee]

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699: Ehh nothing important. And its Hashirama prosthetics.

700: SHIP ALL THE SHIPS!

Best Girl Wins! Everybody Wins!

[thethird]

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699: Ehh nothing important. And its Hashirama prosthetics.

700: SHIP ALL THE SHIPS!

Best Girl Wins! Everybody Wins!

This so much this. I think I'll need to read it a few times to get who everyone is, because I got lost.