Thanks for the great logical insights. My personal favorite is how your comments on Tsunade. Never could quite understand why a village would want a drunk, gambler and deserter as its leader, but maybe I'm just focusing too much on her flaws. Over all, I like your views (not a big fan of the actual Naruto character and I did support Sasuke's decision to leave the village) and I hope the series gets better......I doubt it, but I hope. Personally, I gave up when they killed off Kakuzu; to me, he was one of the few shinobi of the 2nd part who were legitimately skilled and who were demonized for acceptable behavior in a shinobi world. The others were Sasori, Tobi (before the Obito thing) and Kuriare. I could go on, but you get the idea. Keep up the good work, my man.